Emily's baptism dress
He still can't decide if he likes BYU or Utah..... GO UTES!!!
and byu
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Emily and her Camera......
Emily's baptism dress
He still can't decide if he likes BYU or Utah..... GO UTES!!!
and byu
Friday, July 8, 2011
Oh What do you do in the Summer Time?
We are a family of Girls!!! I love our girl cousin days out during the summer. Poor Jake usually gets dragged with us.
Emily practicing her new found love of photography
This is basically the extent of the boy cousins! They have to stick together. But just wait more boys are coming! (NO this is not an announcement from me! You're looking at our contribution to the boy pool!)
Won't YOU Be MY Neighbor?
Thursday, April 28, 2011
RUTH
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| Ruth Eating her Disney sucker |
SODA
I was drinking a large soda pop,
When it fizzled and crumpled up.
I told my big brother,
Then he told my mother,
Now everyone knows what's up!
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| Emily and Ruth on memorial day. The Ruth no one knows! |
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| Ruth hugging Pres. Mckay's tree |
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| My favorite the two girls as best friends |
Doctor Visits
My love has always been the medical field. I watched surgery after surgery with Sarah and it never bothered me. What others deem as gross and disgusting I would say was intriguing. However, I learned this week that at least 2 of my children follow after their dad and not their mom with their passion for the medical world. Wednesday I took Jake in to have some blood work done. He heard me making the appointment and began crying "I not going to the doctor!" Well, he cried the whole way there; the MA takes us to the room and he starts gasping for air. He was having a full blown panic attack! The doctor comes in and gives him a sucker easing the tension a bit. Because of his fear of the office we decide it best to have the blood drawn in the procedure room so that he won't associate it with the doctor's office. He cries but everything turns out ok.
Thursday, I take Emily in for some blood work. The MA come in to draw the blood and Emily goes into a panic attack. She sees the little needle and starts breathing fast. Half way through the blood draw I look at her and say "are you going to pass out!" The answer was YES! she begins falling over when the MA pulls the needle out and helps me hold her up. Seriously! She only prolonged her blood drawing experience because she had to have blood drawn from the other arm. Not that she did much better the second time. As the needle was going in she pulled her arm back scaring the MA. Finally, with her head between her legs the rest of the blood was successfully drawn. Afterwords she asks was I as bad as Jake? NO, ten times Worse! DRAMA!!!
I guess the Bott children better stick to business related fields in the future!
Thursday, I take Emily in for some blood work. The MA come in to draw the blood and Emily goes into a panic attack. She sees the little needle and starts breathing fast. Half way through the blood draw I look at her and say "are you going to pass out!" The answer was YES! she begins falling over when the MA pulls the needle out and helps me hold her up. Seriously! She only prolonged her blood drawing experience because she had to have blood drawn from the other arm. Not that she did much better the second time. As the needle was going in she pulled her arm back scaring the MA. Finally, with her head between her legs the rest of the blood was successfully drawn. Afterwords she asks was I as bad as Jake? NO, ten times Worse! DRAMA!!!
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Adventures with Anna (and her sidekick Jake)
The adventures with Anna continue everyday. Don't think that because I haven't posted any new adventures lately that there haven't been any. She is full of vivacious curiosity that teaches me patience every day. She loves Dear Genevieve from HGTV. This week I found colorful stripes on my lamp shade. She felt that it needed a little more color (if you have ideas of how to remove crayon and marker from a lamp shade send them my way). She often re-designs the living room and then asks " Is that so cute mom!"
I left my iron sitting on the dryer this week. When I began pressing Alan's white shirt I kept smelling a lemony cleaner smell. It took me a whole shirt to figure out that the smell was Murphy's Oil Soap. Anna had filled my iron with it. My lesson learned was to put the iron away! I am still wondering how she thought of it.
We had some new bookcases installed on Monday. Tuesday I thought I would start filling them. I was multi tasking adding books and talking on the phone with a basketball mom when I smelled baby powder. Anna and Jake had taken the baby poweder and sprinkled it over the end table, covered it with dish towels , squirted a whole medium bottle of hand sanitizer on top of the towels, sprinkled some more baby powder and placed the lamp back. When I realized the mess they looked at me and asked if their creation was beautiful.
Anna and Jake loved St. Patricks day. We all wore green and ate our traditional Corned beef meal with green potatoes and vegetables.On March 18th Anna got up and asked " Do we all get to wear blue today?"
Anna struggles with the word "NO!!!" One evening I was making a smoothie for dinner. The blender was out, but not plugged in. I had frozen raspeberries ready to be pureed when I decided to add some blueberries. I looked Anna in the eyes and said don't touch the blender. In the time it took for me to turn and open the freezer the blender was plugged in and turned on spewing red raspberries all over the kitchen. They were on the carpet, ceiling, walls, windows, floors and every other imaginable spot.
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| Anna playing Dear Genevieve |
We had some new bookcases installed on Monday. Tuesday I thought I would start filling them. I was multi tasking adding books and talking on the phone with a basketball mom when I smelled baby powder. Anna and Jake had taken the baby poweder and sprinkled it over the end table, covered it with dish towels , squirted a whole medium bottle of hand sanitizer on top of the towels, sprinkled some more baby powder and placed the lamp back. When I realized the mess they looked at me and asked if their creation was beautiful.
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| Picture of Anna taken by Emily |
Jake is getting potty trained, which is definitely taking longer than the girls did. He has a pair of Dash from Incredibles underwear. When he puts them on he runs as quick as he can around the house saying "I'm Dash"
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| Jake and Alan at Jakes birthday celebration |
Our family went to the Carl Boch exhibit in Provo, UT. The paintings were absolutely exquisite. However we took Anna and Jake with us. We rented the ipads and quickly into the exhibit handed them to Anna and Jake to keep them occupied and quiet. By the end of the tour Anna had the ipad back ground changed and had figured out how to get to the games that were on it. Sorry to the person behind us who had to figure out what she had done!
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| Anna wondering what is on the other side of this |
Anna and Jake loved St. Patricks day. We all wore green and ate our traditional Corned beef meal with green potatoes and vegetables.On March 18th Anna got up and asked " Do we all get to wear blue today?"
Anna struggles with the word "NO!!!" One evening I was making a smoothie for dinner. The blender was out, but not plugged in. I had frozen raspeberries ready to be pureed when I decided to add some blueberries. I looked Anna in the eyes and said don't touch the blender. In the time it took for me to turn and open the freezer the blender was plugged in and turned on spewing red raspberries all over the kitchen. They were on the carpet, ceiling, walls, windows, floors and every other imaginable spot.
Truly, she just wonders how things work. And once a thought enters her mind she is bound and determined to try what she has thought up. The blessing in it all is that her middle name is JOY! How can you say Anna Joy and be mad at the same time.
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| Anna blowing a kiss |
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Girls Basketball
We have been to soooo many games and the season just started!Anna and Jake survive about 2 games, but the third game does us all in and I usually take everyone home. The sophomore team is doing well, varsity won their first game this week, JV is coming along. Em is playing in all three totalling 5 or more hours of basketball twice a week.
This is a great picture of her. The game was against Syracuse who is ranked #1. The article doesn't say anything great about Davis, but the picture doesn't show that!!! She was so excited to play against Brittany Martin because she wanted to see what a great basketball player is. We don't care if Davis wins or loses, as long as she plays her best!
Friday, September 24, 2010
#7 Precious Time
I met Arthur and Shirley, Alan's parents, at Costco this week. They arrived a little before me and were waiting by the front entrance just inside the doors for me and the little ones.
As Anna, Jake and I stepped onto the side walk Anna caught a glimpse of her Grandparents on the other side of the entrance waiting. She dashed off with her cute little blond hair bouncing up and down as she ran. Jake noticed what she was looking at and wriggled quickly from my arms to race towards them as well.
The two bounded into the arms of their Grandparents with such force that I thought they would knock them over. They were caught up with giant squeezing hugs and kisses. I thought my heart would burst from my chest at the beauty of the scene.
Alan's parents are 87 and 83. Even though they seem to be in good health, the clock is ticking and our time with them here on this earth is numbered. I wonder if Anna and Jake, who love them so much,will know them like Emily and Ruth know them. Will they know that Grandma loved doing puzzles with Anna and that Grandpa loved playing catch and tackle football with Jake (kind of scary when the 2 year old unexpectedly tackles Grandpa leaving him on the ground). Will they know that in their 80's their grandparents served as Primary teachers to 9 year olds and loved it! Will they know that everytime Grandpa sees something tender tears quietly trickle from his eyes? Will they know that Grandma made homemade cookies for them and never tasted them because she strictly followed her diabetic diet?
Hug your Grandparents, go visit them, tell your children stories, because time and memories will be the only thing of importance that we have when they are gone!
(this is Grandpa on his "tractor" with Jaden, Jake, Anna, and Jaxon all Bott's Jaden and Jaxon are Great Grandchildren, but cousins to play with the Anna and Jake!)
#7 on my top ten list for Summer has to be mowing Grandpa Bott's lawn! He was patient with us! Alan broke two sprinkler heads. But Em and Ruth did a good job of helping their Grandparents and each time we learned something new about them. We even pulled out Grandpa's old Navy uniform and Grandma's very stylish polyester sewing creations (they really were cute and I was impressed with her sewing capabilities!)
As Anna, Jake and I stepped onto the side walk Anna caught a glimpse of her Grandparents on the other side of the entrance waiting. She dashed off with her cute little blond hair bouncing up and down as she ran. Jake noticed what she was looking at and wriggled quickly from my arms to race towards them as well.
The two bounded into the arms of their Grandparents with such force that I thought they would knock them over. They were caught up with giant squeezing hugs and kisses. I thought my heart would burst from my chest at the beauty of the scene.
Alan's parents are 87 and 83. Even though they seem to be in good health, the clock is ticking and our time with them here on this earth is numbered. I wonder if Anna and Jake, who love them so much,will know them like Emily and Ruth know them. Will they know that Grandma loved doing puzzles with Anna and that Grandpa loved playing catch and tackle football with Jake (kind of scary when the 2 year old unexpectedly tackles Grandpa leaving him on the ground). Will they know that in their 80's their grandparents served as Primary teachers to 9 year olds and loved it! Will they know that everytime Grandpa sees something tender tears quietly trickle from his eyes? Will they know that Grandma made homemade cookies for them and never tasted them because she strictly followed her diabetic diet?
Hug your Grandparents, go visit them, tell your children stories, because time and memories will be the only thing of importance that we have when they are gone!
(this is Grandpa on his "tractor" with Jaden, Jake, Anna, and Jaxon all Bott's Jaden and Jaxon are Great Grandchildren, but cousins to play with the Anna and Jake!)
#7 on my top ten list for Summer has to be mowing Grandpa Bott's lawn! He was patient with us! Alan broke two sprinkler heads. But Em and Ruth did a good job of helping their Grandparents and each time we learned something new about them. We even pulled out Grandpa's old Navy uniform and Grandma's very stylish polyester sewing creations (they really were cute and I was impressed with her sewing capabilities!)
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Ahhh the Days of Summer
It seems as if school just ended and here we are already a couple of weeks back into it. My goal this year was to post on my blog once a month. Well, I did pretty well till April, then life seemed to go a little crazy. Who knew that teenagers were going to be soooooo much fun and work!!!! So here is the Bott fam top 10.
#1 Ward marries Darnelle Earl. On May 28th Ward remarried. It has been such a great blessing to our entire family. The girls are so happy and I love hearing them call her mom. They now have 7 children and are selling and building a house. We had the privilege of watching the girls during the honeymoon. Em taught them all about "selfies"
#2 Girls Camp, basketball camp, Summer Fun!Well, that took our first 3 weeks of Summer! Summer fun is the girls entrepreneurial adventure where we had up to 30 kids ages 3-8 at our house for two hours of creative fun. This is a picture of what me and the kids did during girls camp-Overnighter in Rexburg with Daddy. Check out that lipstick job!
#3 Every time we sing Latter Day Prophets when we reach David O. McKay, Anna says "Hay, We went to his house!" That we did as we spent family and cousin time in Eden at a really fun cabin.
#4 Emily passes her AP test!!! After a year of hard sweat tears Em gets the long awaited letter that says she PASSED! Now all of a sudden the class has become her favorite all time class.
#5 Delta puts Jake (now 2) in a seat all by himself on our way to Orlando, Florida. I say why don't we try that, it would be a calmer flight for me. In the end Delta (who wouldn't change it until we were at the desk even though we tried 4 or 5 times)moved all of us together. We had the same problem on the way back except that Alan and I got upgraded to 1st class, my parents had a great flight while Alan and I sat with two little cuties by the back bathroom. Anna fell asleep as we landed in SLC. I will leave it up to you to imagine that plane ride. But I felt like I should give the stewardess a HUGE tip before leaving because it was such a mess. Em and Ruth gladly sat by themselves far towards the front of the plane.
#6 Orlando- we visited Orlando in 2004 for our Make a Wish trip.Even though the temperatures were in the upper 90's with 90-100% humidity and I have never sweat like that before, this trip was so different and wonderful compared to that difficult trip back in April of '04. My parents came with us which made it possible to do so much more. Mickey and Minnie came alive to our whole family and I must say it was "A Dream Come True" and a "Magical Adventure".
Well, too tired to write anymore so the end will have to come later, lets just hope it is before Christmas! Love Ya All Mary
#1 Ward marries Darnelle Earl. On May 28th Ward remarried. It has been such a great blessing to our entire family. The girls are so happy and I love hearing them call her mom. They now have 7 children and are selling and building a house. We had the privilege of watching the girls during the honeymoon. Em taught them all about "selfies"
#2 Girls Camp, basketball camp, Summer Fun!Well, that took our first 3 weeks of Summer! Summer fun is the girls entrepreneurial adventure where we had up to 30 kids ages 3-8 at our house for two hours of creative fun. This is a picture of what me and the kids did during girls camp-Overnighter in Rexburg with Daddy. Check out that lipstick job!
#3 Every time we sing Latter Day Prophets when we reach David O. McKay, Anna says "Hay, We went to his house!" That we did as we spent family and cousin time in Eden at a really fun cabin.
#4 Emily passes her AP test!!! After a year of hard sweat tears Em gets the long awaited letter that says she PASSED! Now all of a sudden the class has become her favorite all time class.
#5 Delta puts Jake (now 2) in a seat all by himself on our way to Orlando, Florida. I say why don't we try that, it would be a calmer flight for me. In the end Delta (who wouldn't change it until we were at the desk even though we tried 4 or 5 times)moved all of us together. We had the same problem on the way back except that Alan and I got upgraded to 1st class, my parents had a great flight while Alan and I sat with two little cuties by the back bathroom. Anna fell asleep as we landed in SLC. I will leave it up to you to imagine that plane ride. But I felt like I should give the stewardess a HUGE tip before leaving because it was such a mess. Em and Ruth gladly sat by themselves far towards the front of the plane.
#6 Orlando- we visited Orlando in 2004 for our Make a Wish trip.Even though the temperatures were in the upper 90's with 90-100% humidity and I have never sweat like that before, this trip was so different and wonderful compared to that difficult trip back in April of '04. My parents came with us which made it possible to do so much more. Mickey and Minnie came alive to our whole family and I must say it was "A Dream Come True" and a "Magical Adventure".
Well, too tired to write anymore so the end will have to come later, lets just hope it is before Christmas! Love Ya All Mary
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Mary's Lullaby
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This time of year I always find myself reflecting back to when our sweet Sarah was sick. It usually begins a little before the April LDS General Conference and lasts till her special May 1st day. I find myself reliving bits and pieces of the difficult decisions that we made and the memories that we tried desperately to create.
I feel so blessed to have experienced every aspect of her life. Someone once asked me if knowing what I know now about how things would end with Sarah would I make the same decisions regarding her treatment again or would I not do any treatment. My answer is YES!I would choose treatment again. We were able to enjoy 3 1/2 wonderful years with her. As you can see in the video even though we had difficult times, there were many happy times and those memories outweigh the bad times.
When I hear Mary's Lullaby I am automatically drawn back into a time when I held the sweetest angel and rocked her day and night while singing her primary songs and of course "her song". The words speak my heart. Sarah now "feels the warmth on [her] cheeks from the Son," always. Someday I hope to feel that warmth with her. But for now we carry on and feel the JOY of life today!
(The words and music to Mary's Lullaby were written by our dear friend Shauna Snell)
This time of year I always find myself reflecting back to when our sweet Sarah was sick. It usually begins a little before the April LDS General Conference and lasts till her special May 1st day. I find myself reliving bits and pieces of the difficult decisions that we made and the memories that we tried desperately to create.
I feel so blessed to have experienced every aspect of her life. Someone once asked me if knowing what I know now about how things would end with Sarah would I make the same decisions regarding her treatment again or would I not do any treatment. My answer is YES!I would choose treatment again. We were able to enjoy 3 1/2 wonderful years with her. As you can see in the video even though we had difficult times, there were many happy times and those memories outweigh the bad times.
When I hear Mary's Lullaby I am automatically drawn back into a time when I held the sweetest angel and rocked her day and night while singing her primary songs and of course "her song". The words speak my heart. Sarah now "feels the warmth on [her] cheeks from the Son," always. Someday I hope to feel that warmth with her. But for now we carry on and feel the JOY of life today!
(The words and music to Mary's Lullaby were written by our dear friend Shauna Snell)
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