Be Safe!

We took Sadie to get groomed today. She seriously needed it! Poor girl. He last groomer experience was really tramatic but this one seemed much better. They told me the only time she really had a hard time was when they were trimming around her face and eyes. She doesn't like that. Hopefully over time it she will get used to it. We really liked the place we took her too. It's super close to the house and we actually plan on taking Mojo in to get groomed soon.

She hates the flash!

Below are a few pictures i took at James' reenlistment. We should have more soon. I forgot my camera and James had his (my old one) in the car so we used that. He reenlisted with the same friend he reenlisted with six years ago in Hawaii. It's a small navy! James and him were on the Erie together and then he came to James' current ship about a year ago. His wife had her nikon d60 with her so once she started taking pictures I just stopped, lol.

This picture is of James with the Officer that reenlisted him.

James and his friend reenlisting

I hope everyone stays safe tonight. We are going to spend the night as a family. Maybe some board games, watching the ball drop in NY and relaxing. We had enough excitment at Christmas to last a while!

ER Visit, Christmas

Well, Christmas eve started off interesting. The day before Sierra had been coughing... not not wheezing or anything like that. At about 4am Christmas eve morning sierra ran into our bedroom coughing and saying "im gonna puke". So James got up and she kept coughing and coughing so much that she was gaging. So I got up to see what I could do to help. She sounded bad... and sounded like things might start to go downhill so we decided to give her some of the prednisone (Steroids "anti-inflammatory medications" such as prednisone can be used for asthma as well as other lung diseases. Prednisone and other steroids help calm airway inflammation in asthma. ) that we have for her to take as needed. As soon as I gave it to her she caughed and vomited it up. So we gave her some water and she did the same again. I decided to go ahead and take her in since it was obvious that she wasnt going to hold down anything and i didnt think a breathing treatment alone would be enough. So I drove to the hospital. To my joy it was empty. She was seen right away. Her oxygen saturation was 94/95% not terrible.. They said it was good we came in when we did and they were able to give her two injections of prednisone into her legs. That way she got the meds but didnt have to worry about not being able to hold it down. They gave her a teddy bear to keep. And we went home. Over the day she got a little better.

Wednesday night Brady's girlfriend came over at around 6:30pm. Shortly after that Tom and Carady arrived. We had our traditional 'special spaghetti dinner'. The sauce spent most of the day cooking. It was yummy! After dinner we made cookies for Santa with Sierra. Then it was time for her to go to bed. After she went to bed we played apples to apples. It was fun. After that Santa came and delivered a barbie house, a bike and a bunch of other things that were wrapped in either Santa wrapping paper or paper that said "special delivery from the north pole". Cute. Around that time James, Brady, Carady and Tom went to karaoke. Brady's gifrlfriend stayed with me. They were there about an hour and a half. We decided it would be fun to wake Sierra up. So Tom went up and woke her up. Her face was priceless as she was coming down the stairs. she got a lot of stuff! About 1/2 the way into opening her gifts she started coughing again and gaging. We decided she needed a breathing treatment. She refused to stop opening gifts just because she had the mask on her. And Tom wasnt about to make her stop. The last gift she opened was a electric guitar from Tom (and his mom). Tom also gave her an amp. He taught her a few things on it tonight.


We nicknamed this year "the year of the Hannah Montana". Between her grandma (and papa), her aunt lisa, and her uncle tom she got FIVE hannah montana/miley cyrus dolls!

After we all opened our gifts we had cinnamon rolls and decided it was time for a nap. Sierra didnt want to sleep much as she was too excited and wanted to play with her new toys. She wanted to ride her new bike but it's still way too snowy and icey. She wouldnt make it an inche without getting stuck. The rest of the time we spent playing with her and her new stuff. We play with her guitar hero and helped her open up her things. Later we played a game of phase 10. For dinner we had prime rib, mashed potoatos, corn and dinner rolls. After dinner we had Chocolate cream pie. Yummy.

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After Santa came

In her I love Santa PJ's

Lots of hannah montana dolls. lol.

Groom ME!!!

Sadie needs to be groomed so bad! But she's never good at the groomers so i've been putting it off and putting it off! I was going to let her top knot grow out but she doesnt like it when i put a bow in it. It doesnt look like it but she was just given a bath yesterday!

In all we've gotten atleast 20 inches of snow. May not seem like a lot but is when the area is only used to getting 1-3 inches and it ususally melts that night. The next couple of nights we are expected to get snow/rain. Sierra's had a blast in it. The dogs love it. You should see our deck. Insane. Tomorrow I have to drive down to mill creek which is about 30 minutes away and I am taking the car (not the trailblazer) so we'll have to dig it out tomorrow.

Still waiting on our trash to be picked up. Almost a week later! It's starting to pile up. Hopefully it will be picked up before Christmas because that will add a lot more!

Snowman!

We've had more more and more snow. Last night we got an additional 5 inches. That's in addition to all the other snow we've had. The snow hasnt melted at all! We went outside an made a snowman today. Well, Sierra made one & then the three of us worked on the bigger one :). We've been kind of staying at home and not going anywhere because the drivers here have NO clue what they are doing. The roads havent been plowed at all. It's a mess. So if we leave its just down the road and back.Infact, its snowing again :)

Additional Pictures to the right where it says "My Links"

Other than that not much excitment. We are getting excited about christmas!! Just a few short days away!

Tubing!!

We got a lot more snow last night. Some parts of the town we live in got 2ft of snow just overnight, not including the stuff we already had. And its STILL snowing! So this morning we decided try and find a sled. Ha, not happening. Every store we went to was sold out. Our last resort store had some kind of cheapy tubes. But it worked! We blew it up & went. It was a lot of fun. We just had SOOOO much fun. One time I went flying and narrowly missed a pole. So we moved to another hill. The kids around here arent very bright though. Because as soon as you hit the bottom you should know to MOVE. Sierra took out this one kid bad... and sierra kept going. It was so funny. The kid didnt seem to mind. additional pics to the right :)

Sierra's recital and more snow...

Well, Sierra's recital on Monday went great! We didn't get any video of it this time but we do have pictures. She did so good! I am so proud of her. They danced to the song "jingle bell rock". Click on the picture to see it more clearly... oh and as ALWAYS you can see more pictures on our webshots page... the link is to the right.

We've gotten more snow! It started snowing last night (tuesday night) and by this morning we had enough snow that they canceled school. James had to go on but was able to get off by 1:30pm. A lot of snow fell overnight and around noon the stuff on the road started melting. The roads are expected to be extremely icey tomorrow. They've told James if the roads are bad to not come in. His Christmas leave starts tomorrow anyway. We still don't know yet if Sierra has school but if she does it will be at least a 2 hour delay. Around 3 snow started falling again and it hasnt stopped. I didnt have my camera on me during the day so the only photo I got was after the sun went down. I will post more pictures tomorrow. It's supposed to snow all night & into the morning.. we shall see!

Let is snow!!

Saturday night we got some snow!! Sierra was super excited and had hours of fun Sunday morning playing in it. It didnt snow Sunday but it stayed cold enough to only melt a little of it. Todays high will only be around 27 degrees. It was on like 19 degrees this morning. It took me forever to scrape through the layers and layers of ice on my car. It's going to be cold all week. On Wednesday and Thursday it's supposed to snow. And it may even snow next sunday. I think the high temp all week will be 30 degrees. CRAZY!! Below are some pictures of Sierra in the snow...

Oh and tonight is Sierra's Jazz recital. Should be fun!

Sadie peeing in the snow... the dogs LOVED the snow!

Back from Montana

James' cousin was lost at sea in October and so on Tuesday we went to his memorial service in Montana. It was James, Sierra, Tom, Brady & I. We left for Montana on Monday at 3am. It was a long drive but we kind of took our time. We had to drive down to Tacoma to pick up Tom so we ended up in Helena, Montana around 4:40pm local time (3:40pm Washington time). We actually didnt run into much snow on the way there. It was completely dry until we got half way into Idaho and after that it was mainly snow on the side of the road. It snowed for a little while but melted before it even hit the ground. Helena had a little bit of snow but it was mainly icey. Lots & lots of ice in the Hotel parking lot. About 10 minutes after we arrived my father in law arrived. Sierra was super excited to see him. We brought our bags into our hotel rooms and then left to eat dinner. We had a heck of a time trying to find somewhere to eat. Helena is pretty small for being the capital of Montana. And all the roads are one way and they have like 5 way intersections and stuff.. very confusing. We ended at some no name pizza joint which was REALLY good. After dinner we went to James' cousins Christmas choir recital. After that we went back to his aunts house. It was nice to meet some of the family i'd never met. My father in laws Aunt was there too. We found out she actually lives pretty close to us. We hung around there for a little. After that we went back to the hotel. We were pretty tired. The next morning everyone woke up and went to breakfast. It was pretty good. After that we drove to James' aunts house again and sat around and chit chated until it was time to go to the church. The memorial service was very emotional. I wish I would have had the pleasure of meeting James' cousin. He was very well loved. Sierra started crying when a lady came up and sang "what a wonderful world". After the service we went downstairs for a reception type thing. Sierra started crying again and so my father in law came up to her, kneeled down and gave her a big hug. It was so cute. When it was time to leave we offered up our trailblazer for the left overs that needed to be transported. James' uncle told me to move it to the loading area which was right off of the parking lot. I got into the car and started driving down the hill to get into the loading area. I get about a foot down and begin sliding on the ice. I ended u sliding past the loading area so he just had me stop there, put my emergency break on & put it into park. So I do that and James opens the back and I begin sliding again! I ended up having to keep my foot on the break too. As soon as James closed the back of the truck I began sliding again! It was scary but I did a good job, lol. After that we went back to his Aunts house. We hung around there for a while and at 6pm we left for Washington. The trip back was pretty uneventful. A little bit of snow but not too much. We got back at 3:30am. We were super tired. James had to leave for work at 5:30 am. Sierra went back to school on Wednesday... but she went in late.


Tonight is James' ships Christmas party. In a little I have to get all the door prizes ready to go. I hope we win something!!

This was a store in Montana which had like 500 signs along the freeway



Snow...



Almost there!!



Sierra & papa


The goobers


at breakfast

After the service we all changed into more comfy clothes

Brady doing Magic

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Go Cowboys/Christmas parade

Sierra mentioned to me that she wanted to add a few items to the Santa letter she'd already sent out. So I told her to go write them down & that I'd mail it on Monday. We did NOT tell her what to put, give her ideas nor did we help her with spelling, lol.... heres what she put...


Look at #3... James was so proud :)




So, tonight we went to our towns christmas lights parade. It's pretty small but it wasnt too bad... kinda boring, lol. And the few people who were passing out candy completely skipped Sierra everytime. lol. Anyway, here are some pictures.





Geek Squad. It had christmas lights on the top...




My camera is really big and its hard to hold it with one hand and aim it towards myself.




Mom, It's COLD!!!

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Sierra didn't have school today. So she's been spending the day trying her best to drive me insane! lol. Anyway, she has to read everyday and today she picked my favorite book Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. I've always loved this book. It may look like a simple picture book but it's got a lot of big words in it.. not easy like Dr. Suess. Needless to say she read about 99% of it without help. She really liked the book too :)

Hope

Five years is too long. Please god...


Clomid 100mg

Thanksgiving

I am horrible at keeping my blog up to date. Sorry. I am trying to get better... i promise!! Anyway, thanksgiving was great. Tom came up on Wednesday. We had Kangaroo that night. I didn't care for it but Tom and James liked it. On Thanksgiving Brady's girlfriend came over. We had fun. We ate lots of food! We then played a little rockband fallowed by phase 10. I ended up winning phase 10. Yahoo!!! Then we played American Idol on our PS2. We have 2 microphones so we all took turns. Sierra actually did pretty good!! Here is a few pictures from Thanksgiving....

We also went to Camano Island State Park to do some 'family' pictures. I couldnt get posed correctly in time (12 seconds isnt enough for me..lol) so we ended up only liking the random shots I did of James and Sierra. We may end up trying again... havent decided yet. Here is some of the pictures... you can view more at my Webshots page.... http://community.webshots.com/user/mana2sisi