MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Here is our Christmas pictures.. We had a GREAT day!

Here is the CRAZY Snow that we have been getting for the last few weeks.. it will not quit coming down!! Pretty CRAZY!

These aer pictures of Kaedynn showing me what she got from Santa Clause. She is so funny.. we video camera'd it, and everytime she would unwrap something; she would hold it up to the camera.. haha.

This was her favorite, she got a HOT PINK Ipod, and a Boombox to go with it; so that she could listen to her very own favorite songs around the house. Her favorite song to listen to is "Barbie Girl" by Aqua.. she knows all of the words, and sings is ALL DAY LONG! Her daddy is ready to throw it out the door already :)

This is her doll house, she LOVES as well. She occupied her self with this all weekend long.

Our Christmas was great! Kaedynn gets so excited to open her presents.. she has been telling me all year long what kind of things she wants Santa to bring her.. then just yesterday; she said.. Mom, when is Santa coming again? haha.. it made me laugh.

This year did not seem as chaotic as usual.. on Tuesday night (after my dads accident) we went to Riley's moms house for her Christmas party.. we played games, and played a gift exchange game. Then on Wednesday night (Xmas Eve) we went to my mom's families party, and played another gift exchange game, and ate dinner.. Then on Christmas day, we went to Riley's mom's for Breakfast, and to exchange gifts, and then we went to my dads to hang out with him, becuase Kaedynn was BEGGING me to go see his eye. So we went there, and hung out all day long.. then we had dinner there that night with all of my sisters, and their familiesm, and exchanged more gifts.

We love to go to my dads house when it snows, and pull the kids on their sleds behind the four-wheeler, and this year we took our Ranger down there as well to pull them with.. it was really fun! Sorry no pic's of it, i looked for the camera, and couldnt find it.. then when we got done, and was ready to leave, my husband said, here is the camera.. you should have took pictures... i had no idea he had already grabbed it! :)

I hope everyone else had a great Christmas as well!!

My Fortunate DAD!

This last week was pretty eventful. My dad got kicked in the face on Tuesday (the day before Xmas Eve) by a horse, while he was feeding. He doesnt remember getting kicked, but only remembers waking up on the ground in the snow with the dog licking his head. He walked in the house; and told my step mom that he thought he had been kicked; and i guess he had blood running down his face and his shirt was covered... so she loaded him up to take him to the ER. He went to AF Hospital, and they just stitched him up, and thought that would be good; but his face kept swelling bigger and bigger; so they did Xray's and found out that there was broken bones, and that they would need to go to the ER down at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. So they got him down there; and the plastic surgeon did more Xray's to determine what they needed to do. The whole lining(bones) around the underneath side of his eye had been busted out/shattered, and around the corner of his eye had been nearly shattered and was pushed back into his head. They took him in for plastic surgery, and told us that it was only a 10 minute surgery... so we waited patiently for him to get done, 2 hours past, and we still had not heard anything... Finally some lady who knew nothing came out and told us that he was just barley going back... so 3 hours passed and finally the Dr came out and told us that it was worse then he thought, but he got it fixed, and all should be well. Because the bone under his eye broke, his sinuses were filling up with blood which was what was causing the swelling. The Dr could not reconstruct the existing bone in there because it was so bad, they had to put titanium plates in there to "recontruct his face". They had to put a big long stitch from the top of his eyebrow down to the bottom of his eye to hold his muscles up, so when it heals his face will not be droopy, and look like he had a stroke. They let him go that same night; becuase his swelling had gone down quite a bit. We were all bawling, if you can imagine, 5 girls, and a step mom bawling ... that is not very fun. We were so grateful that this was healable, and that he is getting better, and he was able to be home with us on Christmas. On Christmas day, his face was still numb; so they called the Dr, and he said that his face will stay numb for 2-3 weeks... so he is pretty pain free, and can not feel anything still. He said that his nose, and teeth are still numb.. so i guess that is good. Otherwise he would be in ALOT of pain i am sure.
We are VERY fortunate that it kicked him where it did, and not in the temple, or even right in the eye, and made him blind, since his occuption requires his vision.


This was a picture of him before he went to the Provo Hospital to be "reconstructed". This was after they did his stitches, while waiting for the Xrays to come back. This was after his surgery, if you look close you can see his stitch from the top to the bottom of his eye.. pretty gross.

Im so greatful that he is still alive and able to recover... we all thought about the worst thing that could happen, and are VERY grateful that it really did not happen. We would all be broke and lost with out him.

Ginger Bread Houses

This weekend we did gingerbread houses at my mother-in-law's house. Kaedynn did her house pretty much on her own, other then the frosting that holds the house together.. Riley helped her with that.

Here she is with the final product. She told me that the black stuff on the front, and on the side of the roof is "Reindeer poop"; although it was suppose to be coal. LOL.

We had fun!

GARY ALLAN

So this last weekend was the Gary Allan concert out in Wendover.. It was SOOO Good. I had never been to the concert hall before; but i will definatly go again. It is so small that even the back seats would have been awesome. We were probably about 8-9 rows back from the front; but as you can see it looks like we are alot closer. The sign said no cameras, so i didnt take mine in; but should have; becuase everyone else did, and didnt get in trouble for it. So all i have are camera phone pictures. (which are blurry as you can see)

We lost all of our money this weekend; we went hoping to win the jackpot; and we came home with nothing.. LOL It was a great get away and a nice weekend. It was suppose to be snowing the whole time; but it was blue skies when we woke up on Sunday morning. It was a great drive home, no weather to worry about. It is just a along dreadful drive of looking at desert.. not my fav.

It was a great weekend over all; and a nice get away from all the everyday stresses. I am so glad that we went!

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING....

Last night we went to my sisters house for dinner, and my brother-in-laws dad has a big white beard, and looks like Santa Claus. He dressed up to be Santa Claus at a party at Thanksgiving Point, so when he was done we had him come over and pretend like the kids were being extra good (RIGHT) and got an early Christmas Present.

It was so much fun for them. When he came to the door, he started jingling his bells, and we tried to get the kids quiet so that we could let them hear them as well.. we kept telling them to answer the door, that there was a surprise out there and they wouldn't. So i answered it and let them in. They were both a little scared at first, and then when Santa told them that he had presents for them; Kaedynn was right next to him waiting for them to come.. lol

This is her right after we got her present from Santa.

This is her ripping it open.

This is her telling Santa that she has been EXTRA good, and deserved an "early present".

They all had a good time, and she keeps telling me today that she was so good that Santa came to visit her early. LOL. She had such a great time. I am sure thankful that we have fun family that is willing to do things with us. We really appreciate it.

New Curly Hair Pictures

Soooo Kaedynn got another perm; and these are the pictures from the morning after. She looks so cute with her curls! I love her.

Kaedynn's 4 Year old Pictures

Here are Kaedynn's new 4 year old pictures ( a little late) i know.. But i think they turned out really good... she is too funny.

Tattooed Eyeliner

So... I finally went and got my eyeliner tattooed on. I had to get contacts, because i am blind, and my eyeliner kept getting on my contacts and ruining them; so i came to the conculsion of getting it tattooed on. I was really surprised at how pain-less it really was.. i was expecting that i would be the type that would FLIP out and hit the ladies hand or something... but really it was alright, and did not hurt. It was more of an itchy tickling feeling. I was really impressed with the lady, and thought that maybe that is what i should do.. LOL YEAH RIGHT!

So these pictures are all from the morning after i did it (Sunday 11/9) i woke up; and my eyes would NOT open... i sat in bed for like 10 minutes trying to get them to open, and they wouldnt.. they were crusted shut.. SO GROSS. I have never had this akward feeling before in my life... so i took some pictures so i could gross you all out :)

Overall, i think that i will love it.. i still can not wear makeup, not for 5 days... so on Friday (my birthday) i will be able to wear it again. I have had to wear my glasses and vasoline on my eyes.. constantly.. TERRIBLE. But if anyone out there is thinking about doing this, i would do it; knowing how pain-less it really was. I was expecting alot worse... but then again i have never had a tattoo in my life... so maybe it is not as bad as i hear.

Halloween

So.. I am a terrible mother, and did not ever take any pictures of my daughter on halloween :(. I took the camera with us, and left it in the car, and never took 1 picture. BUT she had fun, and was snow white for halloween. She looked really cute.

We carved pumpkins at my sisters house 2 weeks before halloween (and i never took pictures there either) and then we lit them up on the front porch, and she LOVED it.

For halloween, Kaedynn had a party at daycare, where she got TONS of candy, then i picked her up and we went to my Step-mom's work (Omniture) and went trick-or-treating... I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE! You should have seen it.. thousands of people, and the buildings were so decorated, and awesome. It was alot of fun. Thanks to Janice for inviting us.

After Omniture we went to my sister Anje's house, and had dinner and passed candy out to the trick-or-treaters. Kaedynn was shy at first.. then she had some fun handing the trick-or-treaters candy. After we ate dinner, Kassi and I took Kaedynn and my niece Mati around the block to go trick-or-treating, and she only made it half way around, and she was wining, becuaseher feet hurt.. (darn snow white slippers) LOL ... But she had fun, and got a bunch of candy.

We had a good halloween, sorry i dont have any picutures to post :)

I finally found a picture of Kaedynn, off of her Preschool Teacher's page. She is on the bottom right, in the snow white dress

Texas Roadhouse

We went to Texas Roadhouse on Saturday night with my family. (After the Zoo.. lol)

Kaedynn is going to be a photographer i think, as she loves to take pictures already..
This is me, and my sisters...

This is my wild child.. LOL

This is her pretty picture of her daddy.

The Zoo

We went to the Zoo on Saturday, for my sister-in-law's birthday. It was really fun. Kaedynn's favorite animal there is the Giraffe.. so we had to do pictures by the Giraffes.. She took this one of me and Riley.. Pretty good.

This is me, Kaedynn, and my nephew Kota. He kept wanting his picture taken.. he is funny.

We had alot of fun going, other then there were a million people.. Sunday is definatly the day to go we decided. LOL

Weather

I am so sick of this cold weather that we are getting. My thermomater out side states it is 39 degrees right now. THAT IS NUTS. I hate the cold. I want to move to Mexico for the winter. Maybe if i was a snowboarder or a skier then i would like the cold better.. i guess maybe that will be my thing for this winter.. i have never been before, and always wanted to go, but feel like an idiot at 23 years old learning how to.. LOL My nieces and nephew go all the time, and i think it would be fun.. maybe sometime they can take me with them and teach me how. Then i would not be such a grump about cold weather and winter.

I just felt like writing this today, becuase i am so mad about the winter coming.. LOL So just bare with me. I am in a grump mood today.

Kaedynn

This is Kaedynn getting a perm.. haha I think that it is a cute picture, so i decided to post it. She is so funny! She loves to wear her hair curly like Kassi (my sister)... the problem is that the lady who watches her in the day will not do her hair for her if it is curly.. so Kaedynn gets on these kicks of doing it straight so Jody will do her hair for her. She is too funny. I sure love her!

Kaedynn's 4th Birthday Party

So yesterday was my daughters birthday, and she HAD to go to Chuck-e-cheese for her party. She goes there with her granny, and so that is what she decided that she wanted to do. So we went there.. She was TERRIFIED of chuckecheese, and would not go up to the front when they were signing to her.. she ran away. LOL She is such a brat some times. She gets really wierd around people that she does not know.. even sometimes around people that she does know. She would not tell anyone thank you for the presents or anything, so when we got home Riley made her call his family to tell them all thank you before she could play with her toys. She had such a fun time!

This is her after we let her get her presents out of the packages. Right before she went to bed. This is her SILLY face. LOL

Past, Present and Future

20 Years Ago. . .
1. I lived in Plesant Grove in my old house.. *I miss it*
2. My family all lived together
3. I was a chunky 3 year old
4. Had a puppy named Toffy, he was my favorite.

10 Years Ago...
1. Parents were divorced
2. Started Jr High in PG
3. Made a whole bunch of new friends
4. Hung out at Extreme alot (used to be in Orem)

5 Years Ago...
1. Was almost with Riley..
2. Just got out of Life-line
3. Went to ALLC
4. Loved hanging out with all my crazy friends. ie, driving up the canyon singing GREESE!! LOL

3 Years Ago...
1. Had a baby
2. Bought our first house in Eagle Mountain
3. Worked at Pizza Hut
4. Graduated from ALLC

1 Year Ago...
1. Moved to Lehi in a new house.
2. Put rock down for our trailers to park on.
3. Celebrated our 1 year anniversary up in Ogden at the Alaska Inn.
4. Got new TV for the new house.

So far this year I...
1. Moved Kaedynn Daycares (thank goodness)
2. Went camping with family.
3. Kaedynn started Preschool.
4. Started working from Home!!

Yesterday I...
1. Worked from home
2. Went to Taco Amigo for dinner
3. Helped Riley fix the leak in our sprinkler system.
4. Babysat my niece and nephew.

Today I...
1. I am sitting here working in my PJ's.. and a hoodie.. lol
2. Am babysitting my niece again. (she is so cute)
3. Got paid from work.
4. Paid a bunch of bills... sucky

Tomorrow I will...
1. Go shopping for Kaedynn's birthday presents for Monday.
2. Get ready for the day later then normal.
3. HAVE A GREAT DAY!
4. Sleep in..

In the next year I will....
1. Hopefully be pregnant ready to pop a new baby out.
2. Get a bunch of bills paid off.
3. Sell our camp trailer and get a new one.
4. MAKE EVERY DAY A GREAT DAY!

Tagged

The rules: No cleaning!!!! That is it. I want to see how you really live. And you must tag 5 people back. Here we go! And please don't judge!

1.) The Closet, this is most of my half..

2.) The Sink.. YUK

3.) Kids and pets

4.) Me.. LOVELY!

5.) Laundry Room.. New washer and dryers last month.. YEAH!!

6.) Favorite Room

6.) Fridge and Freezer..

7.) Favorite Shoes.. YUK

8.) Toilet, this is the main one we use.. in my room

NOW I TAG ANYONE WHO READS THIS POST!!

GARY ALLAN

So, today I bought tickets to go out to Wendover Concert Hall for the Gary Allan concert in December!!! I am so excited. I have wanted to see him for a really really long time, and now i finally get to go.

If anyone wants to join us let us know. I CAN NOT WAIT.

Labor Day at Strawberry!

This is her with all of the girls, they have a radio in their ranger, and the little kids would all load in there and take off on rides!! Kaedyn loved it! So much fun.

We went to Strawberry for Labor day weekend. Riley's family owns a bunch of property up there, and we go up there quite a bit.. I have never seen so many relatives up there in my life.. it was CRAZY!

Kaedynn had alot of fun, it looks like she rolled through the dirt, she is filthy!

Here are some pictures from up there.

Welcome to our blog!

So this is all new to me, but thought I would get on here to see what everyone is talking about!

Here is some cute pictures of my little one! These were taken on her birthday last september.. time for some new ones.