Wow so behind....Taylor Swift on Kenna's b-day!

I'm so behind in blogging it's ridiculous but I've been working 10 or more hours a day and feel guilty when I get on the computer and not hang out with my wonderful family. I love blogging but I love them more and I love sleep so those two things have won out over the past few weeks. :o)

So the very night of McKenna's 11th Birthday we were lucky enough to get some tickets from my cousin's wife & her Mom to go and see McKenna's favorite singer in the world...Taylor Swift!

She came out on the side and sang a song then gave hugs and let people take pictures with her all the way down the stairs to the floor where she then got on a little revolving stage and played her guitar and sang a few songs right there in the middle of the arena up close and personal with many fans. After she finished singing she then took a walk right on the main floor hugging and taking pictures with fans all the way back to the stage. I was worried someone might try to hug her too tight and impressed with her trusting kindness to her fans. She gave credit where it was due....God, her family and the fans. On a side note...she sang all of her songs as they are recorded which I love! I don't care for artists to change the way they sing the song live...I like it the same as the radio & CD versions. She was awesome!

We loved every single bit of it! What a great performer and awesome stage set ups she had!

McKenna was so impressed because Taylor can play the piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and did some banging on drum things. So since then Kenna has practiced the piano a little longer. :o)

This is my cousin's daughter Kortni aka Taylor Swift's look alike about 10 years younger though. Kenna & Kort love each other and both love Taylor.

McKenna is a big fan so she absolutely LOVED it I'm a fan as well so I too LOVED it...so much that I went out and bought her new CD! (poor Will is sick of it but the three of us aren't!)

Here's a cute picture of Kenna just after she sang "Love Story" by Taylor Swift in her school talent show and did a fabulous job by the way (forgot my camera and didn't mean to but deleted it on my cell phone)! The kids thought she sounded just like Taylor. :o) We were so proud of her!!! We thought for sure she would back out because she is usually SUPER SHY. Doesn't she look cute! It was so funny right before she was to go on stage to wait for her turn her boots broke and we had to use clear tape to tape the heel to the upper leather part....dang Target boots!!! That's what I get for bargain shopping but she didn't care and wore them proudly. :o)

My cousin's wife Mandy and her Mom hooked us up with excellent seats and Taylor put on an excellent show! Thank you Mandy!!!! I highly recommend going to see her live. Here's a picture of Mandy, her oldest daughter Kortni, Kenna and I before Taylor came out. Here's Mandy, Kortni and Bella the baby girl. The stage is right behind them with the red curtain drawn. This is Kenna and I afterwards on a Thursday night at almost 11:30pm with an hour and 20 minute drive home with both of us having to go to work and school the next day. She slept in the car and I tried really hard not to. :o) Look at how tall she is only a few inches shorter than me.

McKenna and I both had a wonderful time! I love you Kenna Benna! Happy 11th Birthday Sweetie!!!

Not A Match & small family update

So the last week of school was spirit week and I took pictures of the crazy hair and this was almost as equally funny....miss matching clothes was the theme and I'd say my two angels got it right. It's only 102 degrees outside guess you still need a sweater!???!

(Gotta love the multi-colored skirt Kenna is sporting which is really a shawl that my sister gave her a few years ago and McKenna wore it every day for months!! ugh I can't wait to pass it down to Adia and Kyah as I'm sure they'll love it as much as Kenna! paybacks baby hee hee)

I know I've been a total slacker on the blogging but I collected a ton of pictures today for a special blog post about my sweet baby girl who turned 11 on May 21st which I hope to compile and post in the next couple of days. We went to a Taylor Swift concert the night of her birthday and it was awesome! :o)

We are still alive and kicking. Will got his cast off and has a brace now and is doing physical therapy. He still has no movement in his wrist & thumb; he still has a lot of swelling and it still is painful especially after the pt . He has scout camp this week but I'm not sure that with one hand he'll be a whole lot of help but he's in Young Mens and needs to go to provide leadership & supervision. Kids are out of school now for summer. I wish I had summer off but I don't. :o( Otherwise all is well here at the Wright home.

Crazy Hair Day

So today was crazy hair day at school. McKenna did her own hair and I have to admit it looks pretty crazy! Good job sissy!!!

Calvin on the other hand argued with his Daddy that he should have puffy hair when his Dad suggested a mohawk. It looks like puffy won out. :o)

X-Ray pictures of Will's Metal

This is Will's wrist....pictures of the x-ray pictures.....look at all of that metal!!!

The doctor says he will more than likely have at least one more surgery. The original pictures of the break were crazy....but we have to order those.

My 11th Mother's Day

Ok I know McKenna is not 11 years old yet but she will be on the 21st. Eleven years ago I was big fat and pregnant her Daddy got me a necklace and made me a card to make for a wonderful first Mother's Day. Eleven years later I had a fantastic, super duper, best ever Mother's Day yet!!! I was really spoiled this year by McKenna, Calvin and Will! I woke up to a dozen roses and a nice card from Will and the kids....along with that Calvin had several items for me as well....he painted me a picture with q-tips that is very pretty, he made me a really cute hand prints card with a cute hand poem and he also made me the cutest card ever at school. I will have to write what it says in it tomorrow but it cracked me up and had lots of cute pictures he colored of he and I.

We then hurried off to church where we heard 6 wonderful men give sweet talks about their Mother & Wife in between those the primary children sang a Mother's Day song that was very sweet and then they were given a very pretty paper flower each to give to their Mom's as they returned to their seats (I got two a red & a yellow one but ended up giving one away to a friend in the ward whose children are grown Calvin wasn't very happy about that!), then for 3rd hour all of the women 18 and older got their classes covered by the men so they could go and enjoy a special Relief Society where we were given chocolate candy bars and listened to 3 great women speakers. It was awesome!

We came home, I tried calling my Mom but she was at church, Will bbq'd us a hamburger, we took a nap and then polished our nails. McKenna needed to finish her cards for me so she hurried after lunch and then gave me 3 handmade cards, a bookmark she made and then a jewelry heart box that she made herself while on a field trip a couple of weeks ago. (she hid it well and never slipped a word about it...they didn't get to use any tools just their hands to mold it etc) Calvin came in while we were polishing nails and did a good job polishing my finger nails as another gift for Mother's Day. :o) Finally got a hold of my Mom and talked to her for a little bit she liked the perfume and semi homemade card I sent...the cards are what matter the most to my Mom so they have to be good. Later for dinner Will had planned a special dinner for us at a friends house and the husbands did all of the cooking! We had Hawaiian haystacks with all of the fixings and homemade sauce which was so yummy! Topped it off with a dessert that I made but was easy brownie smores.

See what I mean....the best Mother's Day thus far in my Mothering career. :o) It is such an honor and privilege to be Calvin & McKenna's Momma and Will's wife!!! Thank you Thank you!

Happy 79th Birthday Grandma Dear

Glenna Rose Crandell Hathcock Devine

One of my absolute most favorite ladies is turning 79 years young today and I just wanted to wish her a Happy Birthday! My Grandma Glenna has been such an inspiration to me in my life and such a wonderful lady. I think every single one of her 50+ grandkids feels like they are her favorite...impressive! She has 10 living children and 3 that passed away. She unfortunately has been widowed 3 times...the first was my Grandpa Leslie who is the man of her dreams who is the Father of all 13 children who was tragically killed in a semi-truck accident 3 weeks before I was born; then she re-married a neat man who I slightly recall but he had a severe stroke and later died after only 5 years of marriage to Grandma; later she married Charlie Bob the only Grandpa that I ever really knew and was married to him for 27 years until he recently passed away at age 82.



Grandma Glenna has so many wonderful talents and abilities including:

1. Cooking/Baking wow is all I can say she is such a great cook & baker!

2. Sewing she is excellent and has made many of her granddaughter's wedding dresses including mine

3. Singing she has an excellent alto voice

4. Whistling funny enough my Granny can whistle like a bird and makes a variety of different sounds whistling we all love it

5. Dancing watch out because she can dance with the best of them and loves honky tonk music

6. Athletic she has always been very athletic and I think that is why she has remained so healthy for all of these years she is hard working physically and very strong

7. Beautiful inside and out! (a little fact about her is that in 40's my Grandma Glenna Rose Crandell at that time OK OK I am so sorry she was NOT Miss New Mexico I was mistaken she was a beauty queen for a high school pageant and all of these years I thought that picture was her being Miss New Mexico....she could have been in my opinion and is still beautiful!

8. Loves everyone...she seriously loves everyone and will hug and kiss any person she meets she can't walk past a baby without stopping either, she is just a sweet sweet lady.

And so many more!



I admire and love my Grandma more than she will ever know! She has always been there for me, always made me feel important and has always loved me. I cherish every moment with her whether it's watching Jeopardy & Wheel-a-fortune her two fav's or baking her famous holiday candies she is a joy to be around!



I love you Grandma & hope you have a fantastic year!!!

An Opportunity....Possibly

My Sister Brandy - sent me this email....."Hey. I wanted to share a little opportunity...take it for what it's worth! One of my friends owns Impact Guns (http://www.impactguns.com/) they get over a million hits per month. I've been working with them for a while. They are sponsoring my new guns show http://www.lockandloadshow.com/
Anyway, they are doing a deal with Efusion www.Efusjon.com/brandyvega it's different types of energy vitamin packed drinks and they are going to launch it on their impact guns website starting on Monday. They have given me an opportunity to get on board with them. So, I'm just sharing that with you if your interested. Here's how it works Impact Guns hired 2-full time people to handle all of the business for Efusjon which is a multilevel marking company (MLM) I can tell you that I'm not interested in MLM at all. I don't do sales very well! But, I have decided to join and let Impact Guns do all the dirty work...although the drinks are good. I don't have to go out contacting people and trying to sell them drinks because over a million people are going to their site and they have committed 2 full time employees to answer phones and build our teams. It appears to be an amazing opportunity to make a little or a lot of extra money without doing a ton of work because they already have the viewer/people coming to their website.

Because I'm friends with them they have given me this opportunity...they are also allowing any of their employees to sign up and reap the rewards of their labors and website. They told me that I could offer it to a few people. Listen, I don't really care if you join or not but I do want to offer you the chance if you are interested or looking for an opportunity. I will tell you that in a down economy people really turn to MLM to make money. But, with this it's like your out talking to over a million people a month when you don't have to but you get the benefits. I don't know a ton about it but I've decided to sign up. I also got my mom and sister (that would be me) to sign up. I figure it's a gamble worth taking. I just signed up today and it cost $194 bucks total. I'm going to give it about 6 months and see what happens. Now, here's what Impact Guns has said that the group that gets on board with them by tonight at 8pm AZ time will have their full attention, first come first serve so if you miss the 8pm deadline you will still get their help but you will have to do a little more work. We will benefit from the website, they employees will help build their team/business. They are willing to do that because when we all make money they make money. For the $194 bucks I get a case 48 Efusjon drinks, $30 of the cost was the enrollment cost and then tax and shipping. Each month your commitment is $120 for the drink plus shipping and handling. But, you can get out at anytime and there is no commitment! So, if you are interested email me or give me a jingle...to be on the Impact Guns team you need to sign up by tomorrow! Remember, it's a gamble I don't know what will happen but I do believe this could be a huge opportunity and it's one I'm willing to take. (P.S-I'm a penny pincher/tight wad!) ;o) BTW-you won't hurt my feelings either way!" Brandy Vega Richardson

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I Leslie did sign up today but am only willing to try it for 3 months....Brandy has a little more $ than I do. he he Anyways I think it's a risk worth taking because it is getting in to it during the beginning stages and that's when most MLM companies make people money...but the other big reason that I'm willing and yes Will agreed to let me is because Impact Guns is going to have it on their web page that gets so many hits every month and they will fill in your down lines so I don't have to. I don't want to be the family member or friend that is always trying to sell stuff because that's just not me. There's 15 levels and we would be level 3-4 from what the guy told me. I called Impact Guns myself today because I'm a total tightwad skeptic. I probably will like the drinks but I don't want to be pushing a product. :o)

Who knows I might just have a lot of energy but I think I'll try it out and be daring for once in my life because it could make me rich. Studies show that during slow economic times that MLM companies sore because so many unemployed people do them hence Mary Kay, Amway, Melaluka (spell?) and the list goes on and on. People drink energy drinks all of the time and Acai berry is the newest super antioxidant that people including Oprah's doctors say is fantastic for us so I think this drink has the appeal people want. They have an all natural one and then one that adds sugar and caffeine and two more flavors in the works :o) www.myefusjon.com/lesliewright