Letter from Santa!!

The kids got a surprise letter from Santa Claus in the mail today... boy are they ever so excited to get a LETTER from SANTA!!! It really made the kids' day since they both haven't been feeling so good.

I have one sick, sick, sick little girl.

Ella is so stinkin' sick!! She started out with a cough over the last weekend and it progressively got worse and worse along with a running/stuffy nose and a fever of a 102.2!!!... after trying out different ways to get her better with cough syrup, humidifier, vapor-rub, steamy showers, relaxation, Tylenol, etc... it still seem doesn't do its job. I dialed up the pediatrician's office to see if she could be seen today... luckily she could! The doctor checked her as usual and she listened to her lungs very carefully with a little concern on her face... the diagnoses is that she as PNEUMONIA!!! Its pretty mild one... nothing serious that she does not need to be admitted to the hospital or anything... The doctor gave her some antibiotics and we will be watching her to see if she has progressed with it. Poor girl, she is had had it with being sick. I feel bad for her. Lets hope that this antibiotics will do its job! I miss my little girl.

Oh my HECK!!!

I finally BLOGGED!!! After 2 months, well okay okay... almost THREE months of NO blog!!! Gaddzooks! Well... A lot of things have happened in the last 2 1/2 or 3 months... Let me just catagorized of the things we did...

September:

*Ella started her first day of preschool at Pages.
*Marrian and her boys ARRIVED from GERMANY!!!
*Had a birthday (man, its so not fun being in the "late" twenties)


October:

*Played with Marrian and her boys.
*Dave had an emergency appendectomy.
*Took care of Dave for about 2 weeks till he's able to get back to normal self.
*Fighting the sickies thats been going on here...
*Halloween... went to Trunk or Treat in the ward. Ella dressed as a Hocus Pocus Witch and Coleman went as a chicken. They had a blast getting all the candy and was eaten all in one week :)

November:

*Played with Marrian some more!!
*Chopped my hair off up to my shoulders... MY MOM DIDNT EVEN NOTICED after 2 hours of being with her!
*Dave and I had our SIX year anniversary... man, I love that guy!
*Elder Thomas Terry came home after fulfilling his mission at San Franando, California mission!!
*Had a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house... I made ORANGE rolls from STRATCH!!! My dad was surprised! Its been years since we had them... my grandma used to make those all the time for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner... I guess the recipe as been lost or something happened or no one knew how to make it... it was good to have the traditional orange rolls again... I hope to keep that tradition alive again.

December:

*Got my tree all decorated and brought out the little tree just for the kids to put their fun ornaments on... now I'm still trying to figure out how to keep this little guy of mine NOT to touch them...
*Dave had a BIRTHDAY!!! We celebrated his birthday with just us... Ella and I made him a birthday banner to put on our living room wall, made a cake (somehow the cake fell apart and it kinda ruined it... oh well, we still stuck candles in it and sang it to him), made his dinner at his request... grilled cheese and tomato soup. Then we watch a movie together and had a fun entertainment after ;o)
*Said good-bye to Marrian and her boys as they left to go back to Germany... It has been the funnest 3 1/2 months!!!

There... That is all that had happened in the last few months... Marrian has asked me to KEEP my BLOG UP TO DATE!!! I sure hope that I will be able to do that... By January.. this will be my new resolution of keeping my blog up to date... in fact.. I want to try to get to my certain goal of reaching certain amounts of blog post... I'll have to get back to you on that when January comes. Now It is still December... I will do my best to post something exciting happening this coming month.

Ta ta for now... oh, by the way!!! I CHANGED MY LAYOUT!!! YAY!!! Something new for a change!!

Wahoo!

Yes! Our computer is ALIVE!!! Im actually typing on my own keyboard!!! Id thought I spread the excitement that I can BLOG again!! I will post some more on in a few... I have to leave in half hour to go to a playgroup at 1... so watch for new post! See ya.

Where are the Terry's??

We are here!! Man... its been a crazy month... We've got some happy news and some sad news.

First off... the internet is still out on our computer but we did get the computer working and thankfully our pictures are not lost anymore... I'm using my phone to type this new post while my KIDS yes KIDS both of them are down for their nap which it rarely happens for Ella... :o) We've been too busy to deal with the internet right now so its not our top priority so I apologize for the lack of our blogging update.

Lets see... ah yes... the last post is about my mom jumping off the plane... my dad took the news in a surprise "I can't believe you actually did it?!" expression... although my mom's friends want to kill her for doing this without telling them. Haha. It was all good and they did enjoy watching her video as she jumped off.

The 4th of July was really good... it was pretty laid back... we went to watch my mom in the Hooper parade... she was with her co-workers displaying their Postal Service float. Hooper is very mild... NOTHING like the traditional Kaysville parade. It was enjoyable though. After the parade I took the kids up to North Ogden Cherry Days... it was really crowded and I didn't stay very long because I was worried about losing Ella in the crowd. Then we went to my folks house for a SLIP-N-SLIDE PARTY and a yummy BBQ with our friends? I tell ya... the slip-n-slide brings back lots of our childhood memories and defintely some grass stains as we go off the slide. Lastly, we went to Davis High to watch the fireworks... it was kinda disppointing because it was short. Ah well the kids had a great time!

Hmm lets see... oh ya we've been working like mad trying to finish everyone's project that they needed help on... and working on our house... the rock is coming along slowly and hoping to be done with it before it gets too cold.

The sad news was that my grandpa passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on the 14th of July... he was packing up to get ready to go to Mississippi to his family reunion (that's where he was from) the night before and he was feeling rather tired and call it a night and went to sleep and never woke up... He was finally together with my grandma again after 27 years. What a reunion that is for them!! We miss him terribly and knowing that he is together again and will be seeing them again. We have been busy pulling stuff together for his funeral and cleaning out his house. To be honest I had a fun time helping out... it was so good to hear stories about my mom's family and how my grandpa joined in her family (he married my grandma at the SLC Temple when my mom was 11) and listening funny stories about him.

After that we had a Terry family reunion over the 24th weekend... Sadly one family couldn't make it up because Abby had an accident in the canal... she broke her leg badly as she jumped in the water where she thought it was deep enough to jump in... hearing the story just gave me heebie jeebies. She is required to have some surgery (which she is going to have it on the 4th of August) to repair her broken leg... we made her a Get Well card and hopefully she'll have a speedy recovery. What we did: We had breakfast, all the ladies did crafts (we made FHE house) and the men went shot gun shooting, later that afternoon we came back and made lunch and went to the Clark Plantarium and back home to have BBQ and clean up... we were gonna watch old videos of the Terry family when they were kids but they all were too tired to watch... I was kind of bummed because I was looking forward to it. All in all we all had a good time.

Well as soon I get the internet up and running and not having to use my teeny phone to update the blog... and of course the pictures are still waiting to be shown. I can't believe that July flew by so quickly and that August is coming in few days. I'll do my very best to get the pictures coming and keep it updated. Whoo my thumbs are tired haha. Ta ta for now!

My Mother...

JUMPED off the PLANE!!! She went sky-diving for the first time yesterday afternoon with a bunch of ladies at her work. She hasn't told my dad about it and was going to surprise him with a video. I wonder what he's going to think of it. I did watch her getting dressed, listen to her brief "jump" class, getting on the plane, waiting anxiously for the plane to get up certain distance and watched 6 teeny tiny balls till the parachute popped open... my mom was the last one that landed all in one piece. Thank goodness. So I approached to her feeling all nervous and relieved. I asked how she thought of this experience and she was still in state of shock... I did ask her if she would go again and gave me the look with a "Never again." I would have to say that it was the gustiest thing to do and way to go mom!!! (I've got pictures... I'll have to post it when I'm able to use the computer again...)

Do you have a hammer??

Yes, a hammer... any kind of hammer will do just fine... I need to use it to beat my computer senseless!! Argh! Its acting up again and it might have got hit by some kind of viruses or something... which its funny because we have 3 different kinds of virus scan thingy and none of them detected any major bug. So we are hoping it just the computer itself that can be easily fixed and be able to retrieve all of our personal files back safely. I'm using the interent on my cell phone that takes ages for it to upload the sites I want to see. The downside of it it can only hold certain amount of memory on it so I won't be able to see everything as u see on the computer. So I apologize for not having anything posted lately... now where's the hammer...