I'm trying to read here!

I've been working on reading the 10th book of the Tennis Shoe series. I've been working on it since last year. I am almost done with it. I have 3 or 4 chapters to go. I really love to read. When I was in High School I hated to read, but I think that is because the teacher made you read the most horrible books sometimes. Like the heart of darkness and the Red badge of courage. Those books were so boring. I would name many many more, but It's been like 7 years since I've been in school. Wow, it's already been seven years. I'm that old! Anyway, Yesterday I tried reading it to Shelby just so I could read the book. She listened for a while and then pushed the book away. She doesn't like me to do anything I enjoy doing. I sit down at the computer she starts crying, I sit down to read a book she starts crying, I give Jeremy a hug she starts crying, I hold and pet our kitten Billie she starts crying. It goes on and on. I really hope she grows out of this soon. We got her to sleep in her bed almost all through the night. She got up and climbed into bed with me when Jeremy got up to go to work. Shelby is defiantly making sure we don't get very much sleep. Ok, I was actually talking about reading at the beginning of this blog. I am hoping I can finish the book by today or tomorrow.

I am looking forward to reading the Passage to Zarahemla. I would like to get it read so I can go watch the movie when it comes to Boise (if it comes to Boise). Also my mom was taking about the book Chocolat. She said it was really good, so she is picking me up a copy at the library. So I will have a lot of reading to do. I really look forward to starting a new book. Weather it's Passage to Zarahemla or Chocolat. I just want to finish the Tennis shoe book. So I think I will stop writing and get to reading. If my girls will let me.

I really want to start reading this book too. I heard it is really good. I have to buy it first or see if the Library has it. I better read those other books first though. I want to see how many books I can read this year. Hopefully more then one.

Weekend in Idaho Falls

Jeremy had a four day weekend last week so we decided to go to Idaho Falls. We had a lot of fun. We went over to Nels and Rachel's house on Friday when we finally got to Idaho Falls. We ended up watching two movies there. I think we finally left their house sometime after 1 am. We stayed the night at Melyni and Alma's house. I want to thank them for letting us stay there with our crazy kids that think they need to break everything. I felt bad, their house is so nice and my kids are so destructive. My girls did pretty good picking toys up when we told them to.

Anyway, we went to the Rexburg Temple on Saturday. It is such a beautiful Temple. It is really big. Shelby of course had to be loud in the Temple. The only room that she was quit in was the celestial room. Jeremy thought that was pretty amazing. That room was so Beautiful. The whole Temple is beautiful. It was really nice to go in and see the Rexburg Temple. When you drive into Rexburg the Temple looks so amazing up on the hill.After the Temple we decided to go to Big Judd's. That's were they serve the huge 1 pound burgers. Jeremy didn't finish his and Melyni and Alma shared one and didn't finish it. I was a wussy and got a small bacon cheese burger. The place was packed when we got there. It wasn't even lunch or dinner time. It took us about 30 minutes to get a seat. The food was good though. After that we went back to Melyni and Alma's house for a little while and played a card game. I don't remember what the game was called. I know it starts with an L. Melyni need to go to the mall so we went and did that afterwords. I wanted to find a book at dessert book so we went there after the mall. I found the book I wanted. It is called Passage to Zarahemla by Chris Heimerdinger. I am looking forward to reading it. He made it into a movie and it came out in theaters in Idaho Falls I think on Friday. I have to read the book before I watch it. After that we went back to Melyni and Alma's to play more games and to watch a movie.

On Sunday we just hung out at Melyni and Alma's house. Alma took Tyra outside to play in the snow. They have a ton of snow in Idaho Falls. Tyra had a lot of fun. She didn't have very good gloves on so her hands got cold real fast. We watched football to see who is going to play in the Super Bowl. Alma wasn't very happy that Green Bay lost, but I was. I think the Giants are having a really good lucky streak. So maybe they can beat the Patriots. Anyway, we played some more games. We played Apples to Apples. When we got tired of that we just picked up a card and tried to get each other to guess what was on our cards. That was pretty fun.

On Monday we went out to eat lunch with Melyni and Alma. Jeremy, Alma, me and the girls went to Nels' studio to see him. It is a really nice place to work. The inside of his building is really neat. We talked to Nels for a while after he showed us where he works. After that we went to the Army Surplus Wear house. Jeremy's been dieing to go there again. All he bought were coveralls though. We went back to Melyni and Alma's for a little while. Jeremy and Alma got to playing a Nintendo game. We finally left Idaho Falls around 6 pm. It was a lot of fun hanging out in Idaho Falls. I was really cold though. Well that was our trip. We are hoping to be able to do it again sometime soon. Now we are at home and have a ton of stuff to catch up on.

Finally some pictures

Shelby with her piggie tails. They are so cute.


Shelby having a bad hair day.
Look at that wild and crazy hair.

Piggie Tails

I was able to get piggie tails in Shelby's hair. They were so cute. She left them in for most of the day. That surprised me. Tyra would have pulled them out at that age, but Tyra didn't have that much hair. I doubt Shelby will let me do it again. I took some pictures for everyone to see. Other then that everything is going good here. We are all finally feeling better. Tyra gets to go back to school tomorrow. She is pretty excited about that. She went to church yesterday with her Grandma. It was her first day in Sunbeams. I guess the teacher said she did really good. She was happy to have someone in her class that could talk. So Tyra is excited to go back to church next Sunday. Jeremy had to work at Mates on Sunday, so I just stayed home with Shelby since we didn't have a car. Shelby slept in late and when she woke up she had some crazy hair. I also took pictures of that. I would put more pictures of Tyra in here, but she recently doesn't want her picture taken. She will pose for a second and then run off. So if you don't get her picture taken in that second then you are out of luck.

I do have a funny story about Tyra though. It's funny but at the same time it isn't funny. The other night Jeremy and I were watching a movie. Well we heard a lot of commotion coming from Tyra's room. I just thought she was dumping out her toys again. Then I heard her in the bathroom. So Jeremy got up to check on her. Of course he called me to the bathroom. Tyra had flooded our toilet. It went through our walls and into the laundry room. What makes this story funny is while we were watching the movie Tyra decided to throw all the blankets and pillows on top of the water to stop it. When that didn't work she started to throw her toys on it. She didn't want to tell us she made a mess. She wanted to clean it up herself. So we did laundry all day long the next day. A lot of water went into our vents so our house kind of smells right now like a wet dog. Hopefully Jeremy can get in and clean them out. She flooded the toilet again last night, but we caught her before she started throwing stuff on it. Hopefully it isn't a regular thing. Well I better stop writing. It's way too much.

My computer is being really slow so I will have to put the pictures on later.

Down with the Sickness.

This week has been a hard week. We are all trying to get over a cough and stuffy noses. I was out since Thursday with a sinus infection. I finally got to go to the hospital on Sunday night. I couldn't take the pain anymore. They gave me some pain medication and a prescription for some other stuff that I had to wait till Monday to pick up. At least the pain medication worked and took the pain away. I picked up my prescription on Monday and on Tuesday I was feeling a little better. I seen how messy my house was. So I did a little bit of work, like laundry, dishes, I cleaned the kitchen and I cleaned the bathroom. Now today I have a huge headache. I can't get it to go away. I really can't wait till we are all done being sick. Shelby has been crawling into bed with me in the middle of the night. We are having a hard time getting her to go to sleep at night, so she has been pretty frustrating. other then that she is doing good. She has another tooth in. Tyra went to the dentist on Monday and had to get a crown put on her tooth. She did like the feeling when her jaw started to un numb. She says her tooth is now pretty. We get to take her to the dentist next Monday to get a tooth filled. Man, the dentist really breaks your bank. It is important that she has health teeth though. Well that's what's been going on.

Chirstmas Pictures

Shelby talking on her new kitchen phone.
Shelby playing with her new kitchen
Shelby already likes to vacuum.

Tyra and her cousin Hazel watching Peter Pan.
Shelby helping her daddy.

Tyra

Everyone at My house getting ready to play Mario Carts.

Poland Update.

Sorry it's been a while since I written last. We had a really nice Christmas. We spent it with my family. My parent, my brother's family and my sister and her husband. The girls were excited about their presents and everybody's presents. They got a kitchen set and they play with it everyday. Which is good, because it took Jeremy a long time to put it together. Well, Melyni and Alma stayed for over a week. We had a lot of fun hanging out with them. We had fun staying up till 5 am in the morning playing Mario Carts. We weren't very exciting though. Jeremy had to work still. We had a nice New Years. We didn't do much New Years Eve. We hung out with Melyni and Alma. I think by New Years came we were all worn out. We had a nice lunch with mom and dad on New Years. Melyni and Alma went home. We stayed and watch college football games. We are all sick now. So this week hasn't been very fun with the lack of sleep from coughing and runny noses.



Well, my kids are getting hungry so I better get dinner made. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. We sure did.