Christmas

For Christmas this year Jon's family decided to go to a resort in Midway with Trend West. It was a lot of fun! We had a lot of food, hung out, watched movies, watched in down poor snow (well over 2 feet by the time we left), sledding, ping pong playing, playing lots of games, and tons of catching up. We were able to to see how Jon's family celebrates Christmas. We read stories from the scriptures, and sang a couple songs, then Wally played "Santa" handing out the gifts. Santa was pretty good to us this past year. We got lots of games, clothes, Dvd's, and Carson got lots of toys! Enjoy some of the pictures!

Carson and his grandpa McMullin

Carson running around while Wally is reading the scriptures

Everytime Carson would open a gift he would rip off a piece then hand me the paper before he would rip off another piece...pretty cute!

Cars to play with!

Opening the gifts part didn't last all that long with Carson, he started to run around and help others, and bring everyone else their gifts then bring the trash to me....silly boy!

Way cheesy smile!

The "big" gift from Jon........

He got me a Columbia Coat!!! He did a great job! I love you babe!

Got the action shot of Kim (Jon's Mom) opening up their gift and having her realize what it really was and what it means! We got her a little box and filled it up with candy, and a very important picture. It was a picture of an ultrasound. She opens it up and thought why would you guys give us a picture of Carson's ultrasound......not so much...that was a picture of the new one coming.! That's right, we are expecting baby number 2 in June. But this time we are going to have it come early due to us NOT wanting another BIG one again!

Baby Number 2 is due in June!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

This year for Thanksgiving we were able to go to my parents house. It was just nice to get away and just relax and not worry about anything! And it was also fun to have Carson get to know his cousins a little more now that he is older and can talk to them and play! We didn't do much besides eat, do puzzles, talk and hang out, watch the kiddos play and for the adults, play the wii of course! Can I just say, the Wii Fit is a lot harder than it looks. It really wares you out! We brought our camera but like we always do, we forgot to take pictures. Sorry.
Lets be honest....the really good thing about Thanksgiving is the day after or in other words...Black Friday!!! Its tradition for us girls to get up early early that morning and get pretty much all of our Christmas shopping done with by noon at the latest! Most of the time there is always that something that you have to have. This year we were all dissapointed. There wasn't that one thing, or for that matter really anything that I really wanted to get. I mean there were some things that I would like to get but that was pretty much it this year. Not going to lie, I really enjoy the hussel and the bussel in the morning and the rush you get to see if you can get the things you had your eye on before they run out. Don't get me wrong though, I am not one of those people that push others down or who get rude out there. If someone falls, I will help them up, and if I am waiting in line and someone has less items than I do, I will let them ahead of me. Overall, it wasn't a let down. We got some really good things and Jon was pleasantly surprised with some of the items he got! Hope you all had a wonderfull Thanksgiving and made sure to tell everyone how thankful you are to have them in your life!

Happy Halloween!!

Trying to find a costume for Carson this year was a lot of fun, just because he can walk around and have more fun with it all! So this year we thought that Po from Kung Fu Panda would work perfectly with Carson, mostly because he has the belly to make it work! He had so much fun at the Trunk-or-Treat. He got lots of candy, he held his own bag to carry the candy, and he kept the hat on his head for the most part! YEA!

Having fun with daddy....who else??!!

The whole outfit together!

Giving kisses to Parker....so cute!

A quick family shot amougnst all the fun!

He is one happy kid with the milky way in his hand

Daddy helping Carson go through the candy to pick out all the "bad" ones!

Enjoying the end result of the night!

Zoo

After a long time of trying to convince Jon to go to the Idaho Falls Zoo with Carson and I, he finally decided to go with us. And how would have thought......we had a lot of fun! I hadn't gone to a Zoo since I lived in Colorado and was little. I was just excited to go. It was a lot of fun to see the animals that they had. The only real downer was that at a lot of the cages they had a sign up saying that "BRR, its too cold here for this animal. They had to go to their indoor housing for the winter. They will be back next Summer though!" Whatever.....you live in Idaho now, get use to this weather! It was fun, and made some really great memories!

The monkeys. The noises they made were hilarious!

Carson wanting to be in the nest

Mommy and Carson in the nest

The tiger

Carson just wanting to share the love and give the Tiger a kiss! Makes you look twice doesn't it! Its a fake...

Daddy helping Carson zip his jacket up again.....its a game to him. How many times can I unzip my jacket and get them to zip it back up for me?.....Everytime!

Wanting to give out kisses

Carson wanted to ride the lion

Daddy and Carson attempting to show off their muscles!!! Just kidding!

I forget the name of this animal, but it was cute

He loved the Zoo, he just wanted to touch every animal

How can you go to the Zoo without seeing the Penguins? We got there right in time for lunch...Lucky us!

Playing hide and seek with daddy at the little park in the Zoo.

Carson seeing what daddy was hidding in...an egg

5 things I love about Carson

1. How he come up to give us hugs and kisses all the time. Or we will tell him to go and give hugs or kisses to to daddy or mommy and he will do it. So cute!

2. How he dances to music in the background, or he loves to dance to the theme song of mickey mouse club. He absolutely loves that show.

3. How much Carson loves Bananas. No joke. He has to have one in the morning every morning. As soon as he wakes up one of the first words out of his mouth is ......... "Nana?"

4. How curious he is all the time with anything. He finds something new everyday and figures out how to play it or work it. It's amazing how smart he is.

5. How he is still a momma's boy, but becoming more of a daddy's boy everyday. He loves being with daddy all the time. From the minute he gets home to the minute he goes to work in the morning its all about dad. Although it is funny how if Jon tries to tickle me instead of laughing I will act like Jon is hurting me. Carson will get so mad at Jon and start crying. So cute. He does love his mommy!!

Meme

I got tagged from my friend Lindsay Bell. I guess this is called a "Meme."

This would be from Christmas last year. Jon loves to throw Carson up in the air all the time. Although I think he liked it more then, then now. Cute though!


Anyway, I tag how ever would like to do this. All you do is go to your picture file and post the fourth picture in your fourth folder. Have fun if you do!

Jon working at Spa's mean Sydney gets......

That's right....I get FREE stuff!!! Jon was able to get me a free Facial.. :) I have never had one of these done before and I guess that its worth 75 big ones!! Good work Hun!

Master Guard Fire Alarms

We went to a dinner seminar about fire alarms. Let me tell you, very interesting. Turns out that the fire alarms that we all have in our houses, apartments, anywhere really aren't that reliable. If you didn't know, we are suppose to clean our fire alarms out once every week. And the one fact that was crazy to us was that 55% of those fire alarms don't work when a fire is happening. And only 45% of them actually work when needed. For fire extinguishers, to not have the plastic black handles because the nozzle breaks off. So if you are going to be in the market for one, make sure to get the metal ones. Those were some of the facts that we found out at the seminar.

We found out that Master Guard Fire Alarms are the most reliable fire alarms out there. They work 100% of the time and if there has ever been a fire, the family was able to get out of the house within 3 min of the alarms going off. They have never not gone off when needed. And if anyone purchases these fire alarms they come and install them and if you leave, they come and take them out and re-install them in your new place. They have a life-time guarantee. That makes us feel good about them in our place!

Hat!

We found this hat while doing some cleaning and we had a little photo shoot! I think he looked very cute with it!

Shut the door, Put the can up

I don't know if all kids go through this stage but Carson is in it and its really kind of gross! He all of a sudden has a huge fascination of Toilets, and the Garbage can. Seriously the two nastiest things in a house. If I forget to shut the door to the toilet you know that he is in it either throwing stuff into it or splashing his hands in it then.......he licks his hands afterwards. Ya...Gross! Or if its not the toilet, you know he has went to the trash can. With this he either puts whatever he can find in it or he will pull everything out of it and throw it everywhere in the house. Gotta love Toddlers! So from here on out unless we want a toilet licking hand or trash everywhere, we keep all doors shut in this house and keep the trash can on the table for now until we find a better place for it! Any ideas?

Dancin Fool!

It's Official

Carson is a walking boy now! He has been for a while now....YAY!

Allergy Test...Take 2

After getting the first test, I really didn't want to get the second one done. It wasn't all that fun and to be honest at this point I didn't want to know what I am allergic to. I just wanted to pretend that I was healthy and not allergic to anything! When I got over that "dream" I went to get the second test done with.

Once they started the testing, the nurses kept coming in and asking me questions and making sure that I was doing ok. It was nice. Then when the nurse came back in to do the measuring to the reactions (if I had any) she kept asking me if I was feeling ok, if I could still breathe, did I feel a cough coming on, etc. I told her that I would let her know if I was feeling anything coming on. I can completely understand why she was asking me all the questions, especially after the other test. All the nurses were great though! Thanks for the concerns!

To make a long story short, I didn't get 55 shots in my left arm, I did get around 40 though. There was a ton of itching, burning, bumps and lots of swelling. Not so much fun. I tried to get some pictures from the receptionists phone because mine died on the way down. Those pictures didn't turn out very well. But at least you can see what it looked like.



Overall, with all the results. Turns out that I am deathly allergic to anything and everything out there. Not joking at all. The doctor told me that if it was up to him, I would live in a bubble with oxygen pumped in because that's how bad it is for me. Just means that I have to be careful with what I do and when I do stuff. For example if the grass is freshly cut, farmers are cutting hay, flowers are blooming, trees and everything else is pollinating, and there are cats and dogs out, to not go out and roll around in the grass and lay under the tree next to the animals. Or not to sit next to the heat vent with stuffed animals, none vacuumed floor, and dust everywhere. Not a good idea for me. I have to be cautious to whats going on outside and inside. No biggie.

So my choices are to go and get shots once a week for the next 5+ years or to take allergy meds everyday for the rest of my life. And by me taking the shots it wouldn't get rid of the allergies, it would just make my reactions not as bad. Just to give you an idea of how expensive the shots would be. For me to get the shots for just 10 weeks we are looking at around 1300 dollars every ten weeks! But didn't everyone know that that kind of money to us is just pocket change!! NOT! Needless to say we are just going to take the allergy meds everyday for the rest of my life. And after all this........ MY EAR IS STILL PLUGGED.

Allergy Testing

Sorry for the Pictures you are just going to have to turn your head!

As many of you know, I have been very frustrated with really just one thing that seems to NEVER go away......My left ear has been plugged for over 2 1/2 years. And it just never seems to ever want to pop. Talk about FRUSTRATING!! I can hear out of it, it just sounds cloudy. To kinda give you an idea of what I hear....put your hand over you mouth in a fist and talk in it. That's what it sounds like in my left ear. To make things worse I can't sleep on my left side because it plugs my ear more. Then it takes me half the day trying to get it to were it normally is.

I have tried to go to a doctor up here in Rexburg, but he didn't do much at all. Then I heard of a doctor in IF and he is great. The first time I saw him he hadn't heard of this at all. An ear being plugged for this long. He said that we are going to try a lot of different things until we find out what is making it so it wont un-plug. So we have tried a number of different things and yet nothing has worked. He did a scope through my nose to get to my ears and found out that I had massive swelling. Not good news. He then wanted me to take an Allergy Test to see if I was allergic to anything and that was the reason for it not popping.

The Allergy Test was not really like I thought it was going to be. I get there and the nurse pulls out 6 trays full of little bottles. She then grabs a hand full of shots. She gives me 5 shots to start off with. They aren't fun to get. Just to give her an idea of the reactions that I might have. It could have been worse. I felt burning and itchy......real bad....I really wanted to scratch my arm so bad but I couldn't. This is the after getting the first shots......



Then came the first round of shots... What they do is they give you a dosage of everything. Meaning cotton, grass, sage weed, rag weed, pollin....ect. Then if you have a big enough reaction they stop. But if you don't then they give you a higher dosage until you have a reaction, and if they give you the highest dosage that they have and you still didn't have a reaction then you aren't allergic. I thought that I wasn't going to have that big of a reaction, and I was right..all it was was more burning and me wanted to scratch it nothing new from the first 5.....





Until the second round of shots came. Let me tell ya....NOT FUN. After she gave me the shots she left the room for ten min. to see if I had a reaction. The doctor came in and we joked it was fun. I was having more of a reaction (which is good and bad. Good for we aren't just throwing away money for no reactions, and bad because we now know that I am allergic to something). Then the Nurse came in just a couple of minutes later. Good thing too. While she was taking the measurments I was starting to have a hard time breathing and started to develop a cough. I wasn't looking like my self so she had the doctor come in right away. He said I just talked to you a little ago and you don't look good anymore. While she is doing this I am now Wheezing for air and coughing non stop. He then instructed the Nurse to give me a couple Antihistamines right away, have me take a couple "puffs" of an inhaler, and to give me an epi pen. Yep that's right, thats how bad of an reaction I had to the Allergy Test. After this kind of reaction, they stopped the test and are going to have me come back another day to finish it. This time getting tested for Dusts and Molds....YEA! They said that they get this kind of bad reaction once maybe twice a year. Lucky me, I was their one this year! Hopefully I will try to not make it two!



After all this I ended up getting 55 shots just in my right arm. I hope that with finishing the test I wont end up have 55 more in my left arm!

The day has come...

I have been working for Melaleuca for over three years almost 4. I was a Full-time employee up until I had Carson then I went back being a Hot Shot. A Hot Shot at Melalueca is actually quite nice! I only had to work 4-6 days a month and I got paid pretty decent money doing it. They people there were so much fun! But every time it was time for me to work something ALWAYS came up. It was usually me trying to find someone to watch Carson the day of me working because Jon ended up having to work long that day or working out of the city. It finally got to the point of me just quitting. Yep that's right after 3 long years I finally called it quits! Not going to lie, it was a REALLY hard thing for me to do. I am not a quitter at all. The hardest part of it was having to leave the people that I worked with. They are all so much fun. The stories, the jokes, and even the work. Even though we ended up having to re-train ourselves every time, it was a lot of fun! I will miss everyone of you guys!

Jons family comes to visit

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law blessed their baby on the 17th of this month. We weren't able to go down to make the blessing because stuff came up that we couldn't get out of. Sorry guys. After the blessing his family (mom, dad, and sister) stayed in Utah for Education week. After the week was over they started to go back to Washington State. They were nice enough to want to come and visit us on their way back! We had so much fun staying up late, talking about everything, laughing, story telling, catching up, playing games and watching movies, and eating goodies and playing the wii! We got some pictures of the weekend, and boy was it fun to kill everyone on the Wii!!! :)

Kim, Jon and Carson

Aubbi, and Wally

Jon trying to show his family Carson's new "trick"

Adam and Wally playing Baseball on the Wii

Watching Wally TRY to hit the ball!

Adam a friend of the Family writing his Girlie friend a letter by the time they left he was on page 17