Two weeks

I have been meaning to blog and then they says just pass and I end up reading at night or watching reruns of Friends instead of blogging :)

The last two weeks have been:

Temple with Keva.  The changes are WONDERFUL!  I am so thankful for modern revelation. 

Jury duty summons for Missouri.  Hopefully the fact that I’m not a resident there anymore and the fact that the courthouse is 1906 miles round trip will get me excused :) 

Shocker of the month, year maybe is that I have been going to the gym.  I started one week ago and have been to four classes.  It would have been five but our Tuesday class got cancelled. I go to barre two days a week, we do some work at the barre but mostly floor work, some weights, squats.  I was sore all over after barre.  Monday’s and Wednesday’s we go to Swerk.  It is a hip hop dance class.  I could barely walk Tuesday!  Lol.  Wednesday I went again and worked out all the soreness.  Today was barre again.  I may go to a Saturday class from time to time.  We will see :) I am excited to have awesome friends to attend with.  I am motivated to keep going.  

The weather has been “warming up” last weekend it was 53 whitch is practically summer in North Dakota.  We BBQd and wen to the zoo!! 

We love the zoo here!! 

That night there was a gorgeous sunset. 

And we had our first neighborhood fire pit of the year. 

Love these great neighbors!  

Sunday morning I woke up broke out in hives.  I have make up on in the pic but it was my forehead, cheeks, neck and back of my hands.  So random. 

A couple days ago HD and Kass went to a Jazz game.  My sweet Emmett is getting so big!!!  Just over 8 weeks away!!! 

Brave

Haylee needs blood drawn.  Haylee does not do needles.  At all.  Ever.  When she needed a shot for school this year she passed out before a needle was near her.  She had barely stepped foot inside the clinic and down she went.  She had last Thursday and Friday off school.  We headed to the lab Thursday before lunch.  I was prepared to be there for a couple of hours because once her anxiety kicks in it is near impossible for her to do what she needs to do.  We walked in, gave the tech her ID at the desk and headed right back.  Imagine my surprise when Haylee walks in the lab without any coaxing or coaching or reassurance.  I advised the tech Haylee needed to be on a bed and not in a chair in case she passed out. That was my first mention of her anxiety. (I had prayed I would know what to say to the tech and to Haylee. I feel the tech needs to know she is scared so they don’t go too fast but I also think that it is worse when we talk about it.) Anywho, Haylee climbed on the bed and the tech got out the supplies.  I expected Haylee to freak out, she did not. The tech put the turnicate on. I expected Haylee to freak out, she did not.  The tech got the needle I was ready for Haylee to run away or kick the tech or freak out!!  She did NOT!  She took a deep breath and the tech stuck the needle in, I expected Haylee to punch her, she did not!!! Now for the sad news, the needle was in but no blood was coming out the tech moved the needle around.  That was BAD BAD BAD for Haylee and she started to freak out.  Saying “STOP! STOP!!!”  The tech was awesome and took the needle right out.  Then Haylee got very pale and said she was having some tunnel vision and feeling clammy- the tech laid her back and got her feet above her heart.  Then that sweet tech got her two ice packs and some water.  Once Haylee was feeling ok I posed the question could we try the other arm?  The tech came in, the tech went out, in and out over and over with several minutes in between.  Finally Haylee said “ok” the tech put the turnicate on but Haylee could not handle her picking up the needle.  Haylee felt so bad that she couldn’t try again.  I write all this to try to show the genuine fear that Haylee has.  I felt the day was a HUGE victory because we went in and she let them stick her!!!!!  When we left Haylee said “I  figured if we just went fast my mind wouldn’t freak out as bad.”  And it didn’t!  It worked!  Hopefully we will try again next week.  I was so proud of her.  After that we went to Olive Garden to celebrate.  Anytime we go on the weekends the wait is 45 minutes or longer.  It was so nice to get there and be seated right away!  :) 

Friday we rescued our friends. They were headed to the lake to snowshoe.  They were on a road that was drifted over.  The drift didn’t look deep until they were in it and they didn’t have a shovel.  

Joe and Brent worked really hard at shoveling. Steph worked a little and I was mostly on hand for cheering and looking fab. It took over an hour to dig them out!  

Me and Steph. 

Steph getting ready to go under the truck. 

The snow was so hard on top that if you didn’t sink about 18 inches it broke like this.  It was cool! 

That night we met old friends for dinner.  

Saturday was our Chief’s get together. 

When I got there someone said “you and Monica are dressed alike”. It got even funnier when I realized our hubbies were twinning too!! 

The hubs. 

Me and Lisa and Laura.  Two of my faves! 

Us with the Weiners. 

The guys.  I have a girl one somewhere. 


Sunday was church, Monday Joe woke up with his eye looking like this.  Thankfully a guy in our ward is the base optometrist. I texted him and he told Joe just to walk in his office and he would see him between regular patients.  :) He also evaluated him right then through pictures and us answering questions about Joe’s symptoms.  I was worried because it’s the left side of his face which is where his titanium plates are from his accident. Good news, his blood vessels are just freaking out.  Steroid drops, artificial tears and an appt for a week from now if it isn’t better.  It looks tons better today!! 

Tonight Haylee passed level five!!!  She was so happy.  She loves ice skating. 

This was the sunset at 8:05, I saw it after dashing to the library to print a couple of things for Haylee J.  

We live in a beautiful world!  And I am extra glad we aren’t getting snow from the massive storm over Colorado,  South Dakota and even most of North Dakota.  :) I’ll take the meltdown that is happening with the warmer temps!    

Last weekend

Last weekend we went to the Chief Recognition Ceremony.  It is to recognize the people who made Chief the last cycle.  (The cycle happens annually) :) there were only four at our base.  One of them was my good friend Amber who battled breast cancer this last year.  She is an amazing lady!!  So fun to be able to celebrate with her.  

New dress!!  It had pockets and I LOVED IT!  Got tons of compliments.  :) 

My friend Laura, I met her two years ago at the Chief orientation we attended at Barksdale AFB, LA

Joe is on the right third guy down. This is the saber team that the chiefs and their escorts walk through as they are announced. 

Us.

CMSAF ret. Rod J. McKinley 

Joe standing for the Chief’s oath.  

Me and Amber and her hubby Lee.  He is a Chief too! 

All the Chief’s at Minot. 

Joe wanted to be fancy.  

Keva, Laura, Stephanie and me 

All the Chief Spouses that attended. 

I didn’t wear a coat. Joe said he would pick me up at the door.  When we were leaving he said it “wasn’t bad out”. I almost froze to death.  Actually froze!  Lol.  I think I earned a new badge of honor. 


The next day I did my hair a little differently.  I told Joe we should take a pic.  This is how he posed for me.  Goof. 

Just me. My hair is getting long. 

Haylee was in the play The Hobbit.  She had a teeny, tiny part and mostly hated the rehearsals.  In the end it turned out great and she was sad it was over. 

Haylee as part of the Elven Guard

She looked so pretty! 

She is the front goblin in the lower pic. Their masks were great! 

Bows. 

Pretty ND skies. 




And last but not least this sweet baby boy!!  He deserves his own post for sure but I am tacking him on at the end just he case he doesn’t get it this go round.  Lol.  This is our sweet baby Emmett.  (That’s his name unless divine revelation tells them otherwise)  it is amazing what you can see in a sonogram.  This is his 3D photo.  No matter what they did he would not uncover his face!  He is going to be a pro at peek-a-boo.  Oh how his Mimi can’t wait to hold him.  I think he looks like Kass in this picture even though you can only really see his mouth.  :) 

Cutest profile EVER.  Can’t wait to kiss those sweet cheeks.  Just over 11 weeks to go!!! Yay!! 

Last two weeks

Sometimes it is easier to put the pictures in and then tell the story.  I haven’t blogged and I want to remember.  

Haylee had a big fall ice skating managing to cut a Nike swoosh into the back of her upper thigh and bruise her right knee pretty badly, add that to her already bruised left knee, bruised hip and elbow and that kid was beat up. 

A huge area around the swoosh was bruised the next day.  HUGE. She is so lucky she didn’t cut herself worse. 

Joe had my flowers delivered for Valentine’s Day.  Well sort of, I had to go get them because they didn’t deliver when they were supposed to.  I had to sign a waiver not to leave them outside lol gotta love artic weather. The waiver didn’t tell me not to let the cold air hit them AT ALL.  They were exposed to a very low negative windchill and did not fair well. I replaced some of them with Haylee’s flowers and kept the bouquet going.  :) 

Between play practice and ice skating this kid aaa exhausted. We have been trying to get to church early -at least 20 minutes if not more, to sit and think and read. I let Haylee take a short nap on my lap until sacrament started. 

The next day dad came home.  It isn’t often we are without him for several weeks.  We misssd him a lot! 

More early morning practice with Ashley. 

At the competition! 

Our skater girl! 

She did great!  This was right before dad had to go back to work. 

That night we attended the annual awards. 

This is my FAVORITE hair -do EVER!! 

All dressed up. 

Chief Spouses. Jessica, Stephanie, Bertha and Natalie. 

Keva and I. She is one of my favorite people ever. 

Haylee and Ashley Saturday at the competition. Haylee fell at the very beginning of her program but manamged to jump right back up.  She was great! 

And she won back to back gold!  My beautiful girl!! 

That night we went curling- (see why there is no time to blog? Busy busy busy) this was the sunset.  When there are ice crystals in the air the light seems to shine straight up.  I had never seen it with the sun.  It was AMAZING.  Also, had we not arrived 30 minutes early due to a mistake on my part we would have missed it.  Things happen for a reason, even if we don’t see it each time. 

The curling rink. 

We had so much fun! 

We had about 30 people.  Here is our team of 8.  I was so sore from the lunging that I could barely walk the next day!  Lol.  We had such a great time!! 

Sirra and her Joey.  :) he is her favorite guy. 



That catches us up to this weekend.  I will blog about that tomorrow.  Promise! :) lots more goings on.