The Ultimate Surprise!

New purse for my trip to Ohio...$15.00
Plane ticket to Ohio...$360.00
Snack in the airport...$5.00
Seeing the look on my sisters face when we showed up across the country to surprise her for her Birthday...PRICELESS!!!!
Tomorrow is my sister Jenny's birthday...birthdays have always been a big deal in my family so it was only appropriate that we make a big deal of them still. We planned clear back in September to come to surprise her for this special day and it was so hard to keep a secret for that long. Her husband Josh came to get me, my mom and my sister Tammy from the airport and Jenny was at the church for a Super Saturday activity and she was in the midst of cleaning up when we showed up like government spies and gave her the surprise of her life, check out this video to see what we did.

WELCOME FALL!!! This is my very favorite season. I love that we get to wear sweaters and snuggly wear and thank you to Stephens Mint Hot Chocolate- you are welcome at my home any time!!!

This however is not welcome...October 30, the day before Halloween, 10:oo A.M. No school today and also the first snow. In Idaho we are used to bundling up to go trick or treating but honestly the snow is not part of my fun!! The kids loved it though and managed to wrangle this snow man together in no time at all while I watched from the window sipping hot chocolate.

Oh what beautiful children I have. Maycee is a pumpkin princess?? And yes that is orange spray stuff in her hair and yes it could probably kill the one who applies it. I blew orange snot for a while. Yikes. Carson is a ninja-KIYA, he did however refuse to wear his hood that came with the costume and the awesome eye deals, oh and the knife he had to have for the costume...also MIA. Lincoln is a um, I forgot what he is called, but he is scary and so cute with all that face paint!!!!

They totally hooked up with the candy and they each like to organize then candy into catagories.

Carson likes to spread it all out to make it look like there is more. oooh

Maycee is really happy, but likes to make funny faces often. They are all very nice to share and they got some darn yummy chocolate candy bars.

All in all it was a good Halloween and now we can now look forward to Thanksgiving. HOORAY!

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!

This photo has nothing at all to do with this post, but I like to have something to look at and I saw this picture and I knew it would bring joy to all around. It is Jeff on his mission if anyone wondered. Anyway me and the kids drew us names for Christmas so here is the list....

Mom and Mike have Tammy and Dane
Tammy and Dane have Mom and Mike
Doug and Becky have Josh and Jenny
Pam and Jeff have Doug and Becky
Josh and Jenny have Pam and Jeff

Ed has Maycee
Tasha has Jack
Bethany has Bridger
Ryan has Sally
Alex has Zach
Mariah has Willie
Zach has Lincoln (p.s. Linky was so excited)
Bridger has Carson
Willie has Ed
Maycee has Ryan
Carson has Mariah
Lincoln has Alex
Jack has Bethany
Sally has Tasha

I hope you found the color coding very helpful. Christmas is only 92 days away (unless I counted wrong) so get shopping. ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho is Santa real? Maycee wants to know.

Oh cute puppy

This is our new puppy, Mack(Mack Daddy, Big Mack, Macaroni, Mack Taylor etc.) My friend gave him to us. She already has a bulldog and her friend gave her this puppy cuz she got a dog from bulldog rescue that was pregnant and this is one of the puppies. We love our little Macky!!

Happy Birthday to Myself!

First off, this is Jenny again. Pam's sister who happened to set up her blog and knows all her passwords...Secondly, we have a tradition that I send a card with the birthday person's head on something. I used a banana car because, "There's a putter going slow I call it a banana."

Today is Pam's Birthday! What better present could I give than an updated blog, right, right? Here are six things I really like about her. I picked six since the numbers in her age add to that. You do the math.

1. When we play Taboo we are psychics. I only have to say something like "binder" and she will know to say "tent."
2. She was always better at gymnastics. If I could dislocate like her I would be more flexible too.
3. One time we switched the preselected muffins at the grocery store. We probably wanted more chocolate ones. They probably frown on consumers touching baked goods and repackaging them.
4. If you get her to laugh hard enough she'll pee her pants.
5. We can make up dances that will have you on the edge of your seat.
6. She's very thoughtful. She came to visit and kept doing very helpful things, like she was part of my brain. My poor husband gets the raw end of this because I'm always saying things like, "Pam would have known."

Happy Birthday Pam!

Captain Plazmo To The Rescue!

Last weekend we had the Relay For Life. For those who are unfamiliar with that, it is a bunch of local businesses that come together to raise money for the cancer society. This took place at Bonneville High Schools stadium. There has to be someone on the track, from your team, walking at all times. My job happened to have had a few teams and a booth there. This picture is of my friend Melinda (she is the one with the hat and the finger bunny ears). I work with her and she is a CANCER SURVIVOR!! Thank you for living Melinda, I love you!!! She is one of the strongest people I know, she was married at 19, had twins at 20, one of which died at birth. She got cancer, kicked it... Her home had a rare form of mold from a flooded basement and the clean up crew did a sloppy job, her husband died from a RARE desiese he developed from the mold, their entire house and everything inside had to be destroyed and rebuilt. She has been remarried, had quadrouplettes(4 babies at one time) they are now 4 years old, one of which has a severe case of hydrocyphelis and is a wonder to all the doctors at Primary Children Hospital, he was in the hospital for 3 weeks in which time he had 7 surgeries and is still not for sure out of the woods. And now she is ready to battle the cancer again. Look at that smile. She is like that most of the time. Makes ya wonder why we ever have the right to complain about anything right!!

On the lighter side, my job is at a plasma collection center and they have a mascot suit, which I volunteered Jeff to wear, this is him getting suited up. The blue packs around his waist are icepacks to keep him cool and that stylish pointy hat is to hold up the suit into a nice hershey kiss type form.

We laughed so hard watching this girl I work with climb into his hiney to help him in. Jeff said one time she grabbed his manhood totally violating him by accident.

Now who can resist this hottie. I am kissing him. Don't ya love his tiny stub hands poking out the front. Oh my gosh!

Check out those moves. Carson is dancing with him and Maycee is standing back cracking up.

WHAT A SPORT right. It was all for a good cause, I think there was like $40,000 dollars raised for this event. Rock on!!

An accident waiting to happen!

In case you can not identify this young lady, it is Maycee. Poor girl. She was riding her bike the Thursday before the 4th of July and CRASHED hard. Jeff and I were outside when she did it but we were at the neighbors a couple houses down and our neighbor watched it happen, AAHHH She was sitting there on her hands and knees SCREAMING with her tooth dangling out of her mouth(by a nerve the dentist said), blood dripping from her nose and mouth. I had a movie that our neighbor borrowed from us in my hand(Twilight, oh yeah!) and I chucked it, scooped Maycee up and headed for home. Thank heavens our dentist lives down the street from us. He came over and looked at her, SHOVED her tooth back up where it should go and headed over to his office with us.

He got us to the office and deadened her whole upper mouth and that made her very silly. I think she was acting like she was on laughing gas, but she wasn't... The dentist was explaining to us that what she had done to her mouth was similar to if you tear every ligament in your knee, cuz her whole tooth was ripped out. And Maycee asked what a ligament was and he was trying to explain it to her, and I said they are kinda like rubber bands. She kept saying"rrrrruuubber bands" and giggling. It was really cute.

He had to hold her tooth in place, so he strung floss and some binding goo from tooth to tooth so that it would hopefully stay where it should be, kinda like braces. This picture here is her after a week of healing. She has now had an X-RAY of her nose done, it was huge and bigger on one side because her glasses smashed into her hard(somehow didn't break, but were not the shape glasses should be and were very scuffed up)But her nose was not broken...Yeah! And now at age 9 has had a root canal done on her very front tooth to try to prevent discoloration. All I could do at the end of that terrible night is look at Jeff and say,"Did that really just happen?". Now we just wait and see if everything stays good, good color and hope the tooth stays there. And can we please never do this again. Lincoln broke his tooth(the very same one) out on his bike last year, so good luck Carson. I hope you keep your tooth!!!