Happy Birthday Bryce!

We have another Teenager in the house!  Bryce turned 13 and we had a party with 13 kids.  Pizza then a trip to Jumpin Jacks.  A little crazy but also a lot of fun!

Desert Hills Basketball

Bryce & Bradley both played basketball as part of a Desert Hills Skills League.  I'm slowly learning to be a sports mom.  I do enjoy watching them play.

100 Year Celebration

Last month there was a 100 Year Scouting celebration out at the fairgrounds. The scouts spent the day having fun. I don't know any more details cause I wasn't there but obviously there was a rock climbing wall.

Nerd Day

It was spirit week at school last week. One day was Nerd day. Bryce put together this get up.

Student of the Month

Bryce forgot his homework today and called to ask me to run it over to the school for him. As I was leaving the school they were making the morning announcement which included the Students of the Month. Perfect day for Bryce to forget his homework because I got to hear them announce that Bryce was Student of the Month in PE.
Great Job Bryce!

Byce & Migraines

Bryce is home again with another migraine. That makes 3 migraines in 7 days. I'm thinking it has something to do with this time of year. Either the weather or whatever is in the air. He got his first migraine last year on August 31st and had 4 migraines in 2 weeks. They then started tapering off and came less frequently until they had seemed to have stopped. He got a migraine last week on August 17th and has now had 3 migraines in a week. Does that seem like a coincidence to you? I'm thinking not and that it truly is triggered by allergies or changes in the weather. At least I'm optimistic at this point that they will taper off again.
I'd say maybe it is school starting but school doesn't seem to be a stress to Bryce. School comes easy to him.

The Best Laid Plans...

Today started off great!

Then the phone rang just moments after I got the younger kids off to school.

"This is the intermediate school we have Bryce in the office with a migraine"

Farewell to my planned "productive day".

Poor kid his migraines are not pleasant. So far he's sleeping. Let's hope we got medication in him soon enough so this one won't be severe.

Deacons' Hike

A few pictures from Bryce's hike with the Deacons Quorum

Bryce's Hike

A short video from the hike Brian & Bryce went on with the scouts.

Ninjas

I was just heading to bed when I heard some odd noises coming from outside. "HI-YA" was the most common thing I was hearing. I thought the boys had gone up to the high school but nope they were in our front yard playing Ninja. A game I couldn't quite figure out. I asked them if they made it up but no it was something they had learned in PE.

All Star Hoops Basketball

Bryce is playing basketball with All Star Hoops (formerly Border League). He's improved a lot during the last month and has got much more aggressive in the way he plays. I enjoy watching their games.

Welcome Hershey

Confession I am neither a pet lover nor a sports lover. Nothing wrong with either but neither is at the top of my list.

That said let me tell you about my day.

Bryce is playing Border League Basketball and they had 2 games today. One at 11:00 and a second one at 1:00. Not enough time in between to be worth going home so that ended up being 3 1/2 hours out of my day being the good, supportive mom taking Bryce to his games and out to eat in between. (I'm not actually really complaining and I don't regret that time, I enjoyed watching Bryce play!)

While I was gone to the games Brian and Kim had a father daughter talk and somehow Kim convinced Brian that she needed a bunny rabbit. The big softie that Brian is he caved and agreed. Thus we are the proud owners of a bunny rabbit named Hershey.

Alas what can I say when they have such big smiles on their faces and are so happy other than Welcome Hershey! Perhaps my children will make me both a pet lover and a sports lover before my life is over.

And hopefully Hershey fares better than our previous pets.

Bryce's blog

Bryce's blog is awesome. http://bzhabel.blogspot.com
That's all.

Bryce's Choir Concert

Bryce was required to take a trimester of Choir at the Intermediate school. The end of the trimester was this week so there was a required concert on Thursday night. We all went to hear the performance. It was a lot of fun.

Happy Birthday Bryce!

Happy Late Birthday to Bryce! His birthday was actually last Friday but he had a scout campout that day. He took his friend Spencer to the movies the day before his birthday. He had best of EFY as soon as he got home from the campout. Brian took him to a movie and shopping after EFY and we had a cake for him on Sunday. He had no presents to open, he was just given money. He made a comment about birthdays being such a big deal when you are little and they're not as big of a deal as you get older. I'd still like to have his friends over for cake and a small party one day but there seems to be too much going on and no free days.

Court of Honor

Bryce is cruising along in his scouting. He earned his 1st Class and another Merit Badge at the Court of Honor on Tuesday.

Keep up the good work Bryce!

Basketball for Bryce

For the record I'm not a sports mom. It just makes life too crazy with practice and games. But I caved and let Bryce play basketball. He's on a team with several boys from the ward. They had their first game Saturday and won. Pretty good for not having had a practice.

Another Migraine!

Bryce started getting another Migraine headache today. It started right before school got out and he was miserable by the time he got home. Thankfully the doctor's advice worked: a dose of ibuprofen and then I made him drink a bunch of water and put him to bed. After a 3 hour nap he woke up feeling much better. Thank goodness we dodged that one. I'm not sure either of us were ready for hours of him in pain again.

Sick Kid

Bryce called me from school yesterday saying he was sick. When I picked him up it was obvious he was not well. After being home for a few minutes I decided we needed a trip to the Dr. I thought perhaps he had a migraine headache but wasn't sure. The Dr. did the examine and thought the same thing that it was probably just a migraine because there were no symptoms of anything else (no fever, no cough, no congestion, no sore throat). Just to be sure they ran some lab work to check for strep, mono or the flu. Bryce ended up having strep & 2 strains of the flu.
So he's now on an antibiotic for the strep and after a priesthood blessing and a day in bed he is doing much better today. Still out of school since he's still contagious today and still a little weak but wow what a difference a day makes. Sure makes me appreciate the fact that my kids are almost always healthy.
Hopefully the rest of us won't get it. Last night everyone got treated to large doses of Vitamin D & Drinkable fruits & vegetables in an effort to boost their immune systems.

Dang Proud of Our Boy Scout!

This is a boy who makes his parents proud. Bryce went camping with his scout troop on Friday night. His friend Jaden couldn't get his sleeping bag out of its bag so Bryce gave Jaden his sleeping bag to use. It made for one long cold night for Bryce. He didn't want to wake up his scout leaders and couldn't get into the scout trailer to get a blanket so he laid awake freezing all night long. He said he maybe got 2 hours of sleep. He fell asleep sitting up on the couch late Friday afternoon, woke up for a few minutes around 8:30 then went back to sleep for the night. Next time we told him it would be ok to wake his leader up or just use a knife to get the sleeping back out of the bag!