Finally

The long awaited tracks from "Razia's Shadow". I don't have all of them on here, just a few, but don't you worry, I'll be adding more as they become available!

BLACKOUT

Have you ever just had really bad luck?

I am so glad yesterday is over. I'll try to make a long story short, but forgive me because a few details play into how we ended up where we did.

Maddison has been sick since Oct 1st. She has had strep twice in 30 days and been through two rounds of antibiotics. She finished round two on Saturday and on Sunday was running a fever and her throat hurt... AGAIN! I had made an appointment to visit the pediatric ear nose & throat specialist for Wednesday of this week, but I decided to call yesterday morning and just see if they could squeeze her in. They could... in Bountiful. But being as tired of her being sick as I was, I decided to make the drive to figure out what the heck has been going on. (Sidenote: the speach therapist at her school called me last week after meeting with her. She looked in her mouth and was very concerned about her tonsil size. She thought that it might be hindering her speach a little.)

Okay, so we make the drive up and it takes like 2 hours to get checked in, see the doctor, test her for strep (again) and get the results. No strep (Thank Goodness), but the tonsils are coming out on the 21st of this month. Maddison becomes upset, so I do the best to calm her down, get the kids in the car and head for home.

So we barely get on the freeway in Bountiful and I notice that the road is really bad. It's loud and bumpy and my car just feels weird. Then I think hmmmm, maybe I have a flat tire. (I've never had one before so I don't know what that feels like.) So I pull over and sure enough it's completely flat.

Well, those of you who know me, I like to be prepared. I am a AAA member and this is the fourth time this year I have called them, so that membership has totally paid for itself. So, I call AAA, they send someone out and I am feeling pretty calm and just trying to entertain the kids. We're sitting there waiting as cars and trucks are whizzing by a lot closer than I am comfortable with when we hear a LOUD thud and the tiny sounds of glass cracking into a thousand pieces. I look behind me and a passing truck has kicked up a rock (Later detemined to be a smidge smaller than the size of a golf ball,) and Smashed my whole window. At that point there is a football size hole in my rear window and it is slowly chipping off and becoming bigger.

So next, I call highway patrol, and as I am on the phone with them a patrol officer shows up. He walks up to passenger window to see what's going on and when I tell him what happened he's a little blown away. He offers to stay behind me to defer traffic and I graciously accept.

I figured it could have been worse and count myself lucky that we made it home in one piece. I got the tire replaced last night and the windshield replaced this afternoon. So we are all put back together and are glad that yesterday is over.

Scentsy Blog

In an effort to keep my scentsy business seperate from my blog, I have created a different blog that is dedicated to all things Scentsy. If you click on the the Scentsy logo on my sidebar, it will take you to that site.

There you will find a list of my current inventory, what the monthly special is, as well as be able to enter contests and see any specials I am offering! It's a great site to win free weekly drawings, so bookmark it and go there weekly to see what I have going on!

Erin

This Week

This monster at Gardner village was REALLY Scary!

I took Maddi and Wyatt to see Leroy the pig at HeeHaw Farms. It was a blast as it is every year. If you've never seen Leroy the pig, go check it out. You'll see what I am referring to. He's a very Manly pig.

Forgive Durden: Razia's Shadow, A Musical

Okay, SO I am totally promoting this album just released today. It's awesome! My sister's (both Sister's) are really good friends with the Thomas Dutton, The writer and Producer of this album. I am blown away by his talent. His Brother did most of the Orchestra parts incorporated, but Thomas wrote the music and the story. Check it out. If you love music, you'll love this. I especially love: "The Missing Piece" and "It's True Love", well, because I'm a girl and aren't we all romantic in the end? I also love: "The Spider and the Lamp" and "The Doctor".
The website is

www.forgivedurden.com

There are several well known artists who collaberated on this project, including Brendan Urie from Panic at the Disco.

Enjoy my friends!

If you hate hunting photos, don't look at these, this is your official warning

There are pictures of a Deer Mark shot this weekend below, so I know I have a few friends who will cry at this, and I am warning you right now that they are in this lineup! Sorry, Mark was too excited, I had to post them.

So these are all from our fun UEA weekend. (For those of you who don't live in Utah, UEA is basically a 5 day weekend, Utah Education Association or something, it's a long weekend of teacher's seminars which half the teacher's skip to go on vacation as well!)
So here's some photos of how we spent it.


This first picture was taken right down the street from our house, it's hard to see what you're looking at. If you click on the picture it will enlarge it for you. We were driving down the street and spotted this cute little red fox all curled up in a ball, literally a few yards from the road, it was closer and clearer than this picture makes it seem.


Here is the afformentioned "typical hunter's photo". Way to go Mark. We drove down to Richfield and stayed in a brand new Fairfield Inn there. I love new hotels, they are so clean and always nice no matter what kind of hotel they are. The kids had fun swimming. We went with our friends Erin and Avery; Avery's parents live in Annabella about 5 minutes from Richfield. It is really pretty there and it was so much fun. Mark and Avery hopped on 4 wheelers right in Avery's parent's driveway and rode off down the street to hunt. It's like an after work activity there if you draw out. Sometimes when I go to these small towns in Utah I think it would be so fun to pick up my family, move to a small town and slow down the pace of life. It's so tempting at times. But I know myself too well and I would probably be driving up to the city every weekend so I might as well just live where I do.


This is at the Ute game on Saturday. The Utes beat Colorado, it was warm outside, hot actually and it was a ton of fun.


We rode Trax to the game, brought our two nephews along. I'm glad that it was just a trax ride, 4 kids 6 and under is a lot. It looked like we had two sets of twins with us and I kept thinking, this is Larry and Cherises life!! You are one tough cookie Cherise.

Fun Tag

1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload the 4th Picture of the 4th Folder
3. Post
4. Tag 4 of your friends



I swear, of course this is what it lands on!!! I wasn't going to post this photo because well, my kid's half naked, but since he's a boy and it's kind of funny, I guess I'll share!

I tag: whoever feels like doing this. I doubt that will even be 4 of you!

ZOOOOOO

Yesterday I slyly coerced my friend Jen into taking our kids to the zoo. (I said to my kids right of front of her 4 year old. "should we go see the animals now?" I think she was not so into at the time, but we had a lot of fun once we were there!)

Before we left for the zoo, I was at Jen's hanging out for a minute and I decided that I need to stop by more often. We ended up laughing hysterically at the silliest things and It reminded me of some good times Jen and I had in the past. We lived together for a few years during our College/Single and working years and boy did we have some fun!! The stories I could tell.... well let's just say my blog isn't the place to share some of them!!

Thanks Jen for a fun afternoon and for reminding me why you are truly one of the best friends I have ever had!! I love ya tons!! (Oh and thanks for showing me the blog list thingy, I changed all my link lists this morning and it's the best, now I might actually read everyone's blogs on a regular basis again!!)

Cute New Scentsy Warmers, Available to order Nov 1st!

Aren't these Winter Warmers so stinkin cute?!!! They are available to Order Nov 1st, but my guess is they will fly off the shelves and be on backorder pretty quickly. So if you are interested, send me your orders before Nov 1st and I'll place an order that day. They are 10% off for the whole month of November, as well as the Cinnamon Cider (New Scent).