Kendall is Sick!

Poor Kendall, she is sick! She has asthma, and really does very well up where we live.

Whenever we go down to Salt Lake and hit the smog, she cannot breathe. Up here, it only happens when the weather is changing. And since we have gone from freezing, to melting, to snowing, she is having a hard time breathing. This week has been no sleep because of coughing, no school because of no sleep, and two very tired parents.

Three nights ago, she climbed under the covers with me to watch a movie. She made me promise that after she fell asleep, her dad would not take her upstairs to her room. Well, he did. And 2 hours later, we had a coughing Kendall in our bed!

Two nights ago, she climbed under the covers with Ryann and I to watch 'Space Chimps'. At the end of the movie, as her dad was herding the others off to their beds, she hid under the covers and begged, "Don't let him take me. Please don't make me go upstairs." So she slept under all the covers at my feet. Until the coughing became too much and she kicked her dad out of bed!

Last night, Christopher just embraced the fact that Kendall would be sleeping with us. So he cuddled with her in the covers while watching TV. As long as he was holding her, she slept like a baby.

It only lasted until 2 in the morning. Then I found him on the couch and she kept coughing!

Now I am at home taking care of my babe. She was ever so hungry - and all she wanted was a 'burned tuna sandwich that you cook in that thing'. Which is really canned chicken with a little miracle whip on bread cooked in the sandwich maker. So now she has her favorite sandwich and all is well in the world.

"When I grow up I wanna be Famous"

We bought a new box of Crayola's and as a special fundraiser deal for

Shriner's Hospitals there are a few new colors.

Ryann's favorite is:

When she is coloring, with every stroke of the crayon, she is singing:

"When I grow up, I wanna be a star, i wanna be famous!"

"When I grow up I wanna have groopies!"

"Fresh and clean. Number one chick on the scene!"

Over and over and over again!

And with a smile like hers, how could she be anything but FAMOUS!

Signs of Spring

The thaw was on:


Kendall is in total heaven when the yard is full of yucky water. Thank heavens for muck boots!

Luckily for us, the water stays away from our house. There are a bunch of other houses around here that are not so lucky.

My first real experience with the Spring thaw was in Woodruff. I came home from Salt Lake to see a land covered in water. There was soooo much water that the neighbor kids had a canoe out in the street.

There was no water standing in our yard, so I thought our house was safe. Until I went into the house and it was freezing! I tried to get the heater to kick on, with no luck. I had to go look in the super spooky basement and found 2 feet of water in the basement. The heater was flooded. Yea!

So my super neighbor Kent Stuart - who is the most awesome man in Rich County - came over to help pump out the water. With the help of Bill Cox. Yea for nice neighbors!

So, for all of you who are flooding - I feel your pain!

Should I be worried . . .

Ryann loves High School Musical. We watch 1 & 2 because she loves Troy Bolton. And you know, who doesn't?

I am a terrible mother, and did not take the girls to see HS3, nor have we rented it yet. So when a commercial recently came on TV, Ryann said:

Ryann - "I want to be Troy."

Me - "Why do you want to be Troy?"

Ryann - "Troy and Gabriella dance."

Me - "But if you are Troy, you have to kiss Gabriella."

Ryann - "I do?"

Me - "Troy kisses Gabriella, remember?"

Ryann - "I will be Troy and Tater can be Gabriella."

Me - "Are you going to kiss Tater?"

She smiles and leans in for the smooch - Tater runs away!

It all is explained later.

"I want to be Troy so I can play with Gabriella. Not to kiss her mommy!"

Oh Good!

My budding artist!

Ryann has become quite the little artist. It is so fun to see little kids learn to draw real objects. I think these portraits of Topher and I are so silly!

Just like the artist!

Ryann - 3 1/2

Happy Hugs & Kisses!

Everyone needs hugs and cuddles! Even if it is from your ginger kitty and he has to sleep on our head!

Friday the 13th!!!

Happy Friday the 13th! I am not superstitious at all. I had my first baby girl on a Friday the 13th! And that was horrible, the birth not the baby!

Dylann is very, very superstitious! She has been dreading this day since February 1st! She is tortured with the fact that there are three Friday the 13th's this year! What ever will we do?

So below is a story off of Yahoo News (Yep! I stole all the following info off a web story):

13 Facts About Friday the 13th

If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week's unlucky day is the first of three this year.

The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist a vt the University of Delaware who has studied the number 13 for more than 20 years.


By the numbers

Here are 13 more facts about the infamous day, courtesy of Fernsler and some of our own research:


1. The British Navy built a ship named Friday the 13th. On its maiden voyage, the vessel left dock on a Friday the 13th, and was never heard from again.

2. The ill-fated Apollo 13 launched at 13:13 CST on Apr. 11, 1970. The sum of the date's digits (4-11-70) is 13 (as in 4+1+1+7+0 = 13). And the explosion that crippled the spacecraft occurred on April 13 (not a Friday). The crew did make it back to Earth safely, however.


3. Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor.


4. Fear of Friday the 13th - one of the most popular myths in science - is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

5. Quarterback Dan Marino wore No. 13 throughout his career with the Miami Dolphins. Despite being a superb quarterback (some call him one of the best ever), he got to the Super Bowl just once, in 1985, and was trounced 38-16 by the San Francisco 49ers and Joe Montana (who wore No. 16 and won all four Super Bowls he played in).


6. Butch Cassidy, notorious American train and bank robber, was born on Friday, April 13, 1866.

7. Fidel Castro was born on Friday, Aug. 13, 1926.


8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.

9. Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.


10. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12."

11. Woodrow Wilson considered 13 his lucky number, though his experience didn't support such faith. He arrived in Normandy, France on Friday, Dec. 13, 1918, for peace talks, only to return with a treaty he couldn't get Congress to sign. (The ship's crew wanted to dock the next day due to superstitions, Fernsler said.) He toured the United States to rally support for the treaty, and while traveling, suffered a near-fatal stroke.


12. The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number - 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.

13. The seals on the back of a dollar bill include 13 steps on the pyramid, 13 stars above the eagle's head, 13 war arrows in the eagle's claw and 13 leaves on the olive branch. So far there's been no evidence tying these long-ago design decisions to the present economic situation.


Origins of Friday the 13th

Where's all this superstition come from? Nobody knows for sure. But it may date back to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune.


Meanwhile the belief that numbers are connected to life and physical things - called numerology - has a long history.

"You can trace it all the way from the followers of Pythagoras, whose maxim to describe the universe was 'all is number,'" says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and author of "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved" (Simon & Schuster, 2005). Thinkers who studied under the famous Greek mathematician combined numbers in different ways to explain everything around them, Livio said.


In modern times, numerology has become a type of para-science, much like the meaningless predictions of astrology, scientists say.

"People are subconsciously drawn towards specific numbers because they know that they need the experiences, attributes or lessons, associated with them, that are contained within their potential," says professional numerologist Sonia Ducie. "Numerology can 'make sense' of an individual's life (health, career, relationships, situations and issues) by recognizing which number cycle they are in, and by giving them clarity."

Mathematicians dismiss numerology as having no scientific merit, however.

"I don't endorse this at all," Livio said, when asked to comment on the popularity of commercial numerology for a story prior to the date 06/06/06. Seemingly coincidental connections between numbers will always appear if you look hard enough, he said.

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My new 'SYNDROME'

Apparently OCD is not my only problem. I have now been diagnosed with a new disorder, which my husband has named "Homing Syndrome". Because he is a doctor - a doctor of b.s.- he is able to diagnose my wierdness with these fancy new terms.

I was diagnosed with this "Homing Syndrome" at about 11:30 pm on Tuesday night as my in house doctor stepped out of the shower.

He says, "You know what? I think you have Homing Syndrome"

I was like, "What the heck is that?" (My brows are furrowed even as I am typing this because I still have no clue where it came from.) "Am I a pigeon?"

He said, "I think your dad must have been gone too much when you were a kid and you missed him so much you have developed Homing Syndrome."

Now, I did not know Christopher when I was growing up. So he does not really know where my dad spent his time. My dad took us camping, hunting, fishing, shooting, on long rides to scope out wildlife. All on the weekends, if he did not have to work. So my dad was around.

I told Christopher that I thought this was the most bizarre thing he has ever said to me. So I had to ask where it was coming from.

He said, "You seem to think I need to be with you all of the time. You need me home."

I laughed. Laughed big and loud. So I told him, "If you want to go do things with your friends, go. You go and hang out with the guys. You go live it up Rock Star Style. Who are you going to go with?"

He says, "I don't know?"

I ask, "Have you been invited to go hang with the guys? And what guys would they be?"

He says, "Well no one right now."

So, Christopher, you are free to hang with the guys, when they ask or you ask them. And I know it will only be Tyler and you will go 4-wheeling. Because everyone else just wants you to go to the nudey bar with them. And if they ask for you to go there, you can say:

"Sorry, my wife has Homing Syndrome!"


Below, you will see a tribute to my dad, (which I wrote a while ago just to tease my dad), who's actions in my youth did not lead to my coming down with Homing Syndrome!

My Dad
By Shelly Anne

My dad is a crazy man,
He likes to think he can can-can.

He has me do such crazy tasks,
Of course I do them, because he asks.

I totally would be lost without my dad,
Even though his is quite mad!

And that’s what makes my dad my dad,
For all the greatness and the bad.

He loves me each and every day,
Even though I live far away.

He never is to busy for me,
And my little family.

I love you daddy!

Happy Groundhog Day everyone!

I don't so much as love the holiday, as I love the movie with Bill Murray! I will make my kids watch it with me today!

For those of you interested in the Groundhog here id a news story (did anyone doubt the six more weeks of winter?):

"Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow; winter to continue"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_on_re_us/groundhog_day;_ylt=Ao1xSrlKBfpvpWVDQk5k_IwazJV4

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. – The world's most famous groundhog saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting that this already long winter will last for six more weeks. Punxsutawney Phil emerged just after dawn in front of an estimated 13,000 witnesses, many dressed in black and gold to celebrate the Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl victory the night before.

Back to the movie:

If you have never seen it, poor you! I saw it opening weekend at the South Towne Theater with my friends, Emily, Kris, Nancy and Leslie. We laughed so loud! Good Times! (And that was 16 years ago!) I own a copy, and every time it is on t.v. i had to tune in.

Here are some of my favorite lines in the movie:

Phil: Don't drive angry. Don't drive angry!
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Phil: Don't mess with me, Porkchop. *************************************************************************
Ned: Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil: Hi, thanks for watching. [Starts to walk away]
Ned: Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you.

Phil: Not a chance.

Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?

Phil: Ned Ryerson?

Ned: BING!

Phil: Bing.

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Phil: I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/quotes

I like Groundhog Day too because I made my Kendall!!!!!