I'm so glad last week is OVER!

Well it's been a while since I've posted. You can find the reason in the pictures above. Taylor and Rilee both came down with some nasty sickness. It started Saturday night with Rilee puking, closely followed by Taylor on Sunday night. We started monday with both of them having temps at about 103.8. Rilee seemed to recover after a couple days, but Taylor's lasted until just a couple days ago. I'm not sure what it was, but the Dr. said that they had been seeing alot of this sort of thing so we just had to wait it out. So needless to say, I was about to pull my hair out with two sick kids, but we all survived.

As you can see in my slide show, Rilee is totally in love with the phone. She loves to pretend that she's talking to PAPA! The expressions on her face when she talks totally crack me up. As for the red scrape on her nose...she decided to take a bite out of the parking lot on our way out of the gym. She missed the step down and went face first. She's recovering nicely and quickly, which we are all thankful for!

So anyways, we have just been busy keeping the kids happy and healthy!

Oh and we had Jason's pinning ceremony last Tuesday. I will post pictures of that as soon as I get them!

Snow Day!!!

Bye-Bye to Jessica Anne

Miss Jessica!! We LOVE you!!

From left to right: Me, Rilee, my dad Mike, Taylor, my mom Freeda, my sister Andrea (Drea)





It came time for Jessica to head back to BYU so we had a family dinner at Romano's Macaroni Grill to celebrate the fact that she was leaving...or I mean to wish well at school. She and Bryce took some great pictures while we were there, so I thought I'd share.

Dr Young

The Doctor is IN!!! Jason has officially started seeing patients in the out patient clinic (OPC) at Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC). If you have any friends or family in the Portland area, please send them his way. He's in the clinc Monday and Wednesday mornings (7:30 to 12:30) and Tuesday and Thrusday afternoons (1:00 to 6:30). The OPC phone number is: 503-255-6771. How awesome is this??? We are so proud of him and all that he has learned and accomplished. Your friends and family will be in good hands.

VITA-MIX BLENDER!!!

One of the best Christmas gifts we got this year was a Vita-Mix blender from my folks. For those of you that know what this is, you know how awesome it is. For those of you that don't, think Jamba Juice or something of that sort. It's the blenders that they use to mix up some of your favorite treats. Well so needless to say, we were pretty pumped about this. It has totally changed the way we eat. See I am one who has to have a treat every evening. It may be cookies, some cake, ice cream or a mix of all three :) Well we have begun concocting up some of our favorite treats with this blender. We all sorts of fruits and veggies. We've made several smoothies, soups and even pancake batter. It's amazing what this thing does. You put in cold stuff and it makes it colder. You put in hot stuff and it makes it hotter. WAY NEAT!!! Anyways, one of my friends suggested that I try a smoothie that her daughter loves and she loves to give to her. I call it the Green Smoothie.

So this is what it looks like (the blender that is). In the green smoothie I put: 1 pear, 1avacado, 1 apple, 8 ice cubes, 1 can pineapple, 2 cups green spinach (the leafy kind), 1 scoop soy protien powder and about 1 cup of whatever juice I have in the fridge. This makes enough for a big glass for both Jason and I and then a sippy cup for each of the girls.

The Vita-Mix does a great job of crushing everything to a pulp so there is no...pulp :)

Rilee LOVES it!

Taylor asked for more when hers was gone...so as the mother, I had to share mine :)

One of my favorite features of this Vita-Mix is that it is it's own dishwasher. I put in 5 cups of hot water and some dish soap. Turn it on high for about 2 min, rinse off the soap and air dry. THAT'S IT!!

Anyways, just thought I'd share. I recommend it to anyone and everyone. Who would have thought that kids would want to eat all these fruits and veggies...it's all in what's mixed with it right??!?!!

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