Elder Thacker gave Trevor a new cut. I'm loving it. It's soooo short. (I paid $20 to Trevor to do it. He'll do anything for fireworks money)

anger is the poison we drink ourselves and expect the other person to die....




Here's my two fairies. We went to the art festival down town yesterday. Everything was really expensive but the weather wasn't too hot and there were a bunch of kids stuff to do so it was worth the trip down there.


Chance has been asking to go out to dinner without everyone else so Daniel and I took him to Red Robin last night. Of course, that means that everyone else wants a one-on-one dinner too. :)

Trevor has been working so much for this construction company that he still isn't in any trouble. What a relief. The boss guy took him and Cameron (britt's ex boyfriend) to a movie last night after work.

He left for work this morning at 8 and came home at noon in the company truck to google an address for his next job. He built a gate for a woman this morning and was pretty upbeat because she complimented him on a job well done. Easy days for me without all the Trevor stress.

From John Tesh on facebook today.

Sign of the times: Surveys show that more people are cooking at home during the economic downturn. And they’re not just boiling pasta or Mac-N-Cheese. Cooking classes are sold out. Cookbook sales are way up. Cooking shows on TV are ratings winners. Have you jumped in on this? Are you being more creative with how you put food on the table?

Just had a piece on the show last week about how we eat less when we prepare our food because the smells satiate us before we even start eating."

That's kind of interesting. Huh?

Isaiah is doing great with his boot from the doctor. It hasn't slowed him down a bit. He has a little trouble getting on the toilet but that's about it. Today he put it on the wrong foot and couldn't figure out why he couldn't walk on it. Funny kid

My trip was great. This picture was taken at the top of this "little" mountain. Actually, the only one that had a hard time making it up to the top was me. The other three breezed up like it was no big deal. Guess I'm not ready for kick boxing yet. I'll write a little about my trip and then I'll fill everyone in on the latest Isaiah episode... Yeah...another one... First off...Thanks Maureen for the card. I wanted to write back but Isaiah tore through the card so fast that I never saw the envelope to get your return address so if you wouldn't mind shooting me an email, I'd appreciate it :) He loved the card! Okay...back to my trip:

I'm so glad that I took the van rather than Daniel's car. We had movies and that was such a life saver. Trevor took one of the seats out so I could put the kids's bikes in the car which they rode at almost every rest area that we went to. ..Believe me...we went to A LOT of rest areas! Brittany's town is adorable. It's like Coeur d' Alene about 25 years ago. (quiet, small, no one is really concerned with who has the best car, very outdoorsy and down to earth) I tried sushi for the first time (cooked...loved it) We shopped at Fred Meyer (dont have one of those here) and ate at Chilis where Britt works. I met boyfriend. Hello...super hunky...down to earth...firefighter. Nice Nice guy. I like him a lot., Her apartment is sweet and will be even better when she gets the snowboarding posters off the wall and puts some girly touches to the place. Her room mate takes off for the whole summer to go camping so she has the place to herself. She has a little dog named Atari that Evelyn is allergic to. (I thought Atari was a game for the longest time. My embarrassment when Brittany goes "your kidding mom, really? No, it's my dog!)

LOL LOL.... Evelyn was arguing with Chance just now and she goes "yeah...well, you're a duck." LOL where does she come up with these things.

Britt and I rented "Taken" and also "Mall Cop". Britt didn't like Mall Cop because she said it was too real life; like watching her dad on TV. ha ha... Taken was excellent. If you haven't seen it, rent it because it's fantastic. High energy, lots of drama and suspense.

We only got two days with Britt and then I went to Boise to see my sister Suzanne and her two kids (oh, yeah and her hubby-hi Mike) I only got to stay a few hours but I'm so glad I did. Her kids are awesome. Sweet little Alyssa is just adorable.

The trip back was long and boring...just like the trip out there but we survived a thousand more rest areas and we did end up staying in a hotel in Wyoming because I just couldn't do the 18 hours in one shot. Better safe than sorry. (stupid cliche' I just couldn't think of another one)

Okay....Isaiah... I hate to even write it because just two posts ago was a picture of him hooked up to monitors in the hospital. So, Monday after nap time, Isaiah crawls out of his room and continues to crawl the rest of the evening. He said his foot hurt. So, Daniel cleaned the nail polish off his foot and the walls in his room. (Evelyn got a new purse in Idaho and she had a nail polish in he purse which she was sleeping with...Isaiah got to it when she fell asleep and painted the wall by his bed...nothing new...on with my story) So, anyway he's crawling around all evening. I feel his leg and foot, it's not swollen or purple or anything but when you twist it a little, he does his uncomfortable laugh ,which to me, means he hurt it. So, he crawls around all evening and this morning he's still crawling so after breakfast Daniel takes him to the doctor. The doctor orders an X-Ray and sends him to Children's Hospital (across town). Children's Hospital says it's broken and sends him to UNMC to see a pediactric foot doctor (what are they called anyway?) and so now, 5 hours later, Isaiah has a casted foot. Oh...and how did it happen? We assume he either jumped off of the dresser or the top of the bunk bed. He doesn't know and neither do we. I do know that I'm glad we have insurance and Isaiah must have a guardian angel nearby 24/7.

I'll post a picture of Isaiah later. Little stinker. If he wasn't the last child we're having, he'd be the last child we're having!

Update: Daniel just called and said the pediactric specialist looked at the film and he can't see the break. So he gave Isaiah a boot which he walks on now. We take him back to the specialist in 3 weeks to see if they want to cast it or if the boot will work.

I put together a care package of stuff to take to Brittany on Wednesday. We froze some buffalo roast, potatoes, peas, candied carrots, green beans, grilled chicken, and sloppy joes. I'll make her some of "Nana's brocolli cheese soup" and chicken cordon bleu to put in her freezer one we get there. I'm looking for a toaster and a blender tomorrow and some pictures for the walls. Gotta hook her up...my poor starving college kid.

Chance and Evelyn are looking forward to the trip. I am too. It'll be a nice get-away.

warning TOO much information ahead: I thought I had some medical skill and tried to take out the last stitch the doctor put in me after my surgery and I messed it up and now it's scabbed over and infected. Dang it....I have to go to the doctor tomorrow and have it dug out...eww. So much for no scar huh? The only scar I'll have is the one I created myself. oops


Update on the scar....I went to see the PA at my surgeons office and she said the stitches are dissolving ones so not to worry about it. Whew....