SNOW!! It's cute today anyway

OK we got the craziest snow today! It was a total flurry all midafternoon while I was getting grocieries and I hoped it would last for the kids to get to see it after school, and it did! They loved it! The kids saw it when they were in the lunchroom and got so excited the teachers closed all the blinds and turned off all the lights so the students would be quiet, so retarded. But they had a fun afternoon, so it's all good! I have Christmas up because I am hosting the RS book club here and I want it to look nice. Although it just looks more crowded, and you can tell 4 kids decorated the tree, but they had fun. All I needed was a Bialetti hot chocolate maker from William Sonoma and the night would have been perfect, hah hah.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving and brace yourselves everyone!! Don't know where the year has gone, remember when we were excited for it to be 2000? We are so close to 2010, and no aliens in sight, what a disappointment! We had a great Thanksgiving, but I missed my family! The bird was cooked by f-in-law, he cooks it in this green egg thing with alder wood chips which give it a smokey taste which isn't my favorite, but wasn't as bad as the year he used hickory. Apparently there are things better then a nice piece of hickory... anyone know that quote?? Think Eastwood people! Anyway I made rolls and the prerequistie Mormon jello salad. It was the raspberry one, and Susan was the first to scoop in and she pulls me aside and says, " Bonnie I think a stick fell into the jello, any idea how that happened?" It was hard to not laugh and look disdainful, but i explained that there are pretzels in the bottom of the jello, it's part of the deliciousness of it. Everyone got a good laugh out of that one. So now I am setting up the Christmas stuff. In church on Sunday they asked for any volunteers to host the December book club and I found my hand raising of it's own accord, it does that now and then. But it gives me a good reason to set up the decorations! I am remembering now, that I was promised a new prelit tree this year, and once again it will not happen. But that is okay, there are worse things. And more boring blogs I am quite sure.

Word vomit and other noxious stuff

It has not been one of my favorite 24 hours. However I have had much worse. And some of it was nice. Elle had a tummy ache yesterday morning and I had to do that mom thing where you figure out really fast if it's A. fake send 'em to school, B. real but not bad enough, send 'em to school, or C. real and keep 'em home. She was crying and she doesn't like to miss school so I kept her home. Which Connor of course hates being a envious older brother. SO I keep her home and she actually feels better enough later so I run some errands. About 1 o'clock she asks if school is almost over? I say Yes, and she says so can you take me back to school if I feel better? NO,it's too late to take you. Oh she says, that's too bad because I am feeling much better! Typical! So I went to bed a little late I got totally sucked into this book, Veil of Roses which I recommend. And then about midnight Connor wakes up and can't sleep for awhile and then I'm finally asleep when Elle comes in and doesn't feel well and so of COURSE, Kirk puts her in our bed. About 2:30 I feel her jerk up and vomit all over my back and the bed. Totally gross. Grosser is that I let her eat Cheetos all afternoon! Nuclear orange vomit all over my white sheets, white down comforter.. and it's still coming out! So I jump out of bed and grab whatever is on the floor so she can do it on that and not on my bed. Why? I don't know, it was already covered why involved another thing? Who knows I was tired and what do I grab?? my jeans that I had casually dropped there. Even better is since my surgery I am still uncomfortable carrying a purse no matter how small, so in my back pockets are credit cards and receipts I need to turn into the church. Nice. Why do I leave my clothes on the side of the bed? I have an (irrational perhaps) fear of an emergency like a earth quake or fire in which time I would really need to be able to out clothes on quickly. There are worse bad habits, right?? So all day I've been cleaning my bed and clothes, washing puke out of Elle's hair. But now she is dancing through the back yard to see if there are any ripe raspberries in our patch , so all is well with the world. Or will be when I can get some uninterrupted SLEEP! I realize this post is a bit chatty, but my friend who I will not mention by name has been workgin out this week or helping another friend in dire straights and has not been hanging out with me so I can up my words. And Mother is traveling and seeing other people, so I have a lot of pent up conversation!! And I did take an excedrin a few minutes ago.. ahem.

Birthday Season is OVER baby!

First off I will apologize. No i won't, i will claim that i still have anesthesia in my body and so I'm not on top of things as i wish I was. Matts Bday was last week and he is offically a teenager!! We had his party with all the Johnstons at Bucca de bepo, a great Italian place. I totally forgot my camera and so I don't have any pictures. He got money from all the aunts and uncles and Johnstons since he is saving up for a nano. Which I'm excited for because then I get his ipod and I really want one! From Parnell G's he got new bedding which he really needed. Mom and I wrapped his new pillows in a brown Yard waste bag, it was very cute! From Kirk and I he got night vision goggles which totally rock and the new Call of Duty game. AJ's 9th bday was yesterday and as happens every year I totally put it off until the last minute. Being the 4th bday in only 2 months he tends to get short changed. SO I ran around and got him legos and his own pair of night vision goggles since everyones loves them!! We made ice cream sundays and had cake. Then they were so hiper they wouldn't go to sleep and I was so tired I grounded them for life, so all in all it was a great night! I will take picts of the boys in their goggles. Matt took me down to our basement and turned off the lights and told me to stand in one place, and I knew he was sneaking around somewhere stalking me waiting to scare the crap out of me so I chickened out and ran for a light switch!

Calloway 2008

Ok here is our annual trip to Calloway. We go there once a year with Kirks law firm. All the attorneys bring their familes and we stay in cabins by each other. It's a fun way to get to meet the people Kirk works with and all the wives get to talk, and the kids consider each other good friends even though they only see each other once a year. We live so far from everyone else, sometimes I wish we lived closer. But even if we did most of them have 2 kids and so put their kids in private schools so I probably still wouldn't get my kids with theirs even if we lived closer. They have a big box lunch down at the lake on Saturday follwed by pinatas for the kids. Then we pretty much spilt up and do whatever until a BBQ dinner later that night. As tradition, that I am very willing to give up, we drive down to the animal safari with whatever other familes want to come. This year we went with a family who drove down from the NC office, they are LDS as well. We rented the biggest van they have and you drive through this park and feed various animals. There are Zebras, Giraffes, water buffalo, emu's, ostrichs, water buffalo, other buffalo/cow type animals, pig type things, goats, a rhino (which you don't feed). Anyway it's a lot of fun and we go through a 50 pound bag of animal pellets. Of course the kids get slimmed with drool and an occasional annimal snots and sneezes which is hilarious to everyone but the one it happened to. At the BBQ I brought a few bags of glowsticks that I got after halloween and gave them out to kids since the dinner is outside and that was a huge hit. Connor bailed in a ditch with his bike when he brakes either didn't work or he slid on leaves, luckily he wasn't too hurt. And one of the partners kids was asking Connor and AJ if MAtt likes her, so we told him to be very nice to her! All in all a good weekend, and now i need a vacation!

Halloween etc

The Johnstons and Hansens on our front porch before hitting the neighborhood. Matt was horribly, horribly sick the whole weekend, so he is not there. Then you can see that Connor loves to organize his candy, even the sucker sticks are crossed at an angle. Then I braided Elles hair last night and today it was so cute and curly! I totally remember mom doing that to my hair! Elle is a pink bunny. I really pushed for her to be a witch this year but one look at this incredibly soft bunny dress at target and it was over! one night she had the nose and whiskers but on halloween she had glitter makeup on, courtesy of Susan.

Pumkin carving

Ok here was our annual pumpkin carving night. The biggest weighed in at 97 pounds which is smaller then previous years believe it or not. It was hard for me to still be so weak from surgery I couldn't do very much but watch and encourage. Matt started to write the words suck it on his pumkin which we stopped after the S so that lead to his carving, don't know what he was thinking, I'm still debating about his pumkins teeth...?? They even carved those little mini pumkins and we stuck birthday candles in them. Elles pumkin isn't carved yet because her kindergarden class carves them with their dads before school on Wed and boy is she excited!!
Sad note, my mom goes home today and I am very bummed. There is no way my recovery would be going to smoothly without her and I'm gratiful she stayed! She even extended until I could get the *#**# catheter out. I dread driving and cooking and all the stuff she has helped me with. But I know Dad is anxious to have her home! And the worst part is I'm sending her home with a nasty cold, clearly I worked her to death! It hurts for me to sit for longer then 10 minutes, I barely made it through sacrament meeting on Sunday, Kirk had to almost carry me from the room. But it was the Primary program and Elle and AJ both had memorized parts and it was Connors last program! They were all wonderful!