15 minutes of fame, a miracle not forgotten!!

We really witnessed a miracle that day, there was so much more that the media didn't even cover. I had Taylor head home because we were going to go to the store. The road to the store is a main highway. There is no way he could have held on that far. It is so important that we listen to that still small voice, and that we act on those feelings. I was in quite a hurry that day and remember almost not calling Rachael. The thought still haunts me. This day will forever be a reminder for me, and I'm sure for Harris family, that miracles really do still happen.
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Hide-And-Seek Scare
A 4-year-old boy who decided to play hide-and-seek almost had a tragic outcome when his parents couldn't find him. He was later found underneath his neighbor's car. Harry Smith speaks to the family. Share/Embed


simple game of hide-and-seek nearly had disastrous results for a little Utah boy. Four-year-old Taylor Harris decided the best place to hide would be under a neighbor's minivan. When he didn't come home on time, family and friends started looking for him, including the woman who owned the van. Robyn Stone drove for more than a mile until she heard the boy crying. That's when she made a shocking discovery — Taylor was wedged under her vehicle near a spare tire. Taylor Harris, his mother Rachel and Robyn Stone joined The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith in New York on Friday to share their story. Robyn, who has a son Taylor's age, says the kids where playing hide-and-seek. She realized something was amiss when she didn't see Taylor go home. "You know, I always watch him go home. I make sure they go in the door and that Rachel knows that they're home. We live right next door, well across the street," Robyn explained. "And the door was open, and I hadn't seen him go in the house." Robyn says she then called Taylor's mom. What was her reaction? "No, I haven't heard the door open so he must not have come in the house," Rachel recalled. "I ran down the stairs immediately, we kind of met in the middle of the street trying to see what had happened, figure it out real quick." The two women say they were calling for Taylor and realized something was wrong after about five minutes, when he failed to answer. "He's not coming out and then 10 minutes went by and that's when I made the 911 call because I figure, OK, he's been gone too long," Rachel explained. She admits Taylor is pretty "precocious." "He's his own little man. That's a good way to put it for Taylor." Panic set in and Robyn decided to jump in her van and search the neighborhood for Taylor. "He's not at my house, he's not in the yard. I've got to go further. I've got to go to a park," she recalled. Asked how fast she was going, Robyn said, "At first, I started out 20 miles an hour, maybe less, and then I got on the main road which goes to the other park that I was going to and it was like 40, 45 miles an hour." She was unaware that Taylor was huddled underneath the van, hanging onto a bar. Asked by Harry Smith whether he was scared, Taylor nodded. Robyn says she didn't hear the little boy at first until she started to head back. "I heard him cry, panic cry — you know, a scared cry," she explained. "And so I immediately stopped my car, right in the middle of the road and got out and was looking from side to side. Maybe he was at a school. Where am I hearing him cry? I couldn't figure it out and then I realized." When they returned to Taylor's home, his mother says Robyn was in tears. "He came back to our house, our two houses and she was just a mess, she was crying, she could hardly talk and she said 'I found him, Rachel,' " she explained. "He was sitting in the car. I was like, 'OK, good.' She's like 'Under the car.' I was like, 'What?' " Rachel says when the first officer responded to the 911 call, he was just as floored by the incident as they were. Asked if she wonders if miracles do happen, Robyn said: "Well, we know they do. … I don't wonder anymore. There were definitely angels under the car.

I was just fine not knowing........

So after being a dental assistant for close to 10 yrs. on and off, I finally WENT to the Dentist. I really don't like being in the chair, I like being by the chair!! After my exam and x-rays we only found five cavities. Not bad for 10 yrs!! However, one of the teeth became extremely angry after being drilled on. We tried putting a sedative filling in, that helped for a day or two. Then one beautiful Sunday morning I awoke to severe aching in my jaw and ear. So I called my Dentist (employer) and he met me down to his office. Luckily Dr. Stinky (aka JaNae) came with him.... Now lets pause and get a mental picture of the situation.....

There that's better, nothing a little laughing gas cant fix!! However, have you ever heard of someone having to go fetch their own willow for a spankin? Do you get a small one that stings and will possibly break, leaving you to pick another and start over? Or do you get a big one that will surely mend your bad behavior in one strike? I pondered this thought as I was loading my needle for my OWN shot. Its not something you look forward to. To make things worse, I knew exactly what they were doing, and how long the files were. I guess it is good in a way that now I experienced it for myself, and when telling people that "it's not that bad" I wont be lying. It wasn't that bad, I know every situation is different, and I have seen Matt go through an awful root canal, but luckily I didn't have the same experience. I think ultimately I would have been just fine not knowing what it was like!!!

Last trip before school

Palisade Park (it's past Manti) What a beautiful place. Taylor and Coby enjoyed the paddle boat ALL DAY LONG!! I really think that eventually Taylor will grow gills. The Lake is so clean, and the hosts there are very helpful! We sort of set up in the wrong camp area, and as we figured it out here comes the Ranger, they laughed with us and offered to help numerous times. Matt is getting really good at setting the trailer up making it level.
Addy isn't the best camper yet. She gets frustrated with the limited space, and trying to sleep in a new place. She hated the paddle boat, because she had to wear a life jacket. She also just wanted to get in the water. We went through a whole package of dots trying to distract her enough to paddle across the lake.

It's a good thing Coby is willing to do anything to entertain her. She loves her big brothers!!!!
It was a full moon, we watched it come over the mountain each night. It was almost to bright to sleep!!! We had a good time, and we taught the kids that trick where you put your arms through someone Else's shirt to make it look like their arms. The funniest was when Coby put his arms in Matts shirt! Taylor and I laughed so hard!!

The fun doesn't stop there!! Then when we came home we showered (I forgot deodorant) then we went up to Sugarhouse park for a reunion with the Mckell family. That's Matts moms family. It was fun, they had a blow up slide for the kids, it was nice. We were very tired that night!!! I think we try to cram in all kinds of fun stuff before the kids start school. Hopefully they had fun too.

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Co-Ed Softball

It's finally here, Co-ed softball. This year my awesome employer (Dr. David Hansen) decided to sponsor a team. We play every Wednesday for 9 weeks. This is a sport I absolutely love! We have an awesome team made up of the best darn dental assistants from Woodland Dental, Dr. Hansen, family and friends. With this line up we will be unbeatable. If anything I guarantee we will be having the most fun!! We made sure to get the hot tub nice and hot for after the games. The older I get the longer it takes to heal those pulled muscles. So anyone looking for some good laughs, and great plays come and support us.

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8/20-8:30 10/01-6:30


8/27- 6:30 10/8-6:30


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9/10 -8:30 *All games will be at the Salem ball park.


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The end of yet another summer.......

Well we are just around the corner from starting a new school year. Taylor will be in fourth grade, and Coby in first, Matt in 14th? He is finishing with his associates in drafting this fall! He is my hero. He has gotten such good grades, and he has been able to work full time, be in scouts, and still be an excellent husband and Father! He is going to keep going after his associates, either to be a licenced surveyor, or technical management.
That means it's just me and Adelynn at home all day. I am excited for the boys, they are getting bored here at home. We have tried to do as many things as we can this summer, but with the cost of gas, and me working rotating Saturdays it has been hard. It seems time just goes by to fast. I am really trying to enjoy every day!


That doesn't mean we haven't had fun!!


We had our first annual Ollerton reunion at the Mapleton City Park.
My Uncle Kris did an awesome job organizing this fun day, which also happened to be my Moms 40th birthday!! May 30.

We started out with our first camping trip to the sandunes with the Bishop family. It didn't take long to realize that we had picked the most windy spot in the State. It was soooooooo windy we actually came home a day early.



(That doesn't mean we didn't have fun!)


For Taylors birthday, we went to Seven Peaks that was fun, the next weekend was the Allen family reunion (my Grandma Jacksons family) in Coalville. That was great!! We stayed overnight in a hotel there, and the kids swam, and we had a great time talking to everyone!



Shortly after that we went to Lagoon with Ryan, Susan, and Zachary for Ryans company party. It was very crowded, and the lines were long, but the kids loved it.

The 4th of July, normally we have tickets to the Stadium of Fire, however the tickets were sold out in a matter of minutes. So my Mother in law Janeen came up with something even funner. She got us hotel rooms at Park City. The kids wanted to jump on the tramp that you can do tricks on, so the "adults", I use this term loosely, decided to go down the Alpine coaster, and the Alpine slide. It was so much fun!! The hotel had an awesome pool and lets not forget the shopping and the gourmet carmel apples!!

Normally we go camping almost every weekend, so we had to make our second camping trip of the summer count!! We took our trailer up to Payson Lakes, and stayed in the campground. It was beautiful. We got up to the site around 10pm, and we were hot, so we opened all the windows in the trailer and went to bed. I woke up about 2 hrs later, and I was FREEZING! It was so confusing to actually be cold. It was a rough night for Adelynn too.
We decided to get an early start at the lake to fish. It might have been to late for the fish to be biting, but just the right time for our boys to start swimming. I think it was around 9a.m.
The day was filled with swimming, feeding potguts licorice, feeding Matt licorice, keeping Adelynn away from licorice. They humored me by doing the crafty things I wanted to do. Matt taught them many things about plants, ones you can eat, and ones that will kill you if you eat them. There is nothing more satisfying that sitting around a campfire with your family, the smell of pine trees and campfire mixed, no T.V, no Nintendo DS, just you and the stars, oh and the space station Coby saw. It is as close to Heaven as I can imagine.

I forgot to mention that Coby also found a solution to that pesky smoke that gets in your eyes while roasting marshmallows.



And lets not forget the many sleepovers at Gramy's house, swimming in her pool with Zachary, BBQ's with family and friends that make summer so magical. Here's to many more!

The Stones have arrived.

Ever since I started reading the best blog in the world, I have wanted to try one for myself. The best being my best friend Brittney. So here goes nothing. Yesterday we made the very steep, very long, very beautiful hike up to Timpanogos Caves. It was the perfect day to go. It was overcast and a slight breeze. We made it to the caves with only minutes to spare before the tour. I guess I should have remembered to explain to the kids the rules of the cave. Our tour guide while very informative, was also very strict. I think she tagged my kids as the "rule breakers". They couldn't do anything right. Just as I was ready to say back off lady, she started in on another family. We were rushed through the cave no dilly dallying, I felt terrible for the people who traveled from as far as Washington to see this beautiful treasure. We were actually the only "local" ones out of a group of 15. I guess being in the exact middle of the fault line we didn't want to hang around anyway. Unfortunatly I was so ticked off, I had a hard time enjoying the cave.....However, I was able to vent the WHOLE way down the mountain, so the time just flew by. Sorry Maryann you had to listen to it all. All in all we really had fun!! The moral of this story is only go to the cave when Cory's cousin is working, and DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!! Watch out everyone the Stones have arrived.