Tucker's writing book

Tucker brought home his writing book from school yesturday. It was so cute I wanted to save it but it is a little big to go into a scrap book. So... I copied it into word, found a cute kid handwriting font, printed it out and there you have it... in the scrap book and DONE! You can see it to if you would like by clicking on this link and downloading it.
It's actually quite entertaining, but then I and biased!
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/670e0b3bd7_0.03MB

Jazzed

Tim and Tucker were able to go see the Jazz game last night against the San Antonio Spurs. Tim asked Tuck "if you could pick one thing to do what would it be?" and right off he said go to the Jazz game, I don't think he even knew they were playing! He was sooo excited.

Ketchup

The other day Tim and I were on the couch and Abbey came and climbed on top of us and said "Now it's a daddy sandwich!" I said we looked more like a hot dog. Well then Tucker came in the room and of course piled on too and Abbey said "well I must be the ketchup!" We were laughing so hard we had to have the kids climb off.

Christmas {Pictures}

They are finally here, I've been meaning to get them up with stories behind each photo and it hasn't happend so here they are a la carte!

Chrismas Eve we exchanged gifts with everyone
Tim gave Abbey a Princess crown
I gave Porter a Thomas Train
Tucker gave Tim jerky
Abbey gave Tucker a 4-wheeler
Porter gave me scrapbook supplies (what a smart kid, I'm not sure who helped him figure that one out LOL)
Then we made homemade ice cream in our new ice cream maker that we got for Christmas from Jason and Dani. It was delicious! At first we thought it was a dud maker until we realized that cute Tucker had put the extra bowl from the cupboard on the machine instead of the one from the freezer, when we finally got it figured out wala yummy ice cream!

Christmas Eve Photos



Christmas Day Photos

Picture with Santa

Here is our picture with Santa, too bad we didn't know it was going to happen that day we would have been a bit more polished. We were on one of our Saturday outings which happened to include Cabela's that day and Santa was there with his elves taking pictures. The kids love to go to Cabela's the only problem was that during the holidays with all those extra shoppers the fish weren't too hungry and it wasn't as much fun, they are glad to have it back to themselves.

Insurance SUCKS

I just have to say that I HATE all the politics and loop holes of insurance and Dr.s offices!!!!!! You just get them somewhat figured out and then they change on you. But the great thing is I have a fabulous husband who says you know what it's just money it doesn't matter and he's right it doesn't but I'm still not done being mad at the situation yet!
What happened to insurance for the patient and not for making money?
okay off my soapbox

Abbey's Preschool program

Okay here is our little sprout at her Christmas program, I was so sad that the camcorder was out of batteries, we had just used it and for not very long plus since porter was sick and i spent the day holding him (literally) I just hadn't checked it until the morning of, oh well thank heaven for camera phones the quality may not be there but it is better than nothing!

Sorry I can;t get the volume to work, and Tim is busy right now so..... well it's still cute to watch her actions of course I'm her mom so anything she does is cute, well almost anything.

Thankful for the little things

Okay I've decided to list all the little things I'm thankful for since I last posted. I think we remember the small bad stuff so often and tell about it that we forget the little wonderful things too. Careful the cheese-o-meter is running high lately and I apologize!

• Thursday morning busy day ahead and my hair took all of 5 minutes to do, silly I know but it made my day easier
• Kids were ALL happy and got ready fast! and we were out of the house by 9:00
• Went to Tuckers school Christmas sing and Porter made it through the whole thing and it was over an hour long!!!!
• Stopped snowing just before we left the school.
• Cute little size 4 feet that stopped to step in every mound of snow on the way to the car I think it took 15 minutes to get to the car. But I couldn't pick him up.
• When I got home I had a little pity party & a few minutes later my honey spontaneously started dancing me around the kitchen to Harry Connick's Christmas CD it was just what I needed. (he was still home recovering from the stomach bug)
• Little people who understand that mommy can't pick them up right now (this one is hard for me, I've had to do this too much of my kids lives)
• Kids who help with the laundry and even some of it was voluntary.
• SINGING, my kids love to sing. And I love hearing them especially Christmas songs.
• hot chocolate (doesn't that make everything right)
• Tucker helping neighbors just because he wants too.
• Kids making Christmas crafts, they had sooo much fun.
• Hearing my kids having fun during their time-out together, at least they stopped fighting so I guess it worked.

I'm sure I'm forgetting many things here I know I am but isn't it sad how we (or should I say me) so often focus on the crap and not all the good, so I personally needed to do this one. I need to do it more often too.

Okay I'm shutting down the cheese factory, and hopefully I'll post some cute kid pics soon.

I want a new model!

I'm just saying this to vent not to have you feel sorry for me. It is kinda humorous too.

I'm considering trading in my current body model anyone have any good suggestions I would preferably like one that does not require any surgeries!!!!!!!!!! I'm really getting tired of them and one that doesn't have any other funky weird medical complications or procedures, I'm a current freak of nature. The only problem with getting anew one is I might possibly have to go through surgeries I've already done, so I guess I should just keep the lemon I have because I already know what problems it has had. For those of you who are confused here is a synopsis

• 12/24/98 Appendectomy hospital stay one week (this was our first Christmas after getting married, Tim still kept me)
• 12/19/00 gave birth hospital stay 2 days (this one was at least fun and planned)
• 9/1/02-10/24/02 spinal fluid leak for 2 months and birth(who gets these during pregnancy and not from an epidural, only ME)
• 12/04 beginning of major sciatica nerve pain (multiple injections to follow)
• 5/24/05 emergency c-section at least there was a great reward in a little 3 lb 14inches healthy baby boy
• 12/15/05 back surgery for the before mentioned leg pain

And to add to the list my c-section scar has been bugging me, the Dr. thinks it's either a pinched nerve or an incisional hernia. Most likely the hernia since it is slightly bulging. He gave me some numbing shots today and if it was a pinched nerve that could cure it completely if not it will give me temporary relief, well temporary is for sure it's already coming back :( Oh well at least none of it is an emergency just mostly an inconvenience. There are many worse things that could happen and I know this ,I just had to get it out of my system, so thanks for letting me vent.

At least my honey doesn't want to trade me in!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUCKER

Well....for Tuckers 7th birthday he received the stomach flu from his brother what a great gift!!! and last year he received the chicken pox from an unknown gift giver! Porter came down with it first while at Aunt Janene's house and again when we picked them up (all over me) and again in the car and yet again in the tub Monday night. Tucker came down with it last night but informed me that he was not sick and would be going to school today, he didn't want to miss his school birthday party. Well after having a few more episodes he was convinced that he was sick. This morning he was feeling a little better than last night but we kept him from school anyway. He is now back to himself jumping off the walls and all the furniture and looking forward to his school program tomorrow. His cute primary teacher called earlier and is bringing him over a cheese pizza, they asked the kids what their favorite treat was and that's what he picke out, he'll be excited!

Happy Birthday!!!!

Today my honey is 32 years young. I told Tucker this morning that his dad is old and he didn't agree I told him that his dad was 25 years older than him and he said well I'm just glad I'm his kid. It was sooo sweet. They are such buddies.
Wow I just realized I've almost known Tim for half of my life! I'm currently 30 years young and we've known each other nearly 14 years and married for almost 10. And we've been through a lot in those 10 years and I wouldn't trade any of it for anything!! Not all of it has been fun but it's brought us closer together and I love him more now than ever! He has always taken such good care of me when I've had all of my crazy health problems and I appreciate it so much. I got a new appreciation for it after helping him through his back surgery, it's not easy being the care taker I prefer the patient roll, he says he doesn't like being the patient, so at least we agree on that. I'm most thankful that he is feeling so good these days with regards to his back, he sat for 2 straight hours last night at the concert we haven't been able to do that in years it was wonderful. I would still keep him even if he weren't doing better but this way is much more fun for both of us!
Anyway Happy Birthday honey!

BONKERS

Tim and I were able to got to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert last night. It was fabulous by the way. Well just before we left Abbey was twirling around and fell down on the edge of a table and smacked her forehead, I thought for sure it had split open and that we would need the babysitter for a different reason, well luckily it didn't, but it was close. We iced it up good and gave her some medis (medicine). This picture was taken this morning and I just couldn't get a picture that showed it very well, the camera hides it nicely it looks worse in real life! She took a little more medicine again this morning because it hurt still, and it is still slightly swollen, so she did a good job on it. At least she is smiling! and what a pretty smile she has, she used to scowl all the time and these days she is always putting a smile on her face, and when I get grouchy she says mom look and points to her pretty smile, who could grouch at that?