14 Days and Counting

Wow I'm finally back on.. It took me a while to catch up after my parents left.. I kinda put everything on hold when my parents came out and I have been trying to get back into the swing of things..

It was so great having my parents out for the Thanksgiving holiday and my birthday. It was the best birthday surprise ever. One I will never forget. This was the shot my mom took of me when it finally clicked that I was actually looking at my parents here on my door step.

Another one of us she took. I can definently see where all the turkey and pies went over the week.. I think I put on 5 pounds while they were here.. LOL

This was our wonderful turkey taken fresh right of the farm we live near. And this was us and our dinner.. I dont go all out crazy with the linens and decorations and stuff like that for thanksgiving. Its hard enough to just get all the food cooked... Maybe as I get older and our children marry and come back then we will get fancy...

Lucky our dog and Papa cuddeling in the chair.. My dog almost forgets who his owners are when Grandma and Grandpa come.. They spoil him rotten. He's like another one of the kids.. He gets so depressed when they leave.. My parents keep trying to talk me in to giving them our dog..They really miss him too!! LOL

Papa and Logan snoozing in the chair.

And this was me opening my presents for my birthday.. A few days after turkey day I got another surprise.. My bosch mixer came.. It wasn't supposed to come until after christmas but it showed up early.. Of course I wasn't allowed to open it and use it because it is supposed to be my b-day/christmas gift so I have to wait until we get back from utah. I really tried to negotiate but it didnt work...

Speaking of which.... ONLY 14 DAYS LEFT until we get to head back to Utah!!!! Yeah!!! We are all so excited...The kids are so excited they can hardly stand it.. They each have a calendar and they have been crossing off the days as they count down.... They already miss grandma and grandpa horribly not to mention the Grandmas and Grandpas and cousins and friends they havn't seen for a year now.. We are having a hard time trying to figure out how to squeeze in seeing everybody there in the 11 days we have. It is going to be a crazy week!! We will need a vacation from our vacation..

The Best Surprise Ever!

Oh my gosh I recieved the best surprise ever.......... So let me start out with this.. I have been feeling a little bummed because turkey day was fast approaching and this was going to be our first year without celebrating it with our family's and we didnt have anywhere to go or everyone that we invited to come to our house already had plans so I was kinda bummed that is was going to be just us.. Plus it's also my birthday on thanksgiving day..I have been trying for months now to get my parents to come out but they kept telling me they couldnt and because we were coming out for christmas it just wouldnt make sense to come here for thanksgiving given it was so close or that they just didnt have the money.

So anyways my husband had to fly out of town last sunday on a buisness trip and return on Friday.. He called me from the airport on sundy saying that if I was a good girl he would give me a surprise when he got home.. So I had to go all week wondering what my surprise was.. I just love surprises and hate not knowing or having to wait for them it drives me crazy.. And my husband is not one for doing surprises very often. In the 13 years we have been married he has only surprised me twice.

So I kinda thought that maybe my surprise was that he was going to come home early.. So thursday came and I had lots of things going on that day. I had a parent teacher confrence that night so I got home late around 6:45 and I didnt see his cr in the driveway so I assumed that him coming home a day early was not my surprise so I got dinner going and sure enough in he walked and we were so happy and said yeah this was my surprise, I'm so glad your home.. So I started to finish preparing dinner and it was getting late and we were running around trying to get everything done and then my doorbell rang. I went and awnsered it and I had to open up the storm door and look around the side to see who it was. And standing there were MY PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

At first I just kinda stood there looking at them like hu? It wasn't quite clicking yet that they were here.. My mind was like it cant be them they are 2500 miles away.. And then all of a sudden the realization hit and my mouth hit the floor. I couldnt believe they were here... I was so excited. And to find out that they and my husbad had been planning this for the last 3 months!! I cant believe they kept this secret from me the whole time.. They all admitted it was really difficult exspecially for steve but they managed it.. This was like the best birthday and thanksgiving surprise ever!! My mom snapped a shot of my face when the realization finally hit when I awnsered the door but I will have to wait to post it after she gets home and send it to me since I cant download it onto my computer but it is pretty funny.... Ok some of my sneaky blogger friends you know who you are...... I found out you knew too and didnt tell... mmmmhmmmm......

This will be a great thanksgiving to remember.. So if I dont get back on here for a while its only because I am loving my time with my family.. So to all my bloggy friends out there....

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

I am so grateful for all of you and your friendships and your loyalness to reading my crazy blog.. Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving this year..

Catching Up

We have had so much going on the past week that I have wanted to blog about but no time to do it so this will be a catch up and a summary of all the crazy things going on in the past 2 weeks..
Well I am feeling like such a looser.. I didnt get any pictures of my kids on halloween night in their costumes. I never have forgotten to take picts on halloween night. I cant believe I did... I must have had so many things going on that I just blew it.. I had appts earlier in the day and I was in a hurry to try and get my halloween dinner done so the kids could hurry and get out for trick or treating and nothing was seeming to go right.. My brain jello didnt set up all the way. I forgot the dry Ice for the cauldron of blood. The kids were not so hip on my meatloaf body with a knife through his heart with blood oozing out all over.

Owell there's always next year....

We have had to go through several appnts lately with Jessie to see some specialist. We have found out she has CAPD Central Audio Processing Disorder. And She has some problems with her vision and tracking so she needs some vision therapy. We knew she was struggeling and having a hard time with learning and reading and remembering things but just didnt know it had a name.. She hears things but her brain has a hard time processing the information and holding onto the info. So we will be doing some therapy for that as well.

On a brighter note she has finally lost her 2nd front tooth so now she will be singing All I want for christmas is my two front teeth. And hey the tooth fairy even remembered her this time around.. Of course Allie lost another one of her teeth 2 days ago and yes the tooth fairy had another althiemers attack again!!!!! Dang that tooth fairy better pull it together..

Austin had a birthday on sunday he is now 10 years old. My heavens where has the time gone.. It seems like yesterday I just had him. We are having a party for him this sat. with his friends.. Oh yipee he invited 14 boys. I have no idea what I am going to do with 14 boys running around my house. I am praying for decent weather so they can play outside. We bought a pinata, and he wants to play some football but it is supposed to rain and I have no idea what to do if we end up getting stuck in the house.. any ideas??? PLEASE

Logan started preschool finally on Monday. She has been waiting so patiently.. It's been hard being the only one home while everyone else is at school. She kept saying when do I get to go to school. Yeah now I have 2hrs to myself in the mornings... Yeah now I can finally get back to a running schedule... Since school had started I pretty much stopped running or only getting in 1 run a week or every other so it has been killing me mentally and physically. I have never ran through a winter before so it will be interesting and hopefully I can stick with it..

So thats our crazy story for the past 2 weeks in a nut shell. Busy busy as always. I am still waiting for life to slow down!!!