White Rock SandDunes

On Saturday we decided to go Geocaching up to the White Rock Dunes. It was a little hike but yet not to long for Elia. She walked the whole way. Any way I don't know if any of you have every been up there but it is a lot of fun and the kids had a blast in the sand and hiking up the big white rocks that were every where. We never did find the Cache but just playing in the sand and stuff was well worth it. The Kids' favorite part was going all the way to the top of the dunes and sliding down the sand on there belly's (even though they filled there pants with sand it was fun).

2nd Grade Program

Just thought I would let everyone know that Jayli is having a 2nd Grade program at 7:00pm On April 1. It will be held in the gym at arrowhead elementary. Jayli wanted me to also put a picture of her new hair cut on the blog so here it is.

We have a blog!

We officially have a blog! I am not good at this yet & I am still learning! If you would like to see our blog then just click on Bonnie under the friends list and it will link you to our blog. Or go here themoss5.blogspot.com to check it out! Warning: it is a bit cheesy! But isn't that the reason why we blogstalk?!

Trent & Bonnie

Dad

Well, miracle of miracles. Dad is finally on the blog. I went back and read all the blogs back to and including Christmas with all the fun pictures of your supercalifragilisticexpealidocious projects for Christmas. I know it is a drag to some, but I am proud of each one of you and what you came up with. It was fun to read the updates on the families and see the cute pictures. Mom told you about our trip to SLC and East Canyon Resort. I used it as a business trip. On Saturday I went to the Sportman's Expo at the Southtowne Center. They had a big sign there saying no soliciting, so I went in and collected business cards. Most of them had an email address on them, so I will email the companies to tell them about the information backup business I am doing. I also had 3 appointments on Tuesday. Amy Grant (who hired me) and Phil Watts, the president of the company who came over from England to help us, went with me. We didn't have immediate success, but feel 2 of the 3 will probably do business with us.
When they had the parade of homes here in St. George, I took Mom to it and at each home talked to some of the exhibitors and got business cards from others. I hope it all pans out.
I think most of you knew I flew back to Norfolk, VA the last of January for the International Sales Convention of our business, Data Vault Security. It was a lot of flying for one day of meetings, but I got a lot out of it. Thanks to Trent for the air travel. The guy that presented was Andy Hansen from the UK. He fined people for sleeping or for sitting with your arms folded. We had a few funny experiences with that. I did have a problem coming home. I got to the airport at 5:30 am and realized I didn't have the reservation number to print my ticket. I called Mom at (by that time 4 am here) and walked her through the computer to get the number. Both of us were very frustrated by the time we got it.
I haven't been doing my 403b business for about 5 years or so. I got a call from a gal who wanted to sign up. We have to have Errors and Omission Insurance and it $700. I went aheaad and got it hoping I would sign a few more up. I printed a flyer and got it to all the elementary schools and Tuacahn. I got one call from Tuacahn, so I didn't pay for my E&O. I did get a call about a transfer, but that is still up in the air.
Well, that's all the good news. Now for the bad. I have had some pain in my back about where my kidneys are, so I scheduled an appointment with Dr. Stucki. I went in for a CT Scan ($1300) before the appointment. He told me one kidney is clear full of stones and the other has one in it. He scheduled me lithotripsy for April 2. (I told Kierra that she and I could hold hands and cry together) I have had litho twice before and each of the days after were the worst days of my life. So, keep me in your prayers. The doctor did say that they could put a stint in to drain part of the stones away and hopefully not have all the problems. We'll see. Oh, and he said one treatment would not take care of it. I will have to have 2 or 3.
Well, after that long epistle, you may be wishing that Dad hadn't discoved the family blog after all.
I love you all and enjoy being a part of your lives.
Dad

Update on Kiki

Kiki has been having some difficulties lately and after getting rid of a couple of bladder infections we finally got the right tests and found out she has 3 little stones. After 5 minutes of crying and feeling sorry for herself, she changed her attitude and is handling everything just fine. She puts up with the pain, but what she hates is before surgery (the bowel prep) and after surgery (coming home with tubes in her). She decided that if she had a stone that at least there were 3 so maybe the doctor can save one or two for her.
The doctor called me and thinks the stones are little enough that he can go through her belly button (her mitrofanoff) and extract the stones. Therefore taking out the two parts that Kiki hates the worst. We are happy about this and hope it works out. Kiki goes into the doctor tomorrow where we will learn more. If all goes well she will have this procedure on Friday.
She knows she is blessed and watched over. She is certainly a good example to me.

Thanks Judy's Family

I just wanted to thank Judy and her family for being such great sports and watching our kids over night on Friday. Jeff and I had a great time. We went to the Blue Man Group (which is a few guys that paint themselves blue and play the drums, but they do a few funny things too) at the Venetian hotel. then we went to denny's for some breakfast at 2 in the morning. We definately weren't as hungry as we thought we were but it was still good. Then we went back to the Hotel and slept for a few hours, then went and picked up our kids to take them to do a few things that we thought would be fun like the M&M factory and the lions at the MGM. I don't know what we were thinking taking our kids away from Judy's Family because they definately were not being good for us. I think Ashlin cried the entire time we were out (which was about 3 hours) So since Jeff and I didn't have much sleep either the night before we got tired of the kids and cut our trip short. We were suppose to go to church with the LEE's and listen to Shaun give his talk. We are sorry about that LEE family. We really do love you guys and love being around you. My patience are very short since Ashlin acts that way almost everyday. If anyone has any Ideas about what to do with a kid that just is so mean (especially to Elia)and just cries all the time because she doesn't get what she wants. I NEED HELP!!!! Thank you very much again Judy and Family We love you guys!!!!

back from East Canyon

Family,
We had a very relaxing week at the East Canyon Resort. The only problem was the road was closed and we had to travel around by Henefer, close to Ogden every time we wanted to go to Salt Lake. It was about 70 miles and that got a little too much. We visited the Draper temple and that was wonderful. We had a fun day with Joni, Teri and the girls. We all went to the Jazz game. We were introduced to a new "friend" of Joni's. Mike was a great guy and we all liked him immediately. He is very easy to be around and must be pretty great to put up with all of us. Teri took her girls out of school for Wednesday and spent the day with us up to the condo.
I loved coming home and reading about everyone on the blog. Much love always. Mom