Time to Race!

Last night was Robby's second Pine Wood Derby
Sorry to say his car didn't lead the races, and I'm pretty sure he cane in last place at know fault of his.
Charlee helped with his car last year and it didn't do so hot so this year it was left up to me and he did worse. I guess that's the down fall of having two of the most uncompetitive parents ever. One of the dads did put some of that grey powder stuff on the wheels and that helped alot but the races were already over. so in the play around races he did better. oophs
Lucky for us he is so easy going, he just said,"ya they sure don't make very good wheels for these things do they". and I said "NO THEY DON'T"

All I can say is that Robby's car would of made Grandma Mangelson very proud indeed.
Can you guess which one is Robby's?

Robby and his best buddy Seth Beckett

Robby and his non-award winning car.

Last but not Least

Can you believe it, two post in one month! yay me.
Robby, Robby , Robby,
I can't believe how time flies, It seems like yesterday.
I have to admit I was less than excited to find out that I was pregnant, I thought that I was much to old to be having another baby,I was the ripe old age of 34.
I remember the day It dawned on me that I might be expecting.
I had been sick for a few weeks and I was extremely tired from preparing for girls camp. While loading up my stuff the thought popped into my head I hadn't once thought of it before. suddenly I felt sicker..
Off to camp I went, I almost made it the whole time without any breakdowns on the last night I was so sad because I new that it would bethe end of YW camp for a while.Did I think they would keep me in forever? Yes. I told a good friend my suspensions and she started telling me all the people who had had a latter baby. The afternoon we got home from camp she showed up on the door step with the pregnancy test and I called her a short time later with the results.
That night we went to dinner at Denny's with the kids and right before I had told Charlee of my suspicions. Boy was he ever proud, which totally ticked me off. I was expecting him to be as devastated as I was. Charlee ask the kids if they would be excited to get a baby and of course the response was complete hysteria.
Could know one feel my pain.
Yes!!! there was one person!
Charlee broke the news to my mom a few months later after I refused to tell her.
He simply said one day while working on her house," Your daughters pregnant" and she's not very happy about it.
My mom could feel my pain and I love her so much for the sympathy she gave me.
I couldn't talk about it without crying until I was about 7 months. And of course Charlee and the kids rejoiced the whole time..
On March 12th at 7:10a.m. a beautiful baby boy was born. when we called grandma to tell her I talked to her on the phone and she told me that I sounded different, and that she was glad I was finally ok.
Golden Robert McNeill
Golden after my dad and charlee's Grandfather and Robert after my cousin Bob and Charlee's Mothers maiden name Roberts.
Robby pretty much takes care of himself. He's always been very easy going
All of the kids loved taking care of him for at least two months.

Robby loves spending time with friends

Robby's baptism was a real special day, he had first asked Jeremy to baptize him but then had second thoughts when Jer threatend to hold him under. So, Dewey Baptized him and Charlee Confirmed him.

Robby loves to be outside and be active

He loves scouts

On His Birthday last Friday we took him and a few friends Ice skating, Now that's entertainment. They had the whole rink to themselves.

Robby, Ammon, Peyton,and Seth

Needless to say because of his health issues I am just a tad bit over protective with him, and he doesn't appreciate it sometimes. Ok all the time.
What a blessing this little guy has been to our family. I can't imagine my life without him.

Ok, lets try this again!

I am going to start off slow and try to at least post something for everyones birthday.

So with the exception of Lacey, If I didn't give birth to you, don't be expecting me to be blogging about you.

I know that I will get crap for starting with Dewey because everyone thinks he is my favorite, but his birthday happens to be the first one of the year.

February 24, 1987
After being on bedrest for almost 2 months the Dr. said time for a baby. I guess I was to young to realize that I should of been scared that he was going to be born 6 weeks early. Teresa convinced me that the c-section was no big deal, and she was right. At 4:30 in the afternoon we had a baby. Although, I wasn't crazy about it, his name was going to be Dewey. Aunt Patty said she wouldn't speak to Charlee if he named him Dewey but that didn't last long.
Dewey Spent 2 weeks in Primary Childrens Hospital and when we brought him home he was on oxygen until he was 6 months old.
Dewey has always been very easy going.
He was given a lot of responsibility at a young age. He took care of his brother and sisters while we took care of what ever church calling we had at the time. He only lost his sister once and it wasn't for very long, he was however in quite a panic when we got home and he still had not located Charley-Anne. She had decided to play hide and seek by her self and fell asleep under the couch cushions.

Grandpa McNeill Gave Dewey this hat for his first birthday.

he was

such a cute little boy.

He's a great big brother.

He's always been a fabulous dresser.

And now he is a husband.
I hope this next year is a great one!

I am glad that I'm you mommy.

Love you, Dewd

Okay, Charley-anne set up this blog using her e-mail (don't ask me why) I finally recovered the password to gain access to our blogspot,should I just start a new one, or continue with this one. Or does anyone know how to change it over to my account?

Faith in God

Sunday at church Charlee and I were asked to teach Robby's primary class at the last minute. Right before Primary started I went out into the hall and there i found Robby's friend, Seth was really upset, crying and I asked him if he was Okay and he very bluntly told my that his mom and dad had acted like jerks that morning. I in turn told him that it was our jobs as parents to behave badly sometimes. After a little persuading he came into primary.

This is how the rest of the conversation went.

Me: So, Seth why were you so sad this morning? Are you Okay now?

Seth: My mom just started yelling at me and said "You've lost your faith in God"

Me: In my mind I was thinking, Gee Tracy your being a little harsh on the 8 year old don't you think. I didn't say anything more on the subject to Seth but for the next two hours all i could do was think of what this kid (Who had just gotten baptized a week ago) had done to provoke his mother into telling him he had lost his faith in God.

So after church I Talked to Tracy, Seth's Mom and I had to tell her about the conversation me and Seth had had that morning but be fore I had the chance to tell her everything Seth had said, she said, Seth was having such a hard morning because he lost his Faith in God (BOOKLET) And it all made sense!

We had a good laugh over it!

Jamee Learns to Drive!

Think back to the first time you drove a car. I think I might of been around 7 when i learned to drive. I remember driving the truck (stick shift) out in the field while the guys loaded it with hay. This led to an obsession with joy riding. At first it entailed driving the little white car down through the creek up to the cemetery turning around and going back down though the creek and to the house. We also had no problem driving anything, the only requirement was does it have keys or gas. We might of been 11 or 12 at the time. Now this was ok and not illegal, for we were on private property. This short distance joy ride as you can well imagine got quite boring and Stefanie Gina and myself decided that making directional changes in the route would be beneficial. It seamed that each time we left my yard we would end up having to out run Big Dave the county sheriff, (we called him Big Dave cause in Levan there was also a Little Dave) so as to now which Dave you were talking about you had to say big Dave or Little Dave it pretty self explanatory. We could usually get the car parked and get into the kitchen to pretend there was nothing out of the ordinary happening, before he knocked on the front door to tell us to quit driving. That was enough to scare us in to not driving for the rest of THE DAY!

I was lucky enough to have to wonderful neighbors growing up that cared deeply for my safety so it was they, who every time we left the yard, would be of the horn to Big Dave. Thanks Pat and Florene for helping us learn and sharpen our defensive driving skills.

Ok, Now back to the reason for this post, Jamee was asking driving questions Saturday on our way home from SL, and saying how she way never going to learn how to drive. So we stopped out on sheep lane just after we turned off the Hwy. I say to her ok get up front and you can drive home. Charley-Anne gets in the back and there we sat Jamee wouldn't get in the drivers seat, she had a panic attack. so charley drove down sheep lane around the corner to Erda Way. Jamee finally gets into the drivers seat and asks, What if I'm left footed? OY are we in trouble or what! She drives us down Erda Way and around Gunderson Circle and in to our driveway, without incident.

Jamee was the first of my kids to be a little skiddish about driving. She can drive a 4-wheeler no problem but just the thought of going so fast scares her a little, she drives like I ski, cautiously.

The story of Robby

Sorry I did'nt realize that there were so many that did't know what was going on with Robby. Its just such an every day thing to us that I don't mention it in every day conversation. So if your not around you miss out on the drama. Lucky You.

The saga started November 5th 2005 that was the day Robby was diagnosed with Nephrotic Syndrome, Minimal Change Disease.

Robby had a little cold maybe two weeks before Halloween and it really was nothing big he got over it and life proceeded as normal. NOT! Abi took Robby down to the church to watch the girls play basketball and then brought him home. She said to us look at Robby's tummy. It looked like he had a basketball in there. We took him up to the hospital pediatric clinic that night and the doctor checked him out listened to his tummy and said he constipated. What! It didn't sound like him so i started with the questions and Robby said "I just Pooped before we came" the doctor gave him a laxative and we waited and waited nothing so we went home thinking he was full of gas. That was a Thursday night. Sunday during Sacrament meeting I was looking at Robby and I turned to Dewey and asked him if his face looked different, He had a lump under his jaw area. I talked to the doctor on call he said if he didn't act sick he would be okay until tomorrow to see our Regular doctor. So, Monday his face was a little mire puffy and when Dr. Beazer seen Robby he said oh he looks nephrotic and in my feeble brain I thought CRAZY I don't think he looks crazy. He thought he had some thing wrong with his kidneys. At this point I'm still on crazy it takes me a minute. Any way we were sent straight to Primary Children's. I kept myself in check until I hit the fresh air, then I lost it!

Robby's kidneys don't filter right, normal kidneys filter like a piece of cheese cloth very fine, Neghrotic kidneys are like a honey comb and he pees all the protein right out causing him to retain all the fluid that he should be getting rid of.

One thing we have learned is that when his Kidneys quite functioning thing go down hill real fast.

by Tuesday he was unrecognisable and there were time he could barely breath because of all the fluid he had retained he didn't pee for six days but, look out, when the prednislone kicked in he couldn't quit peeing.

Since the first diagnosis it has been a up and down battle. He had never beenable to come off the pred. we would do the taper thing and then he would be dumping again. So September of 2008 the statis was that Robby was Pednisone dependent and we could do a more aggressive treatment which was the chemotheropy to see if it would kick him into remission. How do you dicide if it's okay to poisen your baby? I talked to Patty in that same week and she told me that sometimes you just have to have the faith that the doctors really know what they are doing. I was real scared. But Charlee gave him a blessing the night before he started it and things went good one the second day he blacked out at scool durring recess but he came to and continued playing. I took him out of school for a week because of a cold around thanksgiving and he drove me crazy. Durring the 8 week course we had blood drawn once a week to make sure his white blood cells didn't drop to low. we finished it on the 5th of Dec. and finished the pred. on the 28th of Dec. He has been doing great for about a month now no dumping. Until yesterday Robby came down with a cold and is spilling some protein now the big Question is??? can he pull out on his own ??? The Kidney doc. says WAIT AND SEE! I HATE THOSE WORDS.