Potato Harvest!

We went to the farm to get potatoes and we got some great pictures of my dad's fields.

I think this is winter wheat so it's green right now.
My dad's field, and potato pit in the background.
My Uncle Jamie raises elk on his farm which is in the same area as our farm, so we took a picture. I think these are baby's from this spring, but I don't really know.
Driving back to Springville after a fun week.
We stopped in Kaysville to see Andy and Brianna before they leave on their 2 month long vacation to Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia. Have a great time! We love you guys!
Getting potatoes from the pit
Freshly dug, Jackson is doing a taste test.
Me and my precious boy with all the potatoes
Jackson climbing up the piler. This belt carries the potatoes from the truck to the pit where it piles them nicely in a pile. The piler piles the potatoes in a pile. Ha ha. Hence, the name "piler."

Another part of my dad's field. It was a beautiful day!

City of Rocks Idaho

We went to City of Rocks in Idaho last weekend with the whole Wood family (minus Bryan), we and had a great time. City of Rocks is located near Burley, Idaho and is a haven for rock climbers. Chelsea and Riley, and Sam are really into rock climbing and they planned the trip for us. Even though none of the rest of us climbed, we still had a great time. Oh, wait, I guess my mom climbed too, but I missed it. My 50+ mom climbed up a huge rock and I didn't get one picture of it. Dang! Jackson wanted to climb so badly. It was hard to keep him on the ground. We slept in tents and my dad brought his trailer as well. It was a really great time!

J in his new bandana.
Wes standing on "Bath Rock"
London and me waiting while the big kids scuttled up some rocks
Jackson burnt his hands on the metal ring that goes around the fire pit. Sad!

Jackson chopping wood just like a Nye
Us at the campsite
Fun rocks
Jackson is ready to climb! Riley is in the background
Londie loved climbing on the rocks as well

More City of Rocks

Uncle Sam and Jacks chillin in front of the fire

Me and my mom in the trailer
me and my beautiful sisters, Chelsea and Laura
Jacks and Londie playing
Wes falling off a cliff...well just pretend

Awesome rock climbing-City of Rocks

I wanted to post some pictures of Chelsea and Riley climbing at City of Rocks, but I realized I only took pictures of Chel on my camera and pictures of Riley and Sam on my sister's camera. So here are a few of Chelsea. She is awesome!

Check out those muscles!
Nice pose!
I think this shot is beautiful! I love it! The clouds were gorgeous and if you look closely you will see a bird in the sky and Chelsea way up high almost to the top of that rock.

Jackson's Video

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Harvest

Here are some vegetables that our garden has produced. Saundra makes great salsa with our fresh tomatoes. Jackson and I have had a lot of fun working in the garden this summer and I guess it's paid off.

Just a few things we have been doing lately...

The kids with Bryan and Grandma Susie at Stuart Falls

J and L with Fioni (Fifi)-Bryan and Lulu's kitty. They both love her to death...literally
Jacks jumping off the diving board-notice no life jacket
Jackson and his fish at Strawberry Res.
Wes took both kids camping alone while I stayed home for a night of R &R.

My hubby is the best!
Stuart Falls again-I love this pic, it's one of my favorites.
One morning while Wes was on his way out the door to work, London snuck out and this is where we found her-in our front yard, soaking wet,in her pj's running thru the sprinklers.
Jackson and Roger (Bryan and Lulu's boy kitty)
Jackson's soccer team. His coach has blue hair and now Jackson really wants blue hair too.
Max and Jackson at the BYU-UCLA game...we won 59-0

Happy Birthday Wes! 33 years, yikes!

Happy Birthday-September 5

I know this is late but I wanted Wes to know how much we all love him and appreciate him. We are so grateful he was born 33 years ago, and so happy that he is the man in our lives. He is sweet and loving-thoughtful and sensitive. He is the best dad to Jackson and London, and a very sweet husband. Thank you Sweetie for being born, we love you very much.

I'm Out! Yay!

So, I am finally home from the hospital. 5 nights and 6 days-about the same length as a nice vacation and whole lot more expensive unfortunately. Anyway, I am feeling pretty good, but my stomach hurts like a really bad side ache. I have a tube protruding from my stomach just below my ribs on the right side. Nothing is coming out of it. It is capped and if I took the cap off, bile would drip out. I have to have it in for 6 weeks. My mom is staying with us for a while to help out while I heal and I am so grateful for her. I don't know what we would have done without her. Thank you Mom!

Also, I must thank my mother-in-law, Claudia for coming to the rescue because I was supposed to be babysitting my niece and 2 nephews this whole week while their parents are on a cruise. So she swooped in and saved the day by taking over that job for me and I can't thank her enough. Thank you and love you Claudia.

Thanks for everyone who visited me, brought me magazines and sent me flowers; thank you for everyone in my ward who brought food to our house so my family wouldn't starve-or have to eat at McDonald's for every meal; and thank you to all of our friends and family who were concerned.

Thank you to my sweet hubby who visited me every night even though he had worked a long day and was starving and who brought me beautiful roses; and thank you to Aunt Lulu and Uncle Bryan who visited me and helped out by doing whatever was needed, and for Lulu for telling me to go to the doctor in the first place. Thanks to Jackson and London for being good sports through it all.

Here are a few fun pics on my last night. As you can tell, I was feeling pretty good. And I had had a long day with no one to visit me till Wes, Lulu, and Jackson showed up with a Jamba Juice.

Ah, Jamba Juice-a relief from hospital food
Fun times on the wheelchair
me and Lulu-she looks like she works there, but for clarification she is a dental hygientist
Is something wrong with this picture?
Me and Wes in the spot I stayed for about the last 136 hours.

Happy Birthday Mommy

I totally forgot to blog Saundra's Birthday last night. I guess I have been too busy with two kids and a wife in the hospital. So, Happy Birthday Saun and Mommy. We love you so much and hope you get feeling better soon.

I stopped by to see Saundra tonight in the hospital and she is doing a lot better. She is getting out of bed easier and walking around better. We don't know if she will be home tomorrow or Friday. I was able to go back to work today with the help of Saundra's mom who is here watching the kids for us. Jackson and London are happy to have Grandma here with them.

The doctor plugged Saundra's tube that is coming out of her side so now the bile can go into her stomach instead of a bag on her side. She is now on a solid food diet (still low fat) and is able to hold the food down. She looks and feels a lot better.

This is the jam that Saundra made from the Raspberry picking outing we had last week. The jam is way good. She made Raspberry, Raspberry Blackberry, Blackberry, and Raspberry Peach. I don't think I could have found a better girl.

Update Number 2

So in the last four days, I have driven to Orem, Utah fourteen times. I thought I would keep track because it feels like that's all I do anymore, but that's okay because we get to see Mommy. Saundra is doing much better today. They took out her Catheter and her IV and put her on some different pain meds, which doesn't knock her out so bad. She is up walking around a bit but still with a lot of pain. The surgeon came and talked to us today saying she is doing well but won't be home until Thursday or Friday. SAD!!! Jackson, London and I miss her so much. Everyday Jackson tells me how many more nights Mommy will be gone until she gets to come home and he knows exactly the day she will be home. I had to break it to him tonight that Mommy wouldn't be home for three more nights. He didn't like that very much and became very sad. Life has been pretty good to us lately so this has kind of taken us for a spin. I will have more updates in the next couple days. Thanks for all your support.

Saundra Update

Hello everyone. Just an update on Saundra. She was having bad stomach pain Saturday morning. That day we ate at Cafe Rio, which Saundra didn't eat that much and had to go lay in the car. We then went to the pool where Saun laid down almost the whole time because of bad stomach pain. When we got home she went right to bed with the same pain. At nine pm I took here to the instacare in Orem to get checked out. The doctor thought it was her Gall Bladder but didn't know for sure and wanted her to get an ultrasound the next morning at the hospital. Sunday morning Saundra went to the hospital to get the ultrasound and has been there ever since. She went in for surgery at 1 pm and got out at 630 pm. The surgery was only to last one hour but lasted five and a half because of other complications. Her Gall Bladder was full of stones and was removed. The doctor could not believe she didn't have more pain sooner. One stone was lodged in a valve and was working its way through the duct (tube). So now she is in recovery and will be staying three nights, high on morphine. Here is a pic of her before she went in for surgery. She looks a little jaundice because the stone was blocking off the duct from her liver to small intestine. She is in a lot of pain but doing well.