BIG FIVE!!

Ella is FIVE!!!

Happy Birthday Ella Bella!!!

(More to come!!)

Run Dave RUN!!!!!

Over the weekend, Dave had the opportunity to run at the Ragnar-Wasatch Back Relay Race... BOY!!! That was an ADVENTURE for him!!! Its 188 miles starting from Logan finishing in Park City. There was a team of 12 and each one of them gets 3 legs... by the time they get to their 3rd leg... everyone wants to die. Thankfully they didn't... THEY MADE IT in 31 hours!

This is Dave's team "Vicious and Delicious" in Van 2... before the race.

Here's Dave running on his first leg in Snow Basin... 3.1 miles with 900 feet elevation

RUN Dave RUN!!!

This is our good friend Scott who is in our ward... he is a GREAT motivator for Dave!!

One of those REALLY late night runs... Scott handing over the "baton" which is a slap on bracelet to keep track of the time at the finish line.

Okay... first off... PLEASE excuse my crappy camera skills... this one kinda caught me by surprise that he passed by so quickly without notice... there is a lot of people... ignore the end. Here is Dave and his team running to the finish line!!! YEAH!

Checking out the finished time... 31 hours!!!

Dave is SO glad to see his favorite fans waiting at the finished line! So worth it!

Showing the kids his medal!

All of his 12 teamates... "Vicious and Delicious!"

RAGNAR!!! Can't wait till next year!!!

***Side note: There is no picture of Dave running his 2nd leg unless someone on his team took one... we've talked about compiling some pictures together later on... if it does happen, I'll post it for sure! Here's a quick story to make it all better!

Medicinal Powers of the Taggy - by Dave

So I'm laying on the bed tonight and Shannon is massaging my legs from my rough weekend and having great fun inflicting some serious pain as she tries to "help it feel better" and as I'm laying there yelping in great pain and almost in tears, my son comes running in with his special blanket and says, "Quick dad, take the the taggy" ----- If any of you know Coleman, you know how funny and special that statement was.

She's Natural!

This is Ella's 2nd fish she caught... Not a bad size!!

Ella and Dave and bunch of other friends and family all went to East Canyon to fish last weekend... I was pretty impressed that Ella was able to catch the fish all by herself with a little help from Dave. It sure does made her daddy proud! They brought the fish home to eat... yes... I was forced to "try" a bite. I ate it. No comments. Way to go Ella!!

ZzZzZz... Hornet's Nest!!!

My awesome, hard-working husband tends to SLEEP TALK/WALK...almost all the time. Well... he just had a hilarious episode last night that I had to share. This is not this first time he's done this... This has been going as long as we have been married. Yes, I married to an entertaining guy!! Love it! Okay, back to last night... I was sleeping and had woken up feeling a little cold came to find out that the blanket had fallen off the bed. I had found Dave standing up on the side of the bed fiddling around with the blanket that had fallen off... I asked him what he is doing... Looking rather nervous he said, "There is a hornet's nest right there" pointing at the blanket. I was too tired to play along (yes, I play along till he figured it out he he) so I picked up the blanket and Dave looked at me saying that I was CRAZY and ran down the hallway to get away from the "swarm of hornets". I chuckled a little and went back to sleep... after ten minutes or so I think he finally woke up out of his sleep walking mode and got into bed. The next morning, he does not remember any of this...

I should write down all of his "moments"... but this is a start. I'll put down few things that he had done all throughout our marriage till now.

*Nearly bit my finger off thinking I was a fat man chasing him and decides to bite that man's finger off.
*Waking up to find him rearranging our night stand to block the doorway to keep bad people out...
*He had locked himself outside and took him half hour to figure out how to get back in (I sleep with my hearing aids off so all the banging or yelling doesn't do. He had woken up finding himself outside before trying to wake me up... he remembers this one.)
*Hid the baby blanket thinking it was a baby and hid it under his pillow at the hospital... good thing I was nursing the baby when that happened.
*Brought the kids in bed with us thinking they had been crying... which they aren't.
*Telling me that I shouldn't let the baby sleep on my chest because the chemicals off of my chest is harmful for the baby.
*A LOT of work MECHANICAL terms on how things should work or shouldn't work.
*I get saved by him thinking I was falling off the cliff when I move to the next side.
*Our bedroom gets flooded and tells me not to get out of bed or I'll drown.

There are MANY more to go... See? He's pretty entertaining while sleeping!

Ahh CRAP! (literally!)

I thought I'd write this because it was pretty funny looking back after what had happened... (sorry no pictures but try to visualize it if you like)

**WARNING** For those who have weak stomach... don't read this...

Okay... I KNOW every moms always have a hilarious poo story to share and if you think that it will never happened to you... well YOU'RE WRONG! This is my 2nd WORST poo explosion experience in PUBLIC... yes, one with Ella and one with Coleman... when will it ever stop?

First off... lets rewind WAAAAY back when Ella was a little wee one... maybe just barely turned 2. I was at Target. Ella, of course, sat in the seat of the shopping cart... as I was browsing around at the END of the store came to find out that Ella was making those "ew" face and I observed to see what was the matter was... to my horror... Ella had the WORST runny poo that literally flooded her seat and is dripping all over the floor. I panicked got the wipes out and cleaned her up and the cart as best I could... I hurried to the front and asked politely for a target bag so that I can dispose her soiled clothes. Well, this clueless young chap wanted to know why... I lost my patience with him and said, "Well, my daughter just crapped all over her pants and I need it to put her soiled clothes in it!!" I swear... I want to slap that kid. It was pretty bad. Luckily, I had an extra pair of clothes for her to change into.

Okay... now lets flash forward to our present time... Coleman who is now 2 years old. We are at Macey's grocery store. Right in the middle of shopping getting the food we need... Ella, who was in the cart basket and Coleman sat in the seat. Ella was doing the "potty dance" so I asked her if she needed to go now or will she be able to hold it... she had to go. So, on the way to the bathroom... I took Ella out and told her that I would wait for her outside of the bathroom so that I don't have to leave the groceries behind and taking Coleman out. While waiting for Ella, Coleman said something about "Go Potty" thinking he was asking about Ella... so I said "Yah Ella's in potty" Finally, Ella was done and I went on to finish my shopping... as I just barely got to the aisle I needed to go... Coleman pointed his finger that has "stuff" on it and I looked closely trying to figure out what the heck it was and where it came from... then I looked at Coleman tilting to the side with his leg making his "ew" face... I closed my eyes and pleaded that this is NOT happening... LOVELY! It did.. Coleman has RUNNY poo all the way down his leg. As I held his poo covered finger hoping that he had not smeared on anything... I opened up my bag and to my HORROR that there was NO WIPES!!!! AHHHH!!! I panicked. I panicked till I pulled myself together holding Coleman's poo covered finger and pushed the shopping cart and got to the baby aisle (thank goodness it was only 2 aisle down but still it seems like a long way to get there!) I grabbed the wipes and wiped Coleman's finger off and hurried back to the bathroom... I parked the cart outside of the hallway (yes they have a HALLWAY to get to the bathroom) and I knew I shouldn't carry Coleman because I'd get poo all over... well, I set Coleman down and as he walked to the bathroom... MORE poo clumps kept falling out of his shorts making a TRAIL to the bathroom... AHHH HORROR!!! As I got to the bathroom... the stall with the changing table in there was OCCUPIED!!! AHHHH! Oh heavens... Im sure my blood pressure went up to the roof with all the stress and literally freaked out. Thankfully I was able to hold it in without bawling or anything like any mother would do. So I hurried cleaned Coleman up and as I was walking out of the bathroom... I swear, a CROWD of people had to go to the bathroom and they were dodging away the poo trail that Coleman left behind... I put the kids back in the cart (of course I cleaned of the seat) and hurried wipe up the "trail" without anyone seeing. Ahhh. It was mortifying and I ended my shopping right then. (Of course I paid for the wipes.)

Yes... this is going to be one of the kid's embarrassing story to tell when they get older. :o) Can't wait.

Sleeping Beauty

As I was getting myself ready for bed... I always check up on the kids before I turn out the lights for the night... This is what I found... Gotta love her!

Catching up... April and May...

Just a quick catch up here... I won't let ya fall asleep... it'll be brief. PROMISE.

APRIL:

COLORING the Eggs

Touching up...
Coleman's Masterpiece
Ella's Artistic Egg Family
And of course... Kiddos in their Easter Sunday Best. Aren't they CUTE!?

MAY:

Ella GRADUATED from PRESCHOOL!!

Ella getting ready to go say her part... (before she we moved to different spot for the rest of the program)

Ella's Part: "Learning has made us so incredible,

Our Teachers are so proud,

Our Folks thinks there is no one smarter,

Why! We stand out in a CROWD!!"

**bummer part about this is that is the only time we can see Ella from where we are sitting... she sat in the far end by where the parents are sitting in the upper stage. Wish we would have known where she was sitting before the show starts. Oh well. **

Mrs. Noker giving Ella her diploma and a last HUG... She is the most AWESOME teacher there... She taught preschool for 16 years!!

I'm really impressed with Ella's teacher and the preschool program... Ella has LEARNED so much that its amazing to see how much she has learned. I can't wait to put Coleman in!!! KINDERGARTEN here we COME!

Giddy up!

Well... LONG TIME NO BLOG! Sorry about that... I just wasn't in the blogging mood for a while. Hopefully this time it'll get better. Alright... In the last few days, I have tried to upload a bunch of pictures of Disneyland onto the slide show... with the retarded internet services I have, it will NOT complete it for me without freezing up and lose connection that claimed "NOT RUNNING"... Well I've decided to give it one more try... NO SUCH LUCK. All you're gonna see is 3 pictures of Disneyland... (I have more pictures than that but I'm too irritated to upload some more right now... if you like to see more, feel free to come by and I'd be thrilled to show them to ya!) by the way... thanks for holding your horses.

Traditional Front Entrance picture taken at Disneyland!

(Mickey is wearing a party hat since there is a special going on there... If its your birthday, you get in for FREE!)

MICKEY and MINNIE Mouse!!

Disneyland was a BLAST!! We're glad to have the opportunity to go to have fun with our good friends and family... The drive down and back was a breeze. Although Ella did developed a fever most of our trip but took it like a champ and had a lot of fun. (came to find out that she had bad ear infection after we got home)

INTRODUCING....

Alexander Joseph Terry

Born: March 31st 2009

12:04 P.M.

8 pounds 20 inches long

Congratulations Daniel, Katie and Addi on your newest arrival!!!

{Isn't he SO dang CUTE?!}

Testing...

This is a test to see if I got this whole Slide show thing figured out... Finally got it to work. GREAT! Disneyland pictures will be coming soon so hold your horses!

We're Back!!

Hello everyone! We are back from SUNNY California!! We had a BLAST! Keep your eye out for the next post on this trip... I'm waiting to see more pictures before I can blog it... Now, I just need to figure out how to use the slide show... its going to be a LOT of pictures to see! Keep watchin'...

We're off to....

The Draper Temple Open House on Saturday!

Then we're heading off to Disneyland!!!

See ya in a week and watch for pictures!!!

{I can't figure out why the pictures are so small... might want to bring out your magnifying glass to see.}

Interview with a 4 1/2 years old

My interview with Ella 4 1/2... Coleman 24 months is too young to understand the questions so all the answer will most likely will be Yes or no... so this is what Ella has to say about me... (This was a tag from Facebook and I had to post it on my blog so that I can have something to look back on... When Coleman is old enough... he will be interviewed...)

1. What is something mom always says to you?

Pick up your room

2. What makes mom happy?

Organizing her stamps

3. What makes mom sad?

That Scottie peed in the house

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

Doing silly things

5. What was your mom like as a child?

Like me

6. How old is your mom right now?

26

7. How tall is your mom?

Like this tall (holding her hands out about 15 inches)

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

Sew

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

Do stuff with Coleman

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?

Putting milk in the sippy cups

11. What is your mom really good at?

Really good at cleaning her Craft room

12. What is your mom not very good at?

Putting the rocks in (referring to the rock work on the house)

13. What does your mom do for her job?

Cleaning the house

14. What is your mom's favorite food?

All kinds of foods

15. What makes you proud of your mom?

Taking care of me

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?

Snow White

17. What do you and your mom do together?

Do crafty things

18. How are you and your mom the same?

Both of us have Blonde hair

19. How are you and your mom different?

I don't have glasses and my mom has glasses

20. How do you know your mom loves you?

When she gives me hug and kiss

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?

Going on a honeymoon (I don't know where she get this)

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?

Target

Swimming, swimming, swimming...

Last night, Dave came up with a fun idea of taking us all out to the Ogden Athletic Club to go swimming... We called them to see what time they are opened till (called at 8 pm) and they said they closed at 9... and figured/hoping they will just let us in for the last hour for free... nope... they want 20 smackaroos just to get ME, ELLA, and COLEMAN in for an hour... so not worth it. So after telling Ella the disappointing news that we were not going... she bawled. I knew this was coming. She was all ready to go in her swimsuit... I felt bad too... so I came up with a brilliant idea that she and Coleman can pretend that the bathtub is the pool and that they can wear their swimsuits in it! They liked that idea. Nice, warm bath to play in and they played and played till they are ready to get out. I can't wait for summer to come... so that they can go play in the Splash Pad for FREE!Sorry for the crappy picture quality... it was off of my phone... can't ditch the kids in the tub just to get the camera right?? Everytime they sees the camera... both of them will say "Cheese... Cheese... Cheese..." and not look at the camera... this is the best shot out of 3. Ah kids...

One Hundred...

I've seen this around on other people's blog and thought it was a piece of cake to do this... BOY, I was wrong!! Its a lot harder to come up with something else as you come to the half way point... Well now that I've done it and YOU should do it too!!!

1. My name is Shannon
2. Nice to meet you..
3. I am profoundly deaf
4. I was born that way
5. I'm the oldest... my two younger brothers are cool.
6. I do wish to have a sister though.
7. Tomatoes is not my favorite
8. I LOVE Salsa!
9. Green is my favorite color
10. Mornings are not my thing
11. LOVES night!
12. I love to try out new things
13. Someday I like to go Skydiving...
14. I think my family has a Daredevil genes.
15. I'm one of them
16. Grasshoppers scares me
17. I blame it on my next door neighbor who loves them
18. Food is my best friend
19. I LOVE to eat
20. Okay this is getting hard...
21. I love surprises
22. I want to go on many LDS missions with my husband
23. I miss playing sports
24. I wonder if my ward ever going to set up women's sports
25. I LOVE to travel
26. I hate to pack...
27. I always worry if I forget something so I bring everything with.
28. There is not one day I lived without hearing aid batteries.
29. I wonder how much in my lifetime that we've spend on hearing aid batteries...
30. I think it should be free for life when purchasing new hearing aids.
31. This hearing aids is 8 years old and is still working
32. That's the longest I've own without falling apart.
33. Its time to start saving it for new ones soon.
34. I have 2 awesome kids
35. One girl
36. One boy
37. I have the world BESTEST husband EVER!
38. No, you can't have him
39. Sorry.
40. I hope to grow old with my one and only husband
41. I want to be mentally sharp and active as long as my body can take it even when I'm 90
42. I hope to live to see my great-great grandchild
43. I discover the love of sewing
44. Only when I don't mess up
45. I have the shortest toes in my family
46. I don't know who or where that came from...
47. Yes my hair naturally curly
48. Wanna trade?
49. I despise Winter
50. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Summer!
51. Yes! I made it pass 50!
52. I love shopping
53. I only buy stuff on clearance
54. I feel guilty for buying things on normal price
55. No wonder my house is bare...
56. I don't have the heart to buy something expensive.
57. I need help.
58. If I start on project, I have to FINISH it
59. Or it will never get done.
60. I have a LONG list of things to do to get done...
61. Can't wait to get started on it
62. But have to wait till its warmer outside first.
63. I LOVE juice
64. Too bad they don't get along with me.
65. Thank goodness Imodium is invented.
66. I must have very sensitive digestive system.
67. Okay that was a little TMI.
68. I absolutely CANNOT live without Q-tips...
69. Its the best ear stratcher ever.
70. Too bad you don't like it.
71. I think its a blessing to be deaf.
72. You know why.
73. I never ever had a cavity... not even with baby teeth too.
74. I hope to break the world record for not having one.
75. Okay 25 more to go...
76. I LOVE doing art
77. I enjoy taking pictures
78. Someday our house is going to be as colorful and happy
79. I don't like to be bored
80. I need to be doing something.
81. or I'll go crazy!
82. We don't have television
83. Never have for almost 4 years.
84. I absolutely LOVE it!
85. We do have 1 TV
86. Its so old and it only works for watching movies.
87. We get free movie every Monday night
88. Thanks to the Redbox code.
89. We go to my parents house EVERY Sunday for Sunday meal
90. My dad is the world best cook ever!
91. I always look forward to it!
92. I'd like to learn to be like him.
93. I'm excited to take my kids to 2 of the Temple open house this year
94. Hopefully it will inspire them to go there someday
95. I am also so excited to take them to Disneyland in couple of weeks!
96. Can't wait to be a kid again
97. My entire
98. FAMILY
99. IS freakin'
100. AWESOME!!!

Whoo... now its your turn :o)

random shots...

Ella loves to dress up everyday if I let her... She is wearing the "baby legs" that I made for her a while back... I promised that I would post it for everyone to see... so there ya go!

The other day, Coleman was being very quiet and I had to check on him to make sure hes not into in mischief like he usually is... I found him playing with his trucks and cars behind the couch cushion where he had taken the back cushion off and he'll have a dip in between... he LOVES it! He thinks its like a little fort and would play in it for hours!

Valentines, President's Day, Birthday... OH MY!!!

Well, Valentine's Day came and went!! Dave and I ditched our kids to our friends house on friday night and had the night to ourselves... it was heavenly! We went to dinner at Timbermine... it was FANTASTIC and the best thing ever is that our bill was only .96 cents!!! Thanks to our gift card that covered the whole bill! We were going to go to the Temple that evening but due to the nasty cold I had... I wasn't feeling too great to go. After dinner we just went home and curl up in our bed and went to sleep... it was beautiful!! The next morning, we picked up our kids and our friend's kids to keep overnight (it was a trade that we did and it worked out great!) and the girls was darling and so much fun! We went to Dave's folks house for a family gathering/dinner... it was a great little Valentine to get together!

President's Day always falls on a Monday so that means everyone (well mostly everyone) got a day off from work!! Dave and his folks and some friends went ICE FISHING up at East Canyon... (I did not go... I wasn't up for it... maybe another time.) They all caught a fish... Dave out fished everyone as usual.

Matt waiting for his fish...

Ginny waiting for her fish...

Drew waiting for his fish...

Drew's friend waiting for his fish too...

Matt got one!! Had to kiss it...

Ginny got one too... proud to show it off...

Yes! Drew got one!!!

Drew's friend had to bite it... he too got one!

Finally Dave got 4! Way to go!

At last, on Tuesday it was COLEMAN'S Birthday!!! He is TWO years old!! Yikes, where did the time go?! We had a small party just us family on his birthday and we had all of our families over on Saturday to celebrate his day! I made a Lightning McQueen cake all from scratch... boy that kid sure LOVES cars, trucks, tractors, anything with wheels! He also sure LOVES balls too!!! Coleman has started showing his true personality that cracks us up... He has started talking in sentences... so clear that you can easily understand what he was saying. He is such a joy in our family and we love him so much!! Happy 2nd Birthday COLEMAN!!!

Coleman had a great birthday! He was spoiled with all kinds of wheeled vehicles from our families!!

Daniel, Katie and Addi gave Coleman a BIG bag full of BALLS!!! Boy, that kid was in LOVE! Thanks everyone for coming and Coleman sure loves his gifts!!

Lightening McQueen cake I made from stratch... Coleman loves it!

He knows what to do with the candle on the cake! He blew it out so soon before we could even finish the song! Good Job!!