tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579840929810202372024-03-05T00:22:14.388-08:00*MORTLEY CRUE*Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-8238474300832654142009-11-15T20:55:00.001-08:002009-11-15T21:19:40.920-08:00SydneePOGO in action! She is so athletic. She rode a bike with no training when she was 4. She just took off and rode through all these cars and somehow managed to make it through and she was on her way. She was really good at the trampoline when she was like a year and a half or two. So here she is jumping away on the pogo stick.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rV4cGiYvWBhFu687reRJcspHmT4W4VSeDMV9oyi-0M7wfls1IKVVUwlCSIToCuXdKbhGTRhijHykKPnci83I-Wg3ud6H__Txn9hyrAeMCvJXW7obDATEqTNq3OYgOvi93SMIzJiPauk/s1600/0925090743.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404562351340414706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rV4cGiYvWBhFu687reRJcspHmT4W4VSeDMV9oyi-0M7wfls1IKVVUwlCSIToCuXdKbhGTRhijHykKPnci83I-Wg3ud6H__Txn9hyrAeMCvJXW7obDATEqTNq3OYgOvi93SMIzJiPauk/s320/0925090743.jpg" border="0" /></a> Just thought I would update the blog from two months ago. Thought I would show you a little look into the life of Sydnee! She is so fun to have around. Never a dull moment if you don't gather that from the pictures. <br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5OWPMyi7HLVYZNvM54QVXP-BiXiMKOCgZRH5YByQbonf_Mecw2MF0euSjjZFq0L0UKnQI0QpgDcaa802Pwpczl3UQ-ZVzgWghPQAGvrvyCvVkGzyXjnXOHn9_mIPPHCwVttuBGsueD0/s1600/0909091807.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404562345566217042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5OWPMyi7HLVYZNvM54QVXP-BiXiMKOCgZRH5YByQbonf_Mecw2MF0euSjjZFq0L0UKnQI0QpgDcaa802Pwpczl3UQ-ZVzgWghPQAGvrvyCvVkGzyXjnXOHn9_mIPPHCwVttuBGsueD0/s320/0909091807.jpg" border="0" /></a> She is an animal whisperer. She attracts all animals to her and her favorite thing to buy is dog leashes and collars. I can't believe why someone would need so many but we never seem to have one when she needs one. She would rather have a new leash or collar over a toy any day. She just walked up to this little calf and tamed it right down. Before you knew it she had Kai pulling around the miniature pony and her pulling this around all over the field. When she gets home from school she runs out to the barn and starts messing with an animal or three.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSD8DFbbk0hE3aQx9hLeG5I06Av25Gre0QfWI2LKvWgBOK3xCbKeh5yWMumwliZw6MGyqAEHTq7noMsTZrxgPHfA4r_TVwnV9GK1bLxXbQS-X4HQQ0Kh-tSecj2j1tZ8kJHQs5Zq7xafs/s1600/0925090744.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404562342396327634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSD8DFbbk0hE3aQx9hLeG5I06Av25Gre0QfWI2LKvWgBOK3xCbKeh5yWMumwliZw6MGyqAEHTq7noMsTZrxgPHfA4r_TVwnV9GK1bLxXbQS-X4HQQ0Kh-tSecj2j1tZ8kJHQs5Zq7xafs/s320/0925090744.jpg" border="0" /></a> She is really organized and loves to be in charge and have things to be in charge of. That's why she is so good with Kai because Kai listens to every word she has to say. And Sydnee can be her boss.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6b2VYYv7MyEDJ4_CROGkMeTdp3FOjBcQi6s7nUmPtYF9SVbKD3AIi43XBraHebiXiy2VCaLgruQPlbKyMsqE4VKxGEYk-R1vooaxockExgvzDtBK-TmkHpeKE2H4Kf6OKscDq2HUKtE/s1600/1016091542.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404562337910698146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6b2VYYv7MyEDJ4_CROGkMeTdp3FOjBcQi6s7nUmPtYF9SVbKD3AIi43XBraHebiXiy2VCaLgruQPlbKyMsqE4VKxGEYk-R1vooaxockExgvzDtBK-TmkHpeKE2H4Kf6OKscDq2HUKtE/s320/1016091542.jpg" border="0" /></a> And climbing up the walls is the latest up her sleeve. She is just a lot of fun and has a great laugh. She is the biggest helper and will do anything for you. Kai looks forward to being with her as soon as the bus gets home and relies on her to take care of everything. She is her best friend. She's too smart for her own good. She says, if mom says she will think about it then that means, no. She is always out-thinking us and it drives Taya and Payce crazy that she can figure things out before them. It's a lot of fun. She says all she wants for Christmas is a cinch for her little pony saddle. As of right now she is using bailing twine and it's a balancing act to ride the pony like that. But she says if we don't have the money to get it for Christmas she will just get it after Christmas. I was thinking.... ya because we will have tons more money after Christmas, HA! Well there is Sydnee for you. Now I am good for a couple of months for an update. <div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-32789938582331447052009-09-09T19:51:00.000-07:002009-09-09T20:19:50.235-07:00County Fair 2009<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkxKZ3MKlDBXcaeRdoEhkF7_B_gJjUqrNK3tgHXtESTLTwCkubb0QMr6nSDrnlTr6MXgu0HJfo1M4Fwfa25rzYSzgHB-ykVnjKUo1PZDNERWfisa2T1YZ18l6m6CmWiD17j7Jj0fZOfQ/s1600-h/fairsteer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379666929135788386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 262px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkxKZ3MKlDBXcaeRdoEhkF7_B_gJjUqrNK3tgHXtESTLTwCkubb0QMr6nSDrnlTr6MXgu0HJfo1M4Fwfa25rzYSzgHB-ykVnjKUo1PZDNERWfisa2T1YZ18l6m6CmWiD17j7Jj0fZOfQ/s320/fairsteer.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">We made it through another Coconino County Fair. Everything turned out really good this year and Taya did really well. Her steer weighed in at a wopping 1158 pounds. We were keeping him from drinking in order to hit the middle weight class and low and behold he had lost 50 or more pounds than a few weeks ago so we should have given him the water but oh well, he didn't drink when we gave it to him anyways. So she hit the lightweight class. She won that class and then went on to take 3rd overall. The Grand was a very nice steer and the reserve had 300 pounds on her but the judge took a long time deciding. But better than that our favorite doctor came and bid on her steer. Along with The Landscape Connection, Northern AZ Diesel, Homco, and other great people!! She got $5.00 a pound. Do the math it is close ot $6000. Also Olsen's Grain added on $100. So all in all the girl made out big time. The Grand got $6.00 a pound and the reserve got $4.75. Thank you to Nate Tritle for buying the steer. He is a good person. He shows up right before the auction starts and says, where's my steer? Where's Taya and my steer. I hope someday I can do that for someone but I think I'll be in steer debt for a few twenty years or so! She also got Reserve Champion Showman with her steer in the junior class.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWtx35RyaBnQ5RVWkV22ngjOuxsNuKMy4qwfNDPbOc_BIHqM5TxrP8ABorlF9j8KEmm3sbqNe5YD_vWI52TelCyzORPQatJM16_SPbW30RucNdkSsoc-rUq9cJvaK9y4Tc2IA3ZWcijI/s1600-h/fairpig09.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379666922870831106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 263px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWtx35RyaBnQ5RVWkV22ngjOuxsNuKMy4qwfNDPbOc_BIHqM5TxrP8ABorlF9j8KEmm3sbqNe5YD_vWI52TelCyzORPQatJM16_SPbW30RucNdkSsoc-rUq9cJvaK9y4Tc2IA3ZWcijI/s320/fairpig09.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Then there is Baby Cakes. She needed some more weight also. We poured on the food to both of these animals but they just wouldn't eat enough. It came in the middle of her weight class. Homco Glass & Mirror bought her pig for $4.30 a pound. She got $1000 for it. A big thanks to Homco for supporting Taya and the auction this year! So if you need a loan from Taya, too bad. She is making the mortgage this winter. Just kidding! I Hope. When the pig got loaded on the truck headed to the meat processor Payce and Sydnee couldn't hold back many tears, nor Taya of course. But Sydnee turns around and says "I'm not doing this, I'm showing a goat!" Goats don't go to processing so she would be safe with that. Taya did really well at showmanship with the pig. She got like 5th out of 13 or so but don't know why because she did really good.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRhi-GgHX4bXc0KPCQbrPaXwdRj9Q6bPFVQd9IBkFsLaJmJd3H1179yNppzMkAtBEaemPMPgxaOsy56tTRAyxvpb3a95sr8ApfF95wNgcwhOg7p4u7lKVE-zci0xuQna5LllM_NV770Is/s1600-h/fairkai09.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379666916437731954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRhi-GgHX4bXc0KPCQbrPaXwdRj9Q6bPFVQd9IBkFsLaJmJd3H1179yNppzMkAtBEaemPMPgxaOsy56tTRAyxvpb3a95sr8ApfF95wNgcwhOg7p4u7lKVE-zci0xuQna5LllM_NV770Is/s320/fairkai09.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">We all had a good time living at the fair for five days. We got our new camp trailer and it worked great for us. Nice to have a get away from the fair to go to. It was also nice that Paula and David (Aunt and Uncle) were set up with their Fodder machine right across from steer barn so we could hang out there and rest. She was a great babysitter for Kai and Sydnee. So now we are home and working with Payce's steer already. Troy wants to win so bad he can't sit still. Me on the other hand would like to get the steer in late May and go from there. Shoot... train it with a horse the week before the fair like the Good Ol' Times.</span><br /><div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-78245917494042397622009-09-02T20:40:00.000-07:002009-09-02T21:04:28.490-07:00Day before fair<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQe5BomXrG7ktE_D3XEeNB3e7gXwe4Tf3QRMxoqld7AQtU5BuHqXI9SnwNcjMei-1OlrKcqh0yuIFVpq1dBpxhwv9jDLiTgHzL3U5gZjuXt_A4nlZqT-wjBPd6HmyHRLpl0vkzrwPTU1c/s1600-h/flash.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377084148780038866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQe5BomXrG7ktE_D3XEeNB3e7gXwe4Tf3QRMxoqld7AQtU5BuHqXI9SnwNcjMei-1OlrKcqh0yuIFVpq1dBpxhwv9jDLiTgHzL3U5gZjuXt_A4nlZqT-wjBPd6HmyHRLpl0vkzrwPTU1c/s320/flash.jpg" border="0" /></a> Here is Flash and Baby Cakes for one last picture at home. We will be living at the Coconino County Fair for the next few days. Please send money to the following address. Ha! Hopefully we can hang out at our camper a lot to save from buying all the carnival food. But oh what about the Kettle Corn, and the Bean & Cheese Fried Bread, and the Snow Cones, and the Cotton Candy, and the grilled corn (oops... I won't be buying any of that this year). I have had enough corn to turn me into masa. All I need to do is be wrapped up in a corn husk and steamed. I can guarantee Troy will try the Bean and Cheese Fry Bread like everyday to bring back his chidhood memories, even if they cost $9.50! They make a killing. You could buy 50 pounds of beans, flour and lard with that much and make a million of your own.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGTIEwXHVMB0quETnIrvgko0ojRddquoU1ZF51kEJ5AuqEB0Ttv4GeZQFK_rjfiXjT41qEslgyssW4ZvUFeIJMPbfEBPd2cEKYxOu6hpKQW9YGw7kKuWeFgQjB577eV3VeVs64Y7pW28/s1600-h/pig.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377083181372110226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGTIEwXHVMB0quETnIrvgko0ojRddquoU1ZF51kEJ5AuqEB0Ttv4GeZQFK_rjfiXjT41qEslgyssW4ZvUFeIJMPbfEBPd2cEKYxOu6hpKQW9YGw7kKuWeFgQjB577eV3VeVs64Y7pW28/s320/pig.jpg" border="0" /></a> This is her pig. Looks really pretty. Don't you wish you could be washing up a pig and showing it in front of everyone. And to think we did it and are now re-living it! Well I hope I'll blog when we get home and let you know the results. Her steer of course was very bloated tonight so I should have showed the picture of it standing uphill in the pond and tied to the Bobcat to relieve some gas! Maybe next week. <br /><br /><div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-78919008194276939382009-08-29T22:06:00.000-07:002009-08-29T22:41:12.283-07:00Summer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBwrE0xtXfiQEBtZyAWVGLiBBV0s-19eTSYKnDLH4FyK1d54-MEd1sKe_p8XU9eCVQu3CSXiIfhz8D5_dRJSVk9-0mO0-ZTQcRES2Pd5wnpQVgUXnTNKlCd6vXhZ-G9YySa0tbmUsYqA/s1600-h/kodi6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375619380715308930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBwrE0xtXfiQEBtZyAWVGLiBBV0s-19eTSYKnDLH4FyK1d54-MEd1sKe_p8XU9eCVQu3CSXiIfhz8D5_dRJSVk9-0mO0-ZTQcRES2Pd5wnpQVgUXnTNKlCd6vXhZ-G9YySa0tbmUsYqA/s320/kodi6.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Let me wrap up our summer while I am on a high speed internet at my mom's. Apparently we still live in the stone "area" and can't quite get high speed yet and just can't seem to give up the time to post with slow mail. Anyways I will try to be positive but some may find humor or pity on our eventful summer, never a dull moment. A lot of the summer was spent working with the animals for 4-H. Above is Sydnee and her friend Christina. Sydnee trained this little heifer calf in about a day, maybe two and now it does whatever she wants. She washes it, combs it, blow drys it, practically walks it in the house. Troy on the other hand as you can see in a few pictures down didn't have the same luck with his calf. She is an animal whisperer. That calf tried to get away from her the first day and she just grabbed the fence post, anchored down, and held on. She actually won and the calf now respects her. Payce on the other hand tries to walk his and always comes out with a rope burn or two. The first day he started out wearing his crocks, now you will not find him in the steer pen without big ol' bog boots and full armor.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUMNHtgfA8Dww61ljU3OUke-JvKq1PvkDigONS7xa17WmoIFw67i2fUv7A1yzMdyDUblECpU0ZOZ6MvkTV8bYoQ9yTKYI5_X5dz_zqFRYuYNV0HvFGq0aGrEhu9mNhGsQJXnyL42kKRs/s1600-h/kodi5.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375619234149875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUMNHtgfA8Dww61ljU3OUke-JvKq1PvkDigONS7xa17WmoIFw67i2fUv7A1yzMdyDUblECpU0ZOZ6MvkTV8bYoQ9yTKYI5_X5dz_zqFRYuYNV0HvFGq0aGrEhu9mNhGsQJXnyL42kKRs/s320/kodi5.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">The best part of our summer was in late July and early August we went to Nauvoo, IL. It was the neatest trip you could ever take. We loved every minute of it and learned so much and saw so much. We hardly slept an ounce but I wouldn't trade that trip for anything. We flew to Kansas City, went to Liberty Jail, Jamesport Missouri where we spent the day in a large Amish community, then on to Nauvoo, Carthage, Hannibal for a Tom Sawyer cave tour, and then back home. We stayed in an original home built in Joseph Smith times right in the middle of old Nauvoo. Thanks so much to our Randall family serving a mission there who set us up with everything we needed to see and do. I will never forget the feelings there and what we saw and did. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihr1IHgeYvHuFBPcN_1k8uj0anCBBt0tqvbsZ4LjkoR1LFvtSWHFtYb8OQNK7yoMqsbLaDh6nQgVN_TSsmnXusTODeIhaf8XD5ozpHPPXLcYzCmss7GSmvrRKw1gsnTfCi6UkJ_6QZZD0/s1600-h/kodi4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375619229552656546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihr1IHgeYvHuFBPcN_1k8uj0anCBBt0tqvbsZ4LjkoR1LFvtSWHFtYb8OQNK7yoMqsbLaDh6nQgVN_TSsmnXusTODeIhaf8XD5ozpHPPXLcYzCmss7GSmvrRKw1gsnTfCi6UkJ_6QZZD0/s320/kodi4.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And then there were those not so fun times this summer. Kai and I making memories. My dad loaded us up with a truck load of sweet corn to sell in Flagstaff. Well the truck is broke so I threw it into the Yukon and sold it. I think I'll just stop there and let you decide how much fun it was. And then to think I took on another load and the worst is that they still have 20 acres more of it that's not ready to harvest yet. I am pretty sure I will be busy for the next 5 weekends probably learning under water basket weaving or something or at least until corn season is over.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNfXDiPNxE0Zg4w-Pp_dWd-JmPkV2c9oAUujArS2jmmJlwHQKaDikxmOHUzjbMoRIkZEMozH7c1V0ZKOTxm3SvxmP8i4eWT-cquZxsUYpcgK3xbD2yZUYVMlpX8IfBbmEVUzLXY7xXx0/s1600-h/Kodi3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375619222344732114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNfXDiPNxE0Zg4w-Pp_dWd-JmPkV2c9oAUujArS2jmmJlwHQKaDikxmOHUzjbMoRIkZEMozH7c1V0ZKOTxm3SvxmP8i4eWT-cquZxsUYpcgK3xbD2yZUYVMlpX8IfBbmEVUzLXY7xXx0/s320/Kodi3.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And then there is the rest of our days spent washing, combing, blow drying, etc. this thing. The fair is September 4th and we are looking forward to camping out there and seeing how Taya does. It is a lot of work but she likes it. She has a pig also that she will be showing. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFG4SZBbMicFuPzAup_iPhpsbFJTXQGmd2F91pT8eo6-EGTjpWlBAQgSq6MEea9GsCSuKyOzVN3K2mSWs2RckYByXJmpHVv5d3sa4rO7GnAY74k1vxEVlvJD1IoiOuvz3WW8E8EHGDLwE/s1600-h/Kodi2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375619213095494578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFG4SZBbMicFuPzAup_iPhpsbFJTXQGmd2F91pT8eo6-EGTjpWlBAQgSq6MEea9GsCSuKyOzVN3K2mSWs2RckYByXJmpHVv5d3sa4rO7GnAY74k1vxEVlvJD1IoiOuvz3WW8E8EHGDLwE/s320/Kodi2.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Then there was Troy who couldn't believe Sydnee could tame that calf so quick so he decided to try it with Payce's calf. You know who won. Let me create the scene..... the pig was out on a walk with Taya, the steer tied up to the wash rack, Sydnee had her calf leading around, and Troy had Payce's in the shoot trying to clip on it. So there were animals everywhere. He comes walking around the corner with blood everywhere. I holler at the kids "put up all the animals I need to take dad to the doctor." So they are panicking and running around everywhere, chickens flying around, pig running all over. Anyways he cleans it up and stops the bleeding and decides to butterfly it. We put some essential oil salve on it and butterflied it and the next day the huge cut was almost gone. It was amazing. It stayed swollen for over a week.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhuE39CNY4PWo6KxqQHAJ-zO8Bh6hMPu7ZqFSY2c2sblrk8DC4L7ays8Pflrp3S94ZL-dVZuPfdElGyDDCPxTBiUXX2Q8QVdtoMnQpKcgbuoX3wpihSzpzHpRcrmt2k7_nogwkOcngG4/s1600-h/Kodi1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375619207269579906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhuE39CNY4PWo6KxqQHAJ-zO8Bh6hMPu7ZqFSY2c2sblrk8DC4L7ays8Pflrp3S94ZL-dVZuPfdElGyDDCPxTBiUXX2Q8QVdtoMnQpKcgbuoX3wpihSzpzHpRcrmt2k7_nogwkOcngG4/s320/Kodi1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Oh ya and don't let us forget our garden. Prophet says plant a garden so we planted a garden. This was our dead frozen garden in the first week of August. In one night it froze everything, even the hoses had ice in them. Everything died, we ate two pea pods from it, weed-whacked the entire area, and decided that maybe we don't have the green-thumb for gardening. The cows enjoyed it all. I guess we will just buy some sweet corn from that Yukon on the street corner and eat that all winter.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">Well I could post about some other things we did like went to Lake Powell to camp and the wind blew nearly everything into the lake and the things that didn't go into the lake such as the tent and the awning got broken into pieces and thrown away. Or there was the other time we went to Lake Powell and spent 4 hours trying to get the boat to start in the rain. It wasn't until Taylor, a friend of Taya's, yelled out a prayer and said "God fix this boat." The boat started 5 minutes later and we were on our way. </span>Or there was the time, oh well I think I'll save some for later. My kids are going to appreciate normal someday!! At least they are good troopers and for sure they have seen a lot. And now they are back in school and they just love it or is that me who just loves it? And I might blog again before fall or winter comes but I might not!<br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-83888880072254977722009-05-28T21:02:00.000-07:002009-05-28T21:26:25.691-07:00Month of May<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixcZCh_8i1rcAgwusAtRBdO7JMYj1vt8h7ZQfIrk1iOnHLX0KWp5NwilNfkaqW_rprP2J2ntoLyg7ReApekW_7ugVsCcTTwhS4FIQNsnbx5MYXEUkTrtvyu_RvG9imrqzG80klwJvJVow/s1600-h/May+28,+2009+059.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341093460662263346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixcZCh_8i1rcAgwusAtRBdO7JMYj1vt8h7ZQfIrk1iOnHLX0KWp5NwilNfkaqW_rprP2J2ntoLyg7ReApekW_7ugVsCcTTwhS4FIQNsnbx5MYXEUkTrtvyu_RvG9imrqzG80klwJvJVow/s320/May+28,+2009+059.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">The month of May has been a little busy for us! But at least we got Sydnee graduated from Kindergarten! She was so excited and looked so cute. Her teacher announced what each child wanted to be when they grow up. This list included one girl wanted to work at Albertson's (I wonder where her mom works), a teacher, a mother, a doctor, a fireman, an APS employee ( I know where his dad works), and topping off the list... Sydnee wants to be a Vet. Go figure, she attracts or is attracted to any and all animals. I don't know if she could handle it though because she cries at Fox and the Hound.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtY0Ytb7BXqWIcY5SZVAXPsaSn20tX54Y01LuUoqxGLIl8SXx3Rxj9NTYTYbVO_unzQxeRg8radcTxEAAEfoKf6DxawgotPlUsR7x4pGoVvCSNu2MG6EVtbzeL-V7xY-TTkXqgZYne08/s1600-h/May+28,+2009+054.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341093453160259730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtY0Ytb7BXqWIcY5SZVAXPsaSn20tX54Y01LuUoqxGLIl8SXx3Rxj9NTYTYbVO_unzQxeRg8radcTxEAAEfoKf6DxawgotPlUsR7x4pGoVvCSNu2MG6EVtbzeL-V7xY-TTkXqgZYne08/s320/May+28,+2009+054.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">On Monday we celebrated the Memorial holiday with Payce's birthday. He wanted to go fishing and have a food fight also. We managed to find the fishing but I have prolonged the food fight. For one, who thinks of that? And two, who would allow that? Me I guess. My plans are to draw boundaries in the field and put food in each corner and let them have at it. I will have to remember to post the results!</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91nTCZcLSj-ypflcvhs8yegqS-tWL_w1m6_k86mHGc2ty2h9cstJa2YEI6Z4t1Lkzohri2vTY3pKfWop5_pg-DqBdSaBkv53Os40eS68SSfHiPY1swoLO7OzUfM1sIRX0tbXJov732Z8/s1600-h/May+28,+2009+050.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341093447809090306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91nTCZcLSj-ypflcvhs8yegqS-tWL_w1m6_k86mHGc2ty2h9cstJa2YEI6Z4t1Lkzohri2vTY3pKfWop5_pg-DqBdSaBkv53Os40eS68SSfHiPY1swoLO7OzUfM1sIRX0tbXJov732Z8/s320/May+28,+2009+050.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Then there is Kai. Nothing special for her this month. She has been so good lately. She just goes along with the flow and you always find her asking, "Where we going now?" Good thing we have a pair of shoes for her in each vehicle so when we are all in we know her shoes are somewhere. It doesn't matter what she is wearing but you can be sure as soon as we get home she goes directly into her room and puts on her "nanna pants". Also known as pajama pants. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCo-1afLu83SQNjmntOgvoAoG9aAXkni2BBsPQHcM3m0zpcpoodRDGMvVGxMWjN51I_0wlCPiLOSNFfcvL3TzDxwGdz8uUkdAOXVEetIxckvWZ8zT-NE1ErFXNvsoYqHKJR_m8YPEDvg/s1600-h/May+28,+2009+033.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341093442480726402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCo-1afLu83SQNjmntOgvoAoG9aAXkni2BBsPQHcM3m0zpcpoodRDGMvVGxMWjN51I_0wlCPiLOSNFfcvL3TzDxwGdz8uUkdAOXVEetIxckvWZ8zT-NE1ErFXNvsoYqHKJR_m8YPEDvg/s320/May+28,+2009+033.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">It was also grandma Helen's birthday. We all jumped in the car Saturday morning and went down to the ASU game. Why I do not know. We could have watched it in an air conditioned home and drove nowhere but we had fun. The kids swam and we had a good time. By the way.... this yard was not landscaped by Spike Landscaping & Tree Trimming!</span><br /><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZBQyOSeve9zkPOZNR1_hsz_A0KuvNvyMJlPhqPGj_Atu1KNRw_29ATgVwf6T7Il74ZA656N6cXOGoQIEdmcphwl3y4UAZZ_vKoxWdiMpoIYadpYWaZdmEj-WleJtGEvgqgEqUjy5tLw/s1600-h/May+28,+2009+026.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341093437142960994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZBQyOSeve9zkPOZNR1_hsz_A0KuvNvyMJlPhqPGj_Atu1KNRw_29ATgVwf6T7Il74ZA656N6cXOGoQIEdmcphwl3y4UAZZ_vKoxWdiMpoIYadpYWaZdmEj-WleJtGEvgqgEqUjy5tLw/s320/May+28,+2009+026.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Earlier in the month Taya turned 11. She had a small party at the house where a few friends came over and we made hair bows. It was a lot of fun. It was relaxing and worthwhile. Every now and then I even attempt to do their hair now that we made more bows. She celebrated the day by going on an all day field trip to Space Camp down in Peoria on a bus with no AC. This is her new 4-H pig. We went to Buckeye and got it. By the time we got to Anthem we had to stop to buy ice and pour all over the pigs. It was hot.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">We have our anniversary on Saturday and then we should be all through with the May celebrations. The kids are all playing ball except for Sydnee. Her mean mom didn't sign her up on time so I told her we could do barrel racing practice instead. She is excited and has her first rodeo in our pasture on Saturday at 7 am. We are looking forward to school getting out next week. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-83163321711263961812009-04-16T18:56:00.001-07:002009-04-16T19:14:52.683-07:00One good dentist out there<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6fY-Nrig5j74GARNUcX8cJ4Q7vwH_bs1HqWkJrk8jk-2Wk5f-t_RCoAvB3ly9QlhhvLEJW8PadbrNNifagy2SlwLQoKzu97d8Fv_KqB78AlsCBPnZ63k8vx243foJTWSEdxbOEzd7EM/s1600-h/tooth+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325473566779187746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6fY-Nrig5j74GARNUcX8cJ4Q7vwH_bs1HqWkJrk8jk-2Wk5f-t_RCoAvB3ly9QlhhvLEJW8PadbrNNifagy2SlwLQoKzu97d8Fv_KqB78AlsCBPnZ63k8vx243foJTWSEdxbOEzd7EM/s320/tooth+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Just want to thank our dentist!! Sydnee had a tooth really hurting her for about a week now. I was doing what i thought would work to get the infection gone and some days she was fine but others it hurt so I broke down and called the dentist to get her in today. I knew it was going to cost a ton but what's another medical bill or truck deductible, or you name it and we owe it! So she goes in and the first thing they ask is how are you going to pay for this? So Troy says well that's just it I need to arrange something and the dentist was concerned and said why what's up? He proceeded to tell her of all my medical bills, Kai's medical bills, and the not so good luck we are having at them cooperating with us on a payment plan. And the most wonderful dentist ever named Jessica said don't worry about this one. Oh my gosh Troy almost cried and so did I. I wasn't there but Troy took her in, but when he told me it was the best news. I figured it would cost around $1000. Such a big relief. There are a lot of good understanding people out there and she is one of them! </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Anyways... she pulled the tooth way in the back of her mouth and some very nasty stuff came out from underneath it. The dentist even thought that her jaw was so swollen that it may not even be tooth related but after pulling the loose tooth the infection was confirmed it was the tooth. So now she has a spacer and is on the rebound! Look at that tooth. It is so big. It looks like some foreign object growing in her mouth. I mean it looks like it walked out of the treasure chest from down under the ocean. By the way I am selling the crown after I bargain with the tooth fairy for it if anyone is interested? Rustin..... need any teeth to disect at dental school? Oh ya, Rustin will be a good dentist as well when he graduates in the year 2018 and we will be mowing his yard in exchange for pulling our teeth (just had to get that in writing)!</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieBEiyrKZhBwjpuqn3sj_e4yW6pLZXTtfpazHjHacAlwzizfsBoDuGSLLsssM7ZYPJqp4NYJAHw33gCU5QIz3ddqppYEnaFfOLpJ-PddxvAtHIv3Qh1Ls6mhm0zH4cAtoTe9rv7Ijo26k/s1600-h/tooth+001.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-62291348486179416402009-04-15T17:37:00.000-07:002009-04-15T19:26:41.169-07:00<span style="font-size:85%;">Tax season is over, yeah!! It seemed like a nightmare this year with all of our "make you a stronger person" moments and me going to Montana and the firm giving me triple the work as years before, but it's over. We celebrated today. Although I did not partake I hung out to be a part of the celebration. Unlike most firms who work until midnight on April 15th, our firm closes business at eleven and says "should of gotten it in earlier." SO at around 8 this morning they started with the champagne and lemonade (just including the recipe for those interested in a good drink they say). Then at 9 out came the bloody merry's and they sipped/gulped on those until we closed and left for the restaurant where all celebrated with a shot or two of tequila and who knows what else was in it along with marguaritas. I was a big fan of the chips and salsa. Then a round of beer or two for the after meal celebration. I hope the lady next to me made it home alright. I gave her all the shots they were bringing me and she didn't seem to mind. She did seem a little more gone than the rest! Glad it's over but the money was nice. If I were a real accountant I probably would have joined on the spirits and not just the food! So my time frame revolves around quarters(tax talk) and not seasons so I wanted to catch up on some things that happened to us this first quarter. Here is Kai all healthy and happy. </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn0BsanSmUKv9Uauf_6yWoucD_eXF7d1OTXVboMFrlWxlOQpJ4LWMho3mQAywgZELHJ041kgu2_7m6fhvjcej5WghM5SVfwYsxwkPJdXJOeyBhl7C_LGRSrUhI-GMlnTLS9gXOD4I8ZH8/s1600-h/Kai+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325102385545606642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn0BsanSmUKv9Uauf_6yWoucD_eXF7d1OTXVboMFrlWxlOQpJ4LWMho3mQAywgZELHJ041kgu2_7m6fhvjcej5WghM5SVfwYsxwkPJdXJOeyBhl7C_LGRSrUhI-GMlnTLS9gXOD4I8ZH8/s200/Kai+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">On February 27th I took her to the Williams Clinic for her fever that had gone on for a couple of days. They ended up rushing her to the hospital in Flagstaff, well not rushing because they needed to get their 45 minutes in so they could charge $1800 to get us there. First time I ever drive on I-40 under 50 miles an hour besides when Troy is testing his gas mileage and wants to get the best out of each fill up. So she ends up being diagnosed with pneumo thorax. It is pnemonia outside of the lungs.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9fxtFP4E6870LX5xTKGSQAURoUJaQQ0O_GZkq8n1Op0qF8yQA3o0VXpgfVxvghlsSFHcy09cZwU_4oGMSAwU7ykfeK4zjrePIZfhZ6Eb8sKivSLc_WNOesu_ngcgZUwW-62Npz2-XuBc/s1600-h/Kai+005.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325101705559731570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9fxtFP4E6870LX5xTKGSQAURoUJaQQ0O_GZkq8n1Op0qF8yQA3o0VXpgfVxvghlsSFHcy09cZwU_4oGMSAwU7ykfeK4zjrePIZfhZ6Eb8sKivSLc_WNOesu_ngcgZUwW-62Npz2-XuBc/s200/Kai+005.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Her oxygen was in the 70's which is very low. She didn't eat for a few days but when they brought around the macaroni and cheese she went to town on it. Those are her Pepsi's surrounding her plate and that's my helathy salad sitting beside her.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsANaTWQIn1nbqJgML5ilceWnGN1hk65FXdmNh6eao1NfZBUjM1To8ljZbG05IKGKCEFxk2vKUQRTmaLlmeyb7P7qeK9pGOOic58YIEaHIbXYl9_qN23cMSmr9vVctjM01njxGEPmIcuE/s1600-h/Kai+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325101396761875586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsANaTWQIn1nbqJgML5ilceWnGN1hk65FXdmNh6eao1NfZBUjM1To8ljZbG05IKGKCEFxk2vKUQRTmaLlmeyb7P7qeK9pGOOic58YIEaHIbXYl9_qN23cMSmr9vVctjM01njxGEPmIcuE/s200/Kai+004.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">She got spoiled while in their. A lot of friends sent in the gifts and toys to keep her entertained. This was a singing balloon. It took quite a cart load to take down all of her gifts to the car.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZbqzDf1LM0OcgfvqsGcWWE5QEoVsZR-A0I8RgGSp10TLhVz4lgxb6z56spmMqXehiZXZqoVX5uvUAAn9QHWHyhqSRZZV_SMWwFIiWhKNubWDAX-lR46ouoRkcU9lmCHs6cElv3QJSKwU/s1600-h/Kai+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325101391764628354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZbqzDf1LM0OcgfvqsGcWWE5QEoVsZR-A0I8RgGSp10TLhVz4lgxb6z56spmMqXehiZXZqoVX5uvUAAn9QHWHyhqSRZZV_SMWwFIiWhKNubWDAX-lR46ouoRkcU9lmCHs6cElv3QJSKwU/s200/Kai+002.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">She couldn't bathe and her hair was getting so nasty so while she was sleeping one night I stayed up and braided it. It was so much easier to deal with. So after 3 days in ICU and 3 days in regular room oh and $45,000 later she is home and healthy and back to ruling the roost.</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">We were glad she made it through this. It was very scary in the beginning. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmQ1Q0mYxpOhfukCq7L8DsXQ2iB24A9lNn37md80kswyZ8l05bl-2gWxtqXWMcslXVn4bUtZDz93lOwo7fOJKHPjn11tyg1ebrDn811I7__OrEUSRSE2zlGkNZ5eWlziRLHkZBuaXrgGA/s1600-h/Kai+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325101386585862834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmQ1Q0mYxpOhfukCq7L8DsXQ2iB24A9lNn37md80kswyZ8l05bl-2gWxtqXWMcslXVn4bUtZDz93lOwo7fOJKHPjn11tyg1ebrDn811I7__OrEUSRSE2zlGkNZ5eWlziRLHkZBuaXrgGA/s200/Kai+003.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-24816451939287936292009-04-12T16:50:00.000-07:002009-04-12T17:50:28.588-07:00Easters<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6r-eWiQEHKftU5yfxQ_8552Mizk3RdGfQOlsraioWQvYX8kOynzzlosVc9T5usqqlmrJixvpFG79-zjM71NYxJaZq3Y8R-7gjEoDRmATJg1GeEMU_qrMU814nx2l1ugWY-YQkqpkRLA/s1600-h/easter+09+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323957470488005650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6r-eWiQEHKftU5yfxQ_8552Mizk3RdGfQOlsraioWQvYX8kOynzzlosVc9T5usqqlmrJixvpFG79-zjM71NYxJaZq3Y8R-7gjEoDRmATJg1GeEMU_qrMU814nx2l1ugWY-YQkqpkRLA/s200/easter+09+002.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Okay all of you naggers, I am back (for this quarterly report only)!!! I would like to consider my self a quarterly blogger so here it goes in a nut shell,well Easter anyways. Some day I will have to blog about our exciting few months we have had! And yes that is Kai in her pajamas. She is a pajama girl and wanted to wear them to ply at the dock and all day and what does it matter what she wears. She's wearing what we'd all like to wear at the lake when we have eating disorders!! Easter at Roosevelt was not exactly the Easter we had planned out but we found ourselves here ready to get in that lake and have some fun in the sun. Mother Nature had another idea but we put our bodies to the test by trying to ski and tube in very cold conditions. On Friday we were able to jet ski and tube. Troy and Kamron even tried to ski but they didn't have a good report, they froze. The kids didn't complain they rode them a lot easier out of the water. The many fishermen with coats and sweatshirts on didn't htink we were so smart, neither did we but we had to say we did it right?</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3sxeFJER2c2AyGWifMHhhkLPIniS9rai2pWN9w3NBdYpttGIqQcmRRRDOZypqompjbi6Hp6HhdWoP-kvNHcRZrjpBemaOuhRI2DXlwykFSnkuD2j4GV-a12C3kNJTlNyFOTkUDUaJIk/s1600-h/easter+09+005.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323957467073435362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3sxeFJER2c2AyGWifMHhhkLPIniS9rai2pWN9w3NBdYpttGIqQcmRRRDOZypqompjbi6Hp6HhdWoP-kvNHcRZrjpBemaOuhRI2DXlwykFSnkuD2j4GV-a12C3kNJTlNyFOTkUDUaJIk/s200/easter+09+005.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">So this is the last thing that happened to us before we decided to leave for the weekend but this is where the picture popped up and I am not going to try to move it to the bottom! Kai fell in this fire. Thank my lucky stars I was standing right next to her and grabbed her out after saying a few choice words very loudly. I believe I wasn't the only one who screamed out but as long as she was safe who cares what the bishops wife said. Thank goodness her hair was wet after a shower because it still singed it. I wiped off flames from her clothes and flung her shoes into who knows where because there were coals in the bottoms of them. The look on her face just flashes back to me she was so stiff and scared. Fortunately the only thing that burned was her hand where she grabbed the metal fire ring to try to get out and a little bit of hair singed. Her and her cousin were fighting over her $1 bill she had found in an easter egg. She was crying, my money, my money. Well her money is now an ash in Roosevelt camp ground but that's ok.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp6NkWPqz6d2-8jFqRiX89j5bqbWhOWsdhZMLrDHv8biXb09tevQ4qBUY9abDjt893qysX5UZQ0kvN89plDnatUtJipYDAaQXXWX427n9TaR3jcBgrClStckfmmsScHyVIbxDPtZznX4M/s1600-h/easter+09+011.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323957466281596994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp6NkWPqz6d2-8jFqRiX89j5bqbWhOWsdhZMLrDHv8biXb09tevQ4qBUY9abDjt893qysX5UZQ0kvN89plDnatUtJipYDAaQXXWX427n9TaR3jcBgrClStckfmmsScHyVIbxDPtZznX4M/s200/easter+09+011.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And here is Troy and Kai on a boat ride. We did take the jet skis out this day but it was raining and so cold. We didn't get wet but still the only ones on the lake on jet skis in pants and coats. Kai just catching some sleep.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgf_pbnXnritj19Y6A8IT32fJ82BEBTt4dJSA5HObUIpkKGvQ42xuBBg8YKx63ZH2tb1SKUoN1auEBlz1ccHlqDVJVkmaUfJy8UeDvs-HZwKBkhUCSeRjCp4_dWRF2Ke8_OAovi-Lrec/s1600-h/easter+09+009.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323957462684634306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgf_pbnXnritj19Y6A8IT32fJ82BEBTt4dJSA5HObUIpkKGvQ42xuBBg8YKx63ZH2tb1SKUoN1auEBlz1ccHlqDVJVkmaUfJy8UeDvs-HZwKBkhUCSeRjCp4_dWRF2Ke8_OAovi-Lrec/s200/easter+09+009.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Here are the kids imagining they are tubing. Thank goodness for their imaginations! They got a lot of other things done like playing ball and hiding and coloring eggs and watching the only DVD we had there over and over while it was raining. And then there was the best thing of all..... our nice little Megacab met Mrs. Elk on the way to the lake. Troy decided to go to Roosevelt through Camp Verde instead of Lake Mary because he thought there would be "less elk". Well these two happened to be "NOT AT LAKE MARY." Fortunately no one was hurt, not even the BEAUTIFUL elk. It hopped up and ran off once we got to a stop. The kids slept right through it and we got out, looked at the damage, and drove on. Just typical of the things that have been "intorduced" into our lives lately but who has time to blog about them. Let's hope the insurance comes through but who's crossing their fingers. Only the bumper is twisted, hood smashed, grill broke, and side needs replaced. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIBfVksI1mrpjaAC6g4rJInUkDy1pyDHSHS6ynHnAbtf3yyOp6H8uOnAHlI9jr02Cz3UCkXExHJrJlvm-bmNJyMxMK56mg5Oqqb86U4nSSv-NRismR49z5ESsP0OYRU_eGSmdh9Ffjk4/s1600-h/easter+09+008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323956853728355730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIBfVksI1mrpjaAC6g4rJInUkDy1pyDHSHS6ynHnAbtf3yyOp6H8uOnAHlI9jr02Cz3UCkXExHJrJlvm-bmNJyMxMK56mg5Oqqb86U4nSSv-NRismR49z5ESsP0OYRU_eGSmdh9Ffjk4/s320/easter+09+008.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And this story is flat for real no lie a true story..... the first night there we got there around 11:30 and got to sleep around 1 or so. About 2:00 am someone comes into my brothers camper and gets in bed with his little 3 year old boy. He was thinking it was my younger brother but figured there was no way he would be wrapped up cuddling with his son so he gets up to see what's going on. He shines the flashlight and sees this guy laying there. Then he rips off the covers and tries to figure out what is going on. After a few minutes of arguing with this "stranger" he calms down and starts talking to the guy. The guy was out of it. The little boy said, "dad what's happening?" It was then that this guy realizes he is sleep walking and kind of wakes up and leaves. It was pretty crazy. The next morning we figure out who the guy was and remember the what we had saw him smoking that night. Sleep walking or drug halucination, you be the judge, but it was crazy. We locked our campers from there out.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-42134683883116416322009-01-04T15:18:00.000-08:002009-01-04T16:06:53.731-08:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287589568295632242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hpvh9YEqZssG1LPsuPSjEQ-CcMyFdZmU5WvYjxHUjXcRjbr7XvOADeanWTif4W3NfKUMkiamJ1YneQLw5NRYyWxd72IiOmX6g7b7TQqyiZuwRPQujrDGUu94seNmhcBNTifn4UwnoI4/s200/Dec+28+2008+045.jpg" border="0" /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBxw5FgnKHiR8XrX70O9VL1ShcEqCfy0cUZDspUzVJQYjN6XxAg_Rm6o-F566ZhkpufKRwqhiDOkEWEiRbzrCYfufM2G875XbEcIx09zVY-96uCI2JiSf0GL1TKfVRxYLV-aRwlofRgo/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+049.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287584898836066562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBxw5FgnKHiR8XrX70O9VL1ShcEqCfy0cUZDspUzVJQYjN6XxAg_Rm6o-F566ZhkpufKRwqhiDOkEWEiRbzrCYfufM2G875XbEcIx09zVY-96uCI2JiSf0GL1TKfVRxYLV-aRwlofRgo/s200/Dec+28+2008+049.jpg" border="0" /></a> I am being of accused of a blog slacker by a few "choice" people so i thought i would try to do some updates to show why i have not found the time to blog! We had quite a busy month of December and seemed like we accomplished, not much! This picture above is kai just getting the swing of unwrapping presents! She would run and hide and try to open them when she knew they were for her. The other picture is Taya with her wonderful gifts Payce got her. They each were given $10-$15 to buy the siblings name they drew. All the other kids bought pretty nice little gifts. Payce on the other hand decided to go a different route. He bought Taya as many $.88 cent items he could with his money. She was afraid of his present but turned out they had more fun with that stuff than anything. She got silly putty, slinky, noise goow, and of all things... fake bloody teeth. They had a ball with them.<br /><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO2akAYcZABaI9EfVSAs9t-MjXhYDDjcKftDbjUl37Pw1kJ9LUvKhsNgDrQkoEZWlRDTBkRpGJeed_iAM4gkJEkWPUX0X1SD5B3GZQSx7-vcXCxjTOoNPREUEpf5SKZ0AUFU639BBcX1g/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+042.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287584896649103106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO2akAYcZABaI9EfVSAs9t-MjXhYDDjcKftDbjUl37Pw1kJ9LUvKhsNgDrQkoEZWlRDTBkRpGJeed_iAM4gkJEkWPUX0X1SD5B3GZQSx7-vcXCxjTOoNPREUEpf5SKZ0AUFU639BBcX1g/s200/Dec+28+2008+042.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">These are the pajamas I made for the kids, sorry the pictures are dark...I haven't got to that part in the instructions of taking pictures good with my phone. We had a pre-Christmas the night before we left for Holbrook and the kids got to open these pajamas and the presents that they bought each other in a name drawing. </span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcw_5ffl-F3a8D5DmOVigfxX3SbWsfc52KTkOEVTEM217_auOkidRlKFtmoHdmhqm2vy7zQm_gNahXJy2RoqCzfjy5KE6UFXZjUbCP5eTf-1HUcPDeBBkXh3S2akxGjRrsm7MqNskfs48/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+018.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287584880694516626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcw_5ffl-F3a8D5DmOVigfxX3SbWsfc52KTkOEVTEM217_auOkidRlKFtmoHdmhqm2vy7zQm_gNahXJy2RoqCzfjy5KE6UFXZjUbCP5eTf-1HUcPDeBBkXh3S2akxGjRrsm7MqNskfs48/s200/Dec+28+2008+018.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Don't remember which day this was but there should have been a lot more moments like this for this little girl but she is a trooper and doesn't skip a beat on too many things. The bad part is that she hasn't learned how to sleep in yet so each long night and early mornings made it harder on us.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefsRWTIe-No13yWtqCICfkz7n9O-16Xsu13ydWcSntsaIGX7Qiv_koaEwTgVXcwfq3klmtXR_HZXjRH_JtuFPAsVs7alwgbMO6RwpB5iGCt90qBdlbday7RTnuw-QfE0y5n0MnKvgu5Y/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+050.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287584879796989746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefsRWTIe-No13yWtqCICfkz7n9O-16Xsu13ydWcSntsaIGX7Qiv_koaEwTgVXcwfq3klmtXR_HZXjRH_JtuFPAsVs7alwgbMO6RwpB5iGCt90qBdlbday7RTnuw-QfE0y5n0MnKvgu5Y/s200/Dec+28+2008+050.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Here is Syndee unwrapping her present. She just knew it was the gift she peaked in on but had a hard time coming to terms that Kai got that present and she got something else. She got enough dog and horse toys to last her until her birthday in March I hope.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7qAgMFY-eWPFiFT8677_E7SfqaBqTVQ6mcDnpdpL6rPCWztiKa4xp5Bqy9TJbbF5uZ17PYv3F9fX0EDc9s6PunrHeWir8Qx0fxa_6SftXuafmJuEpn4sFehX-M4-wj69ikqzgIBZC6o/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+028.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287582982232753122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs7qAgMFY-eWPFiFT8677_E7SfqaBqTVQ6mcDnpdpL6rPCWztiKa4xp5Bqy9TJbbF5uZ17PYv3F9fX0EDc9s6PunrHeWir8Qx0fxa_6SftXuafmJuEpn4sFehX-M4-wj69ikqzgIBZC6o/s200/Dec+28+2008+028.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Here are the boys admiring Troy's Christmas present. It was a custom made 338 gun. It was quite a suprise to Troy and fun trying to get that thing made without having a clue about guns and the hole lingo! With the help of our home teacher a.k.a. the gun-maker, it got put together and turned out really nice. He does a really good job with guns. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhyphenhyphenZJyl-7cIRQuh_WG3e6CnayZ_apPyKAmAOfCE3dgf6qq9UZiKkkm0g0zIqJrIecFTNh7aKLezpUoTrDjD9-EMkSYWSHadKKto2HhSOcXMDadnkVLIcHruhYYbwnlJDTMk71_tF6tpQ/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+025.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287582974942198258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhyphenhyphenZJyl-7cIRQuh_WG3e6CnayZ_apPyKAmAOfCE3dgf6qq9UZiKkkm0g0zIqJrIecFTNh7aKLezpUoTrDjD9-EMkSYWSHadKKto2HhSOcXMDadnkVLIcHruhYYbwnlJDTMk71_tF6tpQ/s200/Dec+28+2008+025.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Here is what I got a picture of at Christmas time. It was a spur of the moment flyer Troy happened to walk by and pick up. I am supposed to go order some but think I will wait for the new ones coming out with square doors, supposively holds more and that's what I am all about..... less loads and more time for me. What will I buy that can fold them now??</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ARSlkioC0jOnxhyqzGIEyGck3G6nefYtOMQH1G2ADSIOoQ7jen1Dh2FAlGMsHntqngAaSl_Xugnfjkd_QFQEHZBnQDE5XuQLF32cPm2pxOXlRXiT1-951NwOGNBVSXRO8qgyHEEQ_4U/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+023.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287582968961895106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ARSlkioC0jOnxhyqzGIEyGck3G6nefYtOMQH1G2ADSIOoQ7jen1Dh2FAlGMsHntqngAaSl_Xugnfjkd_QFQEHZBnQDE5XuQLF32cPm2pxOXlRXiT1-951NwOGNBVSXRO8qgyHEEQ_4U/s200/Dec+28+2008+023.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Just one of those late night card playing nights with family. I didn't get much playing in because I was usually zoning someone's feet or just flat out tired and lazy.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrckn7HU1kSIsl18MHmihjLqFHqzvv_Hr8iezcZVKBhrlgIgxjMUCMPNjL_v1nNo10KhvORXI0Fy0hOc0n6XWjmaxjxxuBqkhzlE1hQ6OvktoRWAqKwWDhlS8Bcoj-bHD0CFCEtSvATH8/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+024.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287582967866223586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrckn7HU1kSIsl18MHmihjLqFHqzvv_Hr8iezcZVKBhrlgIgxjMUCMPNjL_v1nNo10KhvORXI0Fy0hOc0n6XWjmaxjxxuBqkhzlE1hQ6OvktoRWAqKwWDhlS8Bcoj-bHD0CFCEtSvATH8/s200/Dec+28+2008+024.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Here is Kelton and Troy having a great time at the card/dinner table. He is a cute kid. We went to my brother and sister-in-laws temple sealing this weekend. It was really nice. Kelton and Rylie got sealed to them. </span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUuFISouPTS6wwW-GINxTJCZfj07F0tqq4IoBOJOHN5k1-3l43cnbLCDyIuNj-GfQ9-tWXrSWjMqkpfruq8tJT35qqhg4s0dmeszc_I2GgCB95gxrXjllxahitY6JW474rm5-J1X124E/s1600-h/Dec+28+2008+020.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287582959418583730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUuFISouPTS6wwW-GINxTJCZfj07F0tqq4IoBOJOHN5k1-3l43cnbLCDyIuNj-GfQ9-tWXrSWjMqkpfruq8tJT35qqhg4s0dmeszc_I2GgCB95gxrXjllxahitY6JW474rm5-J1X124E/s200/Dec+28+2008+020.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">At some point during this season, month of December, we went to the NFR in Las Vegas. Troy and I went along with my brothers and their wives and my parents. We had a fun time. This is just a shot of Tracy trying out an outdoor swing at one of the cowboy trade shows. We left her their while we shopped. We went to the rodeo two nights and walked, shopped, and ate a lot. We watched a little team roping also. </span><br />We also spent three days at Kristens trying to help with re-modeling her house. I loved cleaning, primering, texturing, re-primering, sanding, and all of the fun stuff. Not really but it was fun and the kids had fun. It was nice to be in that weather down there. We probably would have finished if we would have worked more than a half hour at a time before shopping breaks or just plain breaks. </div><div>And did I mention the deal of the day I got. Well not only did I get $46 worth of groceries for $2.50 at Walgreens but I went to Kohls to spend my $110 gift certificates given to me for buying presents for Christmas...... so I go to buy this silverware set, a nice one, and two baking pans. Well it was going to total around $115 so I put it up there and she rings it up and says $43. I was floored and paid and then me and Troy were like what went wrong and afraid to say anything for fear it was a mistake. I wanted to buy more but thought no way they will probably notice it and there goes the great deal. So then I was able to buy some more stuff with the balance. So wondering why it actually happened.....my neighbor went to Kohls to try the same deal and lo and behold the same thing for her. It was an $80 set for $7.99. I told her to buy all they had but that was the last one. You all should run to Kohl's and see what you can do. It was a 53 piece set, I think, and brand was Cambridge.... flat out crazy, they must have barcoded it wrong from the factory or something. What's even more crazy is that I have now updated my silverware collection from the salvation army used store...if any one is interested!! You won't even come close to the Kohls deal but at least I'll be getting rid of my old collection.<br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-59014658463839003562008-12-07T04:40:00.000-08:002008-12-07T05:11:14.053-08:00A Month in Review<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0ouEHaDozUlKfJzOLIO872rRxnRAVziUPSty-6BvgmVPc6yU84yKyP4w5JBekJ0OjOtNUpNIg3_J1A6MdMNCqER_yXbIaH3WmSk3iH38_I7IqAN2IikfxgKDyAntSFIh3FadJojX5uU/s1600-h/Dec+7th+2008+028.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028797711297938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0ouEHaDozUlKfJzOLIO872rRxnRAVziUPSty-6BvgmVPc6yU84yKyP4w5JBekJ0OjOtNUpNIg3_J1A6MdMNCqER_yXbIaH3WmSk3iH38_I7IqAN2IikfxgKDyAntSFIh3FadJojX5uU/s200/Dec+7th+2008+028.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">A lot can happen in a few weeks but here is the best I can do for now...... We went to the Grand Canyon for Taya's basketball games. I am the assistant coach and she is a fifth grader on a sixth and seventh grade team (something about small schools).</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEEgBAA72LxCCU6Fkr-5WNxL-7A7ek4zT-QPL5n47r1HzGQ-w4BL5G0XvXZFosc6ZKzvgLcPTLp0RXpyRLul_Gf9igzrqUBrwErKzr1t3u0E4XBS2XFN0tmsSSNb_tohhFu7P4gujnMHU/s1600-h/Dec+7th+2008+027.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028790262520658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEEgBAA72LxCCU6Fkr-5WNxL-7A7ek4zT-QPL5n47r1HzGQ-w4BL5G0XvXZFosc6ZKzvgLcPTLp0RXpyRLul_Gf9igzrqUBrwErKzr1t3u0E4XBS2XFN0tmsSSNb_tohhFu7P4gujnMHU/s200/Dec+7th+2008+027.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Some where happier than others to be there!!</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbg9KSpYMiIUvcUlQ11Yk4rxmmPUXrTsvfaGYGgv1VekBBfAueUH1lWxZhUdiCQXzPQBcDqMGb1apaZx-x0vrkLqb7ZdMyxqDOCXPd4St_RNQeuCs1saiMmPzXrcRJsjU0SDCKPzDSWLg/s1600-h/Dec+7th+2008+025.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028409266937506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbg9KSpYMiIUvcUlQ11Yk4rxmmPUXrTsvfaGYGgv1VekBBfAueUH1lWxZhUdiCQXzPQBcDqMGb1apaZx-x0vrkLqb7ZdMyxqDOCXPd4St_RNQeuCs1saiMmPzXrcRJsjU0SDCKPzDSWLg/s200/Dec+7th+2008+025.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">We went to Thanksgiving in Aztec, NM where Troy's sister Traci lives. The kids had a blast playing with cousins and enjoying the days off. They played moon sand, play-do, made gingerbread houses, wrapped and unwrapped presents, watched movies, and everything else cousins do when they get together. We managed to get a lot of shopping in. We were about the 180th person in line at Sears at 5 am in the morning!! We should have gotten an earlier start I guess. But we managed to get some coupon shopping in on Black Friday as well and that's what counts!!</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Not sure why they did the belly thing but Sydnee's usually tops off everyones... she just wasn't in the right position!</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sM03OhICpd31ZwqlZLHHDJotB4gsUetu4ABXY-r8DvGjPNOfYyJXq7GMDlgxi5mMz_Vh3J2dM8ZnCeT4MJzKgxImSwzUF9SwO1n3ddg0pDkGJTB51e7ura1wxQf7E-q8V3UDq3scXSQ/s1600-h/Dec+7th+2008+011.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028408647807426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sM03OhICpd31ZwqlZLHHDJotB4gsUetu4ABXY-r8DvGjPNOfYyJXq7GMDlgxi5mMz_Vh3J2dM8ZnCeT4MJzKgxImSwzUF9SwO1n3ddg0pDkGJTB51e7ura1wxQf7E-q8V3UDq3scXSQ/s200/Dec+7th+2008+011.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Sydnee's happiest day ever! Finally gets to ride horses. The weather has been so nice lately they were able to ride for awhile this Saturday, December 6th.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKm_5ep62XqRy7XHAB8AITpMYJAua1w8FJuhcgW70TTnASwNnFzsiKt7jUzvBewDtuUeOfPbfuu21Uv5G598YTWkpDtr3ZmwJRymZ_a8k9kOi1Layr7V48X0c78mRM6h6o4sr7Qu1PqeM/s1600-h/Dec+7th+2008+008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028400583746514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKm_5ep62XqRy7XHAB8AITpMYJAua1w8FJuhcgW70TTnASwNnFzsiKt7jUzvBewDtuUeOfPbfuu21Uv5G598YTWkpDtr3ZmwJRymZ_a8k9kOi1Layr7V48X0c78mRM6h6o4sr7Qu1PqeM/s200/Dec+7th+2008+008.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Then in the evening we went to the parade of lights in Williams. It was short and sweet and very festive. We then went to Pine Country restaurant for pie and hot chocolate which turned into biscuits and gravy, hot chocolate, a few pies, and lots of fighting and crying. Reminded us once again why we are only taking Kai with us to the NFR this week.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKEHqjPw6P2ODEoXyj5pLtzDvFJl1CxhhJ43F3bPQsl2n889Z5SBv01ep8f-C3NXugyX-jayEo2_tF69UG2SdjQi-t7X1pdM9hDY0EoioiR1GhmuUHo9XrRuCV_G_sKWEh_jwlrAlN_0/s1600-h/Dec+7th+2008+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028399029040146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKEHqjPw6P2ODEoXyj5pLtzDvFJl1CxhhJ43F3bPQsl2n889Z5SBv01ep8f-C3NXugyX-jayEo2_tF69UG2SdjQi-t7X1pdM9hDY0EoioiR1GhmuUHo9XrRuCV_G_sKWEh_jwlrAlN_0/s200/Dec+7th+2008+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And then to top it all off we put up the tree and decorations all in the same day/night. I am glad to get it done but can there be that much fighting in putting up a tree, a train, and a few decorations? Yes. I pretty much stayed out of it as much as I could and we let the kids do most of it. At least it will be up three weeks before my moms and go down and away at least a month or two before hers!!</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWvZb_XDBGaM7PiwOu3sy7YZN-zNfPHvpeUbwc125MdN8PVt3f74Mgg0G22n7itYdM7zfZa8mD5tg7r8_Swjsw0I7Mbi3meMoQF3GbhWrrlZd3gQ1UmNkybHVqCsKCVQpapXIcQm1ZmeQ/s1600-h/Dec72008+005.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028394048364002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWvZb_XDBGaM7PiwOu3sy7YZN-zNfPHvpeUbwc125MdN8PVt3f74Mgg0G22n7itYdM7zfZa8mD5tg7r8_Swjsw0I7Mbi3meMoQF3GbhWrrlZd3gQ1UmNkybHVqCsKCVQpapXIcQm1ZmeQ/s200/Dec72008+005.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Payce played in the NAU dome on Friday night, I believe it was the 21st. They were supposed to play on Sunday but luckily his coach was able to rearrange it to Friday night. It was exciting and seemed overwhelming to play in there but a good experience for the kids! Football season is over now. Payce will have to move up leagues but is leary of that because he still only weighs 55 pounds, just 20 pounds or so shy of everyone else his age.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUC7IxU9qnv2bvO-9x8jVahFJ6tr8eFSLAAV1hwOgJ-qrKy5QyfeIQuuvNEv3d0n40d0PVcI1vlQGCuTjQ16II30kgwnSj4xfh4W52WlFWGmfcgEpYwjudDIqpvvt4aiFa_lksOe4VYrc/s1600-h/Dec72008+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027815859452946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUC7IxU9qnv2bvO-9x8jVahFJ6tr8eFSLAAV1hwOgJ-qrKy5QyfeIQuuvNEv3d0n40d0PVcI1vlQGCuTjQ16II30kgwnSj4xfh4W52WlFWGmfcgEpYwjudDIqpvvt4aiFa_lksOe4VYrc/s200/Dec72008+004.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Here is Sydnee leading the music at FHE. She loves this part and is so funny to watch do it.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcBbHQe-4sZ2ljc4VAyhGtwVdVoF_KabLaAvLipUtBuzYzEvE5-_potWoK81ka6Ok9O-L28rVXJv-TAb7_sEd1uZhKScVUHEDtl7wysTZ02ITmzfzYDFFUjOQsIgZWhb4kcvxDlFNa6o/s1600-h/Dec72008+007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027810716175250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcBbHQe-4sZ2ljc4VAyhGtwVdVoF_KabLaAvLipUtBuzYzEvE5-_potWoK81ka6Ok9O-L28rVXJv-TAb7_sEd1uZhKScVUHEDtl7wysTZ02ITmzfzYDFFUjOQsIgZWhb4kcvxDlFNa6o/s200/Dec72008+007.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And let me not forget my experience at the hospital! Yes everything was taped up with plastic and it was supposed to stay that way the whole 3 days. Try going to the bathroom like 50 times a day and making everything go through the little hole cut out in the plastic bags!! I drank a case of water the first day to get everything out of me quicker. Then there were the soap dispensers and faucets and door handles covered in blue rubber gloves, classy!</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0oztLUtbd7rkl6mMVpFdhGhSladGmqiEUMbT3YM4pzaUBXr25HvvR_eEmGroIaBt7utbqVNxfDyJg6dq3uz-RX6ieshYbgEQBL3vVlt9WdELN8CwsTtrg4rRMoxrKicZnw51A-QrZpB4/s1600-h/Dec72008+008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027799130422146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0oztLUtbd7rkl6mMVpFdhGhSladGmqiEUMbT3YM4pzaUBXr25HvvR_eEmGroIaBt7utbqVNxfDyJg6dq3uz-RX6ieshYbgEQBL3vVlt9WdELN8CwsTtrg4rRMoxrKicZnw51A-QrZpB4/s200/Dec72008+008.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And the path I was supposed to stay on from the bathroom to the bed. I took pictures before I went in and then Troy took the phone out so I didn't have to throw it away on my way out of there. I managed to read Twilight and some of the D&C. I need to watch the movie now and wish there was one to watch on the D&C. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9CkbJEApU6dTde_mjJujF0UwwBsY5ebUk76Y6xdn4fBK35wNpq0Y9forBBpoGTLDeVhDLW3OAPA6MB3dvifIa7oY0tsXuecj07YurO1KNJr4cK3ing4yegcJiuu3NehbuH6-xOP2MUk8/s1600-h/Dec72008+010.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027800236730946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9CkbJEApU6dTde_mjJujF0UwwBsY5ebUk76Y6xdn4fBK35wNpq0Y9forBBpoGTLDeVhDLW3OAPA6MB3dvifIa7oY0tsXuecj07YurO1KNJr4cK3ing4yegcJiuu3NehbuH6-xOP2MUk8/s200/Dec72008+010.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And there you have it..... the new bishop of the Williams Ward. Yes in fact they did call Troy to be the bishop the Sunday before I went into the hospital. And I thought thyroid cancer was a lot to take on this year! So on the 23rd of November he was called and put it. Should I have a five year count down thing going on my blog to show how many more years I get to sit with just me and the kids at church!! This will be ten years now, five years as a counselor and possibly five or more as a bishop... Wow. It has certainly started to change our lifestyles.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xQg5qC7S1Ukgbw_aIjzZ21muIFjJVES2pVWpBPx9t20UZNc3YbKjf7cwjUvmYyla4yYRa-ON2DWoClQ43Vi-pKlBwtB-mSbzNECryNDByk1iHl4LvnbynDp586KgJ4J3KDtl-ZYtpKE/s1600-h/Dec72008+012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027797148765218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xQg5qC7S1Ukgbw_aIjzZ21muIFjJVES2pVWpBPx9t20UZNc3YbKjf7cwjUvmYyla4yYRa-ON2DWoClQ43Vi-pKlBwtB-mSbzNECryNDByk1iHl4LvnbynDp586KgJ4J3KDtl-ZYtpKE/s200/Dec72008+012.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">And that will be my posting for awhile because I have been able to sleep more lately so I don't get up quite so early with nothing to do. As well as I have a tax class in Phoenix all day Monday, going to the Rodeo in Vegas Tuesday thru Thursday, Taya's basketball tournament on Friday, Youth temple trip on Saturday, Primary program on Sunday, Zoning classes Monday thru Wednesday and who knows I am sure something will come up next Thursday!! Maybe I will finish the Christams sewing projects I have going on or maybe the shopping I need to do or maybe spend 20 hours trying to coupon shop!! </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-71846900745005023382008-11-19T05:29:00.000-08:002008-11-19T06:12:14.880-08:00A sweet invitation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUHtk7QpkrBx9Kz88SAiHsqDdBSABgIkMtysoW3-LDCFZMaqJQo0-1exVqVhmCDWVwfa7U06_AgnOQQGvbk77TsQu4X91bn9rs7Sr-k0SkvX5gcmue4EWtHuGFdREgbTlpKle4883Sbc/s1600-h/Nov.18+2008+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270361809672538690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUHtk7QpkrBx9Kz88SAiHsqDdBSABgIkMtysoW3-LDCFZMaqJQo0-1exVqVhmCDWVwfa7U06_AgnOQQGvbk77TsQu4X91bn9rs7Sr-k0SkvX5gcmue4EWtHuGFdREgbTlpKle4883Sbc/s320/Nov.18+2008+004.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Okay so I got invited to the "elderly" community birthday party on Tuesday. It was the lady on the right below that was turning 89. I know a few of them from our ward but the rest I have never seen before. The lady on the left I visit teach and have for almost 8 years now. She is 94. My friend Cami said she was coming because often she comes along to help her grandma and it was her grandma's birthday. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyhgY-yvW1kibLOgkH8hFMz8jQsrkVmqFHUPqh1WcNRX4GhYMHSW9yNK3wyItJPEOYUVIA0mrnDEGR3peflpQlCgVZbO1UeNAm6zVL9QDJoQc61P3EpQbbKDWrM9b4wAAT8GIbwQTvpsg/s1600-h/Nov.18+2008+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270361808708410946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyhgY-yvW1kibLOgkH8hFMz8jQsrkVmqFHUPqh1WcNRX4GhYMHSW9yNK3wyItJPEOYUVIA0mrnDEGR3peflpQlCgVZbO1UeNAm6zVL9QDJoQc61P3EpQbbKDWrM9b4wAAT8GIbwQTvpsg/s320/Nov.18+2008+002.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">So, as I go and pick up Anita, 94, we head to the restaurant. I pull in only to see all the other women being taxi'd in by who knows and then they walk in. Thier taxi drivers didn't stick around. One of the ladies had two other ladies in with her so she is still able to drive her and miss daisy around herself! So I am thinking what have I gotten myself into? We get into the restaurant and the fun begins!! They immediately start head counting and asking where so and so is and where so and so is and that goes on and on. Then they start their conversations. I am almost certain they were the same conversations from the last party they had. How old are you now Betty? When is your birthday Fay? It was hilarious. I had to break up a few arguments that I thought were going to turn hostile. So we get seated and then came the confusing part..... the menus. Who was going to read the menu for them all? Cha Ching - Wah Lah = ME! Try to explain cheese enchildas, a lunch special, and inflation to 11 women over 80... and not more than once..... good luck! I was the only one there under 75 besides the 45 year old handicapped friend of ours and her care taker. Let me say that I think it was a set up. Cami never showed. So as comical as it was we made it through. I ended up sitting between the birthday girl and the lady who makes the cake each time. I got in a little trouble. The birthday girl kept wanting a piece of the cake really bad so I started slipping her some icing off the side with her fork. She loved it! And just kept wanting more. So I was feeding the 94 year old and the birthday girl the icing and I got caught by the cake maker. Let's just say it was not a nice look I received from her. It may have changed the mood of the party but hey the hot sauce was too hot for them and they were getting hungry. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qvQ2WnY7vuvkRbml3tCQmpqt9fzbnhVKEPbfZbS24KTjRIdFJ6zVdExpU4YtGyPG0jb03qVQxkKSDho0TBuAd2jkHhyeS3YkZ6UtmyR9an6ztrGNnbOFGVTUP7HNUn3vsGEnwmBOmrA/s1600-h/Nov.18+2008+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270361748246861714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6qvQ2WnY7vuvkRbml3tCQmpqt9fzbnhVKEPbfZbS24KTjRIdFJ6zVdExpU4YtGyPG0jb03qVQxkKSDho0TBuAd2jkHhyeS3YkZ6UtmyR9an6ztrGNnbOFGVTUP7HNUn3vsGEnwmBOmrA/s320/Nov.18+2008+001.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">And yes I got a shot from underneath the table just to show the canes lined up and put in a safe place for dinner.!! So then there came the ordering. Wow... should have never told them there was a special but this is how it went. Well after explaining the special for a couple of times, a red and a green enchilada with beans and rice, the two I felt responsible for decided to "share". Oh no! They weren't sure what they were sharing but they felt like they couldn't eat all of the other stuff. Oh and by the way the 94 year old I brought said she was paying for mine or else she wasn't coming... to pay for the gas. So I felt obligated to order a bean and one piece of rice to save her money. Then there was the complaints for waiting for so long for the food and a few other arguments I kind of jumped into to try to quiet down. Then the arrival of the food.... oh no, again!! So they got one order wrong... that was not a good thing and I will leave that to your imagination. But my two... who decided to share, were my next task!! So I cut the enchiladas evenly in half and split the beans and rice and we are on our way but I see the 94 year old giving the 89 year old a big piece of hers and listen to the 89 year old say well it just looks like nothing is there!! It was so funny. When they took bites of things they would ask "What is this I am about to eat?" It was pretty funny. So after cutting cake for all of them and then taking a few of their tickets to the register to pay for them and trying to keep the change straight.... we made it through. It was enjoyable and I met a lot of people in the community and was glad I could help out. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">By the way... the enrichment night went well. I left a lot out that I wish I would have covered but time ran out and brain cells. There were a lot of women there. More than usual so that was good. If anything I learned more so hopefully some of them did. Thanks to all the coupon helpers I am sure you will hear from me in the future!</span> <div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-3307031205640805662008-11-16T05:36:00.000-08:002008-11-16T18:38:54.534-08:00Dehydrating potatoes<span style="font-size:85%;">So yesterday we decided we needed to do something with the 100 pounds of potatoes we bought from my Aunt Paula that she picked up in Farmington. So I text Jeanne, our most wonderful neighbor and say "You are cordially invited to a potato party at 5 pm" So immediately my phone rings.... a what? So the sucker that she is she shows up!!! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">We started the kids on sorting, washing, and cutting a hundred pounds of potatoes! So I am on the internet researching exactly what we are going to try to accomplish. So out on the porch and I totally forgot to take pictures, so mad, but are the kids with pans and bowls all over filled with water, bad potatoes, good potatoes, chicken food potatoes, french fry for dinner potatoes ,and then dehydrating potatoes. I try to stay away from them because I am still radioactive for a few days. So we start the process and Troy is in charge of the knife and me the boiling water and what not. So this was our process.... wash them, cut out bad parts (which meant 3/4 of potato) and then slice into like 1/4 inch pieces but for Taya that turned out to be like 3/4 inch potatoes on some and then you blanch them by putting them into boiling water for 5 minutes or 20 if you lose track of time, and then take them out and into ice water and lemon juice immediately and then let them sit for 15 to 45 minutes whichever you get around to and then you blot them dry and stick in the dehydrator, which by the way holds about 6-8 cups of potatoes and not 100 pounds worth! Then have husband stay up all night checking on potatoes to harden. I woke up this morning to an unplugged dehydrator and one still going. He got tired of getting up so unplugged the powerful one and left the other one going. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">That was the process.... and yes Jeanne and her kids showed up for the party. It was a lot of fun and once we got the system down it went smoothly. I dealt with the water and the dishes to avoid touching the potatoes. Jeanne and Troy in charge of the transferring of potatoes from cold pans to boiling pans to ice water pans and then on to blot, dry and put in dehydrator. We are waiting for husband to get home from California to be in charge of the food saver operations! It was a lot of fun even the kids enjoyed it. We had potatoes cooking in the oven for fries for everybody and pizza from Marie and applie pie from Marie and we just had a good time. Now we know we made way too many to fit in the dehydrator but are soaking them in fridge in lemon juice and water to hopefully start a new batch today. We didn't even get to the "good" potatoes. We only sifted through the bad ones to get them used up. I'll take pictures next weekend of htis weekend all over again! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">So anyone try this before because it takes some time and I am hoping it actually works. You are supposed to be able to store them and then just boil them for 25 minutes and serve! At least we didn't have to peel them. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Next week we will be having potato soup, potato appetizer, and potato pie while doing the rest! Then we will all hate potatoes and not eat these for our year supply!</span>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-49865784628184382652008-11-16T04:53:00.000-08:002008-11-16T05:28:03.983-08:00New Hobby For ME<span style="font-size:85%;">Okay I am starting a new hobby now that I have gotten into this enrichment night of balancing budget and year supply stuff. Thanks to all of you for your ideas. I wish you could come on Thursday night but maybe I can send you the packet if you would like. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">So here is what happened while trying to do my homework and with the use of Trachel's blog site! I started coupon shopping! Crazy stuff. Makes me feel like I have been getting ripped off my whole life and I am obviously have been but hopefully it won't take too much time out of my life to start this. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">So I went to Walgreens, just because I had all the kids and not a lot of time and wanted to experiment. I came prepared with my coupons... manufacturers and in store coupons and Trachel at home, on line, to answer questions!! </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This is what I bought in one purchase..... 4 boxes of Kellogg cereal( $3), 2 full size bottles of lotion ($4.50), 2 full size bottles of honey ($8), 1 peanut butter ($3), 2 big bottles jelly ($2.50?) parenthesis are approximate actual costs. So it should have been somewhere around $45. I paid $18. Can you say CRAZY? </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Here is what I did... had a manufacturer coupon for $1 off the cereal so I had 4 coupons. The store had a coupon for 4/$10 and if you bought all 4 you got a $2 coupon to be used on anything at Walgreens at next visit (this is important for later transaction). So I ended up paying $6 for all the cereal but really $4 because I got the $2 coupon but I used that for a different transaction. So then the store had coupons for lotion buy one get one free and it was good lotion, honey coupon was $3 coupon so I bought what they had left, jelly and peanut butter was 3/$5. There was probably a manufacturer coupon out there for these but I didn't have time to look. So anyways then I had the coupon from Walgreens to spend $20 and get $5 off! So I needed to get to the $20 and did so. So add this all up it came to nearly $45 and I saved like $26.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">THen..... they had Progresso soup, normally $3.19 a can. I used a manufacturer coupon of $2 off 4 cans, the store coupon buy 4/$5. So with my coupons I paid $5 - $2 = $3. So now I am down to paying $3 for the 4 cans so 4 for the price of one. But.... hold on..... I have this $2 in store Walgreens money from previous purchase so I use it and Wa-Lah!! I hand the lady a dollar and am on my way with 4 cans of rich delicious upper class Progresso soup all for the whopping price of twenty five cents a can!! Addicted to coupons!! $5-$2-$2 = $1!! So I saved $11.80 on that. So I bought like close to $60 of groceries for $19. Now just to find what activities i can cut out to start being a coupon shopper. It is going to be fun at enrichment sharing my shopping trip homework with them. Oh ya, I did all this while still being radioative... I will have to blog that later with the pictures of my room all taped up and the whole experience.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">And by the way.... I miss our little Kai. She is at my moms until I am less radioactive. It is in her best interest and I am sure she had a great time but we are starting to really miss her. </span>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-66534290391755836602008-11-11T02:16:00.001-08:002008-11-11T03:24:24.968-08:00Our First Snow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-2GGnPc8jEnWwe9AWvHuJpCXd4PLZhJZnpJmNWKqksq4ekztY-UX9obPbKquVlYccsW4eg_8hSX1eq0dwelRC6YSTKzqWQ-fhzyqMsEV_CPu5FtsGWXvxy2ODQ6ssJrYwFPjyyrAAgs/s1600-h/Snow+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267342450096415522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-2GGnPc8jEnWwe9AWvHuJpCXd4PLZhJZnpJmNWKqksq4ekztY-UX9obPbKquVlYccsW4eg_8hSX1eq0dwelRC6YSTKzqWQ-fhzyqMsEV_CPu5FtsGWXvxy2ODQ6ssJrYwFPjyyrAAgs/s320/Snow+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">I am so not ready for the cold but here you have it for Monday morning with the kids waiting for bus!</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Notice the metal pole they are leaning against and read story below.</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicTw40FdTJFBx2Uj0jwY_MMHvesvT18kT5R6JuAC3eEuf3CCM_WCY5lT82CO1OisfcG-DzhysldEhFuZnmdPKN5VkWuMEi9wDjWo02OddxvXMOcek4SKTZ3lu-OpZRxCR7Whmq8FCTRlk/s1600-h/Snow+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267342447920320514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicTw40FdTJFBx2Uj0jwY_MMHvesvT18kT5R6JuAC3eEuf3CCM_WCY5lT82CO1OisfcG-DzhysldEhFuZnmdPKN5VkWuMEi9wDjWo02OddxvXMOcek4SKTZ3lu-OpZRxCR7Whmq8FCTRlk/s320/Snow+004.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Kai didn't understand the full meaning of snow and "Ice". Needless to say she wasn't all too happy with her first venture out. It was so fun watching the kids from the window that she had to get out in it. She was crying and mad but I wanted a picture so I told her to keep crying, "no problem Mom".</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyppRknAlNhV34hbmCKe0ahWUnIxec-2UbBtCYS3ck5_IXsbioUBfbv4jMYnr1NAMyPzLJJDIwX-fYIK65rQrGiBK97aZk13zIIlHTRn4UXgwOYbkqF1rBtIT7QgVNpm2H9KEAvE8R5u0/s1600-h/Snow+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267342438855937202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyppRknAlNhV34hbmCKe0ahWUnIxec-2UbBtCYS3ck5_IXsbioUBfbv4jMYnr1NAMyPzLJJDIwX-fYIK65rQrGiBK97aZk13zIIlHTRn4UXgwOYbkqF1rBtIT7QgVNpm2H9KEAvE8R5u0/s320/Snow+003.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Just the scenery from our driveway. Okay for all of you out there who think they have the smartest best kid in the world, stop thinking this because apparantly I do! I guess here is where I will post what "brilliant" decided to do and truly she is usually a straight A student. So I go into the house with Kai and the kids are waiting for the bus. They all come running in laughing saying "mom, dad, Taya tried it." "Tried what?" "She tried sticking her tongue to the pole outside. " Genious! So they were all so excited because she got it stuck to the pole. I wish I had had the camera and for some reason I couldn't get her to do it again to take a good picture. Way too much Christmas Story movie watching in these kids. Payce always goes around laughing like the little kid on it and now Taya with this high IQ does the worst of all. And then they go on to say... well at least I didn't have to call the fire department to get it off. The end of her tongue was a little red. When it all came out in the end I guess Sydnee decided to try it to but she was bragging and they were too on how hers came right off and didn't get stuck.</span> Hope one of them doesn't ask for a leg lamp for a Christmas gift.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78V3Mk9ngjp4v08C2Cb4HN893DEY_1vh0JQWU6qdmSovyMyC-rg8vlw1Q20NPilPOe2bj5o6FaDan8ZMW0EmY7flAbD32ZP79cfZOuGUbRl8rtJbSyhy_iymJ_bv5kJCGH3Fpz1-94bk/s1600-h/Snow+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267342433062235378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78V3Mk9ngjp4v08C2Cb4HN893DEY_1vh0JQWU6qdmSovyMyC-rg8vlw1Q20NPilPOe2bj5o6FaDan8ZMW0EmY7flAbD32ZP79cfZOuGUbRl8rtJbSyhy_iymJ_bv5kJCGH3Fpz1-94bk/s320/Snow+002.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">It started coming down on Sunday afternoon. We had a church meeting in Flagstaff that night. It took us over an hour to get to it. But most melted by morning and this is what we were left with. I usually like the snow but have never been more excited for it "not" too come yet. I just can't tolerate the cold yet. I usually can stagger out in this stuff with shorts and a sweatshirt and be just fine but now I am thinking a real "Poofy" snow suit may not even cut it. Maybe I will resort to some Carhart insulated overalls. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">So it is 3:30 am in the morning. I guess I am anxious to get to the hospital today and get this whole process over and done. I cannot take anything in there that I wish to keep because it all has to be thrown away in special trash. But let me remind you everything is still "Safe", ha! So there went my Christmas shopping venture on the internet, my three days of intense blog surfing, and anything else I was considering to do for 3 days. Oh well I am writing down my credit card number because apparently I have access to QVC. I am going to resort to doing something I hate, read a book. I finally am giving into reading "The blessed vampire" books. One anyways, the one that cost $6 and I can throw away. Hope I finish it there and am not left hanging. I am also going to try to read a paperback Doctrine and Covenants straight through. Not only will I be glowing with radioactive iodine but the spirit of God! I think I will do lots of exercising and moving around in there in my hospital gown to pass the time and sweat out the pill I don't need, ya right. Thank you to everyone who has helped us through this long process. It has been very much appreciated. Marie, Troy's mom, is staying with the kids today while there is no school, thank you Veterans, and then they will fly solo until Thursday. I am then scheduled to head to Farmington, New Mexico to begin my first classes on Footzonology but the schedule is looking pretty tight and Payce may end up playing his last game in the NAU dome on Friday night so may not make it to Farmington. Thank you to his coach for fighting for a game change from Sunday to either Friday night or Saturday. He knew Payce wasn't playing nor Troy coaching if it was this way so he is working with the Flagstaff board to get the change. I hope to be knowing soon on the outcome of the decision. So there is our story... see you fellow bloggers in a few days and hopefully no more 3:30 am blogging after this. </span><div>By The Way, the two kids did not have to sleep in bed rolls in pig pen thanks to the snow and some bargaining which we knew was coming. We got about 6 good hours of drawer cleaning out of it anyways, without fighting.<span style="font-size:85%;"> I heard Payce tell Taya, it's kinda fun cleaning it out huh Taya? To find all this stuff.</span></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-56249823396348754142008-11-09T05:16:00.000-08:002008-11-09T05:51:08.783-08:00Thankful for dads<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BlFULbRPsvycHEFEIoEDWXA1hVmC0oBa3stg_jMUAaAoRWT0mUzYnKoLYSM3HYOxq1aWbuUtDIFc27OfkhVKwS7dt7PVKvyv11q0Df_OhrYDPtsmkG9hy9BFHZrqEx6G4mOMhqX3ySg/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266648191679939154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BlFULbRPsvycHEFEIoEDWXA1hVmC0oBa3stg_jMUAaAoRWT0mUzYnKoLYSM3HYOxq1aWbuUtDIFc27OfkhVKwS7dt7PVKvyv11q0Df_OhrYDPtsmkG9hy9BFHZrqEx6G4mOMhqX3ySg/s200/November+9,+2008+007.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">This is Taya's new steer. We bought a different one that was tamed and ready for her but while the owner was in the hospital for an emergency the steers missed a few meals and then when fed hers apparently ate too much, bloated, and passed away. So we went to look at more and Taya decided to go with this one. He, on the other hand, was not tamed. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJijf6ymB9pWF7x5GJ94qbmyLtuPKxJP7HcVuvqbP1wuvdK7z57cCguoVNTj8k-X7Rfx_4rGJLv41YK8fMlHNMxgQXvqyQPcmCmSD6TuAzJKn67N1Y8zDpbTpOfmcZoGSToNdbeg6Xkeg/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266648180410613810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJijf6ymB9pWF7x5GJ94qbmyLtuPKxJP7HcVuvqbP1wuvdK7z57cCguoVNTj8k-X7Rfx_4rGJLv41YK8fMlHNMxgQXvqyQPcmCmSD6TuAzJKn67N1Y8zDpbTpOfmcZoGSToNdbeg6Xkeg/s200/November+9,+2008+012.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">After a good one hour or so rodeo with "Flash" and Troy and lots of lost blood, we managed to get him back into the trailer and home. It's a good thing my dad showed up when he did with his saddled horse to help drag him back from escaping Troy the almighty who wasn't going to let go of the thing at all costs. I had all the kids secured from it and Taya standing there with the most sickening look on her face ever.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBGN81uDjRoMFh_-pRcsoC-T1-FTZAMw4bV0Gx2aIlDTpbyNONebaqc3qEdn4LeQujyb53ehL_qAHWr1YqSMlNndhakdcxgiMWffOLyLDM_9SvxhoBn_VIxITY8hPnDwV4tPp38ABD5A/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+010.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266648179949502274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBGN81uDjRoMFh_-pRcsoC-T1-FTZAMw4bV0Gx2aIlDTpbyNONebaqc3qEdn4LeQujyb53ehL_qAHWr1YqSMlNndhakdcxgiMWffOLyLDM_9SvxhoBn_VIxITY8hPnDwV4tPp38ABD5A/s200/November+9,+2008+010.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">So he got tied to a post for a few days. Apparently that is all it took because after two days she was leading it herself and doing very well. She put him in the shoot yesterday and brushed him and led him around. His name is Flash for a few reasons, Flashy looking, Flash Gordon the super hero - because he looks good, and Flash just in case any more of those rodeo's occur. I'm thankful for Troy to be helping with her because if it were up to me I would have loaded him and drove him straight back to where he came from and get a refund, if the thing wasn't dead before that! </span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnqiikIwJRpribcmt1B6zr96EZlUTW1CCrZpfQ7f869VT7sIzJBwq_o2zqioGGhXLM4LgywE8Ike6TTGhXzo6nbT6pvlGkVR7_Ak49GYB7VMTzs4mTIUm7uPxqdG7a9mnK8kaCdmD9Dk/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266647336163082930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnqiikIwJRpribcmt1B6zr96EZlUTW1CCrZpfQ7f869VT7sIzJBwq_o2zqioGGhXLM4LgywE8Ike6TTGhXzo6nbT6pvlGkVR7_Ak49GYB7VMTzs4mTIUm7uPxqdG7a9mnK8kaCdmD9Dk/s200/November+9,+2008+003.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">I am so thankful for dads for this reason. I absolutely hate this type of play. And it's okay to say hate because it's true. I even don't watch usually because it wears me out and the end result is always Troy winning and most of the kids crying. It usually leads to an argument with me because the kid in Troy or the competitiveness in him won't even let the kids pretend to have beat him. It is always a crying ending but it must be real fun for them all while it's going on. </span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GZWLO8k9R5SFEoil1rp2QCIja1AEC39vv9kZkqUmI6FyDA8URG345JReBFqrmoGwMXZoIuxnJD4ZvUbKypTZUVoJ6TuQXgupiJi0xXrgrDAO9oOqKN7E3GzGLvhmFoNyzMeWuklwBas/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266647332472560626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GZWLO8k9R5SFEoil1rp2QCIja1AEC39vv9kZkqUmI6FyDA8URG345JReBFqrmoGwMXZoIuxnJD4ZvUbKypTZUVoJ6TuQXgupiJi0xXrgrDAO9oOqKN7E3GzGLvhmFoNyzMeWuklwBas/s200/November+9,+2008+008.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">But you have to give them all credit. I remember when I was a kid and how much fun it was to run around our house in circles while my dad tried to pop us with his belt. Now that was fun times??? And we played it often. THank goodness for those double wides that you could run in a complete circle around that center wall that supported the TV on one side and the stove and kitchen on the other. You could make it in seconds thru the dining room to the kitchen thru the family room and land in the living room only to start the track all over again. Roller skates were the best.</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1AEpWYDjATmua40fp6i69iRTYter65lL37eu9Gavns_b5YLngk3lV7VMsGxZs8Vll1L7an2Mdw4GKASqyQj66M_ITwoegRx7CvwABCWaWdcyN-ODeOattor5cedcdfh-lOpVQtm5gaW8/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266647321332843906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1AEpWYDjATmua40fp6i69iRTYter65lL37eu9Gavns_b5YLngk3lV7VMsGxZs8Vll1L7an2Mdw4GKASqyQj66M_ITwoegRx7CvwABCWaWdcyN-ODeOattor5cedcdfh-lOpVQtm5gaW8/s200/November+9,+2008+004.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrs-TPYHkaEq9a8mcEXONy7pjvKqG3ajT3dU50VGqM7PfMkH-bgMD7WGF1P7Bz149m6JbvZBg_BJJo-Oi8RgGgajl6X0Bg0vpXiSQGh0M17JPHKZRaVHATcSs9j7S2W5TI-brLJblDBo/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266647321565394402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrs-TPYHkaEq9a8mcEXONy7pjvKqG3ajT3dU50VGqM7PfMkH-bgMD7WGF1P7Bz149m6JbvZBg_BJJo-Oi8RgGgajl6X0Bg0vpXiSQGh0M17JPHKZRaVHATcSs9j7S2W5TI-brLJblDBo/s200/November+9,+2008+007.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIE1CKgOeqEnoQN7XmX3_xwP_PnsatJDYrrNgC2clQKtprYLDw0vq2Qh9SMh1tNNAQL1MWafY3O5q_3_KVnkEyhc0_OgT5ljS1Po6-Sk7qv5fsz5_XAa7WsSpaQGLHQxRzK1WW7CHt6A/s1600-h/November+9,+2008+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266647314065906002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIE1CKgOeqEnoQN7XmX3_xwP_PnsatJDYrrNgC2clQKtprYLDw0vq2Qh9SMh1tNNAQL1MWafY3O5q_3_KVnkEyhc0_OgT5ljS1Po6-Sk7qv5fsz5_XAa7WsSpaQGLHQxRzK1WW7CHt6A/s200/November+9,+2008+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">This is a picture of Riley, Kai, and Syd on Riley's pony in Holbrook. Her dad takes so good care of her and she loves him you can tell. He loves her too. I'm sure it's because she thinks the world of him and his love for chickens and animals. They named their chickens as they hatched on the back porch. At church last week she couldn't quit talking about Ol' Trapper, her new puppy. She kept asking my girls if they wanted to come and see Ol' Trapper at her house. "He even can come in the house." </span><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-46951791498404186062008-11-06T12:35:00.000-08:002008-11-06T21:41:27.706-08:00On the thankful side of things....<span style="font-size:85%;">This to me is so amazing it almost made me cry. So I have been thinking of what I am thankful for and it just came to me this morning on the phone. I don't mean I don't have much to be thankful for but some really significant things to go along with friends and family and the whole spill. I will be going in on Tuesday to stay in the hospital for possibly three days. The doctor called me to see when the hospital scheduled it for. I told him Tuesday and he then asked if it would be okay if him and his wife made my family dinner (pot roast) that night while I was away. I was speechless. He is such a good person and really care. They seem like we have known them forever but we just met in August and hardly know them. He really wants us to try the steer meat out that he bought from Taya. He offered us some while I was in for surgery but ackward timing. Now maybe you guys have doctors like this but I don't know of too many that even would make the time to do something like this. As much as I wish I wasn't going through all of this I am thankful for him and his care. I am glad we have gotten to know each other and will be seeing him a lot in the future to regulate the thyroid medicine but I thought that was just really neat and wanted to share it with you. If you ever have something wrong with your ear, nose, or throat..... give him a call!</span>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-23097654103366518132008-11-04T13:31:00.000-08:002008-11-04T17:54:15.729-08:00Tiger Football<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7gqpO7H16H73Z-GMxWoiE3lUa-8WmykaPB4P-Z5rpY-ZZucrbpScMBhWA2wOOUGFDT8G8pUOZ_UrMTdZfdTG0YazDQEtPIqS3Qyl9yAh5SFiXwIpftsEz4hGgb2ASNJtpunKKh0jr_M/s1600-h/Diesel+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264920200812957906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7gqpO7H16H73Z-GMxWoiE3lUa-8WmykaPB4P-Z5rpY-ZZucrbpScMBhWA2wOOUGFDT8G8pUOZ_UrMTdZfdTG0YazDQEtPIqS3Qyl9yAh5SFiXwIpftsEz4hGgb2ASNJtpunKKh0jr_M/s320/Diesel+003.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-e6g-wy0gE0IJV55QvWpi5FNFXGppuqULiCS613kuhqB3-UK0wT9noBsYHWbJezQgekqOWIHYGhDi7g5hTuI97xe7Yc8llBPwH5LP-AH1650hNkGkupUQoAakGQWsfbI01LIs05R-QT8/s1600-h/Diesel+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264920198238687218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-e6g-wy0gE0IJV55QvWpi5FNFXGppuqULiCS613kuhqB3-UK0wT9noBsYHWbJezQgekqOWIHYGhDi7g5hTuI97xe7Yc8llBPwH5LP-AH1650hNkGkupUQoAakGQWsfbI01LIs05R-QT8/s320/Diesel+002.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfd4HWPigMLsQBLVVHaCKPoVSSHNc_yOSHpCvbnRiJXZPXqnimou8CbIoKR7HHvgbBxroFS4WHWc8LLrYSkXqPynQ5QBVlLa1Xic7rvWPw_2VBnPmL_8gWantKq9v5Z0JtUXggA-07R84/s1600-h/October+29+2008+011.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264920192773629442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 207px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfd4HWPigMLsQBLVVHaCKPoVSSHNc_yOSHpCvbnRiJXZPXqnimou8CbIoKR7HHvgbBxroFS4WHWc8LLrYSkXqPynQ5QBVlLa1Xic7rvWPw_2VBnPmL_8gWantKq9v5Z0JtUXggA-07R84/s320/October+29+2008+011.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSKfIE83r_Rq71rFiKvRqLXu7k8HJWOX92sMkEHhIvWhiIZvkRx6AbEcTcLAC5iZfCqgcbMxOpI6t6WW8Mu4fHGxfphJcaNJyYT6zeCfmrAaqCm2AT6wSuSzAvSiIWPV2j9Ty_Odlb-w/s1600-h/October+29+2008+010.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264920189671093794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSKfIE83r_Rq71rFiKvRqLXu7k8HJWOX92sMkEHhIvWhiIZvkRx6AbEcTcLAC5iZfCqgcbMxOpI6t6WW8Mu4fHGxfphJcaNJyYT6zeCfmrAaqCm2AT6wSuSzAvSiIWPV2j9Ty_Odlb-w/s320/October+29+2008+010.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcnJGj2-DtSOstaqbNIHxICZl-PrCh0Qtl5G0F7hsom9Iej6nwo7zrgZheUa66dbP7VyRDWcPRW-SVeWmeshNVJDNgucCI_JNGt2LB7lWP94NeUHJzaVKx1KigtbtrcSrJBYsqv4YDsU/s1600-h/October+29+2008+012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264918965501537602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 236px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcnJGj2-DtSOstaqbNIHxICZl-PrCh0Qtl5G0F7hsom9Iej6nwo7zrgZheUa66dbP7VyRDWcPRW-SVeWmeshNVJDNgucCI_JNGt2LB7lWP94NeUHJzaVKx1KigtbtrcSrJBYsqv4YDsU/s320/October+29+2008+012.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This is Payce's final year for Tiger football then he moves up a league. They are playing this Saturday and if they win they will go on to play for 1st place out of all the teams from Holbrook, Winslow, Prescott, Tuba City, and Flagstaff. Payce played his best game of the season on Saturday. He believes it is all due to his new hair doo from Halloween. He is sporting the grandpa look. Yes actually shaved the top and sprayed the long hair gray. He looked great. So with that said he does not want to shave it because it is good luck. He also believes that he will just grow out the top and leave the bottom. New philosophy to me but in the Mortensen family hair doesn't grow that fast on the tops of their heads?? He is starting to play really well. He either plays quarterback, receiver, or blocker. He has 130 rushing yards this weekend. The weight limit for 8 year old players is 65. Most of the 8 years olds are on diets. Payce is pushing Oreos down to get to 45. He says he weighs 50 now but that's with full pads and a full head of hair. He probably set himself back a few pounds with the new "doo".</span>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-38466642116347084792008-10-31T14:27:00.000-07:002008-10-31T14:30:27.234-07:00"Toot Walks"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh05a1c3hLGDWWDMeQttsJHEhCmRoCJUqlbPXArNT9886ut1X4L0KIi_oUvQTkBvqsUqR0-2twhzf6aj26-i59rwStWio_RWQSOM1T8XywIBwJAjJAJAwBgVmTt-hGgPY1SDN3Tpw-u5go/s1600-h/October+29+2008+034.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh05a1c3hLGDWWDMeQttsJHEhCmRoCJUqlbPXArNT9886ut1X4L0KIi_oUvQTkBvqsUqR0-2twhzf6aj26-i59rwStWio_RWQSOM1T8XywIBwJAjJAJAwBgVmTt-hGgPY1SDN3Tpw-u5go/s320/October+29+2008+034.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263433263144322498" /></a><br />She calls her shoes, walks. So she says "Mom, where me toot (cute) walks?"Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-63422790427720639842008-10-30T11:26:00.000-07:002008-10-30T11:28:01.662-07:00Our Halloween Fun<div style="visibility:visible"><embed src="http://flash.picturetrail.com/pflicks/3/spflick.swf" quality="high" FlashVars="ql=2&src1=http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL1732/11554720/flicks/1/5957480" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#000000" width="460" height="350" name="flip_book" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" style="height:350px;width:460px" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><p style="whitespace:no-wrap;margin-top:10px;height:24px"><a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/misc/counter.fcgi?link=%2FphotoFlick%2Fsamples%2Fpflicks.shtml&cID=924"><img align="left" src="http://pics.picturetrail.com/res/pflicks/pt.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/misc/counter.fcgi?link=%2FphotoFlick%2Fsamples%2Fpflicks.shtml&cID=925"><img align="left" style="margin-left:5px" src="http://pics.picturetrail.com/static/images/pt2.gif" border="0"></a></p></div><br />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 practiceKodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-75710424449396519972008-10-26T20:59:00.000-07:002008-10-26T21:05:25.441-07:00A Girl Trip<div style="visibility:visible"><embed src="http://flash.picturetrail.com/pflicks/3/spflick.swf" quality="high" FlashVars="ql=2&src1=http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL1732/11554720/flicks/1/5930040" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#000000" width="460" height="350" name="zoom_and_fade" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" style="height:350px;width:460px" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><p style="whitespace:no-wrap;margin-top:10px;height:24px"><a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/misc/counter.fcgi?link=%2FphotoFlick%2Fsamples%2Fpflicks.shtml&cID=924"><img align="left" src="http://pics.picturetrail.com/res/pflicks/pt.gif" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/misc/counter.fcgi?link=%2FphotoFlick%2Fsamples%2Fpflicks.shtml&cID=925"><img align="left" style="margin-left:5px" src="http://pics.picturetrail.com/static/images/pt2.gif" border="0"></a></p></div><br />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.Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-45416398429030063722008-10-22T10:42:00.000-07:002008-10-22T10:49:38.676-07:00Enrichment ideas<span style="font-size:85%;">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. </span>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-16856910856796301182008-10-18T14:03:00.000-07:002008-10-18T14:38:48.139-07:00Where are our imaginations these days??<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpB3nJpVDZUWOYmSp5BDsU812pJPvRl5gQ0lZIznNSM2gbhLe9xGhTTmt420CY4YBIROfXIn0yFOZFG01bhQUl3iiHhj2st4rWl3PO9851S41HTF7CvJ2OTyMERvfdkfKUUtUDx_UAVs/s1600-h/scan0007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258603805655449426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpB3nJpVDZUWOYmSp5BDsU812pJPvRl5gQ0lZIznNSM2gbhLe9xGhTTmt420CY4YBIROfXIn0yFOZFG01bhQUl3iiHhj2st4rWl3PO9851S41HTF7CvJ2OTyMERvfdkfKUUtUDx_UAVs/s320/scan0007.jpg" border="0" /></a> 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.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1_6NVG1WzXp3sEMO6Ard8yyZmO3Qt6MDTRplIen_yEzEqfqZBKJXSqfngUdrIM-pcaIkAxLNaWiEnvlWAFeH89IYTVA3sO33pDzzItXjEFC8s_ZEGCm9nLVJG0AWD0KgDQNlqtSwIqw/s1600-h/scan0008.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258603809688233970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1_6NVG1WzXp3sEMO6Ard8yyZmO3Qt6MDTRplIen_yEzEqfqZBKJXSqfngUdrIM-pcaIkAxLNaWiEnvlWAFeH89IYTVA3sO33pDzzItXjEFC8s_ZEGCm9nLVJG0AWD0KgDQNlqtSwIqw/s320/scan0008.jpg" border="0" /></a> 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. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258603814764194194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFXi8UaVU4CIMMUH9N3l6wJ_pETODAnBRc2kc6xLcH7jm7pEA-MWH1rTQitNdwm7VIzInMe8abBpbvB67BHCAq8srX038UAZLH8oGRGpevV2-jjGX5t3j_9NBYF8iKle91LjGy5Ek_O4E/s320/scan0009.jpg" border="0" />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!!<br /><div></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-43166660375602479942008-10-17T15:02:00.000-07:002008-10-17T15:18:39.574-07:00No More MoneyI 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!Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-18081180357657441792008-10-16T07:51:00.000-07:002008-10-16T08:26:16.680-07:00The Randall's on a mission in Nauvoo, IL<div style="VISIBILITY: visible">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. <embed style="WIDTH: 390px; HEIGHT: 300px" name="acrobat_cube" align="middle" src="http://flash.picturetrail.com/pflicks/3/spflick.swf" width="390" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" flashvars="ql=2&src1=http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL1732/11554720/flicks/1/5856102" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#000000" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"></embed> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; HEIGHT: 24px; whitespace: no-wrap"><a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/misc/counter.fcgi?link=%2FphotoFlick%2Fsamples%2Fpflicks.shtml&cID=924"><img src="http://pics.picturetrail.com/res/pflicks/pt.gif" align="left" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/misc/counter.fcgi?link=%2FphotoFlick%2Fsamples%2Fpflicks.shtml&cID=925"><img style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px" src="http://pics.picturetrail.com/static/images/pt2.gif" align="left" border="0" /></a></p></div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557984092981020237.post-72242213059277137022008-10-12T19:35:00.000-07:002008-10-13T10:52:25.903-07:00"Enjoy The Journey"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_loLeLjeVo9MeNkWJI4NiYbNZV6zYvqgUa4U6m5ixQ20BYMjmEJunf9G963gMFzlOVYn7QubVSN_v9zWKI82eZsLjsv4EliDtcfxmG8bV8PFvwvXlbjzpRIENtLPbfr7mvnDIKcB51PA/s1600-h/kodi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256462023575415490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_loLeLjeVo9MeNkWJI4NiYbNZV6zYvqgUa4U6m5ixQ20BYMjmEJunf9G963gMFzlOVYn7QubVSN_v9zWKI82eZsLjsv4EliDtcfxmG8bV8PFvwvXlbjzpRIENtLPbfr7mvnDIKcB51PA/s320/kodi.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>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!!!</div>Kodi Mortensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01430668562060481444noreply@blogger.com11