A few updates

Alot has been happening to us lately...yes I know it has been almost a year since I posted...I have been keeping most people updated on Facebook.

so in Jan we started the year off with some fun...and things were going fairly well...then came Feb with two birthdays :) and Mar with another birthday (even though Max wants to forget). Then in the summer Max changed from being a production person to being on sanitation (a sucky job but a bit better pay). We spent 4th of July in Challis w/ my parents of course :) it was fun. Then at the end of July we went to Freedom again and it was really nice and fun until it started raining every night...that was sucky!!! So we came home early from our vacation and then I got a call from Joel Benson and he asked me if I wanted to be the teacher of the Valant 9's and I said yes and so now I am a teacher.

My parents went to Windover for a late birthday present for my dad and when they got back to Pocatello my dad went to see his doctor and his doctor put him in the hospital to help him get some of the water weight that he had gained gone from him. The next morning the doctor went to check on my dad and his breathing was MUCH worse so he was moved to ICU and stabilized. The next morning the doctor checked on him and his breathing was once again worse and so he decided to intubate him and that stabilized him again but now he couldn't talk or anything and basically at that point the machines were keeping him alive. He wanted to see me and so I took off from class to go see him and yet when I got there he was alseep. The next day the doctor talked to us and told us that the outlook was pretty grim and so we had to decide what to do. We were given 3 options: 1) was to go full court and try to figure out what was wrong and see if we could fix it (not very hopeful but it was doing something) he would have probably ended up in a nursing home for probably the rest of his life because there just wasn't any way he would really get better. 2) we do nothing at all and hope that he improves on his own... 3) we turn off the machines and just let him go. We decided to go with option number 3 because we just couldn't see him wanting to live in a nursing home or wanting to stay on the stupid machines for quite a while. So on Aug 7 he passed on and I got the monumental task of planning 2 funerals.

Then after the funerals I went and kind of lived in Challis for a couple of weeks with coming home on the weekends because I was still the teacher of the Valant 9's and I wanted to make sure that I taught my class.

Now it's Sep and Max and I just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary (yea I know 6 years!)

This year we didn't go to the fair (which we usually do) and it would have been fun to go but well it was ok. We went and watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. I was a little dissapointed in the movie but oh well we still have the cartoons which was like totally awesome :)

We also found out that Vanessa is having baby #2 on Oct 20 so he will be just a little bit younger than Kaitlyn.

Christmas Around the Corner

I almost can't believe that the year is getting so much closer to the end. I have been going kind of crazy getting things ready! I finally counted and I have found out that I am making 9 things for the Christmas Eve party that is annually held up at my Grandma's house. I had to write it all down so I don't forget....ready?

Baked Beans
small Orange Jello Salad
BIG Sugar Cookies
Fruit Cakes
Blueberry Loaves (kind of like blueberry muffins only bigger)
Chex Mix
Banana Nut Bread
Holiday Cakes (not even close to fruit cakes)
small Sugar Cookies (these I give away as presents and they are done)

So far I only have done the Holiday Cakes, small Sugar Cookies, and the Banana Nut Bread (only cause I had some bananas about to bite the dust). All I can say is thank goodness the other stuff isn't really terribly hard to make up. Plus I just finished making Christmas Candy that I didn't count because it doesn't go up to my Grandma's house. Amazingly I really don't feel so overwhelmed cause 4 of the 6 things I still have to make to get ready to go up really aren't that hard to make up. You mix together and cook most of it like the baked beans, jello salad, blueberry loaves, and the Chex Mix. I haven't ever made fruit cakes before but I got the best recipe for them so they should turn out pretty good (at least I REALLY hope so!!!) The Sugar Cookies I am going to make them big so that I can frost them and Lowell is going to help me. I know that I will have to post pictures on here of some of them. I even got him a BIG container of sprinkles that he can put on the cookies when they are all frosted. I hope that everyone has a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a JOYOUS NEW YEAR!!!

Swivel Sweeper

ok so we got a swivel sweeper....and Lowell was suppose to clean his room in order to be allowed to use it...and well...he didn't clean his room at all and so he didn't get to use it...we put the battery in and Max and I used it for a while and then I was going to use it to go clean the front room and it stopped working...and now we can't get it to work...and so Lowell is beyond upset because he can't use it at all now...we are trying to figure out what is wrong w/ the battery without much luck....:(

A playlist of some funny people saying some funny things...

Strangeness and an update

Yea I know it's been a while since I last posted. Ok Ok a LONG while. Let's see...since I last posted Max has gotten kicked out of his maintenance job at Heinz, Daisy has passed away (she had a liver disease and she just didn't recover), Max has applied for a new maintenance job at the Simplot plant in Aberdeen where they make fries, and Lowell has grown!

I am not sure what to say other than that...I am on Facebook now and so is Max and we do try to keep updates going regularly. You can add me and keep updated if you wish...I will try to be better about keeping this page updated but I am not going to make any promises!

I am so glad that everything seems to be turning for a good way. The job interview (Max seems really excited about getting this job). The possibility of moving again...this place that we are at now really is just too small; that is about all I can really say about this place!

I made apple pie filling with my Grandma's red delicious apples that grow in her back yard!

Yes I know 'tis sad that Daisy passed away but she just wasn't a happy kitty at the end and I decided that it would be best if she didn't have to suffer any more...they asked me if I wanted her ashes and I told them no...I have enough pictures and videos of her...well enough for her 8 year long life with me.

Max and I are thinking seriously about the possibility of getting a Sheltie or a Shetland Sheepdog. We have been looking at information about them and I have called a breeder and asked her all about her dogs. They sound like they would be just right for our family in that they are small but not a mini. They love kids and get along well with other pets i.e. Jack. They also are very smart and therefore easy to train! = )

I guess I could do a little update about Jack...he is doing OK health wise but well he just has been a different cat since Daisy passed on. I am not sure why but for some reason he is a lot more playful now than he use to be. My mom claims that it is because he doesn't want to join Daisy and "go away" and I am thinking that it was because when Daisy was sick all she wanted to do was lay around and he was such a sweetheart about her that he would just lay around with her. He has sadly put on some weight and I am thinking that it is due a bit to stress but he isn't anywhere near as heavy as he once was so I am not going to complain too loudly about that!

I am thinking that I am done for now cause I just don't know what else to write.

Update?

Wow.....can't believe it was March 9 that I did my last post...sorry I don't keep this thing more updated! Last week was hubby's b-day and he had a lot of fun! I also took a short trip to Challis...and the trip back was totally scary cause of white out conditions!! Hopefully more later!!!

Wii Fit

Ok I know I haven't been posting very much lately. I haven't been on the computer very much to be honest. I did have a great birthday! Max spoiled me rotten and he got me a Wii and a Wii Fit and it is soo fun!! I play on it every day and I've been going at it for almost a month now.