Alexis & Mark Breyer

Phoenix Personal Injury Attorneys on Facebook… a little about the law alot about everything else

By Alexis Breyer on July 22, 2009

Phoenix Personal Injury Attorneys are on facebook now. We have posts about Arizona accident and injury law, wrongful death and child safety. If you are on facebook make us your friend. We are under Breyer Law and we have pages under Phoenix Personal Injury Attorneys, Phoenix Wrongful Death Attorneys and Child Safety Lawyers. Here are some interesting cases that we’ve been handling and then we’ll talk about the 7 kids. I think most people find that more interesting than the cases we handle. We have been handling a lot of nursing home abuse cases. These cases are very sad because the family members are so loving and meanwhile they have no idea that their loved ones are being treated so poorly. If your loved on is in a nursing home facility or assisted care facility in Arizona, you can look under medicare.gov where there is a comparison list of all nursing home facilities. They also have checklists that you can look at as well. The more important thing is to make sure that the providers are keeping your loved on clean and that they are being moved around. If you are not kept clean and are not being moved around a bit then your body will develop bed sores and then infections can set in. We are also handle a lot of construction accidents. One case we are handling presently involves a worker who was going up stairs of a new home build because he has been called out - meanwhile the stairs were not attached to the wall! Another case involves a girl who worked at a veterinary clinic and was bit in the face by a dog.

On to the Breyer Family. Zev is doing well. He wants to wear contacts so we took him in today to the eye doctor… well my babysitter took him. If you wear contacts you will understand that it is not an easy thing to get contacts in your eyes the first time. I’m surprised he didn’t injure his eye from trying so hard. Hopefully, he will get them in with some practice. Kailey took math camp this summer and math camp is all finished. She has found a new friend in our new babysitter and keeps going to the mall looking for good sales since she has been given a budget for how much she can spend. She also has been spending some time in the office working!

Tate had a great summer in Boston where he got to see my parents. Ariella has been going to camp and decided she wanted to stay with the little kids so she can be their counselor. Talia and Pierce are also going to camp and they are in the same bunk. I think I finally succeeded in teaching Pierce how to not put his clothes on backwards but the jury is still out on this one. I have been trying to potty train Karina since she can tell me when she wants her diaper changed but it doesn’t seem to be going so well. Then again she’s not even two years old so I guess I should give her a break.

Thank you for all your referrals. We are very excited to report that people have been thinking of us a lot and we have been getting more and more referrals. Again if you have a question in an area of law other than Arizona injury and wrongful death law, we can still help. We get calls every day for criminal, contracts, workers compensation and family law. We have good attorneys that we work with and we are happy to refer you to someone we trust.

Update on the Breyer Law Office family!

By Alexis Breyer on June 12, 2009

Many of you have asked why we have not posted recently to our blog. First, “we” do not usually post, it is usually Alexis, unless you want to read a book about dog sledding and then you have Mark’s updates you can read about which are below. In all seriousness with the summer and work, The Husband And Wife Law Team Blog about the law and everything else has taken a back seat! Mark just got off a trial and was victorious. I have been settling cases and dealing with adjusters who …. well let’s just say we don’t see eye to eye! The kids are keeping us busy as usual. Zev is on a new basketball team. Kailey is dancing all summer! Tate is spending 2 weeks in Boston with my parents. He must be the luckiest kid ever - imagine the only kid with two grandparents who only know how to spoil their grandson. Ariella arranged to go to camp with one of her school friends. Talia arranged to go to camp with Ariella but then decided she doesn’t like camp but then decided she did like camp… and we have been going back and forth on this indecision for the last week. Can’t a 5 year old make up their mind. Pierce just had a birthday party. He was very excited! Karina is giving us challenges with baby proofing. How do you baby proof for a child who pushes kitchen chairs near the front door so she can try to open the door? I suppose we may be eating standing up for a while. I’m still ahead of her though because the deadbolt is too high for her to reach!

Remember if you know someone who has been involved in an auto accident or any type of accident due to the negligence of another individual have them call us for a free consultation. If they don’t want an attorney just tell them to visit our website to order a FREE copy of our book and maybe they are able to handle their case themself depending on the circumstances of the accident and injury.

As Phoenix Personal Injury Attorneys We Are Reminding Everyone to Check Your Insurance Policy!

By Alexis Breyer on June 12, 2009

As Phoenix personal injury attorneys, we recently represented a young boy who was riding his bike across the road when he was hit by a truck. The driver of the pickup truck had close to minimal coverage. In Arizona, many people are surpised to hear that minimal coverage is $15,000 for liabilty and $10,000 for property damage. A huge percentage of people in Arizona carry NO insurance whatsoever. Other people tell me all the time that they have “full” coverage when in reality they have minimal coverage on most of their coverages and don’t even have coverage in areas that are important like medical, underinsured, uninsured, etc.

Many parents of teenagers get them a junk car and then put minimal limits on the vehicle. There is no problem with the junk car part. In fact, that is probably a good idea since teenagers are involved in a number of accidents after just getting their driver’s license. The amount of limits though does not make sense. Don’t get your teenagers low limits. Do the opposite.

Imagine your teenager is in a car accident. If the other driver has no insurance and you are relying on the insurance you bought for your teenager and only bought minimal insurance, the effects of this minimal coverage could be devastating.

We have many teenage clients who have been seriously injured - some paralyzed - some killed. This is a reminder that parents should look at thier policy to review all their coverages. When you are looking at your policy for your teenage driver or even yourself ask yourself what would happen if you were to be hit by someone who had no insurance and were to incur a significant amount of medical bills. Insurance is meant not just to protect yourself against others but also to protect yourself if others do not have adequate insurance.

We recommend that parents have at least $100,000 in coverage for their teenage drivers. By coverage this includes liability, underinsured and uninsured. In a perfect world people would carry even higher limits. Also, if you do have higher limits you can look into obtaining an umbrella policy for $1,000.000 that will protect you against others if your teenage driver does cause an accident, and an umbrella policy is usually only a few hundred dollars.

Remember without adequate coverage, you may not be able to get the medical care you need and the help you need, and if you are the cause of the accident it may cause financial ruin within one split second.

As Phoenix injury attorneys, we offer to review insurance policies to help people get the coverage that they need. If you would like us to review your auto policy feel free to e-mail our office or call and we will review your policy with you.

Arizona child car seat laws - Protect your children!

By Alexis Breyer on May 9, 2009

As Arizona injury attorneys, we see many car accidents with children. Many children’s lives would have been saved if they had been in a child restraint system. We had one case where the child received a huge gash to the middle of her face because she bounced around the car and hit the side glass when involved in a car accident. She did have her seatbelt on. She required plastic surgery and will have a huge car across her face for the rest of her life. Seatbelts although better than nothing for little children do not work like car seats. That is because children are too little for the seatbelt to work appropriately. In fact, if adults were to have safety harnesses like car seats instead of seatbelts that we have available, those safety harnesses would save the lives of many adults who are killed each year because the seatbelt was not enough to save them when involved in a serious car accident.

If a child is under the age of 5, they must be in a child restraint system. It does not matter how much they weigh or how tall they are. If they are 5 years of age or younger, under Arizona law, they need to be in a car seat or restraint system. There are many different types of car seats and retraints systems.

If you get pulled over by the police, you will be fined and sometimes the fine can be as much as $200.00. For as little as about $40.00 you can buy a car seat that is safe for your little one. It is better to buy a car seat new than used as the safety requirements are always being changed by the federal government.

Dog Sledding . . . WOW!

By Alexis Breyer on May 9, 2009

(Posted by Mark Breyer)

Well, it has taken me a long time to get the chance to write about my dogsledding adventure with my 8 year old son, Tate. Well, it looks like I have the time right now. I left the house this beautiful Saturday morning at 7:00am. Why? Well, Kailey, our 11 year old has a dance competition. Last night she was here at the competition as well. She went straight from school and got home about 10pm. Meanwhile, I went straight from work to grab Zev, our 12 your old, and take him to his basketball game. They lost a tough one, clearly (my) bad coaching cost us the game! Then, I went straight to daddy/daughter dance practice. The thing was . . . I was at the dance practice but my daughter was at the dance competition! After a long night that included trying to figure out the big Mother’s Day gift.

So here I am, plugged in at the back of the auditorium waiting for Kailey and her friends to dance, at which point I will move up and cheer them on. When that is done, it will be straight from here to pick up Tate to coach him in his flag football game which starts at 10:30. Around that time, I will switch off with Alexis, who will come here to watch Kailey with some of the kids, while I try to both coach 10 6-8 year old kids and keep an eye on some of the older kids that come to watch Tate play his last game of the flag football season.

So, taking advantage of this window of opportunity, time to let you all know just how fantastic the dogsledding adventure turned out to be. Fantastic, interesting, unexpected.

We showed up in the morning and I was expecting to see a big dog sled where all 4 of us (my 8 year old son Tate, his 8 year old cousin Sammy, Sammy’s grandfather Jerry, and me) could sit down at the back of the sled while the person who runs the place could “mush” the whole sled from behind. Nope.

We paid our money, signed the release, and headed outside where the dogs were chained up. Each dog was chained up by itself onto a post, but all in the same area. As we walked into the area where the dogs were chained up, they were all lunging towards us and barking like crazy. The guy who owns and run the place leads us into the middle of the dogs. There was also a young girl, maybe 20 years old or so, helping him out. Now, I figured it was not a good idea to seem intimidated, so I tried to fake it. Having said that, it was a little intimidating, in part because the dogs are trying to rip the posts they are chained to our of the ground and lunging towards us. With one dog, this would seem typical and I know the dogs were having fun. But when there are 60 dogs doing it at once, well, let’s just say it has a whole different feel. The other reason I think it seemed so crazy was because I was waiting to get an idea what the sled we would all sit on would like liked and where we would sit down while the person running the show would “mush” the dogs.

Well, I am still waiting for that big sled to appear. Still. To this day, because it never happened. Instead, they pull out three little things that have a place to put supplies (or, in our case, to put 8 year old boys) with a couple of 2×4s coming out of the back. These sleds did not bear the markings of some commercially made sled. Nope, we were told that this owner/trainer of the dogs, “Fred,” had made these sleds on his own. OK, interesting start. A home made sled. Well, that should be fine. I mean, its not like we will have to mush our own sled . . . right? Wrong. Three little sleds are pulled out. I would have one sled with Tate in front of me. We were to pull up the rear. Fred took out his own sled and went in front. Jerry and Sammy had the middle sled.

I am told to go stand behind my sled. They begin hooking up the 4 dogs that would pull our sled. The two in front, I would later learn, are the actual lead dogs when Fred takes these dogs into the professional, cross-continent type dog races. However, one of the dogs in the back must be new, because he was apparently doing something wrong, because Fred jumped on him and put the dog in a headlock while screaming at him and disciplining him about something. So now we have dogs barking all over, Tate sitting in the sled, me standing behind the sled, and one of my dogs is getting thrown into a Hulk Hogan headlock in front of us.

Now, this would have been enough for me to get a bit freaked out in a normal situation. And, in truth, this was intimidating. I just found out I was going to have my own sled, the sled is made by some guy who lives in something approaching a log cabin with a wood stove and all, and one of the dogs on my sled is apparently not trained enough to stay out of trouble with his owner during the “hook-onto-sled” process.

I would have asked if this was normal. I would have asked for reassurance. I would have admitted this was new to me and made sure everything was OK. Yeah, I would have. But I couldn’t ask. There was a 20 year old GIRL helping out, and she wasn’t scared. Sure, she had probably grown up around dog sledding. But it was a GIRL. No way I was going to let her know I was intimidated. If Fred and this girl are not scared, neither am I! (Or, at least, I ain’t gonna show it!)

Besides, at least we would still have our training session. They would explain to me how to handle the dogs, what to do in order to guide the sled, and all of that other safety stuff. I mean, there is no way they are just going to stick me on a homemade sled with an unruly dog and just head out into the wilderness, right? Wrong.

The training session lasted less than a minute. First, Fred told us where I was to stand. That would be on the 2″ wide sticks coming out of the back of the sled. The whole time (a little over 3 hours) standing on a 2″ stick on each side of the sled. The brake was in the middle if we needed it. there was also a “mat” of some type coming out of the middle that was to be used as a light brake to slow the dogs but not stop them. “Team Right” if we wanted the dogs to go right, “Team Left” if we wanted left, “Team Stop” to stop the dog sled, and “Team Go” to get the moving.

Fred also told us that if we got out there and really wanted the dogs to run at their absolute fastest, he had trained the dogs to go at their full sprint if they we said “Team, Rock-and-Roll.” I assured Fred that while I had no idea what I would do on this sled, there would be no “Rock and Roll” coming from my mouth during the trip.

One last thing, Fred mentioned that he never knows how fast the dogs will come out of the property, and that there is a very sharp turn early into the trip, so to be ready. He also let us know that he would be going ahead of us at times. I did not know what he meant, yet.

So, Fred jumps on a sled and his dogs take off. This gets my dogs pulling and tugging like crazy, because they want to run, too. Then, the Jerry/Sammy sled in front of me takes off. I am waiting to get unhooked. By the time the girl unhooks my sled, I cannot even see where the two sleds in front of me have gone. You see, I had assumed we would all stay together in an orgazined line of sleds, close together. Um, not exactly.

So my dogs go out fast. Way fast. As in, Fred later said they sleds went out extremely fast. The dogs wanted to run. We go through the first part of the trail and I see the sharp, seemingly 90-degree left turn up ahead. I have no idea if I can negotiate this turn and stay on the sled. Well, my dogs make the hard left, and I hand onto the sled. I look up and see Jerry was not so lucky. Jerry is off the sled, the sled is on its side, and the dogs are still running. The sled on its side must have created some drag for the dogs, because the sled was going much slower, now. Of course, that may have been because Sammy was still in the sled being dragged along it side. Fred gets off of his sled and gets everything back together. Sammy is not hurt. Jerry is not hurt. And, I just found something out . . . the dogs do not always listen. My command “Dogs Stop” was largely ignored, so i had to stand with all my weight on the brake to get the sled to stop without running right past Sammy and Jerry.

We all get it back together, and we are told by Fred that he will be going way up ahead of us at times. He would be on the same trail, but we would not be able to see him. I thought maybe he was exxagerating. He was not. We were left alone for most of the day.

So we head out. Now, you may think with all of this going on, it was not fun. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! It was awesome. Fun. Exhilirating. And it was about to get better. You see, most of this craziness did not sink in until later. At the time, Tate and I were so excited and the experience so new to us, it was already shaping up to be a great experience. Plus, Fred definitely knew what he was doing. If he thought he knew how to build his own sleds, I got the impression he was right. If he thought he could take off and go have fun on his own and leave us behind, I get the feeling that he had done this enough to know what he was doing. We all have experience, expertise, talent in different things. I felt like he knew dog sledding inside and out.

So we set out from that point into an awesome day of dog sledding. Our sled was so fast, we kept catching the sled in front of us. I would ask Tate if he wanted me to stop to get some space between us and the other sleds. Many times, Tate would have us stop the sled. Also, as the dogs got used to me, they started listening.

And the scenery kept changing, as did the challenge. At some points there were steep hills to climb and descend. There were sharp turns and easy turns. There were times where we were running along staight, wide-open trails. Sometimes we cut through forest so dense that I could hold up my elbows and hit three branches on each side of us!

Tate and I kept talking the whole time. He enjoyed giving the “Team Go” command after we would stop. We would stop, sit there and the dogs would rest while the other dog sleds would get completely out of sight. After several minutes, we would set out to catch them again.

I even got to the point where I was saying “Team Rock and Roll” while we were going down hills. I also used a jet-skiing trick to maneuver the corners on the dog sled. In January, our whole family (I mean, our WHOLE Family, Alexis and me and our 7 kids, both of my sisters and their husbands and kids, and my parents) went on the family vacation of a lifetime. While there, my sister Sheri and I went out on jetskis with each of us having a 13-year old nephew on the back of our jetskis. In that adventure, there were about 12 jetskis and we were all supposed to stay in a straight line from one island to another, small island. Anyway, my sister followed me and when we got to the island she told me to stop letting up during the turns. It is better to “power through the turns” on a jet ski, and speeding up actually gives more stability than letting off the gas when turning. She was right, and on the way back I kept powering through the turns and it was much better.

Well, at the start of the dogsledding, I kept trying to slow down during the turns, and that made it harder to hold on. However, at some point I figured out that going full speed through most turns actually made it easier . . . and more fun.

I did almost fall off one time . . . when I accidentally stepped off my 2″ wide sticks. The dogs kept running and I had to hang on by my hands and jump up onto it. I probably would have just let go, but since the dogs had my kid in the sled, there was a little extra motivation.

Tate did have an interesting point when he took off his gloves to videotape the dogsledding. Well, he is from Arizona, so it did not occur to him to put the gloves back on. Tate and I spent the whole day talking and joking and having fun. Well, all of a sudden he got kinda quiet. I asked him what was wrong, he said “nothing.” So we kept going down the trail - probably close to 2 hours into the adventure, when this was going on. So, about 5 minutes later I asked him again what was wrong, and he said he was cold. Well, thanks to Sammy’s mom, we were bundled up enough to handle much, much colder weather than we had that day (it was a beautirful day that got into the low 30s) so that seemed odd. I looked down at him, and his gloves were off and his hands were freezing.

me: Tate, why are your gloves off
Tate: I never put them back on
me: Well, if you hands were cold, why didn’t you put the gloves back on?
Tate: my hands were too cold to put the gloves on!

Later, Tate and I had done one of our many “let’s wait and then play catch-up” when we came upon Jerry walking alone on the trail. No dogsled in sight. A slight problem regardless of the situation. A much bigger problem when Sammy was last seen in a dogsled being pulled away with no one on back!

Tate and I try leave Jerry walking along the trail while we try to “rock and roll” our dogs as fast as possible to catch Sammy and make sure he is OK. Sammy was fine. We caught up to Sammy and Fred after about a mile and a half. Turns out, Fred had stopped up front to wait for us (as he did several times throughout the trip) when Sammy’s sled came to a stop behind Fred and his sled. Fred asked Sammy how long he had been alone. Sammy looked back behind him - he had no idea his grandfather had been thrown off the sled a long time before! He was never worried, just enjoying the ride!

Fred was great at the point helping my warm-weather child with his cold hands. Fred gave Tate his big mittens and some small heat packs to put inside them. Meanwhile, we had a small problem. Jerry was way back on the trail trying to walk his way to us. So, Fred turned the sled around and I went back to get Jerry and we found him walking back towards us. Jerry turned the dogs back around, jumped in the sled, and I took him back to the crew.

One other time, When we were stil close together and had just left one of the stops, Jerry was thrown off the sled right in front of us, and Sammy was now being dragged on his left side on the sled. I had gotten pretty good working with these awesome dogs, so we caught up, grabbed onto the sled, stopped it, and Jerry came running up, dove to grab the sled, and drove off.

The speeds of dog sledding are much faster than I expect. The trees are much closer than I expected. the dogs are much stronger and have more energy than I expected. In the end, however, we only went on this trip because I thought it was a chance for Tate and I to have a unique experience together while Tate had a weekend with his cousin.

Turns out, it was much better than I ever expected. It was not just different, it was fun. Seeing the landscape as you mush through it with dogs that do not know how to quit. My son and I passing up, down, and all around. Dog sledding . . . WOW!

My 5 year old tells me I don’t have a nice name

By Alexis Breyer on May 8, 2009

On the way home as I converted from Arizona injury and wrongful death attorney to mom of 7, my 5 year old Talia asked me if she and her siblings were having a babysitter today. I told Talia that she was having a babysitter and she then asked me who it was who would be babysitting. I told her I wasn’t going to tell her but that the babysitter had a nice name. Of course, there was no babysitter… it was me. Although sitting here after doing work for a few hours, I am thinking I should have had a babysitter as I have yelled at the kids 1,000 times in the last few hours that “doors are not toys” as the kids slammed the doors while playing hide and seek. That’s what happens when you are a personal injury attorney - everything in site turns into a dangerous thing.

Anyways, a few hours later Talia came up to me to inquire why the babysitter had not come and what was her name. She went through the long list of babysitter names (when you have 7 children you need a never ending supply of babysitters). I then told her the babysitter’s name was Alexis (myself) to which she responded, “That’s an ugly name. You should have been called Kathy.”

I would like to thank Talia for insulting my name, spilling food all over my comforter, and having an accident on my bed as well. Aren’t 5 year olds the greatest? I guess it serves me right for ignoring her while I responded to all my work e-mails on a Friday night.

I will be updating the blog more. The last month we were very busy, including a trial regarding clients who had been in a car accident (we won!) so I didn’t have time to write that much. If you haven’t already signed up for the contest of the month - it’s the “Best Mom” contest and you can win up to $200.00. The winner of the “Best Teacher” contest was so excited that when she screamed of happiness when she found out she won, my employee next to me heard her. It was fun to surprise her with her being the winner. She is planning a surprise for the best teacher that she nominated.

Remember, if you know a friend, family member or co-worker who has been in a car accident or who has sustained an injury or lost a loved one from the negligence of a third party, have them give us a call.

Alexis Breyer’s day today vs Mark Breyer’s day today

By Alexis Breyer on April 6, 2009

I went to bed pretty early last night as I knew I had to have lots of energy and be up for getting the kids ready for school for yet another morning. Weekdays are great because the kids get to go to school for the day, but then again, it means I have to get them up and out of the house early. “No fooling around,” I always tell them.

So last night, I made sure to lay out all their clothes. For some reason, they are all starting to want input into what they wear. Of course, Not Zev (the oldest) - just the younger ones. Kailey gets herself dressed (typical almost teenage girl) so it’s just (I know you are all thinking just?) the 8, 6, 5, and 3 year old. Karina, 1, still lets me get her dressed in whatever I want. Anyways, I finally made a rule that if you want input into what you wear then it has to be done the night before otherwise you “Get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.” In other words, you wear the clothes put out for you.

So the night before, I tell everyone “clothes picking out time” and anyone who wants to can pick out clothes with me. Those who don’t, get what they get… you know the rest.

So back to my morning… I wake up and all the kids are in my room! I told Zev I was going to shower and get dressed and for him to the same. If he could to pour a little ceral for the kids. It’s his one “job.” (He doesn’t do it very well either.) I get showered and dressed. I actually had about 5 minutes to myself before a kid came storming in that another kid hit them. Maybe it was 4 minutes. Still it was a nice 4 minutes.

When I came out of the bathroom, Zev was on the computer in his underwear. Ariella was lying on the floor next to her sister, Talia, who was also on the floor. Pierce was naked on the bed… well almost anyways. Tate was coming into the room as if he was sleep walking. Karina was screaming from her crib. Kailey had already showered and had eaten - typical Kailey. I actually used to be that way - all on top of things and organized. What happened? 7 kids!

After I shouted at them as to what were they doing lying around, especially Zev on the computer, they all ran out. I thought they would say they wanted help getting dressed instead they all were telling me how hungry they were. I told them to get dressed first and then eat, but they didn’t like that idea.

Eventually they all ate while I made the two kids lunches for school. I admit I should have done that last night but making lunches is always a pain for me. As they were eating, I was getting parts of them dressed - a shirt here on one kids, socks on another, and so on. While I am doing this, they are still trying to eat. The scene would have made for a good reality show episode.

Zev left for the school bus first while I talked to a client on my cell phone. All my clients have my cell phone number. She wanted to tell me she rejected the lowball offer that the insurance company gave her. I told her of course! We’ll be litigating that case. Not to tout my husband but as soon as the opposing lawyer gets the case, they will offer a reasonable amount! Don’t mess with Mark Breyer! In all seriousness, we get great offers mostly because Mark is a certified specialist in injury and wrongful death law, we work harder than anybody else, and Mark goes to trial a lot!

Anyways, Zev leaves and 10 minutes later I finish getting the baby dressed - Karina’s always the hardest to get dressed. Finally, we all go out the front door. I put the baby in her car seat while all the other kids are getting in the car through the other door. I go around to get Pierce into his carseat while Talia gets into her own car seat. I put on Ariella’s buckle while Tate gets into his seat. Kailey puts her buckle on and I give her my super duper binder that I brought home to work on. I go around and get into the car and start to back up. Wait! Kailey needs something. We wait while Kailey gets her special something, which I don’t even know what it was and then we are off!

I am forever thankful that for some reason this morning, Talia and Pierce did not argue over whether to play Kelly Clarkson’s CD or High School Musical! That always leads to fights.

Then I went to work and argued with insurance adjusters all day.

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Mark’s day.

He sleeps peacefully all night in a hotel room. Takes an hour to shower and get dressed. Eats an awesome breakfast at a restaurant while talking to old friends. Spends time with his Dad. Goes to an incredible lunch with an old boss. Spends more time with his Dad. Gets excited for the Michigan State Game. Goes to the Michigan State Game. OK, seeing that MSU is now down 17-7, maybe Mark’s day is going to be much worse than mine. Up until now though, he had a great day and no one can take away the awesome time he spent with his Dad or seeing MSU get to the Final Championship game. That being said, Go MSU!

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Is there a candid camera in my house or is my 3 year old just playing cruel jokes on me!

By Alexis Breyer on April 3, 2009

Pierce, my 3 year old, soon to be 4, has been playing jokes on me all night. I have to look at them as jokes otherwise he would be in some very serious trouble! First, he decided he wanted captain crunch cereal for dinner. That was actually fine with me since I can’t cook very well. So, I’m thinking this is good - cereal is nice and easy.

I turn around (seems like major disasters happen in one second in my house) and Pierce is literally dumping the box of captain crunch on the floor and stomping on it. He must have thought that was funny… Ah not!

Then later on he tells me he is going to the bathroom. I later visit the bathroom to find chocolate powder all over the bathroom. What was this kid thinking and where did that chocolate power come from? Come to think of it I think my parents bought it for him before they brought him back from school. Hmmmm…. they are in trouble too!

I then go to sit on the coach. I have finally cleaned up everything…. and more… and am going to relax. Well relax as much as I can while watching 6 kids (Kailey was at dance) while watching their Disney show. Actually, a lot of their Disney shows I like but this one I didn’t particularly care for - I can’t even remember which one it was. Anyways, I go to sit down and I sit in a cushion that is totally wet. I blame myself for that once since I forgot my golden rule of my house to always check what you are sitting on before you sit down!

What is amazing to me too is while I am watching Pierce dump the box out and stomp on the captain crunch or have the chocolate powder all over himself, he tells me he didn’t do it and blames one of his siblings. He’s like a Defendant… he can’t accept responsibility! Well, that’s my take on it. Anyways, he is lucky he is so cute.. as are my other kids many of the time. So are my kids the only ones who don’t admit when they have done something wrong? I hope not.

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Alexis meets a facebook friend today!

By Alexis Breyer on April 3, 2009

Today is one of my long days at the office. I got to the office pretty early after I dropped all the kids at school. Mark actually dropped Tate at school because Tate takes chess in the morning on Thursdays so he has to get to school early. Oh, before I left for the office, how can I forget, I cleaned up an entire container of bread crumbs that Karina decided would be fun to spill all over the floor. I cleaned them all up and she actually had the nerve to hit me. I think she actually was hitting too out of not liking something. Does that call for discipline? I did make her clean up the milk she deliberately spilled on the floor. I’m not sure how much of a punishment it was though because she was having fun taking the paper towel and cleaning the milk up. Then she walked over to the garbage pail, threw out the paper towel, and then gave herself a round of applause. Of course, when your 1 year old is clapping for herself you have to clap for her too… so in the end does that mean I applauded her for spilling the milk on the ground?

Anyways, Breyer Law has a facebook account. I have been emailing and talking to a woman about some law stuff and things that she does in her work also. She came down to the office today and we had lunch. Isn’t facebook cool? It was partially about work stuff though too!

I don’t know what it was about today but every insurance adjuster I called, I got their voice mail message. Later in the day, Mark coached Tate in his flag football and then all 3 of us went out to dinner. That’s the short recap of my day.

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I pay for the cell phone, I get to read the texts!

By Alexis Breyer on April 3, 2009

Ok so this is a little controversial. How do you all feel about your kid’s facebook or myspace page? What about the texts on the phone? Is that your business or not? Well, my kids are still a little young. My oldest is only 12, in middle school. Personally, I feel it is my obligation to read his texts and see what he is writing on his my space and facebook page. I also admit I am quite nosy! With that being said, the fact is that kids are getting in trouble now for what they post on facebook and other social networking sites. Camera phones get kids in trouble. Texts get kids in trouble.

I tell my Zev, who is 12, that when he gets older he may want to run for President and he has to remember that all of the things he writes now will be shown later. OK, I don’t know if he will ever even want to go into politics, and he right now is focused on which video game he will play and in what order, but the point is that facebook entries have denied kids from scholarships they otherwise would have received, denied kids admissions to colleges they others would have been admitted to, got kids suspended, had kids kicked off college teams, and the list goes on and on.

I know kids will be kids, I just think that everyone needs to remember that these profiles will be there in the future and make our kids aware that they better watch what they write. It’s one thing to talk about certain things or say certain words, but when it’s in writing it is whole other story. Look at Michael Phelps. My understanding is he got a huge endorsement taken away because of his facebook page or maybe a friend’s facebook page that had tagged him in a photo. That is also something everyone has to remember, which is what you do can be publicized by your friend.

So I guess I am saying tell your kids to stay home and be hermits! I’m kidding. I just think as parents we have to watch our kids and remind them that although facebook and other sites can be fun, it can one day take away opportunities if the wrong language, statements, or pictures are found linked to you or your account.

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