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Hey all you people!!!

My kids school is better then your kids school!

:o)

Our school has offered tonight

to watch all kids potty trained and older!!!

They are going to...

Watch

Elf

Kung Fu Panda

They will eat

Pizza

Pop

Candy

Popcorn

And guess what??

Parents are NOT invited

AND

It is completely FREE!!

I am going SHOPPING!!!!

The last 11 yrs have been some of the best years of my life!

December 13 2008

11 yrs later......

Three amazing people changed my life, turned things upside down and made me one of the happiest people today!

A date at Hells Canyon before we were married.
When we were leaving I shut my thumb in the blazer door.
I still have the ridges of it on my fingernail and it has never been able to grow very long.
I am grateful for it though because of the memories it brings.
While dating I also got my hand caught in a tramp.
I have never seen Shan and my Mom take apart a tramp so fast. I look like such a little kid here.
20 yrs old The weekend Shan asked me to marry him.
We were on our way to Tamara's wedding in Vegas.
We stopped by his Grandma Butchers house in Fruitheights.
He picked a flower out of the garden for me.
On the flower was my ring.
He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. December 13th 1997
It was 10 degrees outside!!
I was sooooo cold and sooooo happy!! Shan's parents John and Vernean Perry My parents Gregory and Melissa Cox My family Alysha, Matt, Barry, Kayleigh, Andrea, Me, Shan
Tami, Lonni, Mom and Dad Shan's family
Michelle, Audra, Jared, John, Me, Shan
Vernean, Tondee, Paul, Adam and Alma
(missing Kali, Jeremy and lil Jer, Burke, Maria, Daniel and Christina) One of our three wedding receptions.
We had one in Cambridge, Boise and Idaho Falls
So......
11 yrs
Immediate family of four within seconds
2 bedroom apartment in the one way streets of Idaho falls
Addition of a beautiful baby girl in 2000
An unexpected surprise of a new bundle of joy
causing a move to a bigger house in Jan 2001
9.9lb surprise arrived
Another 9.9lb addition in 2003
A cat named Pico
A Gold Fish named Bubbles
Tons of books on tape and long drives and lots of gas money
Caused another move in 2005 while being 8 months prego
A hubby in Boise for work
New addition of a sweet baby girl in our new home
Two years later we moved into our dream home
But we leaped before looking in our wallets
So another move
an awesome puppy named Ozzy
and Today we are finally in a home of our OWN!!

It has been an incredible ride!!
I can't wait to see what the next years will bring.
Happy Anniversary to US!!!!
I Love you Shan!!

AIDs Benefit

I had the wonderful oppurtunity to be a part of the Breaking Boundaries fund raiser for AIDs.

I love finding ways to serve my community and the world in my own small way.

The feeling and the energy at this benefit was AMAZING!!

We had people of all walks of life there and all of them came together for one purpose!

I am awed by the people who work so hard and give so much of their time to better and help the lives of others.

I hope that I can someday do more.

Tis the season to serve and help others!! Let us all find a cause to support, fight for, donate and serve!

Blair is one of my very good friends! I didn't know until the benefit and the music started that he has taught ballroom as well as all kinds of dancing. We danced and at the end he told me I was a wonderful dancer to which I responded anyone can dance if they have a good leader. He made me took GOOD!! :o)

Cute Things

Alissa was getting a waffle out of the fridge,

as she took it out part of it was under something.

So as she took it out it would break.

She finally got out the whole waffle from the sack in the fridge.

She then one by one took each one of the pieces you see here and cooked them in the microwave one at a time.

Xavey says to me "Mom how does that song go?"

"Which song Xavey?"

"I think it goes Silent night, hold me tight"

To which I responded

"That is exactly right Xavey"

Thanksgiving 2008

Happy Thanksgiving 2008!!

Here is what we did today!!

Cheers and Toasts to everything we are thankful for while in our comfy PJs!!
Joking around in the Hot Tub!

We have some amazing little people!! Poor Lissa is getting tired.

All dressed up to go eat at Chuckrama! Hooray no cooking, no dishes and no clean up!!

What we are Thankful for in 2008....

A home that is finally ours!

Each other

Fantastic Friends

Pie

Painted toes

Stealing kisses

Good Mornings

Apples to Apples

Pinochle

Brownies

Gas being at 1.65

And all of you out there!

We also had a dance party that was too much

fun! I laughed and laughed. You have to watch

these kiddos move!! The other video is us doing

our Thanksgiving toasts.

HOPE ALL OF YOU HAD A WONDERFUL DAY!!

WE ARE SOOO THANKFUL FOR YOU AND WE

LOVE YOU!!!!

The Cremation of Sam McGee

Poem: The Cremation of Sam McGee
by Robert W. Service

And Read by my Dad around this time of year! He does the best reading of this poem and if you haven't heard it from his lips then you are missing out!!! I have seen tears of laughter run down his face many of time with this one!

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.Why he left his home in the South to roam ‘round the Pole, God only knows.He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;Though he’d often say in his homely way that “he’d sooner live in hell.”

On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.Talk of your cold! through the parka’s fold it stabbed like a driven nail.If our eyes we’d close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn’t see;It wasn’t much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.

And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,And the dogs were fed, and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel and toe,He turned to me, and “Cap,” says he, “I’ll cash in this trip, I guess;And if I do, I’m asking that you won’t refuse my last request.”

Well, he seemed so low that I couldn’t say no; then he says with a sort of moan:“It’s the cursed cold, and it’s got right hold till I’m chilled clean through to the bone.Yet ‘taint being dead—it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains.”

A pal’s last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee;And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee.

There wasn’t a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,With a corpse half hid that I couldn’t get rid, because of a promise given;It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: “You may tax your brawn and brains,But you promised true, and it’s up to you to cremate those last remains.”
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load.In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring,Howled out their woes to the homeless snows—O God! how I loathed the thing.
And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low;The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in;And I’d often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the “Alice May.”And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;Then “Here,” said I, with a sudden cry, “is my cre-ma-tor-eum.”

Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;The flames just soared and the furnace roared—such a blaze you seldom see;
Then I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.

Then I made a hike, for I didn’t like to hear him sizzle so;And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow.It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don’t know why;And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.
I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear;But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: “I’ll just take a peep inside.I guess he’s cooked, and it’s time I looked;” . . . then the door I opened wide.

And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: “Please close that door.It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm— Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm.”

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake LebargeI cremated Sam McGee.

Go My Son

Hey Andrea and Sibs! I don't know if all of you remember this or not but Andrea and I were talking about this the other day. Do you remember all the records we listened to as kids?? Andrea and I were singing the Indian one and I found it!! I can't figure out how to post it here but here is the link. The song starts at 1:50 so you can fast forward it to there. I LOVE that we have so many childhood memories that involve music. There isn't a week that goes by that a song doesn't jar a lost memory. Thank you also Andrea for finding the oldies country that plays on Sunday nights. I again forgot about it yesterday but when I do remember I enjoy it soooooo much!!! Also Andrea (sorry I guess childhood memories only involve you today **wink**) Look at my playlist!!! HA!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJVQSu2kFY

Frustrated!!! URG!!!

I am writing in red today to show my frustration!! I don't understand how come some sites make it sooo hard for us people who are not computer savey. I want a fun template and I have found some. I see that you need to go to your html and paste it but no it doesn't work. So I try another and another. So my blog is still the same ol same ol. I have also spent a good half hour trying to figure out how to get music to play. Can someone help me please??????? Pretty pleeeeaaasssee?? With a cherry on top and sprinkles and whip cream and chocolate fudge sauce??

Elf your kids

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Country Elf Kids

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Disco Elf Kids

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Playdough!!

Dax has been asking and asking to make playdough. I don't usually buy a lot of salt so that has been the problem. So finally today we had the salt and made the playdough!!

1 C cold water

1/2 c salt

2t cream of tarter

2T oil

Food coloring (your choice)

1 C flour

Mix in blender, add one item at a time (it will get very thick after flour is added) It may seem a little too runny to you but believe me it will work out just fine! :o)Cook in frying pan until thick and globby. I used a medium high heat. It doesn't take long and you will know when to get it out of the heat. Knead. ENJOY!!

FYI

There may be a mess to clean up.

Who am I kidding there WILL be a mess to clean up so enjoy the giggles.

FYI part two

I did double the receipe and I should have tripled it.

Wow! She can roll her tounge I wonder if she knows she can do that??

Kids take over the camera but this is a good picture because it shows what happens in my world every day. I am a Taxi driver and I am ALWAYS on call.

Here is a clip that Dax took of Lissa. It is short and sweet but I liked it!!

Tantric, Saliva, Jet Black Stare and Drowning Pool Concert

As I told my family I don't post much because things are happening in our lives ALL the time and I don't have time enough to blog and keep up with it. So I am trying harder but this means that I might be blogging pretty much everyday!! If I don't I will fall far far behind again hence the plethora of blogs in the last few days.

Shan, Devin, Dalton and I went to the Saliva, Jet Black Stare, Drowning Pool and Tantric concert last night in Blackfoot. We had a blast and I saw lots of old friends. Shan had the camera so I am sorry to say that there are no pictures of him and Devin and Dalton ran away from us as soon as we got there so they wouldn't be standing by parents lol So you will have to just see pics of me. I did have some of the stage when they were performing but blogspot decided not to let me download anymore. Does this happen to anyone else??

Lead singer of Tantric
Lead guitarist of Jet Black Stare Getting my Jet Black Stare tank signedNever too old to ROCK!!

Hey all of you out there!! My personal trainer gave me a doozey of a week! Does anybody want to do it with me???

Tuesday - Weights and Pilate's with Personal Trainer.

Run 8 Miles on your own

(I actually really loved the 8 miles it was a beautiful Sunny November 18th day in Idaho Falls Idaho which is very rare. The green belt was beautiful)
Wednesday - Swim laps for 45 minutes and do Ab work

Thursday - Weights and Pilate's with Personal trainer

Run 7 miles



Friday - Spinning class and Yoga tape

Saturday - Run 7 miles change the incline every 1 min

Sunday - 45 minutes on the elliptical

Yoga Tape

Monday - Stair climb for 40 minutes on fat burning mode at level 10

Let me know who if any want to try to do it with me!!!

Vote

We didn't really talk much politics with our kids because they are a little too young for too much. So I was amazed with how interested they were and how excited they were. Belle and Xave came home from school talking about the election and wanting to make sure we voted. Belle and Xave both really liked Obama and talked about how he is awesome and plays basketball. I said what about McCain and Xavey says you mean that old dude? lol So after their discussion after school Dax came up to me and said what is in the above video. Too cute!!!

I also have to say that I am so thankful that I can vote! I read through stories of woman who couldn't vote for a long time and when they pressed the issue they were beaten, put in jail and some killed. I am so thankful for these woman for fighting for me and I will not take my ability to vote for granted.

Sibling pics 2008

We have a tradition around Thanksgiving time to take new pictures of us "kids" We have a great time doing these and laugh and laugh all the way through them.

Matt hanging from the top, Alysha, Karissa, Andrea and Tamara Climbing trees!! Throwing leaves on Mom except for Andrea lol Aww... Mom and her baby boy