25th Wedding Anniversary!!!

My parents have been married for 25 years on September 30th! I planned a surprise party for them and as most of you know we had to blow the surprise the morning before to my step-dad. But we pulled it off and my mom had a good time!


Apparently My mother in law was having tons of fun! (yes, alcohol induced!)

Unlike my brother who was in agony and could barely walk.


Here is what 25 years looks like!

Camryn's Neurosurgeon Appointment

So I took some pictures of some of the things I love about her clinic!
The view off the elevators.

The front desk is a ship

The lights in the hallway that I would love to put in our rec room!


The computer is in every children's clinic for parents to use to learn about diagnosis on the spot, so they can calm their fears ( or increase) with knowledge.


Camryn doesn't like to wait much, and it starts to show, she starts to seek the doctor out, I wonder where she gets that from?


So she starts to seek out things to keep her busy, like any good four year old!

Now I don't know about you, but this soooo looks like a guilty face to me!! Can you guess what she did? I will give you a hint, she can't smile showing her teeth!!!


you guessed it, Mary Janes!!! That candy theif! She gets this from me :)


This card was too cute not to photograph. It is the perfect card to give a boy who has gotten braces. Inside it says, your're almost there you handsome prince!


Signs in the parking lot that fall is here and winter is closer than I would like to admit!


Camryn loves keeping herself busy with reading books, doing puzzles, and just plain old going nuts in a 12x12 exam room. Here was the only picture where she was actually still waiting for her Doctor.

Quarter End

Those words used to mean frustration when I was younger, it meant my mother was never around, and when she was, she was tired or had a migraine. As I got older, went to college and studied Finance, I could see my classmates getting more tense and more stressed as the days got closer to quarter end. Then there were the famous words that you could tell it was over "Happy Hour!"

So as I drive to work every morning through rain, sleet, or snow... I see less and less of the daytime and I need to enjoy the little things...

Like the leaves already changing...


(Do you know how many looks I got trying to take these pictures???)



This is the worst light ever!!


I work off one of the main interstates in the twin cities and 100 feet from it is a light. The biggest reason for bottleneck.


There is one thing I love about this intersection, driving by knowing that Dan has been at work for hours by the time I get through here.


This is my work exit.


This sign was newly replaced, and there is something about it that I just love, like it's my mascot. I guess it's because it's on our workstations that we send out and it's what I see at every children's hospital we go to for a CT, LOL


This is my favorite place to park, right by this tree, it's pretty from April-November and I don't know what draws me to it!


Now as much time as I have been at my job, doing my work, I have realized that I have come to love Quarter end. The rush, the thrill of being slammed constantly, and most of all the food! Even if it does put me in a coma. It's like one big team trying to get something done for the good of the company and I love being a part of it! I am not sure if this will ever change, but I hope it never ends. I need to remember frequently that I work for a great company and in this economy there are those out there without a job, let alone one they don't love. I guess, this is me counting my blessings... :)

And then they had to go peeeeeeeeeeeeee

So after a long day of walking, drinking, eating, whatever, the kids had to go potty... Mikayla didn't find the right one the first time!!



The second time she did...



But only after her sister pointed out that she must be a boy...



What a giggle that was!!

A day of fun at Emma Krumbee's Apple Orchard

We wanted to do something fun and untraditional for the kids this fall, and by doing something that families traditionally do, we achieved that!

Emma Krumbee's is a farm (conglomerate) that has apple orchards,strawberry fields, and a scarecrow festival that people out here love. We have never gone. For several reasons, kids too young, Davin's allergies to bug bites, Camryn's shunt stuff, her broken leg. Well this summer has been a turning of events for us, so we thought we would give it a try. The kids first played on the Tractor they have on display. They had a blast climbing and playing hide and seek!

Cam looks worried, doesn't she? (blinded by the sun!)


Elli playing Hide and Seek! (In the engine, sounds safe!)


Davin was Mr. Canttakemyphoto (and a real party pooper for the first hour)


Mikayla was trying to pose as much as possible (How did I get a ham? No! Seriously!?!?!?!)


At least the girls were willing to pose with the pumpkins... (read post on MR. Canttakemyphoto and funny stinker face poses)



All in all it was a good time, we even got some great shots of the kids picking apples (when we finally go there, note to self, don't bring more than one person with ADHD at a time!!!).



And of course, Davin the party pooper!!!






Then the kids realized they could climb the trees, not just pick from them... (rolling eyes here)





Davin really didn't want his picture taken, so he decided to be a shadow...



Then we found another Tractor to play on...


Again, Davin being a stinker, trying to run away...


I love this picture of her...


And I think this one of her and Dan turned out nicely too, I just wish she was looking at the camera.


And onto strawberry picking we went....


Believe it or not, he was a huge helper for this part, I love this picture. I can't explain it. My mom isn't looking, you can't see Dan, but the look on Davin's face says so much to me.



Then we needed to go inside to cool off, the kids were so flushed..

BRAIN FREEZE!!!


Cam drank the whole water bottle herslf, had the ice cream, and had a sucker after!


Another sneaky shot of Davin!


And then shortly after this when Cam and I felt like crap, we decided to go home and the kids missed out on the pony ride!!! So we left with three cranky kids and one screamer... Elli can be heard for miles, have I ever told you that??? Can't wait for next year!

Sheeeewwww Bug, Don't bother me!

As I was trying to get some house cleaning done on Saturday morning while Dan took Mikayla and Davin to Volleyball and Flag Football I noticed this bug on my window. I thought it was a grasshopper, but apparently it wasn't. It had almost frog like feet that were rounded on the toes and clung to my window. I just couldn't get him to bugger off. I tried hitting the glass, slamming the front door, waving a newspaper at it, but he just couldn't bring himself to wander...
So I figured, he's not hurting anything, I can come back to my window and windex the outside later, so I mosied on... Much to my dismay, I noticed that everytime I walked somewhere to get something, do something, or bring something somewhere I felt like he was watching me. Now those close to me know that I am arachnaphobic, but apparently I am afraid of bugs as well. So after a half hour of trying to get him off my mind, I took a picture and the girls sang Shheeeeewwwwww Bug, don't bother us... then I took my newspaper and gently encouraged him to vacate the premisis.




The funniest part??? I have two bucks (MR. Eight and MR. Ten) on my walls in the stair case that I walk by at least 100 times a day and they are still there. If that isn't love for my husband, I don't know what is!!!

Three Peas in a POD

Last Friday night the girls were an absolute riot! They were full of energy and sleeping just wasn't in the cards at 7:30. So we popped some popcorn, put in a movie, and all hung out on the couch. Well....that is, until the cute music singing parts come on and then they dance like crazy. As I tried to pull out the camera as quick as I could, I just wasn't fast enough. This was their "Look ma! I'm stranglin'!!" pose. They are at each other's throats at 7:30 am, in each other's way all day, but at night, after they have had a chance to feed their brains, their souls, and their tummies, they really can be quite cute!

A Boy Who obviously needs brotherly companionship...

A long time ago when Dan and I first got together we knew we wanted a larger family, but we never really agreed on the gender thing. I, of course, wanted all boys, I had 3 brothers, loved growing up with less frill. Dan grew up with three sisters and already had two nephews so he wanted to see girls in his family. After we had Mikayla and Davin gender seemed more important to me than to anyone else. I always invisioned baseball, football, hockey, jeans, T-shirts, and sweatshirts. When we went to Elli's ultrasound knowing it was going to be our last, the word hamburger was hard to swallow. I thought about how Davin wouldn't have a rough and tumble friend, he wouldn't have someone to go outside with and just wrestle to the ground with all his might. Yet I never thought that a sisterly bond would be work either (later I find out this can be worse, no really, it can!) So when we found out we were pregnant after Elli turning 6 months old we were floored, but then I thought, could this be Davin's little brother? As time went on, I really believe it was. Then the discussion of CP and possible brain issues was so alarming that the gender seemed trivial. When we later found out she was in fact a girl all the thoughts of Davin playing outside by himself made me want to cry. Where was his playmate???

Well when we walked into Stacie's and saw the puppies, we knew we had to have one! And since everything in our lives seemed to be so unique, we needed to find unique again. Maisy, the only all black terrier in the group! Davin loved her! He was so caring and gentle and so excited to have someone who wanted to play with him as energetically as he could only keep up with. They are like two peas in a pod! Davin even takes her downstairs to do laundry with him! So when another litter showed up at Stacie's, Harley just had to be ours! Scrappy, yet sweet, energetic, yet cuddly... she was the one. And to this day, Davin still loves his rough and tumble girls...

Purple is my favorite color!!

Your Blog Should Be Purple

You're an expressive, offbeat blogger who tends to write about anything and everything. You tend to set blogging trends, and you're the most likely to write your own meme or survey. You are a bit distant though. Your blog is all about you - not what anyone else has to say.

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At least I am consistant!!

3 WEEKS!!!

Camryn has made it three weeks, I am so excited!!!!!!! We have some medicine readjusting to do, but the fact that we haven't had some kind of hospital run in 3 weeks is such a nice break!!!

We hope to increase her meds sometime this week, we hope to regain control of our lives as well. The interruptions to our lives have been so hard to cope with. Out house needs so much repair (just major upkeep) and I don't know how we would do it without a break in the AMB rides...

Today is a day I could ship my son off to boarding school though. I don't know what his deal is, he almost has sociopath behavior because he doesn't care if he hurts others by making them late, getting in the way of what needs to be accomplished, he just plain doesn't care. How can this be? He was the most compassionate kid up until June or so. I just don't understand it. Today we have a standing order, I am leaving at 8, he's not allowed to come unless his list of things to do is complete, do you think I will have to leave my child behind? (Just until I drop the others off at school and come back for him ;) )

I can't wait to scrap this weekend, hopefully I will have more cards to show you than you can stand, LMAO!