PORTER IS 3 (and has bad teeth).

Fall is a busy time for Birthdays for us. Almeda and Porter are in September. We have a little break and then Zoey and Shya have birthdays in November.. If I keep on a roll with my blogging, then heads up for Shya and Zoey birthday posts.
For Porter's Birthday we celebrated it with cousin Haylee in Parma. They have the same birthday and so we just celebrated it together..
This little man is in LOVE with cars, trucks, tractors, fourwheelers, ANYTHING with wheels. He also loves the movie CARS. (what little 2-4 year old boy doesn't?) Out of the 4 out of the 5 presents he got were cars.. They all know he thrives on cars. From mom and dad he got CARS pjs, church clothes, 2 stick horses and a pair of cowboys boots..


Any semi that Po sees on the road or on TV he automatically calls it a MACK..
Grandpa Jeff has a semi and he got to ride in it a couple of weeks ago and he loves to go around telling everyone that he got to ride in Papa's Tractor, his Mack and his fourwheeler..





Birthday Party was Sunday, the previous Monday night Porter comes to me stating that his tooth hurts. I ask him why and he says its broken. Sure enough I look in his mouth and his back molar has broken off a little bit. When we went to the dentist last we were informed that he had some major decay in his back teeth but since he was so young they wanted to wait to work on him, unless he was showing signs of pain. Well signs of pain arrived.

Tuesday he was seen at the dentist and they put him on the gas and got right down to business. They extracted his back molar becasue it was abscessed and filled a cavity in the next molar. Poor little guy..He did so stinkin good though, he just sat in the chair and watched- wait for it......

Yes CARS.....

Exactly 1 week later Monday night little buddy cried most of the night and was in so much pain because his tooth hurt. This time it was the other side. Of course I get him in as soon as possible to the dentist and the little dude has to get the other back molar extracted. He was not as cooperative this time but still did really good. (Better than I would have).. He was crying and fussy when they finally got done with him and do you know what he wanted to do?? Not get the H E double L out of there and go home, but go back out to the waiting room where they had some cars and a MACK..

Almeda May 9th Birthday

Sunday September 11 was Ally's 9th birthday. SAturday Shya had a cross country meet in Nampa so just me an Ally went to watch.
Shya is running middle school cross country and they run 1.9 miles at their meets.



After the meet the cross country team went to Roaring Springs for the rest of the day. Me and Ally went and did some shopping. I also took her to lunch-just me and her. For some reason that is really a cool thing for the kids to go just by themselves..She chose Wingers.. She got an ice cream and a song sang to her..

Nonna sent Ally some money for her birthday and she found a babydoll dressed in a bumblebee that she just had to have. Then at target she found some newborn shirts on clearance for $1.00, so she bought some for her new baby. She is 9 years old and still loves to play babies. She will be a good momma..

Sunday was her actual birthday and we did the church thing, she chose to have sweet potatoes for dinner, and that night we had fruit and ice cream.

Recent Home Projects

I have sooo many ideas and soo many projects that I want to get done. I buy things at yards sales or thrift stores and have these amazing plans for them. I get them home and they sit in my garage because I either loose that ambition, or just don't have time to get it done yet. Even better, I find another project that sounds more fun and exciting to do.
Soo... Hubby told me I have to get the projects done in the garage first before I can buy anything else at a yard sale or thrift store.. (FROWN)...
Okay fine.
First I bought this little cute chair at a yard sale for 5.00 4 years ago, Yes, 4 years..It has sat put away in my garage since then..It even moved with us.. I finally did it...
Here it is.
Before picture- I took off the arms and spray painted the arms and legs black, so the arms aren't in this before picture..

AFTER..

Just to show how tiny and cute this little rocking chair is, here is my model.


Project 2
If you remember a while ago I painted my table and chairs black. I have a hutch that goes with them and I finally got that one done.. I actually swapped with a sis-in-law becase my hutch was too big for my wall and so I switched her for a smaller one..
I decided to go cream instead of black and painted the inside of the hutch green


Project #3

Bought these windows for $5.00 at a yard sale. Had a brilliant idea one night when I could not sleep and decided the next day to do it. I put fabric in some of the windows, then decided I didn't like it as much as I thought I would so they sat in my office stacked up in the closet for 1 year.. Finally put them up..I don't love it, it is not amazing but they are up. Might end up changing it later..


Project #4
Seaside Wall
We got to to Oregon Coast every year for a family vacation and I decided that I needed to do something special with all the pictures we take. I also decided that when I am there I am going to buy something different every year for my "seaside wall".
Made collages of picture from every year. We take a picture in the same spot every year so I always include that in the collage..
I bought a helm at a store for 50% off because it was broken, I glued it back together and painted it to match the colors I wanted for my wall. It was originally a cream, which was the same color as my wall, so that would not have worked at all.
Then a great friend had this stencil she let me borrow and I spontaneously painted my picture wall..It is so AWESOME..(Steve is still getting use to it).



Project#5
Another Chair to Refinish
This chair is new, didn't buy it at a yard sale but the cushion on it is blah...
Before

After (I did this one last night). My reupholstering skills are horrible so don't look too closely if you're at my house..


Project #5
Bought some art at Graples for 50% off, this was more of a project for hubby as he had to get the really tall ladder to hang these..I like them..


Now I have almost finished my projects out in my garage. I only have 3 things left to finish before I have the go ahead to start yard saling again. Unfortunately yard saling season is about over (frown)...

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Shya started 6th grade this year, which in Nyssa is Middle School. She was really excited!! I forgot to take their pictures in front of the door at home and then realized when we got to the school, so of course I whip out my cell phone and embarrass her by taking her first day of school picture out in the parking lot.. (She only agreed if we hid behind the suburban)...

Ally started 3rd grade this year. Her teacher from last year loops so she has the same teacher this year and all the same students. So not much change for her..


Zoey awwww..My sweet little Zoey had strep throat the first day of school so she did not get to go to her first day of Kindergarten.. Luckily we got her on antibiotics she was all better to go the next day..

Sooo I was able to get all the girls in front of the door. Yay for me!!!

Zoey and Porter outside NES.

In Nyssa the Kindergartners go all day every day.. However, this year our district switched over to a 4 day week school so its not all that bad.
They have a tradition in kinder that they start the first few weeks of school off with a color day and they are suppose to wear something that is the color of the day..DUH!!! The first color was red, so Zoey's first day of school we had to find something Red. We only had 1 shirt that was red.. Lucky for that 1 shirt, (and lucky it wasn't stained)..

Zoey and her Teacher Mrs. Forest....

POCATELLO Marathon- ISU Rugby

For Labor Day weekend we went to McCammon. Saturday was a busy day for us. I ran the Pocatello Half Marathon, which was a blast. I met lots of people. I have always had a buddy at all my other halfs and this was the first time I was doing it by myself. It was really fun to meet lots of strangers and run with them..

Finish Line Photo

Start of the Race photo


Steve use to play Rugby for ISU WAY BACK WHEN...Every year they have an alumni tourney where they play the current ISU Rugby team. He was pretty nervous about it as it is quite a brutal sport. Funny how it turned out, the old men WON. (and didn't even break a bone)..
It was kind of cool because one of Steve'e Students from Nyssa now plays for the current ISU Rugby Team and also my Cousin.. So of course, we had to give them grief for loosing to the OLD MEN...
ISU RUGBY ALUMNI


Steve is the cool dude in the "Awesome"helmet

Random Spring Happenings

Some glimpses of our winter/spring.
Ally took clogging this year and she had a lot of fun. In May they went to Pocatello to the clogging festival. It worked out well for us, since we have family in Pocatello. They were named the LOVE BUGZ and they danced to Jonas Brother's "Love Bug" song. It was so very cute..

Easter came and went, there was plenty of candy, thats for sure. Shya is in 4-H and her club put on an Easter egg hunt. There was so much candy each of the kids had a full basket.

Porter and His buddy..

Later we went to Steve's parents for a yard and house clean-up. His parents were on a mission and were getting back the next week, so we all got together and had a BBQ, easter egg hunt and did some work.

Easter Sunday

The next week Steve's parent got home from their mission. It was so good to see them. They had a really hard mission, saw so much sadness, but they learned so much and made great lifelong friends.

--Me and Shya got to go to the salon and get our hair done. That is so much fun, I love being a girl!!!

Lastly to get us caught up to date.... Me, Zoey and Porter went with Steve to one of his meetings that was held at a resort in Bend Oregon. While dad was in meetings, we got to play all day!!! We went shopping, had lunch, came back and went swimming in 3 different swimming pools and played at 2 different playgrounds, had dinner a bath and went to bed. We were exhausted. It was beautiful weather!!!..

The next morning it was gloomy and raining but we did get to see some ducks and a beautiful Swan!!

Oh, and Happy Anniversary to me and Steve today, 8 years!!!!

McCall

I decided that I wanted to blog today. I am really horrible at writing in a journal and I know this is not the place for thoughts for a journal, but I will just briefly touch on some of my thoughts this weekend.
We took 3 of our nieces and also our kids to McCall with us this weekend. I love going there, it is my time to relax. I don't have my house calling me and beckoning me with things that I need to do and haven't done. I don't have my office and all those tapes sitting waiting to be transcribed. I do have a book, a puzzle, a TV (which I never do watch up there). I love to just sit and enjoy reading a book and not feel guilty about it.
Anyways the girls played cards, played games, played ipods and had a really great time.
Saturday I decided to try a Yoga class. They have a Yoga studio there and I have been really wanting to get into "real" Yoga. It was different, but I loved it. It was so refreshing and relaxing. I think I'm sold.



Anyways, we then decided to go to Gold Fork Hot springs. We heard it was a neat place so we headed over. The girls had a blast, Steve and I also had a good time.



Sunday morning we got ready to go to church. I was positive church was at 10.. Steve happened to look at 8:45 online and church started at 9.. So we hurried and got ready in 10 minutes..Headed out to the suburband and the blasted thing would not start.. Someone had left the door open a crack the night before and the battery was dead.. Needless to say we did not get to church.

On the way home it was snowing. Not the nasty kind of snow, but huge fluffy flakes that just floated down. It was SOOO Beautiful driving down the narrow road with both sides surrounded by trees bogged down with beautiful white snow. I was really just admiring how amazing God is and how beautiful his "art" is..