Black Friday Fun!!!

So we decided that we wanted to get a Nintendo Wii for Christmas this year, ok that may have been my first mistake... Checked out the internet on Wednesday and the local WM, nobody has 'em. So when browse'in through the adds yesterday morning and finding only one place that even listed the darn things I began to remember stories of how my mother stood in line for a cabbage patch kid one christmas season, because that was all I wanted. Pay back is hell! I got up at 2:00 am today bundled up as best as I could threw a lawn chair and Jeff's sleeping bag in the back of the van, filled my thermos with coffee and made the 45 min trip to American TV to hopefully be one of the first crazy people in line and come home with a Wii. Got there and there were already 40+ people in line. Now what??? I sat around and thought about it (second mistake), then decided what the heck! Got out wrapped the sleeping bag around me (it's only 17 degrees out here) and headed to the end of the line. Now the add said they only have 16 Wii's and I am hopefull that not all 40 people in front of me want one too. Wonderful guy with info about where to go when they open the doors is chatting with people and giving me hope. Get the info with where to go and see I am heading to a green balloon (now I think things are looking up, green is my fav color). But alas at 4:50 I finally enter the store to find out I am number 19 in the line of only 16 Wii's. and at 4:55 I am heading back home with NOTHING. Life is crazy! And this is the best part, found out what time the first guy in line got there, 9:00 PM thursday night! That is TOTALLY INSANE!!!

I do keep reminding myself that Christmas is a month away and I could find one before then, we'll see...

He finally got one!

So Jeff has been having horrible luck hunting this year, winds haven't been right, hasn't had enough time, tresspassers, loggers, anything and everything that could go wrong this year has. But he just kept going and late yesterday afternoon in walks this monster. He was a little bummed that he had to take it with the gun, but it's a nice deer and my freezer was getting empty. For anyone who keeps "score" this buck is an eleven pointer and grosses close to 150+ inches. That's all good!

Congrats to Daddy, we love ya!

Yes I am totally neglecting this blog thing, but sometimes there are other things in life that just need my attention. Right now I am not completely sure what they are, maybe extra sleep...

But anyway thought I would share a couple photos of the boys out in the leaves the other day. Carter isn't really interested in leaves he just enjoys being outside and running around. Kaleb he likes to make tunnels and trails and pretend to hunt in the leaves, like you couldn't have guessed that.

And I got this email this morning and well it brought a tear to my eye and also made me think. I like emails like that and well it is Sunday and we all could use a little "religion" so I thought I would pass this along.

Once upon a time there was this girl who had four boyfriends.She loved the 4th boyfriend the most and adorned him with rich robes and treated him to the finest of delicacies. She gave him nothing but the best.
She also loved the 3rd boyfriend very much and was always showing him off to neighboring kingdoms. However, she feared that one day he would leave her for another.
She also loved her 2nd boyfriend. He was her confidant and was always kind, considerate and patient with her. Whenever this girl faced a problem, she could confide in him, and he would help her get through the difficult times.
The girls 1st boyfriend was a very loyal partner and had made great contributions in maintaining her wealth and kingdom. However, she did not love the first boyfriend. Although he loved her deeply, she hardly took notice of him.
One day, the girl fell ill and she knew her time was short. She thought of her luxurious life and wondered, 'I now have four boyfriends with me, but when I die, I'll be all alone.
'Thus, she asked the 4th boyfriend, 'I loved you the most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?' 'No way!', replied the 4th boyfriend, and he walked away without another word. His answer cut like a sharp knife right into her heart.
The sad girl then asked the 3rd boyfriend, 'I loved you all my life. now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?' 'No, replied the 3rd boyfriend. 'Life is too good! When you die, I'm going to marry someone else! Her heart sank and turned cold.
She then asked the 2nd boyfriend, 'I have always turned to you for help and you've always been there for me. When I die, will you follow me and keep me company?' 'I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!', replied the 2nd boyfriend. 'At the very most, I can only walk with you to your grave.' His answer struck her like a bolt of lightning, and the girl was devastated.
Then a voice called out: 'I'll go with you. I'll follow you no matter where you go.' The girl looked up, and there was her first boyfriend. He was very skinny as he suffered from malnutrition and neglect. Greatly grieved, the girl said, 'I should have taken much better care of you when I had the chance!'
In truth, we all have 4 boyfriends in our lives:
Your 4th boyfriend is your body. No matter how much time and effort you lavish in making it look good, it will leave you when you die.
Your 3rd boyfriend is your possessions, status and wealth. When you die, it will all go to others.
Your 2nd boyfriend is your family and friends. No matter how much they have been there for you, the furthest they can stay by you is up to the grave.
And your 1st boyfriend is your Soul. Often neglected in pursuit of wealth, power and pleasures of the world.However, your Soul is the only thing that will follow you where ever you go. Cultivate, strengthen and cherish it now, for it is the only part of you that will follow you to the throne of God and continue with you throughout Eternity.
Thought for the day: Remember, when the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

I need to vent... so stop reading if you want to hear all the happy fabulous stuff there just isn't any today!


I feel totally icky today, just down and really I have felt that way for a couple weeks now. I feel like they took all my get up and go out along with my appendix. I am forcing myself though all of my daily tasks and that is it. Otherwise I am hanging out in front of the TV, eating! Great for my diet! I need to get out of this funk, but I just can't figure out how. I am going to a crop this Saturday, it should be fun, but I don't want to go. I am scheduled to teach a scrapping 101 at the crop, something that normally gets me all giddy. I love to teach and share my love of the scrap with people, but even with that I still don't feel like going. Hoping that if I force myself that maybe it will make me feel better, but I just can't even get organized...

And to make matters worse the LSS that I love working, helping and hanging out at is closing in a little more than two weeks! What will I do with myself! When will I get that adult fix? I know I have Tally to keep the scrap fix, but for me the cyber world just isn't the real world that I need.

Then there's Carter... we had our doctor appointments last week, first and the good news, he probably won't need surgery on his belly button until he's 4. And we have a 50/50 chance that it will just go away by then. I am not holding my breath! The asthma/allergy thing did not go so well. He doesn't have any allergies at this point, other than having hyper-sensitve skin, you should have seen the mess of hives from the histamine scratch with the allergy tests. YIKES! But at least I don't have to start freaking out over anything that he eats or touches. Bonus! Asthma side of things, well I thought he was having a wonderful day, you know you finally get in to the doctor and the kids are perfectly heathly and they think you are a worry wart of a mother. That is what I was sure was going to happen, nope! Doc took one very short listen to Carter's lungs and states, yep he sure has Asthma and you are in the right place, we'll be seeing lots of you, but we will get this under control! We went home with precriptions for 5 medicines daily! Let's see we start the morning off with the liquid prednisolone, then for lunch we do singulair, at snack it's dose two of the prednisolone, then with dinner zyrtec, and finally the best we do a neb treatment of pulmicort. The neb treatment is the worst, doctor suggested to do it after he is sleeping, because after all he is a wild 13 month old boy, he does not like to just relax. Alrighty we have tried that, but Carter sleeps on his belly and if you turn him over he wakes up and gets upset that you are trying to hold this mask on his face. So I have resorted to cuddling him until he is asleep and sleeping for at least a half an hour. Now don't get me wrong cudding with my baby is something that I like doing, it's just now I am spending an hour or more of my time that I normally use for reading with K and Linds to snuggle and do medicine. Which of course the medicine is not going so easy. As soon as the neb machine is turned on Carter wakes up and fusses, it's 15 min of fighting and crying until the neb is done. He is getting a little better at it the last couple nights, it just really sucks. And I don't know if or when this will end.

Hmm I feel a little better now, not even gonna re-read for errors before posting, could care less. Gotta get a grocery list together, don't really want to do that either, but there is nothing but Halloween candy in the house to eat, again not good for the diet...