We must be on the NICE list...

First off lets start by Ella's Preschool program... She had it on the 18th of December... like I promised... I would post something about it. It was very well put together program and I was extremely impressed!!! All of the kids are so cute... I was going to take a video through the whole thing but I was worried that if I got to Ella's part, my camera would die. Instead of doing that... I saved it till she comes on... good thing I did because her part was very close to the end. Sorry about my camera shooting skills... its pretty shaky. So... go pop some corn and watch maybe 2 minutes of her fame! (she is on the far left dancing with a boy...)

She is in the middle row (she sitting above the brown hair girl in the front row.) She is finishing up the last song and this is Mrs. Farr, she is the Head of this school explaining us that Ella's Tuesday and Thursday classes have been practicing since Halloween and was very, very impressed with all the students for working really hard at a short practicing time since MWF classes has more time to practice. We sure love this school and we are so proud of Ella doing so well with her performances!! Now Ella is out of school for Christmas break and will resume again on the 5th of January.

Second... Christmas Bakin'...The kids and I have decided to do something nice for the neighbors and friends by baking some yummy Christmas treats... as you can tell... I don't look very attractive in the pictures because I have been working NON-STOP in the kitchen hurrying to get this ready to go before the snowstorm comes... I made some yummy Pretzels-Hugs with Christmas M&M's on top. I should have taken a picture of it but you might can see a little bit in the background of Ella. The one I am doing in this picture is the Chocolate Carmel cookies... its chocolate cookie dough covered in Rolos and rolled in powder sugar. Pretty tasty! The kids had a taste test before delivering.
Third... THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS! That day it finally STOPPED snowing for the first time in 24+ hours... The roads was hideous. It looks like the snow plow must be on strike or something. It was a freakin ice skating rink. Later that afternoon, we were invited to go to my dad's side of the family Christmas Eve potluck... its been a tradition as long as I could remember. My mom's side just had the "Sunday before Christmas" party... where we gather together to have potluck (its so much easier when you have a large quantities of families) and a fun game of White Elephant gift. Sorry no pictures for both... lame I know. Okay back to Christmas Eve, we ALWAYS take a short drive to look at the Christmas lights in downtown and the neighborhoods. After arriving home... all of us has a surprise from the Christmas Fairy... NEW PAJAMAS!! Then we would read a story "The Night Before Christmas" and leave a plate of carrots out on the porch for the Reindeers and of course milk and cookies for Santa. The kids were off to bed and went to sleep very quick.

Coleman and Ella getting ready for their story with their new jammies on.Ella getting ready to put carrots out for the ReindeersSanta's treats

Finally... THE CHRISTMAS MORNING! Was by far the best morning! Dave and I have been awake around 7:00 o'clock and we have been waiting patiently for our kids to wake up and listen for their reaction after seeing what Santa had left behind. It was priceless. We are proud to announce that we have a new addition to the family, SCOTTIE, our miniature schnauzer.

The kids digging through their stockings.

Every Christmas we always have a small family photo shoot after opening our gifts. Dave is holding Scottie. Its hard to see... look down below and you'll see a better picture of him.

Dave and I are happy to see the kids happy.Scottie!!

All in all we had a wonderful Christmas holiday and we are looking forward for the New Year to come.

Because I felt like it...

I'm IT!

I figure I blog the "8 Things" tag here... since I don't have anything exciting happening in the last few days... Tomorrow is Ella's school program so watch for that upcoming blog on that... Here it goes...

8 Things I'm thankful for:
* My awesome husband
* My family
* The Gospel
* Wonderful friends
* For the ability to hear what I can out of my hearing aids... its so great to be able to hear my children's voice!
* The opportunity to spend time with my awesome friend while she and her
family are here from Germany.
* Chocolate... what can a woman do without it?
* The knowledge I have

8 Things I love:
* Taking pictures
* Home cooked meals
* Sleep
* My children
* The Temple
* Have girls night out
* Traveling
* Clean house

8 Things I want to learn:
* Grow a garden
* How to take awesome pictures
* To sew
* To build a house with my husband
* How to change oil out of the car
* How to hear out of the phone
* Swim without dog paddling
* To use the snow blower without being dragged.

8 Things I look forward to:
* Sunny weather.
* Christmas (who doesn't?)
* Healthy kids
* Putting kids to bed at 7:30 and spend the rest of the evening in peace
* Meeting my newest nephew in April
* Potty training Coleman (when he's ready)
* Dave coming home from work
* Ella's preschool program tomorrow

8 Things on my wish list:
* Becoming a professional photographer
* To see what it is like to hear
* My kids grow up righteously
* Getting out of debt
* Taking Dave back to the Philippines
* Clean house daily
* To on as many LDS missions as possible with Dave
* Travel all over and see whats out there

8 Things that I did yesterday:
* Shoveled the snow off the driveway
* Drop/Picked Ella up from school
* Shopping for toilet paper
* Did laundry
* Made dinner
* Made Christmas gifts
* Took a hot bath
* Read my Parent magazine and when to bed.

I tag anyone interested in doing this :).

Do You Think You Can Dance???

Check out our HOT moves!! Merry Christmas everybody!!!

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...and I have one sick, sick, sick little boy.

That makes it TWO kids with PNEUMONIA!!! Ack! Coleman is a little worst than Ella... not terribly worst that he does not need to be admitted to the hospital... (thank goodness.) Coleman has a little respiratory distress along with a pneumonia... poor kid... he was traumatized for life at the Wee Care where we took him in at this late hour.

So the doctor wanted to check his oxygen level by putting the monitor on his toe... Coleman had a major freak out... I guess the red light on it scares him.

Then he wanted us to give Coleman some breathing treatment by using the Nebulizer hoping to help him to expand his lungs before going for his chest x-ray... This is him also freaking out. (That was after the treatment was over)

This is what the nebulizer looks like...

NOW... This is pretty sad sight... we took him to the X-ray room... I didn't bring my camera with so this is what they EXACTLY did to him in order to get him a good x-ray picture... I found this through google so this is NOT my son... imagine him in it screaming bloody murder... and it'll probably scarred him for life.

Now... he pretty much hates doctors or nurses... every time they would come in the room he'll scream... "No! NO! no!" over and over again till they leave the room.

After all the screaming and freaking out... he conked out in my arms while we were waiting for the doctor with the results... so ya... hes got it too. My poor baby! **On the side note... Ella is doing a little bit better... she is showing a little improvements but still gets the nasty sounding cough. Hopefully these two will be back to normal self again in time for Christmas!

Christmas is here at the Terry's!

Ella, Coleman and I decorated our Christmas tree(s) the first week of December and put up our other Christmas decorations while listening to Christmas music... The little ones couldn't keep their hands off of the pretty ornaments. Every day we would add another day on our Christmas countdown calendar... Ella would keep asking if its Christmas yet... I can see that she is getting really excited for Christmas to come. Coleman hasn't quite got the whole idea yet... but he still gets excited too.

The Big tree I decorated... Its How Grinch Stole Christmas theme... as you can see Grinch sitting in the tree.

Other Christmas miscellaneous...I put the lights on the three little trees and let the kids go to town in decorating it... they had a fun time doing it their own way!This is our Christmas countdown calendar... I made it few years ago... I LOVE making Christmas crafts! The picture below are all the date pieces that are waiting for their turn to be put up on the magnet calendar above.Our Stockings hung with care...In order for our Christmas to feel complete... We need to go see the lights at the temple square and show the kids the real meaning of Christmas... I am hoping the kids will get over this sickness quick so we can have the opportunity to go see it.

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...

Rate yourself!

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This is interesting... the questionaire is pretty hillarious but I was surprise to see my results... try it out and see what you are!

ELLA is FOUR!!!!

Today is ELLA'S fourth birthday!!! Half way of getting BAPTIZED!!!!! Hard to believe that our little girl is growing up so fast! We had a FUN day... we went to the newest park by our house that has funky water fountains to run through and a playground nearby. Tonight we are having a BBQ party with the family to celebrate Ella's birthday... pictures are coming.

Terry Look-alike Meter

Hey this is fun ... you ought to try it out to see what your kids really look like!! (Hawaii pictures is coming... Im trying to figure out how to get my scanner to work to put up some COOL pictures!)

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebs - Collage - Morph

Terry Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Vintage photos - Family reunion

Still working on it...

I know a lot of you are still waiting for me to post some pictures of HAWAII... I am still working on it... The HAWAII blog is going to be the longest blog ever so hold your horses and its gonna be wild!

I'm IT!

I've Been Tagged.
Marrian tagged me.
Rules first: I need to answer 6 questions. I then tag 6 people and post their names here, then go to their blog and comment to tell them that they have been tagged and to visit here to find out the rules. I must then let the person who tagged me know when I have posted my answers.

1) 5 Things on my 'to-do' list:

* Do laundry
* Go grocery shopping
* Finish filling out application for Ella's preschool (she's starting in
the fall!!)
* Play with my kids
* Figure out what to make for dinner tonight.

2) 5 Snacks I Love:

* Mariani brand dried Mangos mmm!
* S'mores
* Chocolate covered Almonds (man those are addicting!)
* Pepperoni/Cheese and crackers
* Gum

3) 5 Things I'd do if I suddenly became a millionaire:

*Pay tithing of course
* Invest it
* Pay off debts
* Travel all over
* Set up foundations

4) 5 Places I've lived: I've lived in Utah all my life... here are the cities I've lived in.

* Pleasant View
* South Ogden
* Kaysville
* West Bountiful
* Layton
* now South Ogden

5) 5 Jobs I've had:

* Office assistant for Dr. Liston
* Office assistant for Specialty Controls HVAC
* Service for Student with Disabilities at Weber State
* Coca-Cola Abassador during the 2002 Olympics
* currently - Stay home mom - loving it!

6) 5 Things people don't know about me:

* I eat my sandwiches around and eat the middle part
for last which its the BEST part of the sandwiches!!
* I have ZERO cavities and never had them.
* I have been inside the Oval office with Vice
President George W. Bush in the White House.
I was 4 years old.
* I'm profoundly deaf and did not know ASL till I got to
Weber State.
* I'm TERRIFIED of grasshoppers.

I'm tagging: I know several people who had already done this but I'm tagging whoever reads this... That means you KATIE, GINNY, and SHANNON F.!!

We're BAAACK!!!!

Man it was SOO good to be home!! Hawaii was a BLAST and it was great to get away to spend some quality time with my husband for 2 weeks. We sure did miss the kids tremendously! Today is going to be a little busy for me and I wont be able to tell you all about Hawaii just yet. When things settled down with clean clothes put away, get some groceries and spend a LOT of time with the kids, then I will be able to do some posting.

...and we're OFF!!!

Just so you know that I will be off for 2 weeks with this whole BLOG journal... We are leaving on a cruise to HAWAII early, early Sunday morning!! I will post some pictures for sure!!! Be safe where ever you are and what ever you're doing. Ta Ta!

(chuckle...)

Ok. I just saw something a little hilarious today. I was driving along Washington Blvd heading to the library and saw a car driving by me... the driver has a long mullet hair with geeky looking glasses and a moustache... AND this is his "COOL" car.

Thats right!! There are HORNS on the front of his car!! hahaha

Family Home Evening

Last night we called the Barnes and asked if they would like to join us at the Park to go fly kites for Family Home Evening... they were DELIGHTED!! So we met up at the Friendship Park and the wind was perfect!!! After playing around with the kites the kids went to the nearby playground to play for a little bit. Coleman had a BLAST swinging on the swings... it was his first time on it and LOVES it! We went to Zeppe's for our treat and it was YUMMY!

Fun Questions

A fun questionnaire to do requested by Marrian! Everyone ought to fill it out...

1. Occupation? Stay at home mom and wife

2. What color are your socks right now? Not wearing it now and don't like wearing them

3. What was the last thing that you ate? Gellata ice cream from Zeppe's (Italian ice cream to die for!) We went there for FHE treat. Mmm!

4. Can you drive a stick shift? You betcha

5. Last person you spoke to on the phone? mmm if you count TTY its Dave.

6.Name an odd job you've had? I was a back-up Interpreter for the deaf (till the certified one showed up) (for those who doesn't know... I'm deaf.)

7. How old are you today? 26

8. What is your favorite sport to watch? Football

9. What is your favorite drink? water

10. Have you ever dyed your hair? oh yea.. big mistake

11. Favorite TV show? If I have a TV that works it would be the shows on Discovery Channel

12. What is the last movie you watched? Alvin and the Chipmunks

13. Favorite day of the year? Probably today... its suppose to be in the 80's!!

14. How do you vent anger? Definitely cry... and would CLEAN the house till I feel better.

15. What was your favorite toy as a child? Probably my bike

16. What is your favorite season? Fall

17. Hugs or kisses? hugs

18. Cherries or blueberries? Blueberries

19. Living arrangements? Rambler style house with 4 bed 2 bath

20. When was the last time you cried? Don't really remember... maybe 2 weeks ago?

21. What is on the floor of your closet? Beat-up cardboard box with shoes and plastic drawers and wicker basket full of clean sheets.

22. What did you do last night? Went to the park to fly kites (it was perfect day!), play in the playground and went to Zeppe's to get Ice cream.

23. What inspires you? photography

24. What are you most afraid of? Losing my husband

25. Favorite smells? Clean kids

26. Favorite dog breed? Yorkie Terrier

27. Favorite day of the week? Saturday

28. How many states have you lived in? just one UTAH

Not Bad!

It was the middle of the day and it was almost nothing to do at the moment and I took a look at Ella's hair and how much I really want for her to grow it long... but at her stage its impossible to keep it nice and clean... She would get those teeny tiny obnoxious knots in her hair and she absolutely does not want to have her hair styled. So I felt the need to have her hair cut NOW... I asked Ella if she would like to have her hair cut and she would reply back, "Ya! My hair is getting TOO long and its ALMOST touch my bum!" I bravely pulled out the special scissors for hair and figure out what to do and how to start. I told Ella that she has to sit VERY still in order for me NOT to mess up. She did GREAT!!! I am pretty happy that I did well for the first time and she looks really cute and it looks so much better! Here are the pictures BEFORE and AFTER.

Deers!

We were heading home after eating dinner at my folk's house last night and we saw 2 deers eating grass along the busy Burton Lane! Its always fun to see something unusual happening near our parents house.

Excited or Anxiety?

AHHH! I can't tell if I am experimenting EXCITEMENT or ANXIETY??!! Dave and I are leaving to go on a 12 day cruise to Hawaii in less than a week!!! WITHOUT the KIDS... This is going to be the first time to be gone that long without the kids yet this is the first time in a long time to be alone with my own husband!!

Ella sick??

Every morning Ella would wake up all LIVELY and HAPPY but this morning I noticed she was not acting her usual self... I asked her if she was alright... she says she had gotten up during the night to go throw up... I don't know if it was true or not because we didn't hear her getting up or something. I asked her why didn't you come and get us and she says that she wanted us to sleep in and didn't want to wake us. Now I felt guilty. Well this is her climbing back in bed all by herself after breakfast without telling us. Hopefully she'll be feeling better soon.

Play Doh!

The other day, Ella and I played with Play Doh... Oh how I LOVE Play Doh!! I LOVE the smell of freshly new can of Play Doh... It just brings back memories of me playing with it when I was a child. I love it!

Wild Child?

Is my son going to be a wild child? Seems like lately hes getting too mischievous and doing things dangerous without me looking. Here's what hes been doing and look at all the previous post and tell me... Is my son a wild little stinker?? I miss my little sweet poo poo!