Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September happenings

Well, not too much has been going on here in the King House. 
Spencer is still working at the paper, doing what he does best, making ads and working with the website. He is such a pro! He just recently looked at his BYU-Idaho email and it no longer said student. Kinda hit him a little bit, hes done! I mean he got his diploma, but we are usually home around this time for his off track, still doesn't seem real yet. Maybe in January when we would have headed back to ID.

 Adyson started up a preschool (joy school-moms take turn teaching) with her cousin Kamaile and a few girls from around town. She goes once a week and loves it! Especially since she can go with Kamaile. Adyson is so smart! She pics up on everything. She loves to dance, sing, go to primary, and cook. As you can see in the picture above, her favorite toy is still Grandpa bear. Her birthday is coming up fast, and she has (for now) decided on butterflies, but she is wanting to change it to tinker bell. we shall see! Can't believe she is going to be 4 soon!
 (i love how Kamaile is posing for the camera, like she does for her dance class im guessing)
 Harper is just as cute and crazy as ever. These pictures are infront of the door because she saw Adyson and Kamaile take pics there, so she walked up, stood there and said "eese!" (cheese) Harper is 16 months old! I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention this, but she had her well child check at 15 months and she is 19.1 lbs, 29.25 in tall. Shes a small kid, but dont let her size fool you! She loves to dance and talk all the time. She loves to sing too and her favorite song is We Are Young by FUN. The whole fam loves their music so its fine that we may hear that song atleast 3 times a day! The only problem we have had with harper is that she falls....a lot! within a week she bit/smacked/made her lip bleed 5 times!!! the other day she smashed her finger with a chair. oh i hope she grows out of it! Harpers favorite toy is a stuffed tiger called, well Tiger. she has to have it to got to bed at night. 
^in this pic.... Spencer has taught the girls a little saying. "Best friends for ever, YEAH" and they put their hand in the air. The girls love it! he taught it to them in Portuguese too but I have no clue how to spell it,

                                                       

And as for me... well i have one of these beauties on my right foot.....


Swede-O Short Walking Cast Boot

Short version- started in april, 5 docs later, i have a 3cm tear, and some other things going on like tendinitis. hoping scar tissue will heal the tear so i wont have to have surgery

 Long Version -Back in April my foot started to swell up really bad and i could hardly walk on it. I waited to see a doc hoping would go away, but it didnt so I went in June to a doc. He thought it was just some swelling, ordered tests done to make sure it wasn't arthritis a blood clot or broken bone, and gave me a compression sock to get the swelling gone and some meds. It still hurt really bad after all that and my back and knee were starting to hurt, so in July I went back, but to a different doc.  He thought plantar fasciitis, upped the dose on my meds, and gave me excersises to get rid of it. a week later they called and asked if i wanted to do a steroid treatment (get the swelling down/gone), so i said yes, and when I started that i noticed this huge red bruise on the side of my foot. I called in and asked about it and the doc brushed it off as nothing. After I ended the steroid treatment, it started to swell again and hurt. My bro in law, a physical therapist, took a look when we came back to WA for the 4th, and thought i might have a tear. Well after we moved back I went and saw my old doctor and she said right away that it was not plantar whatever and ordered more xrays and an MRI for my foot. She said there was a 3cm tear (where the bruise is!) and set up an appointment with a specialist on Sept 5th. well i tell you the date because it was 3ish week of waiting and hurting! yep it was that long of a wait to see him! Well, the appointment finally came, and the specialist was kind of stumped. My foot hurts all over, so he couldn't exactly pin point it. The mri did reveal the tear, but it was so swollen that he couldn't really see anything else. SOOOOO..... after he examined my foot twice, he put me in that lovely boot for 7 weeks to get my foot to "calm down" aka get the swelling down and to get scar tissue to heal the tear so i wont have to have surgery. few! that was a long story. and folks, its been about 2 weeks. Oct 24th looks SO far away! I am praying it heals on its own!!!!

ok i'm done with the update. retelling that story makes me hurt. lol




Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Grant County Fair 2012!!!

I love the fair! Good (but not so healthy) food, entering things to try and get first place, seeing all the animals, going through the commercial building to get the free stuff, and lets not forget the rodeo and demo derby!

 Harper has a mini trashcan/pencil holder the ML water was giving out. best freebie ever!

 This year, Adyson rode and elephant, way over priced and she didn't even get to pet it, but she had fun!

 Looking at the animals. Harper was surprisingly fine with them all, and even pet some, including a horse! She would point to the animal and say DAH!... aka get me closer to see what this funny thing is!




 Spencer got free tickets to the rodeo from work, so we left Harper with the grandparents and took Adyson to see the cowgirls. Before the rodeo started, they were doing mutton busting, and Adyson said she would do that.... maybe next year! 





We love the fair time and all the food! We ate way too many space burgers and elephant ears! (btw- the lions club "lions ear" was SOOO good!)

Monday, August 6, 2012

Rodeback Reunion 2012


July 26-29 in Longview Wa
As usuall, it was lots of fun and I had a great time seeing family and catching up. Also as usual, i need to get the pictures from mom, so no family pics yet! will be added soon

















 ^ all the pictures above were of the photo scavenger hunt. so much fun! i am missing a few, to get those from my aunt. some of the tings we had to do were.... make a pyramid, ppl on sholders, symbol with our bodies, air guitar, act like chickens infront of kfc (pic coming soon!), planking on stairs, person in a tree, picture infront of the big squirrel, and much more ....
 Adyson got "sparkles" in her hair by my cousin Katelyn.....shiny ribbon....
 this is my cousin Kaden, one of Harper's favorite people at the reunion
 what would a reunion be without the peanut m&m toss from grandpa?!


We had so much fun! Thanks Aunt Jenny for planning a great reunion! Things we did that I don't have a pic of.... lots of crafts, family slideshow. everyones picture with their # that they came in the family (we're at 90 so far!), and the dog tags we all got, cookie contest, (I got most unique with my red velvet cheesecake cookies), eating some good home cookin, mingling with the fam and much more..... cant wait til next year! and hopefully i'll have a better camera! those reviews i looked at lied! lol

Friday, July 20, 2012

GRADUATION!!

BYU-Idaho graduate with a Bachelors in Communication degree.
It finally came, the day finally came! Spencer graduated from college! I am so proud of him! He did it! Its been a long hard four years, but he did it! We are so proud of you and can't wait to see what life has to offer now!
see that white sash/stole on Spencer? Well he had his mom make it up, (bc byui doesn't make/provide ones) and hid it through graduation, and after he gave it to me as a gift. I forgot what he called it, (supportive/honorary sash?),  but he wrote a note on it for me, and gave it to me. It was awesome!

and of course we had to dress the girls in BYU-Idaho shirts....hopefully future students.....a mom can dream can't she! Hopefully i'll get the better pictures from my mom and mother in law and i'll add those to the post later.

The next day we woke up early, checked out of our last rental in Idaho, and headed to Moses Lake. We love our new place and so far Spencer loves his new job. Its been great to be with family again and to have good cooking again! lol, I'm not so great in that area. That wednesday, (25th) we had a little congrats party for Spencer. We had chicos and a little cake for him and had family come help celebrate!.... Now we just see whats next in life!

Monday, July 9, 2012

4th of July

Well the 4th of July this year was a little unexpected. On the 3rd we got the news that the job Spencer had fell through (which we kinda expected....didnt hear from them in a while). We had kinda been preparing for this and so Spencer contacted another place in Moses Lake and they said he could have an interview when we move back. Well , we kinda needed to know what was going on, and it was the 4th the next day and then the 5th was my dads bday and my nephew was being born......so we hurried, loaded the car up, and took off at 6pm from Rexburg to Moses Lake. We got in at about 5:30 AM and all took a much needed nap.

4th- We just had a mellow day. Slept in, did some laundry (wasn't ready when we left so I had a garbage bag to wash, lol), had a bbq with Spencer's family, headed back to my parents to watch the fireworks from the house and light off some small ones with the cousins, and a little later Spencer and I made a stop out at the Baker/Jones Fireworks show at their house. No joke, this show rivals the city show!!! And Spencer and I even got hit with a firework! Its that awesome! lol







5th- My dads birthday and also Kazen's birth day. The girls and I, along with my parents and my sisters girls,  headed to Spokane to meet Kazen! Sorry I really don't have the greatest pics, and I don't have a pic oh me and him, my mom has them on her camera. It was a long day, but worth it to see the little guy


Birthday boys




6th- Spencer had an interview and got the job hes worked there before, so we kinda new he would get it!) My mom had a friend who was maybe going to manage a house for another lady, so we tried our luck and asked her. Turned our she wasn't going to, but gave me the address and lady's info to maybe talk to her. So we left the kids with my parents and headed over to the house to check it out. Turns out she was there, we got a tour, talked to her, and later that day got the place to rent for a year! AWESOME! heres a link to see pics. we are supper excited! Later that night we went to the Kings house for some s'more making and Spencer and Adyson tried out their pop up camper they got. They had lots of fun!




7th- that was kind of our lazy day. My parents and I took all the girls to home depot to do the kids craft, which was a moving van. Crystal and Josh came home with Kazen so Spencer was able to meet him. We were able to fill out the lease for the house, and just spend some time with the fam. 

 all in all, it was a very fast, fun filled trip! Got a lot done and cant wait to move back in less then 13 days! Heck more excited for Spencer to graduate on the 20th!!!! WOOO HOOO