Highlights included: Pingpong at Mowers (New Years), out to breakfast on MLK day, Braces, and a new puppies for the Farrell's (Lily) and us!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
January in Review
Highlights included: Pingpong at Mowers (New Years), out to breakfast on MLK day, Braces, and a new puppies for the Farrell's (Lily) and us!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Metal Mouth Millers
Like father, like daughter! Jason and Megan BOTH got braces on today. Jason's took longer and will be a much more difficult fix. Megan's should be on for about 12-18 months. They both are pretty sore and just want soup and Jamba juice! We can't wait for the before and after post. I'm sure there will be a lot of sore mouths before then.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
It's a Girl! 8lbs 2 oz
We adopted a black baby (not from Haiti) Labradoodle and named her Maya! She was born on December 1. We brought her home on January 24th at 7 weeks old. She weighs about 8 little pounds. She is half Labrador (black) and half Standard Poodle. The best of both worlds: A hunting dog with webbed feet for Jason and a "non-shedding" smart dog for the rest of us.
The kids are more than ecstatic. Now, we have wanted our kids to have a puppy (kind of) and have never agreed on the breed to get. We always said when we moved we would make a final decision. Well, as life goes, we have been saying that for 5 years now and Megan only has about 6 years left at home, so it is about time. Farrell's just got a cute new puppy last week and gave us the bug, too.
So this is how it went down. We were driving home from Tyler's soccer game and saw a truck by Draper Park with a sign: "PUPPIES". He had been there a couple times before, but we never stopped. This time, I thought, "Oh, let's just let the kids play with them." BIG MISTAKE! Warning/Note to self: Do not EVER stop where there is a sign offering ANY type of baby animals!
Anyway, we instantly fell in love with the little girl. There were 8 puppies in the litter. He had 2 boys left and this little girl. Man was the guy a good salesman. He convinced Jason what a good hunter Labradoodles are and what a good pet because of the poodle. (She won't be huge, but a little bigger than I ever wanted.) The mother is the lab and the father is the poodle. The only thing we were surprised was the big price tag. "Designer" dogs cost a pretty penny!
We finally pulled the kids away and said we needed to go home and think about it and look on line as to how much these really sell for and about the breed. We really had not considered Labradoodles. I thought they were huge dogs with really frizzy hair! Apparently, that is when the mother is a poodle. The great salesman/breeder offered to let us take her home and let her walk around then bring her back in an hour. (Smart guy-like we were going to rip her away from our kids.) So we went home, looked up Labradoodles...and apparently they are fantastic dogs! They were "designed" in about 1995 to be hypoallergenic guide dogs. How smart! We could not find anything bad about them! Well, that was good enough for me. Jason negotiated the price and we had a new member of our family. I could not believe I was agreeing to this! But, everyone was so excited, and with a little luck and A LOT of training I think she will be fine. We found a Crate on KSL, went to Walmart and loaded the cart with $100 in supplies and now the fun training begins! Welcome home little Maya Miller!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
HAWAII WAS WONDERFUL
A few pics of our trip: Nov 13-20 2009. It was just the two of us- all by ourselves- that means no kids! We were on Oahu for 3 days and the Big Island for 4. We did a lot of sight seeing on Oahu, then relaxed and really enjoyed ourselves and the gorgeous resort on the Big Island (Hawai'i). My favorite things were the waterfalls, the best pina coladas every day, chocolate covered macadamias (everyday) snorkeling at Point of Refuge and of course the Plumerias. I was constantly picking them. I had to do this post because there is 3 feet of snow falling outside right now and I wish I could be in Hawaii right now! I miss is so much. We really had a great time.
Couldn't go anywhere without my plumerias.
The view from our lanai (back patio) at the Grand Kona. I had breakfast (of course POG and Hawaiian bread) every morning looking at this view with the warm breeze on my face. Ahhhh.
Yes, that is a wild turtle that swam up to Jason when we were snorkeling at Point of Refuge. (It knew we needed a picture.) It was the best snorkeling we have ever done! The reef is "Two Step" (two levels) and seriously, compared to Caman, Cabo and Hanama Bay, it was unbelievable! Too bad we did not have an underwater camera.... there were hundreds of schools of fish- every color of the rainbow, morey eels, turtles, etc!
Shouldn't every day look like this?
A Condo complex named after me!
The Royal Kona had the BEST pina coladas!
And you wonder where my temper comes from? Not Kileuea! It's barely blowing smoke!
Akaki Falls National Park is one of my favorite places. It looks like the Garden of Eden to me.
I showed Jason around my old stomping ground. It was EXACTLY the same 17 years later...so fun! Did I really say, 17 years later? Woah, Susan if you are reading this, how did we get so old?
Just a little ditty of Jason on the surf.
Couldn't go anywhere without my plumerias.
The view from our lanai (back patio) at the Grand Kona. I had breakfast (of course POG and Hawaiian bread) every morning looking at this view with the warm breeze on my face. Ahhhh.
Yes, that is a wild turtle that swam up to Jason when we were snorkeling at Point of Refuge. (It knew we needed a picture.) It was the best snorkeling we have ever done! The reef is "Two Step" (two levels) and seriously, compared to Caman, Cabo and Hanama Bay, it was unbelievable! Too bad we did not have an underwater camera.... there were hundreds of schools of fish- every color of the rainbow, morey eels, turtles, etc!
Shouldn't every day look like this?
A Condo complex named after me!
The Royal Kona had the BEST pina coladas!
And you wonder where my temper comes from? Not Kileuea! It's barely blowing smoke!
Akaki Falls National Park is one of my favorite places. It looks like the Garden of Eden to me.
I showed Jason around my old stomping ground. It was EXACTLY the same 17 years later...so fun! Did I really say, 17 years later? Woah, Susan if you are reading this, how did we get so old?
Just a little ditty of Jason on the surf.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Items to Note
In April we had a few unusually different events. See below:
1) WICKED is my new most FAVORITE Broadway musical. I have wanted to see it for a long time and was so excited when Jason was able to get tickets. He got them through a season ticket holder. He bought the tickets in August! The show was April 29th. We had to miss Tyler's first soccer game, but it was well worth it. The show even exceeded my expectations. The music, actors and sets were amazing and I loved every minute of it. The actress who played Glinda was so great and all the singing voices were amazing. I could listen to them all day. I can't wait to take Megan some day.
2) 4/28/09 ER visit: Tyler was so excited with his new soccer cleats that he put them on in the car and was running around when he went from the grass to the sidewalk and did not realize that new cleats were slippery. His feet went out from under him and he landed on his face. He came in the house all bloody and Jason was taking care of him in the bathroom. I did not think it was that bad and then I looked closer and it was BAD! His tooth had gone through all the way to the top of his lip and it was split competely open on the inside from top to bottom. Very calmly Jason carried Tyler to the car and drove to Alta View. I was fixing Jason's birthday dinner at the time, so I finished it up, put it in Tupperware and dropped off M & B at my mom's.
1) WICKED is my new most FAVORITE Broadway musical. I have wanted to see it for a long time and was so excited when Jason was able to get tickets. He got them through a season ticket holder. He bought the tickets in August! The show was April 29th. We had to miss Tyler's first soccer game, but it was well worth it. The show even exceeded my expectations. The music, actors and sets were amazing and I loved every minute of it. The actress who played Glinda was so great and all the singing voices were amazing. I could listen to them all day. I can't wait to take Megan some day.
2) 4/28/09 ER visit: Tyler was so excited with his new soccer cleats that he put them on in the car and was running around when he went from the grass to the sidewalk and did not realize that new cleats were slippery. His feet went out from under him and he landed on his face. He came in the house all bloody and Jason was taking care of him in the bathroom. I did not think it was that bad and then I looked closer and it was BAD! His tooth had gone through all the way to the top of his lip and it was split competely open on the inside from top to bottom. Very calmly Jason carried Tyler to the car and drove to Alta View. I was fixing Jason's birthday dinner at the time, so I finished it up, put it in Tupperware and dropped off M & B at my mom's. There were 3 other kids getting stitches at the same time! We had to wait about an hour but to make a long story short, the nurses thought he would need stitches so we waited for a Dr. But the Dr. decided we should wait to see how it looked in the morning so we went home. It looked a lot better and started healing itself so Tyler was spared a shot and stitches. AND our insurance covered the whole thing. We paid 0! That was the miracle! Tyler has now had a lot of blows to his little head. (I think 5 now.) He is now officially our accident prone child. He makes me nervous!
Now, please note that there are 3 new posts previous to this one eventhough they are all on the same day. That's how I do this thing. I just do a bunch as I have time and that's the way I like it. This is my last post of the night and I am very proud that I am up to May now and it is only June 14th (the boys birthday). Most bloggers would be posting their pics and videos of the day's events of their children's parties, but we have not even eaten cake yet because they are playing with their new DS games and not interested in the delicious double layer chocolate cake I made for them. I have not even uploaded the last weeks events eventhough the card is almost full. I've re-charged the batteries though so I'll be all ready to go and maybe, just maybe in July there will be a post of the GREAT fun the boys had this weekend! :)
Now, please note that there are 3 new posts previous to this one eventhough they are all on the same day. That's how I do this thing. I just do a bunch as I have time and that's the way I like it. This is my last post of the night and I am very proud that I am up to May now and it is only June 14th (the boys birthday). Most bloggers would be posting their pics and videos of the day's events of their children's parties, but we have not even eaten cake yet because they are playing with their new DS games and not interested in the delicious double layer chocolate cake I made for them. I have not even uploaded the last weeks events eventhough the card is almost full. I've re-charged the batteries though so I'll be all ready to go and maybe, just maybe in July there will be a post of the GREAT fun the boys had this weekend! :)
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