Technology Trolls

My world, I have decided, has been invaded by evil technology trolls. Let me explain.

1. My camera broke : (

2. My default camera re-broke. To take a picture you had to tape the battery shut, and then you had to use a pin to snap the picture cause the picture button fell off.

And NOW...the picture screen broke. Grrrrr. So that camera is officially kaputt.

3. So I borrowed my dad's camera, and that worked okay until it ran out of film. Guess that can be solved, but I needed to add it to my list for effect.

4. Don lost his cell phone at his parent's house. 6 of us spent two hours looking for it. We finally found it the next morning in the car. Yes, we had all looked there too. See I told you, Trolls.

5. I lost my cell phone as soon as Don found his. I cleaned my entire house looking for it yesterday, and it never showed up. And let me tell you something, Chloe DID NOT help. So I officially have given up finding it, and have decided to keep my sanity instead.

This is Chloe's idea of helping. It usually involves taking things out of the trash. By the way, these pictures were taking with my default camera before it defaulted.

Well I will try to be positive now. And tell you about the latest happenings.

My brother had a birthday. This is not my brother. This is my dad. And he would kill me if he knew I put this picture here. But I had to. We went out to eat to some Roadhouse restaurant, not the Texas kind, another kind, I just can't remember.

Then we went and saw "Wall-E." This

was our first (and last) attempt at taking Chloe to a movie. At the very end she finally fell asleep.

Chloe at a museum. I took her to this kids museum and 5 minutes before we got there another kid had an "accident" and they closed the baby section down. Convenient. If I could figure out how to add that to my technology troll list, I would.

And me. In my dad's van. He only drives it for very special occasions. Like my brothers birthday.

My dad also had a birthday July 2nd, and then there was the 4th of July. No pictures.

We went to ST. David, AZ to the in laws for the 4th. It was wonderful. I was actually a little chilled during the fireworks. I have decided Phoenix is just too hot for the 4th of July. I vote that we celebrate the 4th of July in March.

That's all folks!

P.S. If you find my phone, let me know!

Ants, Sunburns, Fevers, and Roseola

I can't think of anything exciting to say, so I won't. But I'll tell you a lot of boring, mom stuff.

First off we have ants. I hate ants. It is times like this, that I have to ask myself, "Am I a gross person?" I say no. But then I remember the time we had maggots....That was caused by rotting cheese in the trash can by the way. Probably shouldn't have shared that.

So Don bought these little ant traps you stick places, and the ants supposedly come in, eat some delicious, poisonous food, and then take it back to kill their colony...and da da da...THE QUEEN!!!!! Ya, what a joke. Those ants are smart little suckers. They just walk right on by. I acutally heard one say, "dumb humans!"

And then there is Chloe.

So last friday she had a fever.

Saturday. She had a fever.

We decide to take her into the pool to cool her off. We neglect to put any sunscreen on her.

Then she has a fever, and a sunburn, therefore an even higher fever.

Sunday I think she is feeling better, until she throws up all over me at church.

And then...yes, she still has a fever.

Monday I take her in to the doctor, he spends 30 seconds in there and says, "She has an ear infection." We get her started on some bacteria killer. (maybe this works on ants too?)

Tuesday-I take her to a water play area to distract her from her ear, and hoping to avoid the whole sunburn fiasco again, I slather her in sunblock.

She breaks out in a rash. Must be allergic to sunblock.

Wednesday. Rash is spreading to places I did not put sunblock. Hmm. Sherlock says, maybe it wasn't the sunblock, maybe it was the medicine.

Back to the doctor.

Doctor says: Not an allergic reaction to the medicine or sunblock, just a coincidence she broke out in a rash same time you started her on meds, and sunblock. She actually has Roseolla.

"Roseolla?" I say. That sounds delcious, does it come with cheese?

Actually, it is a virus, known to cause rashes, fevers and ear aches.

Mystery Solved!

I hope.

P.S. Question. So I took Chloe to this awesome water play area with all these refreshing water features, and what does she want to do? Play on the hot stairs and chase pigeons. Why?

Feeling Hot Hot Hot

Just a little image to summarize the weather here. It is very pleasant.


So Don got back from camp almost a week ago. Thank heavens! It felt like he was gone a month.

Don made the newspaper. Check out this link.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/118116

He's basically famous.

The secret is out.

Well if these pictures don't prove it, there's nothing else I can do to convince you. The secret is out, my family is weird. No offense family, we gotta be honest with ourselves.

My dad threw a graduation party for my lil sis Chelsey. It was actually pretty fun. My dad likes to have a talent show/entertainment portion, hence the picture above. That is his harp playing clown act. BTW, he has gotten pretty good at the harp.
I couldn't think of an act. ; ) Hey Leisa-recognize the outfit?
Chelsey performed some "wiggles" numbers on her karaoke machine. I thought the sports bra and her prom dress was a nice touch.
Okay, Okay, I couldn't help myself. I sang some karaoke too...after most of the guests had left. My ultimate goal? To sing in a Karaoke Lounge on a cruise ship.
Chloe would have sung a song too. If not for a couple slight problems. 1. She can't talk. 2. She doesn't know any Broadway show tunes. Maybe next year Chloe, maybe next year.

P.S. Don went to Scout Camp for a week which I am really not all that thrilled about.
It has only been a few hours and I already feel lonely.
Send me some comments so I don't feel lonely.

Just a nice little guilt trip for you all. J/K Have a nice day.

It has been awhile... Since my last blog, Chloe turned 1...May 18th.

I was going for the worst mother of the year award when I completely forgot it was her birthday until 10:00 PM the night before. I ended up at Wal Mart at midnight wandering around, looking for something a 1 year old might like. I got bubbles. And a necklace. And a microwaveable cake. And the guilt was free.
I had an excuse though-we were headed to California that day for a holiday! We went with Don's parents and brother. We had a terrific time. Although sunny California was not so sunny, it was cloudy and cold!
Chloe eating her birthday cake...not on her birthday. Shhh...no one ever has to tell her.
Chloe's first trip to the beach. Judging from her coloring she will be a beach goer in the fashion of her mom- poor girl-
That is, hat, sunscreen, clothes, and sunglasses.
We rushed back from CA to attend my little sisters long awaited graduation...we even missed going to Disneyland so we could make it.

Now-try to find the unusual aspect of these pictures. Give up? We are wearing jackets! AZ had a freak storm blow in and we ended up with winter weather. Usually this time of the year we are sweating to death! avg. temperature is in the 90's during the day. Day of her graduation, it was in the high 50's. It was truly bizarre!

Anyway, because of the crazy weather they had to move the graduation inside and they were limited with seats...so I did not get to go. Yes that is right. So I was kind of bummed I missed Disneyland and the graduation. But on the upside, it has been fabulously cool outside.

The End.

Wow what a week!

Well this week has been eventful. First and foremost Don graduated!!!! His parents came down for the occasion.
Notice we had to bring along Chloe because the night before she was throwing up...all night. The first time I found her was in her crib, her head nestled in her own vomit. It was nasty. Ever since then we have been switching from cleaning throw up and well, stuff from the other end. I am hoping today is a new day and no more of either!
Thankfully it has been around Mother's Day so Don has been doing all the laundry.

Things I will miss about Don's graduate program-the socials and food! They had a luncheon for all of the graduates and family members.
I didn't mean to download this picture, but I can't figure out how to delete it now.
Oh! Don got a mojor award! A leg lamp! Actually he got the award for "Entrepreneurial Energy." Way to go Don! We got a cruise as a prize...not really, but he did get a really nice Plaque. (not the kind on your teeth)
Did you know AZ is by the ocean?
Don looking all collegiete.

And lastly, Mother's Day was very nice. We stuffed ourselves at Village Inn on Saturday (boy was that place crowded) I recommend the crepes. And then he was basically my maid for the whole weekend. He was very nice to me. He even changed Chloe's diapers without me having to ask. I spoke in church yesteday...bluh...which ruined my appetite for a couple days, so the pancakes he made for me sunday were not as delicious as they could have been. We played "Blurb" on Sunday night and Don won. It is like a shorter game of Scrabble. Anyway Don tried to win making up words like "wut" (he said this is how Utahns pronounce "what", no offense to Utahers, you know it is true) and some other really funny ones I wish I could remember.
Well remember how I said I hoped that I would not be cleaning up Chloe "messes" today...looks like I just started. Oh boy. How long do these things last????

Family Pictures and a Prom

I have been trying for months to get some family pictures taken. Finally my wish was answered. Our friend did these and I think she did a great job.

I love her face in this one. And Don's too. : )

And on another note, my little sister went to Prom. Most everyone knows my Chelsey stories.

She has been looking forward to this "high society" event for weeks now. Everything she says has been "high society" this and "high society" that. She said it was her FIRST "high society event." I asked, "What about my wedding?" She replied, "That was not high society."

A couple other humorous Chelsey comments:

My family went out to eat a few days before Prom and Chelsey said that high society people only talk to other high society people, so she wouldn't be talking to us for the rest of the night..by the way, she caved, she talked to us.

I got her ready for Prom and afterwards she said "Getting beautiful is sometimes slightly unenjoyable." Yes, yes it is.

She had a fantastic time at the Prom by the way, and I think she cleaned up very well!

P.S. Don graduated in two days! Yeah!