Thursday, December 16, 2010

Kysa Sporting Her New Glasses

20/200 vision....+7.00 in one eye; +7.75 in the other.

Kysa's glasses are pink...and thick.

She has been pretty good about wearing them. Just need to work on always
putting them in the same place (on her pink nightstand) when she takes them
off.

G-Ro to the Rescue

Grandma Ro has been a huge help to us in this busy time of year. From a
semi-surprise visit on Wednesday for the Madison basketball game (which
Grandpa watched) and G-Ro babysat so I could film and go to the freshman
girls practice...to coming last weekend so I could do the ACT's and ref a
basketball game...it is always a blast for the kids. She manages to find
time to play with them, read to them, make gingerbread houses with them,
Skype Kirb and Bodie with them, and always throw in a load of my laundry or
two and clean up my messy house. She is truly a superhero to me and my
kids. Oh, and I didn't mention that if ever something needs mended or
hemmed, she is quick to do it on my sewing machine (that only she uses!)
Even though she lives 2 hours away she is here when I need her to be, and I
am so grateful.

(I have to comment on this one picture with the kids by the Christmas
tree...I think it's hilarious because Grandma Ro looks so cute and the kids
all look like GOONS! Reminds me of the Little Bunny Foo Foo song...the good
fairy has done what she threatened to do.)

Aunt Claire's Overnighter

Aunt Claire stayed with us last week because Brittney was flying in to the
I.F. airport from Alaska at 9:30 p.m. and Claire had to teach in Rexburg in
the morning, so Dale took Brit back to Poky and Claire just slept at our
house. My kids LOVE their Aunt Claire so much because she is the next best
thing to Grandma Ro, Grandma Sue, and Grandma Rue. Kysa ended up sleeping
downstairs with her. We made Shay sleep in her own bed, much to her
disappointment.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Re-Living the Dream 2010 Part 2

Jen Cannon and I recruited BYU-I students Jenny Fiso McKinney (Eastern
Washington) and Marianne Schiess Dalling to play with us in a couple games
on Friday vs. Snow College and Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming. Jill
Adams and Cady Williams along with Libbie Loughmiller Oram and Kelly Coombs
Grossman from Billings also joined us. We lost to Snow by 3 and beat
Northwest Wyoming by 8 points. It was so fun to see Cady and Jill. Cady
couldn't make it for our first game against Snow or I know the outcome would
have been different. (Cady had 32 points in the game she made it to.) Refs
were pretty poor for the Northwest game on both sides. The Northwest coach
said they were the worst she's ever had. It was ROUGH. Jill got a black
eye and I ended up getting tackled with about 10 seconds left in the game.
My jaw is still out of alignment, but it's getting better so I don't plan to
go to the dentist.

As for our travel plans, we left Thursday night and stayed in Bozeman and
then drove Friday morning. There was a semi-truck wreck outside of Powell
that almost caused us to miss the game, but thanks to some "desperation in
action" (Jen and I going car to car to see if anyone on the other side of
the wreck would turn around and take us to Powell) AND the emergency workers
who finally let us go through and then helped sandbag and push us back onto
the road when we started to slide off, we made it to the game on time! It
was quite the adventure. Jen's favorite line from the trip was mine when I
said "Go get the nurses!" (The two BYU-I nursing students) and mine was
Jen's when she said after we slid off the road, "Well, at least the two
truck will have to pull us out first."

G-Ro watched the kids so I could have my adventure. Ty took his boys to
Utah where they went 1-1 vs. Syracuse and Clearfield and then went to the
BYU v. Hawaii game in SLC at Energy Solutions Arena.

We had a couple from our ward over for dinner today because mom left us a
roast and we had plenty of food to share. Scott and Desiree Wheeler and
they have two little kids Cole and Alicia. Cole is 3 and must have a lot in
common with Shay because when they were down playing he climbed up on the
bunk bed with Kysa and then chucked his sippy cup down at Raleigh who was
playing a computer game. The sippy cup bonked Raleigh on the head and then
spilled all over the floor and Raleigh bedspread. Raleigh came up bawling.
Of course Cole's parents felt bad but it was pretty funny. I think Ty said
he home teaches Scott now. So yay, December should be done. :)

Re-Living the Dream Part 1 was my basketball trip to Snow College a few
weeks ago. If I ever get a copy of the team picture we took I'll post it on
the blog. Different team, but it was fun.

Random Pictures

Kysa and Shay really like playing in boxes from an ottoman I got on Black
Friday. Raleigh read a 200+ page Diary of a Wimpy kid book yesterday, in
less than 24 hours. Yay, I have a reader in the family! (Kysa is working
on it too.)

The cheesestick picture reminds me of Jill in warm-ups for our basketball
team. A new hip-hop song is called "Like a G6" and I asked Jill if she knew
what the lyrics meant. She joked, "It's actually 'like a cheesestick"." Ha
ha

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

pillow talk with Shay

Shay, “You’re the best mom in the universe.”

 

Thanks Shay.

 

“Universe is my favorite word.”

 

Oh really?

 

“The universe is for cats, and dogs….and kids, right?”

 

Right Shay.

 

“That’s what I learned on the ‘puter.”

 

“You are the best mom in the universe because you do so many things for us.  You sweep the floor for us….you get drinks for us, when we say please….you get toys for us….you take us to McDonalds….you help us go to sleep….that’s why you are the best mommy in the universe.”

 

Wow, thanks for saying all those things Shay.  That makes me happy.

 

“Give me your hand.”

 

Shay takes my hand, and kisses it.

 

Does it get any sweeter than that from a 3 year old?

 

We are just thankful that Shay CAN be sweet.