My Teeth

So in case you have never had a tooth prepped for a root canal it is horrible! I had my front six teeth done, from eye tooth to eye tooth. I had the prep done on Friday, and Saturday night while sleeping I had the temporary teeth fall off two of my teeth. It hurt so bad this morning. I am grateful that Dr. Tarbet gave me Loritab to take. I felt really bad calling him on Sunday but I was also extremely happy that he came into the office and fixed my tooth. This is what they looked like without the temporary on.

So those two little teeth, are my real tooth, the ones in front also look the same way! Even breathing hurt.

The black spots are my gums where they are bruised. Oh well this whole thing will be over soon...... And then six new pretty teeth!

My Country

I got this quiz off my cousins blog. Guess what I live in the right country!

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=1435

Which country should you REALLY be living in?
United States of America
You`re an American through and through. You like the idea of liberty and freedom, and enjoy watching the odd ball game with your trusty weener bun and your bud light. Sweet, dude.

Easter Afternoon

Easter afternoon was filled with fun at Papa greats house. And a quick visit to see Papa Ed. It was nice and fun to hang out with Carole and the kids. I drove her van up there, and the big joke was if I would drive crazy. Here are a couple more pictures from that day.

Easter morning at our house

This one look was the perfect look for Easter morning. I love the look of surprise on his face! Too bad I was behind him and couldn't get a good picture.

The bunny even climbed up on the chair for a few minutes!

But he only ate a couple bites of the carrots. Too bad I think that the bunny wasn't hungry anymore.

So I am going to attempt to update my blog :)

Hank and I woke up on Easter Sunday and the Easter Bunny had brought him a basket full of goodies and a little bit of candy. I thought the Easter Bunny mixed up our chocolate rabbits, because Hank got the big one and I got the small one. But I guess it is ok.

Did the bunny come in from outside?

Easter morning was fun I am glad that he is still young enough to enjoy it.

Easter Pictures

I am being teased because I have not posted in awhile. So here are some pictures and I will post some writing sometime this weekend.

Easter Bunny

If you can't read the note it says: Dear Easter Bunny, Thank you for the first easter big chocolate to share you gave me. Hope you have a appy easter Love Hank Kris (he wrote his name backwards the first time)

Getting ready for the Easter Bunny.....

The basket had to get on the biggest table we had, because in case you didn't know the easter bunny brought lots of stuff last year. Sometimes I wish that he didn't have such a good memory. I will post more pictures tomorrow after our Easter celebration.

Aunt Carole is here

Hank loves his cousins and has been so excited to play with them all week. I can't beleive how much fun they have together. We played kick ball this evening at the park. It was so much fun to try and teach the kids who they ran to and watching Uncle Bri pitch the ball to each of them. When he was pitching I thought back to how proud he used to be when he was in baseball. He loved to go play with his friends, I think he was only about 8 or maybe younger.

Here Uncle Bri is helping everybody play with these little helicopters I bought when working up at the home and garden show in Ogden.

Sam Loved to roll down the hill. I can't beleive how much he has grown since Christmas when we saw him last.

Climbing the Tree

Hank asked if he could climb up the tree in our front yard. He even had to have his gloves so the tree wouldn't hurt him. I can't beleive that he is growing up so quickly.

He wanted to make sure that I was watching him so I was sitting on the top step reading my Anatomy and watchin him.

He was actually up on the lower branch while I was getting the camera out.

The Couch

I just realized that a lot of my recent posts have pictures of our ugly couch in the background! My family will all recognize the couch because it belonged to Grandma Great and Papa Great. Well hank and I have decided to recover the couch, in this really nice green fabric. Well since I am required to get at least three hours of sleep a night I have not finished it. I will take another picture of just the couch so you can all see. It will be nice when it is all done, but who knows when that will happen.

Race Cars

Hank received these race cars from Grandma B and Papa B for christmas. We finally opened them on Saturday. he loves them. We only had enough batteries to make one of the cars run, but he loved it anyway.

He figured out how to get both cars running at the same time on one track. I knew he was smart :)

New School Clothes

Here are the new "uniforms" for Hank for "Big Kid School" He doesn't start there until August 20th but Old Navy was having a sale so I picked up some extra clothes, that are a little large.

He tried them on but then didn't want me to take a picture of him with the clothes on, so we compromised and he got by them. At least he was smiling!

This week

So this week has been hard for me. I have had finals in massage school, and my class at university of phoenix is ending on Monday. Also I have no energy levels. You would think that since I started to walk everyday and at least watch my food intake I would be gaining energy but that is not the case so far. Oh well it will get better. Now if I could cut out the Doctor Pepper I would be under calories and could start losing weight. I don't know if I can do it but I am going to try. I am at least finally drinking enough water in a day. Sometimes I feel like I am going to float out of my office.

PRJFury

So tonight was the debut for Jungle Fury! It was an hour long special that we have been waiting for for weeks. Since Hank has been sick I went to Wal-Mart and got him the two other Jungle Fury power rangers that he wanted. It was fun and I finally saw a smile on his face after three days.

His three Jungle Fury Power Rangers!

My favorite! Green Elephant runner

Getting better

Hank is getting better, according to him. He is only a little bit sick today and is a lot better. He does this little thing with his fingers to show you exactly how much better he is feeling. We are still sitting at home today and watching tv. Tonight is Power Rangers Jungle Fury debut so we are getting ready for our celebration at 5:00. I promised popcorn and a party so that is what we are doing. Hank has been marking the days off for about three weeks waiting for today.

I will post again after our power rangers party with some pictures.

Sick Again

So it is 1:00 AM. We just got out of sitting in our bathroom with a hot shower running and a shower steamer in the tub. If you don't know what that is it is a pellet you put in the shower and it releases a mentholatum steam. Hank has had a fever pretty much all day. It goes away for a little while then it comes right back. His fever is sitting at about 102 right now but he just took some more bubble gum medicine and hopefully will be ok again soon. If not I guess we might be making a late night/early morning trip to the doctors. I guess it is a good thing that his mom is normally a night owl, and that we have the day off tomorrow.

Big Kid School - He got in!

We received a letter stating:
Dear Kris,
We are pleased to inform you that Hank has been officially accepted into Kindergarted class for the 2008-2009 school year. ETC.....

Hank was so excited! BUt he wanted to know why the letter wasn't to him and it was to me! I told him that they had to tell his mom since I was the one paying for it. Anyway I am excited as well. I am glad that Hank got into private school for me it was important that he is in a small classroom and will get the individual learning experience. I also like that he will be wearing a uniform, this will save money on clothes and keeping up with his friends. I also thought it was awesome that Old Navy is in the middle of their kids sale so I purchased a couple of shirts tonight in celebration!

Will Always Remember

My Aunt Barbs birthday is today! She is an amazing person whom is so loved and deeply missed.

I spent Valentines day SAD - Some people think this was because it was Single Awareness Day, for me it was sad because all I could think of was My Aunt drawing a Valentine on her stomach for the doctors. She was happy and positive and laughed the whole time. This was one of the last times that she laughed the way only she could laugh. I know that she is laughing today and is pain free and enjoying her birthday.

Our Fun Snow Evening

So we could not go out and play in the snow last night. It was cold and there were huge wind gusts, Hank would have blown away (his words). So we played Power Rangers, that is the favorite game at our house that is for sure! He has these power rangers that have all of these additional pieces to them, when combined they make an animal. Or you can put the pieces on the ranger and it morphs the ranger into battle mode. I can't beleive how my vocabulary has grown since watching power rangers :) Anyway here are some cute pictures of Hank with the Red Power Ranger and his Lion. (He couldn't get me to make the other animals).

Running through Sprinklers....What?

So in order to understand this post you would have to read the Hollinger Blog. This is what the weather looks like here today in Utah. So much for Spring time and running through the sprinklers. Maybe we can build a snowman this weekend!

And we are going to get another inch. The most horrible part of this storm is not the amount of snow it is the winds. I am just glad that I do not live down in Utah County. They have kids who are still at their elementary school, and it is 9:30 at night.

Our tree from our porch.

Big Kid School

So Hank and I went and checked out his new Big Kid School on Sunday. Wow was that hard, I didn't realize how emotional it would be for me. I think we have made our decision to send him to Redeemer Lutheran School. This is the same school that our cousin Andrew went to and Grandma B used to teach Kindergarten there. Hank thought it was really cool that Papa B had built the play hut that was still in his new classroom. The Pastors wife will be his teacher her name is Cathy Fisher. So Hank is excited and if you ask him why the main reasons are:
1. He will get three reeces
2. No Nap time
3. Really cool toys to play with.

I am excited because he will be learning and growing. He also will be wearing uniforms so I won't have to buy as many articles of clothing :)

Papas Birthday

Sunday we all had dinner at Papa Greats house for his birthday. Some of the family was able to make it, Sherry, Craig, Brandon, Jeffrey, Grandma Janet, Briant, Kim, Hank and I. Of course Grandma and Papa were there. I know it was Super Bowl Sunday but since I do not watch sports I had fun watching Hank play with Uncle Bri.

Aunt Sherry made a coconut cake for Papa and cupcakes for the rest of us. The family members who were not able to be there were missed dearly.

Power Ranger Picture

Here is the picture of the Power Rangers that Hank

finished coloring after Aunt Carole sent it to him!

Grocery Shopping

So I caved in and went grocery shopping. I hate shopping of any kind. Ok I do enjoy shopping for crafts but that is it. Hank and I were armed with a grocery list and a few coupons so we went to Harmons to get the shopping done. $175 later we left the store. The good thing is that we now have some healthy food to eat and will not have to shop again for a long time. We have lived in our apartment for almost a year and I have only gone grocery shopping like that three times now. No wonder Hank never eats anything healthy. (those are his words)

Aunt Carole

My sister sent Hank a partially colored Power Ranger paper. He thought this was the coolest thing in the world. He wanted to finish it right away. Sometimes I wonder how my sister finds the time to do all that she does. She has three kids a husband and herself. How does she have time to partially color a picture to send to my four year old. I was in tears this evening as I realized how much time I don't have to do all the little things in life I would love to be able to do! I consider myself one of the luckiest people around to have the family that I do so my son can get those great letters in the mail from his aunt and cousins.

Being Sick

Being a single mom has its own challenges but one that brought itself up this weekend was getting sick. Hank was very sick on Friday and Saturday. He kept running a fever and just wanted to be held. So of course as any mom would I did exactly what he needed. Thanks to my Mom for bringing food for us and some more medicine. Then the craziest thing happened... I got sick. So when the mom runs a fever of 102 and is barely getting out of bed what happens? I will tell you what happened at my house. Hank my little man decided it was his job to take care of mom, he made a bed for himself on the floor so he could be next to me but not have me breathing on him so he wouldn't get more sicker. He watched movies and television. Made his own chocolate milk, got his own apple juice. He was such a little helper. When I had mom pick him up on Monday afternoon he didn't want to go, he was taking care of me and that is where he wanted to be. Hank went to his Papas and spent the night. On Tuesday morning Papa took Hank to the doctor, he has an ear infection in both ears. I took myself to the doctor and I have a bad Flu. So we are both now on antibiotics and are hopefully on our way to be healthier. Hank thinks it is great that we both have to take the Doctor medicine for ten days. He also thinks it is funny that my pills are almost the size of his thumb. I will have to take some pictures and post again soon.

Christmas

Hank and I decided to go "Surprise" Aunt Carole in San Diego for Christmas. We left on Friday after work about four o'clock. The longest drive portion for Friday was just getting out of Salt Lake. We drove to Mesquite and spent the night. The hotel had a kids game room so Hank was able to play a few games and earn tickets. Made me remember going with my dad and playing games and then buying stupid stuff with the tickets. Hank chose a little airplane and some glow in the dark spiders. Then we tried to talk to Aunt Carole on the phone. This was difficult because Hank was jumping from one bed to the other in the hotel room. So the phone conversation was cut short. I didn't go through all that work to have the surprise ruined before we got there!

On Saturday we woke up and drove the rest of the way to California. But the whole family was at Sea World. So off to Sea World we went, calling friends on the way to get directions because I didn't know what freeway exit to take. When we finally arrived at Sea World Hank called Abby to find out what she was doing. Come to find out they were walking out the front gates to go eat lunch! "Hurry up and hide behind this pole mom" then they passed us and Hank started yelling Abby! The look on their faces when they realized it was Hank and Aunt Kris was priceless. Wish I had my camera out and got a shot of that one! So travel tired and grumpy Hank spent the day at Sea World with his cousins. He was not too happy about posing for this picture. In the end Hank and I had an awesome time with the family at Sea World.

Christmas Survey

Since I am a good sister and read my sisters blog I was obligated to complete this survey :)

Now it is your turn!

I have added a question though!



If you have a blog and read this you are now obligated to put your answers on your blog now :)
1. Wrapping paper or Gift bags? wrapping paper
2. Real or Artificial tree? Real Tree Hank picks it out.
3. When do you put up the tree? As Soon as we have time!
4.When do you take down the tree? First week of Jan.
5. Do you like egg nog? Yes
6. Do you have a Nativity scene? Yes, a ceramic one my grandparents made.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My Dad, Brother In Law
8. Easiest person to buy for? Myself, Santa always gives me great gifts!
9. The worst Christmas gift ever received? None - I always get good gifts.
10. Mail or email cards? I keep saying "next year" guess I would mail them.
11. Favorite Christmas movie? White Christmas
12. Favorite Christmas song? Hanks version of any of the songs
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I already have some of 2008 christmas presents
14. Have you ever recycled a gift? Define recycle....
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Honey Baked Ham
16. Travel or stay at home? We traveled for Thanksgiving so we are staying home.
17. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?Other then Rudolph :) Yes I can
18. Do you have an angel or star on top of the tree? Buzz lightyear ornament he is putting up a star.
19. Open presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? P.J.'s on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas day.
20. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Commercialism
21. Favorite Christmas Memory? Hiding a kitten from my sister. It stayed in a box in Aunt Sherry's basement. Second one would be when my Aunt alice gave me a pearl ring, it was wrapped in a huge box and took me forever to open it.

His First Party

I just sent Hank out the door to his first Friends birthday party. His Aunt Kim is nice enough to volunteer (ok maybe I asked her) to take him tonight. I have a Pampered Chef party and I also would not be able to bounce of the walls with him. He will have a blast and I am so excited for him. He couldn't wait, he combed his own hair, used a lot of hair gel :) And looked so grown up I couldn't beleive it. Jason is his Best Friend from school so they were both excited that Hank was able to go tonight. I can't say how much I appreciate my family and that they are willing to help me be a mom to Hank. We are lucky to have family and friends around that help to share the joys and trials of being a single mom.

Remembering

I spent the weekend feeling blue about life. Financial strains, sick child, homework, housecleaning...you know all the normal single mom stuff.

On Friday evening after Hank was done Sapbooking (jealous of him he got three pages done) I put him in my bed so he would go to sleep. Thanks to my sister I realized I had let him stay up until about midnight. I spent some time on the phone with my sister. After our conversation of about two hours I sat on my couch and just cried and let all my emotions out.

This is what I thought about:

My life is going to continue for an endetermined amount of days. I can spend these days sitting here crying, or I can make some better choices.

Remember what it was like to be carefree, to run around outside without your shoes on? I remember what it was like to visit Papa and get ice cream. Remember when you didn't have to worry about cooking dinner, macaroni and cheese was fine if mom wasn't cooking for you.

I have come to the conclusion that I want Hank to have memories of carefree days, enjoying life. I found a picture of my Aunt Barbs with hair extensions on and a big smile on her face. She was genuinely happy and enjoying every minute of us making fun of her. I want everyone who knows me to have some memory of me being carefree and HAPPY.

So my goal is to create memories like that for myself and for Hank. I am going to start with at least a once a week thing. No tv no computer just pure fun.

18 Ways to Be

I received this through Sisterwomen an online sight for women. I thought it was awesome so I am posting it here.


18 Ways to Be
1. Be strong enough to face the world each day.
2. Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything.
3. Be generous to those who need your help.
4. Be frugal with what you need yourself.
5. Be wise enough to know that you do not know everything.
6. Be foolish enough to believe in miracles.
7. Be willing to share your joys.
8. Be willing to share the sorrows of others.
9. Be a leader when you see a path others have missed.
10. Be a follower in the midst of uncertainty.
11. Be the first to congratulate an opponent who succeeds.
12. Be the last to criticize a colleague who fails.
13. Be sure where your next step will fall, so that you will not stumble.
14. Be sure of your final destination, in case you are going the wrong way.
16. Be loving to those who love you.
17. Be loving to those who do not love you; they may learn to love because of you.
18. Be yourself.

Hank had a blast being Superman for Halloween. Didn't take too many pictures but he enjoyed himself.

After about six houses he was done getting candy. He would go up and say Happy Halloween, and then if they didn't have a candy he liked he would say "no Thank you". He even told one lady he didn't need anymore candy it isn't good for him he needs to stay healthy. Not sure where he gets that from! The lady ended up giving him Play Dough instead.

We had our friend John and his son go with us it was fun.

What A Women Wants Show Part 2

I am done working my booth at the show. I met a lot of great people, and some weird ones. I had a good time though learning different things that I can do to get myself out of my shy shell. Now hopefully I can get some future parties booked (and maybe recruit). The main part of why I enjoy Pampered Chef is because it gives me some adult conversation. Which being single is fun to have adult conversation that is not revolving around who I am dating or what my son did today. I also have enjoyed realizing that I can make fun food without too much work. Oh yeah and I make money so that is always good!

I am exhausted two days on my feet four only four hours a day :) I really need to start using that gym membership I pay for every month.

What A Women Wants Show

I am working this afternoon at what a women wants show in Layton, Utah. It should be fun. I am an Independent Consultant for Pampered Chef and we have a booth. I am hoping to meet new people, catch up with some old friends and just have an enjoyable afternoon. I also work the booth tomorrow and am in charge of takedown and removal, not too much fun but worth it.

I enjoy doing my business on the side, it has given me the opportunity to meet some new friends, and actually have a girls night out once in awhile.

I have been asked to do a "guys" show. Anybody have any suggestions on what a Home Party for a guy would be like? I have no idea but better think of something quickly.

Added Links

I finally figured out how to link to another blog :)

So now I will try and post more information and be able to stay in touch with family and friends easier.

Patting myself on the back right now, it took me three weeks to figure it out!

My Work

I realized that for many people who are reading my blog they do not know where I work. So I figured I should dedicate a post to just that.

My JOB:
I work as a Financial Aid Director for Myotherapy College of Utah. I have been here since January of 2007. I meet with all the prospective students regarding their financial options. I also monitor and meet with the students while they are enrolled in our program. I deal with all the Financial Aid for the school, we accept Pell Grants, Student Loans and Scholarships. There are these huge three ring-binders in my office that are full of regulations written by the Department of Education. They make really good paper weights :)

I thoroughly enjoy meeting all the students and getting to know them. As you can imagine I am lucky enough to deal with their money, so there is an amount of trust and respect that is developed with the students.

Well I better get back to my JOB of helping students.

Friday Night

Another friday night and thought I would just add a little post.

Hank is amazing and growing up so fast. Mom is also doing well.
I attended a graduation for my College tonight. It never fails to amaze me how much our school touches students lifes. Last week we had orientation and I got to see and meet all the new students entering the school. Some look so afraid and are just starting down there journey. I never thought I would enjoy any job as much as I love this one. To see the students transform into adults with so much knowledge it amazes me every time.