Ashlee Christmas in October

Well no need to retell the whole story so see Cortnee for a full explanation of why Christmas was in October at our house. Oh yes and I should say that in addition to paint, new bedspreads we also redid their floors with laminate. With 16 years of living their floors were more than disgusting. But they look beautiful now.

I also should add that I like Ashlees room now but I really liked her room before. This new change is a little grown up for a sixteen year old. But she likes it I think. I should also add this is Ashlees third major change in 9 years and so she has been told this will be the last bedroom makeover that we will pay for. The picture of her room didn't turn out that nice. It actually looks much better in person.

Cortnee Christmas in October

Well this is going to be a different kind of Christmas. Cortnee decided that she wanted to redo her room. So I told her it could be her Christmas. That is not real exciting but bedroom redecorating is way too expensive when you are on a budget. So she picked her colors. We had a lady in our ward help us with ideas. Cortnee had come up with most of it on her own. Liz just help us fine tune. She also painted for us. Mom, Dad and Heidi all did the quilt. They did a wonderful job. I said I want circles all over and other than that they didn't get much help from me. They did such an excellent job. I love it. (so sorry I don't know how to do links or I would plug your family quilts web site) This is the first major redo of Cortnee's room in 9 years. And I am so very pleased with the outcome. Best of all I think she really likes it as well. I guess I should finish with why it was in October. When both she and her sister decided to redo their rooms for Christmas we said great that will be Christmas. Well Marc and I decided to go to Mexico with mom and dad so the girls will be staying with their mom. I decided that I didn't want to spend the whole month of December painting, etc. So needless to say October is when the rooms were done.

Disclaimer

I just have to remind you all that when I started this I knew I wasn't going to be very faithful. So......
However, I just learned today from Lora that I get moved to the top of her blogger friends by updating. So I am going to try to be better. I hated being clear down at the bottom.
I have been working a part time job at Mervyns since last Christmas. I worked the Christmas season and then worked mostly one night a week through most of the year. Well they announced in August that they were going out of business. So I decided that I better pick up as many hours as I could before they were gone. It turns out that the extra money was nice.
Anyway, this monday will be my last day there. I have kind of enjoyed it. Not the last month or so. Too many nights and weekends away from home. But the rest of the time not too bad.

Flowers

I Iwanted to post pictures of the flower pots that we did in the front yard this year. There is a nursery near our house and if you take your pots into them in February they will pot them and give them a lot of TLC until May when you get to take them home. I have been wanting to do it for several years and so this year broke down and did it. This is what they look like today. I wasn't sure I would be able to keep them alive this long but thanks to our new sprinkler zone just in the flower beds we have them being watered three times a day for a few minutes. seems to be the ticket. I did have the pots on the stairs and the sidewalk and just the two big ones in the flower beds but it was just too hot. So I wanted to share how pretty they are. Plus Shilo ( never can tell you enough about how cute she is.) she loves to lay in the front yard. Not on the chain. If she has to be on the chain she would rather be in the house. Silly dog. But I love her.

Cortnee has another new haircut

Cortnee's last haircut was soooooo cute but apparently she hated it. So now she has a new one. I'm thinking she just didn't like the attention of people telling her how cute she was all of the time.

She was at Oak Crest all last week. She had a great time. She cried when she had to come home. Oak Crest is a Church camp up by Kamas. You have to have finished 7th grade and 8th grade to go. She met some fun new people and had a great time. We missed her and are glad she is home but very happy that she had fun.

vacation 2008

This year we had planned on purchasing into the worldmark timeshare program. So last year when we were in Washington we purchased a one week vacation that allowed us to be locked into the same rates as last year if there was a change in the price. I know all of the sales pitch. So we planned on going to St George during spring break. Since mom and dad's 50th anniversary is coming up and we may go somewhere extravagant we didn't plan to do too much this year. Marc's neice Tanya passed away during that time and so we were here with family. Anyway, we ended up changing our vacation plans to Midway over the 4th of July. Marc and I went up on Tuesday night, Ashlee and Cortnee were at their moms, then we both worked on Wednesday. Wednesday night I picked up Ashlee and Cortnee and they each took a friend with them. Ashlee invited Cami and Cortnee invited Morgan. We then picked Marc up from work ( well at least eventually we picked Marc up from work.) Always long drawn out stories but we ended up getting to Midway around 8:00 p.m. I think. The next day we went to Park City and spent the day at the Park City Resort. I think that is what it is called. It is at the base of the ski runs by the ski lift. The Alpine slide is there and they also have a zip line and a roller coaster to name the big draws. But there is also a small miniture golf course, a human maze, a carousel, a trampoline that you gets strapped into so you can do back flips and such. Anyway, quite the fun place. We were there from about 11:30 until 9:00. In case anyone is wondering it is very pricey but since we were on vacation and not doing a whole lot this was our splurge. In case anyone is wondering the alpine slide and the zip line are not really worth it but the alpine coaster, now that was FUN!!!!with a capital F, if anyone remembers our BORING with a capital B trip to Mesa Verde a couple of years ago. On Friday we took the girls over to the Homestead and they went swimming and snorkeling in the crater. The pictures aren't great but they are what we have. Midway did a pretty good fireworks show for the 4th and we went home on Saturday. And that is our 2008 vacation.

Ashlee surgery

Day after surgery - July 15th
















July 16th - friends came to visit
she doesn't feel well enough to even visit with them.








Sunday July 20th. She was staying at her moms and Marc and I went to see how she was doing. Finally she looked like she had a little life in her eyes. Not in this picture necessarily but she even kind of smiled.






July 27th at her best friends babtism. She still can't close her lips but looking quite normal.












This is today. August 10th.
She is going to be unwired on Wednesday 4 weeks and two days after the surgery. Originally the doctor had told us that she would be wired shut for one week. But after surgery he said she would probably be wired shut for 4 weeks just because her bones weren't that healed from her wisdom teeth surgery 3 months ago. She has been miserable and a pretty good little trooper but better to be safe than sorry.


On July 14th Ashlee had her surgery. It has some extremely long name but basically they extended and tipped her bottom jaw and extended her chin about 1/4 of inch. She was actually not in a lot of pain right from the start. Pretty much just nauseous for a week!!!