"Toot Walks"

She calls her shoes, walks. So she says "Mom, where me toot (cute) walks?"

Our Halloween Fun

We had a church party last night so we were able to give it a trial run for Friday night. Payce I guess will be the mystery costume because he couldn't actually do his costume last night because of football practice

A Girl Trip

The girls and I went up to Snowbowl with the Hansen's. Jeanne's sister, Stephanie, took a real camera to take some nice pictures of everyone. She is still arranging them and will get us a disc. As for now you get cell phone shots. Troy and Payce were deer hunting. We had a fun time. We had to bribe Kai with a dum dum sucker to even get her to look at the camera let alone smile.

Enrichment ideas

I am shouting out for ideas for enrichment night. It is focusing on financing, balancing your monthly budget, etc. Any of you have any great ideas you have heard, tried, or been taught? You can even include the ones you tried and failed at!! Traci I know you have something going on with your plastic bags labeled with money in them in your purse, a little insight please. I mean I get the idea but is there more info I can give others on that one? I also need some little activity to show the point, a hands on idea.

Where are our imaginations these days??

Okay what we've been waiting for. Troy saw the pictures his sister Trachel drug out and posted so he immediately went to his treasure box to find his to see if he could top her pictures she posted. I am thinking this is a Hobo and he had a napsack. Apparently in Animas New Mexico they didn't have a lot of costume shops and so proceeded to make their own up. I think they didn't get TV reception there and didn't know of the "modern" characters but maybe Holbrook didn't get the reception either because I have some interesting costumes myself. And apparently they dressed up often because one of the pictures was taken in May at a cub scout meeting. I love the pumpkin next to him with the potato ears and red fluffy nose. By the way it won the "Funniest Pumpkin" award.
And oh boy this is Troy being a skeleton. I am not sure if his cheeks were that way always or if the milk carton on his head was just way too tight? By the way there was no note on the back saying this pumpkin won a contest. And now for the drum roll please....... no it is not a masking tape contest..... he is an astronaut. The back of the picture says 5-31-84 (proof that they did this often), and Troy's space costume. And also might I add that it was "The Most Far Out Costume". Fun times and more to come just waiting for Marie to dig up some more years for us!!

No More Money

I have to share this experience with you all. It was just the icing on the cake! When I went to the doctor on Wednesday he told me I need to make sure and have my boss check the payroll and any other important things that I usually do because my mind won't be functioning right. So yada yada I go on and he says you should have Troy take your credit and debit cards away too, yada yada. So today Troy and I were going to run to the mall to get a TV wall mount, instead of putting the TV on a bucket for the winter because it is usually is in front of the fire place. We decide to go into Ruby Tuesdays to have their salad bar because it is sooo good. So we sit down and I look at the menu and see this WHOPPING deal of the day. It's an appetizer, all you can eat salad bar, and any two entrees off the specialty menu for a low price of $15.99. So it's a two for one special. So I kind of show Troy it and he says sounds good to me and we order. I order the shrimp and talapia and he orders some other talapia and we are eating away. We just went in for salad and possibly soup but this great deal we just couldn't pass up. We didn't even touch our entrees we were so full so we boxed them up and here comes the check. It was something like $40 and something cents. We freaked out and then I grab the menu and realize what the small gray print says, $15.99 per person. Needless to say I have now been banned from making decisions and all debit and credit cards taken away!! Whoops!

The Randall's on a mission in Nauvoo, IL

These two people are really good friends of ours. They are serving a mission in Nauvoo, IL right now and love it. We want to go out there to see them before they come home in a year. Garna is Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way and Burt has to be because he lives with her!! They are some of our best friends even though they are a "tad" bit older. They have a ranch in Ash Fork (you all know where that is), and a house in Mesa. Our kids love them and miss them but we are glad they are enjoying their mission.

"Enjoy The Journey"

Well we are certainly enjoying the journey. I am now free and clear from thyroid cancer as well as a thyroid! It was a long hard summer with hard decisions to make but I am very satisfied with the results and am glad to get back to living. It all started out with this weight loss program I started in June. I was working out a lot and one day had a small TIA (transient ischemic attack or symptoms of a stroke) or a migraine still no one knows. So this led me from the ER room to a cardiologist who noticed my thyroid was large as I was leaving his office, to the urgent care and then through enough x-rays and scans to cause more cancer and blood work until my arm fell off but it all came down to papillary thyroid cancer. So of course you may think you know what it would like to be told you have cancer but until you do, you don't! I am so thankful it was this and not somewhere else because it is 99 to 100 percent cureable. I thought I would try some natural remedies. I still believe they would have worked but I wasn't patient enough with them and I am glad it's just over and done and I don't always have to wonder my whole life. I got really sick from the natural herbs I was trying and was introduced to the "organic coffee enema" to make me get better. Anyways long story but on Thursday I had the surgery and there was no doubt I was taking it out. A decision I struggled with for a month with a lot of fasting and prayer and I didn't mind the weight loss that came with the stress. The surgery went perfect and quick. The incision is just pieced back together not stitched or glued because the doctor says it's the best way for less scarring. The tape stays on for over a week and I can't move my head around too much. I got to come home a day early from the hospital, something the doctor says he has never done before but it all went so good. He is a very good doctor and a really nice person. So now the journey includes me sitting around for three or four weeks with no thyroid supplement until I go back to the hospital for two or three days to take a radioactive iodine pill that will kill off any thyroid cells left behind. Doctor swears it's safe but I am quarantined there, sounds strange to me!! Then I will finally get the thyroid pill and be on the road to finding the right dosage of thyroid supplement. THANKS to everyone for your prayers and thoughts for our behalf, they were truly appreciated and needed. Thank you. And in case I run into any of you in the next few weeks and I say something out of line it is because the doctor says I wil have major mood swings, weight gain, and may not even want to get out of bed. I don't mean anything I say!!!

Okay here are some flashbacks of last years Halloween. Payce likes to dress up and has the funniest ideas. This year he demands that we can't cut his hair until Halloween because he is going to cut it like a "grandpa" so for now we get the long shaggy look. I have a few other pictures of him looking good in his "stretchy pants."