The Christiansons

PHILLI!!

2009-11-23T18:01:00.000-08:00

To make sure Jared's post received enough attention, I decided to wait on posting my pics. Jer and I went to Philli on Halloween to see a haunted prison and tour the city. The haunted prison was built in 1839 and had been vacant for 30 years. It was old and creepy, and I loved it! We also saw the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall (Where Declaration of Independence was signed) and of course, ROCKY. We had a great time seeing a different city. It was nice for a change to not be stuck in traffic everywhere we went and we could find a parking space right next to every tourist attraction. The highlight of our day was when Jer showed Rocky who's boss. After giving Rocky a cheap shot in the nads he ran to the top of the museum steps like a true champ.

Here is a picture of the Gargoyle guarding the prison entrance.

Trip to Logan

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MEAN IN GREEN!

2009-10-30T16:53:00.001-07:00

We are getting ready to go to the ward haloween party and thought we would post a picture of the kids in their costumes. Also Jared's Birthday Cake.

Ok, So I Lied

2009-10-24T20:36:00.000-07:00

I thought I would have time to post more, but it just isn't happenin. Jeremy just got back from a week long trip to AK. Of course he got to do cool things... He went on a harbor tour through Kodiak, AK where he saw these sea lions. He went to conferences and networked around the area. I don't know why, but I would still love to live in AK. I think I just need a change! Jeremy told me moving isn't the solution, but atleast he goes on trips!! Anyways, we are doing great. I hope to go to a haunted house soon, or a cream farm festival. I love October!!

Where has our blog gone?

2009-09-23T18:40:00.000-07:00

I think I might blog again. No, really. I just got a new lab top from work, and I love watching T.V. and browsing at the same time. I think I can do this!! Right now Jeremy is watching the manly-man show Ultimate Fighter which I'm forced to watch on occasion. But now I can look at everyone's blogs! There are a few of you that need to catch up by the way. For now I'm just happy to be able to connect again.. and I will write in the future... This is suspenseful isn't it?

2009-07-25T18:57:00.000-07:00

Jared and I gave Elliott a new room for his birthday. Yes that is right Elliott. Although Alice is pictured above this is not her room although she would like it to be. We went down to Salt Lake and picked out bunkbeds and a dresser. There is a staircase with drawers in it as well. Then Erica helped us pick out some paint at Lowes. Thanks Erica it looks great. We picked up some cool jungle leaves at Ikea. Then back to Jerome where the work began. I spent all week painting, I barley got it done before the furniture came today. All I have left is the wall hangings and curtains. Here are some pictures. We can't wait to see you all next month!

Punta Cana

2009-04-23T16:09:00.000-07:00

I promised mom I'd post a picture of me and Jeremy... We went to the Dominican Republic on a free vacation paid for by Fidelity. We spent our money doing fun stuff like horse back riding and paraglyding. (?) It was so so so so so beautiful. We have to plan a trip to the beach again some time as a family. But not in another country. I got food poisoning and was out sick for 2 days. mmmm... the memories...

by the way, the girl at the top had the horse that Jeremy's loved to ride along with. I got the small horse that was trying to outrun another small horse... so Jer and I have no galloping pictures together.. :o( But we had a blast!

Super Bowl

2009-02-01T19:33:00.000-08:00

For the Super Bowl the last couple of years, John and I have had a little party. John barbecues ribs, chicken, and steak with rice and beans and other yummy treats and we all just hang out and have a good time. This year was not any different. Word has gotten out about John's barbecue so a few more people showed up this year, but it was fun because we had plenty of food. We completely missed the first half because we were busy cooking, etc. but it was a great game and we ate plenty of good food.

I know this family revolves around food, but it's always good food right? The kitchen was so out of control. I couldn't find anything that I was looking for towards the end of the night. The leftovers, by the way, are almost entirely gone. Hope you guys had a great day yesterday even if you didn't watch the super bowl.

CARRIBEAN

2009-01-26T16:16:00.001-08:00

This is the "place" we ate our lunch on the U.S. Virgin Islands. I had the best beans and rice and Jer had Jerk chicken. (note: I neglected to get the pot smokers in the shot)

We also went snorkeling here and fed some fishies!! They swarmed Jer and I. We were overwhelmed by them. All in all, it was awesome.

Next we went to St. Maarten where I saw way too many nude men. But, Jeremy seemed to like it. We rented beach chairs at this mexican restaurant/beach front?? I wanted to look like a biker chick for once.... What do you think??? And yes, we do not tan well.

The next pic is of me enjoying the warm water at St. Maarten. There is one think I loved about this beach. The water had a sweet smell to it. I remember the beaches in California smelt like strong salty funk. I couldn't believe how wonderful the breeze was. You couldn't even tell you were at the beach.

Jeremy's favorite part of the cruise ship was the big screen T.V. that showed all the football games. The view was always amazing from the ship. The water was often still, but on other days it was a'ragin. The rocking of the boat caught me off guard the first day and I didn't think I would make it. Jeremy had to guide me down the halls for some time. After the first night, sleeping felt like the big mamma carnival was slowly rocking me to sleep.... until she hit the gas at 2 a.m.!!!!

Lying to your children

2009-01-21T05:19:00.000-08:00

I think that we have all been there at one point in our lives. We want someone to do something immediately and not try to explain it to them in detail why it is sooo important that they do the task that we ask of them now. Alice sometimes just loves to take off her seat belt, or for that matter not even put it on. So me, the neglectful dad, will be driving down the road and notice that my 3 year old hasn't put on her seat belt yet or is doing it really slowly. Expaining why the seat belt is so important is not an option, so i tell her that if she doesn't do it right now the police will come get her.
There are other things I tell my children that are not exactly true but they do curve behavior that I do not appreciate. for instance over Christmas I told my alice, when she was not acting nicely, that santa was comming to take her back. I would pretend to call santa and have a conversation with him. to accomplish this task I would pretend that my hand was a phone.

So setting that as a background the other day when i wasn't acting the way that alice wanted me too she pretended to call the police and have them take me back! She said, "hello police, my daddy is bad! You want to come take him back? Ok bye" then she turned to me and said, "Daddy you bad the police are comming to take you back."

being a dad is great!

HO HO YOOOO!

2008-12-25T18:15:00.000-08:00

Hey fellow Christiansons!! Merry Christmas!! Since I'm proud to say that I've talked to ALL of you today, I know you've had a horrible Christmas since I wasn't there! I know, I miss you too. Jer and I had fun opening all your presents! I took a happy picture of Jer with his present from John.. THANKS JOHN. THANKS MEG for the bowls!! And of course, Jer doesn't take pictures because he doesn't think about it.... so there's none of me. I made him take this last picture to show off my new boots! On a Christmas note: I just wanted to let everyone know how grateful I am for the family I have. I love each of you so much and I hate to be so far away from all of you. Being apart makes the heart grow fonder, and I'll only start hating you guys when I move closer... But, seriously, life has little meaning without being apart of the lives of those you love. I'm so blessed for the relationships I have with all of you, and I can't express to you enough the love I have in my heart this day from the memories of all of you. Merry Christmas, Jess

Some news

2008-12-13T20:33:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone!

Well, I just got some news from my doctor that might explain all of my problems I've had the past few years. It might also explain my frequent miscarriages. I was just diagnosed with Celiac Disease. I can't have anything with gluten in it, which means bread is now my enemy.
At first I was really upset, but the more I think about it the more I realize most of my other problems will go away if I just stick to a gluten-free diet. I haven't had a proper farewell party to bread though. I feel like ordering Papa Johns, having mom make home made cinamin roles, have Erica whip some bananna bread up, and invite the Amish peeps over to be my caterers for the day. After I pass out from dough heaven, maybe then I can say goodbye. But, before I got the news I just finished up a work holiday part at Bucca De Beppo. ITALIAN!!
Since I never talk to everyone regularly, except Erica :o), I wanted to share the news and officially start the pitty party. Ok, so I'm over it... I think. The doctor said this was genetic so... look out siblings!
Thanks to mom, she informed me I might be skinny forever. She told me how wonderful it would feel to have everyone jealous of me... mmmm... I'd rather eat bread!!!
Other than that, Jer and I are just dandy. We are planning a trip to the carribean in January. We got a steal of a deal through my brother in-law. I'm soooo excited!! I love our adventures together out here. But, I really miss all of you. We'll try to make it out next year, and hopefully it wont be so expensive to fly. Don't forget that we have a spare room now and some foot room, visitors welcome!!!

Love you guys!
Jess

Christmas lights

2008-12-11T04:13:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone and Merry Christmas!

Remember driving down that street in CA called candy cane lane? That was the title wasn't it?
well we last night went to a home that was decorated just like that. They allow people to pull into their drive way and look at Christmas lights. The place is huge and the driveway is circular so that you can see their entire property. We also went to Gerties a pizza joint here in twin falls. They serve all sorts of funny pizza like smores pizza, taco pizza etc. The kids loved it.

Elliott by the way is doing better or i should say he is progressing. He is almost walking without support. We have a little baby bike that he likes to stand behind and push around the house. As for his eating he is trying all sorts of new textures and flavors of food. Yesterday he had pancakes for lunch and spaghetti for dinner. We still are seeing both a speech therapist and a physical therapist but we are delighted that he is moving in a positive direction.

Alice is still the best little girl in the whole world. Last Friday as I was saying goodbye and heading out the door for work i told her, "love you princess!" she replied, "love you too, princess!" Alyson couldn't stop laughing.

I lost my wedding ring over thanksgiving luckily i found it. The funny thing about losing my wedding ring was that it happened at the same place where i lost my swimming trunks on Valentines Day.

Anyways love ya

Happy Birthday Jared!

2008-10-28T08:37:00.000-07:00

We hope your day is great and we love you!

Happy Birthday Megan!!

2008-10-17T08:50:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Megan! Hope your day is great! Love you!

2008-10-10T10:21:00.000-07:00

We had a blast on our family vacation this year!
Are only regret is that it was way too short we would have loved to spend more time with everyone. So let me know if you want more pictures because we got it.

2008-10-10T10:15:00.000-07:00

Alice has started dance class and she is loving it!!!

she can't remember all the new moves that she is learning but she is having a good time. She is also attending preschool once a week on wednesdays. Elliott is doing better he has gained 8 ounces since his last doctor visit. In addition he will eat some solid foods now like crackers, cheetos, bread rolls. We still worry about him because he currenlty has residual chewing issues, and he doesn't take enough fluids in from his sippy cups so mom is still breast feeding him to help meet his demands.

Alyson has interviewed at boise state for a teaching position, i'll keep everyone posted if we hear anything.

Hi Family- I'm a scrapbooker ya'll

2008-10-03T18:38:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been awhile since I got on here. But, I have a life, what can I say? I've recently decided I don't want to waste my life watching T.V. I'm realizing my life has become one very long boring Trailer. So, I've been scrapbooking and trying to "create". I was watching the relief society broadcast when I decided it's time to use my brane! So, I've included some dull pictures of my last project. I was so proud!! It took me forever! I gave it to Donna and Dennis (Jer's parents) for their 40 year anniversary. (the porda-potty pic is my favorite) My sister-in-law is putting together a scrapbook for them. This weekend, I'm going to try and enlarge my wedding photos. I need to get those in a book. Hopefully the Wedding Gods will have mercy on me... and the pics will turn out perfect. I miss all of you terribly!!

It's been awhile...

2008-09-29T13:03:00.000-07:00

Well...I thought I would give you guys an update on how things are going. This past weekend was interesting because our wonderful TV decided to punish us for not fixing it sooner. We have a projection TV and ever since we moved into our apartment last year, we have had a problem with our blue convergence. Well we have gone a whole year "dealing" with the problem and our red convergence decided to chip in. That gave us the incentive to try and get it fixed, but it kept being pushed to the side. I know you guys all know how that is. Well, Friday the TV just decided to stop turning on. Yep that's right. We turn it on and two seconds later it turns off, so it's probably a bulb issue. Needless to say, it's at the repair shop and depending how much it costs, we may just end up buying a new TV, but we really don't want to. On top of that, John hurt his back really bad playing basketball last week, so we went to the doctor who put him on serious pain meds, which knocked him out almost the entire weekend. Other then that, we are doing pretty well. Just dealing with everything as it comes one day at a time. :)

Kirk's quandary

2008-09-17T19:41:00.000-07:00

Kirk, Jess just told me about your recent decision to vote for Obama because of McCain's choice of Sara Palin as his running mate. She also mentioned that you agree that the government should not be bailing everyone out. I mean, who's next Ford? General Motors? Professional Boxing?

Seriously though, as the country starts moving towards a socialist society and Obama looks more and more like the next President, I hope you think of what you're doing. If you were a flaming liberal environmentalist that embraced communism, then I would abandon the fight to save a lost soul. However, I know you are not. You embrace a free market, you're a proud gun owner (at least you were a proud gun owner), and you drive a Porcshe versus a Prius.

You might want to do a double take on Obama's economic plan. He wants to eliminate taxes on the poor, cut taxes on the middle class, raise taxes on everyone making $250,000 and up, raise capital gains and dividends taxes, and raise taxes on businesses. Uh, did I mention he wants government run health care and college for everyone that wants to go. How in the world is he going to pay for such programs? Dentists and doctors will pay for it.

So, you may be scared of a little old beauty queen who doesn't know the difference between Iraq and Iran but at least she's not a rabid anti-dentite!!

Jeremy

Evolution of a Name

2008-09-11T11:49:00.000-07:00

How a cat named Indiana Jones can also be known as Susan

I have a problem with nick-names. Its irresistable. I can't just call someone by their original name---it hurts too much to contain myself. So I come up with nick-names to fit the person and how I feel about them at the time. Even my staff have nick-names. But there is a logic behind it all, so I decided to write the most recent down with my thought processes so you all can see that I'm not completely cracked;

We got a cat and gave him a name:
"Indiana Jones"
which led to "Dr Jones"
which of course led to "Indy"
Which if you add a 'B' makes for a catchy "Bindy"
Now Crocadile Hunter has a daughter named "Bindy Sue"
So I also call him "Bindy Sue" and when he pisses me off, I call him by his formal name "Susan"
On a side note, we also call him "Indiana",
which if you shorten it leads to "Ana"
That is how you go from Indiana Jones to Susan
Indy's names:
Indiana Jones
Indiana
Dr Jones
Indy
Bindy
Bindy Sue
Susan
Ana
So he has been with us for 6 months and has 8 names. If you come over to our house and hear someone yell "Susan" or "Oh Ana" they are referring to the cat. I'm working on the dog now.

Dogs name: Noah
When he kinda barks it sounds like "Wha!"
So I call him No-Wha or Sno-wha
Joey calls him Nova for short and Nova Southeastern formal
I've been toying with a few variations......Since he squats when he pees, a variation on the name Snowa could be Snow White(cuz what male dog squats----what a pussy) What a Snow White! Snow White could be formal...Whitey (after Uncle Whitey) for short. Did Whitey squat when he peed? If he did that'd be perfect. I'll put Jess on the case to find out.
From Whitey we could stick to the white theme and go to gringo or the antithesis of gringo...beaner.
So our dog may be called Beaner or Cholo when you meet him. I just do not know how it will evolve. But, the name Noah is not long for this world.

Alaska

2008-09-07T20:46:00.000-07:00

First we worked our buts off campaigning.. and putting up signs...

Then we hit the lake for some wave-runner fun...

Then Jer took me to a beautiful hotel room for a romantic night! It was a condo it was so huge!!

All-in-all I had a good time. I wouldn't mind living there.. it relaxes me so much.. There's no one around!!!

D.C. Trip!!

2008-08-25T18:55:00.000-07:00

Okay you guys. I know you have all been waiting for this post!! Let me tell you that I had such a blast in D.C. with Jess. She made sure that everything was planned and that we had plenty of things to do. Let me break it down for you and I'll try not to make it too long. :)

The first day we tried to go to Little Italy for a festival, but the website was wrong and the festival wasn't until Saturday, so we ate at a authentic Italian restaurant that Jess, Jeremy, Mom and Dad ate at and headed for The Aquarium. We of course had to stop for a little shopping. :) After that we ate dinner at Chipotle, which Jess said is really good, and it was just not the best. LOL.

The second day was my favorite. We took the metro to D.C. and took a tour of the White House. Then we went to the Zoo and even stopped on our way back to paint ceramics. That took longer than we thought, but it was still fun. We then headed to the baseball game where Jess got us front row seats by third base!! Great game, but the Nationals lost, but Jess got a foul ball. Whoohoo!

The third day we drove down to Rehoboth Beach where the most amazing outlets are!! Over 130 stores. It was a dream. We shopped til we dropped. We crashed at a hotel that Jess got to maximize our shopping experience and got up the next day to finish shopping and hit the beach. The beach was incredibly crowded, but soooo nice. After that we were tired! We just hung out at home and watched a movie. We had a great time. I missed spending time with her. It was like we were in college again. One of the best vacations and a well needed one. Thanks Jess for making it so fun!!!

What we have been up too!

2008-08-16T17:37:00.000-07:00

I met my new nephew this weekend his name is Carson and he came with a full set of hair, Lori(the middle sister) is the one that just had him and it brings their family up to 5 members.
Elliott had a great week with speech therapy, he actually started to bite food and swallow it. we got him to nibble on some cheese puffs and some ritz crackers. Half the time he spit it out though but the other half he was moving it to the side of his mouth with is tongue and moving the food
backwards. This week we are taking him up to boise for a MRI. Dr felix our developmental pediatrician doesn' think we will find anything but is willing to try and take a look. Alice Ann is doing great!

More pictures

2008-07-30T20:39:00.000-07:00

Crystal is now 15 years old, Dale and Ilene brought her over to meet all the children.
The picture includes from left, Nello, Dave, Les, Britton, Dale and grandchild
From left Sheri, daughters, son in lap, Roy and his wife, Joseph and Lila
This is Dave, one of Kathy's son in laws, and Ona Kathy in far right

Fort Family Re-union

2008-07-30T20:33:00.000-07:00

Kris is in Les's Model T-Ford. He just finished driving it.

From top left Ilene, Kathy, Mary, and I.

Mr.Bubba

2008-07-27T21:47:00.001-07:00

On wednesday this week we will be taking the bubba man to see a developmental pediatrician up in boise. I will keep you updated as things occur. Still haven't heard from the geneticist about those labs that were drawn up in june will keep you posted when I have more information. Bubba still isn't crawling yet but at least he is going from a sitting position to hands and knees before doing the arm crawl.

Kids!!!!!

2008-07-27T02:37:00.001-07:00

Wednesday night was interesting Alice Ann at 3am decided she wanted to read some books in the kitchen. Alyson woke me up and said, "I think there is someone in the house!" so I go bolting out of bed into the kitchen and there is my daughter......So we bring here to our room so she'll go back to sleep. Bubba wakes up at 5am because he is hungry....half hour later after being breast feed he pukes in our bed!

Being a parent rocks!

Hiking

2008-07-25T08:00:00.000-07:00

Well since I live in Utah, I get Pioneer Day off. Yesterday was Pioneer Day, so John and I decided to go hiking. We woke up at 6am (which is huge for me on a day off) and headed off. There is a trail on the East side of Salt Lake that leads up the whole mountain. John has gone on this trail tons of times, but this was my first time. Let me tell you, it was a work out. The trail was entirely uphill. The view was amazing! We could see the entire city. I couldn't help, but stop a few times during the hike just to look. Of course I didn't bring a camera, so the picture is as close as I could get it, but the real thing was much better. I defintely want to make this a habit and my goal is to make it to the top of the mountain. It took us an hour to get half way and then we turned back. My legs are pretty sore today, but in a good way.

I Sent a Boy to Alaska, and he came back a Mountain Man

2008-07-22T19:34:00.000-07:00

Does anyone notice the animal that has grown on my husband's face? He says he looks more mature with it. The constituents in Alaska don't seem to mind... but me? Well, my first words to him when he got in the car was "Are you shaving that off" not... "I love you.. I miss you" But "AAAAHHHHH"

Jer just peered over my shoulder and said "You can't see much on my face, just looks like pubes"

I second, third, and fourth that.. but I have to put up with the pubes until the campaign is over. He looks more "Alaskan" and volunteers can easily relate to him when he trys to recruit them.

So, how old do you say he looks? 30? 50? Or now a cradle robber with his 24 year old wife?

A mind of their own

2008-07-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

I wanted to share with you guys the fun that we have been having with the crabs that we bought to go in our fish tanks. The first one we bought was about six months ago and he figured out how to crawl up the filter and get out of the tank. I was asleep one night and heard him crawl out and fall behind the dresser. Needless to say I could not go back to bed until he was safely back in the tank. He has since died and we bought two more, one male and one female. Well we have only had these guys for a few days. On Saturday, John was at work and I was on the couch watching "Definitely, Maybe" which actually is a pretty cute movie and I see something scurrying across the floor. At first, being the spider freak that I am, I thought it was a pretty decent size spider, but it was actually the female crab. Now the tank, mind you, is in the back of the apartment, so she managed to get all of the way to the front room without me noticing. Ha! Well I got her and put her back in the tank. We still have not quite figured out how to fix the problem, but we are working on it. Here they are in all of their glory. The male is the one with the huge claw. By the way, did you guys know that beta fish can go in tanks with other fish, they just can't be in the same tank together. I didn't.

I'm Lonely and pathetic

2008-07-13T18:44:00.001-07:00

I've been alone for two weeks now, and going on a third. Don't I look horrible? I'm so happy I have this blog and my friends to keep me social. Jer's working hard for the Congressman when most likely he wont win the election in the end. I'm proud of him for putting himself out there though. This is his first time running a campaign for his home town. Could you all keep us in your prayers? If Jer looses his job, I don't know what we'll do. He's set on everything will be ok, but I'm the natural pessimist. Other than that, I've just mastered my front lawn and killed all the weeds!! I even pulled one out that was 7 feet tall! The home association peeps saw me and said.."thanks so much for cleaning this up, we didn't know what we were going to do." My point is... I'm lazy and don't give a crap about my yard.... Hey dad, you mind coming out here to show me how the pros do it? Well, off to bed I guess. I have the whole queen size to myself. That's the only good thing about Jeremy leaving me for so long.... I sleep like a baby.

Mr. Elliott

2008-07-09T06:56:00.000-07:00

On Monday we ended up taking bubba to the urologist for his checkup and the physician decided to wait 6 more months and hopefully we will see some more progress. His left testicle has descended quite a bit down the inguinal canal his right one is still up there but the good news is that it is not in the abdomen itself. We are still waiting to hear from the geneticist about the labs we had drawn. Anyways got to go take care of the lawn.......

The Fourth

2008-07-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

Okay you guys. I'm a loser because I still haven't made picture taking a habit, but it's coming soon. I thought I would let you guys know how our fourth went. We had a barbacue on Friday. Not the traditional hot dogs and hamburgers, but something even better. I was able to have jerk chicken and rice and beans twice this week. It was great. John barbacued ribs too. They were so good. Megan you are the only one who has experienced his jerk chicken and rice and beans even though the rice was a little burnt (he felt so bad about that). We didn't go to any fireworks shows, but that's okay because the fourth to me is doing that kind of stuff at home. We had a relaxing weekend and actually made it to Hancock. I liked it because I like Will Smith as an actor, but there was a weird twist to the movie that I wasn't expecting. I still liked it though. Anyway, that's about it. I hope you all had a great fourth.

2008-07-06T17:26:00.000-07:00

Poor Indy...He just got neutered, and is too weak to hunt...that's ok, because Kirk is a hunter himself...apparently it runs in the family...Jessica...

The mouse that has been driving us nutz...=)

I WAS IN THE DC PARADE! WHAT DID YOU DO LOOSER?

2008-07-05T15:13:00.000-07:00

I was in the DC parade in the BLAZING SUN waiting for 2 hours to

walk through downtown holding a hudge star. It was my coworker's idea and since I'm alone for the fourth I thought I'd get

out there and wave to the kids cause I'm awesome. I did see some of the parade while I was in line to go. It looked pretty cool for what I saw. So who can say they were in their nation's capitol on Independence Day participating in a cool event? No one? Really? I thought so.

2008-07-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

Happy Fourth of July

2008-07-03T12:57:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone

I hope that you have fun watching fireworks this year I have to work this weekend.... Sucks huh. Alyson is taking the kids to go see her sister in Rexburg and stay over the weekend. I have already called my girlfriend to let her know......(ya right!). Anyways on Monday Elliott is going to see the Urologist to see what they need to do about his balls. They still haven't descended out of the inguinal canal and so I don't know if we are going to have surgery or what, I will let you know more on Tuesday or Wednesday this next week. Erica was mentioning her raise so I guess I should mention mine, I just got an extra .85 cents for my BSN WOW!!!!! I know, I know you are jealous but not everyone can be me all right. Anyways we are doing really well except for the warm weather, I have forgotten how much my allergies bother me when it starts to bloom.

The Vag

2008-07-03T08:06:00.000-07:00

Peeps is having a rough time with Indy-the new star in the house. He is getting all of the attention and she doesn't like it. So she's found that if she flies to the floor---everyone comes running.......even Indy who's latest victim was the hamster...Houdini(may god rest his soul) So we noticed Peep was picking at her butt and it was getting a little nasty down there so we took her to the vet. Three hours later(ya three hours after work in a stinky vet office) we get to see the vet(a woman in her late 20's with Amazonian features). She comes in, clearly is not familiar with birds, and says she like to have a closer look at Peep's "vag". I thought maybe this was some vet term for an unknown to me bird part, but when the vet said she'd like to "swab out the vag" I knew I wasn't hearing it wrong and I tried so hard not to laugh. Vag, who the hell says vag? Birds I thought had a cloaca---whatever, so peeps has a vag, which got swabed out, cultured and x-rayed. All for 200 bucks...I should have asked her to throw in a pap smear while they were at it-----you know---diagnosing peep's vag?lol

oh-the diagnosis is either a papilloma(peeps will eventually die) or an adenocarcinoma(she'll really die) or an Indy trauma(he hooked one of his claws in her vag) and it stings so she picks at it. They gave her some Ab and NSAIDS but they forgot to give her some Preperation H. Oh.....I hear Erica might have some I could borrow HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Luv ya sis HAHAHAHAHA

RATTATOUIE MUST DIE

2008-07-02T19:10:00.000-07:00

haaaaaaaaaa I can't believe I figured this out. Awesome. You can't even tell he's dead huh? But the LITTLE BASTARD IS.

ODOYAL RULES!!! So, evil. I'm really not this mean.

I AM A MOUSE KILLER

2008-07-02T19:00:00.000-07:00

It's funny how you think you know yourself until you smash a cute mouse with a shoe. I fed him peanut butter, let him think he was ok.... (for my peace of mind) then I squished him. My reasoning? Body pump was starting in five minutes. I then call my husband and say, "I HATE YOU FO R LEAVING ME ALONE TO DO THIS!!!!" Oh, by the way, Jer is in Alaska working. He's really busy with the campaign and hates life right now I think. I' m super jealous though. He gets to go on a camping trip this weekend for the 4th and me? Well, maybe I'll spend some money??? I haven't been invited to hang out with anyone yet, as pathetic as I sound I'm sure I'd be ooodles of fun.
I tried to fly out to see my most favorite people on the west coast!! I miss the coldasack fourth of July parties and hanging out with neighbors. Wasn't it so much fun? So, I'm trying to attach a picture of my dead mice since I know everyone would love to see it. Lets hope I can figure this stupid blog thing out.

P.S. MEGAN YOU RULE FOR MAKING THIS. I AM A FAN.

No pics yet

2008-07-02T08:40:00.000-07:00

I like this idea a lot better because I'm more likely to participate. I have a hard time finding the time to creat my own blog. No pictures yet. I need to break out the camera and dust it off. I haven't used it in forever. Megan you look great. I am still trying to lose the 15 or so pounds I've gained in the past year.

Everything is going great on our side. Still working and doing the fun stuff. I'm all for going to see Hancock. What about you guys? I have a month left of being nervous and biting my nails before I find out how much my raise will be for the new position. For those of you in the fam who don't know what I've been doing the past 6 months here's a general breakdown. New FDA regulations for pharmecuetical companies are going into effect June 2009. As such, my company has to bring everything up to date in order to meet these new regulations. My job has been to write validations for every piece of equipment we use and make sure they are up to standards in running tablets and softgels. If a new piece of equipment comes in, I am responsible for gathering the information and running tests on the equipment to make sure it is compliant. I have been waiting on this promotion for 6 months now and have been just a little stressed because of it. One more month won't hurt though right? I am still working at the gym close to our house and it's pretty easy seeing as we get free memberships. :) John is doing well. He's taking the time off from school this summer and working full time. We spend most of our time with our fish hobby. We have about 5 tanks now, two that are 55 and 75 gallons. We have mostly cichlids and John is really talented at setting up the tanks. Something that I'm definitely not good at. We are still under reconstruction with the tanks and the fish, but it's fun. I promise that I will start posting pictures. Love you guys!