Four Boys And Two LIttle Ladies

When I was about 12 or 13 years old (my parents were divorced) my mom was out of town for some reason and my dad was staying at our house. Lara and I were both at one of our friends' house's and Nadja and my dad were at the house. Nadja was in her room listening to music and reading like she usually was and my dad decided to take a shower. He turned on the water to heat it up and he was just waiting for the water to heat and he heard somebody walking in the hallway. He thought it was nadja, so he opened the door to look and there was nobody there. He then knocked on nadja's door to see if it were her walking through the hallway and she said "no, i'm in here reading". He said "ok" thought he was hearing things and that was that. He walked back to the bathroom and noticed something written on the mirror in the steam. In the mirror were the words "hi unc ed!" He freaked a little then went back to Nadja's room to ask if she'd somehow done it. She thought he was crazy. She looked in the mirror and sure enough, it had been written on. It looked like it was written by something thicker than a finger, but not thick enough to be something more than a finger. We think it was cousin Dana because she always called him "Unc Ed". It was a little unnearving becuase we left it on the mirror for forever! We thought it was fun to scare who ever even dared to come over. I wish I had a picture... I cant remember how long it took us to finally wash our mirror, lol!

One of the many Saturday mornings, my mom was the only one awake, in the kitchen washing dishes. She was washing away when she heard a little sigh. She thought, "oh, Lara's up" (there was no way Nadja or I would be awake that early on a saturday..). So she looked over to where she heard the sigh and to say good morning to Lara and it wasn't Lara. It was a little toe-headed girl, probably about eight years old with big bright blue eyes. When my mom looked at her she smiled, then walked off and dissappeared. My mom said she looked alot like my cousin Lara Leavitt when she was little. My cousin died when I was about three or four, I think she was about 16, 17 years old.. I remember sitting in the hospital whem she was sick. The whole family was there, and I remember being excited about getting McDonalds for dinner. Anyhoo... Who ever this little girl was, she was no threat. My mom said she seemed to just be checking things out.

When Nadja was a jr in high school, she was home alone getting ready for school. She was standing in front of her mirror, her music was on. Her door was open ab0ut a foot so she could clearly see out into the hallway. She was puting on her make-up and she heard a noise coming in from the hallway. When she looked she saw something very unexpected. A full body apparition. "It" i say it, because she said he didn't look human, was a man, about 6'4". Longish black hair, wearing a trench coat that went all the way down to the floor, and his face was terrifying! He was standing in the door way looking at her. She was of course very startled! She ran out of her room as fast as she could, running through the "man", and left the house as quickly as possible. She ended up getting to school an hour early that day. She'd never been so scared in her life!

Yesterday I was gone most of the day. When I got home I took the puppies outside to go pottie then brought them in the house to let them play then after a while of playing I put them in their kennel so they could get some food and water. Miss Delilah was fine at this time. She was running and playing and just her happy little self! An hour later, I was sitting on the computer and I could hear one of the puppies wheezing. I looked in the kennel and it was Delilah. Her eyes were watery, her nose was running and she was foaming at the mouth. I took her out of her kennel and she was unresponsive and having a really hard time breathing. I kind of paniced! I tried to look down her throat to see if she was choaking, but she wouldn't let me open her mouth and her face was so slimy from the foam, boogers, and tears I had a hard time gripping her jaw. I threw all the kids into the car pretty fast. I had to ask Alex if Jonathon was in his carseat, becuase I wasn't sure I put him in there, ha! I took her to the vet and Dr Kris was on her way to go immunize some cows, so she told me she'd call me on her way back and she'd meet me at her office. So we waited. Danny came home, so I left the kids with him and took my dad home because he was going to sit in the car with the kids while I was in the vets office. Poor delilah had to get knocked out because she kept biting dr Kris' fingers when she was trying to look and feel down her throat. Good news, she wasn't choaking. Bad news, she has strep throat!!!! Her lipnodes and tonsils were swollen and her throat was full of mucus. So, the reason she couldn't breathe was because her lipnodes were basically strangling her (which is why they call it the strangles in puppies). So she got a shot of stearroids to hopefully shrink her lipnodes, some antibiotics and i've been spraying in her throat with chloraseptic spray and giving her benadryl for the mucus! Poor little girl! It came on so fast! Now I just HOPE AND PRAY that none of the kids get it and NO MORE PUPPIES get sick!

Going to see the "Paranormal Activity" movies has kind of become a tradition of mine and Nadja's. Last Friday we went to see "Paranormal Activity 3". The first one was scary and creepy... The second one was a little scarier and a little creepier. The third..... HOLY CRAP scary!!! Seriously! I didnt think that there was any way to make a movie scarier than the first two, but I was wrong! There were about four parts of that movie that just made every hair on my body stand on end! I wanted to cover my eyes, but couldn't because I didn't want to miss anything. So, if you're into extremly freaky movies, I'd totally recomend this movie! I'm still freaked out by it, and it's been a few days since i've seen it.

Along time ago, when my brother Rob lived at home, Nadja would sleep in his room when he was gone. He was the high school pitcher for the baseball team and would be gone quite a bit for either a game or a tournament. One night, while he was up in California for a baseball tournament, Nadja was sleeping in his room. At this time things in our house was super bad and scary! She was woken up by his radio turning on. When she tried to move, she couldn't. She then felt something in the room with her. She tried to yell for my mom, but she couldn't. No sound would come out. She then started feeling whatever it was get closer and closer, like it was on top of her. This thing had her cornered in the corner of the bed. She couldn't move or scream, and once she was able to yell for my mom, the thing left and she was able to move again. We all have ou8r theories as to what this thing was, but I dont need to say. Whatever it was, was very bad and tried it's hardest to keep us scared!

I was told about this book by my moms friend. He asked me if I was done having baby's or if i still wanted to try for a girl. When I told him I wanted a girl he told me about this book. No I'm not trying to get pregnant right now, I'm not thinking about getting pregnant in the near future, but, I do want another baby, preferably a baby girl. I figure, what could it hurt? Yes my next baby could be another boy and i'd still ecstatic. I'd just like a little princess!

So, if anybody looking to have another baby who has a specific gender in mind, maybe this book is for you? I wish I knew from personal expierience as to whether it works or not, but I do not. I think it's definatly worth a try!

Living in our house it was not unusual to hear noises like doors opening and closing, light switches flipping on and off (yes you could hear that), footsteps on the tile floor when nobody was around, talking in the next room when nobody was there, just all types of noises! When I was in high school (around freshman, sophomore year) every night, late, i'd get woken up by magazine pages being flipped through and other strange noises. I'd always ask Nadja if she heard them because she was in the next room and she'd always say "no you're crazy...". It was always a joke to me "the ghost that's haunting my room", but nobody believed me. One night, Nadja was in her room, reading and her music was tured off. Well, she acutally heard the magazine pages being flipped through and them being thrown around my room. She asked me what I was doing the next morning and I told her that "I was sleeping, why?". She answered with a " well I dont think your as crazy as I thought... I heard your magazines being tossed around and such". I said, "yeah, it happens everynight around the same time.. I think that my ghost is just looking at the hottest trends and fashion.". I always thought it was funny!

When my sister, Nadja, was in eight grade she was a cheerleader and was asleep in her room, which was my brothers before her. Being a cheerleader she had pom poms laying around in her room. One night was was woken up by some kind of sound in her room. When she looked up she noticed that there was a pom pom floating above her head. She of course went to scream, but when she did, the pom pom dropped into her face. Of course this was quite terrifying to her, as it would be to any, but it wasnt the worse thing to ever happen. I'll share another time :)

My senior year of high school. It was the day after my Grandpa Bowler had passed away. My mom was with my grandma, Lara and Esther (little korean girl who lived with us) were at seminary. I was home alone, getting ready for school, waiting for my cousin Amy to pick me up. My bedroom was the master bedroom at the time and I was in the bathroom doing my hair. My music was turned on a pretty low volume because I wanted to be able to hear my cousin pull up. All the suddon, the volume on my cd player started turning up. I went to see if one of my many cats was possibly sitting on the remote. I could see the remote sitting on my nightstand there wasn't any cats anywhere near my remote. I thought it was strange, but had to finish getting ready. I walked back into the bathroom and the volume started going up again. I then ran out of the bathroom to see if there were possibly a cat on the remote, no... There was nothing on the remote and the volume kept going up and up and up. I could see the numbers on the sterio just keep going up. It then got so loud that it actually hurt my ears. I think it got up to about 45 when I never listened to it past 20, 21.. I ran over to the remote, my heart was pounding! Turned off my sterio, turned on my t.v. and continued to wait. Even though it wasn't scary, it freaked me out and had my heart a pumpin'.

When I lived in my house (most of my life) I would have the most horrific, evil, realistic nightmares at least once a week. It always involved somebody (usually Nadja) getting locked in a bedroom. We'd take the door knobs and hinges off and the doors still wouldn't open. I'd flip the light switches on and nothing would happen. I'd have dreams of being possessed, of my family members being possessed, just horrible, horrible dreams! Well, one day after nadja had gotten married and moved out we were talking about the nightmares we would have living in that house. I sarted to tell her how I'd have dreams of her getting locked in either her room or my room and how it didn't matter what we did, the doors would not open for anything. It always involved her looking throught the doorknob hole crying "get me out of here" and my mom and I trying to pry the door open in any way we can think of and it wont budge! When I said this her face turned pale. She always had the exact same dream! The thought really, really freaked us out! Like I said, these dreams occured once a week, at least....It made us wonder, were we really dreaming? Our dreams were so realistic, we still cant be sure if it really was just a dream or not...

In one of my earlier posts I was talking about one time when I was younger, getting that feeling that something really, really horrible was about to happen. This was it!

It was a Sunday afternoon. My mom needed me to go into my bedroom to get her sizzors. I really didnt want to and even tried to refuse, but I went anyway. I walked into my room and got this horrible feeling.. The room was a little darker than normally (it was a sunny day, with no overcast). I just got the feeling of you need to get out NOW! I kept walking and the deeper I got into my room, the stronger the feeling got! My dresser was kitty corner in the room and the sizzors were ontop of it. As I approached my dresser the little hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I heard a distinct growl come from behind my dresser. It didnt sound like a cat or dog growl, it was a really mennacing, evil growl. In sunday school that day we learned a little saying that you can say to get evil to leave. I said it and the room brightened up, and I walked out of the room. I found it so strange that something would happen on the day that we had the lesson in Sunday school.

My sister Nadja had "The Three Musketeers" sound track that she often listened to. Well, everytime one of the scores would start playing the cd case would fly across the room. One time her cheerleader friends were at the house getting ready for a football game. Brook "Pulsipher" Redd was in Nadja's room by herself getting "pretty" and the soundtrack was playing at the time. Everybody was either in the bathroom, or living room. Out of Nadja's room you heard a loud crash then a blood curddling scream. Brook high tailed it out of the bedroom, pale as a ghost and Nadja says, "oh, something I forgot to tell you.... My ghost doesn't like that song. Everytime it plays the cd case flies across the room." It was funny how casually Nadja said it.

I feel like alot of these stories start out the same, when I was a little girl... Alot of my stories take place when I was younger.

One morning, I think it was either a Saturday or a Sunday. My mom needed either Lara or I to go into our bedroom to get something that she needed. At this point of time, things were really scary and really "active" and Lara and I weren't even sleeping in our room at this time. We refused to go in there for any other reason other than to grab our clothes and get out. So, of course we fought over who was going to go into the bedroom because niether of us wanted to go, and of course, me being the oldest lost by default... I walk in there, walk to where the item needed was turn around to walk back out and a doll that I had would giggle, walk, and crawl, was laying on her face and clearly had no batteries because her back was open and I could see there were no batteries. Well, she started to giggle. I then got goosebumps and the little hairs on the back of my neck stood strait up and I booked it out of there as fast as I could! Stuff like this happened often. I'll leave those for another day, another story :)

This sweet little boy is six months old today! I really cant believe that he's already that old and in only six more months he'll be 1! It's really crazy to me!

His tricks are....

Rolling from back to front.

Raspberries.

cooing.

smiling.

laughing.

lifting head when on tummy.

He is such a happy little baby! He's always SO happy, which makes life so easy! We sure do love this little dude!

One morning when I was little (things in the house was pretty crazy at this time) my sisters and I were all asleep and my mom was in the kitchen doing dishes as she often was early Saturday morning. My sister Lara played alot of sports so there were often soccer, basket, and volley balls laying around the house. While my mom was washing the dishes she noticed Lara's soccer ball move on its own. She got angry and started yelling at what ever it was that moved the ball saying "i'm so sick of you scaring my kids" and as she's yelling the ball starts moving as if somebody were dribbling it between their feet, then she says "I've had it! You have to go!" and the ball is kicked so hard (by nothing that she can see) it flies down the hallway hits the end closet and rolls back into the foyer. She was so scared and angry at this point she called our bishop to come give our house a blessing. He did, when he got there he made a coment on how dark our house felt and how "evil it felt". He performed a blessing and our house was quite for a while, but it never stayed that way for more than a few months....

Something that happened while my parents were still married. I cant remember how old I was, but I know I was under seven years of age. Either my mom or my dad had a broken leg. I cant remember which one, but there was one of those reclining lawn chairs in our living room because it was comfortable and easy for who ever it was to get out of. My sister Lara and I were sleeping in the living room for some reason. We all went to bed that night and Lara and I woke up around the same time and we both saw the same thing. It appeered that there was somebody, what looked like was in a full body cast, sitting in the lawn chair and it looked like almost a nurse sitting on a stool next to the chair. Of course my sister and I start crying and calling for our parents. Mom and Dad came in told us it was just our eyes playing tricks on us and we needed to go back to bed. Lara and I got calmed down, my parents went back to bed and they tuned off the lights and there was nothing there, so Lara and I went back to sleep. I woke up a few hours later and saw the same thing, a person in a full body cast and a nurse sitting next to him. I closed my eyes quickly and tried not to open them for ANYTHING because I knew I'd eventually fall asleep. I did and all was good.

Before I go into the storries of my house growing up, I think that a "history lesson" about the place is very important...

The house that I grew up in had a history. It was rumored that the people who built it, (my mom's childhood best friend) was rumored that the older brother Frankie killed himself in the house. He never actually lived in the house, but i've heard from people who knew the family that he killed himself in the smaller kid's bedroom. Our mom always told us that it wasn't true, but we dont know what the truth is because we heard from one of my sisters friends who was new to the area, that her aunt knew the people who lived there before and that he in fact did kill himself in that house. Whether he did or not, who knows?.... I guess the family knows. Anyhooo.... A few years after Frankie killed himself, his father killed himself. I dont think they were living in the house at the time. He definatly didn't "off" himself in the house, though. We'd hear about it if he did. So, for as long as I remember, strange things happened in that house. I will go into detail, later.

My mom and I met up with her friend a couple years ago at the pomegranite festival and when we told her about the house being haunted she seemed to think it was her dad. I have'nt heard anything about him, but the way she was talking, he wasn't a very nice guy. I dont know if it's true, but that was the impression I got. My sisters and I also talked to the lady who lives in it now a few years ago to see if she had weird things happen and she said "yes, but I drink alot, so I just think it's because i'm drunk". We then started telling her storries and she told us to stop because she lived there alone and didn't want to be scared. So, I guess welcome to my nightmares :) Living in that house was like one big nightmare!

Down at the Logandale cemetery, there is a rumor of a lady who walks around in the cemetery and on the road in front of the cemetery. It is said that she walks around looking for her loved ones and is often seen in the middle of the street. There has been a few instances where somebody has been driving down that street late at night and see her standing there and they stop to see if everything is ok, just to see that nobody is there. One lady was driving really late and saw this so said lady. She stopped to see if everything was ok, but when she stopped the "ghost lady" was gone. So this lady actually thought that she had run over this "person" stanging in the road and got out of her car to investigate, and there was nobody there to be seen.

When The Beatles Rock Band video game came out for the wii, my mom, sister and I spent alot of time playing it. Every time we'd start playing weird stuff would start happening. We'd start hearing things, seeing shaddows that seemed to be produced by nothing. One time I was at my sister Nadja's house. Cam was a baby, so he was asleep in her bedroom and Alex and Mattingly were playing. She left the room, so it was just Alex, Mattingly and myself in the living room. Out of no where I hear an adult hum. At first I was kind of like, that's weird.. Nadja doesn't sing and especially DOESN'T hum. So when she got back into the room I asked her if she was humming and she said "no, why?".... I then answered with, "oh, I just heard somebody, a woman, hum." It wasn't her so we started playing. In the middle of a song I saw a shaddow move across the ceiling of the room, so I turned around waiting to see somebody walk by , or knock on the door. She then asked, "did you see that too?" I said "yes.". Then as soon as the song ended we decided to experiment. We did a little "debunking", but was unadble to find an explination as to how there was a shoaddow. Then Cam was woken up. He's screaming bloody murder. Every time something weird happened it always would wake Cam up. He'd scream It was always pretty weird....

This is also something that happened to me pretty recently. It happened with in weeks from my last post. Since then nothing strange has happened in this house..

Late one night Danny and I had just finished watching an episode of "Fringe" and an episode of "Ghost Hunters". It was close to 11:00 so I decided it was time to get ready for bed. I turned on the hall light (the only way to turn on our bedroom light is by a remote) so I could see my way to my bedside table which is on the other side of the room, away from the door. When I got to my bedroom door, i could sense that something was off... The light from the hallway seemed to stop at the door and my bedroom, which is usually completly illuminated with light from the hall, was pitch black! I thought it was just my imagination. "Fringe" was freaky that night and "Ghost Hunters" was, well, "Ghost Hunters".. So, I proceeded into my bedroom. As I walked in I got this overwhelming feeling of GET OUT!!!! There was NO WAY I was running out of there! The crap Danny would give me for being a wuss, and it had to have been my imagination. I kept walking. It was so dark that I couldn't even see the furniture around me. As I got further and further into the room, the stronger the feeling got! GET OUT!!!!!!!! There is something very, very bad in here! Still, there was no way I was running out of there! So. as I was feeling my way to my table (I couldn't see a thing!) The stronger the feeling got, GET OUT!!!!!!!!!! I finally made it to my table, scared to DEATH! The feeling in my room that night was so dark and evil! I reached for my lamp,which I couldn't see, and I half expected something to grab my hand, or growl, or something horrible. I got the light on, said a little prayer, quickly walked to the bathroom to turn on the light in there, then quickly left the room. I've only felt that way one other time in my life, which is a story soon to come :)

Something happened to me pretty recently. I've never felt like this house (we are living in now) is haunted. Every once in a while something will happen and it'll leave me scratching my head, but other than that our house is pretty comfortable. One night, about a year and a half ago, Danny and I were sitting on the couch watching t.v.. Alex and Cam were in bed asleep, both their doors closed, the house was quiet. I was sitting on the end of the couch and could see

down the hallway. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little boy run out of Alex's room. He looked EXACTLY like alex only about a foot taller. I turned my head to look directly at him and he made eye contact with me, gave me a huge grin, turned to run down the hall then dissappeared. I was in disbeliefe! There was no way I just saw what I did.. I was trying to rationalize, thinking maybe it was Alex (even though his bedroom door never opened,and he was older than Alex.). I was just trying to think of what it could be. There was no way it could've been a ghost! Then I kind of got scared. What if something was wrong with Alex and this "person" was trying to let me know. I had to check on him! I went into his room quickly to check on him and he was fine! Sound asleep.... I have'nt seen this person since, but my mom has.

After I graduated from high school I moved up to Provo, Utah. I lived in a town house with my best friend Ciara and our two roomates Kim and the Leslie (i think was her name...). One day I was home alone, I often was, Ciara was at work and the others were at school. To make the time pass by, I slept alot. I was unable to find a job, I didn't have a car, I was always alone, bored and somewhat depressed. Well, on that day Ciara came home from work and I was still asleep. She was over at her bathroom area looking in the mirror and saw the reflection of a girl standing behind her. Her first thought was, oh good Andrea's up. Then she thought, wait, Andrea isn't that short, her hair isn't red (at the time, lol) and she wasn't wearing that outfit today. She freaked and ran down the stairs. I woke up about a half an hour later and went down stairs. I could see that Ciara was pretty freaked out by the look on her face. I asked her what was wrong and all she said was "i'm never going up stairs again! There's a ghost up there!". I was just kind of like," a ghost?" She said "yes, a ghost! It was a girl. At first I thought she was you, but she was shorter than you, was wearing a pink shirt, cut off shorts and had red hair.". I then knew who she'd seen. I showed her this picture of my cousin Dana that had died when I was a little girl. My family and her were really, really close! She scrame "THAT'S HER!!!!". I then told her that it was just my cousin checking in on me which she often did. It was pretty funny, lol!

Yesterday I took all three boys to Vegas to the dr. I could see disaster written all over this, but it was necessary. Alex and Cam needed their flu shots and Jonathon his four month immunizations. Alex (who was only getting the nasal mist) completly freaked! It didn't matter how many times the nurse and I told him that he was not getting any shots, he didn't believe us and continued to freak, which caused Cam to freak then the nurse says "oh, I remember you guys from last time...". It's a little emarassing that she remembers us by my kids completly FREAKING OUT about shots, but what can you do? We finally got the mist squirted up Alex's nose and he went and hid in the hall way, so we did Cam's shot. He scrame like crazy over one little flu shot... Then Dr Mendoza came in and went over Jonathon's chart. He's 16.6 lbs 50% and I cant remember his height or head circumference, but they were both in the 25%. So he's short and chubby :). Dr and I were both surprised that his head was only in the 25%.. His head looks alot bigger than it actually is. Then Jonathon got his shots.. DIDN'T CRY! He got two shots and grunted during the second one, but did not cry! Little stud muffin! We finally got done at the dr (it felt like an eternity!) then we headed to McDonalds for some lunch then we went to Target for Alex's Halloween costume, then Old Navy for Cam and Jonathon's costumes. We got home just in time for dinner! It was a long day and I'm so glad it's over!