busy as ever

Well we have been very busy back in Oct. and Nov. we had the flu running through our home.   Well Juli became very ill and we just thought she had a bad case of the flu.  It turned out that her pancress broke.   We were in the hospital the night before thanksgiving, what a different thanksgiving that was.  Some of our kids spent thanksgiving with some neighbors and my husband and I spent it in primary children's hospital with juli.   We stayed for two weeks then Juli was able to go home.
We were home for two weeks and we ended up back in the hosptial with a fever and vomiting.   So we ended up spending christmas in Primary childrens hospital it was two more weeks.  
Such an amazing thing to,  the children so get spoiled the whole week that they stay in the hospital of christmas.   We have such amazing caring and giving people in this amazing state to make sure the children get to have a happy and cheerful christmas.
 It has made us look and change the way that we are going to do christmas.  Our christmas is going to be giving to the childrens hospital. Our christmas for our family has went from getting to all giving i feel as this will be so fun for the kids to do, also for my husband and I...  I feel the spirit of giving we will truly feel... It makes the family kind of looking forward to christmas this year...

learnig a new routine

So all of these years of being an wife and a mother I have worked full time and sometimes two full time jobs.  Well I'm learning a whole new routine in my life.  I'm working part time, I've became a taxi cab driver.  The kids are all still going to American fork high and American fork Jr high.  Juli in going to horizon in Saratoga Springs.  So on A days for school we get up about 4:30 am and get the household moving and ready, I drop off Aaron, Cyndal and Kat at AF high for color guard, for Kat.  Lucky Aaron and Cyndal get to go and sit and wait for school to start around 7:45 am.  Then i rush home to get Juli ready for her school, her bus comes at 8:30 am then I rush back to AF high to get Kat and all of the other Jr high color guard girls and get them back to the Jr high before 2nd class starts.  Then the rest of the day is mine for house cleaning, walking the dogs and grocery shopping.  I sure do live the life.   At 2:15 the game starts all over but in reverse.  I drop Kat off at AF high for practice again and rush home with the other kids to get juli off of the bus and to start dinner. Then we head back to the high school to pick up Kat and the night is done and boy have I just feel like I've work so very hard at a job.  Oh silly me I have as  mother and a wife.... 

Then the next day we start out as a B day, we get back up at 4:30 in the morning for early morning seminary.  I drop Aaron and Cyndal off at AF high for seminary at 6:00am then we go to the AF Jr high for Kat's seminary class at 6:45am.  So Kat, Juli and I wait there with Kat until it's time for class.  Then Juli and I rush home to get her ready for school again.   So the rest of the time is my time until 2:15pm.   To walk the dogs, clean the house and grocery shop and pay bills as needed.

The Patterson's Adventures

We started our fun filled adventure when Rich and I meet, Nov. 2006,  What a whirlwind adventure this has been.  I was told how hard it was to take two family's and make them one.  On April 18,2007 Rich and I did just that.  We were married and let me tell you how much fun we have had and how all seven of our eight children has grown in this adventure.  If anyone ever tells you it can't be done they are so wrong.  We are even better then the Brady bunch, the only difference in us is that we are real, our children are all so amazing...