Snow, snow, snow!

Finally got the pictures add!!! Woohoo!!!
Snow. Snowy snow snow. I love snow. It falls down, down onto the ground. Snow :o). Have you seen the movie Anchorman...Ron Burgandy makes up this little diddy about scotch and I just changed the word to snow...oh never mind...it is funny in my head :o/. In fact, I am still laughing!
Saturday was the first time Grant was able to really get out in the snow and play. He was finally well and we had enough snow to really make if fun. Kenny took him tubing with a couple of the college students. They went out to Dave Walters house. He has a great hill in his back yard, just perfect for sledding/tubing when there is enough snow to cover it. We got 3-4 inches I would guess, so I suppose that is 'the magical amount' ;o)? Heeheehee :o). Yet another attempt to be funny on my part, have you seen the Truth commercial where they sing the song about the magical amount of nicotine. I crack up every time I see it...okay so I am very easily amused, as well as very easily sidetracked...oh well, it is my blog and I can do what I want to, do what I want to, do what I want to, you could to if you were crazy like me :o).
I will edit this post later to add the pictures of their snow fun. When Kenny was walking out the door to go this morning, I asked(told) if he would take the camera to take some pics since I couldn't go. It was just too cold for Kaylyn to be out...duh. Even though I really wanted to go real bad, ah the sacrifices of motherhood. And since she is finally over the ear infections and just stopped running a fever for 3-4 days (just a virus and not the flu, went to the dr on Wednesday to be sure, blahblahblah) I just didn't think it would be a good idea to get her out in the blowing windy cold. But after church we are going out to my parents house and we will be able to play in the snow there since we can be out for a few minutes and have a place to go into and warm up. And I am looking forward to seeing Kaylyn's reaction to the white fluffy stuff. My nephew, Keenan, didn't care for it too much after he fell face first into it.










I had to add this picture... she is such a ham!
Well, I hope you all remembered to set your clocks forward. Goodness I've got to go to bed! I think I have self induced insomnia....is that even possible?

Cute story :o)

Last night I was putting Grant to bed and Kaylyn came into the room. I gave Grant a kiss and hug and then picked up Kaylyn and turned to leave the room. Grant said, "Mommy!" I turned around and he was wanting to give Kaylyn a hug and kiss 'nite nite'. So I held her close to him and they gave each other a hug and Grant kissed her cheek. When I stood up I hear Kaylyn, mmma (that is what she does when she gives kisses :o)). Then Grant blew us a kiss and told us 'lu new' (love you) as I turned out the light.
It was one of those I wish I could freeze time moments. It really was so sweet. Just melted my heart! I hope they will always remember that special bond...you know in 10-12 years when all they do is fight...yeah right. I'll be the one remembering that moment and wondering what happened to my sweet little ones, and who replaced them with these teenagers!
Anyway, that is my sweet story of the day :o).

Finally...some pictures to look at :o)

Here is the invitations to Kaylyn's birthday party. I know it took me a while to get them posted. This is the two pieces.

And here is the finished product.

Kaylyn had plenty of help blowing out her candle on her cake.

Everyone was trying to get Kaylyn to get real messy with her cake but she stayed relatively clean. And after a few minutes she was ready to get all the cake and icing off her hands.

She was really happy and everyone had a good time at the party.

I got a cupcake cake this time instead of the traditional cake and it was a lot easier and very few leftovers :o).

Kaylyn helped me open most of her gifts. She really liked opening the cards.

Here we are...the family pic at Kaylyn's party. Yes, this is the best we could do!

While I was fixing supper last night Grant decided to entertain himself. He found an ink pen drew on his hand.

Then he decided it was a good idea to include his sister in on the action. I turned around just in time to catch him drawing on her face.

Here is a picture of the beautiful roses that Kenny got for me for Valentine's Day. The best part of the day hands down....

I had to add this pic. Kaylyn is playing the Guitar Hero guitar. Her daddy is so proud...

Look at this sweet cheesy face. This is what she does when she sees me with the camera. She is such a ham.

Playing catch-up is hard to do!

I am still trying to catch up from when I was sick. So that is way I haven't uploaded any new pics. I will get on that soon. Just bear with me. I do have a lot to post about. Mostly Kaylyn's birthday. Grant and I are better but Kaylyn still has a double ear infection so we are on a second round of antibiotics. Isn't winter weather grand! Well, just wanted to let you know I am still working on getting the blog up to date and posting plenty of pictures. Stay tuned...(all 4 of you :o))

So, yeah....about last week

Kaylyn was sick all last weekend so get her dr appt for Monday afternoon. Grant wakes up early and is coughing a little bit. Great...but no fever, and no other symptom so we decided he could go on to school. Then during the morning I get a couple of phone calls about some issues going on with work. Just after lunch Grant's teacher calls, "he's acted fine all morning, but after lunch he started acting droopy." She took his temp and it was 102.7. So, I go get him, and when I get there they tell me they sent a boy home that morning with chicken pox and the child's daddy had them too. I get home, drop off th kids with the sitter and rush off to my two meetings, then rush back home to take Kaylyn to the dr. Diagnosis-(no big shock) double ear infection.
So, Tuesday comes, Grant's at home. The fever is off and on, tylenol brings it down and it stays down for several hours, then all of a sudden he's got a high temp again. Kaylyn is not sleeping well, she is also teething. And I was still dealing with the work related issues.
Wednesday was a snow day---too bad we could not go out and enjoy it...Grant watched from the window. He was excited to see the snow flurries coming down. Grant is still on again off again with the fever. I got to bed late, had to finish Grant's Valentine Box on the off chance that he can go to school.
Thursday---no go for Grant to go to school he woke up in the night with another fever. Thinking maybe I should take him to the dr. I also wake up coughing and generally feeling bad. Happy Valentine's Day honey! I'm still in bed at 9:20 (Kaylyn amazingly slept in really late and Grant was in my bed watching cartoons) when there was a knock at the door. I drug myself out of bed and answered the door. It was a flower delivery! For me! It was the highlight of the week, hands down. 12 beautiful red roses. I even started to feel a little bit better. But that night I was feeling rather bad.
Friday--Grant had no fever, yea! But I felt rather bad. I called Kenny at work and asked him to take a half day so that he could take Grant to get his allergy shot. While they were gone, I got Kaylyn down for a nap and I took one myself hoping to feel better. I should have made a dr appt for myself. But I was really hoping to get better. I had to call Tiffany and tell her I could not meet her at our scrap store in the morning because I was sick...that made me even sicker :o(
Saturday morning I go to the urgent care center and receive confirmation of my feared diagnosis--the flu! He gave me a script for Tamiflu. So, now I am thinking that is what Grant had too but he only had a sporatic fever and cough and not much else I guess since he had the vaccine. I felt like such a bad parent for letting him go all week before realizing that. I guess I just kept waiting for the red blisters to show up or more symptoms or something. And I was thinking...another dr visit, we have had to many to count this month already, He probably got the flu from going into the dr's office last Friday for his allergy shot, plus I had a fever myself so my brain wasn't working properly, the fever impaired my judgement. (boy was that a run on sentence or what...talk about random thoughts) That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Grant spiked a fever again on Saturday afternoon.
Kenny called the pediatrician and she called in a script for Tamiflu for the poor boy.
I'm just really glad we are on the road to recovery. Please pray that Kenny and Kaylyn stay healthy, free and clear of the dreaded flu bug.
And just so you know, this Tamiflu stuff works pretty well. Lord bless the inventor of Tamiflu, it worked for me :o).
Hopefully we will have all this sickness behind us by Saturday as we celebrate Kaylyn's birthday. Oh and the invitations I was working on, well there not quite done...because of the week I had. But I think I can still get them done tomorrow and get them in the mail on Tuesday. Here's hoping anyway.
So, I know that was long and boring, thanks for sticking it out and reading it all :o). I feel better :o)!

Gold Canyon Candles

I am taking up an order for Gold Canyon Candles so if you like them or would like to try them let me know. I have all the scents if you would like to test them or if you know what you want just email me and let me know. I will be turning in the order next Saturday the 16th if not before (depending on how much interest I get).
Just wanted to see if any of you would like to place an order.

Look who's walking...

Kaylyn is getting more and more steady on her feet and is now taking several steps at a time. Just thought I would share a video of her walking around...

I still can't believe Kaylyn's birthday is almost here...just over 2 weeks away. I have decided to make invitations to her birthday party. I will post a picture of one when I get the first one done. I bought the paper yesterday and have a good I idea of what I want them to look like. I just have to find a picture of Kaylyn I want to use...the invitations are really cute in my head I hope they turn out the way I want.