No more braces!

Hooray! The best news yet! HD got his braces off today!! He was so exctied! So am I after our four week (actually 7 weeks since D will be in Utah) he gets to go back at 3 months, then every 6 months. Oh how I will NOT miss the dentist/orthodontists office! :) I am ready to spend my Wednesdays doing something else...okay it was only one appointment a month but still I am happy to be done with it! Not as happy as D though! After he got them off he said "Mom, there is only one thing I can't wait to eat. Your caramel. And I can't wait until Christmas!" I will be making him a batch in the next day or two.

Here he is in the car just before his appointment At home and all smiles with those gorgeous straight teeth!

He has his retainers on in this picture...You don't see them? Look close!...still no? That is because his retainer is an invisiline retainer. He does have a permenant metal retainer on his bottom teeth but it is hidden behind his teeth. You can't even tell he has anything in his mouth! It is fantastic!!!
Super smile

So glad we are done! At least with one kid anyway! Sierra is good to go no braces for her, Haylee however is headed in the orthodontics direction. We'll have to see if her mouth can grow big enough for all of her teeth, with as much as she talks you would think it would be HUGE! :)

Our new bedding!

Okay this picture is completely out of order but I need to get Haylee in bed! The armouir (sp?) in the corner used to be the center of our entertainment center now it is our tv/clothes holder :)

I am so excited!! We got this new bedding set this week and I love it! We had Americana in our room and I love that too but I was ready for a change. We rearranged our furniture last week and that made me even more excited to get new stuff. I got the whole 10 peice set from Penney's for 160.00 +free shipping! Joe saw it in a catalog but he hasn't seen it on the bed yet -he has been TDY this week. He gets home tomorrow and I really hope he likes it! I painted the "artwork" above the bed

See? ignore the weird white marks! and the black smudge - that is the spot where our tv sat on top of our old dresser and we would turn it back and forth depending on where we were in the room! :)

from the foot of the bed...

looking in from the door

It is important to note that Joe's dad, my talented and fantastic father-in-law, built every piece of furniture in our room! The bed was our wedding present, the nightstands were "just because", the cedar chest was for our five year anniversary, and we paid him (way to cheaply I'm sure) for the entertainment center. I am so thankful to him for all of his hard work!

Ticket update: I don't think I'm going to get one I have a couple of friends who frequent that intersection and have had the camera go off while doing the exact same thing as me and they have never recieved a ticket. So I'll keep my fingers crossed that that is the case with me as well! Have a great weekend everyone!

I think I'm getting a TICKET!!!

Today I was taking Sierra to Bolling AFB in DC so she could sleep over at her friend Tasha's house -they are doing a walk for childhood cancer research in the morning - ANYWHO I was at an intersection turning left onto Firth Sterling Ave coming off of Suitland parkway (which I know means nothing to you non MD/DC readers but just so everyone else can get the picture) :) There were two cars in front of me and the green arrow came on they went through the green arrow went away and the light was just green. I edged into the intersection a bit so I could turn left when there was a break in traffic. I had to edge out a tad more than I normally would because there are train tracks that run on that side of the intersection and obviously you never stop on train tracks. SO there was never a break in the traffic so I waited until the light turned yellow and the oncoming traffic stopped and I made my turn as I turned I saw a white flash and Haylee said "hey that light just blinded me!" I knew right then it was a red light camera that went off. WHAT THE HECK? I just turned left out of the intersection!! I was NOT running a red light! I have not had a ticket since October of 1999!!! Almost TEN YEARS! I am so torked! I am planning on fighting the ticket but I'm not sure how that will turn out. I always hear people complaining about the red light cameras and I think "Dude, if you run a red light you run it! You SHOULD get a ticket!" the people arguing against them always say they shouldn't be legal because you have the right to face your accuser or whatever it is. I didn't really agree with that until now! If it had been a cop there, well first off he wouldn't have given me a ticket I didn't do anything wrong, but if he had for some reason pulled me over I would have argued my case and asked him what I should have done because when the light turned yellow my options were to a) back up onto the railroad tracks or b) stay where I was and block traffic coming from both sides ---neither one of those was a safe option so I did what every other person in America does which is to go through with my turn when oncoming traffic comes to a stop so you don't get pulverized... I mean seemed like a logical enough reason to me. Anyway, thanks for listening/reading... :) I needed to vent. I will be so upset if I have to pay this ticket! Who knows maybe the lens of the camera was all wet or fogged up or something and I'll never see the ticket in the mail. But I doubt that will be the case :( .... so wish me luck in fighting it and I'll keep you posted or call you from the slammer when they haul me off because I won't stop arguing my point. Ha ha ha! Wish me luck people! :P

Haylee funnies...and a quick update

Just a couple and just so I don't forget them. We have had another busy month or so starting off with our ward (congregation at church) being combined with another ward. So I was the Primary president in our old ward and then everyone got released and I got called to be the Young Women's president in our new ward!!! CRAZY! Could have knocked me over with a feather when the bishop asked me to do it....our conversation went like this:
Keep in mind the whole time I was thinking I was going to get re-called into primary in some capacity.
Bishop: We want you to be the new Young Women's president.
Me:.....okaaayyyy...(I had just said a prayer in the car that I would do whatever they asked me to do even if it was being the bathroom monitor... :) -
Bishop: Wow! That was easy!
Me: the church is true right?
Bishop: you just keep telling your self that.
LOL!! Too funny! I am enjoying my calling and mostly don't feel like I am drowning anymore. It has been a really crazy time though!!! Combining wards is not easy! :)

Then our very best friends moved away! :( So hard to be in the military and have to say good-bye. I cried way too much! I miss you Stevens family!!!

Right after that we went to California to see my Dad and my brother, his wife, and my nephews came to join us. We did all the fun Cali stuff and were very sad when our week was over. (I will post some pictures just not tonight!)

Then mom and Krissie came for the air show. They were here about 6 days which was great but it's never long enough. We had such a great time.

The day after they left I got to see some old friends from California when they came here on their 31 state road trip! They are crazy and so much fun. It is so fantastic to see old friends and pick up right where you left off.

Other than that just busy with the end of school and church stuff and photography stuff and going out on the boat - A LOT! Never a dull moment and lots of fun! That is going to be the new name of my blog I think!!! Quick family notes Joe is TDY this week in Texas, I'm busy with photography and church, HD gets his braces OFF in 9 days!!!!! Yahoo!, Sierra wants to get her hair cut again -she is staying short! :) , and Haylee is a character as usual. Haylee funnies that I can remember at the moment -the other night she was in the shower and she said "Mom for some reason when I am near you I feel giddy" -she is an old soul that girl and so sweet when she wants to be! Then on Sunday we were talking about church and she said "Hey! Father's Day is in three weeks, we talked about it at church today" I asked her what we should get for dad and she said "hmm...probably something from the Dollar Tree" She is her father's daughter!!! :) There have been many more that I just can't remember I really need to be better about writing them down! (I say that all the time! I guess I need to just carry around a pad of paper! She says at least one per day I swear!)
Happy June everybody! :)