Katelyn's Tooth Extraction

Katelyn's tooth has been loose for a while now and she kept bugging Justin to tie a string to it and the door and YANK it out...watch the video below. Listen carefully to Logan's great idea of removing the tooth!

p.s. I was against this idea, but they did it behind my back. I couldn't believe they did it!! I wanted her teeth in as long as possible. I don't like when little kids have their cute, tiny, perfectly straight little teeth, loose them and then need braces because they don't have room for the permenant ones. She has already lost her bottom 2 but they can't be seen when she smiles.

This Post Has Pictures!

There is a grocery store just down the street from our subdivision that I run to occassionally (Walmart is where we usually go but it is 10 mins. away and I almost always have at least 2-3 of my children and it's so stinkin busy!!!!!) Anyways, I run there if I only need a couple things or I only have a short time to get there and back. But they have these cute carts for the kids to use. They love them but when we are done, I want to rip my hair out. It is impossible. Tyson has to have one too, and 3 carts going in a million directions, running into my ankles, etc. But they sure look cute with them.

We want to get a trampoline and a playset but we dont want to have to move it this fall/winter or whenever we move to our own house so we found this fun airplane at Costco for the kids. The problem is, they want to be out on it all the time!!!! It is windy here and they can deal with the cold better than me. I would just let them out as long as they want but our fence is a privacy fence (not completely enclosed) and Tyson can disappear in seconds. But they sure do have fun on it and love being outside.

I know the Super Bowl was over a month ago but here's a few cute pictures:

The Long Awaited Post

I know it has been FOREVER since I posted last but in my behalf, I have heard many people say that a blog is like journal keeping, which I NEVER have been good at. Therefore, I no expectations of being good at blogs either, hahaha!!! We are just busy in our busy but non-exciting lives.

News Going on in Our Lives: Justin trained a 2nd employees to close (we have a member gal who closes 2 nights a week and a Sat. once or twice a month but is a fulltime BSU student and can only handle so many hours) and so it was great cause this 2nd gal wanted to work nights and Saturdays, which is hard to find. So after having so much hope of seeing Justin alot more, we were very upset to hear that she was completeingly being dishonest after only her 2nd night in charge. After reviewing our cameras and being filled in by other uncomfortable employees, her and another gal were fired. So, I guess we should be content having him home the 2 nights a week for now. It is nice to still work with him most Thursdays (10-3:15) though.

Happier and Braggy News: They do this testing with the kindergarteners on their letters, sounds and segmenting words and Katelyn scored the highest in her class. They will do the same testing in May and when they sent home their scores, they included scores of where they hope all the children will be then. Well Katelyn's scores were almost double what they expect for the spring!! She is doing so good in school and loves it! When she is mad at me she says "I wish I were at school right now so I didn't have to see you cause I love it and my teacher is nicer than you!" If she were as sweet as she is smart? Just kidding, I love her to pieces.

One More Thing: This will be rather boring to the reader but to me this was big. When we moved here the end of July, we found out that we had 90 days to take the Idaho written test to get new licenses. As most of you may know, I stress over EVERYTHING. Well, after 7 1/2 months of stressing, I finally took the stupid test. Justin took it the day before me to give me a heads up (how many questions, how many can I miss w/out failing, where do I go, etc). I was just so worried that if I didn't pass on my 1st try, they would keep my WA license since I was past 90 days. Well, as it turns out, once again, I worried for nothing, got a 40/40 and have my official Idaho drivers license and my picture is even GOOD!!!!! Oh and Justin passed too!

Children Are Too Honest Sometimes

So as many of you know, I am on another weightloss venture. Two years ago, to the month, I also started hardcore workouts and Weight Watchers and lost 34 lbs. in about 3 months. So after another child, a drop in workouts, due to our move and the crazy schedule that has come with it, I am about 25 lbs heavier than I want to be. I started almost 2 weeks ago, doing my workouts and counting Weight Watcher points. I have lost almost 6 lbs. and feeling happy with that but of course not anywhere near satisfied with my body. So here comes the far too honest part...The other night I had gotten done working out and showering, when Logan walks into my room as I am gettimg dressed. He stops and looks at me with a puzzled face and asks, "Someday is dad going to get fat (than hesitates for a second)... like you're kinda fat?" I had to laugh and call and tell Justin. Although, I didn't take it too personal, sometimes my children are a little too honest.

We Are Hoping For A Safer New years!

So we ended up having a few unexpected injuries or incidents happen in the last 3 months but we are all alive and well. It all started in October when Justin had to get 6 stiches in his foot from an eliptical injury (but not from when he was working out on it). I won't mention which one of our children stepped on the pedal, not knowing his feet were on the floor by it, and it came down, hit his foot which knocked it off it's track and sliced into his foot. Sorry for the gruesome picture but most of you have given birth and I thought you could probably handle it. It was very painful for quite awhile but was in the best place it could have been on his foot and was able to keep up at the store, but with some limping. Thankfully, he's just fine now though!!



November was my lovely car accident in Spokane, which could have been MUCH worse. I was just left with a sore neck and bad headache and Tyson was just fine.


December brought both boys ear infections. Logan was put on amoxicilan and after using it for a full week, broke out into a rash. I took him back in and they said he had a "non allergic reaction" since it happened after a week. They had me stop the last 3 days and put him on something new, including benedryl, which he lived on for a week. This top picture was within a few hours of the rash starting. The bottom picture was the next morning.

This is how bad it got all over his entire body. His ears, hands and feet were so swollen and red. I had to drowned the poor boy in calimine lotion. He was so itchy and sore that he didn't sleep well and felt miserable. It was really bad for 3 days but lasted about a week total. I will be a bit hesitant when a doctor mentions amoxicilan for him in the future, although they said he should be fine trying it again someday.

Katelyn's last day of the year accident...On New Years Eve, we had to stop by the store so Justin could print out some end of the year reports, which should have taken like 20 minutes. Well the kids started running around and I kept telling them to stop, settle down, and we'd be on our way soon. They were anxious to get to our friends, the Bernards, where we were going to spend the evening for some New Years Eve celebrations. But of course my wild kids didn't obey and Katelyn tripped on the tile and fell, hitting a metal rack. It split her eye brow open quit deep. After a couple hours in the ER, and Katelyn being so brave, she luckily only needed 2 stiches. I hope she learned her lesson about running and messing around in our store. Despite the extra stop, we did end up enjoying the rest of our New Years Eve!

So our family has had a few bad things happen to us this last year but I am totally aware that all our situations could have been much worse. But for the fact that they weren't, we were greatly blessed and thankful.

Another Christmas Come And Gone

The pictures are in no particular order. Just some that I thought were cute and showed how we spent some of our Christmas season. We hope your Christmas was great and have a wonderful New Year 2008!!
Tyson got this from us and loved it everytime he saw it at the store. I was excited for him to open it and he was too when he saw it. Too bad a week later, he could care less. But it sings 3 songs and is pretty fun.

If all the sugar they have had over the last month wasn't enough, but I gave into getting "vanilla snow cotton candy" and Katelyn and Logan had fun acting as Santa.

Christmas Eve, after stuffing ourselves with Chinese take-out (a new tradition we are starting when we celebrate Christmas alone), acting out the nativity and opening a few gifts, and just before bed so Santa could come!!

All I can say is that my kids love to get their pictures taken (most of the time). This is Christmas morning, after they spent nearly an hour in the bath. santa brought each of them a new bath toy.

We acted out the nativity and although I had to take pitures, I was the donkey Mary rode on and then I was the angel.

We were so glad the store was closed and Justin got to be home with us for Christmas Day!! This was our 1st Christmas with out all our family. With the store only being open a couple months now, Justin had to be here to open the day after Christmas, so we couldn't leave the area. It was sad but we still had a great Christmas!!

I love this picture of Tyson. He is just so happy! He loves to pose for the camera.

The kids at our ward Christmas Party! I love that Tyson is not afraid of santa. We saw Santa at 3 or 4 different places and he always tried to cut in line to get to Santa.

We used this picture on our Christmas cards and these were their outfits for Christmas Sunday. I think Logan especially, looks so handsome.

I Am So Boring, Busy, But Boring

Ok, so I know I haven't posted for a while, and it is not because I am still recovering from my accident, because I am totally fine (at least I am until we get a bill -although our insurance should cover it all, I hope). I have been doing plenty of things to share, I just don't know how to load/post pictures yet, and blogs are so much more fun with pictures. As I had to wait to start our blog, for Justin to have time to help me, I also have to wait for him to have time to teach me how to do the whole picture thing (he's the one that posted the other pictures for me). So hopefully I'll get something more exciting posted soon. In the meantime, I am just enjoying visiting everybody elses blogs. Thanks for all the wonderful crafts, ideas, and stories that people share.