Happy Birthday to Three Wonderful Young Men!
Today is Michael, Kevin and his dad Mark's birthday!!! They are 95 accumulative years! I'm sure I'll post more later about them, but just want to shout out my love to them today! I have one of the most wonderful father-in-laws you could ask for. Mark is a wonderful example and such a loving caring man. He's always helpful, always listening, and I don't think I've ever heard him speak to or of anyone in frustration. I'm so glad to have him as a father in law, and glad to have him in my family. I know my husband is a better man because of being raised by such a caring gentle father, as I see echo's of Mark in Kevin and the way that he cares for the world…
Where have I been?
OK, if Kevin did this, it would be an entirely different landscape, but here's mine, I've been all over the West having grown up in Utah, and lived in Idaho as a baby, and then there's the 6 years in Texas, and the drives between Utah and Texas (we mostly flew), both the Kansas route, and the New Mexico route, personal preference, I like the southwest route. In the near future I'll add Oregon and Washington. Kevin served his mission in Portland Oregon, so we hope to make a trip back there soon since our family vacation time no longer needs to be spent to SEE family. :) visited 12 states (24%)Create your own visited map of The United States Oh yeah, and sad as it is, I've never left…
Merrily we roll along…
Life is just going along. This week was a busy one. This week Kevin finally had his training for his new job (they threw him into it for the last two months without the formal training), and spent most of the days at work training, towards the ends of the work-days he was still responsible for his normal work routine, so he kept positively busy. The week began with Kevin taking a pre-test for one of his classes, and cramming for the following exam, on Wednesday he took and passed his Microsoft OS XP Certification Exam, Kevin said that some people told him that if he could use Microsoft OS, he'd be fine, but he had to study hard, and it was more complicated than it sounded. On Thursday Kevin…
re-cap of the last two months Part IV
We went to visit Grandma Steele at work, and went to see the Lights and reindeer at Thanksgiving point. We frantically searched high and low for the new bank account folder of private financial information, including our new ATM card, new Pin #, and our credit reports including both of our SSN#'s. To no avail. THIS REALLY STINKS. I can't even begin to express how frustrating that's been... Things have been worked out now, but things were sure tense there for a bit. We rang in the new year fast asleep. I was sick and saw no point in wasting what little energy I had on trying to stay awake... Though we did have Dinner at he Steele's. I then spent the next 4 days sick, it turns out my…
Bella and Edward in Utah
Aiden, Baby Joey, Bella and Edward, Church, Family, Family Fun, Health Concerns, Humor, Kevin, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, Move to Utah, Twilight
OK, maybe not all together, LOL! Wednesday morning Joseph, Aiden and Michael set out on our trip up to Utah. We got on our first flight without too much stress (heaven bless whoever invented a good double stroller), and we sat down to get settled on our first flight (that's right, we had a layover) As soon as I was settled a Man came down the isle with a little girl and a wife with a baby girl. As soon as they sat down the woman started hyperventilating and stressing about a flight with two kids... Um yeah lady, I had to bite my tongue to not tell her to find 4 more kids, or add a kid and loose the husband, and then complain... Soon after we took off the husband asked me why I'd fly alone with…
Our last date in Texas!
Aiden, Baby Joey, Church, Dreams, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, Move to Utah, Pictures
So lastnight we were able to get out on the town one last time. Last Christmas Kevin was drawn for a gift card for Trevesio's for $100! Sweet deal! The first time Kevin gave me a tour of the Med center was right after they finished the water fountains there, and we walked up to the top and peeked into the restaurant and said "I hope we can eat here someday, that would be a lot of fun!" He's had a couple work lunches there but they were more of a "here's a platter, pick what you like" format. Well being 9 months pregnant last Christmas, and me being miserable it just didn't happen while we had two kids. Then with marathon nursing around the clock, and several other big…
Halloween Costumes
Aiden, Baby Joey, Church, Family, Family Fun, Games, Health Concerns, Holidays, Humor, Kevin, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, Move to Utah, Pictures, The end is near
In the spirit of blogging, and since I'm so picture obsessed, it's only fair, regardless of other circumstances, to share some Halloween snapshots. Friday was the day we made our final decisions on the job and move, so it was a BIG day in many ways! We went to the ward "Trunk-or-treat," and had a great time. Michael was our "Soccer 'ball' Player" I got the outfit at the AF DI, on our trip last month, and hoped he'd latch onto the "basketball player" idea, he didn't, after three weeks of 5 different ideas a week, we went to Traders Village, and ran across some soccer balls, he decided he wanted to be a "Soccer 'ball' Player" (the "ball" addition all his own), but when it came down to time…
Utah Trip Update
Aiden, Baby Joey, Church, Family Fun, Health Concerns, Kevin, Kevin and I, Me, Memories, Michael, Pictures, Vacation
So, in case that didn't make any sense, I had 5 teeth majority worked on here. Two root canals, and a tooth pulled on Wednesday with a bone graft for a future implant. On Thursday I went back for two more root canals, but once they'd cleared the decay, we realized there wasn't enough left the save the teeth. So those two were pulled as well and I got bone grafts there too. So yeah. I'm in less pain now than before, but still plenty of pain. So, on Tuesday we flew in. We got in at noon and ran to temple square and to get some supplies for my family. By 4 we picked up Nate. That was wonderful! Everyone was filled with joy and excitement to all be…
Our Ike Experience
Aiden, Baby Joey, Family, Grief and Loss, Kevin, Kevin and I, Life in Texas, Me, Memories, Michael, The end is near, To new beginnings
Hand written at 7 this morning~ At 10:30 we lost power lastnight, it came back on but our cable and internet never came back. At about 11:45 we lost power for the night. It would flicker on for a few seconds, but ultimately continuously lost power. Kevin and I finally made it to bed at about 1, and didn't get to sleep because of the noise for a while longer, well and Joey was busy kicking each of us, but in that noise I couldn't just leave him in the other room... Around 3:30 AM the wind REALLY picked up and Kevin had another coughing fit. He and I both got up to explore what's going on. We managed to accidentally wake the boys, decided to move them into the…