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!!!

Haircuts

Ashlee and Cortnee got new haircuts. They always tell me they want to grow their hair out long but then they get antsy to change. So this is what they ended up with. I love both of them. Cortnee went in planning to get a trim. But what she ended up with looks so cute on her. I'm glad she did it. Oh yes, I took the picture of the two of them in our messy kitchen and then Cortnee in the living room and then my camera died......so no individual picture of Ashlee.

Ashlee and the BABY!!!!!!

When Ashlee first heard about the class where you get to take a baby home she thought it was so cool. I think the closer she got to actually taking a baby home she was a little more nervous. She named her baby Aidan. It has a monitor in it and the mother (Ashlee) wears a monitor on her wrist. This tells the baby that the mother is near. Periodically the baby will cry and need either a diaper change, a bottle or just to be cuddled and the mom has to figure out what it needs. Ashlees baby cried a lot at night. The first night she put the baby to bed and then tried to go to the bathroom. Every time she would get to the bathroom the baby would fuss. After a couple of times she was heard muttering "stupid baby". Marc and I just laid in bed and tried not to laugh. I expected the baby to cry in the night and Ashlee to sleep through it. But surprisingly she jumped right up. By Sunday night she was sitting in her bedroom crying and rather embarrassed to have been caught. But all in all it was a good experience for her.

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.