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Monday, February 9, 2009

~~ The Most Beautiful Beach~~

Please go here:

http://namesinthesand.blogspot.com/2009/01/zariah-lynn-etienne.html

and see the most beautiful beach with Zariah's name written on it by the most caring and wonderful people. Carly & Sam Dudley lost their son Christian and as a tribute to him they lovingly write the angels names in the sand on their beautiful Australian beach. This one for Zariah is so precious to us words cannot describe it. Thank you Sam & Carly!!

~~Not Me Monday!~~



Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not let Jaycee dye my hair bright pink, people would think I was a flamingo with that hair color.

I did not stay at a Hilton Hotel this past weekend even though the rooms do not cost an arm and a leg. They do not have the super best rooms and softest pillows ever.

I did not enjoy every minute of not being at the hotel and not enjoying the peace and quiet of no kids or dogs!!

I did not spend way too much money at a "Passion Party" last weekend on things that I will not ever find a use for. Their lotions and body sprays do not smell wonderful!!

I did not watch the stupid Grammy's last night for 2 hours just to lust over Kid Rock for 3 minutes.

I did not laugh at the fugly clothes people thought they looked good in, I would never be that rude.

I did not argue with an anonymous comment poster. That would be futile and immature and I would never engage in that behavior.

I do not know any secrets that I am not dying to tell. I will not go crazy before I tell someone's secret though.

I did not actually, kinda, sorta meet my first real life bloggy friend and she is not great, HI ABBY!!!

I did not go into the 15 item or less line with 16 items at Smith's on Saturday~~ It is not one of biggest irritations when someone else does it!!

I did not sit on the couch all day Sunday trying to will away my headache from the night before.

I did not buy a Wii after swearing we wouldn't be getting one because nobody plays with the Nintendo, Playstation, XBox, Gameboys, etc... And it does not have a ton of really fun games you can get for it. I will not be found in the basement playing it....EVER, so don't look there for me if I happen to be missing!!

So what DIDN'T you all do last week??

Friday, February 6, 2009

~~Great Baby News~~

The baby was retested for some things today. Another spinal tap and scans and everything has come back negative. They have changed his antibiotic from the pneumonia and that is the only thing that they have found that could be wrong. He is going to stay in the hospital for another night for observation and then he will be released tomorrow with Jacki watching him close for any changes in his soft spot. Thanks for all your prayers, I know I believe in religion different than most of you, but I do believe in prayer and I am sure it helped!!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

~~ Baby update~~

A lot of the baby's tests have come back and have all been negative. The viral meningitis was negative, but the test for the bacterial won't be back for a day or so. Max says he looks good and he feels they will be figuring out what is wrong soon and they will be home. It looks like it may be just a random infection and possibly some antibiotics or at the worst a shunt to fix it. I hope he is right and that is what I am focusing on for now.

Update on Zeke~ Trey


He has been admitted to Primary Children's. The CAT Scan came back OK, but obviously something is wrong so they drained some of the fluid off his head and also did a spinal tap to test for meningitis and other diseases and have set up an MRI for tomorrow. They did start him on an antibiotic so if it is meningitis he will already have started the therapies for it. They have told her he may be there a long time so we are going to take up the trailer tonight and hopefully they are wrong and we will be bringing it home on the weekend. I will let everyone know when we know exactly what he has. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

~~Please pray for baby Trey~~



Our sweet baby Trey was just sent to Primary Children's Hospital today. We have been worried about a watery feeling bump in his soft spot and Jacki took him to the doctor today who told her to immediately take him to Salt Lake. This could be from many different things, from a blockage and the brain fluid can't drain and it could be as easy as putting a shunt in to drain it, unfortunately it could also be a brain tumor or brain cancer or something horrible. We are asking everyone to pray for him to get better and be able to come home. He is such a sweet baby and I don't know if Jacki & Max can deal with an illness or even worse again. I will post again when we know more, but in the mean time please keep him in your though.



UPDATE: The doctors at Primary Children's think Trey may have meningitis and are testing his fluids now and doing some other testing.

~~Top Ten Lists~~


I decided I needed a top 10 list of irritations and a top 10 reasons for frustration, just to jump on the bandwagon with everyone else:
Irritations
1. No hunting season on pedophiles, sexual predators or baby rapers and no firing squads in the court rooms for when a child molester pleads guilty. Why must my tax dollars go to keeping these useless wastes of space alive and living better than I can afford? Give that money to their victims~ they are the ones that deserve help not the animals who preyed upon them!
2. Having to have a mammogram and ultrasound twice a year because I am a happy cancer survivor. Obviously I have already lost all my breasties so what on earth could make you think I want to be reminded of it twice a year by a technician with jokes I have heard a thousand times and really don't make me feel any better about it? There is no joke that can take my mind off the pain caused by a mammogram machine that only has tiny bits of tissue to grab onto.
3. Having to listen to my husband's damn dog who feels the need to whine, howl and bark when he feels he is not getting the attention he needs.
4. People who excuse their children's rudeness and bad behavior with a smile and shoulder shrug or some lame assed comment. Grow up and act like adults maybe they will learn from you.
5. Having the same argument with my little girls about cleaning their room and the ridiculous excuses they make for why they can't figure out if they take a couple minutes every day to pick up it wouldn't get like that.
6. Trying to find clothes styles somewhere between my daughters' itty bitty pieces of material clothing and my mother's polyester prison clothing that actually fit my fat ass and look half way decent.
7. On any given day I am the only one (so I think) on the road that has a clue how to drive and knowing I can't teach these complete idiots anything, except not to tailgate me and then pass me doing 110mph or I will turn my wig wags on and make you think you are getting pulled over (only for a second, but boy is it fun to see people hit the brakes and duck their head down.)Go as fast as you want, but stay off my ass and we will both be happy.
8. People who pull out from the side of the road directly in front of me when there are no cars behind me. I believe NASCAR speeds should be observed everywhere that little children are not i.e., THE FREEWAY!!
9. Celebrities that adopt kids from all over the world and then flaunt it in the faces of perfectly good and caring people who wait for years to get a child. Like they are special or better than "real" people and can love a child more because they have money~~ WRONG!!
10. People that think it is OK to hurt a child. Just because you have one doesn't mean you "own" it and can do whatever you want to it. If you want something to abuse buy a punching bag, it'll be cheaper and the labor getting it to your house is much easier.

Frustrations
1. I am a road rager and if you cut me off in traffic I will curse at you, possibly flip you off, wish the fleas of a thousand camels invade your armpits, etc, etc.
2.I always sneeze in 3's - I hate it and when I have to wait for the 3rd one I feel like I am going to throw up. I have had people tell me dozens of things to do to make that last one come and none of them work.
3.I would rather read than watch TV, yet the TV in my house ALWAYS has to be on and if the girls are home they ALL have to be on.
4. Having the metabolism of a blade of grass and not being able to lose even 10 pounds. I used to be able to eat 25000 calories a day and I was so busy it worked right off, now I look at a french fry and my thighs start to groan.
5.People who don't know how to count in the grocery check out line. Now I am not talking about the little old lady who has 14 things in the 10 item or less line. No I am talking about the mullet wearing dork following the HUGE lady in shorty shorts and a belly shirt (see below) with 5 snot nose kids that are grabbing everything in sight and screaming because they can't have it taking their FULL cart to the 15 items or less line and then making excuses like they need to hurry to get their kids out of the store. What they really need is to not take those little demons into public until they learn to behave and if you insist on bringing them let the people who have only 2-3 things get checked out so we can get away from said children.
6. Continually happy and cheerful people who tell me stupid things like, “Smile it could be worse" Keep it up and I will show you how much worse it could be.
7.Belly shirts. They should never worn by the people who are wearing them. Tight, tan bellies~~ maybe, but bursting out of the waistband ones, not so much, it's gross. And as much as I love tattoo's, if your little circle of whatever it used to be around your belly button now looks like super stretched out flock of something unimaginable, please keep it covered! If you have a hairy back or nasty pits, cover the damn things up. I also don't want to see your thong riding up your back or your butt crack when you bend over to get something. This also goes for "boys" (because no man would do this) who wear their pants around the bottom of their butt cheeks. I don't want to see your boxers, or lack thereof. If you have to do your belt up so tight on your legs that you walk like a penguin, it is time to pull the damn things up. You don't look cool, you are not a gangster, you are, however, going to fall if you ever have to run from a real gangster who may be firing a gun at you~~ think about it, you are a slow moving target who can't defend himself because he is holding onto his pants trying to run away without meeting the pavement with his face.
8.People who feel totally sorry for themselves for all of the awful, terrible, horrible things that have happened in their lives. I’m not trying to say that painful things don't happen in all of our lives, but people who want my sympathy and cash donations for things that have happened are more than likely not going to get them. Get a clue: We’ve all had pain, we’ve all been through SOMETHING and most of us are still paying for it since we have the sense not to ask the world for a hand out. That’s life, live with it or get over it.
9. People who plead poverty and insist on begging everyone they know (or don't know) for help, yet they can go out to dinner 3-4 times a month, go to movies, concerts and amusement parks. I work 45+ hours a week and my husband works more and we can't afford to do those things. I guess we could if we had everyone in the neighborhood supporting us and could spend our money as we wished. Support your own damn kids and live life like the rest of us have to.
10. Celebrities that can push out twins and be in a size 2 in 30 minutes. Can't you at least appear to be human for the sake of the rest of us regular people?

And there it is, lists of stupid-assed things that piss me off. I know, like you give a flying rat's ass......but it made me feel better!! :-)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

~~Super Yummy Giveaway!!~~

Go check out Mojito Maven and her great giveaway!!

http://makemineamojito.blogspot.com/2009/02/valentines-day-giveaway.html

Monday, February 2, 2009

~~Not Me Monday!!~~



Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not scream like a little girl when Justin's sugar glider "crabbed" at me.

I did not laugh so hard at a blog post from Redneck Mommy that I wet my pants, EWWWW- wouldn't happen!!

I did not know my mother in law was coming over and didn't even comb my hair, nope that would make her think I am lazier than she thinks already.

I did not spend $300 at the grocery store on Saturday buying pantry stock ups and junk food, knowing full and well that we had a budget to stick to, that would be very immature!

I did not eat a whole bag of potato chips when I got home from said shopping trip.

I did not Let Libby have an ice cream cone AND a popsicle because she asked for it so cute, why can't I say no to that kid???

I did not spend too much time on the computer and watching TV last night and it did not make me so tired I fell asleep at my desk today.

I did not just spend the last 2 hours looking up information on sugar gliders because they are not cuter than hell and I would not be wanting to maybe get one of my own.

What "didn't" you do this past week???

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Tickle Me Elmo



There is a factory in Northern Minnesota which makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms.

Well, Lena is hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00 am.

The next day at 8:45 am there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door. The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new employee..

He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule.

The Personnel Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the 2 men march down to the factory floor. When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo's all over the factory floor and they're really beginning to pile up. At the end of the line stands Lena surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo's.

She has a roll of plush red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles.

The 2 men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begins to carefully sew the little package between Elmo's legs.

The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter. After several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together and approaches Lena .

'I'm sorry,' he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face, 'but I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday...'

'Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles'.

This is the funniest joke I have heard all week!!!!