We are soo excited for Christmas this year! Terell's brother Kevin and his wife Chrystie (and kids) are spending Christmas Eve and Christmas day with us! How lucky are we to have such an amazing family. I want to express my gratitude towards my family and Terell's family also. My Mom and Dad have been there for me like no other parents. From buying me everything I always wanted including 3 new vehicles by the time I was 18 to paying for a wedding they knew wouldn't work, paying for the divorce, helping me with a newborn baby and then two years later paying for another wedding! We have been so fortunate to have work (up until now ha!) and to have healthy babies and family. Until the bad economy hit and took Dad's business and basically Mom's too. All I can say is I know Ror will get better and I know we will survive this economy bull crap. I do have to say I don't know how I would deal with my husband having cancer but Alexa has been one tough cookie. This year has been rough for us all and to tie it all up for 2010 I wrecked my Yukon into some 90 year old lady today at the dang post office. I will post some pics soon, we took family pics and lots of other fun stuff!

I'm ready for 2010

Just to kinda update on everything. So the wedding is over! yay! Well it was beautiful and all went well. Macy has been sick since the day before Halloween. She had been very clumsy and pulling on her right ear so I decided to take her in for a ear infection. The Dr. said yes she has lots of fluid behind her ear drum, here's a perscription for Amoxicillan. I had it filled and started her on it. That was the 5th. Saturday was the wedding and she seemed to just be a lil grouchy. We got home late Saturday night so Macy and I slept till 11 on Sunday. When we woke up she had a few lil red spots on her belly. So I assumed it was chicken pox. By Sunday night she was getting worse. Monday morning I took her in and the Dr. said she is allergic to Amoxicillan. She was covered head to toes in swollen hives, running fever, and a runny nose. The Dr. gave her a shot to take care of it all and she is just getting worse. When she woke up her cheeks and lips were quite swollen. She screamed like never before in the night. It was like she was on fire. Nothing I did helped her. I cried with her. I took her back in the Dr today and they gave her another shot double the dose and wanted to hospitalize her but I said no. She is breathing fine so I'll just watch her. She went to sleep at 9 and woke up at 11:15 screaming like she was on fire again. She was getting worse so I decided to take her to the ER. We got there at midnight and they gave her the same stuff that was in the shot prednisolone but by mouth. She had finally drank a little of her bottle and that med made her puke. Anyways they did blood work and gave her a shot of adrenaline. Needless to say we got home at 4:04am and crashed out. Terell took the day off to rest and be with us. The next few days were rough but Macy improved slowly. Now it's the 18th and she's still got a few polka dots and it's actually coming back on her legs...What do I do???

Another year older

Another birthday has come and gone. For some birthdays are a day you have to be catered to and it just has to be perfect. Well I was one of those people until this year and realized it's honestly just another day. No different then the rest. Terell had planned on buying me a Wii but instead a lady called me up and her sister in Tucson had a bedroom set for sale. It was a California King with the headboard and drawers underneath the bed. A huge dresser (the reason I wanted it) with a mirror and 2 night stands for 150 bucks! Ya great deal but we had to drive to Tucson to get it. So we left town the night after my birthday dinner at Booga's and headed to York to stay with JD and Briana. The next morning Briana fixed a big breakfast and convinced JD to go to Tucson and go to the Zoo. Well anyways we decided since we had such a far drive home we would just go get the furniture. Directions were not needed because my Dad let us borrow his Garmin. It only took us in one circle! Anyways we picked up the furniture and I was not happy with myself since we left the house in Tucson. We went to Panda ate lunch with JD and family and headed home. We got back to York and decided both of us were too tired to keep driving another 3 hours. So we crashed at JD's again! This time we stayed up all night and played BS. I had so much fun! Well anyways we came home ripped the whole house apart trying to get the new furniture in and the dresser wouldn't fit. So we slept on the new bed that night and decided to just sell it and buy a Wii! So the next morning I woke up with my hip killing me due to the hard mattress. I called my sister in law and told her to put the word out. A girl in her ward called me and confirmed she wanted it. Not 30 minutes later she called and said it wouldn't fit in her house either. By this time I was sooo mad at myself I was almost in tears. By that afternoon I had it sold and out of my house for exactly what I had in it.. I even got the gas money out of it. So Terell took me to show low and bought me my Wii. Got home at 1am and played it till 3am YAY. So my main lesson learned "Do not buy anything without pictures and measurements first" But we had a great weekend together and with JD and his cute lil family!

Fall Pictures

Macy was not a bit scared of the bridge with water below. She is definately a thumb sucker though. If I could get Macy's thumb out of her mouth and McKinley to smile normal we could get some good pictures.

I wanted to take a few pictures of my girls before it got to cold and Uncle Dan was up from the valley and he was kind enough to take em for us!

I planned on making a big collage and giving to to thier Daddy for Christmas but a couple days after the pictures we were in the woods cutting some wood and McKinley spilled the beans! So Daddy knew all about the pictures. Oh well. She can't really keep secrets cause she told him all about his birthday present too!

Well we tried to haul some wood this weekend and we didn't succeed. We drove up by big lake and as soon as we got there it started raining so Terell decided to go ahead and start cutting. Then the chain saw died and it started hailing. Never in my life have I ever experienced so much hail in one month. Anyways we decided to wait it out in the truck with 2 kids, 1 on my lap and 1 in between us, I was getting real claustrophobic. An hour after hailing so loud we couldn't think we headed back to town. Then I felt guilty we spent the gas money and we were coming home empty? So we turned off on a side road and tried to haul wood again. The dang chain saw would only run a minute and then die. So we got enough for about two fires and gave up! What a boring weekend.

Well we made it through the Goodman reunion alive!! And luckily we didn't get a ticket this year! I'm super excited about that. The last two years Terell has got a ticket from the dang forest service. Terell's brother did roll our quad with his three kids on and I was pissed off (sorry) but you use your dang 'ol brain when you are riding three kids! Anyways the kids had a blast Becca, Heather, and Rochelle always make fun stuff with candy and they do games too. We went spotlighting and did get to hear a few elk bugle. Played a few card games and that was it. Wednesday through Monday and it went by waaay to fast. They nominated Terell and I to be President next year so I get to make it that much more fun! haha. McKinley is ready to go camping again but Mom isn't. It's hard with a 1 year old running around and ya never know where she is...Can't wait for next year though!

Macy has learned to pinch and pull the hair on our arms. OUCH!! She thinks it's quite comical. I wish I could just freeze her at this age, she's so fun and giggly and playful and...ok I'll quit.

I was going through a few pictures on my mom's computer to delete them and I ran across this picture. We were up above Round Valley in what felt to be 20 below weather taking our wedding invitation pictures. I was soo excited to be getting married I just didn't want to wait any longer. My husband thinks I'm crazy because I always want to take pictures of our kids and family pictures. He finally agreed to one family picture a year. What a bummer. I am so happy to be married to this man. I love him so much! I love his family most days and I know he feels the same about my family. haha. He is such a amazing father and I'm so glad to have him in my life.

Key Trama

Let me explain to you my bad day. I woke up knowing I couldn't bathe my kids and I had to take a quick shower, because our sewer in this awesome rental house is scewed up again. They just dug it up and supposedly fixed it. The landlord said if it's not resolved we would have to move out. Terell may not have work much longer thanks to our awesome President. So I can't do laundry, I can't run the dishwasher, I can't pee in my own toilet and yes I'm frustated by this point. I get the kids up and ready to go to work. First thing some people bring a dog into the office and it bites McKinley in the face. As I'm trying to help a customer Macy is crying and McKinley has blood running down her face. I leave the office to take some laundry to my mom's house so we have a few clean things. I pull up to my house I look in the back seat and both girls are munchin on french fries and they're both buckled in thier carseats. I run in the house grab some laundry and the detergent and I'm on the phone while doing all this, I get to the car and it's LOCKED! running with the AC on, so I look in the backseat to make sure the girls aren't screaming and they are fine. I hang up the phone run in the house to look through all my husbands pants to find the other set of keys. No keys. I realize they're in my purse in the car. By this time I'm just about in tears and thinking how do I break into a car??? So I call my husband who is 45 minutes away at work. I walk back to the car look in the window and the girls are laughing. Not soo funny! I pull the door handle and it opens! I'm thinking what just happened? I look at McKinley and she has the spare set of keys in her hand and she's giggling. I hung up the phone again and just had to pull it together and not freak out on her. Oh what a stressful day!!!!!

Sis

I look at all of our old pictures and I want to cry because my beautiful little girl is almost 4 years old! It really seems like yesterday I was in the hospital in labor going through hell. Alot has happened in 4 years and I'm so glad most of it is over. We have so much fun with her and her attitude these days we just try to laugh instead of yell. She is such a blessing to us and we love every minute of it!

McKinley at the Parade for the 4th of July


Macy at the Parade too.



Macy being silly.

This is our Macy. She has been the best baby any mommy could ask for! She wakes up with a smile on her face and goes to bed with a smile on her face. I have to admit I think my girls are the cutest ever (no offense). Macy is starting to talk a little and I love it. She says no to the dog, please, and occasionally thanks! I can't express my love for her enough. I never realized how fast they grow until I remember things she's doing that McKinley did too.