No more Chemo!

Well folks, its all over. Jared had his last chemo treatment yesterday. We were both very excited. The Nursing staff in the Infusion room at the Huntsman are absolutely wonderful. Its an amazing place with an angelic atmosphere. It truly was a unique life changing experience. I met so many wonderful people, saw so much love and compassion. I was able to whiteness many wonderful moments of people reaching out to others, and new friendships being made that will last a lifetime. I am blessed to have be a whiteness to such Christ like acts of love and kindness. I am grateful to a Father in heaven who loves us and gives of this little moments of what heaven must be like. Thank you all for your love and support through this crazy time in our lives. We love you!

Zurberts!!

This Is Jospeh pinning Hyrum to the floor zurberting his belly. If you cant tell Hyrum is telling Jospeh to stop it, and Joseph says no I am going to zurbert you forever. It was just so darn cute I had to share it.

Redrover gone way wrong!!

This was so funny!! We were gathered together waiting for the fireworks to start, and decided to play redrover. Jospeh was the 1st one picked. And this is what happened to Leiah, Wilkies wife.

Taz the little Wookie!

Well about a month ago our sweet little dog Shaggy Doo was hit by a car hear on main street, and ever since then we wanted to get a new dog. Well our first try was a no go. We pick up a dog from the animal shelter. He was a Chiuaua mix, still in his puppy stage, and was very cute. We named him Pedro. But unfortunatly he kelpt snipping at my kids, and making big messes. SO we took him back. And just this past monday we stopped by the animal shelter again, where we found this very cute and fun loving Yorkie. He was just do darn cute that we fell in love with him and brought him home. I took the kids with me this time to make sure that the dog would be good with them. And he was. Joseph and Hyrum just love him. He was a stray, but apparently his is house broken, and is very mild tempered. He is a lot of fun. We named him Taz. Although the next day after starring at him for a while he started to look alot like Cheubacca. But taz was already stuck by then. SO he is Taz the Wookie. I know I am a werdie but I like to give my pets long names. I had a cat named Missy Cecilia Fritzwald Pew III, and our Dog was Shaggy Douglas Doo. Its all about the name. Anyways, we love our new dog, and are looking forward to lots of happy new memories with him.

Look mommy poop!!

Last night I had just gotten home from work around midnight to find everyone asleep, but my 3 year old who was covered in his own poop. He is being potty trained so he pooped in his undies and took them off then took the poop out of them and put it in the toilet. I guess he was trying to clean off his hands cuz the entire toilet seat was covered and his arms and his stomach. I love being a mom!!!!

Life.....

Things have been going pretty darn good lately!! Jared has been at his job for the past 2 weeks, he lost all of his hair from the chemo. And is hopefully getting better. I am going to enjoy the last week of my summer break befor a start school again. I have been so lazy, it feels nice. I am going to miss not stressing over finishing school assignments, and reading books for fun. The kids are driving me crazy, but I sure do love them. Joseph gets to start Kindergarden this comming up school year, and Hyrum will still be in pre-school. We are trying to help Jospeh with his abc's but are getting little progress. Any hints? Life is great!!

Ahhh summer break.

I am glad that this semester is over, it was a long one with many papers and tests. But I learned a lot this semester. I not only learned the academic junk, but I also learned about life, friendship, and that it is possible to over come any obstacle that might come your way. (Dr. Wooley's tests!!) As, you know I am going to school to become a nurse. We get to start doing actual nursing things next semester. I am so excited. I really can not wait to do the on hands stuff. I really am excited to be able to change someones life someday for the better. I hope that this semester is a good one!! But for now ahhh summer break!!

See what happens when you don't meet your yearly quota!!

So, Jared and I have been married for almost 8 years. And every year since then someone in our small little family has been to the hospital for some reason or another. 2001-2002- with our baby girl who is in heaven, 2003- when I broke my arm. 2004- Joseph and his 7 weeks in the NICU. 2005-more of Jospeh. 2006-Hyrum, and surgeries. 2007- Jospeh's intestinal surgery, Hyrum and his cleft repair. 2008-Hospital Free!!!! And all because we went a whole year with out any hospital visits we get the WHAMMY!!! Jared gets Cancer, so now we are regulars at the hospital. I think that our little family keeps the university hospitals in business. Some day you will see a Collins wing at those hospitals. So, Jared and I were talking and have come to the conclusion, that we must keep our yearly quota filled. So every year someone is going to break something or need stitches, just so that we don't get the big whammy again. Sounds like a plan.

Our crazy past 3 months.

Well I just finished my last final for my second semester in nursing school. Boy am I glad to be finished. This semester has been a little bit crazy. At the beginning of the semester Jared and I decided that it would be prudent of me to take 23 credit hours, to try to get as many generals finished as soon as possible. We figured hey why not, he did not have a job so I could fit in the time to do it. SO we did. Little did we know just how crazy our lives would become.......

to be continued...

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