First day of school.

It's that time of year again. There is a hilarious commercial on TV right now that made me stop and do a double take. I wasn't paying much attention, but the TV was on in the background so I could hear it. They were playing a Christmas song. Now, I've seen the Christmas stuff up in the stores already, but I couldn't believe that they were showing the commercials already. I looked up as they sang, "It's the most wonderful time, of the year!" To my surprise, they were showing a dad, dancing around the back to school isle, filling his shopping cart with pencils and paper, while the two children in front of him stood with arms crossed, and faces drawn. It was pretty funny!

I can't believe with each passing year, just how old and big my kids keep getting. Wesley has started 6Th grade.

Damon is now in the 5Th grade. They are both still going to North Davis Preparatory Academy and we love it! The school has an emphasis on Spanish, so they each have an English speaking teacher, and one from Spain that teaches their subjects mostly in Spanish. It is such an amazing program and we are very grateful to be a part of it.

Summer fun Gagon style!

In July of 09, we held our Gagon Family Reunion. An earlier post explained some of our downfalls, but we had a great time inspite of everything. We rented a house in Escondido, California. It was basically large enough for all 21 of us ( wish that there was one more bedroom and a few more bathrooms ). It had a beautiful back yard and pool that we took full advantage of. We had a luau to celebrate birthday's and mom and dad's anniversary. We went to the beach, museusm, and saw all of our extended family that lives in the area. I love my family and enjoy all the times when we are able to get together. Can't wait for the next reunion!
* Little side note! They caugh the guys that robbed us. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and Dad with all 12 of their grandchildren.

The original 6!


I couldn't help myself. I had to have these shirts made for everyone. They had fireworks exploding on the front with the year. Mom and Dad had red shirts, the adult children and spouses had white, and all the grand kids had blue. I was really happy with how they finally turned out and was really glad that I did it.



It was such a special experience to all be together for Dalin as he prepares to go on his mission. This was the first time for all of us, I think, to go to the San Diego Temple. BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!

Cousins are the best! These three have a special connection because they have spent the most time together. I really hope that it stays close and lasts forever. We love our Timmy!

What's wrong with Rhett?

OK, since so many people don't know what is going on with my little Rhett, and I am not going to go into all the details on face book, I decided that I would put it all down on my blog.
We started potty training Rhett almost a year ago. He is 4 1/2 now. He got peeing down immediately and has never had a problem day or night. Poop on the other hand has been a whole different story. We'd gotten pretty upset, feeling like he was just being too lazy to go sit on the toilet and was instead opting to go in his pants. We had started giving him cold showers to clean him, making him clean out his underwear, and of course trying all different kinds of bribes and incentives, but all to no avail.
At his Dr. apt two weeks ago for his school physical, I mentioned our little problem to see if she had any great words of wisdom for us. Upon feeling his abdomen, she discovered what she called the, "largest, hardest mass she has ever felt on someone so small"! We got sent over to X-ray where they confirmed that he had a huge blockage in his intestines. Going back a little farther into his history, we are concerned that he has what is called Hirshprung's disease. We were able to get an appointment with a Pediatric GI specialist for the 28th of this month. If they confirm that that is what he has, the poor guy is looking at some very serious surgery. I won't go into everything about it. If you are curious you can look it up online. That is what I had to do that night to fully understand what we were up against.
I spent so much time being sick as a child, I was really hoping that my kids could be spared from that agony and discomfort. It kills you as a parent to see your kids hurting or having to go through such things, especially when they can't understand why. We feel so bad for punishing him every time he had an accident. The Dr. said that he really has no idea that it is coming and can't feel it at all. The guilt has been killing me. I wish that I had asked the Dr. about it sooner, but you just keep thinking that he'll eventually get it.
Right now it is just a waiting game until we can get into the specialist, but I promise to keep everyone up to date when we learn anything new. Thanks for all your concern!