My Halloween Cuties

Count Calvin and Rodeo Queen Kenna all set to go Trick or Treating! Calvin ran to every door he could McKenna decided that those boots hurt her feet so she was a little slower. She was a bit sad when I informed her that next year she will probably just get to do trunk or treat and not go house to house because she is about 5 feet tall and everyone thinks she is a teenager and too big to trick or treat. Poor little 10 year old but we keep telling her she'll love it in basketball and volleyball when she's so tall. :o)

(Calvin wanted me to explain that he changed his mind from a Mummy Spider King because it was too hard to find the costume.)

McCain all the way....

Thought this was appropriate since we all are going to go and VOTE on Tuesday, November 4th for John McCain...... It didn't come out as clear as I had hoped..it basically says that Obama raised $150 million dollars and he was all proud and then the guy he is telling says, "well, let's spread the wealth and give some to Senator McCain." Obama says no way I worked hard for that money! Haven't we all worked hard for our money and 401k's to see this smooth talking terriost associated abortionist take all of it to spread it around and to raise our taxes up to 44%! Yikes

Please Vote and Hopefully you Vote for McCain

(these are my opinions of course and aren't meant to offend anyone but if you are offended...please remember that we all have FREEDOM OF SPEECH thankfully to our troops and I truly believe he will ruin America and we will all be poor!)

So much going on....Bye Mom

Grammy this morning before we left for the airport. Isn't she Pretty?

So today we took my Beautiful Mom to the airport but the past few weeks have been such a whirl wind with so many things going on that it just seemed like she got here. First we went to Utah for my Mom's surgery just a month ago, her surprise 50th birthday party, came back to Arizona to learn that my Grandpa was very sick and was flown to Phoenix to the hospital where he was for almost 2 weeks until he passed away, my Mom flew in, we went up North for the funeral, came back home, all the while working full time, got nasty cold/sinus infection, costume party, then this past week we had the pleasure of having my Mom...Grandma...and my Aunt Debbie here for the week and finally Halloween. It was so fun to have my family here this week and we were spoiled rotten! Everyday they were here I would come home from work to a clean house with dinner cooking and usually dessert too! We stayed up super late every night talking and loved every minute of it! This week will be back to normal...boo hoo! I have a ton of pictures and hope to be able to get some posts in today.

Poor kids were crying when Grammy got out at the airport and wanted to call her as we drove home. I'm so blessed that she is such a caring, loving Grandma who constantly calls and comes and visits my children. Mom you are an amazing woman who I totally love, admire and most of adore!!!!

Arizona style pumpkin....

I was driving today and this is what I saw. I thought it was very creative!

Mom's 50th ELVIS Birthday Bash!

So on Sept 26th we drove up to Utah and surprised my Mom the next day. We went because she was having a major neck surgery on 9/29 and her 50th Birthday on 10/1 so that next morning on Sat. the 27th she was so surprised when she walked into Brandy's house to find us there. It was so cute she jumped up & down and screamed for about 10 solid minutes. Anyways she knew that Brandy was making her a birthday dinner that night since she would be either in the hospital or recovering on her actual birthday. Brandy had gone all out for a surprise party for her! So it was a surprise party and all the guests were suppose to be there at 6:15pm however I guess they all ran on Mormon standard time (30 minutes late) so I was a decoy and went over to Mom's to have her show me all of her new plants in her garden & her flowers etc. My Mom loves to garden so that did the trick. We then walked over to Brandy's and when she came in everyone surprised her.

The party started off with pizza, veggie trays, fruit trays, drinks etc but then it really got started when Elvis showed up! Brandy hired the guy to surprise Mom and it was hilarious!!! He doesn't really look the part but he sure sounded like him and was so funny! He had all sorts of details about Mom and made her participate in his little act with song and all. She was surprised, embarrassed and most of all entertained. I thought ole Jim Pops (my step dad) was going to have to punch him when he kissed her not once but twice as part of his act! He was a great sport though and remained seated. :o) She told us not to give her another surprise because her heart wasn't able to take anymore that day!

After Elvis left we had to keep the party going so Brandy had a great game...who can eat the donut off of the string in mid-air without using their hands...

Can you tell who won??? Yep Birthday girl!!! (I came in 2nd)

You didn't think just us girls made fools of ourselves did you???
Brandy's husband Tyson was the winner out of the boys! (Will took 2nd)

McKenna is always right by Grammy's side and Grammy is so cute to always love on her.



Happy 50th Birthday Mom! You are as beautiful as ever and I absolutely LOVED being with you to celebrate it! Brandy you put on an awesome 50th party...you know mine will be right around the corner. ha

Our Pets...

This is the female Amber, she is somewhat head down & sideways

Here's the male Manti, he is much smaller & tan he is on the green leaves in center of picture.

Their dinner a couple of crickets...yuck!!!
Their beautiful pickle jar home above and the female again below. So since we've been home Calvin has been begging for a pet...amazingly enough he settled for a Praying mantis actually he has two a female who is large and green and a small male that looks more tan like a twig. We are so state of the art that we have them in the best of environments...an extra large Costco pickle jar with screen material for the lid. Each day he and Will catch crickets to feed them and it is actually very interesting to watch them catch & eat one. Gross but interesting. Calvin has named them Amber and Manti, McKenna considers them our family pets and Will says it is better than watching the Discovery Channel. :o) We have had them for over a week now well at least the female the male was just added 3 days ago but he has an injured arm and we have yet to see him catch a cricket but he tries so we shall see.

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UPDATE: We only have one female praying mantis now she ate the males and she has laid 2 egg sacks!

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Mom comes home from Hospital 9/30/08

If I didn't blog tonight I think I would have just exploded! I have been so busy that I've not had time for like 3 or 4 weeks and it's been eating me up inside. :o) I still have lots and lots more to post but this is a start. We got back from the funeral last night and I will post about that but want to keep things in chronilogical order or as close as possible.

Thank you to all that have helped me in some way or the other through the last few weeks as we've had so many things happen with Kent's sudden death, Mom's surgery & 50th birthday, my Grandpa in the hospital and then passing away...so truly thank you for your prayers, kind words and kind deeds. :o) My Mom is staying in Springerville with my Grandma & her siblings for about a week and then coming back here to stay with us for a week. My Grandma seems to be hanging in there and doing pretty good through all of this. More pics to come as soon as I get time.