4th of July

We were lucky enough to head to SLC to witness the blessing of little C. It was so fun to visit with my whole family. Which isn't an easy feat since there are 29 of us now. If you're wondering who is who. My brothers are all on the left with their wives in front of them and all of my sister's are on the right with their husbands behind them. My parents are in the middle.

Home Improvements

C n' I had 2 major projects we wanted to get done this year, building a deck out the back door, and getting the front yard planted with grass. We just stained the deck this last week. I am loving it. We have had lots of barbecue this last week and just hanging out on the deck. Thanks C. You did great!!

We have leveled out the front yard, brought in topsoil, and planted the grass seeds. When it starts coming up I'll take another picture. I love owning my own home but it sure gets expensive.

Lung Flute.

C recently acquired the lung flute. It is a great tool that he uses to help keep his lungs clear so he can breathe. C has CF and has to take a lung treatments every morning and evening, the treatments take an hour each time. He added the flute to his treatments about 3 weeks ago. He loves it. He feels that he can breathe better which is a very good thing. It does make him cough though.

Last night C was using the flute while I was reading to him, when he starts coughing I stop reading because he can't hear me while he's coughing. Weel C started coughing and before I had time to stop reading all of a sudden I heard a loud bang on the floor. I throw my book down because C is lying on the floor and a chair he had tried to use for support was lying next to him. His whole face is red, his eyes flutter and then he stops breathing. Scared me to death. I go to check for a pulse and his eyes open and he start breathing again. He passed out while coughing. C apologized for not breathing, he said he did that on purpose trying to suppress the coughing. I told him I was just glad he was alright. Needless to say he sat on the bed while he finished his treatment last night.

Family, Man I love 'em!

Some of my family came to visit this last weekend. I had so much fun. The girls had fun walking on top of the snow. They even did kart wheels.

Mossimo and I made french bread while the older 3 were being pulled on sleds behind snowmobiles. It was a little sticky.

She doesn't look like it but K loved these hot curlers. She even had me put them back in her hair Sunday. She really likes curly hair.

M and C were nice enough to pull everyone behind on the sleds. Both days. They also enjoyed playing on the snowmobiles after the girls were done. M was able to jump his sled a good 15 feet.

I let Mossimo eat a warhead. He He. Her taking it out is the only way we could tell it was sour. She didn't pucker at all. But she wouldn't put it back in her mouth.

C was able to get the go-kart started and we got the tires fixed before they came to visit because the oldest K loves to drive it. However, as soon as I told her she would get muddy she wanted nothing to do with it so I took the middle 2 K's riding. I loved it. However, when we went inside to shower they took all the hot water so I had to stay muddy for 2 hours while I waited for more. They thought it was pretty funny until they had to rinse their hair in the cold water.

We also stayed up late playing games every night, ate tons of food, visited it was a very enjoyable weekend, Thanks H family for coming!!

Week after Christmas

My sister and her husband decided to follow us home and visit us until Thursday. It was really nice. They helped me peel, cut, and bottle 32 quarts of carrots. We went bowling, sledding behind the 4-wheelers, and played lots of games. I love it when they come to visit but my house always seems really quiet when they leave. Thanks for coming M & J!!!

Chad's Christmas Present.

For the month of December C has been wanting to open his Christmas gift. He'd been hinting for 5 months that he wanted a bow for Christmas. I don't know anything about bows so I bought him a gift certificate so he would be able to pick out his own. I put the certificate in a shoebox and filled it with real popped popcorn so when he shook it it really threw him off. It was really fun to see his face Christmas morning as he yelled "No Way!!!" He had a perma-grin the whole next day as he was picking out his bow and showing it off to everyone. Here is C shooting his bow for the first time!!

Christmas

Merry Christmas!!!I finally decided to take Buckie's shirt off and as soon as I did K asked if she could wear it. I didn't think it would fit her but to my surprise it did.

I had fun getting together with almost everyone. We were missing my brother, D, and his wife. With that many people there was a mountain of presents!!



Had fun loving on the babies!! My brother M and his wife just had twins in October.
My sister B got one of my nieces some aviator goggles and a cool hat. Needless to say we had fun with those.



We were hoping my sister would have her baby while we were down there but no such luck.