Thursday, March 30, 2006

rest is nice or is it really rest?

I have been painting the office,closet and bedroom. I stayed up Tuesday night until 3 am. Yesterday I was able to put stuff in the new closet. All that stuff has been in my living room and Family room since Sept. It is so nice. There is still flooring and and trim left to put up downstairs and I need to paint the closet and ceiling in the bedroom.
We took Kylee and Autumn's bunkbeds apart. They thought that was exciting. We have more organization to do in their room.
Hannah went to the eye doctor yesterday. Her vision has improved some. We need to continue eye dropping her good eye and eye patching it. It is suppose to be eye patched 2 hours everyday but with our busy schedule it is so crazy that is almost impossible.
Amber is starting tennis after spring break. She took the kids to the park so she could practice with some friends. She hasn't played before so it should be interesting how well she does (or doesn't do) There is nobody but me in house. Peaceful.

Lee Joe is looking into buying an already established business. That is scary because we have been there done that with self emplyment 2 times already. We will see what happens. It rained pretty good yesterday and it looked like he rolled in a mud puddle when he came home yesterday. His coat was covered in mud. It had to be hosed off before it was put in the washer. He is such a hard worker.

Monday, March 27, 2006

busy, busy,rest ahhh

Ok, to start things off, have you ever hurt your arm pit? Yesterday I was sorting through all the wet coats and snow gear when Lee joe's coat had something stuck between to rubbermaid containers. I pulled and it released, and SMACK. The plastic pull attached to elastic hit me in my arm pit square in the tender part. It is still welted and man did it HURT. I think I will survive.

So last week, monday I told you about, Tues was the real birthday, weds kylee and autumn both went to activity days and there was piano,violin and YW for the older two girls. Thursday we had a friend party with 13 girls total. We turned all the girls into Tinkerbell. Friday there was a talent show at the church. All the girls lip synced and sang, not a true lip sync to the veggie tales belly button song. Kylee and Autumn danced their ballet dance with two other girls in our ward. The song they dance to is butterfly kisses and man it can bring you to tears being a mom or dad of girls. Then Amber and Kelsea did a skit with two other Young women and a leader. Before we went to that I was so exhausted from the week and didn't want to go at all. I did and then Sat and Sun we went up to the mountains and stayed at Lee Joe's bosses cabin (70's trailer with an add on). Melissa and her kids came. It rained and then it snowed. The snow was so deep up there it was as deep as I am tall in places. We went snowmobiling and sledding until 9pm on Sat. It was snowing and snowmobiling was hard because the snow hurt when it hit your face and it was hard to see through the helmet with the protector thing over your eyes in the dark. We snowmobiled on the lake,kind of weird knowing you are on a big frozen lake. The kids all had a blast. When I would walk up the hill I kept sinking into snow up to my knee. Talk about a great workout. We ate dinner after 10. Everyone went to bed and some of the kids were up at 7:30 ready to go again. We ate got everything together and went out again. It snowed 5 inches over night. The kids sledded and never tired for over two hours. We all took turns driving kids on snow mobiles and going for fun rides on our own. When we got back to the cabin the van got stuck and we had to push it out. We got home and boy were we ever exhausted. But it was a great time. And our office has all the doors up and is primered YAY. It is ready for paint and then flooring and we are in-I forgot it needs trim too. It looks fantastic.

It is spring break this week and we are all in for a rest and spring cleaning.

Happy Birthday Sierra!!

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Happy Birthday Autumn

Autumn had a good birthday yesterday. We went to Wal-mart to get her ears pierced and pick up her cake. THere was a gal that was pretty new at ear piercing that did one of her ears and part of gun got stuck. She sat there so gaood and wide eyed and never cried. I didn't talk to much about it before she sat there so she didn't know what to expect I guess. Better for her though. She is proud of her blue earrings. We bought an earring holder while we were there and for some stupid reason they had just boxed up all their earrings so we couldn't get any new earrings.

We came home, I ordered pizza and then Melissa,her kids and my mom came over. She got a Monkey Dooz sparkle makeover certificate from my mom and a monkey. Melissa got her some Tinkerbell things from the Disney Store and earrings. She got a Cabbage Patch kid that shares her birthday. I couldn't find one with her name on it. The closest thing I could find was Tatum. I found one with Kylee and Hannah's name though. She got new sheets and a pillow-Care Bears. And she got a night gown and some new clothes and some cleaning stuff,she wanted that. And a tinkerbell computer game. She is going to have her friend party after school on Thursday. Spring break starts this weekend so we had to rush the friend party along. She has a coupon for Build A Bear so we will probably go there tonight and she can get an outfit. She gets to go to Activity days for the first time today.

David went to the ER again Tuesday morning. They did another CT scan and pretty much determined he had the flu. He had thought to start with that he had food poisoning from the sudden onset of symptoms. And now Melissa thinks the same thing. He went to work today. It was a doctor's office that sent him to the ER to start with and it sure was an expensive way to find out nothing. Dylan is here today sick himself.

I think we are going to Donnelly this weekend for sure. The snowmobiles are booked. The girls are disappointed it is not for longer than the weekend. There is so much snow up there I don't think we need snow mobiles to have great time.

My ceiling in the office was mudded yesterday. More dust. But I should be able to paint next week and put the flooring in. I can't wait!!

I am not getting much done today. I am dragging like turtle or something. A repair guy is suppose to come and fix our dishwasher today. Here is a tip I am going to have to pay money for-He said to use powder detergent instead of gel. And he suggested I use a dishwasher cleaning agent. Jet dry has one you stick in an empty dishwasher and run. He also told me to use the jet dry stuff and all that should help your dish washer run cleaner. It has helped quite a bit since my dishwasher was making the dishes more dirty than when they went in. It is only 3 years old.

I still can't get the blogger thing to download pictures from my computer. It is probably my computer.

Monday, March 20, 2006

This weekend

Saturday was so nice and leisurely. Our neighbor came over and textured the office. The ceiling still needs to be done but it is almost there!

I took Hannah and Kylee with me to the store while Autumn was at a birthday party across the street. We bought some kites. Hannah really wanted to go. It was really too windy but we decided to try it anyway. I found some kites from a few years ago. We went to the park down the road with 6 kites. 2 were just bought, one was fabric and the others were several years old. In 10 minutes 3 kites bit the dust. The two new ones held up but looked quite tortured in the air. The small fabric kite survived. We weren't out there a half an hour and we were all froze from the wind chill so kite flying was done. I took Amber and Kelsea to the mall and the three little girls and I went to Baskin Robbins to redeem two free cone vouchers the girls got at jump rope for heart.

I went to the mall today at 9am to walk. That is pleasant way to do it and everything is closed so it is brisk window shopping with all the other walkers. I believe I have started Spring cleaning my kitchen. Boy does it ever need it.
Today-Monday I had an interesting twist during Ballet today. I took 6 kids to Ballet. 3 mine,3 friends. As we walked in Kylee fell and skinned her knee. I had to ask the director and teacher some questions so I had her wait a minute for a bandaid, then Autumn had a problem with her toe. Then Kylee told me Hannah needed me in the bathroom. I got there and she had peed all over her clothes and the floor. I had no clothes for her to change into. And then I got a call from home while I was in the quandry over the naked child in the bathroom. Amber had a problem with Dylan and Kailyn that I needed to address over the phone. Kylee still has no bandaid, Autumn's toe still hurts and Hannah is still naked. I have to buy a leotard there even though I don't need it really except for the fact she will remain naked if I don't buy it. She is dressed, I make another call over the crisis at home. And somehow Kylee gets her band-aid and Autumn takes off her shoe so her toe won't hurt. I was about ready to resign my post as super mom. Then everything calmed down and I was flushed and splotchy from the duress. Ugh.
To end the night, my brother in law is in the hospital with either appendicitis or a kidney stone. They are still trying to determine what is ailing him. They realized they should have called me first. Hey! It's not me this week. At least not yet anyway.

Autumn is 8 on Tuesday. She gets to have her ears pierced. That will be my 4th baby baptized! Her baptism is April 8. And we will finally be done with birthdays in Idaho until June, and then there is 4.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

It snowed Monday overnight and there was several inches on the ground when the kids were to get ready for school. I woke Kylee Autumn and Hannah up a half an hour early and told them if they hurried up they could play in the snow. That was the fastest they got ready for school ever. Snow doesn't usually stick around here long so it was a good thing they got to play in it when they did. I was just thinking that getting snow thei late is not typical at all. USusally on Kelsea's birthday we can play outside with no coats on. Not this year. It was even snowing again this morning. The mountains have been dumped on and the ski resorts are happy but everyone is starting to worry about the rivers with the spring runoff. We may go up the mountains over Spring break to play in the snow.

We had Kelsea's party last night. She got an idog from Melissa and I got her this funny little sweater outfit for it and an idog carry bag. She got the new Princess Peach game for her nintendo DS and My mom got her Harry Potter 4. She got pj pants and a athletic pants and some candy. Spoiled rotten. She enjoyed it though.

Kelsea stuck a ratted wig from the girls dress up box and stuck it under shirt with hair sticking through the arm holes and up through the neck and hair dangling out the bottom and she looked at me and said "I'm your husband" I laughed so hard.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Fun weekend

A realitively calm week. I started Spring cleaning I think on Thurs and Fri but it is still cold here.
Kelsea's good friend threw her a surprise birthday at her house on Friday. It was a great surprise. She hung out with 4 friends and had a great time. We further celebrated her birthday on Saturday by just the two of us going shopping. I took her out to lunch at the Olive Garden. She got a giftcard to the mall from the party for $20 and she had some money left on her Old Navy giftcard from Christmas and some babysitting money so when we came home she made out quite well with a new bedspread for her bed, 6 shirts, two pairs of long shorts, a pair of Capri's and a pair of pants. She got a CTR as well and lime green furry pillow. We are going to have the family get together on Tuesday so she will have done well for turning 13. Her birthday is Weds but there is a big stake activity that night and they sounded like they are going to make special mention of the birthday girls that night.

Kelsea had a visit to the ER Sat night. I am really tired of that place. Amber and her were horsing around and she got an elbow to her chest as she fell on my bed pulling Amber down on top of her. She couldn't get up without help and was in terrible pain. She was shaking something crazy and crying so hard. But she couldn't breathe very well. She just has a really good bruise on her solar plexus. Today she still couldn't get up on her own out of bed and certain positions cause her a lot of pain. By the end of the day there was some improvement.

Lee Joe's ear was causing him some irritation today. He is rather grumpy.

Hannah has been trying to help me with laundry. She took some clothes and started the washer. I stopped it yesterday, it wasn't full and didn't have any soap in it. Today she unloaded those clothes that were really really wet still into the dryer and put a nightgown and pair of socks in the washer and started it again. She also filled up all 4 compartments in the detergent area. I caught it in time and she got in some trouble for all the water everywhere in the bathroom and the unsupervised help with the laundry. I can't complain too much, at least she wants to help.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Kylee and Autumn BasketBall pictures

Getting better

Kylee and Autumn are doing Jump rope for heart. Any pledges anyone? We need to know by tonight-Tuesday. Give us a call if you want to. We need the pledges(money) before the 14 or 15.

Lee Joe is getting better. He went to work Monday. The cold air bothers it quite a bit but he has a warm hat with flaps that helps. We put the arm back on his glasses yesterday so they won't fall off. So the swelling has gone down a lot. He got stopped by a police officer last night just for some silliness. The officer saw his ear and said that he has had 5 of those surgeries. So they talked ear surgeries for a while and the only ticket he got was for no proof of insurance and he just has to take that to the courthouse. The ear surgery got him out of the ticket he was stopped for. How about that. He has to walk around with a cotton ball stuck to his ear. It looks kind of funny. He has to do that for another 2 weeks.

The weekend wasn't as calm as I hoped but it was the last one like that for awhile. I got a sewing order. I am suppose to be sewing right now. What a procrastinator. Anyways, Kylee made two baskets and Autumn tried for one in their game. One of their good friends was on the other team so we were cheering for both sides. Kelsea ended the season undefeated. They won 26 to 8. Kelsea made 6 of those points. and she assisted several other baskets. She is one to watch up and coming you guys! She makes most her baskets. Amber was playing 21 with Kelsea and she didn't want Kelsea to play anymore because she was making all her shots.

I had to lead music for the stake baptims on Sat. Usually they are in the primary room. This time there were 7 kids and so it had to be in the chapel. It was scary! But I did fine. But I brought the girls with me-no Amber though, she was snowmobiling. Lee Joe felt too bad to go. But my girls started misbehaving and All I could do was sit on the stand and make faces at them. They weren't really noisy,just naughty. We walked out to go to the font and some were crying and others were defending themselves. UGh. I just found out Kelsea's Aunt Flo came to visit in Jan for the first time. And we are hitting the mood swings and PMS like you wouldn't believe. She is mean to her sisters just to be mean. She cries whenever I raise my voice slightly at her. Just awful. She acted like she was going throw a knife at Autumn when they were cleaning off the table. She is about to turn 13. It is a long road ahead. Wish Lee Joe and I luck. Can I crawl under a rock until it is over?

Last night Kylee and Autumn got their trophies for basketball. They were their first trophys and they are proud of them.

Autumn will be 8 this month!! My 4th baby baptized and I am the mom of two official teenagers. I am so old.
Must sew or I will be up late again tonight.

Friday, March 03, 2006

The only person who has called Lee Joe post surgery is your mom. He still has one good ear.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

We are having a calm week. Lee Joe has been taking it easy. His ear is still gross. It so swollen all around it . He is on Tylenol for pain and it is working well, that is until it wears off. He went to the Doctor today. The doctor said he put a tampon in Lee Joe's ear. We both cringed and laughed at that kind of wording for the sponge looking thing in his ear. The Doctor said the hearing aid that might be best would be one where they put a post in the bone behind his ear. Now that would make him look like frankenstien. We have been able to find humor in it all. The thing that covered his ear and made him look like a one eared pirate actually looks like a "cup" -the guy thing. except it is round. The doctor said his ear looks good and he goes back again next Thursday. They gave us a prescription for ear drops. We called on how much they would cost-$98.00. I think we will het the doctors office up for more of their free samples.

This week since he has been home we bought a lawn mower with a couple a gift cards we got for Christmas and Lee joe's side work money. The kids activites have been manageable. And it the last week for a lot of it.

Amber brought home a note saying she was accepted in the Jr High Honor Band. So she will be in 2 groups again in the Music week Concert in April.

Funny story I read in a magazine. It was a most embarrassing moment story. This lady went to the bathroom in an airplane. She didn't realize the seat was up when she sat down so when she fell in to the toilet she flushed it on accident. When she flushed it it suctioned her to the toilet. She tried to get herself unstuck but couldn't. She had to ask a flight attendant for help. The flight attendant couldn't help her get unstuck so they had to call the captain to come and help her and he finally got her unstuck from the toilet.

I laughed so hard!! But that would be so awful. I was going to tell you another funny story that happened to someone I know very recently but I was asked not to repeat it so I will honor that and snicker and laugh to myself. Sorry.

Friday is pretty quiet. For some reason the Jr high gets out early tomorrow. Amber is going up to Donelly on a young women's snowmobile trip. Kelsea is going to stay home so she can make it to her last game and team party. Kylee and Autumn have their game on Sat and Kylee has a birthday party across the street. I have to lead music at a baptism on Saturday. Not a bad weekend ahead.