Home Remedies

-Did you know that drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately -- without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional "pain relievers."
-Did you know that Colgate toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns?
-Before you head to the drugstore for a high-priced inhaler filled with mysterious chemicals, try chewing on a couple of curiously strong Altoids peppermints. They'll clear up your stuffed nose.
-Achy muscles from a bout of the flu? Mix 1 Tablespoon of horseradish in 1 cup of olive oil. Let the mixture sit for 30 minutes, then apply it as massage oil, for instant relief for aching muscles.
-Sore throat? Just mix 1/4 cup of vinegar with 1/4 cup of honey and take 1 tablespoon six times a day. The vinegar kills the bacteria.
-Cure urinary tract infections with Alka-Seltzer. Just dissolve two tablets in a glass of water and drink it at the onset of the symptoms. Alka-Seltzer begins eliminating urinary tract infections almost instantly -- even though the product was never been adverted for this use. (Note: Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine is not the same…and contains aspirin, which can cause stomach bleeding if you have ulcers.)
-Honey remedy for skin blemishes. Cover the blemish with a dab of honey and place a Band-Aid over it. Honey kills the bacteria, keeps the skin sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight.
-Listerine therapy for toenail fungus. Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine mouthwash. The powerful antiseptic leaves your toenails looking healthy again.
-Easy eyeglass protection. To prevent the screws in eyeglasses from loosening, apply a small drop of Maybelline Crystal Clear nail polish to the threads of the screws before tightening them.
-Coca-Cola cure for rust . Forget those expensive rust removers. Just saturate an abrasive sponge with Coca Cola and scrub the rust stain. The phosphoric acid in the coke is what gets the job done.
-Cleaning liquid that doubles as bug killer ... If menacing bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets get in your home and you can't find the insecticide, try a spray of Formula 409 Insects drop to the ground instantly.
-Smart splinter remover .just pour a drop of Elmer's Glue-All over the splinter, let dry, and peel the dried glue off the skin. The splinter sticks to the dried glue.
-Hunt's tomato paste boil cure cover the boil with Hunt's tomato paste as a compress. The acids from the tomatoes soothe the pain and bring the boil to a head.
-Balm for broken blisters .To disinfect a broken blister, dab on a few drops of Listerine…a powerful antiseptic.
-Heinz vinegar to heal bruises. Soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply it to the bruise for 1 hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and speeds up the healing process.
-Kills fleas instantly. Dawn dish washing liquid does the trick. Add a few drops to your dog's bath and shampoo the animal thoroughly. Rinse well to avoid skin irritations. Goodbye fleas
-Rainy day cure for dog odor... Next time your dog comes in from the rain, simply wipe down the animal with Bounce or any dryer sheet, instantly making your dog smell springtime fresh.
-Eliminate ear mites. All it takes is a few drops of Wesson corn oil in your cat's ear. Massage it in, and then clean with a cotton ball. Repeat daily for 3 days. The oil soothes the cat's skin, smothers the mites, and accelerates healing.
-Quaker Oats for fast pain relief .It's not for breakfast anymore! Mix 2 cups of Quaker Oats and 1 cup of water in a bowl and warm in the microwave for 1 minute, cool slightly, and apply the mixture to your hands for soothing relief from arthritis pain.
-For clean drains Vinegar and Baking Soda. Pour ¾ cup baking soda in drain followed by 1 cup vinegar. Mixture will bubble and clear any clogs, let bubble then rinse with water.


Love Jess

bg life

Don’t you just love brind!!  Today is little hazel’s birthday.  My baby is one, I can’t believe it.  I just found mindi’s biscuit recipe and had to post it before I lose it again.  They are oh so yummy!!  

4 c white flour     
1 c whole-wheat flour
1 t soda (that’s baking soda aunt jonie)
1 t salt
3 t baking powder
2/3 c shortening
2 ¼ t yeast desolved in ½ c warm water with 3 T sugar
2 c buttermilk

Mix dry then wet don’t over mix cook 375 until golden

ColoradoBennett

Brind came down for a suprise visit this weekend and we had a really great time. Here are a few picture highlights.

ColoradoBennett

Remember when...

Mindi i loved the thing on C.S. Lewis. i always read your blogs and feel like an illiterate moron. day after day, instead of filling my mind with useful and uplifting knowledge, i am surrounded by the words of uneducated, classless teenagers
which are shouted at eachother by my ghetto kiosk. soon this will only be added to by the vocabulary of my fellow warehouse workers. yes i am the queen of white trash jobs. i guess ya gotta do what you gotta do. i've decided that to reverse the effects of mind-deteriorization i will just start listening to lectures on faith or jesus the christ on cd in the car instead of music. moving on. i just spent the best weekend in idaho at an unofficial mission reunion to celebrate a finnish holiday. there were about 15 of us at any given time. some weren't able to stay for the whole weekend so a lot of people just stopped in when they could. brind got off work at midnight on thursday and at about 1 am we hit the road. the festivities began that night with the best finnish food ever. i was so happy to eat rahka again i could cry. appearently someone thought that the best way to break the ice of the weekend would be to quish 12 returned missionaries that haven't seen eachother since wool tights, name tags and white handbooks into a 7 person hottub. it was pretty funny. we basically spent the whole weekend camping out, playing in the sun, speaking finglish and not sleeping at all. i'm so homesick for finland now. it was so nice to talk about the mission and see the other missionaries again. i miss it. anyways i'm back now and it's nose to the ol' grindstone again. i start my new job on friday so i'll be working one part time job and one full time job. we'll see how it works out. blog out
ellynn

Guten Morgen

I can't even remember if I spelled that right. Please don't die of shock now that I'm finally writing on the blog. I know it just may be too much for some of you. Let's see if I can sum up the last few weeks. The week before last my movers came and took almost all of our stuff so that it can be on its way to Germany. Our car should leave this coming Thursday from the Port of Tacoma (I'm borrowing one from our friends for the rest of the summer and paying for them to insure it). We have one more shipment of stuff on the 14th of July and all we will have left in the good ol' U.S. will be enough clothes to get us through the summer. We fly out on the 5th of September and meet Mike in Frankfurt. "Oh Martha, Oh Christmas!!!" I absolutely cannot wait. We are trying to fill up our summer with as many fun activities as possibe.

This past weekend my friend Megan came down with her two girls. Some of you might remember her, she was my best friend in high school. We had a great time. Kind of funny though, because our nights of staying up till 2 or 3 no longer exist. At least in this stage of life. I sit there and think "if Ellyn wakes up at 7 that will only be five hours of sleep and if I want to talk to Mike tonight I need to get everyone to bed by eleven." I felt a little bit like an old fart. Megan's daughter Makenzie stayed down with us, she and Jane are the same age. There has been a little drama but not too bad considering they barely know each other. I will take Makenzie back home when I drive up and drop off my car on Thursday. Then I will take the train home. I am already excited for a whole three hour ride by myself with a book.

Besides that I have spent a little bit of time shopping. Meagan thinks I have issues (like she's one to talk, huh Meags?) But I know where to get good deals here in the states and I'm not so sure over there so I have just been trying to stock up on a few things. Plus, it does not help that my brother in law is the G.M. at the Gap outlet and tells me when all of the great sales are. Besides, after July 14th I won't be doing any more shopping.

What else... oh our house in Oklahoma is causing me ulcers. Our tenants got evicted for not paying rent. Yes, so we have the house on the market and I hope to leave it there, eating away our money, until September. If it hasn't sold by then we will have to rent it out again. So you can only imagine right now how long my prayers are. I feel so guilty asking for sooo many blessings. The list right now is a mile long "Please bless that our move will go well, please bless that there will be a good house for us to live in when we get there, please bless that our house will sell, please bless that everything we need to get done for Ellyn before we leave will get done, please bless Mike in Korea...." It goes on forever and ever. Obviously the Lord thought I needed alot of humbling.

Well this is a novel and I need to get a few things done this morning. It's supposed to be 100 today and Meags and I are taking the kids to the lake. It should be very fun and alot of work. I love you all and hope you are having a great summer. Mindi, I love C.S. Lewis. My mother-in-law found a book at Costco full of all his quotes (I can't remember if you saw it this spring) on every subject and I had to run out and get it. I was so excited. Okay, I think that is all for now. Love, Brooke

ColoradoBennett

"All the traffic lights turn blue tomorrow."--Jimi Hendrix
Our friend, Muhammad, had to fly back to Kuwait yesterday because his mother died. It was so sad to see the state he was in. I'd wanted to ask him what the Islam religion believes about life after death, but it just seemed like a bad time to talk about it. I sent him an e-card saying that a prophet we follow once said, "I do know that whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions." (Alma 36:3) He'd asked us to pray for his mother often and we were very comfortable talking about our religion with each other. Speaking of such, I came across a quote in C.S. Lewis' book "Mere Christianity" that I thought was great:
"There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of 'Heaven' ridiculous by saying they do not want 'to spend eternity playing harps.' The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery (harps, crowns, gold, etc.) is, of course, a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible. Musical instruments are mentioned because for many people (not all) music is the thing known in the present life which most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity. Crowns are mentioned to suggest the fact that those who are united with God in eternity share His splendor and power and joy. Gold is mentioned to suggest the timelessness of Heaven (gold does not rust) and the preciousness of it. People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs."
I felt like quoting Jimi Hendrix and C.S. Lewis in the same blog because I think they are both on to something. Lewis says we need to spend more of our time 'occupied with Heaven' and Jimi sings about how quickly things can change and suddenly we find ourselves or our loved ones have gone there.

i know!

Jess, I just had to laugh when I read that about your nap. Joey and I did that exact same thing last weekend on Saturday. He had been golfing and I had been swimming so when we met up for the evening, we were both pretty tired. We decided to take a quick nap before the night began. We were both completely out from 4:30pm to 10:30pm. It was awesome! Luckily good ol' Applebee's is open until midnight, or we would've starved.

A long winters nap...

I have been exhausted this week so I decided to take a one hour nap last night. I fell asleep at 7 pm and when my alarm went off at 8 pm I turned it off and fell back to sleep. Tony woke me up when he called to tell me he was on his way home from work at 11 pm!!! Oopsie. So I got up for a few hours, did some house work, watched the beginning of a movie and turned in at about 1 am. I didn’t even have too much trouble falling back to sleep. It was nice to get caught up.

Meagan, what does “I do wonder what the girl thinks though, but she is pretty cool” mean? Is Brind dating someone? Also, post a picture of your hair.

Work is so boring today I am trying to figure out how to fake my own death so I never have to come back here. Just kidding...about the death thing not about the boring work thing.

So I had to get a replacement phone because my other one was having issues and when I went to save all my numbers to the SIM card somehow I accidentally erased all my numbers. I was furious. It is such a pain to replace them all. I may be in touch soon to get some of your numbers.

Well that is all for now. I am soooooo happy it is the weekend. Everyone have a good one!

Love Jess

bg life

It’s the first day of summer break and Brind has taken my three oldest, Brooke’s two oldest and mom with him on a date to the zoo.  How cute is he?  I do wonder what the girl thinks though, but she is pretty cool.  You would think that with most my children gone I would be able to just get loads of stuff done, but alas with no one to entertain ‘angel baby’ I am still only able to accomplish what I can one handed.  During her first nap I was able to shower, get dressed, do my hair and make-up.  Which is a new and huge thing for me.  Usually my make up stays in the car and is only used if I am going some place special, i.e. church or the temple.  So once maybe twice a week, but sat. night I made mom chop all of my hair off and I bleached it white blond, so now I have to wear make up because I look like a little boy.  But I love it!!!  The hair, not the make up.  Brind’s nickname for me is ‘frow mon’.  

Tomorrow I am taking all my camp girls on an eight-mile hike.  I can’t wait, but I am a bit nervous that they will poop out on me, so I’m bringing Jackson and Bennett as motivation. (and besides if adam can torture his scouts the way he does, I can do this)  It will get my kids ready for our backpack to kill’n creek later this summer.  Remember that hike, leash?  

Oh how I wish I had funny witty stories to tell you all, but my mind always goes blank as soon as I stand here to write, and I’m not funny so that doesn’t help.  I love you all.  I hope all of the stars align just right and I can figure out a way to come down and visit this summer, but I don’t really see that happening.  

                                                      Blog on………..me

drunks on the bus

Jess i know exactly what you're blogging about! when meags told me she won a cow bell the first thing i asked her was "does it have 'i've got a fever' printed on the front?" and the drunk on the bus story took my right back to the mish. that was the story of my life every day. one time a man came on the train and offered my comp and i a shot out of a bottle cap and was sloshing vodka all over the place. if he had gotten it on me, it would have been the last time he had a hand to hold that cap with. another time a drunk man sat down right in front of my comp and i in the seats that face eachother. this man reaked like 2 weeks of b.o., liquor, and...you can imagine what else. so he sits down and starts telling us this stupid joke. when we didn't laugh he just looks at me and then points to a spot on his chin at the exact spot where i happen to have a rather large blemish. my companion busted up laughing. needless to say i was not amuzed and quite pleased to be getting off at the next stop. speaking of the mish, brind and i are headed to idaho for the weekend to spend it camping, boating, caving and playing with a bunch of my mission friends. i'm so excited i pretty much giggle myself to sleep every night. i don't know what i'll have to look forward to after this trip so i'm just eating up every second of anticipation with delight. besides that i work and sleep and play and replace belts on my car. that's right, since i bought it, edward has required over a thousand dollars in repairs. he better be done after this because he's just about sucked this little sugar-momma dry. he's so handsome though, i just can't help myself. anyways i love all the blogs recently. it's so good to hear from the family. i love you guys.
blog out, ellynn

Happy Father's Day!

To all the men in our family- Happy Father's Day. I love you all and I am so proud of the dads and husbands that you are. We are a lucky bunch of girls, aren't we cousins and sisters? Cory, Adam, Geof., dad, and Brind actually too. Thank you for the time that you have spent helping take care of our girls in Mike's absence. We both appreciate it so very much. To my husband, there is not a better father. I love you dearly. Dad, I love you. Thank you for all you have done to provide for our family and thank you for all the great memories we have with you.

ColoradoBennett

Here are a few pictures from our latest adventures. Our playgroup went to a place up in the mountains called "Tiny Town" yesterday and it was so much fun. Someone had built all these tiny houses, some of them the kids can fit inside, and a train that goes around the whole little town. Good times. We also got passes to 6 Flags and here is a picture of Adam and Kaia on the ballon ride. Please note that Kaia is completly terrified. Next summer she'll be much braver. Speaking of bravery, we took our new Muhammad to 6 Flags too and he bought this picture of himself to send to his wife to show her how brave he is. He told me that Adam kept telling him to stop screaming. Very funny.

I've got a fever...

And the only prescription is more cow bell. Has anyone seen that SNL skit with Christopher Walken and Will Farrell? It is classic. Meags that is sweet you won a cow bell. All I won in my race was about 5 serious blisters and bra burn.

Speaking of Will Farrell, Tony and I decided to go to the Jordan River Temple yesterday. I was going to take the bus from my work to his work and then we would go from there. I took the “State Street” bus which I vow I will never do again...I encountered a new breed of people, seriously. First off there were several loud and foul mouthed people behind me, two of which were women spinning tales of when they were in jail. They were just recently released…how lucky. I did learn a thing or two about switchblades…
Then there was a man with some mental problems who kept yelling at the bus driver whenever he honked his horn about how he was “scaring the other drivers.”
Finally and most importantly we pick up a very large, dazed and confused, gentleman who resembles Will Farrell. He is about 6’7” easily 400 pounds and he is practically wearing a baby tee so his gut is hanging out. He has a large scar on his knee that looks like he had his knee replaced and he is wearing ted hose. He comes stumbling onto the bus and I am thinking, “how sad, he just had knee surgery...” Nope he’s just drunk. I can smell the alcohol because he sits directly in the seat in front of me and instead of facing forward he sits sideways and turns around and stares right at me. I just try to ignore him thinking he will look away. He doesn’t, in fact, he kind of whistles to get my attention. I still don’t look, luckily mine is the next stop. I get up while the bus is still moving, which I never do because you could go flying at any moment and then you would have to actually touch the hand rails, but I figure I have my hand sanitizer and I will take my chances. As I get up he mumbles, “Are you going?” Again, I ignore him. As I move to the front and wait for my stop I notice he is kind of moving around as if he is going to get off at this stop. I figure I can run faster then him, even in a skirt, and if that doesn’t work I could kick him in the knee. Luckily he didn’t get off; I was so scared I was shaking. Oh the woes of public transportation. I will stick to the express bus with the other business men and women.

So the Temple was great, we always say we need to go more often. I just love it there, leaving behind all the cares and crazy people of the world. It is the only 2 hours that I can sit and relax and not feel guilty that I am not being productive. Life is good for me and Tony. He was just offered two sweet jobs, one at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful and the other in a building right next door to Lakeview so no more commuting to 39th South, which will cut our gas bill in half. The yard is coming along; I still need to post some pictures. We are going camping this weekend with the family, we both took Friday and Monday off so it is going to be a sweet weekend. Please blog more, I seriously check the blog 25 times a day to keep me sane at work.

Love you all

Jess

Contractors...

Hey, I found a picture of Adam in the Middle Ages...
-cor

Contracting Rules!! (puke)

Seattle Bennett Living in Colorado

So I did something stupid today I have decided when I can I should ride to work I did this the other day and 55 miles later my quads cramped with every step I took. I have now recovered and rode today however I should have checked the weather report because today is suppose to be a record breaker 100+ degrees all I can hope for is that the wind gusts currently going on keep up for a nice tail wind home
love Adam
PS don't worry i havnt gone all wierd road bikey like others in the family I am however looking for pink spandex bibs

bg life

Life has been crazy.  I don’t know what is making it that way, but it is nonetheless crazy.  I feel like I am missing something all the time.  And usually I am, last night is was a camp training meeting.  Last week I was suppose to babysit my friend’s kids for their anniversary and I was gone when they brought them by.  Yeah I am a crappy friend.  Thankfully my friend is better and is still talking to me.  Last night in prayers Jackson said, “thank you that I can be good at art and te kwan do, and Bennett can be good at ballet, and wil can be good at talking a lot and hazy can be good and crawling, and mommy can be good at running and taking care of us, and daddy can be good at fixing things and working on the computer and not listening to us, just working on the computer.”  It was so dang funny I thought I was going to die.  The other night when Bennett was spending the night with mom they were brushing their teeth and ellynn was kind of whining because she was tired and wanted to read scriptures because she still had to go up and brush her teeth.  So benny very quickly goes and gets mom’s extra tooth brush and puts toothpaste on it and hands it to ellynn.  Like stop whining and do something about it, but in a very sweet way.  Wil, being three, is so dang funny all the time.  Everything he says makes us laugh.  Hazel as starting throwing mommy fits.  Flinging herself on the ground kicking and screaming, it’s really cute, and it has to be or I would go crazy.  Two weeks ago brind and I ran the hockinson fun run 5k.  it was really fun.  I came in second of all the women and got a cow bell as a metal.  That was the coolest part.  I have never won anything in my life and a probably wont ever again, so I was pretty happy.  I have kept haze locked in her car long enough so I must go rescue.  I love you all.

                           Come on get blogging……..me

Ps yesterday we went to breakfast for daddy’s b-day, it was very nice.  I am so glad he was born, I love him to death!!!  

Seattle Bennett Living in Colorado

well old man you've gotten a year older happy birthday i am glad to have you as a father and a friend you are a great example and i'm greatful for your striving to over come obstacles and trials and while you may not be perfect I love you all the same

Adam

Seattle Bennett Living in Colorado

so I was so looking forward to comming out to the family reunions this summer and just realized that I will have a son here, that won't be wanting to travel niether will his mom. All I can say to that is Tony you are lucky because I brought a big workout ball to work for my chair and I'm pretty good at not falling over which i am sure would directly translate to trying to riding a giant beach ball across Paula and Bill's pool, and even if it didn't don't steal that dream from me. I am so happy its friday work has been work this week things are finally starting to come together but all the little things are starting to come apart. so in some kind of weird analogy that means I would rather pick up one thing that weighs 100 lbs than 100 things that weigh 1 lbs. we get our passes to 6 flags tomorrow so the girls and I are off to try and avoid sun burns and have fun while mom is going to church stuff. take care bloggers and have a great weekend and i will talk to you next week
Blog Adam

pRovO

Meags, we made your tortillas a couple Sundays ago. Delicious. It reminded me of my mission. My trainer and I would live off homemade tortillas and honey at the end of each month 'cuz we'd spent all our allotment and had no money for real food! Oh yummy. Things have been good. Cole is so hysterical I can't stand it. His speech has really taking off and he tries so hard to express himself. He says the funniest things. He loves the fact that I'm a "dirl" and daddies a boy. Unfortunately, I think he's gotten a little too much from the TV. The other week he told me in between bites at lunch "Mommy, thank you soo much for saving my life!". I couldn't stop laughing. HE loves Dayne but is constantly throwing heaps of blankets on her and we're scared she'll suffocate. They both love water. The other night they were taking a bath together and Cole was all over the place, kicking and flayling (um...is it a word? And if so...is it spelled this way?) and we were a little concerned about Dayne's safety. However, she just went right along with it. Screaching in delight as if this was totally normal. Which I guess it is. She's a doll. Has no desire to walk though...even though she seems ready when we hold he little hands. She definately loves to snuggle and is already a big flirt with men (SCARY!). I'm taking a night class twice a week. Phy. Science. It's been good for me to get away and even better for Geof. and the kids to spend time together. Geof.'s working like a dog so we can hopefully start applying for some airline jobs soon. We'll see!! Okay, I've got a big wet stinky diaper sitting on my lap. Gotta change it. Hope all your summmers are going well (we have a 7 Peaks pass yet again). Love Darla

ColoradoBennett

Sierra and Kaia have such a wonderful daddy, "yes-saw-wee".
Our summer is in full swing this week. Sierra and her three friends "graduated" from Joy School on Tuesday (we had a little ceremony for them with morterboard hats and everything). Today I'm trying to get some moms and kids together for a summer playgroup. Two of the moms are sister-in-laws and they pretty much told me they want to spend as little time together this summer as possible. Bummer.
I think I need to take some sort of class about "conflict management". 87% of my day seems to be involved in breaking up fights between Sierra and Kaia, myself and Sierra/Kaia, and Sierra/Kaia and other kids. I even had a dream last night that I was responsible for breaking up fights between adults. Let's just say my little voice made me extremely unsuccessful at such a task. So any advice about the battling sibling problem?

Seattle Bennett Living in Colorado

So it is Hot Hot Hot out here luckily I have a nice cool trailer to sit in and relax and instead walking around getting all sweaty I am writing you.
So if anyone asks if its worth it to have kids they just need to hang out with a 22 month old, I remember Sierra at this time and how cute she was and I think Kai is even cuter sure she crawls in bed with mom and dad in the middle of the night but its when she starts singing "I love moma yes saw wee, I love dada yes saw wee, I love Sierra yes saw wee (repeatedly, and occaisonly including other family members" to the tune of the little primary song that ends with "we are a happy family" (if you don't know the tune call we'll have her sing it)That is when you truely realize how lucky you are to have kids. I'm sure there is going to be times when I will need to remember this but in the meantime I keep trying to tell Sie and Kai to stop growing which at times upsets Sierra who when she finishes her meal likes to stand on her chair roll her shoulders back put her chin up and say "look how huge I am" I think I have the only girls in the world that don't mind things like "look how huge I am, and Big Momma Bennett"
Blog out Adam

dead from bread

NEW BLOGS!! NEW BLOGS!! oh martha! oh christmas! and not just any blogs. those were class "A". alicia you kill me. you're so d#$* funny. i'm just amazed that you made it 13 miles. not amazed really, more like bitter and envious. at about mile 4 i start crying and whimpering. at which point my older, stronger, and all around better, sister just picks me up, puts me on her back and decides now that i'm not holding her back, she'll run 15 more miles at a much faster clip. let me clarify that when i say "better" i don't mean better than brooke, just me. oh but speaking of brooke, i will relate to you all a funny story. this morning something funny happened in seminary which i will not relate for sake of time and the real point of the story. but it was funny, rest assured. so we are telling brooke this story as she's eating a bit of bread this morning. she starts laughing and somehow horks a piece of bread down the wrong pipe. and when i say horked, i mean it must have gone half way to the lung because the coughing fit that insued was horrific. hacking, gagging, coughing, spitting. i really thought she was on her way out if you know what i mean. i, not knowing what else to do, pull a jackson and just start praying. it worked. brooke is indeed still with us although i think there was brain damage due to lack of oxygen. maybe that was from before...not sure. she did almost die from bread!

Dead from kidney failure

Well miraculously Clo's asleep here at moms so I get to write for a minute. I thought I'd write about Jess and my bright idea to run a half marathon on Memorial Day. You know, I thought, hey I push the girls in their stoller up hills everyday, how much harder could it be? Jess and I ran 8 miles the Saturday before and placed ourselves quite comfortably into a false sense of security. What fools.
Anyway I, of course, got an immediate side ache which eventually turned into one on each side. By mile four I was certain I wasn't going to make it. Mile 8 Jess was like "let's go a little faster." However I eventually had to turn off the ipod and take off my glasses because I was starting to get tunnel vision. Anyway it was about mile 11 that I really started to get scared. I don't drink the whole time, because it upsets my stomach. Well it was then that I started to get these really sharp pains that can only be likened to how the uterus feels when trying to expell a baby. I honestly had to stop for a minute. I just pretended like I was stretching, all the while wondering how long it would take for an ambulance to reach me. I got on my phone and gasped out a distress call to Kev - "Pick...(gasp)...Me....(wheeze)...Up!" Luckily there was a water station at mile 12 and Kev didn't reach me until I was almost to the finish line (not that I really would've gotten in, how embarassing would that have been? The race officials - "Now where's contestant number 214, the one that was dead last? Oh there's the little quitter there in the mini van. Is she eating a doughnut?" (which is another story all together. I swore I'd never get a van. I still can't believe we have it. I told Kev the other day that we need to get rid of it. My self esteem can't take it anymore. However it is a Honda, so it's not quite as bad in my book.). Anyway I crossed the finish line and went home to ice my knees and spit up blood. No, but I don't know how people do it - AKA LeAnne and Meags. Amazing. Maybe you started training a little more than 3 days ahead of the race. Anyway, that's it. Talk to you guys later. Leash

Dogs n tomatoes

Hey Adam.  Summer before last I grew great tomatoes.  Pretty big and tall, I was relatively happy.  The kids would just run out and pick the things and eat them.  Depending on my mood, sometimes it was cute, sometimes it wasn't...  However, one fine day, I watch a dog stumble over to the edge of the garden, sniff around a bit, then lift his leg and whiz all over the tomatoes.  I was irate to say the least.  Then, I wondered, how many other dogs had done the same thing?  And how many of those had my kids eaten?  And what about my beloved cauliflower?  Needless to say, the kids are now supposed to wash to tomatoes before ingesting them.

That's all for now.  If i'm supposed to blog more, i can't say too much at a time.

later. cory.

povo

how do you spell success? I ask you people? I think it's d.a.d.. or not most likely not. things are going well. right now there's a marathon of the office on tv and i am in heaven. the kids are doing great just look at there dirty faces. its been a long day and I am kinda tired. cole, dayne, and i went and played at a park today. i was sure attentive of where cole was and now i'll tell you why. the other day i was up at a friends house with the family. they have a dog. cole opened door opened dog pen and when we realized cole was not in the house we also realized cole was not in the yard. after further inquiry via my good friend ricky running one way and me running the other shouting cole we realized he wasn't in the neighborhood. things got great when i see two cars parked next to each other the occupants conversing. they ask me if i have a little boy. i say yes and they say they saw him chasing a dog towards the busy state street. lets shorten things up now. i ended up in a cop car trying to find darla who was wondering where cole and i were. cole was found and the heart pounding sound in my ears subsided sometime early this morning (three days later). He told the people in the cars he was trying to make sure the dog didn't get hit by a car.
Other than that things have been great. we are trying to get into the mountains or just be outside as often as possible. we love the weather and have found some great camping spots. so come on down one and all.

bg life

Adam you look very manly in those pictures.  Gardens as wonderful as they may seem are a huge pain in the butt.  Ours last year was nearly destroyed by birds.  Although not as large as max, equally destructive.  

I baby-sat Brooke’s girls today while she, mom, ellynn, and brind went to the temple.  I think you get huge blessing not only going to the temple, but making it possible for others to go.  Between today and last night (Cory and I went ourselves) I may have reversed my one-way ticket to hell.  I was so arnry yesterday I had no hope of anything else, but I am trying to make up for it.  

School is almost out and it’s a good thing, because every day jack asks if he has to go and it is getting harder and harder for me to tell him he does.  I really don’t think we will make the whole two weeks we have left, plus a Monday for snow make up.  Um I don’t think it really snowed enough this winter to constitute a snow make up day.  

Did I tell you Jackson broke another board?  This time with his hand and on his first try.  He is an animal.  The other day Cory looks out the window and Jackson is in the back yard with his shirt off lifting the bouncy horse.  Then he starts flexing and asks cor if we have anything really heavy he can lift.  I had to promise to buy him weights as soon as I can find them.  

Bennett hopes she is sick for her recital so she doesn’t have to dance in front of all those people.  Wil just wants a “fweak’n fo’ wheewer”, and hazel can wave and say bye-bye.  Cory says he is going to blog every day but as you can see he is a liar.  I am in constant denial that as soon as 3 ½ months from now I could be completely family less.  Cory thinks I am needy now, he has no idea.  

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