DINNER TIME

Dinner time at our house is one of my favorite times of the day. It is a time when we all can be together and share our days with each other, enjoy good food, laugh and have a great time. More often than not, we get laughing so hard at one thing or another and it is really a good release as well as a bonding time. Tonight was no exception. We had a fruit salad with large grapes in it, and, well, things got a bit out of hand. I think we all laughed until we were sick...the pictures will do the talking. (JORD- you owe us a picture with grapes in your mouth!!)

STRENGTH

Isn't it funny how you think you are not strong enough for all that life throws you, and another curve ball hits. That is when you can decide to step up to the plate and stick together as a team and play the inning of your life with all your strength, or you can forfeit, give up and go home. We choose to play and to play HARD.

This is for my beautiful children...

YOU ARE THE STRENGTH WHEN THE WORLD IS WEAK
YOU ARE THE LIGHT WHEN THE WORLD IS DARK
YOU ARE THE JOY WHEN THE SORROW IS HEAVY
YOU ARE THE LOVE WHEN THERE IS NO MORE

and

I am here to lift you up
To brighten all your days
My arms will gladly hold you
And wipe your tears away...

Love Mom

JOCEY AND THE FOOT DOC

Jocelyn has had ingrown toenails for the past month that have been infected and SOOOO sore. We called our favorite foot doctor who took care of Jenica a few years ago when she had the same problem. If any of you are squeamish...LOOK AWAY. All I can say is Jocelyn is a TROOPER! She giggled through the nasty shots instead of screaming and took the procedure like a champ. Of course it helps that Dr Kelly Gomez is such a great doctor and it is actually fun to go see him. Here is my super hero Jocelyn having BOTH toes done...GO FIGHT WIN JOCELYN!!

NATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY...ARGGGGHHHH

Aye Matey's ....it's national Talk like a pirate day.....YO HO HO HO...it's pirate day at the hospital...at least for me. I got some strange stares driving into work this morning, and I am a little nervous that a patient is going to come to my desk. I am having a great time though. My friend Judy put on some pirate music and we danced a jig or two...

SAIL ON FRIENDS..beer and tobacco for everyone! (or more like rootbeer floats at our house!)

AAAGGGRRRRRR!!

Flowers

We have had a prettiest flowers in our yard this year. I am loving the different variety's and MOST of all, I love that most of them are perennials, so we get to enjoy them year to year and not plant or pay for them. Here is the tail end of our flowers I am afraid...with fall coming...I have this arrangement in an awesome container Jeff got me up at Taipan..(YAY TAIPAN).

PRETTY HUH?

SWEET SIXTEEN......JACEY!!!!

Our little girl Jacey is 16 years old....I just can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday when she was running around the house in some crazy outfit she put together from the dress up clothes with her beautiful blue eyes and her strawberry blonde hair. Singing a little song to herself and reading books.

Jacey has always LOVED books and reading and school. She has always done well learning. She is an incredible writer too. She doesn't let too many people read her poems or her writing, but when you are lucky enough too, it's pretty incredible.

Jacey has such a tender heart and is so good with animals and kids. They love her. Our little dog Joonie whines at her door when she is gone and we can usually find her curled up on Jacey's lap.

Jace has a great sense of humor and usually has me laughing at something...even if it is her one liner texts with lines from Monte Python or Benchwarmers.

Nate started throwng a ball to Jacey in my parents back yard on the day after my mom's funeral and he is a coach of the girls softball over in Payson. He turned to me and said..."You should get this kid playing ball"...we did, and she got to go down and play for Nate and has NEVER stopped. She is a natural athlete, and it is so much fun watching her play. She did play soccer and basketball on teams as well, but her true love is SOFTBALL!! She plays a mean football and wished they had football for girls...her Jr. High band teacher bragged to everyone about how good of a football player Jace is when they play as a class. Oh I love to watch her play, it is so much fun to see how quick her mind thinks out there, when my natural reaction would be to run and hide from balls, players or anything coming towards me. She is not afraid to slide, crash and burn and I have cleaned many a blood stain from her uniforms. ( SEE JACEY...I didn't call it your costume...are you proud??)

She LOVES music and you can usually bet she has her ipod earphones on or her stereo blasting in her room. She plays the trombone in band and is very good. She also has a great voice IF you can get her to sing for you.

Jacey is such a beautiful girl, inside and out, and I am so proud of her. She is sporting a "discoball hair style right now, where last month it was blue hair. She can pull these off because of her beautiful face.



WE LOVE YOU SWEET SIXTEEN!!

The Infamous BETO's Breakfast Burrito

Beto's is a great local Mexican food restaurant that has real authentic Mexican fast food. Jeff's favorite thing there is the "Breakfast Burrito." (I am partial to their fish taco's myself. You have to go with Jeff to Beto's to experience his "Breakfast Burrito" dissection. It is a CLASSIC "Jeffism". That is a term we affectionally use in our home to refer to Jeff's fun and sometimes funny quirks he has.

First, you take this HUGE steaming burrito in a home made tortilla, and unwrap it. Inside are steaming hot bits of potato, egg, cheese onion and bacon. Jeff has a real love/hate relationship with bacon. He LOVES the flavor and the smokiness, but hated the "fat" on it. (Jeff, dude, bacon=fat!) He takes each piece of bacon in the whole burrito and picks what he considers the fat off each piece of bacon and puts the "fat" into a graveyard on a napkin. This can take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes depending on the amount of bacon. Ask any of his friends from work who have gone to Beto's with him. They can attest to the work Jeff meticulously does on the burrito:).

Here are of few picks of my favorite man with a true breakfast burrito experience. If you ever go to enjoy one of these babies, don" forget the red sauce to dip it in...a great way to clear your sinuses and it is YUM!!