Anzlie's artwork

Anzlie is really into drawing lately. She is always asking people how they spell their name and she writes it for them. she did this for me last night followed by a picture of me and daddy. I thought it was cute and no I dont have to sets of eyes! LOL. I also wondered why I am so much bigger than daddy when he is over six feet tall! I'll take what I can get this one is going on the fridge!

The Conley's!!!!!!!!

the Conleys seem to come into town whenever I have surgery so I have a hospital picture with them last year and this year they all came over. I mean the whole gang! Jason and Jared are easy on the eyes and I was trying to get a good picture of them to post on the blog incase anyone was wondering if these two were available. I didnt get a picture the camera wouldnt work for me I am so mad! the only one that wasnt completely dark I'll post. next time you guys are in town I will get a better one! thanks for coming over! I love to have company but for some reason everytime I have someone over from out of state they know my neighbor and she joins our party I am beginning to think I should get my photo albums out to see who else we both know!

I love you Alisa and I will come visit you in january. if anyone else reading this lives in Idaho let me know I 'll visit you too!

weekly update.

It's been hard to blog lately because our computer wasnt able to get the wireless signal for about a week and I was reaaly bummed because I had a lot of down time to be able to blog. THese past few months I have been in a lot of pain. I was losing feeling in my limbs randomly and certain times of the month were very painful. I finally went to the doctor and he opted to do surgery to diagnose endometriosis. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful mom who knew that I was overwhelmed trying to figure out how I was going to have surgery and care for my kids that she flew up here sacrificing her thanksgiving with my brother and father. There was no other time to schedule the surgery for the rest of the year though so this was my only option. I was so nervous that they wouldn't find anything and I would have had surgery for nothing and on the other hand I was nervous at what they would find. when I woke up I heard some of the doctors talking and I heard them saying that I had endometriosis and they scraped it out. I dont know much more than that until I go for my follow up appointment in a week. When I woke up I was still so drugged. apparently everyone reacts different to medication but I started trying to grab abd hug anyone that was close enough to grab (keep in mind that I was NOT coherent yet!) I heard the guy I hugged say to the nurses station, "what do I do?" they said, "I dunno just hug her I guess."

when I was a little less sedated I was shocked at the friendly gestures I believe my mom's reaction was , "you hugged him? gross." it was an older guy that smelled like a chain smoker and wore a funny tupee on his head! I am now very grateful I didnt do a lot of drugs in high school or I would probably have been in trouble with my generous affection. Some people wake up swearing and hitting the staff so they said it was a nice change. so glad I could help. the other funny thing was the nurses and orderly's thought I was around 12 years old. I thought that was wierd. I think its because I have such a tiny head and I was in a hospital gown with my tiny head and no makeup or anything. I wish I had pictures. I get to see pictures of the surgery at my follow up appointment I like seeing those pictures some people get grossed out so I will not post them. I am hopefully going to feel a little better for a while though. THANKS MOM AND AUNT LINDA FOR ALL THAT YOU FOR ME! I am so sad that you're gone mom! you seem to always be helping one of us!

Thanksgiving was a little rough. I was still in sleepy mode and slept through thanksgiving dinner. I was sad about that because it is such a great holiday. I took a few pictures that morning. Ciera had her first ponytail today. I had to take a picture of that! the rest are just a few pictures of thanksgiving day.

my Arizona trip!

My Husband Came home from work with a plane ticket for me to go for a visit "home" for a weekend. A weekend is not enough time to do everything you would like to so I didnt get to see friends much because we have a lot of family in Arizona. It was so good to see everyone. We are coming down for christmas so if I didnt get to see see you a few weeks ago than I will for sure see you in less than a month!

I took Ciera with me and she was so good the whole trip she is 11 months and just started getting braver with her walking attempts. she is getting closer. I loved being able to spend time with her and focus all my energy on her. I forgot how easy it was to have "one" kid. I was really lucky to get to see my sister and my mom and dad of course. we went shopping and out to eat a lot. I got to see my nephew Ethan's baseball game and spend time with my cousins and grandparents.I would have loved to see more of my cousins but I did get to see my favorite cousins Jim and Brooke and want everyone to know what an amazong mayopractor he is. It's similar to a chiropractor but they work with the muscles and do the whole body! it is amazing. THANKS JIM! I tried to take pictures for all of you. if you want more let me know and I'll mail them to you! I did get to see a few friends. Lisa flew in from WA dc and we spent a lot of time catching up and shopping. we visited Adele and I forgot to take my camera but you can check out her blog off my link list we didnt do anything illegal or too wild this time but given a little more time...

I love our girls nights and I love that even though we're 2000 miles a part we still schedule them! with the help of our loving husbands. a big THANK YOU to them!

I havent blogged for a while so I have to catch up on the exciting things we have been doing lately. One fun thing about living in utah is that whenever anyone does anything in our neighborhood everyone gets a phone call saying we are leaving at 2!

this particular time we went to the park becuase the autumn leaves were falling and we were going to rake them and let the kids jump in them it was so much fun we must have had 15 kids between all of us and I took some pictures because it is so pretty in saratoga springs - the view is breathtaking!

trick or treat

Happy Halloween!

I have to say it's crazy how time flies. I was getting my kids ready for trick or treating and had a moment where I was amazed how big my kids were getting and the fact that I had three kids to get ready this year was enough to make me realize that I am getting old. Landon was sick on the couch all day so it was hard to get too many pictures of him. for those of you that know my daughter anzlie, you know that if there's a camera she'll find it. she wanted a photo shoot because that was the first time she got to wear makeup and blue hair, so thats why there are so many of her. they had two costumes this year so we wore one for the ward trunk or treat and the other halloween night. ciera was a care bear. she is such a good baby.

I had so much fun this year. I am a little surprised how many houses in my neighborhood didnt participate in trick or treating. there were hardly any trick or treaters out so people that were participating were handing out candy by the handfuls! now I'm just wondering what I do with all this candy.