Santa Hannah

My neighbors Pumpkin Snowman

Happy Halloween

Imagine a picture of a snowman made out of pumpkins and a 4 year old girl dressed as Santa. Blogger won't post pictures today. I have to go to the school, I am in charge of the party. I will be wearing reindeer ears and be Hannah's reindeer. That is as dressed as I will get.

Great fun

Amber won a costume contest at the SND last night. She is gum on the bottom of a shoe. And she won those two packages of M&M's . Thanks Ellen show. We can't take the credit for that funny.

looky

Amber is the bottom edge. Look at all the bare feet.
Amber is in the gray shirt almost center.

Maryanne asked-

Since Maryanne asked what I did- I might have hurt it origionally early this summer arm wrestling. And then I hurt the guys left shoulder. It hurt for a while mildly before I hurt it really well.I was cleaning the garage when I hurt it the most. My shoulder was doing much better and then I played volleyball and now it hurts again so it wasn't healthy yet. I know Omega 3s help the joints too and they are cheaper than glucosamine. I looked into glucosamine with Amber's knees. I am out the vitamin habit again so I haven't been taking them so I guess I should stop whining. -New paragraph-We went to the football game last night. Capital played Eagle (Wade is a senior at Eagle this year) Capital lost by 3points-it was a good game though. The band marched barefoot or in socks and they wore regular clothes. I could actually find Amber! And their feet were frozen. It was like 50 or 40 degrees. Crazy kids. -new paragraph-Kelsea and I went to Heidi's bridal shower today and I visited with Mandy and her cute baby. We were asked to bring items for her firsts. I had first emergency. She got some cute things from everyone. She is moving to North Carolina after the wedding. In order to buy dog food today-since we are out completely, Lee Joe has to come along for his healthy arms. I am so independent this is really frustrating. Lee Joe and I are getting new callings on Sunday, we will be together. I have mixed feelings because I love my music calling but I am ready for a change. Right now Lee Joe is Ward missionary. And he is really good at that calling. So that is something to keep in tune for.

Bad news

I finally went and made an Appt with my Dr for next week and then decided to try a Chiropractor. I saw him yesterday. I have 3 things going on. Tendonitis, bursitis and a possible rotator cuff tear. That last one could require surgery. I am not suppose to lift anything with it for at least a week, not even my purse or a gallon of milk. It could make it worse. I looked at that symptoms for the rotator cuff tear and I have all the symptoms. That stinks.

Last night

OK, I am really silly at times about getting enough rest. Tuesday night I stayed up till 2 painting the window and bookshelf so I can hang blinds in the office. It's not done yet. But last night at 9 I went out with some friends to play Volleyball. They got kicked out of the raquetball court so there hasn't been Walleyball in a while but that is our preferred sport. My friend's birthday is on halloween so someone brought a car full of balloons and put them in her car, She thought it was so funny and then we all went out to IHOP to replace all the calories we just burned. So I didn't get to bed until 1. Today I had to do oreintation to be a sub at the school (At least get paid for the 2days I just worked) and I was very overdue for a haircut so I got one finally. So no rest for the senseless weary. Now Amber is signed up for drivers ed. My shoulder hurts more again so now it is time for some medical intervention. Darn it all for getting old. I realize I need to work a lot harder on being more optimistic and less pessimistic. The left side of my body feels great!! Heidi is getting married on Nov 4. That means family is coming this way. I know that Grandma and Jared and Michelle and kids are staying with us so far. I will be bust cleaning next week. And Amber is marching in the parade on that day too. We have a little conflict going on. It will be a very busy day.

Amber-

I don't know which one Amber is

Where's Waldo,I mean Kelsea

Tatoos anyone?

I went to Port of Subs while the little girls were at dance last night and this guy was talking to the guys there about the tattoo he was about to spend $350 for. He had several already. I was dying to ask the guy what he was going to do when he got old and the tattoos started to wrinkle and sag. I have just wondered that when I see people with tattoos all over and wonder when they are elderly are they going to be able to tell what they even have. That fairy is going to start looking like a witch and that butterfly is going to look like roadkill (those are more womanly tattoos). I don't know, I was debating whether I had enough nerve to ask this guy. I almost did-but didn't but I would still really like to know if anyone has even thought that far ahead.

bummer

Blogger doesn't want to post pictures for me again today. This is a strange morning. Last night the cat lost a little of our warm fuzzy feelings for her. It was about 11:45 the dog was barking,we were almost asleep but Lee joe went up to see what it was. It was a bird that could still fly. We chased it around and finally caught it. It's leg was hurt. We left it in the box. Went to bed and the dog started to bark again. The cat was grounded to the house though after that. I think after one all the crazy pets mellowed out. This morning I was trying to figure out where to take the bird. Lee Joe had said it was really noisy earlier but once I checked it just as I was getting ready to leave-it had died. We had a crazy weekend( when is it ever quiet) Kelsea had her concert Friday. Amber had her band practice and parents decorated the band room. We saw the kids come in. They were thrilled. On Sat Amber took the PSAT. I took my 4 other girls to POJOS for Kailyn's friend party. It is fun like Chuck E Cheese but bigger and more fun with a Carousel and bumper cars. Then I took 3 kids to the band banquet at a local restaurant. Later I picked up 5 kids and took them to the high school. It was funny-our friends son,the ones in Hawaii, after the band teacher said for all the kids to go home and hug their parents for getting them to and from band practices, he said he was going to go home and hug the phone. We went to the band competition. It was fantastic. And it was sad. Our kids played and marched their best show yet and didn't place at all. It was stinking COLD up in the stadium!! We brought blankets and heavy coats and we were still frozen. The band that won was very very good. So imagine pictures of concerts, band formations and more volleyball that I will have to show later. This week I need to make a santa outfit for Hannah and plan a class party for Autumn's class. And Kylee is the busy one for a change. But there will be less running. I hope. We will see.

Hannah's art project

Hannah's diarama. It's a sailboat with clouds around it. She's very interesting. On the way to dance there was great debate if Mary's little lambs had fleece as white as snow or fleas as white as snow.

It worked!

Speaking of ER

Monday night was eventful. But not as much for my family as our neighbors 2 doors down. They are the ones that gave me the fantastic fruit basket. I pulled into the driveway close to 7 and saw the dad crawling in the grass and I thought he was playing with one of the boys. The kids saw their dog running down the street. Kelsea caught him and then came home and told me that one of their boys might have broken his arm or dislocated his shoulder. Their daughter was already here and she stayed here. They took him in, he completely broke his arm just below the shoulder ball joint. He stayed the night in the hospital and Drissa stayed with us. He was going to have surgery and then the surgeon changed his mind and sent him home with out a cast. They won't cast it till Thursday and then after 5 days they will decide if he needs surgery. Isn't that awful? He is in 2nd grade and an active boy. I worked at the school again on Tues and was impressed that I single handedly got 4 girls ready for school, Lee Joe did help some, I can't take all the credit, and we were out the door at 7:45 am after a night of very little sleep at all. The big drama at recess was somebody's pet zebra finch found it's way on to the playground. It couldn't fly very far. A group of kids found it and thought is a baby or hurt. We tried to catch it with no luck. It figured out how to fly right out of our reach on the top of the portable. Girls went in for recess real worried about the bird and a bunch of little boys had screaming drama at the tetherball pole. I came home completely exhausted I couldn't move from about 6 until 7:30 and needless to say I slept really well last night. Today Hannah went to the eye doctor. We have not been able to eye patch 2 hours everyday-can you see why? She went a little backwards on her progress.So they put a film over the lense on her glasses on the good eye she has to have on all the time. And I am ready to rest now that I have taken care of the trip to the bread store and Costco. At least until 3 when I pick up kids and go to a volleyball game after school.

I am so tired!

I told the secretary at the school that I would fill in for her when her son and his wife had their baby. I got a call at 6:45 this morning. I was at the school today. I didn't go to bed early enough for that. We had an unruly parent trying to transfer records somewhere else. It was tense. But I will be there again tomorrow. I just need to find a sitter for Hannah again. That was rough this morning. Hannah came with me for part of the morning. All my friends that have kids her age are in kindergarten or pre-school. And my friends that are going to Hawaii-They are still going. They were in LA for the big quake- when was that? No worries for them. Good luck to them. I think there was point to all this but I am so tired I can't remember what it was. I have to get Kylee still and take the other 2 little girls to dance. Lee joe will be picking up Amber again from band practice in the dump truck. Everyone said bye to her last time he did that. It was funny for her. I think that we don't know how to have decent dinner anymore except for Sunday. Who knows what we are having tonight but the kids are sick of mac and cheese.

slightly humorous

I am not this mean but we have some friends that were suppose to leave on Friday for Hawaii for their 20th anniversary. I know that she wants to go really bad. and since she planned the trip her mother-in-law went on a mission (their babysitter) and the big band competition is this weekend and her husband REALLY wants to go. And then I looked on the internet and saw there was a really big earthquake there today. Now she either is wanting to go too badly, they aren't suppose to go yet, or her husband has been praying to go to the band competition over this trip(He is a Bishop in his ward, his prayers have weight?). It doesn't look like travel there is very disrupted so they will probably be fine. I am helping them get their oldest son to all the activities on Sat. The PSAT is in the morning. A lunch at noon at a locale buffet restaurant and competition the rest of the day.

As I wait for Amber to come home....

We didn't go to the ER this time with Autumn. I suppose a bad dr's office visit is the result. She is doing much better. We went to the homecoming football game last night. The 4 girls and I did. We stayed until after half time. It was freezing and after 10:30. The band marched fantastic. When the band ran off the field Amber's clarinet fell apart. Thank goodness it was fine. The football game was 21 to 0 when I left. (final score 34 to 7) The drum major won Homecoming queen. Amber said it was the 5th year in a row a band member won homecoming queen. Today we went to Caldwell to watch them compete. They took 2nd and brought home a nice trophy. The band that won first was REALLY good. Kelsea's team won their game on Friday. they were close games though. Hannah has been very funny. Out of the blue she told us she wanted to make a diarama. So for about 3 days she has worked on it. It has a sail boat and clouds that hang from strings. In the backround she drew a house and hills. The only thing I helped her with was tape the strings of the top of the sailboat to the Diarama and she did all the rest herself. I have taken pictures and if blogger improves I will post a picture. She still wants to be Santa. But she says she doesn't want to wear a beard. I will have to make her a costume. Next week is Kelsea's LAST volleyball game (sigh of relief) and Amber's LAST band competition (a bigger sigh of relief). As much fun as it is, less of it is enjoyable as well.

autumn update

I was trying to post pictures for 3 days now, no luck. I can't seem to start a new paragraph either. Autumn went to our usual doctors office yesterday for a follow-up on her arm. There is no obvious fracture. They think it is a bone bruise. She is out of the splint and and sling. It still hurts her but she is kind of hyper sensitive to discomfort. Everyone has been trying out her splint and sling. Kylee had to almost tackle Dylan this morning. He tried to go to the playground with her sling. I drove 5 kids to school this morning. Maybe my next van should be yellow. Tonight we have a volleyball game for Kelsea and Amber is marching and playing pep band at the homecoming game tonight and has another competition tomorrow. Her band teacher got furious on weds, threw a fit and left the band in the parking lot during class(where they practice) . Then yesterday he felt bad or something and gave all the kids individualized thank you cards for working hard. Band teachers can be very tempermantal. I had one in 7th grade that threw his baton at the wall and it was very close to where I was sitting. Hopefully it won't get too cold at the game tonight. It starts at 8:30. Amber has a friend whose mom is helping me carpool Amber to Capital. She saw our giant pile of leaves in the yard and wanted some for her mulch pile because they don't have any trees in their yard. So we bagged up 5 big leaf bags full and I think we can still fill two or three more. Kitty's kill count is 9. Lee Joe has 2 kills. I think we are on the verge of a crisis. I have never seen anything like it. I am going nuts with my messy house, chauffer duties(as a result, messy car), daily calls from the school nurse, daily visits to the school during the school day, and the death and carnage of mice around my house. Enough said, I need to shower an take Hannah to the library and visit the car wash, then I might have some time to clean a little before the run around begins. How's that for rambling.

Autumn

So I guess Autumn's health and wellness streak lasted too long. She is in a sling now with a splint on her arm. She fell off the monkey bars and landed on her hand, but her elbow is what is hurting and swollen. The stinker never cried, or told the nurse or her teacher. She came home and said it hurt. Lee Joe looked and it, so did I and we weren't sure. She went to school yesterday and then the nurse called me and said it was bothering her. I wanted her to stay at school, she has missed way too much already. She got home and I felt I should take her to the doctor. I had to take her to a different clinic than I usually go to. The doctor was very nice but I kind of doubt her experience. She said she wasn't sure if her elbow was broke but she was going to send the x-rays to a radiologist. I would hear back from her in 2 days. Then she was putting on the splint and she didn't seem like she had done that very often. So she went and got the sling, she put it on backwards! I left there feeling like I should have gone to the ER or insisted my doctors office see her no matter what. I drove by the school on the way home and saw a bunch of cars. It was the night of the ice cream social. So at 7pm, no dinner in any of us yet, we went and had free ice cream at the school and all of Autumn's friends and classmates surounded her and asked her 100 times what happened. It is her right arm and she is having trouble writing. We will see what kind of day she has at school today.

Our weekend

I missed Amber all weekend but knew she would have fun with her band geek friends-that's what they call themselves. We had a weekend where Kelsea and Kylee were busy in the evening or day and I was home with just Autumn and Hannah. Kylee got to swim and go to Chuck E Cheese. Kelsea went bowling and to a Bosnian food store. She also watched a movie ata birthday party at a friends house. Amber's band tied for 12th to get into the finals. They were not the band selected to go though. I think that was the closest they got to finals in the past 4 years. Amber said some of the other bands were really really good. She called me at 1:45am to pick her up. UGH! When I got back I couldn't sleep. So Sunday was rough. I have been fighting a cold all weekend, and my shoulder is still a problem. Anemic as well. I made it to the last hour of church, led the music and came home and slept. A Lot. But I have to tell you, Airborne works well. Lee Joe took it a few times, he gave me his cold, and it didn't last long. I took it a few times and I don't feel that bad today. 2 1/2 days of cold symptoms. That's not bad. I think I need to see the doctor for the shoulder. It making some popping and clicking when it moves and it hurts still. Lee Joe earned major brownie points this weekend. He made a potato and ham soup but something happened and it scorched. The bottom of the pan he used was too thin I think. Ususally he does a really good job with the soups he makes. At least he made it early enough in the day that I was able to make spaghetti and we still ate before 7. But we were all looking forward to his potato soup. My mom is looking at moving again. The guy she is renting from is selling her place so she wants to find a new place even though she really likes where she is. My mom and sister looked at a few places yesterday. But she is disappointed today and hasn't made it to work today because she doesn't feel well. Looks like we will be moving her again. So in 9 years she will have moved 7 times here in Idaho.

It's Fall in our front yard

This tree turns colors before any other tree here. The wind picked up today and it is almost done dropping leaves and boy has it dumped this year. Here is Kylee Autumn and Hannah having their annual "rake and play, rake and play." The back yard is not safe for this kind of play.

Kylee's birthday parties

Here is our family and luau birthday parties for Kylee

Amber

Amber's hairdo picture with braces. I still need to get her after braces picture

Kelsea

Kelsea before and after braces and hairdo picture. She took the botoom one of herself.

Marching band

Aren't they cute? they look like a bunch of tin soldiers. Amber is off to Pasco Washigton today. I am full of mixed feelings-a little PMS going on-worriying about all the bad things that could happen. I am sure it will all be fine. I have an over active imagination. I can't imagine what it will be like when she leaves home. I have DSL-helps pictures load like they should.

fruit basket

Here is the fruit basket I got for my birthday. Chocolate covered apples, pineapple flowers, cantalope and honeydew and straberries and grapes on skewers. I have a little more experimentation to get this picture thing figured out. I really hurt my shoulder last night with the garage. I get another year older and I get my second aggravated joint. My ankle was last year's ailment, and still bothers me and my shoulder had been hurting some for weeks and now it screams. That is what I get for getting old. I had a good day at the mall today spending some birthday money and the gift card I got from Bath and Body works. I came home with 2 pairs of pants and great lotion and smell good stuff for the house. Hannah got shoes. The kids are home tomorrow and I will have Dylan and Kailyn for half the day. Maybe I can get them to work. I may go to the doctor if my shoulder still hurts this bad. I think Kylee is out to have agreat year. She was selected to be a peer mediator at school.

Glitch

Now I have to figure out how to get one picture to blog and not the album of over 600 pictures. There's always something but I will get there. I cleaned the back half of our garage tonight-more organized. Now there is a path wider than Lee Joe that we can walk in. There is a really long way to go yet. Lee Joe worked on cleaning out the crawl space and got out the construction debris still in there. It was the most convenient place to put stuff out of the way. This week is much better than the last few. We will see how Thursday goes with everybody home. I am still hooked on Rollercoaster Tycoon. We have the 3rd one on the new computer now. Kelsea bought it last summer with babysitting money and none of our computers could handle it. She spent a lot of money on it and the expansion pack and then they didn't work. She was excited to finally get play it-if only mom would butt out of her game. Even with that I still got a lot done today,Wow!

Happy Birthday to me!!

Well I am not that full of myself but I am currently updating my blog with my birthday present!! Now I am going to get some DSL and we will be screaming!! My mom and my sister got me a scanner/printer-copier that will print pictures too. I have downloaded all my my pictures to my computer so now I can put more pictures on. Hooray!! My neighbor friends were so sweet. They sent my this fruit basket that unlike anything I have ever seen before. I have tried to put the picture on but my connection is really slow and it didn't work. So I will post that later.

Our little P.O.W Mort died overnight. It probably wasn't very healthy to start with. It has hardly grownand was real sick and got sick real fast. Lee Joe thought it had some sort of tumor. Kelsea cried after she said she didn't care if it died and it hadn't died yet. None of the girls know yet. I figured they should leave for school happy. A houseful girls sure can run on high emotions.

It was nice this weekend having church off so we could relax all weekend. Made a nice weekend. We all watched conference and Kelsea was in rare form with super hyperactivity going on. She was maybe more excited over the computer than I was.

The kids only have 3 days of school this week. I think last week was the first 5 day week they have had since school started. Amber is going to Pasco Washington on Friday for a marching band competition. It will be only the 2nd time they will have run it for an audience.

I asked Hannah what she wanted to be for halloween and without hesitation she told me she wanted to be Santa. I think she will be quite unique. She makes me laugh.