9 Years and counting...

That time of year rolled around and I am so lucky that I have an awesome husband who likes to plan fun things for us to do to celebrate. It has been 9 years and counting. Daniel surprised me with tickets to Kooza. We were mystified, we were awed, we were scared they were going to pull us on stage and have to do a dance with the clowns. We had a great time and enjoyed the show. We recommend to all!!

This Christmas

This Christmas proved to be a video gaming Christmas. It was the first year that Cody had shown any interest in them after seeing his cousin playing his. So all year he's been asking for a Nintendo DS, and boy was he excited when he saw that Santa did indeed come, and brought him is own DS. And I don't think I've seen much of his face ever since. I have to restrict it already!! This Christmas was a nice one. Shortly after putting up our decor inside the house Daniel came home from work raving about all of the traditions that another guy had told him that his family does every year. One of them being that they have a decoration that they put up every year and tell the kids that it's a camera that goes back to the North Pole to let Santa know if they are being good or bad so we decided to adopt this tradition. We picked a snowman that has black eyes. Cody wanted to see the cameras in the eyes so Daniel lifted him up and only let him get so close. But he took it hook, line and sinker!! In addition to the DS Santa was kind enough to bring our family the Wii. We have had a lot of fun family time with it already. It was also part of our fun on New Years Eve.

Our camera man, the snowman!

Tradition that Cody puts up the star

Cody's loot from Santa Our family gift

Cody playing hours of Nintendo DS

Daniel and Cody also got remote control helicopters Like the one boot out, one boot in look...he LOVES these boots!

Now that Christmas is over we have already started our first project of the new year. We decided to put up crown molding and new baseboard in our bedroom. It's not finished yet but has been nothing but one problem after the other. We found out that we had a slow leak in our shower drain which is on the other side of our bedroom wall. After making a small hole we ended up having to patch a huge one. Then it just kept going on and on with small dumb stuff that kept it complicated. 4 days later it was finally finished and I had a husband that hopes to never see another project for a while...too bad the carpet and baseboard still have to be put in!!

Pictures will follow the completion of the full project.

Frantic I lost it all.

As I was trying to change my background tonight I was venturing out and trying new websites and previewing the many different choices. After one little click to change to another background...suddenly all was lost!! Lost somewhere in the cyber world which might I add I have no idea when it comes to that stuff!! I am frantically trying to undo whatever it is that I have done, but nothing seems to work. I was working on the laptop of all things and I was going nuts so I had to switch over to our regular computer. I spent, no joke, at least 45 minutes trying to salvage whatever I could of my blog all the while Cody is in the background saying I am hungry Mommy! AAAHHHHHH, okay, calm down, give him something to eat and he will be content, but no then it's I want to watch my TV show! Trying to not yell outright at the poor child who just wants another simple request I said no, mommy is working on something right now just play with your toys for a little bit. Continuing on my quest to find the contents of my blog all I had to do was switch to another template and it all came back!! Something so simple I was baffled and yet still left with anger and frustration for having to go through the whole situation! I have now calmed down and the excitement of it all left me exhausted and drawn to the conclusion that I will never try new websites again to change my background.

Our November

This month has been a crazy one. My poor husband has been working like crazy, putting a together his first power point presentation for his Captain, taking classes, doing training, and on top of that getting 2 S.W.A.T call outs this month alone. Below are some pictures that were included in the power point. They show how tall the big ladder on the truck goes. It's crazy high!!
As for myself, I've had a few biopsies. One on a mole on my back with luckily came back as just being very Atypical (non melanoma) but something I did not know was that I guess my back is a bit sensitive when it comes to bandages...I learned that finally after a few days of wearing them and had to switch to paper tape and endure the irritation of what the bandages did to my skin in that area. It's been fun... The other biopsy was on my foot. Most of you know the back story on my foot, as it's been an ongoing problem for about 8 years now. After the failure of many, many different treatments my Dr. wanted to make sure that what we were dealing with was was he's been treating for. He decided that my foot needed a biopsy so I have a small hole in my heel. It brings back so many memories and similar pain of when I had a much larger hole in my foot from trying to cut the thing out about a year and a half ago. Needless to say, it doesn't feel good but ya gotta do what ya gotta do and am hopeful that by doing this it will help my heel get better.
Cody has been adjusting to Kindergarten and lately has been doing very well. He had a ruff start but now loves his teacher and has made lots of new friends. It's fun to hear all the kids say good bye to each other as they leave. We are glad things are going much better and he doesn't even complain about homework or reading assignments!

My heel. You can actually see the indentation where the hole is on this picture

My back wound. This one was a lot bigger and painful than anticipated.

How would you like to climb this ladder?

It's a long way down!!

In the academy they have to climb this ladder as it stands straight up, lock their legs in and lean backwards...scary!!

Halloween

playing with Cody while he listens to my IPod.

Pumpkins

Cody and Tyler as Darth Vader

without the mask

decorating halloween cookies

Keep us warm and cool!

We finally were able to get some insulation into our attic due to an awesome sale at Home Depot. Just one of the projects we would like to get done. But already we can tell a difference at night time. We really hope it will save us some money come late winter and summer time. I know most of you out of state don't believe that we have cold winters but for us who live here, it's cold to us!!

September Update

I haven't updated the blog in quite awhile but I've had a few requests to do so. This is what we've been up to lately.

Cody began Kindergarten this year at Cleveland Elementary school. He's had a bit of an adjustment period but is doing well and coming home with lots of papers that they worked on in class. We attended his back to school night last night and got to see their daily routine and all of the stuff they will be learning this year. His teacher has been teaching for 43 years and is quite a spunky lady, but firm with the rules so Cody has had to adjust to that since his Preschool teacher wasn't as firm but more loving. Anyhow, Cody loves his recess and P.E. time and has made a few new friends.

Cody's teacher, Mrs. Collins greeting the kids on the first day.

Cody was not thrilled to do homework that first week.

We also purchased a new elliptical for me since I have pretty much run my other one into the ground. After having it for 2 weeks it started making noises and not working as it should so we tried everything, from taking the whole thing apart to contacting the company that made it and we decided that it was just defective so we finally took it back and exchanged for a new one. As we were putting the new one together we realized that some of the holes were not drilled to put the screws in and some of the parts didn't align as they should. Poor Daniel, so frustrated decided to drill his own holes and maneuver the unfitting parts to fit. Boy was it fun! 3 hours later it was put together!! So far this one is working okay. But just for the record...don't buy a Norditrack elliptical!!

The final project put together.

I have not been crafting too much lately after doing a million burp cloths and onesies for friends and family, but I did decide to make my first diaper cake for my sister-in-law. I've also joined a craft group from my ward but wasn't able to go to the first craft night. I can't wait for the next one. I also got to attend our ward's Super Saturday were I made some cool cards, and etched my name on a pan. Fun times!!