Uncle Jay

My uncle Jay passed away on Friday morning.  It was unexpected and I was shocked to hear about it.  He was a really nice and gentle man, and although I have very few memories of him, I do know that he was a gentle giant and had a great love for jokes and laughter.  I also know that he went to a better place where he was reunited with his first love Janyne who was my mom's sister who passed away a long time ago.  My heart goes out to my cousin Kristin and her family<>

JOHN MADDOX III

John Crowe Maddox III "Jay" 7/13/1949 ~ 4/16/2010 Our beloved husband, father, and grandfather left this world unexpectedly on Friday, April 16th at 7:32 a.m. He is survived by his wife Shawna Rae Groendyke Maddox, seven children, 17 grandchildren and his sister. He was preceded in death by his wife the late Janyne Rigby Maddox in 1976. Jay was a graduate of Granite High School and the University of Utah. He loved the outdoors, dogs, singing and playing his guitar. Most importantly he loved spending time with his family. For more details about his life or to share online memories and tributes with the family please go to:www.holbrookmortuary.com Please join us in celebrating his life at an open house on Tuesday, April 20th from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Alta View Chapel - 1970 Viscounti Drive (about 8600 South) in Sandy, Utah. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 21st at 11:00 a.m. at the same location. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the LDS Humanitarian Emergency Response Fund (www.lds philanthropies.org/humanitarian-services/funds/emergency-response.html) 

Fencing Update!!

Noah had his last individual fencing tournament today and got another GOLD MEDAL!!! That makes 3 golds, and 1 bronze. This also puts him in first place in the rankings and he should get the big trophy at the end of the year!!! Yay Noah, way to go!! We are so proud of you and all of the hard work that you put into fencing. It sure has paid off this year. Next week is the team competition and it should be fun!!! Good Luck Noah, Perry and Audrey!!!

New Seat

After Becky's baby shower on Saturday, the girls hung out and goofed off. Hannah took this picture of Hadley sitting on my belly. My belly is so big that it's the perfect seat for her. I can't get the picture to post on here so I will have to post it later or you can check it out on facebook.

Look at me Go...

Another post for me, I totally on a roll.  I just thought I would post a little update on Noah's fencing.  Today he took 1st place in his fencing tourny!  That make 2 gold medals for the year and 1 bronze medal.  It seems like it's between him and another boy from a different fencing league and they  seem go back and forth, but today it was Noah's day!!! (Last time they met in the semi's and he got the best of Noah.)  Noah did such a great job and came from behind in the semi-finals to win the bout (Fencing another kid from our league which I hate.) and then took the best 2 out of 3 to win the gold medal in the finals.  He sent 2 kids home crying because they lost. (It's so hard for these little guys/girls to keep it together when they lose.)  One more tourny to go and then the team tourny and we are done for the Utah Fencing Cup.  His coach told him if he gets 1 more gold medal he can switch to saber, which means a little different rules then the foil that he currently uses.  I will post pictures as soon as I get them off my camera and phone.  Great job Noah!!!!!

My Little Klutz

We took another trip to the Insta Care last night for the king of mishaps.  Logan jumped on his Aunt Melanie's bean bag and caught the edge of the window seat and split his eye.  I should say that Logan has had more stitches than any other kid in our house, he is a walking disaster.  He is a little tornado waiting to strike.  Joey says he is just like he was.  I have a feeling we will be making many more trips to the doctor to stitch him up in the future.  6 stitches later (with 2 deep stitches) and he was a good as new, and back to enjoy a sleepover with his cousins.  His poor little eye was so swollen, I'm sure he will have a shiner.

And the Winner is...

Joey and I went to the doctor yesterday again for his diabetes.  We were thinking that we would get a for sure answer on if he is type 1 or type 2 and now we are still not clear.  His doctor says that he is still producing quite a bit of insulin and so he thinks that he is type 2 and we are proceeding with type 2 treatment.  However you can go through what they call a honeymoon faze where your pancreas still produces insulin but then stops, and if this is the case then he could end up being type 1.  Right now the goal is to get his blood sugar level down from what it is, which it starts out in the mid 300's and by the end of the day he sometimes is so high his meter doesn't even register a number which means he is over 500.  If you want to know how he is feeling he says he feels like crap, but he has been feeling like crap for about a month now and so he says he getting pretty use to it.  Some of his issues are he has a lot of joint pain, he still is peeing every hour, his muscles ache and he gets pretty tired fast, he also drinks all day and it never quenches his thirst. We go back next week to meet with the nutritionist, to see how to change our diet and learn how to carb count.  

2nd Fencing Tournament of the Year!!!

Noah had a tournament yesterday up at Weber State and he did so good.  How it works is that they get put into pools and have to fence everyone in their pool, and then depending on how many points are awarded they then go into brackets.  Noah happened to meet up with the kid that he fenced in the finals last tournament in the semi finals and this time he was beaten.  Therefore was awarded the Bronze Medal.  He did such a good job and we are so proud of him, it was up at Weber State and so we had to leave the house at 7:00 am to get there in time, I think that he was feeling a little sluggish from having to get up so early.  I also made Noah fence in the Y10 group and he didn't really like it.  The kids are a lot taller and bigger and older and plus we had to be there all day which Noah was really mad about.  I told him that I will not make him do it again but that he needed to have the experience of fencing the older kids every once in a while.  Mom's are so mean.