Zach's Poem About Me

I hope all the mom's out there had a wonderful Mother's Day. My son's gave me some wonderful things. Ethan gave me some poems on mother's in a very nice binder that he made. Connor gave me a plant, that he did at school and Will gave me a dozen roses, that are beautiful by the way.(the flowers are some kind of orange) Then there is Zach's gift to me, that I wanted to share last, cause it is a poem about me and even though some of it is not true, it was that he wrote it about me. With him having Autism, he thinks of things a lot differently than kids his own age do and that is why it is so special to receive it from him.

Mom

By Zachary

Her hair is short and blond (short yes, blond no)

She loves to go to St. George (that is true)

She is going to get a cat. (that is not true, I would rather have a dog again)

Her kids are Zachary, Connor , and Ethan.

She loves cake. (it depends on the cake)

I wonder what she does after I go to bed. (I love it)

My mom is afraid of lizards. (Actually, I am afraid of bees, lizards aren't that bad)

I Love You.

I hope you enjoyed that, I sure did. He is the greatest, well all of my son's are.

Something Wonderful Happened 15 Years Ago Today

I was ENGAGED. It was a Sunday, Mother's Day May 8, 1994 and it was also my sister and her husband's 1 year anniversary, so Happy Anniversary Sandra & Victor. Anyway, I was going to school at SUU and I was living in Juniper Hall at the time. Will and I were going out for almost 8 months by then. He called me wanted me to come over to his apartment at 2 pm and I did. His apartment was across the street at that time. The next part for me to get it exactly right, I wanted to look in my Journal, so this part is what it says word for word .

Will-had something for me in his room and I'm like okay. There were two monkeys on his desk and I'm like "Oh how cute". Will wanted me to open the card and I did, the ring was right there and it didn't dawn on me. Then the card says "You Are Engaged" and I almost started to cry and boy was I shocked. I looked at him, said yes and gave a big kiss to him. Then we talked some and came over here. I called Sandra, but left a message. Then called Gayle and told her and she was happy for me. We talked some and called Sandra and told her and she was so happy. I asked both of them to be my bridesmaids and they said yes. Then went to Will's place, but saw Karl(my cousin) and told him and he was so happy for us. Went to his place to have food and it was getting ready and I called my parents. Amy answered, but didn't tell her, wanted mom on the phone, told her "Happy Mother's Day" and then said mom guess what, I'm engaged and she's oh how wonderful and Amy couldn't believe I didn't even tell her first. Asked her to be one of my bridemaids and she said yes. Then told my dad and that was the fun part and I guess he understood. It will be Dec. 17, 1994(SAT) well hopefully and this summer it's going to be funny-very busy.(I have no idea why I put funny)

Right now we have been married for 14 years 4 months and 21 days and it has been a wonderful marriage and during that time we have added 3 awesome boys, ages 12, 7 and 4 1/4. I hope you enjoyed the pictures at the beginning, I just put all of the engagment pictures that we had taken in Sept. 1994 on the computer this morning and so I hope you enjoyed them. I couldn't find the picture that we had in our announcement, I don't know where that negative went. I hope it is somewhere in the house.

My weekend

This past weekend was a pretty enjoyable one. This is what we did. On Friday, Zach was the only one who went to school, cause the rest of us took Ethan to Diabetes Camp at Zion Ponderosa Ranch. It was a very beautiful Drive and the traffic wasn't that bad, well we left a little after 9 am. We got there about 11:30 am and we checked him in and put his stuff in his cabin. Then all the campers went to go eat and Will, Connor and I also ate and it was a pretty good meal. I was surprised of what Connor ate, he ate all of a chicken sandwich and that is the first time he actually tried something new. Yeah for Connor. Then we left Ethan there and came back to Cedar City. Just in time to drop Will off at the 20 year anniversary of Metal Craft and Will has been there for almost 13 years. Then Connor and I went home to wait for Zach's bus to come drop him off. While we were waiting for him a few things happened. I wrote a post last year about how much I hate bees, well I killed one Friday and let me tell you I was terrify. I saw a wasp(why did it have to be one of those) and it was on the window in the garage and I got the spray and started spraying it and the whole time I was scared to death, but I am so glad that it is dead now. Then my older sister Sandra left me a message about doing another sister weekend and going to see "Wicked" in Denver, where my sister Amy lives and I started screaming and Connor was looking at me weird and crying. I called Sandra back and she gave me the details and we are seeing it in October and we will figure out travel plans later. So, I am going to see "Wicked" in October and I am so exciting. Zach then came home and we went to Will's work party to eat a few things and to pick me up. Later, that evening I went to see "Hannah Montana" with my good friend Christina and it was fun, even though this was the second time I have seen it, but I didn't care. Then went to her house and talked for quite awhile, we haven't talked like that in a very long time.

Saturday, we went to ST. George and it was nice down there. We first went to Costco and right when we got there, I saw my cousin Tricia with her 2 girls and I haven't seen her in about 10 months, so it was so nice to see her. We went to a few more places, we were trying to find Connor some shoes and he doesn't like change, so getting him new shoes falls under that category. We would put the new shoes on him and he would throw a very big fit and so we had to take the shoes off and try again. Finally, we found some shoes for him at Payless Shoes that he didn't throw a fit, when we tried them on him and so we had a Winner. Yeah. Came home and later that night Will and I went to dinner at IHOP. We left Zach and Connor at my friend Christina's house. She has 2 boys, ages are Myler is almost 3 and Mayson is almost 1. Dinner was really good and then looked at Deseret Book for a little while and then picked the boys up. Christina said that Connor and Myler were so cute together and became the best of friends and that Zach was a sweetheart. Everyone says that about Zach. Now, Connor has a new friend and Myler has about the same personality as Connor and that is scary, but kind of weird.

Sunday, I woke up at 6 am and got ready to pick Ethan up from Camp. My best friend Talisha came with me and it was so nice having someone ride in the car with me, it made the ride to the camp much more enjoyable. On the way there, we had to stop in the road, for 2 deer to walk across and we saw 2 more deer in the bushes and that was cool to see that many deer in 1 place. Then a bird hit the car and I looked in the mirror and it looked like it was dead. Then got to the Camp and Ethan said he had lots of fun. He even got a welt on his back from playing paintball. Then we left for Cedar City and it was a nice ride home. We dropped Talisha off and Ethan and came home. Will, Zach and Connor were still at Church and so I cleaned up some and I put Ethan's camp clothes in the wash.

That was my weekend and it was a productive weekend, which doesn't happen that much. On top of all this, I have a cold and this is like the third one that I have had this year and it is only May. Thank goodness that it is only a cold and not the flu.