YEAH!!!!!!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I called the doctor today to find out about the results about my mole that I had removed last week. Drum roll please.... results are negative, so I am relieved about that. So, I hope that I don't get anymore moles that have to be removed.

Zach's 7th Birthday

A few days after Zach's 3rd birthday

Zach's 4th birthday

Zach's 5th Birthday

Zach's 6th Birthday

It is hard to believe that Zach is now 7, where did the time go? He is a wonderful son and I love him, well I love all of my sons. He loves puppies and kittens, so maybe someday we will have a dog again. Yes, I would rather have a dog, but my kids want a puppy. He also loves the snow, so he loves sledding and he always goes with his dad for that. He also loves McDonalds, playing Wii Bowling(he is really good at that game) and playing with his brothers. He loves riding the bus to school and so he likes school, well I think he likes school, he says he does. He also loves fans, keychains with keys on them and receipts and most of those are related to his mild Autism. His favorite color is yellow, his favorite icecream is Cookies and Cream and he just loves to go in the car and just go somewhere, like Walmart. He likes movies that have dogs and cats in them and he also likes Disney movies, well so does the rest of us. The last 2 movies that he saw in the theatre were "Hotel For Dogs" and "Marley and Me" and he really liked both of those movies. He also loves to listen to Queen, well some of the songs that is.

With my husbands work schedule the way it is, we really can't celebrate his birhtday until the weekend, but Zach doesn't care, it is just another day to him. I hope you enjoyed the pictures of him, but they start at age 2, I didn't get a digital camera, until he was almost 3 and I haven't put any pictures on the computer yet, of him younger than 2, but I will someday soon.

Not Looking Forward To It

Tomorrow, I have to have surgery and well I am getting nervous about it and somewhat scared. I found a mole a few weeks ago and I have had this mole for I believe most of my life, but the mole has changed shape and color, which isn't good at all. I saw my regular doctor who looked at it and he referred me to a general surgeon, who also looked at it and he said we need to remove it as soon as possible, so they can do a biopsy of the mole and then I will get the results in a week and it will be negative, just being positive about it. Well, I saw the pre-op nurse today and registered and I will be considered an out patient. She gave me some instructions to follow, like I can't wear any jewelry, which I can do; I can't eat anything after 9 pm the day before the surgery and drink anything after midnight. Then the big one for me, is you can't wear any make-up and I always have to wear make-up before I leave the house, because well I look much younger, well people think I am younger then I actually am anyway, but I have to do this, so I will be okay. I also have to have a ride home, which I do, my wonderful husband.


The other thing I don't like, is the time I have to be there, which is 6:15 am and my surgery to remove the mole, is at 7:30 am. With it being that early, my husband Will has to come home early from work tonight. He usually works 3:15 pm-1:45 am and he comes home for dinner at 7 pm, so since he is my ride to the hospital, he has to come home early, so he can get some sleep before I have to be at the hospital. Also, with it being that early, Will gets to drop me off and come home, so he can get the kids ready for school and he also has to take Ethan to school. He will come back to the hospital after Zach gets on the bus, which is around 8:45 am and then he will come to the hospital. The surgery will already be over with, but I have to stay after the surgery, so I can walk around okay and be alert, cause they are giving me something to make me sleepy, so I will not be totally out. So after the surgery, they want me to stay about 1-2 hours, which is fine with me and then Will can take me home. Will is also taking the day off tomorrow, so he can help me with the kids. Also, if I am feeling better tomorrow night, we are going to the college and getting our taxes done, they do it for free if you make under a certain amount, which we do. We like to do our taxes early, so we can get our refund faster and we need our refund.

I just wanted to let everyone know, who reads my blog. I will let everyone know when I get the results and it will be good news.

TAGGED!! My friend Ginger tagged me... Heres the game:

Connor

My friend Ginger tagged me, but I am going to do it alittle different, since I have done this tag before. Instead of opening your 6th picture folder and opening the 6th picture, it will be the 8th picture folder and the 8th picture.

1. Go to your picture folder, or wherever you store your pictures.

2. Go to the 8th folder and select the 8th picture.

3. Post the picture and tell the story that goes along with it.

4. Tag your friends, then post a comment on their blog letting them know they've been tagged!

The above picture is of Connor and he is almost 8 months old in this picture. This picture was taken June 25, 2005 at the Gold Family Reunion that we were having in Ramona California. We also were celebrating my Grandma Gold's 90th birthday on June 23 and my sister Amy also got married in San Diego on June 22. It was a fun weekend and it was great seeing cousins, aunts and uncles that I haven't seen in along time.

Now I choose four bloggers to do the same:

1. Tonya

2. Tammi

3. Ashley

4. Matty

January's Friendship Night

Last night was Friendship night, that I have once a month and this year I am doing it on the third Wednesday of each month, so last night was time for it. The last several months, I have had only 3-5 people show up, but 8 people showed up last night and so that made me very happy. We played a game with some yarn. I told each person to cut a piece of yarn, it could be short or long and I didn't tell them what we were doing until everyone had their piece of yarn and I also participated. When everyone had their yarn, I told them the game, which was to tell everyone about yourself. You would wrap your piece of yarn around your finger and you keep telling everyone about yourself, until your piece of yarn was at the end. So some people told alittle about themselves and others told many things about themselves. I found this game on the internet and it was a lot of fun.
I love to collect sayings and I keep all of them in a box, so I found a saying that I wanted to give to everyone. It says, "To Be Someone Special, Believe That You Are." I don't know where I got this saying, but I have had it for years. I think everyone needs to be reminded of this and I have always had a hard time believing this myself. I try to remind myself that I am someone special, but I don't think I am. See, I wore glasses from the ages of 4-16 and let me tell you I hating those things. People made fun of me right and left and what gets to me the most is, I never stood up for myself and I just let people do this to me over and over again. I was very shy and that is probably why I never said anything to the people that were making fun of me, because I was afraid I would of made it worse. I had friends that didn't care about my glasses and so they liked me for me, no matter what, but I wish everyone felt that way. It just seems like, Junior High is the worse age and to me Junior High was the worse 3 years of my life. Yes, I did have good times during those years, but it just seemed like it was more bad than good. It is still hard for me talking about this and it happened years ago. I am 36 years old and I can't seem to let go of this sometimes, but I am trying.
Anyway, everyone really liked the saying and then we had deseret, that one of the ladies brought and it was delicious. All and all the evening turned out really well and now I have to think of what to do for Friendship Night for February.

So Sad.

Every year I get rid of many things and take it to Deseret Industries. So, since we just had Christmas and my kids got new toys, I go through all of their toys and get rid of the ones that they don't play with. I just do this for Zach and Connor, Ethan goes through his own stuff to see what he doesn't want. I have kept some baby toys, since Ethan was a baby and well Zach and Connor don't play with them and the toys are for babies, so I decided to finally get rid of them. It was a sad day for me, cause there won't be anymore babies in this household. I would love to have a daughter, but I shouldn't get pregnant again. For Medical reasons, I shouldn't get pregnant again. I have a lot of back problems and 2 of my son's has health problems. My other son is 4 and he is talking more and more each day and it is really cute to hear him talk. My 12 year old son has diabetes and my 6 year old son has Muscular Dystrophy. I am a carrier for that diesase and so if I had another son, he could have a 50% chance of also having the diesase. I just couldn't do that to my family. Will and I have thought of having another baby this year, but it wouldn't be a good idea if we did. I have always wanted to adopt, but I don't think that we ever happen, it costs to much and we will never have that kind of money. I just wanted to share about this, if anyone cares. Thanks everyone who does comment on my blog , it means a lot to me.

Finally, I have written.

All of us with Mickey Mouse and yes Connor is crying.

Will and Ethan on California Screamin.

Me after the Grizzley River Run and as you can tell I am
drenched.

A very cute picture of Will and Zach.

Zach and Connor

A cute picture of Zach and Ethan

It has been way to long for me to write and so I need to finally write about Christmas and our trip to Disneyland, so please bare with me.

We left on the night of Dec. 23 and we stayed with my friend Laurie and her family in Henderson NV that night. Then we left for my parents house around 7:30 am and they live in Ramona CA. If some of you don't know where that is, that is near San Diego. We got at my parents house between 1-2 pm. We had good traffic and good weather and so I was happy about that. We had the usual dinner that my mom always makes, which is ham, rolls, and salads and it was very good, like it always is. Then always on Christmas Eve, we read about the birth of Jesus out of Luke, but this year we did something different. We went around the room and explained what was next in the story and it went well. Zachary, my 6 year old and Connor, my 4 year old didn't participate, since they wouldn't be able to explain much about it. Then we hung our stockings and then took pictures in front of the fireplace and it was fun. Then we left to stay in the condo, a time share my parents get for us when we come for the holidays. We have made it a family tradition to come spend sometime with my family in CA for the Christmas holidays and we have done it every year since we have been married, except in 2001, I was pregnant with Zach, so we didn't go anywhere for Christmas.

Anyway, Christmas was fun and all the kids enjoyed themselves, so that is always good when that happens. My brother and his wife and 3 kids live next door to my parents, so they came over later on Christmas and it was good to spend some time with them. My kids loved playing with their cousins, they don't get to see them very often. Also, when we were there, I was able to go out to lunch with my mom and sister in law and that was lots of fun. We also did some shopping while we were there and we do that every year we are there for the holidays. We all had a fun time, while we were there and then we left on Dec. 30 for Disneyland. We stayed in one of the Best Western's around Disneyland, so that was nice.

Since, we couldn't do to Disneyland or California Adventures until Dec. 31, we went to Downtown Disney and it was fun. The boys especially loved the Lego Store and so of course we bought some legos for them. Thankgoodness there was a Denny's right next to the motel, cause that is where we ate breakfast and dinner. We did Disneyland on Dec. 31 and let me tell you it was so crowd, we don't think we will do Disneyland around New Years again. Anyway, we had to rent a wheelchair for Zach and that helped alot. Yes, we were able to get on rides faster, but Zach can't walk very well anymore and someday, he will be in a wheelchair all of the time. We all had a great time, except for Connor and he is 4 and Disneyland is suppose to be the Happiest Place on Earth, well not to Connor. Anyway, when we were on the Dumdo ride and it was about ready to start some people were going around handing things to people and well it turned out to be a Dream Fast Pass. What that means is, that you can use the Fast pass on certain rides that were on this pass for Disneyland and California Adventures during anytime only on Dec. 31, but you didn't have to go back during a certain time, like the regular fast pass does. We went on Splash Mountain and well we believe that ride ruined Connor's time at Disneyland and California Adventures, but Zach liked that ride. So after that ride, Connor was scared to go on anything, except for the Carrousel, which he loved. We had a good time that day and it was great to spend time with family. Ethan and I decided to go back to Disneyland that night, well that was a big mistake. Music and people were everywhere, but we did manage to get some icecream and let me tell you it was very foggy that night and it was hard to see anything.

Jan. 1, we went to California Adventures and again we rented a wheelchair for Zach, which was a lifesaver. Will and Ethan did Tower of Terror and well I just watched Zach and Connor and I didn't want to do that ride. Ethan loved that ride and Will liked it. Ethan even got me on the ride California Screamin and I thought that was the best roller coaster that I have ever been on. I even bought the picture of Ethan and I on that ride and it turned out real good to. The rest of our day at California Adventures went well and Ethan and I also went on the Grizzly River Run and well I love water rides. You know how there is always at least 1 person on those rides, that always did drenched, well I was that person and man I was cold, but it was fun. I wouldn't of gotten that drenched, if I didn't move over for this father and son that needed to get in, so Ethan and I weren't sitting together and Ethan got wet to, but not as drenched as I did. Will took Zach and Connor into A Bugs Land for some of the time and the rides are more geared towards the younger kids and Zach liked it more than Connor. Later that night, Ethan and I came back and it was fun.

Jan. 2 was our last day at the parks and since Connor loved getting in the wheelchair with Zach, we decided to rent him a stroller for this day, but he cried when we put him in there, but eventually he calmed down and he was fine being in there. It was cloudy on this day, but at least it didn't rain, it just sprinkled some. We went to California Adventures first and it was fun. Ethan wanted me to go on Maliboomer and I did. If you don't know about this ride, it launches you straight up in the air 180 feet and comes back down and down, again until you get to the bottom. It was fun, but when I was sitting there waited for them to launch me in the air, I had to keep telling myself, Okay I can do this over and over again, until I went up in the air and I even kept my eyes open the whole time. Ethan went on this ride the day before with Will and Ethan loved it and Will liked it. We stayed at California Adventures alittle bit longer and then we went to Disneyland and we mostly stayed in FantasyLand and Mickey's ToonTown. Ethan and I took Zach on Matterhorn and thankgoodness we were able to get on this ride. The Matterhorn was having problems the whole time we were there. Zach really loved this ride and so I was glad he liked it. In ToonTown, we went on that little roller coaster and it was fun and I have never been on that ride before, the line is always to long. We took pictures with Pluto, well Ethan and Zach was in that picture and then Minnie Mouse, all of us was in that picture, except for Will. Then we went to see Mickey Mouse in his house and well Connor was crying the whole time, except for when they showed the old Mickey Mouse movies, he loved that part, cause well they were showing movies. We took pictures with Mickey Mouse and then we looked at some stores. Connor then fell asleep and we decided to go do Pirates of the Carribean and well Connor woke up and I was holding him close and he started crying, when we went down the 2 little hills, but he was fine after that. It was a fun day and then Ethan watched his brothers that night, while Will and I went back to Disneyland and we had fun, it being the 2 of us and all.

The next day on Jan.3, we left for Cedar City. We left after 10 am and we got home around 6 pm. We even made it home on 1 tank of gas, so that was impressive. We had a good time, but man I can't believe that Christmas and New Years is over. On Sunday, Jan. 4, I put all of the Christmas Decorations away, which I don't like doing, but I managed to get it done. Then on Monday Jan. 5, the kids went back to school and Will got sick with a cold. We had a bunch of errands to run that day and it took us 3 hours to get them done. Will started his 1 college class on Tuesday Jan.6 and Zach stayed home from school with an ear infection. Will also didn't go to work that day, he still wasn't feeling well. Then today, Connor stayed home from Preschool, he had a cold and I am coming down with a cold. So, I hope Ethan doesnt get sick. I am sorry this was to long, but I had to much to write about. Hope you enjoy the pictures.