Bling Bling Wedding Ring!!

So the word is out & spreading like wildfire!

Friday night was a fun surprise for me. Terance said there were some cancelations for sealings in his friend's ward & they needed some couples. I agreed to go. We went to dinner first & got to the temple a little early. He said - "since we're early - let's go throw a couple pennies in the fountain". I said-ok.

He said - go toss yours in. When I went up to the fountain I looked down & saw this..

I said - "Oh look - someone is going to propose!" (in a cheesy voice). When I turned around Terance was on 1 knee with the ring in hand. I think my response was something like "are you kidding me?" (We had looked at rings - but I had no idea he had it already!)

So - he asked & I agreed. :-) I don't think the smile has come off my face (man are my cheeks sore!!!).

Terance is AMAZING!!! He treats me like a queen! Which is great considering my last name will now be King. :-) What a great weekend!!!

Hawaii - Here We Come!!

One of the best parts is that it will be in Hawaii!!! We're looking at 08-08-08!! Crazy Eights!!

Called to Repentance!!!

Ok ok - I know it's been a while. I've heard from enough people to know that I need to repent & get back into blogging. I guess no one knows what I've been doing & this is the only life line they have intomy life. :-)

So - "let me e-splain, no no there is to much. Let me sum up."

Life has been interesting over the past few months. Of course we had a wonderful Christmas. This is the one of the few times I don't have to travel to the nieces & nephews! The sisters came up with their families & it was a blast! I welcomed the New Year with Back surgery.

Turns out I wasn't milking my injury after all. :-) Had back surgery on the 7th of January. I spent 2 weeks at the folks place recovering & the last 2 months trying to get back into a regular schedule! I'm almost there! & then I've been hanging out with this guy...

So there is the Sum up. I've got a little more info & picts below - but there you go. There is the facinating & exciting life I live. Back surgery! What more could you want? Loves to all!

Cabin Time

A group of us went to Terance's cabin! It was great! SO MUCH SNOW!!! Makes recovery a little harder since I've been forbidden from boarding & restricted in snowmobiling. But it's still great to look at & play in!

The snow from the roof was touching the end of the roof which gave it a cave effect. It was amazing! I haven't seen that much snow in that area for YEARS (if ever)! It was AWESOME!!!

The only down side to the cabin is that the plumbing is turned off in the winter. With my sensitive back I didn't want to squat so we created a potty in the snowbank. Then duct taped (Idaho Crome) a cardboard box to make a seat we could take in so it wasn't freezing. Cool huh? The girls LOVED it! :-)

Oh the joy of the onezie!! This was at the cabin & I went outside to play in it once. I can see the benefits of it! Had to wear the hat Grandpa style. It was just fitting!

Snowmobiling on the lake was a little new for me - but a lot of fun!! Good times were had by all!!

SURGERY!!!

So...that back injury I've been milking turned out to be real! Thanksgiving 2006 I hurt my back & spent the majority of the weekend laying down. It was almost a constant pain. No fun! Well - it would come & go all year. Then the pain changed. I would get a little surge going down my right let. Not too painful. Just had to hold still a bit & it would go away. It was actually easier to deal with so I did a little more.

Oops! Turns out the change in the pain was a second herniation in the L5-S1 Joint. I went up to Terance's cabin & while walking down the hallway the sciatic nerve went cracy. I had to lay down in a contorted pretzel position. Layed there for 2 hours before I could move. After hardly any movement it would do it again! That was Saturday, Sunday I went to the ER & had an 'impressive' MRI. The double herniation looked like a snowman & it was pushing directly on the nerve. They gave me some good pain meds & I had to call a neurosurgeon the next morning. That morning the surgeon called me & told me not to eat anything because it looks like the only thing we could do was surgery to relieve the pain.

So - I checked into the hospital that afternoon & had surgery. They removed the 'impressive' herniated area & drained the fluid in the disk so it would happen again. I walked out of the hospital the next day. Crazy huh?

So - this is my nice & expensive 2" keep sake from the expensive deal. They used super-glue to keep it together. The Dr. said the super-glue has been such a great thing to use!

Now - 2 months later, I love that I've had it! Although I'm out of shape & am trying to get back into it. My back has been pain free (with the exception of the surgery twinges on occasion). As far as back surgeries go I'd say I had the easiest one with the quickest return! It's been great!

Christmas Fun!

Christmas was great! You always wonder what the perfect gift is for the folks & this year I'd have to say the Kudo's goes to BJ. He got dad a snake camera (I don't know what it's called). It has a camera at the end of a flexible tube that allows you to see around corners & behind TV's. Well - the boys had to test it out & I think dad had a great time with it!




























Look at BJ admiring his work. He knows he won the prize this year for the perfect gift!

Gobble Gobble Man!!

Turkey Weekends Rock!!

Got to go play in Utah for an extended weekend! It was great! I think I gained 5 pounds! NO JOKE!!! I'm debating starting the New Years Resolution early (always the same - right? Exercise more, eat better...it would be nice if I could actually accomplish that & not have to start over every year!)

BJ blew in from Kansas to play with us for the weekend. Want to get off work? Have your mom call & talk to the boss - then he'll fly you to your family for the weekend. Oh wait - that only works with BJ's boss because he doesn't want to make my mom sad. :-) So we had BJ here to torture err... entertain the kids! That's why mom & dad had him right?

Uncle Fiji came in pretty handy with the kids too!

As you can see - dinner was great! After a Thanksgiving feast what else do you do but find a place to 'fat dog' it (That's when you're so full you can't do anything but lay around like a fat dog). Apparently it doesn't even have to be a comfortable spot! Way to go Rita's cooking! (and others that contributed)

My roommate has changed her living room around. We are going to be posting black & white pictures & I wanted some of the kids. I think they really love the camera because for the sake of a picture I was able to get them to pose for me & to tell them how to do it. I Love these kids!! We have a few potential models I dare say!

Some didn't even know they were posing - but still put on a great show! Koba is a doll!

Of course everyone has their limits. I asked Harper to pose one more time & this is what he gave me! Ok - enough!

Since we had everyone together we thought it was time for family pictures again. After all - we've added 2 to the mix (I say we like I had anything to do with it. Hey they're Cade & Koba are cute kids! I'll take credit for them! ;-)).

This just shows the effort we go to for us to get the perfect shot. Check out Dusty on Jer's shoulders shading the sun from the pict of the folks.

Can't wait to see Kara's picts! This is one Jer took with mine. It might qualify for the black & white wall.

Well I guess that is about it for now. So I'm signing off with a big kiss from the kids!!!

My Love to all!!!

We're Never Too Old!!

There is always time to go back and be a kid! For a friend's birthday we rented out the place called 'Pump it Up'. It had LOTS of fun air toys. Ummm.. I think we may have broke all the rules there were. :-) It was a blast! Sadly - since I was one of the few that had a camera I went home & realized (while viewing the photos) that I wasn't in a single shot! Thems the breaks I guess! I had to put this one on there.

There were those that had to patiently wait their turn before playing.

Found out my hula hooping skills aren't far gone! I can still keep it going!







After going through the obsticle course twice I was beat! Don't know how kids can do it all day! I guess this goes to show you we're not as young as we think we are. :-)

This is my friend Trever. He told me last year that he really hurt his back snowboarding. Since I take things really slow still I wondered how you could hurt it so bad. After watching him run around all night doing stuff like this I can understand how he could get pretty messed up!