Cortnee turns 13

Well she has been looking forward to this day for quite awhile. It is finally here. We didn't do anything too exciting as far as a party or anything. But she did get a pretty great present. Hopefully she enjoys it.

2008 womens conference

We had another great year at womens conference. Mom, Ruth Ann, Judy, Noreen, Jenni, Heidi, Rachel and Lance, Kelli and Melinda were able to make it. We of course missed Lora and Jeri. We just have a silly time. But we also hear some wonderful spiritual messages. President Monson spoke at the closing session. Each year we have lunch at the MOA (museum of art) restaurant. They have different food and it is always wonderful. This year the wives of Brother Oakes, Brother Bednar and Brother Clayton were in line behind us. I'm not ever sure how to address these brethren but I think everyone knows who I mean. Oh yes these pictures of Heidi and I are with Melindas hair extensions. I always wanted to know how long hair would feel.

Ashlees wisdom teeth

Well it has been awhile once again. Here is a picture of Ashlee with a little bit of swelling after her wisdom teeth were removed. It wasn't as easy as she thought it would be. But it is done and we have a surgery date scheduled for her jaw to be fixed. July 14th. Whew hoo (i'm not sure how to spell that)

New calling

Before I end, I should let you all know that I was called and set apart as the 1st counselor in the Young Womens Presidencey!!!!!! I was the Mia Maid advisor for 4 years prior to that. Needless to say I am not real thrilled. But I will do my best to do a great job for the young women of our ward.

Ashlee

This has been a big weekend for Ashlee. She had her wisdom teeth removed on Friday. We have been talking for awhile and asked her orthodontist about it. She has a huge overbite and she wanted to know if there was something that could be done quicker than the braces which don't seem to make much difference. Well he referred us to an oral and maxilofacial surgeon. We had a consult about a month ago where we talked about what it would take the costs and whether it would be covered by insurance or not. (Me being the pessimist, glass is always half empty kind of gal that I am) was pretty certain it would not be covered and that I probably wouldn't be willing to fork over half (because of divorce we would only have to pay half) of a 10,000 to 15,000 surgery. Well the doctor submitted it to our insurance and guess what? They approved it!!!!!!! So they gave us a 90 day approval time. So that meant that we had to get her wisdom teeth out immediately because they needed 3 months to heal before doing this other surgery. Whew!!!!! So sometime in July Ashlee will be having a sagittal split mandible and mandible anterior osteotomy. They will cut the jaw and put in an expander plate and do something similar in her chin. She will have to have her jaw wired shut for at least one week!!!!! Anyway, it has been a crazy weekend (which she spent at her moms) and then she has been home since Sunday night. She has missed monday and tuesday from school but I hope she can make it back tomorrow. In fact I need to get her up and taking a shower so she can start preparing herself.

Tree doctor

I can't remember if I have commented on this before or not. But we have a maple tree in our front yard and Marc just loves this tree. Every year when we would sit out front under the wonderful shade that it provides, he would say isn't this tree just getting so big and beautiful. Well last year we noticed that it really didn't give us much shade because it didn't seem to have the leaves it normally has. So I called the tree doctor. I wasn't sure that Marc would be up to losing this tree. Well the doctor came out and said that it may be able to survive and it may not. It could either be a fungus that was treatable or not. Don't you just love doctors? Well they deep root fertilized and told us to deep root water frequently. So we tried it. So far this spring the tree does seem to be getting a lot of leaves but only time will tell. WELL........ as with everything else we try to do. Fixing one problem has just brought out another. If you look in this picture of my window out at the lawn you will notice pretty green spots, well that is where they deep root fertilized the tree.. Those spots are the most green, lush, thick spots of grass and the rest of the lawn looks like CRAP........So if the tree survives hopefully the grass will too.

And more home improvement

Well this will teach someone to comment about missing hearing what is going on in my life (Lora)

4 years ago we (mostly Dad) finished our downstairs bathroom. Well I had been planning to paint the top portion of the wall dark blue and add a shelf and put some fun beach stuff on it. Well I finally painted the wall, and I finally asked Dad to cut me a shelf (which he had completed in a couple of days) I finally painted the shelf and purchased the cutest floral arrangement with greenery and sea shells in it. ( you will probably have to wait until next months blogging spree to see the final project ) So I am hoping to have this room done before tooooooooo long.