Ben and Melanie: What they Created: 2010

Well, poor mother dearest has been checked into the hospital for an infected intestine track (something like that...). She'll be there for a few days, so luckily it hit her over a weekend and she doesn't have to miss too much school. But still, everything that isn't normal by any degree, happens to mom. She's had her appendix removed, since you don't need it in order to survive, shingles, Meniere's Disease, (who's even heard of that?), and now this. What the HECK!!! I really do feel for mom. Dad came home today after visiting her at the Hospital and when he didn't look very happy, I honestly, feared the worst. Luckily he just told us what was wrong. She had a Catscan and that's how they discovered it, and there was blood in her urine, so that definitely does not sound too good. And all that they can really do for is it antibiotics. So keep her in your prayers your fingers crossed that all goes well for Mom and that she feels better.

Well! I would say that many things have happened recently. Let's see, we joined GOLD'S GYM, I won Wrangler Idol at school, school's finally OVER, Gideon got his first a job at Peter Piper Pizza, Dad lost his job and is searching for one, Mom is doing more school over the summer, Maria and Steve had their baby a while ago, Nephi and Kirsten moved to Austin (WAHOO!!), Sadie and Harley are going to come and enjoy our company down here in Texas for a year, and Mom and I recently just got back from Girls Camp which was WAY better this year than it was last year.

I will now go into detail of all of these things that have happened recently. Heh-hum!!

We joined GOLD'S GYM, to get fit and healthy over the summer since apparently they had a good deal for joining over the summer, therefore, we joined. It's been really nice actually. We all go and work out everyday in the morning. Dad swims, Gid lifts tons of weights and plays basketball, I run and do the machines, and Mom walks and does all the stuff that her trainer wants her to.

If you don't know what Wrangler Idol is, which I'm sure you all do by now, it's a show that my school puts on at the very end of each year, and only choir students can participate in it. It's called Wrangler Idol because we're the Wood Wranglers and we don't want to have people getting confused between American Idol and Wrangler Idol, even though it's basically the same thing...So, you try out with a song that you want to sing. If you do good you go to Round 2 and try out with the same song again. If you do good and make it into the top eleven, then you get to sing in the show. I made it in this year, as I did last year, and sang Walk Away by Kelly Clarkson. I won the show and got and enormous trophy from it. It was extremely fun.:)

SCHOOL'S OUT!! YIPEE! Thank goodness, now we swim all day long and get tan all day long! Gideon is now a Junior in High School, (weird right?) and I am an eighth grader in Middle School. Unfortunately for Mom & Dad, their school doesn't really end. Bummer...

Gideon has been working hard and has been applying everywhere trying to find a summer job. He finally landed one at Peter Piper Pizza and actually starts today! Mom wants him to get another job since he would only be working part time, so we'll see if he does or doesn't! He also is getting to be very close to getting his permit to start driving. I'm kind of nervous about this, especially since I'm the one in the backseat.

Yes, poor father has been laid off, sorta. I think he said that he was down to only four days a month, so he's basically laid off. He has been looking for jobs and has been applying like a mad man. He's had several interviews that would be wonderful if he got the job. They're right up his alley in teaching teachers how to teach, plus they pay well, and have good benefits. It's just that they're not always in town either. He's been interviewed in Houston and Austin, So we'll see what job he ends up getting too!

Mom is doing more school over the summer in order to get all of the classes that she needs for nursing school in. She has been doing studying and such to get high scores, and I think that so far she's been doing really well with it.

Yes we all already know that Maria & Steve had their baby, but I just had to put it in our blog because their family, so THEY HAD THEIR BABY! WOOHOO! His name is Creedence and if you want all the full details go to their blog. If they have all of details and pictures I'm not going to put them on here, so go visit them to get the big picture. All that I'll say is that he is absolutely adorable and chubby. So for now, my lips are sealed...

A while ago Nephi & Kirsten moved out of freezing Utah, and came to live down here in wonderfully HOT Texas!! YES!! It's been really fun having them down here, because we get to see them every fast Sunday and holidays and such. They moved down here because Nephi got a job with computer security or something like that, I don't know, it's too techy for me...Anyways, they're down here now and it's awesome!:)

Sadie and Harley and coming back down yet again because Utah is apparently too cold for any living person, so no one should live there, just a heads up...Actually no, that's not the real reason, Sadie doesn't want to be around Glenn anymore and wants a divorce, so they're moving back here with us! WOOHOO!! We'll be picking them up along with Jazzy on our trip to Utah. So It will be a full house, and a very fun summer!

Mom & I just got back from Girls Camp on Saturday, and it was lots of fun! The theme this year was Can You Imagine from Alma 5:16. It was cool because each level had a different make believe place. 1st years were Under the Sea, 2nd years were Pixie Hollow, 3rd years were Wizard of OZ, 4th years were Alice in Wonderland, and the YCL's or JC's if you prefer, were the Lion King. So there you have it! Girls Camp was lot's of fun, especially since we didn't have to sleep on the Dining Hall floor this year. (That happened last year, long story...) And, we were supposed to get completely rained out from really bad thunderstorms but we didn't and got the nice breeze instead! We all fasted on the previous Sunday for good weather and that we would be safe through it and we all were. The rain went all around us and it never hit us. So it was all good!:)

Well, I do believe that's all that's happened recently...Have a good one! Laterz.:)