<<<>>>Brandy & Girls are here!!!

So last night at about 11pm we were trying to go to bed but Will kept on talking to us and showing us stuff etc and so finally about 11:45pm I said I'm sorry but I can't stay up another minute well about 10 minutes later when I was brushing my teeth I hear some commotion and shockingly enough it's Brandy my sister and her two little girls Adia & Kyah!!! Mom & I about had a heart attack because we had talked to her earlier in the day and had no idea she was coming.

It's so great to have them here!!! Brandy had called Will yesterday afternoon and told him but he didn't spill the beans. So last night as he was getting a text message after 11pm I asked him who is texting you this late and he said oh you don't know them and I said so who is she...your girlfriend and he just laughed....it was my sister getting directions!!! :o)

Anyways we are thrilled to have them here til Sunday when they all head back to Utah. We won't be going anywhere except to Mesa & maybe the Phoenix Zoo. :o) No Springerville trips but anyone's welcome to come here. :o)

Mom's coming to town!

I'm feeling so much better today almost back to normal! I'm so excited because tomorrow we pick up my Mom from the airport for 8 days! I have vacation all next week and the kids are out for Spring Break! Yippee

We've not set up any plans to go up North to visit family but it might happen. Visitors are welcome here!!! We have a few dental appointments scheduled next week but that is it. Let us know if you want to meet up in Mesa or if you want to come and hang out! I'll post again to let you now if we head to Springerville or not. :o)

Tuesday Blues

So this is me....sick for the past several days! (The real me right now is way too scary looking)

I had a sore throat last week but kept telling myself as I loaded up on the vitamins that I was fine just double up on orange juice etc. Well my throat got worse and worse. I had Will look at it and he said it wasn't strep so I thought toughen up wimp! Friday night it hurt pretty bad and Saturday I pretty much lost my voice but kept on going and taking the vitamins etc. Saturday night I got the whole fever thing and unable to breath very well. Sunday I missed church I couldn't expose the little 2 year olds plus I couldn't speak at all. Sweet McKenna fasted for me on Sunday until 4pm! What a trooper! Calvin & Chloe stayed home to take care of me on Sunday which was sweet too. Monday morning a day before payroll is due to the county I thought well if I get up and get all ready, put my face on, fix my hair I can sit and enter time sheets all day...nope I only lasted an hour at work. Came home took some naps and began the medication Advair inhaler as well as Mucinex and continued taking Levaquin an antibiotic. Unfortunately Will said he had a sore throat and took some Levaquin last night too. I had mentioned to him earlier to please give me a blessing, as I laid down last night to go to bed I realized that I didn't get a blessing but didn't want to wake him as he was laying down with Calvin in his room but about 10 minutes later he came in our room and said he had better give me a blessing before he lost his voice. Great minds think alike. :O) Although I had a blessing I still had a rough night with all of the symptoms, meds wearing off, aches etc. so I didn't make it into work today. I woke up the family and then went back to bed. As I thought about why I might be sick despite that I have a very low immune system due to taking antibiotics for 8.5 years straight I also realized that since the day after Valentines I've been eating 50% off chocolates non-stop. Maybe if I ate healthy foods like these from my Mom's garden I would have avoided it! I haven't had any healthy food and have been going to bed super late every night and getting up early, skipping lunch, not exercising and simply not taking very good care of myself! So I'm going to start eating more fruits & veggies & salads and boost my immune system!!!! The moral of this long drawn out story is...................
So our family is going to grow a garden like Grammy's pictured below.

Doesn't help to be sick in bed when my pretty Mom is coming on Saturday to stay for a week....I need to be doing laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping etc. We have no perishable food in the house except milk. I'm so excited that she is coming and hope that no one is sick when she arrives. The kids have spring break next week and I have a week of vacation!!!
This is just a cute picture of Kenna, cousin Adia and Calvin in front of my sister's house when we went up there for my Mom's 50th birthday party & neck surgery.

My Mom's yards front & back...both very pretty! Part of my Mom's pretty yard!!! Nothing like our yard that is now filled with more dried out weeds that I was hoping to get all cleared out to at least have dirt instead of all weeds before she comes. If Will gets sick he won't be able to clean it up! (by the way my Mom hates weeds)


I wish Pops & my sister Brandy and her family were coming too we miss them so much!!!

Kyah and Adia my two pretty little nieces!!!
Brandy my sister & Tyson & the girls. Come on Brandy just load up and drive down here to visit for a week....it will be fun....just tell Adia's school that she'll go to class during her spring break to miss next week. :o) She can play & swim with the kids and Chloe all she wants just bring her homework she's only in 1st grade what's missing a week to play with cousins she misses in sunny Arizona??? Come on groovy sister load up and come down...
Brandy & Tyson last week at a 70's ward party.

Look they are begging you....come and see us!!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!


Well I better go take some medicine and lay down for a bit. I'm going to be keep thinking positive and praying that Brandy has some pitty on us to come down and visit and maybe I'll take a nap so I can wake up healed from this dumb bronchitis today!!! :o)

Going Gray

Chloe is going Gray! It's funny to see how quickly

she is changing color.
This little girl is getting bigger everyday!
3.4 pounds as of yesterday
at 14 weeks old


But she's so dang cute I'll guess I'll keep her
no matter how many pounds she gets up to.
Her official name is Chloe Gray Bit and I think
she is growing into it now!

Last Weekend

So not yesterday but the week before the kids were both showering and usually Calvin showers in our bathroom and Kenna in theirs but this particular night they swapped. Well after listening to Calvin sing every song that popped into his cute little head for about 40 minutes I told McKenna to go and tell him to get out. She did he said OK and continued to sing etc. A few minutes later McKenna walked into the dining room saying I didn't know it was raining outside and we said it isn't and then she said there's a leak! So I went running thinking it was the washing machine because I was doing laundry on a Sunday wouldn't surprise me if something like that happened but nope it was the ceiling leaking. I put a pot under it and told McKenna to get some towels and then I ran upstairs and Calvin was still singing his heart out and I open the door, open the shower curtain and turn the water off. He was embarrassed and frightened. He had been showering the entire time with the shower curtain on the outside of the tub leaking water all over the place! He showers so often in our master bath where it's an enclosed shower with a door that he didn't know you needed to have the shower curtain liner tucked inside the tub! Needless to say here's the damage which was minimal....

And here's the singing shower boy who caused the whole mess! :o)

He's growing his hair out and can finally comb it down. All nice and clean after a 50 minute shower! Turkey

Will & Chloe never moved from this spot.

Our little tiny teacup Yorkie eats non-stop no more teacups for her!

Dad telling Calvin to tuck the shower curtain in the tub next time.

McKenna asking Calvin if he wanted to grow his hair out as long as hers like he was crazy!



Calvin replying telling her no not that long.

I just want to grow it out longer like the famous boys hair! What's wrong with that?

Now for the I'm sorry about the water leak Mom let me rub your feet....

'Cuz when I grow up I'm going to be a massage therapist, a Vet, an artist and rich so he'll start practicing massages now.

Dad telling them about Big Foot. :o)

Or was it a fish story????

Those eyes....those lips....

True LOVE I love this picture! Chloe's eyes are so cute and look at those nice full plump lips on Kenna! Both pretty in pink on Kenna's bed Sunday after church. (McKenna is such a pretty girl and one of these days she's going to realize how perfect her lips are.) :o) She loves this puppy so much. When she was 3 years old we lived in Utah and had gone to visit my friend and old college roommate Anissa when she was at her Mom's in Orem. Anissa's Mom had two little dogs that McKenna adored and played with the entire time. Well every night after that visit in her nightly prayers, in her food blessings she would pray for a black puppy named Bebe. (Bebe was one of Anissa's Mom's dogs) It was so heartfelt and cute that Will finally caved in and bought a little mini Schnauzer that she named Bebe. We had Bebe until Calvin was a few weeks old because she got so jealous that she began snapping at him and once snapped at his face when I was holding him so we had to sell her. It was heartwrenching for Kenna, although she was extremely rough with Bebe she loved her so much and cried and cried the day we took Bebe and didn't return home with her. We sold her to a really nice old couple that had recently had to put theirs down due to old age so she went to a great home. She still has a picture of Bebe in her room to this day so you can imagine the love she has 6 years later to finally have another dog but a BLACK PUPPY...even better. :o) Calvin loves her too but it's just cute that Kenna finally has her black puppy. :O)

4H Car Wash - today in town - good cause

So McKenna is in 4H and today at Auto Zone by Panda Express they are having a CAR WASH to raise money. McKenna has been down there since 10:30am and they will be doing it until 6pm this evening. So if you need your car washed and feel like helping a good cause head down to Auto Zone. :o)

I promised McKenna I would tell as many of my friends as I could. :o) I love blogging!