Exciting Painting Day

I finally decided to tackle the job of painting the family room this weekend. Wes and Spencer left early Saturday morning for a scout PowWow. Before I could start painting, I had to scrub the walls. I climbed up on the ladder and was washing away. No biggie. But like a dufus, I left some of the nails in the wall. One of them was one of those drywall hook thingies (technical I know). Anyway, as I was scrubbing, I came down on it and cut my arm.

Nothing major. It wasn't even bleeding all that much. But I didn't want to splash cleaning solution in it, so I asked Tyler to go get me a band-aid. He went upstairs and I heard him ask Justin where he had left the box of band-aids. All the sudden I felt light headed, so I leaned my head over a little, but didn't get off the ladder.

The next thing I knew, Tyler was right in front of me asking, "Mom, are you OK?" I opened my eyes and saw that I had spilled the bucket of cleaning solution. Yep, I had totally blacked out for a few seconds. Tyler was a little freaked out, and honestly I was too. I climbed down and sat on the couch. Then my face started sweating and feeling clammy, and my hands went numb. By this time I was starting to get a little worried.

My first thought was, "Dang, I can't go to the hospital, I didn't shower and I look like crud." I know. I am totally messed up in the head. :)

I didn't want to freak out Tyler, so I asked them to go get Brandon. I had him google my symptoms. Because of course the best way to diagnose a medical problem is on the internet, right? The first thing he came across said epilepsy. Um, nope, don't have that.

Then he came across dehydration, low blood pressure, and low blood sugar.
-It was first thing in the morning and I hadn't had a drink yet, so I was dehydrated.
-I know I have low blood pressure.
-I hadn't eaten yet because I was planning on making breakfast after I washed walls. Low blood sugar, check.
I think it was just a combination of all those three, plus looking at blood. Which doesn't usually bother me, but I guess it did this time.
So I had them bring me a glass of juice. I drank it and rested on the couch for an hour.

After that I was totally fine the rest of the day. And I got my painting done with a little help from Wes and the boys. And I did not have to go to the hospital all disgusting looking. Yay!

I don't think that's what the teacher had in mind. . .

Our Tyler has such the sense of humor. After he had completed his homework and gone to bed, Spencer called from the other room. "Hey mom, come see what Tyler wrote on his math paper!"

I walked into the kitchen and he was laughing as he pointed this problem out to me:
In case you can't read it, he wrote "they were easy". That's our Tyler!
I'm friends with his math teacher, and I think she'll get a kick out of that one. :)

Happy Birthday Tyler!!

Tyler turned 10 yesterday. We already celebrated his birthday on Saturday with his friends, and then again on Sunday with my parents. So today was pretty simple. I made his favorite dinner, and we spent the evening playing wii sports at his request. I was so busy having fun that I forgot to take pictures.
But let me just say that Tyler is a totally awesome kid and we are soooo glad he is in our family. He has the most infectious personality! We love you Tyler!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I had a fabulous day today. Wes surprised me by taking the day off so we could spend time together. He's been working really long hours lately, and I think he could tell I needed some time with him. It was awesome! We went out to brunch, then did some shopping. It was so nice to just spend the whole day together. I am so grateful for my sweetheart!

Tonight we took the boys to Taco Time, then came home and watched Despicable Me as a family. Love that movie!

Before the boys left for school today, I took some photos of the Valentine's we made yesterday with my parents who came down to celebrate Brandon and Tyler's birthdays.

Justin made airplanes out of smarties, gum, and lifesavers. We attached a tag that read "Hope your Valentine's Day is just "plane" great!
He decorated a bag to hold his Valentines at school, so we were off the hook on that one. We just loaded them into a shoe box so he could transport them to school.


Tyler was also going to make airplanes. I bought enough Smarties. I bought enough Lifesavers. I bought more than enough gum. But unfortunately, I didn't buy rubber bands. Doh! Did not even think of it because I thought we had a whole bin full. Dang!
He was a good sport about it and was perfectly fine just handing out Smarties. He did have to decorate a Valentine "box". He opted for simple, and I found an empty can that he decorated. I think he did a fabulous job!
I am so grateful for my awesome family. I love them buckets!!

Tyler's Trafalga Party

Tyler is turning 10 next week, but he wanted to celebrate at Trafalga, so we had his birthday party early so we could go on a Saturday.
First we met at the house for cake and ice cream:

And present un-wrapping:
Then we loaded up the gang and his buddies and headed to Trafalga for some miniature golfing and a few arcade games. I elected to use the video camera, so I don't have lots of still photos. But Wes did show me how to capture as photograph from the digital movie. Pretty cool, huh?
Here's Tyler with his buddies Ryan, Finlay, and Caden. Crazy characters every one of them!! :)
It was a fun day!
And as a side note, I actually tied Wes at golf. Miracle of miracles. It will probably never happen again. Today was just my lucky day. Or his unlucky one. LOL!

Happy 16th Birthday Brandon!!

Holey shmoley, we have a 16 year old at our house!

I'm not sure how it happened, because I swear it was just a couple years ago that Brandon was learning to walk.

I'm also pretty sure that I am not old enough to have a 16 year old. Good heavens. I'm not sure if I'm more nervous about him driving or dating. Not sure which one he's more nervous about either. LOL!

We celebrated his birthday last night with German Chocolate Brownies. And he opened round one of his gifts. We're saving the rest for Sunday when Grandma and Grandpa are coming down.

So far we have experienced none of the nightmare experiences that we have heard about parents having with teenagers. And Brandon, if you are reading this, we don't want to start!

We are so grateful for his good nature, kind heart, sense of humor, musical talents, basketball skills, and Einstein brain to name a few. We love you Brandon!!!

Welcome to Our New Old Blog!

Hello peeps! Unfortunately, I had to set up a new family blog. I explain all the sordid details here.

Thanks to my awesome brother in law Jacob who subscribed to my old blog, and had copies of all the old posts. You rock!!

I was able to copy and paste them to this new one, but I have to add all the photos one at a time. That's going to take awhile, so I'm starting with the latest posts and working backwards. Wheew it's a lot of work.

It's been over two months since I was last able to post, and we've had two major holidays since then. But it would take waaaay too long to try to re-cap all of that, so I'm just going to skip to the present time.

Things have been pretty exciting around here. But not really in a good way. ;)

Our kitchen faucet had to be replaced.

Then we outgrew our refrigerator and had to buy a new one.

About a week before Christmas the brakes in the Tahoe went out. Had to be replaced. Ouch!
A few weeks ago the gutter on the back of our house froze up, making an ice dam. An ice dam that leaked into our newly re-modeled bathroom.

Fun times!

Last week our perfectly working dishwasher decided it was done, and it up and died. Fixing it would have been ridiculously expensive, so we had to buy a new one.

Yesterday the pipes in our bathroom froze.
Today I went to start a batch of laundry and realized the pipes in the laundry room are frozen too. At least I have a good excuse for not doing laundry!

I'm starting to be scared to wake up in the morning because I don't want to find out what is going to fall apart next!

Luckily everyone is happy and healthy. And I probably just jinxed us by typing that. Hope no one ends up needing a trip to the hospital tomorrow. :)