Promised Haircuts, What was I Thinking?

So here are the before pictures, Derringer had to get in the picture too.















This is Saige getting her haircut, she decided to go for 12" but by the time the girl finished it was WAY more than that.



She loves it, her mother is adjusting.




















The girl layered it, not in the plans, it does look darling though.

Sakoya had about 6" taken off with a few bangs added in there.

Here is view from the back.

Denali had about 4" taken off. It looks way healthy now.

Just a bit of a crazy day, the girls love it, I think it will be nice for summer.

Crazy May Days

I realize it has been forever since I have blogged but it just seems that May is full of crazy days. We have dance competitions, piano recitals, dance dress rehersal and dance recital, All star graduation, Pop's party, and field trips galore. On top of that a number of birthdays. It has just been and will continue to be crazy clear to the end of the month. I personally will be relieved when May has ended. I have a ton of pictures to post but just have gotten to it yet. So stay tuned and I will put some on later this week hopefully.
Last week was a little stressful too as my Uncle Lynn and Aunt Roseann were in a head on collision. That they are alive is a miracle in itself but that they both got released from the hospital to a rehab center after only eight days is proof that they have more to do before they leave this earth. Please remember them in your prayers as they have a long way to go yet. Uncle Lynn had a total knee surgery plus some other things. Aunt Roseann is a fighter as she had (to list the highlights) a broken femur, shattered pelvis, broken ribs, broken nose, broken vertabrae plus some more that I can't remember. Unfortunately, Jeramy has been working swings the past week and I wasn't able to get up there to see them, but one of these days I am going. Just another thing to add to the crazy May days but that is life.
To all of you, hope that your May is going well.
Loving the Spring weather.
Robyn

BYU Graduation

I was reading somewhere today and they talked about BYU Graduation this weekend and I realized that believe it or not I graduated from BYU 15 years ago this week. (I personally choose not to believe I am old enough to have graduated from college 15 years ago.) Anyway, all I have to say is that is seems as if it was just the other day and yet I think of all that has taken place in the past 15 years and can't even comprehend the changes. I was not even married or even dating Jeramy at the time. Crazy life I know!!!
To all you who read this I hope that you have as fond of memories of college as I do and to those of you yet to attend, make the best of your days in college.
Happy Graduation!!
Robyn

Seriously, SO BLESSED

Seriously, so blessed is the name of a blog I read and I have to say that is exactly how I am feeling right about now. We headed to Burley for the Jr. Miss Competition on Wednesday night. Jeramy's niece was one of the participants and my sister Candace was the chairman. One of those events I don't like to miss. Jeramy drove down with me because his car was in the shop there getting fixed. He headed back to Utah about 5:00 on Thursday with the two little ones. I took the 3 oldest with me to the competition. It was way fun, however, Megan did not make the top ten which was way disappointing. Well, on with the story, we left Idaho about 9:30 and I was shooting to be home by midnight. I was about 15 miles north of Tremonton when there was a noise. I couldn't figure out what it was but I keep driving. Then it became and very loud noise from the back rear of the vehicle, almost like when you are driving on the rumble strips. I pulled over when there was a safe place only to hear the sound of air coming out of my right rear tire. As far as I could tell there was nothing hanging off the tire and seeing how I was in the middle of nothing I decided my best bet was to keep driving hoping to make it to Tremonton and a gas station where some one could help me. By now Koya was awake and complaining of the noise. I just told her to pray that we could make it to the exit. I talked to Jeramy at some point ( I was not going to call my mom, who worries, until I got to Tremonton, but she called me). Needless to say I made it to the Exit, I had 16PSI in my tire but it wasn't pulling to bad. Got the gas station and tried to find someone to help me. Once I got to the station, I tried calling someone to help without much luck. I had finally got a tow service on the line when a pickup pulled in to get gas and out jumped three men. I got brave and asked if they could help me change the flat to which they agreed. It was such a blessing. By this time my tire was totally flat and I was so grateful for their help. (Three Mormon men who were heading to Idaho for a weekend of fishing in Stanley, I know the Lord will bless their travels just as he blessed mine.)
If you can see here in the picture this was what was in my tire, at one point I am sure it was an S shape from a bungee cord.
So many blessings later we finally made it home about 1 am. Crazy night but when I stop to think of all that could of gone wrong but didn't and all that went right it was just a miracle.

Sakoya's Clogging Team

Here is a video of Sakoya's clogging team dancing at a competition. This is one of my favorite dances, they all did so good. Sakoya start out on the left side. There is girl in front of her that everyone call her twin, her name is Hannah.

I have video of one of Saige's numbers, unfortunately I was sitting in the wrong place and you can't see her half of the dance. The other one didn't record, most likely the camera operator who hit the wrong button.

I forgot the camera when Denali danced so I will have to record her next time she performs.

I have more of Sakoya that I will post here later.

Derringer

Sometimes I feel as a mom I am not doing so hot and I definitely feel that way in raising my first boy. I had trying times with the older girls but raising Derringer is a whole new experience for me. I have had people tell me that boys are way easier, they are just plain crazy or they have not met my sweet, wonderful, full of energy Derringer. I ask myself was I like this when I was little or is he busy like Jeramy was when he was little.
Just a few highlights of the past couple of weeks:
We went to a dance competition in Pocatello the weekend of the 15th of March. Sakoya, Saige and Denali all had to Dance. My mom and dad came up to help me with it all and they had Kestle with them because Candace and Tracy were out of town. Anyway, all seems to be going well and Kestle and Derringer, however busy were just dancing around behind where we were sitting. The competition was at the new Stephens Fine Performing Arts center and we were sitting up on a balcony. There was a long hallway back just out the doors from where we were and the two of them were playing out there. Nothing really in the hallway to hurt or anyone to disturb (or so I thought). All of the sudden the fire alarm goes off, lights flashing, loud noise the whole bit. The announcer asked that everyone please exit the building when around the corner comes Derringer and Kestle who is saying, "I didn't do it, Denger, did it." I am kind of lost until Derringer says, " I tried to put it back up, but wouldn't go." I was so stunned I didn't know what to think so as they are clearing out the building my thoughts are if I tell them he did this they can get it fixed sooner which will lead to a shorter delay in the competition. I then take him to the front and we go show someone which station was pulled in hopes it can be taken care of quickly. Oh how wrong I was. At least 45 minutes later, me talking to campus security and the taking the firemen back into the building, Derringer admitting that he "just wanted to see what it doed," and so on they finally get it fixed and I am so stressed for being the parent of the child who pulled the fire alarm the competition finally started again. Needless to say I was feeling like the bad parent.
Here are some other but not quite so exciting Derringer tricks.
One day I was cleaning at the Dance Shack and he found a pair of scissors in the diaper bag which he proceeded to give himself a haircut with, when I found large chunks of hair on the floor I was truly grateful that it was his hair and not Wynter's.
One day while I was downstairs he found and old charged cell phone with no SIM card which he used to contact the only number that he could, yes, that would be 911, and ask the lady for his daddy which he wanted to talk with. She told him to take the phone to his mother and I was left to finish the call to the very nice 911 operator.
I love the kid to death and tell him everyday but sometimes I feel that I am failing him as a parent.
To say the kid is smart is and understatement. For those of you who have had or are currently raising boys please help me here. I am doing my best to keep and eye on him but I need some suggestions as how to prevent any future occurrences of the the above mentioned incidents. If I have somehow provided a good laugh for you today, you a welcome and enjoy. I truly do find humor in most of his antics after the fact and have a hard time staying mad at him too long.

Hi!!!

Hi!
I am finally typing on the blog. Today in Primary our primary Teacher told us to write a note to someone like our grandma ,grandpa ,aunts ,uncles are cousins.So i have to write a note.


I love you all so very much.
And you are so kind to me .
thank you for all your help.

Love Saige

How is that for a letter.
see you later.