Another day of outdoor pics! It’s one of the things I love about winter, possibly the only thing cause I certainly don’t love the freaking cold weather!!!

This is really funny, we see the moon all day, I took this picture just after 3 this afternoon, it was still sunny and bright out but there’s that moon!

Then of course we have several others I took too Cause I can’t just take one! We stopped at the fire Station by our house and walked out behind it. Normally it’s too cloudy or hazy to see mt mckinley but We saw it today!

sleeping lady                       mt mckinley

Ethan actually did ok going back to school today. He was crying about going and I kept telling him mommy will pick you up from the bus as soon as your done. Then when the bus stopped and I got him in the car he started telling me See Mommy I told you I would be back! Like I was the one worried LOL!

Ok so I’m a horrible daughter and just figured out that it was my mother’s bday today!!!! Dang it!!! I will have to call her in the morning.

Ethan is crankier than cranky so I’m going to post this quickly, nothing special just  hubby’s boat that is sitting outside in the snow (we won’t mention that he forgot to cover it with the boat cover :P)

It’s still super cold, it warmed up to -10 but windy so who knows how cold it really is. Ok I’ll be back tomorrow with better pics

Yep I’m gonna try it this year! We will see how far I get with it before I forget
Hopefully Patty and Becky will keep me on track! Hear that girls!

Sooo Here’s my pics for the 30th 31st, and 1s………..so I started a little early LOL!

Soo they where too huge and I had to make them all thumbnails, click away!

 

OOOH and call me insane (cause I was seriously thinking I was, but todays pictures I actually was out late last night in this!!) EEEK!!!

Is that nuts or what! That would explain why my hands where hurting so bad that they felt like I had grabbed the oven rack or something after the oven had been on! Man I didn’t know it was that cold!

Ethan had to get another shot yesterday, I ended up giving it myself again. I hate doing it I get all shakey and it makes me feel sick! At least all he got from it was a slight fever,99.3, doesn’t seem to have any body aches or anything else. He’s been going since 7:30 this morning. Yuck I have to be up that early on a Saturday! That is just so wrong! Oh and no Becky or Patty!

Yep my baby boy turns 3 years old today!! Hard to believe he is that old!! It sure doesn’t seem like he should be. We will wait to have his party til after Christmas, so we have time to get everything done that we need to get done this week.

I feel like a total scrooge cause I’m so not in the Christmas spirit, this year it’s been so hectic and everyone is having money issues. It just doesn’t FEEL like Christmas YKWIM. Totally sucks being worried about getting everyone something and haveing money issues! Doesn’t help that as they get older they want more expensive stuff, Melissa’s list was a truck, so not happening, a video camera, cell phone, laptop computer, clothes, something called Ugh boots, expensive purfume, Clothes!! Like good grief child!!

Ethan had his shot on Friday, we ended up waiting until Steve got home, and even then put it off until 7:30. It was soo funny cause Ethan kept asking when do I get my shot, when do I get my shot I want a sucker!! Then he would drag me into the back room and show me where his box of shots is. Of course while Daddy was mixing it he came over and sat by me and covered his legs. He wanted the sucker but he really wasn’t wanting that shot!

No real side affects from it this time, I had to get up @ 4 in the morning to take his temp and give him some more tylenol, he did have a low grade temp 99. But he got up @ 7 and was his normal starving self and no fever. I hope and pray this is actually working for him!! I just HATE putting him through all this if it’s for nothing!! I’ve been getting extremely nervous about our trip back to DC. Scared to see the results I guess, to me it doesn’t seem like his tumors in his neck and arm have grown much but I see him every day so I don’t know that I can tell.

We have a busy day today, Steve just got off work this morning, he’ll sleep for a couple hours and then we have a housewarming party in Anchorage to go to. I love visiting with Autumn and Chan, it’s be a long time since we’ve seen them too! Chan had another baby boy, he’s 5 months old now. Hubby grew up with them and has so many stories. They interact like siblings, it’s so funny. At 6 I’m supposed to meet with Alexa and sign the contract for her wedding!

This is shaping up to be an awesome week let me tell ya!!!

 

MY DAUGHTER IS SOOOOO DEAD MEAT!!!!

 

A little background, my daughter knows she is not allowed to get into a car with anyone, ANYONE! Without clearing with us. Let me say that again ANYONE!!!! She has been told soo many times NEVER, NEVER, NEVER to ride with a teenager, and that when she gets her license she is not allowed to drive anyone around!

 

This morning, during her school lunch the little idiot got in the car with her boyfriend’s best friend, and the boyfriend, for what I’m not sure. (let me mention here that the boyfriends friend is on his provisional license and therefor not ALLOWED to drive his friends around!!!) I’m guessing that they where going to get lunch. Well anyway the little moron took the on ramp too freaking fast (the roads are slicker than crap) Ending ROLLING the truck FOUR FREAKING TIMES!!! Police where called paramedics checked the kids out cleared them to go back to school. NOT ONCE during any of this was I called NOT ONCE!!! Not by my daughter who knows by now that she is is sooo damn much trouble its not even funny, and not by the responding officers or anything.  I hear it from the school security, who calls to tell me that my daughter was involved in a “minor” incident today during lunch. MINOR!!! So here I’m thinking oh she got caught in a fight and was pushed down or something (I’m thinking minor) Then she goes on to tell me the whole story! Then I’m thinking UMMM WTH do you consider MAJOR!!! HELLO!!!! She did say that the students including Melissa had tried to call and let us know what happened….EXCUSE ME?!!?! NO one called us not our house phone not any one of our cell phones which where ALL on. I reveived one phone call this morning from FOCUS thats it, oh and one text message from Patty.

 

I really hope Travis’s parents nail his scrawny little butt!!!!  I am VERY thankfull that everyone was ok!!! VERY!! HOWEVER I AM PISSED!!! WHAT was she thinking!! I mean really! She just thinks I’m blowing smoke when I tell her these things, I sure hope that she thinks twice about this and remembers the next time she goes to get in a car with someone she knows she isn’t supposed to. Though I’m not sure she will, just the simple fact that she didn’t call tells me she’s hiding it from us.

 

She has one just ONE chance to tell us what happened when she walks in the door in an hour and a half. JUST one! I don’t know what to do with this kid!!

 

AND yesterday………

 

TWO HUNDRED SIXY-NINE DOLLARS!!!!

 

That’s what I just had to drop at the Vet! OMG!! I wanted so bad for it to be a bad dream!!! Talk about take a huge chunk out of the Christmas budget I was so upset I just went to my room when I got home, totally depressing!

 

At least I have yummy CT products to work with and don’t have to blow much of the money there. Kristen came out with a fabulous new kit @ After5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And there’s this fabulous add-on!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hopefully that fits on there and doesn’t cut part off Hate it when it does that to me!
We Didn’t give Ethan his shot on Monday this week, I called and talked to Cyndi and she said moving it to Fridays when he doesn’t have school would be the best. So our little guy will get his shots on Fridays now. Hopefully that will be better and he won’t be so cranky in school this week.
Yesterday he did ok the teacher said, a little fussy and he kept asking when Mommy was coming to get him but other than that did ok. He still participated. I was glad cause on the drive there he kept crying and carrying on that he wanted to go home, and he didn’t like school. He was not happy to be going!
Well I’m off to get my guys some food. Today is Ethan’s first time riding the bus!! We have to take him down the street to catch it though

ARRGGG!!!  My poor dog has a really bad ear infection, and I can’t get anyone to see him except the Pet ER place, and that’s only so they can charge me an arm and leg!!  I found some ear drops that see to have helped him out though, he’s been sleeping for the last several hours. He looks so pitiful though, we had to get him one of those lamp shade looking things so he would stop scratching, he had his poor ear bloody! At first he wandered around crashing into everything , he still hasn’t figured out how to eat though, I keep having to take it off so he can get something to eat and drink. Poor pup!!

Here’s how miserable he looks

OMGOSH! I got the most exciting PM at DST yesterday!! Kristen Rice asked me to join her CT!!!! YAY!!! She’s selling at A5D!! I’m so excited! I did my first page with a new kit that’s coming out on the 16th. I’ve only done a few pages in the last few days. My buddies aren’t around so being on the computer just isn’t as much fun

This was a fabulous RAK I recieve at DST

Another gorgeous RAK! This one was from Createwings!!! I’ve been wanting this kit since it came out!

Nathy has a Beautiful new Collab with Bisontine!!! Here’s the page I did with that one. I couldn’t resist this picture! Melissa is so not snuggly toward her brother and he came up and gave her a big ol’ hug! She was not enjoying it LOL!

and this one I did with Jana’s new Zimpt and Zucker kit at TDC!  Kim also came out with an adorable new boy kit, @ OS! I love the effect of putting the photo on the mask!

My little guys FIRST day of preschool! I thought for sure they would have him wait until he turned 3 but nope! He started on Monday. So far it’s been a bit stressful.
He cried a lot on Monday after we left him, basically the whole time… poor teachers!
Tuesday, every time I moved towards the door he screamed bloody murder. Me being a big softy I ended up staying the whole day
Today he got to ride in Daddy’s truck, that’s a big treat! So we thought we would try having Dad drop him off and see if that was better. It actually did! He cried a bit after Steve left but the teacher said he had a MUCH better day. She said he participated and interacted with the other kids. He got to go outside and make snow angels and he brought home a fish he “made” he was extremely proud of that!
I hate to throw him off track but tomorrow he has OT and I don’t want him to miss that. So he is off til Monday.

He was sooo cute! Pulling his little “suitcase” as he calls it. Wouldn’t let anyone help him either. He comes home and puts it in the closet, LOL the only one in our family that puts anything away and he’s the youngest!!!

Monday he also got his 6th Shot! WOW! We made it to 6 weeks! I have to remember to make him an appointment to do his blood work and check up with the doctor. Keeping my fingers crossed that all the numbers are up where they are supposed to be and he can continue! He did great this time, Daddy gave him the shot and he didn’t cry much, still doing the stiffening up thing though. NO fevers!! At all!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!! Of course the fact that I gave him Motrin before the 8 hour mark might have something to do with it.
The kids and I got the tree out while Steve was at work and got it all set up and ready for him to do the lights. Bad me! I was bad and moved furniture and heavy boxes while I was still healing from surgery The Kids had a blast getting out all the decorations and putting everything on there, we rotate the kind of tree we do every year, this year we didn’t do the theme tree, the kids got to put all of their ornaments, it was fun seeing all the old ornaments, Melissa pulled out her first Christmas ornament, it was amazing to me that she has grown so much!! Time sure does fly! Didn’t get many good pictures, too dark, and since I hate the whole flashy look I had to up the ISO

Plumb tuckered out!

What Your Fridge Says About You

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What Do the Contents of Your Refrigerator Say About You?

Finally got my surgery done and out of the way!! After 5 or so years I might miss my little lump, HAHA! NOT! I promised Kathy this summer that I would get it taken care of before the end of the year so I snuck in just in time! WTG me!

Surgery lasted all of about an hour, in and out. Woke up and they booted me out. I officially HATE IV’s! I drank water last night until I was practically floated and still this morning when they tried to get an IV in they had to stick me twice….. well 4 times if you count the numbing stuff, that stuff burns! My anesthesia guy was the one that ended up putting my IV in, that was a little different but the nurse just could not find a vein!

We will see how I feel tomorrow, right now the meds have the pain down to a dull burning sensation. I think Dustin’s bday party is tomorrow though so I’m not going to be able to take the meds then cause I gotta drive. Fun Fun! But I don’t want to miss his party. He’s turning 7!! Wow where does the time go!

Ok and anyone that knows me KNOWS I LOVE hunting moose to photograph!! The kids and I found two the other day, here’s a few photos of them, it was amazing they where like play fighting and I’d never seen anything like that before!!!
HAHAHA I love the bottom one with his mouth wide open!!!

To my sweet little boy anyway……….He’s been replaced by and evil grouchy little brat!!!! ARRRGGG!!! So far this morning he’s had crying fits over not getting to open his go-gurt not getting to eat his it out of the pouch, having to sit at the table while eating it. Not getting to peel his own banana, having to put his crackers in a bag because he ripped the little bag they came in I hope he returns to his normal cheerful self before I have to ship him off to Becky or Patty, just cause I KNOW they need another kiddo LOL!!

Ethan had shot number 5 on Monday! It totally Sucked cause Steve got called in for overtime that morning and neither one of us remembered that Ethan had to have his shot @ 11. Well I managed to do it all by myself! Yay me! LOL! Just burrito wrapped him up so that he couldn’t slap at the needle again, it was quick easy and painless, well maybe not painless for Ethan…. He did really well this time, no fevers at least that I know of, he did wake up at 5 in the morning wanting water, he felt a bit warm but that could have been because he was covered with two blankets, a fever that many hours after the shot isn’t normal so I don’t know.

I got to take some pictures for my neice and nephew this weekend, they drove out on the scarey roads
Josh got stuck at the bottom of our hill, his car isn’t AWD and he couldn’t get enough of a running start to get up the hill. So we had to borrow a tow strap from the neighbor (TG for neighbors that actually have this stuff!) and I towed him all the way up the hill. We went down to the creek and took photos. I was really bummed most of them didn’t turn out very well but I did have a few that I liked. I hope Rhonda loves them since we where doing them for her b-day!