Stitches and such....

Ok I'm having a little bit of a withdrawal problem. My laptop got some crazy virus/trojan (nice word!) and freaked out on me. So it is in getting fixed up! When I took it in, my first comment was PLEASE SAVE MY PICTURES!!! I am bad and haven't backed them up to my computer downstairs because my memory card is too big to use down here (complicated). So I was really worried about that and then added oh yea I guess I hope they don't hack into my banking and stuff either, but please save my pictures!! The computer guy didn't think I had anything to worry about, but I won't feel better until my laptop is back and running. Oh the things we rely on!

So needless to say I have a lot of pictures I took over the Thanksgiving break but they will have to wait. The news though is that my poor baby Maec fell down my mom's horrible stairs at her rental house and had to go the hospital and get 3 stitches. They are old stairs that are wood covered with linoleum and then reinforced with a metal strip! We knew someone would eventually get hurt on them. I cannot believe how brave she was! She didn't even cry at the Instacare! She just sucked on her gum like a binky and cuddled up to her daddy and her blankie! The Dr. was amazed at how well she did! We found out yesterday that a friend of ours that used to live at that same house fell on those steps and broke their nose. BAD STAIRS!

All in all we had an amazing break and the kiddies DID NOT want to go to school today. They both tried to play the sick card....but it didn't work! So I'll be here cleaning up for the next week, phew what a mess! Back to the real world.

Stay tuned for new family pics that Salli took. They are soooo stinking cute! I wish I knew how to use Photoshop so I could make them look even fancier but I still need to learn how to use it! Until then.....

Veteran's Day Singing

McKenna's Choir sang at USU on Veteran's Day. There was actually an article in the paper about it last Sunday, but I think I accidently threw it away. It complimented their singing and said there was hardly a dry eye after listening to them. They did a really good job! Then got Aggie ice cream afterwards. Good Job Girls :)

Karilee put together a surprise party for Kevin for his 40th Birthday. It was like a funeral----a farewell to his youth. She went all out! I couldn't believe how many people were there (Who doesn't love Kevin though?). The whole gym was filled with people wearing black. Then when Kevin walked in he was walking into his funeral. Eerie! In these pictures it shows his cake...although I didn't get a picture before it was cut....but I love the headstone. We gave him a gift bag that said old fart on it and was filled with brochures from the Senior Center. Also a pair of reading glasses (that strangely look like Rogers :)), a sudoko book, a paddle ball that is for excercise. I didn't get a lot of good pictures but Vaea never put the camera down :) Thanks for the fun night you guys :)

Halloween

Halloween 2009

The holidays came and just so we wouldn't break tradition, someone was sick! I went to wake up Ethan on Saturday morning for his wrestling meet. He was tired and said he didn't feel very good. Well being the stellar parent I am, I told him to get his buns out of bed and get ready (he says he doesn't feel good in the morning a lot). So I left him to go jump in the shower. I think I even yelled at him from the shower a couple of times to get his butt going, just cuz I'm an awesome parent like that :) Just as I'm getting out of the shower he staggers in and gets the thermometer out of the drawer and takes his own tempature (cuz I'm awesome). He croaks, mom is 101 a bad tempature. OH CRAP! Give me the mother of the year award! Scratch the wrestling meet buddy, your going back to bed! So he rested most of the day and then felt a little better that night.

We started our Halloween festivities with soup in a bread bowl at my dad's house. It was delicious! From there we headed to my moms for some fabulous sugar cookies...yummy. Then Heidi and I decided to be either stupid or brave {you decide} and take 7 YOUNG kids onto the streets of Providence for some trick or treating. Nothing like a swarm of overexcited, competitive children trying to see who can get to the door first and YELL trick or treat! I tried to tell them "what do you guys say?" They yelled TRICK OR TREAT!!!! No "what do you tell them" THANKS and on to the next house. We then met my brother and one of his friends back at my mom's and decided to have all the kids pile into the back of Brett's truck and drive down to our neighborhood to go crazy. The kids had a lot of fun running from house to house and seeing all their friends. McKenna's friend Erin came with us and she wanted to go do some trick or treating in her neighborhood on the bench. So I took the girls up there and Brett took Eth and Maec to Salli's house to see their cousins. All in all I think it was a good night and I've hidden all of Maecee's candy and I haven't even seen McKenna and Ethan eat much of theirs. The first thing they wanted to see from their "bucket" was the playdough they got from one of the neighbors. Bring on next year....with no sickness that is :)