Okay, Okay...here's one with me in it!!!

This is the Christmas Card one!!

This is a random one where I am showing off Mia's prives...poor dog but she had just pooped in her cage and stepped in it and you know I wasn't having any of that!!....but you can see my cute red shoes in this picture....get over it...there is no place like home!!!

Family Picture Time

Here's some of the pictures. I have kind of played around with them and added borders and writing so this isn't the completed ones but you get the idea!! These are some of my favorites.

Privacy coming soon!!

I know..it's coming. I just got to work up the UMPH to switch over to some Privacy. Also coming in detail....my 10th wedding anniversary...the fact that Colton is oxygen free...and the fact that I may have broken my poor two year olds nose!!!! (I have to work through the therapy on this one though first before I can think about it long enough to write about it!!!) Oh, and we just got family pictures...YEAH!! (Although I look like a horse in all of the pictures..don't you wish you had my obnoxious rolls????)

Stay tuned!!

The Time Has Come

I finally made a decision. I am going private. Let me know your email address if you'd like an invite. If I don't know you....tell me how you know me and if its legit..(I will ivestigate:)) I will send an invite. I think I just realized my kids are the reason I blog....so I need to put them first. Sorry for the inconvinience...but better safe than SORRY!!!

Famous quote of the day

So...brace yourselves...you may think I'm crazy after this post. Oh, be quiet...so you thought I was crazy before...KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!! So after my visit to the "dermi" last week I have been a little obsessed about my "beauty mark" above my lip. I've always thought of it as a beauty mark....(I have like 4 of them..which makes sense...:)...) Anywho....somebody who will go nameless because it is easier to deny it now....uh hmmm...was appauled that the "dermi" didn't remove that mole because it is "HUGE"....(EXACT WORDS). I have to admit...I haven't liked this mole recently and really wanted it off but let's be honest...no one wants to spend money right now...especially on cosmetics!! Okay..I want to spend money but I can't!!

Okay......so growing up one of my favorite movie lines was a classic from John Candy himself...(I miss that man!!). We quoted it quite often as a family for reasons that will stay between our family because it probably wasn't the nicest reason why we quoted it....It went as follows..(Read it outloud with me if you remember this line..) (Deb and Dina... let me hear you loud and clear!!!)

"TAKE THIS QUARTER AND GO DOWNTOWN AND HAVE A RAT GNAW THAT THING OFF YOUR FACE!!"

Anyways..I was feeling like the lady on the movie with the big growth protruding off of her face and I didn't really have a quarter and nor did I want to go downtown....um so I took matters into my own hands and operated by myself......with the NAIL CLIPPERS!!! ahhhhhh...OKAY it's out there. Now you know. Think I'm crazy? It's okay, Greg thinks I am. Yes it did hurt....Yes...it bled like crazy....And NO...it's still there. It looks even bigger now!!!

Lesson of the Day: Take the Advice and take the quarter and allow a rat the chance to gnaw...cause Nail clippers just don't work!!!...atleast on moles anyways!!

(* for those who would like to contribute to Becky's official mole removal fund please let us know.......for those who would like to contribute to her Psychotherapy...keep it to yourself!!)

You got a problem?

So yesterday was one of those days where you just feel lovely about yourself. About 5 weeks ago I had this thing on my face..that was originaly a mole...a little tiny white mole....turned to something ugly. It looked like a zit on steroids...yet it wasn't a zit. Almost like a burn. It was awful bad and many people felt as though them commenting about it would either result in it suddently disappearing or in making me feel like crap about myself. (I will never understand why people have to point out other peoples problems...you don't think I see this thing growing on my face...Geez!) Well, it took a good three weeks for the actual sore to go away but left an ugly scar on my face. Last week the "thing" started coming back....which again people felt it their obligation to point that out!! GET OVER IT! Well at this point Greg started freaking out because once again...it was originally a mole. He came in Sunday morning and said he was just sick about it and that I needed to get to the doctor that day. Um...excuse me...I'm sleeping..go away...oh and its Sunday so don't freak out it is fine!!! I knew it was fine...I told Greg it was fine. He got the kids to gang up on me and they MADE me go to the dumb dermatologist office yesterday!! He looked at it.....SURPRISE...it was fine. Just a staff infection of sorts and he lazered it and it looks even better today. BUT....he did a quick once over of my face, hands, and legs and lower back. As he looks down at my hand he starts full out laughing. Now this guy was pretty quiet up until now. Not really friendly but not rude either. He is full on LAUGHING at me. And then he says this....."WHAT HAPPENED?" I'm totally confused and I can feel my face turning red...and he points at my finger again and all he can get out is this annoying laugh. "ah ha ha ha...ah ha ha ha..." Oh....I see you want me to kick you in the face? You may be rich and tall but I can take you outside the back by all the BMW's and kick your trash!! He then gestures for his nurse to come over and look at my decapitated finger. My poor poor finger. Thanks once again Dina. I already warned you that I will sue you when you are rich....Scott will be my attorney!! If anybody needs a reminder....Dina...my sister....chopped the top of my finger off in the front door when I was little and all I was trying to do was wave to my mom and dad's friends and she didn't like that. She has made fun of me my whole life. Go ahead...ask Greg how long it took for me to let him hold that hand??? I was so embarassed of it because it was so ugly and fat. ( Let me remind you I had 4 plastic surgeries before the age of five my friends!! ....my finger..my chin twice...and then the nice dog who bit my face off!!!) Anyways...back to Dr. Loser. He says..."No really..what happened?" Now I had already made the connection that his brother and Dina and her husband lived by each other in N.C. So I said..."ya..you know that sister I was just telling you about? She cut it off in the front door." Now I could have said, "why don't you get a little closer so you can get a better look at it".. ..and then punched his lights out...but I didn't because I am nice and let's get serious...I'm used to it by now. (let us not foget the little asian guy doing my nails for my wedding..."Wat happen you finga? Les see...how I chawge you? nine nomal finga one bery bery hawd finga.") I am posting some pictures of my "perfect" finger that in the resurrection all of you will receive because it IS so perfect. Until then....dream on!!! So here you go...my finger debut!!! Laugh away my people...laugh away. I'm a good sport. I kind of think my middle finger resembles the shape of the cookie monster!?!? And yes it is my middle finger...oh, I know...even funner. My side hurts its so funny!!!

So in SCARY news. We are doing the over night tests at home for Colton with the pulse oximeter to see how his oxygen level is at night. It always scares me because you know little kids and how they sleep. They toss and turn and get all tangled up in the cords. I have figured it out with the oxygen cord. I have it go down the back of his pajamas and out through the leg.....lessening the chance that it will get wrapped around his neck. Well with this machine you hook it just to his finger or toe and seeing as though is has obese toes...we had to do his finger. I turned the machine down because Alex said he wouldn't be able to sleep and I figured it was being recorded into the machine for the doctors. I got up many times in the night to check on him. At 4:30 I heard him start to whimper. I though he was just probably uncomfortable so I just layed there for a minute to see if he would go back to sleep. I finally decided that they probably got enough data for the test so I went in to take it off. I had kindof tightened the slack of the cord in between his bed so he didn't have room to roll over but somehow he did roll over and it was wrapped one time tightly around his neck. He was pinned up against the side of the bed. FREAKY! Obviously he was okay but it makes me sick to think of the "what if''s". Tonight...he will be sleeping by me!!! I hope he does well on the test because let's face it....he is sick of the oxygen...and so am I!!! I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a lifetime thing!!!

I think I deserve the mean mom award. I was just opening an email and got one of those stupid utube thingys that you stare at this nice quiet room and then some monster sits up and scares you. So I called the boys in for what I call.."mom entertainment". I sat them both on my lap and right up next to the screen and made sure the sound was up nice and loud and then when they jumped sky high I couldn't help but laugh hysterically. Is that sad? I was laughing so hard I couldn't breath. Alex was saying..."mom that is not funny. I mad at you." and Colton was saying "whoa..I scared of that guy!!" Okay...so they may need therapy but it sure proves for a lot of hugs and kisses because they need comfort..okay..I know what you are thinking....I may need therapy!! Ahhh, I remember my sister and I putting nylon over our faces to scare my neices and nephews and they all turned out okay!!!

Okay....good day!!

And the new President is....

I only put this picture on here for one reason. It was Halloween when I took this picture. Let's see..um 4 days ago. No zits. I now have a valley of pimples living on my face!!! HORMONES!!!


Visiting Daddy!!


Greg jeopardizing our childrens well-being!!




Dallin riding the WILD horse moments before the fall!!


Alex and Colton hiding from Dad's scary students!!! Oh, and Alex ended up being three different things through the holiday week.



Dallin was a soccer player....SURPRISE!!


Mom's traditional pumpkin pancakes. I tried to make up my own recipe this year for pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes and they didn't work...so we went back to the old favorite!! (I on the other hand ate Joeditos chips and salsa with a nice coke...greg was trying to kiss up!!)


Alex as a football player (this was for school)

The costumes for Grandma's house!!

CHECK!! I'm done. I have now officially voted. Not for anyone I'm really fond of....but fonder than the other guy!! And albiet that I broke the little line divider while I was waiting in line. Of course I did....I break everything I touch! But, I am done and I need some comfort food ASAP! Anyone else feeling the squeemies? This country scares me right now! As I sit here all worried about our country and about finances I am quickly brought into my little two year olds care free life as he "passes gas" and giggles and says..."I barted!! Mommy..I barted!!" Sometimes I wish a "bart" could cure all sadness and worry...although it does always prove for a good laugh!!!

I have been having a hard time sitting down to type away into my blog. I thought it would be much easier than my journal which gets touched twice a year on a good year. But, just like anything else...it takes work and concentration. So much goes on that by the time I go to type it out..it's turned into a novel of sorts!!! My apologies to anyone following along. Did you ever stop to think that a blog is your journal that other people are allowed to read. I remember sneaking into my sisters journal...(which wasn't hard to break into because her "hello kitty" journal had the key attached to it!!! Nice.. but that is where I learned about Deanne and Jason Bogert!!! he he or Jason Booger as I like to call him) Sorry a little sidetracked!!! Anywho....now we write blogs with pictures...a glorified journal...and yet others read. Modern Technology!!

Halloween turned out to be eventful to say the least. It was filled with shopping..visiting daddy at work...shopping...work party.....trunk or treat....and a visit to mama cocos and papa Pete's!! The work party was fun. Greg stuck my little babies on the horse while I breathed into a brown paper bag. Just kidding...but I should have been. He then got on the horse..with Colton in front and Alex in the back. They made it. Unfortunetly for the people after us.....they got bucked and then of course I let out a BLOOD CURTLING SCREAM as the horse kicked and ran and headed straight in the path of my little Alex. Luckily he veered off to the right and there were no tragedies......whoo. It was a fun night...but I'm glad it is over with!!!

So, the ten year anniversary is coming up. I am in shock that it has been ten years. Don't you remember dating someone for like a month and feeling like you made it through the eternities and that you must spend forever together because you made it through a whole month? Yeah...so ten years? I feel as though I should just get Greg and I matching walkers. His could be blue...mine could be pink!! The problem really is that I don't know what to do for Greg...so lets put our computer screens together and think of something...okay..you do that and I will listen. Come on.....I will erase your comment if you say you can't think of something so just don't comment at all!!! Oh, I'm sorry...was that rude? GET OVER IT!!! Okay...so I pretty much have a week to think something up. And let's remember.....it's got to be on the "low budget" page...unless someone is willing to donate for the cause.?!?!?! Cheapos!! (I may or may not know what Greg is getting me for the anniversary. SHHHHH...so I may have peaked!!) I was the child that would unwrap my Christmas presents and rewrap them. It's a horrible trait but someone's gotta have it!!!

Greg and I were supposed to be going to the adoption meeting tomorrow. I think we are putting it off for another month. I guess I keep thinking that by another miracle some cure will be found and we can proceed with another pregnancy. I know....DOUBTFUL!!!

Well, I'm too antsy to sit here and type. I'm dying on this election day...I'm going to go make stew and homeade rolls and I may eat a gallon of ice cream to calm my nerves....and then tomorrow I can be sick about my lovehandles!!!