Taylor Swift Concert

Celeste is a huge Taylor Swift fan. Also my niece Faith really loves her. Celeste wanted to go to her concert in Wichita. She convinced me I should buy tickets and come. I was a little skeptical at first. But I am so glad I did! It was sooo much fun. And I have become a huge Taylor Swift fan! Also I think it made Jadyns year. Please lets go again!

That one time when I got crazy sick!

I'm still not exactly sure what happened. Mostly all of salina was really really mosquitoie. (I know that's not a real word) And our house was really bad at the time too. We had water in the backyard and the bugs were crazy. 

Being my bright self I went and mowed the lawn. We were out of repellent which was unfortunate. But the lawn was long and i hate the lawn being long. Not that the repellant did a great job of not letting them bite anyways... But it was a stupid idea. I got bit A LOT. And the mosquitos were big and there bites hurt. So much that I had to quit mowing and come inside. My stomach and thighs were itching like crazy. The next day the mosquito bites turned into a small rash. 

It quickly began to get worse. I got very nauseous, fever, chills. I was in bad shape. 

I visited stat care and they told me the bites had become infected. He said "this should clear it right up" as he handed me the prescription. I was given a cream and 2 antibiotics. Unfortunately it didn't clear it right up though, instead of getting better the rash spread more and more. And I began looking like a burn victim. 

This was the inside of my thigh.  My entire butt and private parts were covered in this rash. The itching was insane. I literally bought every anti itch product available. I think my total at Walgreens was like $80 for just bottles of anti itch medicine. But not a single one helped. 

 I even was so low that i stooped to 

searching the Internet for things to help. I found things like, rubbing banana peels on your skin ect. And i tried them. Thinking back, that was dumb.  But I was irrational and desperate, And i felt slightly crazy. My kids knew i was extremely short tempered. The medicine the doctor gave me made me feel really loopy and moody.  Besides the fact that i sort of just wanted to die and be put out of my misery. I was also here by myself. Pat was in Cheyenne at the time. My poor kids. 

 The only thing that made me feel better was a little comb which I used to gently  scratch. Ahh it would feel so good, and then the itching would go away for a little while. But afterwards i would get very sick and nauseous. So I knew I wasn't doing myself any favors by giving in to the itch. 

P.S. the only reason I have pictures is because I kept sending them to my nurse friends and my family and saying oh please help me. They didn't have much advice. 

After about three days, which felt more like 300 days in my condition. I finally smartened up and asked for a priesthood blessing. Lucky for me I received one from someone in our ward who is also a doctor. I immediately began feeling better after the blessing. And he also gave me some doctor advice. I am so thankful for the priesthood and for worthy men who hold it. And are willing to come over and give me a blessing. 

I eventually healed. After the rash was there no one would say infected mosquito bites, i dont know if it was west nile or a allergic reaction or heaven knows what it was. I do know one thing for absolute sure and that is i never ever want to be that sick again! The End. 

Bodeys first soccer season

Bodey barely made the deadline to play this year. He is so little and so shy, I wasn't sure if I should sign him up or wait another year. But because of his extreme love for soccer I decided to go ahead and sign him up.

He was a bit shy and not at all aggressive like he is when he plays at home. But he really had an awesome coach. Unlike jadyns first soccer coach who was extremely competitive and seriously worried about winning. He was so dumb! I had a extremely hard time biting my tongue with that guy. And I really just wanted to slap him....  Anyways! Bodey had a good first season. Towards the end of the season he would ask his coach if he could play every quarter. It was funny because he would just run around chasing people. Every now and then he would kick the ball. But never anything close to scoring or anything. I was just happy he was having fun. This picture is from his last game. He was always thrilled to get a treat! 

Back to School Feast

I borrowed this idea from nie nie. It seemed like a fun way to get my kids excited for the school year and a fun way to end summer. My kids enjoyed making their own hats the most I think. 

Then this huge spider kind of stole the show. He was gross! 

Pat decided to kill it with a blow torch. 

I also gave them their new backpacks with all their school supplies in them. it was kind of like Christmas. Little do they know we HAVE to buy all that stuff for them :)