LAST CALL

This is officially the last call for Christmas cards. If you want one leave your address or email it to me. richandteri03@msn.com
Thank you

Christmas Card CHAOS

So...I love Christmas cards, I love receiving them, I love sending them, I love getting updates on everyone.  This year Christmas cards have been not been loving me though.  Thank you to all of you who have emailed me your addresses.  If you haven't given me your address yet, please leave it as a comment.  I will be getting cards out but not as soon as I would have hoped. 

Lets start at the beginning....December 10th, 2010.  I decided that maybe I should consider getting Christmas cards ready to send.  I searched the internet and found a great deal on seehere.com 60 Christmas cards shipped over night for $5.17.  great deal RIGHT! So I made super cute cards and ordered them. 

On the seehere website it says that it takes 3 days of production to make the cards (which I personally think is ridiculous, I mean Walmart does it in an hour!), and 1 day to over night it to me.  So I was figuring that the latest it would be to my house would be December 17th, 2010 that gives them 2 extra days to do whatever they need to, to make them perfect and get them to me before I leave my house the morning of the 18th. 

Saturday morning comes and still no package.  I call Fedex and they say that they won't be able to get the package to me until Monday morning, I say this won't work, they say they don't care, I say you suck can you please send it to another address, they say no only the sender can change an address. 

Monday morning I call seehere 10 times, leave messages, send emails and still have not had a response from them.  Monday afternoon Fedex says they have delivered the package so I call my neighbor to have her send it to me.  The package is nowhere to be found.  She searches all over, I call fedex, they call the driver, the driver calls me and tells me she delivered it to the wrong address.  She got the South and East mixed up, she stopped by to pick it up today and nobody was home.  So I sent my lovely neighbor down there to check things out the lady said that she took the pakage but passed it off to the fedex man that stopped by that afternoon to drop off the package that she was expecting.

I called fedex back, she said that the man never should have taken the package for many reasons, such as, he is ground shipping the package is air shipping (almost 2 totally different companies), legal reasons (picking up a package without shipping information), etc. 

Anyways the fedex lady found the ground fedex man and she is now overnighting it to me down here in paradise.  We are hoping to get them by Friday, but I am not counting on anything.

We will send out Christmas cards but they may end up getting to you in time for celebrating new years eve or Martin Luther King day!

That is the end of our Story.  So we will be wishing you a very merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Martin Luther King day all in one card!

Strange?

Is it strange that the ONLY time cuss words fly through my head is when I am angry with my children?    

Holidays and Hair

I am so so so excited for the Holidays to come, and before they get here I know I will be ready for them to go, but for now I am enjoying them.  I love getting together with family and friends.  My favorite thing about the Holidays is that Rich has school off and the girls have school off so we are able to slow life down and enjoy our marriage, enjoy our young children who are growing faster than our family, which is very fast. (4 kids in 5 years). 

I have been noticing a lot lately that I keep saying "just a minute", "we will later", "not right now", "after i'm finished" etc.  And I want to start saying yes, or let's do something now, before they ask me.  I want to be a better mama because my kids aren't going to want me for very much longer. 

One of favorite family quotes is in Disney's Ratatouille.  It is when Amille (Remi's brother), shows up and wants Remi to go be with his family, and Remi is sitting there saying um, i kindof have to (which is what I have been doing to my kids, procrastinating).  And Amille says "what do you have ta more than family" I absolutely LOVE that.  So I am going to try and remember I need to step back and enjoy my family while I can, because if my kids are anything like I was when I was a teenager they won't want to talk to me and I will definitely not want to talk to them.  So my goal for the week is to remember Amille's wise rat words or what do you have ta more than family! Wish me luck

Also I am getting ready to cut/color my hair and need to know what everyone thinks.  Should I cut my hair shorter, or just trim it.  What color should i dye it? Advice please!

A bunch of Halloweenies

WE LOVE HALLOWEEN! The one day a year that you can dress up as whatever you want, be whoever you want and not be judged for it...for the most part!  We had a bast and I am in a hurry so here are some pics with some short captions!

Introducting the cast of Toy Story 2

Jailyn=Jessie, Braken=Squeakers, Lauren=Bo Peep (who kept losing her sheep), Andi=Buzz lightyear-ette!Thursday nights Rexburg Halloween Carnival!

 Jailyn before school!

 Heading into the Rexburg Carnival!

 Eating Donuts and my moms annual halloween party

 Jessie Doll Costume for Jailyn!

 Bo Peep Costume for Lauren

pride and joy out of all 4 costumes I made this year is buzz lightyear! It was a lot of fun to make something out of cardboard and duct tape and have it work out! Thanks goes to Rich, Dan and Brittany! 

 Beautiful Buzz lightyear-ette



Bear World

Bear World was so much fun!!! We drove past bear world everytime we head anywhere south or Rexburg, and we always try to see the bears in the back of the park.  So this weekend we decided to fork out the money and go to the park.  It was so worth the money. 

We arrived at the park at 12:00 and didn't leave until 5:30 when they kicked us out, which was really annoying.  Here are some of the pictures from our day-cation.

This bear looked so soft and cuddly until he yawned and we saw his huge teeth.  I would still like to cuddle with him though!

I have always heard that you should never climb a tree if you are being chased by a bear.  I totally thought that a bear wouldn't be very graceful and quick climbing a tree, but this bear proved me wrong in a jiffy.  He climbed to the top of these trees in less than a second and then just lounged about on top.  Needless to say, I will not try to climb a tree if I encounter a large bear.

 This is the entrance to the bear world amusement park, petting zoo and gift shop

 The girls loved the amusement park rides and Andi especially loved the bumpy race cars.  It was similar to the dumbo ride in Disneyland.

 We are getting ready to ride the roller coaster and they were a little nervous it!

 Lauren was just ready to get her roller coaster on!

 The girls had a lot of fun on the roller coaster, look how brave they are.

 Daddy & Lauren checking out the bear cubs.

 The petting zoo was exactly that...a zoo! There were chickens, goats, turkeys, and deer.  The animas were all so tame, but i still got a little nervous around the deer.

 Braken enjoying the animals and wishing he had more to eat, he practically starves to death! And yes he is always spitting up, I think it is because he doesn't know when to say enough.

 The darn chickens wouldn't let us get close to them. 

 This Turkey wanted whatever Lauren had in her hand and Lauren didn't want to share. 

 Lauren loved lovin' the animals. She kept kissing the deer and hugging it

 O deer!

 Lauren wanted to be a deer for a day, and the deer liked to sniff and try to eat her hair.

 I don't think she liked her photo taken. (the deer i mean)

 I was nervous that the mama was going to go buck wild on us, but she was super nice and the baby aready eats out of human hands.

 Poor Andi wanted to pet the turkeys and chickens more than anything, but the birds just didn't want anything to do with her.  We probably spent an hour in the petting zoo and she chased the birds around for at least 45 minutes of the time, with no success.

 Keep trying Andi

 My gorgeous Ren

 She loves to hug all the animals

 Poor goat, so many hugs.

 I finally decided to help Andi pet a chicken.  This was the only one we could corner long enough to pet.

 YAY for Andi Lu

 by the end of the day we were all tired and the children were acting like bears. (could i be any cheesier?)

 O yeah, they also had a  duck and fish feeding bridge with some huge trout and a gorgeous swan.

 Riding the train, round and round

 Daddy taking pictures of us on the train

 Riding the crazy cars

 One of the 5 white tail bucks that we saw.  This little bucky really wanted to tick the bull elk off so he kept approaching the cow elk and then the bull elk would charge at him and scrape his horns in the dirt and bugle and stuff like that to prove he was more studly!

Rich would like to shoot this elk.  Did you know that there is only 1 albino bull elk out of every 6 million elk...now you know!

 The bears were right by our cars, looking in the windows, chewing on our tires and rubbing up on our hott van.  I don't have the close bear pictures right now because they are on Rich's phone, but I will post them when I get them from him. I would definitely recommend going to Bear world if you like getting up close with wildlife, plus an added bonus is, if you come up to bear world you will be close to our house which means you can come visit us!

Summer Vacations

Sorry some of these pictures are sideways, but I didn't want to upload them again. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the summer.

Braken learning to smile

Lauren up to mischief.

Andi lovin' her brother.

Braken with uncle Travy.

All my gorgeous kiddos.

All the Cousins.

Boe & Braken

Boe & Braken again. I can't believe how big Boe is already. He is only 4 months old in this picture and he looks like a giant.