{I promise}

Ok I know I'm a serious slacker on the blogging front! I didn't post Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Steve's Birthday, Wrigley's 2nd Birthday or the announcement of baby #2!

I promise to mend my ways and get back on the wagon...I promise!

Barnes & Noble

We are having a big fundraiser tomorrow at Barnes & Noble. We are really excited for this event, and the scholarship money that it'll provide for us.

If you are not in the Sandy are tomorrow you can still have your purchases go toward our organization if you present ID # 10002079 when you check out.

Kids Clothes swap

Everyone is invited...I hope it will be fun!

If there is a good turn out maybe we'll make this an annual thing!

Literacy for All ~ 5k

Dyslexia Tutoring of Utah is getting ready to have our 1st annual Literacy for All 5k family fun run/walk. All proceeds will be going to our non-profit to fun some of our scholarships, and other programs that we are doing.

Sign ups end this week if you want the t-shirt (and who does a race and doesn't want the t-shirt? I mean come on!), but you could sign up the day of the race as well.

Please check it out at our website http://dyslexiatutoringofutah.com/

Hope to see you in your running shoes soon!

Makin Crayons

On Wednesday we made some fun toddler size crayons outta a crap load of old crayons. It took me FOREVER to peel the paper off all those crayons but the result was well worth it, and even though Wrigs thinks that some of them are cookies they are still fun!

San Diego in July

We just got back from the most GLORIOUS week in San Diego. It was just what I needed, a nice sandy beach to relax at. We rented a house in Mission Beach and split our time between the beach, the Zoo and Sea World. Wrigley had SO much fun all week with his cousins. He especially loved the ocean. He would run in splash and then when a wave would come he would turn around and run the other way.

He tried to drink the sea water (YUCK) and I'm sure that he ate plenty of sand...but

HE LOVED IT! He is doing the sign for fish.

Buried in the sand with Dad. He loved it!

The San Diego Zoo...he wasn't too happy that day, it was especially hot out.

The La Jolla Cave!

Yup. That's a shark!
My new favorite picture! I love these two boys!

The Carousel at Sea Port Village. I used to ride it every summer when we would go as a little girl, so I had to have Wrigs ride it while we were there.

I am sad to be home, but we are looking forward to going back next year!

It's TOMORROW!

OUR BIG FUNDRAISER IS TOMORROW!

Please come and support our efforts to make a difference in so many wonderful childrens lives, but donating or at least coming to our fundraiser event from 8-2 tomorrow, located at

7304 S. 300 W. in Midvale.

Saying Goodbye

Brooke, Jordan, & Wyatt have left us for bigger and better things in Texas and Louisiana for the summer. Wrigs and I are really sad to see them go, because we have both lost our buddies. Wyatt and Wrigs had loads of fun over the last few months playing together...well let me re-phrase that, Wrigs played by, over, and on Wyatt and the poor kid just took it!


The boys playing together one last time, Wrigley was so sad that he pushed Wyatt down...Wrigs is kinda a bully! We need to work on that!

Wyatt doing what he does best, attacking everything in sight to put it in his mouth. He's our little vampire.

Fundraisers!

I am putting together a fundraiser for my work, a tutoring center where we give specialized tutoring to children and adults who have poor literacy and who are dyslexic.

I am REALLY REALLY excited about this fundraiser, because of the great possibilities that it has. We are having a garage sale with all of the employees, and families of those who seek our services. I also want any of you who have stuff to sale to come and sell your stuff. We will have a raffle for I hope some really great stuff, bikes, skateboards etc... as well as a concession stand. Please let me know if you want to have a table at the garage sale, or if you have stuff that you want to donate! YES donate, and just like at the D.I. we can give you a donation receipt!

All of the proceeds go to the scholarship program that we have in our tutoring center, we have so many families who cannot afford the $35 an hour fee for their children to come and receive the help that they need to have a better future!

The Super Saturday Sale will be held on Saturday May 30Th from 8am - 2pm in our office parking lot located at 7304 South 300 west in Midvale.

Please come join in our effort in "Building Brighter Futures"

Allergies!

Tuesday was not the best day that I've ever had! Wrigley has turned into the pickiest eater EVER! He could be eating a cracker, and then you go to give him another one and he'll completely freak out...and it's like that ALL THE TIME! So I never know what to give him to eat, cause half the time he won't even eat what we're eating!

So Tuesday morning my sister Brooke was eating eggs and Wrigley kept doing the sign for food in her face so she gave him some, and he really liked it. So I thought great at least I know that he likes eggs. Well that night I was fighting with him over what he will or will not eat for dinner, before I had to leave for Young Women's. So I decided that I'd make him some eggs (since he had really enjoyed them earlier in the day). Well he had eaten about half when he started rubbing his eye and it started turning really red, then he got little splotches on his face. So I stopped giving it to him, thinking that he was having an allergic reaction. And then I had to go to Young Women's so I left him with Brooke and Jordan.

Well at about 8:30 my Mom comes running into the church gym and said "Wrigley's not doing good at all. You need to come right home. We've been trying to get a hold of you for a while now. He's completely broken out in hives!" Well anyone who knows me knows that I tend to freak out pretty easily, and I am a pro at worrying about anything and everything. So I quickly tell the YW Pres that I've got to go take care of the little one. As soon as I left I started to cry and loose it. But I called his doctors office and had the doctor call me right back. When I got home Wrigs whole face and neck was bright red and covered with hives, he was acting totally fine but I was still freaking out! The Doctor called me back and said that I needed to give him children's Benadryl, and that if he starts to have a problem breathing to go to the ER, so I had my Mom go and get some. But when she came back she said that the pharmacist said that I should "absolutely not" give it to him, because the side effects for children under 6 could be death. WHAT DEATH! HOLY CRAP! So I of course didn't give it to him now more freaked out than I was before!

When Steve got home, he and Jordan gave Wrigley a blessing, and that made me feel better but I was still really nervous about him sleeping, so we left his bedroom door open so I could go in and make sure that he was still breathing! (yup paranoid. I'm aware!)

Well he was fine until about 1 o'clock when he woke up screaming, so I ran in there and his eyes were swollen shut! I freaked out and woke up Steve and he took Wrigley while I called the doctor. He said that Benadryl is fine that I should have given it to him earlier, but that I should give him a little less than 1 tsp. every 6 hours. So that's what we did. But I was so freaked out that I really couldn't sleep the rest of the night. When I got back from work at 9 Wednesday morning he looked tons better but he was still pretty puffy.

It was a pretty scary event for me, especially since I had just had my first allergic reaction to Penicillin a few weeks ago, so I knew what he was going through. He was so great though, just being his happy self, and even giving me hugs to try and help me feel better. He was so sweet!

Anniversary #2!

Today Steve and I are celebrating Anniversary #2!

It is fun to think about the new adventure that we had just begun last year at this time as new parents. A lot has changed over the last year for us. It's been a great year and I'm so glad that I married Steve on St. Patrick's day 2 years ago!

Today for our anniversary Steve told me to meet him at the Little America at 1 with tennis shoes!

WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN?

I didn't know what he had up his sleeve but I was excited to find out!

SO...

when I met him we got in the car and he surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Gerbra daisies...my favorite!

He drove us up to Ensign Peak and we hiked up and had a really nice picnic.

It was really sweet, and kinda sentimental. Steve said that he wanted to take me up there because it is symbolic of when Brigham Young went up there all those years ago and saw a vision of the future of the Salt Lake Valley.

I thought that this was a neat brick in the monument!

We went up to see the "future"of our relationship.

I thought that was really sweet and just classic Steve! I loved it!

Clarification

OK so I guess there is some confusion about something I wrote in my tag post. NO unfortunately I'm not pregnant. Yet. Steve and I have been talking about it and hopefully there will be an announcement towards the end of the summer, or early fall.

Don't worry. When it happens there will be no question. You will all know for sure!