Drumroll, please.........

Two IS better than one!! I am so pleased to tell you that after 14 months to the day, I can finally wear two shoes!! It is soooo weird though. The first couple of steps I took,I looked like a drunk chicken. Eventually, I ended up just looking like Quasimodo, the Hunchback, which is where I am still at. I feel like a total dork. I don't know what I was thinking it would be like, but it is just not normal to me anymore. I guess I thought everything would be back to normal in two seconds. Nope. You know that commercial of that guy in the work out room, & he does a lap around all the equipment, then gets on the scale expecting to see results? That would be me. Funny how life keeps you guessing. I can officially wear two pairs of shoes & one pair of flip flops! My foot is still too swollen for anything else, so it looks like I will be wearing my jean skirt to church for a couple of weeks!! Two feet are sweet!! Thank you for all your prayers & happy thoughts. It worked!!

Ever have one of those moments............

It's official. I am old. Chad & I were on a date last night, in line for our gourmet dinner of Subway & cough drops (for me), when all of a sudden there was way too much noise coming from a table full of rowdy boys. The weird thing is, I know rowdy boys, so the fact that I wanted them to be quiet was silly. There was one in particular who kept doing this annoyingly, retarded laugh that was like nails on a chalkboard to me. I actually glared at them & they left shortly after said glare, but the fact that they were bugging me floored me. I said to Chad, "I am officially getting old". Another one of these "getting old" moments happened to me in Hollister a couple of months ago. The smell of cologne was so overpowering I tried to breathe though my nose. No luck. On top of that, the music was stupid & way too loud. Yep, it is official, I am getting old. Crap, when did this happen, & how do I make it stop???? Sigh..........

The Perfect Cheer

OK, this is one of my all time favorite skits. I just couldn't help myself!!


http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/chess-tournament/2918/

Use the Force Alli..........

My sister sent me this link today. It pretty much made my day. Thought I would share. This dude is awesome!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5_OSsawz4

Yeay Frickin Rah!!

You can probably tell by the title that we finally got out orders!! Nothing like last minute. I know none of you are surprised by the craziness that is soon to be my life for the next couple of weeks. Smile. TMO (The packers) come Dec 1-5. The first day is the load that will take about a month to get there. (This was supposed to be done over a month ago) The 2-4 will be the stuff that will get there who knows when & the 5Th will be the load that I will forget we even have since it will be in storage for 4 years. I still have a bookshelf to strip & repaint, the car to sell & I need to become the queen of piles. Any advice besides to breath like the Karate Kid?? All in all, things were only pushed back by 2 days. We fly out of Minot to Seattle on the 10Th of Dec & then on the 11Th we fly out of Seattle & get to Okinawa on the 12Th. Hopefully now the block of cement that has lodged itself between my shoulder blades & up my neck will move on!! Sigh.

My darling 7 year old.........

I was getting Sawyer ready for bed tonight, ok I was trying to coerce him into bed tonight, & I told him he needed to get a good night sleep because we were going to go to the Temple in the morning. This was his response:

"You mean we are going to the Temple of Doom?"

I'm thinking we need to rethink the whole letting him watch the second Indiana Jones. Next thing we know, he'll be chanting some weird song, try to rip out hearts out of our chests while lowering me into a pit of fire!!

Sigh........

Is is bad that I am praying it snows soooooo much tonight that the Base shuts down & school is cancelled tomorrow??

Happy Halloween!!

"I am Batman!!"

OK, my pictures loaded backwards but you still get the idea!! The kids brought home soooo much candy!! Of course we (Chad & I) had to make sure everything was ok. There is still a candy tax in our house!! Tanner was a Greaser for our Ward party at church & he looked awesome. He hid from the camera though, so there are no pictures of my cutie all decked out with Chad's Letterman's jacket & everything!! We went to a Haunted House here on base on Thursday night & it was the best one I have ever went to. Sawyer was soooooo freaked out that my mom had to take him out a couple of minutes into it! It was a blast!

Tanner & all his "loot".

Batman & his "Thug".

Pumpkins!!

There was quite the production in the pumpkin carving department this year. The boys, all 3 of them, had a blast gutting their pumpkins & making their masterpieces. They were fun to watch get all grossed out by the insides & stuff. We compared the inside of a pumpkin to the Saarlak (the pit monster in Return of the Jedi).

Is he a ham or what??

Sawyer's finished product. He didn't gut it very well & by bedtime it had been attacked by Freddy Kruger (aka Sawyer's knife).

Tanner was so completely grossed out with the whole process, that I had to document it!!

Tanner's finished product. I don't know if you can see, but on the sides of his pumpkin he made ears. He had put ears on his pumpkins since he was 2!!

Chad made a Darth Vader pumpkin. He was very proud of it!! It even won a prize at our Ward party.

The full effect of Chad's efforts. Pretty cool hu?? Yeah baby!!

Bud Ebert Park

We had such a beautiful day last week, that I took the kiddos to the park. They were hilarious to watch. They were a bunch of hams running around without a care in the world!! Enjoy some of the pix from the day!

Tanner striking a pose on the kiddie swing.

Sawyer & Haley in the train.

This frog was the most coveted thing at the park.

Tanner being a cowboy on Mr Frog. He fell off right after this picture. It was awesome. I couldn't stop laughing. (Of course I made sure he was alright before I started laughing at him!!)