Christmas 2008

I can't believe that Christmas and come and gone and it doesn't even seem we had enough time to enjoy it. With all the running around and getting ready for the holiday. I love Christmas with all the parties going on. It seemed like this year we had something going on every Saturday in the month of Dec. But I loved every moment of it. Sometimes I think people get the wrong impression about me but I love hanging out with family. Just on my side we don't have a big family so when we have a family party, only about 15 people are there.
So I guess I'll start with the first party that we had.

Grandma Glenda's Party: It was so much fun. This is the first one I have attended since I've been in the family. At first, I was a little hesitant about going, so many people going to be there and I'm a little shy when I get around big groups. But we had fun and the kids loved it. Grandma Glenda is always so loving and thoughtful. Deegen and Cassidy love their presents from her. Thank you and Trevor and I love ours!!! I found out by an email that we had to perform at this party and I was like no way am I doing that. I'm not doing it. But thankfully Torie came up with something and only the kids were involved.

Then the next Saturday, we had the Varney Christmas party. That one we go over to Jon and Jone's house and have pizza and other goodies. We ate, talked and played bingo!!! I guess that is something grandpa Merrill always does. It's not bad and Deegen loves it. He loves playing games, specially if money is involved. I didn't take a lot of pictures that day. Sorry
Trevor reading to Cass. She loves books.

Cass by the tree, trying to pull off the ornaments
Then the next party was Christmas eve. My parents have always had a big family party on Christmas eve. I look forward to this every year. I love going over there and just enjoying the time with my family. This year Trevor was unable to be there. He had to work that night. I was so sad. It was like being a single mom again. But I survived barely. My parents cook all day long for this. We have so much food so eat from the time we get there until the time we leave. I love every bit of it too!!

My dad and mom
Scott and Michelle

Quinn and Kiley
Me and Cass ( Deeg was too busy playing to take a pic)

My parents gave each family a tic tac toe for Christmas, everyone loved it
lexa kissin Cass

After we ate dinner, Santa came!!! He comes every year. Deegen loves it but I don't think Cass like him at all. I've never seen her scream like that. Okay I have, just when a guy she doesn't know is taking her away from me or Trevor. She is very stranger danger, always has been.

I just had to take her picture. I know I'm mean but it was kind of cute

Lexa, Tanner, Santa, Tyson & Deegen. I couldn't get Cass to even look at Santa
Deeg got helicopter from my parents

Cass got a Madden Alexander doll

And all the grand kids got a pillow case that my mom made.
The night had to come to an end :( but Deeg wanted to go home so Santa could come!!

The next morning Santa did come which was surprising because Deegen is always tormenting Cassidy.

After we opened our presents, we went over to the Varney's for their annual Christmas breakfast!! Which is SO good!!!

One of Deeg's presents from grandma and grandpa

Cass's presents from them. She's not quite sure if she likes them. She is a marshmallow in them. But so cute!!

Jayce's present to Cass. A dolly, she loves them.

Deeg's present from Hanks. Deegen loves it. He asks everyday if he can wear it. Thanks Hanks!! :)
Grandma reading to Cass. She loves to look at books. I hope that means she will be very smart.

Sorry that this is such a long post but I didn't want to miss out on anything. I can't believe Christmas is over and its a new year.

UPDATE on Trevor: He is doing good and his shoulder is feeling better each day. He is going to go to PT and work on it. Hopefully that will be enough.

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Hectic Week

Last week was very hectic for our family. To start the week off, Monday while I was at work I received a phone call from my mom saying that Cassidy won't stop crying, has a rash on her body and keeps pulling at her ear. So I made an appointment for that afternoon and found out that she had a really bad ear infection. Which explained a lot. Why she hasn't been sleeping and not acting like herself. I hate when I have to get her medicine. She hates it. I have to restrain her and force her to sallow it. Her scream is so sad. She looks at me like I'm the worst mom ever. Then after I give it to her she doesn't want me. I can't wait until the medicine is gone. Only 2 more days. We finally put the med in oatmeal and it's not as bad but she still screams her head off.
Then on Tuesday I was at work and I received a phone call from Torie around 8:40am. The first words out of her mouth was " I don't want you to panic but..." as soon as I hear panic of course I start to panic thinking something happened to the kids because she was watching them that day. Then she continues "Trevor fell though the ice at the river and I'm taking him to the doctors." As soon as I heard that I left work and drove straight to the doctors. Which took me an hour. That was the longest hour of my life. So many things going though my head. All said and done, Trevor dislocated his shoulder and the doctor had to pull it back into place. But Trevor is still in a lot of pain and we're still not sure what kind of internal damage happened. Hopefully nothing to major. Trevor has had two different x-rays to see what's wrong and the Dr thinks that he might have damaged his tendon but not sure. So the first week of Jan he has to go in for a MRI and that will decide if he needs surgery or not. I feel so bad for him. He can hardly do anything. It's been kind of rough at our house. But he's doing all that he can.

I just want to say that I'm so grateful that Torie was home to help him. She is truly one of Gods' angels that was watching over him that day. If it wasn't for her, I'm not sure what could have happened. Thanks Torie for everything that you did for Trevor that day!! It means the world to me.

I am also grateful for Trevor and I am truly lucky to have him in my life. He is the best husband and dad that anyone could ask for. I don't know what I would do without him. Thank you for everything you have done for me and our kids. I love you so much!!!

Swan Hunting

On Friday, Trevor, Jon, Chance and I went up to Bear River Refuge to go Swan hunting. Both Trevor and I have permits. We got up there around 1pm and there were tons of ducks flying around. So Trevor and Chance set up the all decoys. Then it was time to sit and wait. The swans usually don't fly until 4pm so we shot at ducks that flew by which was tons of fun. We only shot one duck which was a pretty green head mallard. The group next to us shot a mallard hen and it landed over by us. So Chance and I went to go find her so we put her with her boyfriend. So technically we got 2 ducks. The swans started flying but they were all too high for us to shoot at. There were tons. Its the coolest thing to see all these swans flying around and making the sound they do. Just that is worth the trip. Unfortunately we didn't get a swan but there's always next time. We still have a couple more weeks before the hunt ends. For once I'm wishing for cold weather. It's better hunting when its cold.

Deeg loves holding the ducks.

Then Gus figured out what we had so he was jumping up and down in his pen. So we had to take his picture too. He's like one of the kids.

Halloween Week

To start the Halloween week off, the Saturday before my parents always have a Halloween party were we eat, play games and then the grand kids carve their pumpkins. Tanner was sick that day so only Tyson and Ellexa came with Kiley but they still had fun.
First they roasted hot dogs for dinner then played toss the candy into the pumpkin.

I think the most fun about this is watching the kids bob for apples!!!

After the games are over with the real fun begins, carving pumpkins!!! Yea.

Deegen and Tyson's pumpkins
Cass loved playing with the pumpkins
Deegen loves Halloween. He had his costume picked out in August, which was nice cause it gave me time to make it. He wanted to be a scary ghost. This was Cassidy's second Halloween and she dressed up as Tinkerbell. She was so cute. I put some mascara on and her lashes make me sick. They are so long and cute.
We first went up to see grandma and grandpa Varney and the other cousins. Everyone was dressed up so cute. Hadlee didn't like Deegen at first. She kept saying scary. It was kind of funny.

My scary ghost

My little tink

Then to grandpa Merrill's

Then to Grandma Glenda's

Then we headed over to Torie's neighborhood and did a little trick or treating. As we did that we stopped at my parents since they live by each other and saw them.

Finally we called it a night and went home to light our pumpkins.

So glad this holiday has come and gone!!!!