hello again

Hello All again,

I am starting to feel like this is my personal journal, but I was shooting for once a month so here we go.As some of you already know, last week 06/29/09 I had heart surgery. More specifically a SVT ablation. I am so lucky to have inherited a lovely heart arrythimeia from the Lefford side of the family. SVT is a really rapid heart rate, that until 6-9 months ago I was able to control with meds. The meds stopped working and so surgery was the next best thing. After surgery I am feeling better just still really tired. It looks like I will probably have to have it again because I am still having symptoms but they are less frequent and don't last as long. So that is great! Anything to feel better!

Other then that I am way excited to go to the family reunion this weekend. Hopefully we will get to do lots of fun stuff! I will try to post pictures next week sometime.

Baby Clara is doing good! She is cute as a doll, but she hates her carseat and screams almost always when she is in it! Garrett tries to calm her down by singing to her, but so far that had not worked.

Mom and I are planning a trip to Disneyland in September and also to see a couple of art museums so that should be fun!

Work has been really good, we have got some great people and everyone (except 1 person) is working well together which makes it really easy to get along, and less stress for me!

I hope all of you are doing well! I hope Florida and Arizona are not too hot yet!

Talk to everyone soon!

Becky

Me and Clara

New Baby is here

Hi all,

Just a quick update! Evets had her baby last night. They named her Clara Leone, she weighed 6 lbs, 12 oz and was 18 1/2 inches long! She is really cute and has chubby cheeks we are so excited! Evets is doing really well. Hope to see you all soon.

Love Becky

Life

Well it is official life is crazy. Everyday I feel like it gets worse and worse and then I blink and another month (not day but month) has flown by. So I don't know what everyone knows so here we go 5 months in my life

In January I was called to be the advisor to the MiaMaids class in our ward. Since then I have cried and prayed and prayed more and more everyday for direction with how to help 14-15 yr olds cope with life and drama. We had issues with girls not feeling included and then girls fighting about boys and talking inappropriately about boys. Now we have ex best friends trying to tear apart 5 months of hard work and bonding. Everyday something new and different.

Right now we are in the middle of a huge project, we are participating in a Temple Celebration to commemorate the opening of the Orquirh mountain temple. We have been having 2 plus practices a week for 3 months and now are preparing for a complete dress rehearsal on next Thursday at the conference center. We have had 3 practices already at the conference center. Our performance will be next Saturday May 30th. I am grateful to have the opportunity to participate in such a wonder thing. Right now though I am so tired and burned out that I am ready for it to be over. So far it has been a great experience for the kids and really seems to have turned them in the direction they should be headed.

As for work I have been working long hours and anticipate hiring another person soon. We had a bunch of really great applications and great interviews and I hope that we find someone soon. It is really causing a lot of stress on everyone.

I have gotten my garden up and running and hope to get a great harvest in the coming months. I have gotten some spinach and radishes so far, my peas are just coming on and my lettuce should be ready in the next week, my tomatoes are flowering so hopefully soon we will have some yummy tomatoes.

I have been doing a lot of scrap booking of my trip the last couple of months and the Ginormity of being where I was is really just hitting me. I think after just a few days of magic you get use to seeing amazing and fabulous things and you just go "that's cool" but looking back at somethings, I am now thinking OMG, that was amazing!

OK, now that I have babbled on and on, I want to comment on Bethany's post. Funny thing about the Irish Spring, my dad has been using Irish Spring as long as I can remember. So you probably saw and smelled it every time you were in the house. I love to remember the times when you were young, when we would play Barbies and you would sleep over. Going to the park, and doing all the fun things that we did. I even fondly remember your dinosaur eye patch, you were so proud of it. I truly miss you guys lots. I am hoping to come and visit for a couple of weeks next Spring! I hope you can take me around to all the best places. I don't want to burden anyone though so please help me figure out what I can do and not make things stressful for you :) I just thought 9 months or so of planning you guys could help me plan a great trip!

Well now I am rambling I hope that everyone has a wonderful and safe Memorial Day weekend. I love you all and miss you!

Becky

Just a quick story before I start working on my next job...

Have you ever had a scent trigger a childhood memory? Aren't those moments great? I had one shopping with my mom at Target. We were looking for a body wash for Cody and mom had me take a quick wiff of one. Well, I immediately thought about how the body wash reminded me of Irish Spring soap. Then BAM! My brain teleports me to Colleen's old house in Murray. (I'm not sure why the thought of Irish Spring soap reminds me of Colleen's house, but it does. maybe I remember seeing a bar of Irish Spring soap there before...) I remember spending days there when I was younger. Sleeping in Becky's room on her daybed pull out. Becky giving me her Rainbow Bright pajamas. It was a blue nightgown. I even remembered when she gave me a couple of her Nancy Drew books! All those little memories brought a smile right to my face... I really miss you all! I miss you so very much.

I should probably get back to work...

I love you all!!!

Brooks Baptism Day

Sorry this is a couple weeks late, I just downloaded the pictures. As most people know Connor baptized Brooks on Jan. 25th and it was such a neat experience. Since Brooks hero worships Connor. They both looked so handsome and there was only one other boy being baptized at that time so we didn't even have to wait that long. Connor did a great job but was looking kind of nervous right before. Brother White from our ward asked both Todd and I to tell Brooks how we were feeling before the baptism and Todd said how proud he was of Brooks and that he knew he was doing the right thing. That really meant a lot to Brooks. We had a little lunch afterwards with family and friends, Todd's Uncle Ron and Aunt Lynne came so that was neat because we haven't seen them for a while. The next day at his confirmation Dad confirmed him but the microphone wasn't working and you know how soft Dad can talk sometimes, so I didn't really get to hear any of it, but that's okay because the person that needed to hear could hear him just fine.

Well on to Tatum we are making progress on the potty training (two steps forward and one step back). If someone would have told me it would have been this big of struggle I would have laughed at them. But I'm not laughing now. She is doing better. Todd is still working at Grand America and things are going well for him. Tatum's just getting over being sick so hopefully everyone will be doing good for a while now. Love everyone and miss you.

LaNece

Happy Lovey, Dovey Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day,

Just wanted to let everyone know how much I love you and how much I love how our family is. Everyone is such an important part that we couldn't do it without anyone.

Love Becky