trick or treating with no cavities....

Well the boys all went to the dentist today and they all were cavity free. THANK GOODNESS! I cannot handle it when they have to get their cavities filled. It makes me feel like I am going to pass out and puke all at the same time. I just have this wierd anxiety about the dentist. It is bad when I am the patient but when my boys are the patient I am a disaster. I know I am a dork!

Anyway I am glad we went to the dentist before halloween :) I would hate to see what happens after they eat all of this candy. Not to mention we have the holidays coming up. I am pretty sure their next check up will not be so nice :)

Good job boys!

Halloween fun!

So here we are in all of our glory. We had our annual Ivie family halloween party tonight. We had a great time and a great turn out. It was fun to see the fam again. The Ivie family is my side of the family. I love spending time with my Aunts,uncles, cousins and so on. Our family is CRAZY and I love every one of them.

Pics below are my cuties. Adam thought it would be funny to be hanna.h montana this year and it was pretty funny. Dee was optimus prime and Parker was Iro.n man. I threw together a zombie costume. We had a great night and are looking forward to trick or treating on friday.

pumpkin patch time

Me and my sister decided to take our kids to the pumpkin patch today since they were out of school for teacher development day. I think this year was the best time I had there. The crowds were small and the kids are all old enough that I don't have to worry about where they are all at. Here are a couple of pics from my sisters camera (oops forgot mine)

Tag

Okay Jeanna I thought it might be fun to do your tag. If anyone else who reads my blog wants to do it go for it. Let me know if you do it so I can make sureI read yours.

1. Did you date someone from high school? I had the same boyfriend from 8th grade to 11th grade off and on I think we broke up and got back together about ten times in those years. We even hooked up for a couple months after high school right before me and Rick started dating.

2. What kind of car did you drive? A cute little white Hyundai excel hatchback. Man I had some good times in that car. Until I totaled it when me and rick were dating. He was such a good boyfriend I didn't replace my car for at least a month or so and he toted me around the whole time. We got engaged shortly after and then we bought the next car together.

3. What was the most embarrassing moment of high school for you? probably when me and my twin sister went to a school dance together with our boyfriends and we were in line and I reach down to grab my boyfriends hand and realized I was holding my sisters boyfriends hand OOPS!

4. Were you a party animal? Who me....... NEVER!

5. Were you considered a flirt? ABSOLUTELY nothing has changed I have always been flirtatious

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? I played violin for a whole year but that is about it. I took piano lessons when I was a teen for awhile. But I am no expert by any means.

7. Were you a nerd? I hope not. J/K I was just normal. I got along with every type of person.

8. Were you on any varsity teams? Nope I didn't have too much school pride :)

9. Did you ever get suspended/expelled? No thanks goodness

10. Can you still sing the fight song? Wow I haven't even thought about that song for a long time since I haven't been in high school on over 13 years.

11. Who were your favorite teachers? None. I had a serious attitude problem in high school. The most important things to me in high school were friends and my boyfriend. I wish now I would have taken it more seriously.

12. Where did you sit during lunch? Usually in the halls. We could take our lunches in the halls and eat them. Then sometime we used to pile 10 of us into my boyfriends car and go to hardees for lunch.

13. School mascot? BRUINS!

14. Did you go to Homecoming? Yes With whom? yeswith the boyfriend I had. He is in every school dance picture I have. What a waste since I had several other guys that wanted to take me out but I would never break up with "him"

15. If you could go back and do it again, would you? parts YES, parts NO

16. What do you remember most about graduation? I wore shorts under my gown and put dress shoes on so it looked like I had a dress on :)

17. Where did you go for Senior Skip Day? We never had a senior skip day

18. Were you in any clubs? No

19. Have you gained some weight since then? Who hasn't

20. Who was your prom date? None other than the ex.

21. Reunions: been to any? No I am not really that type of person.

22. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself? Get rid of the boyfriend and have some fun. Also to remember that high school does not have to be so dramatic.

I think he is gunna make it

Well I think we a have a dog on the mend now. He is absolutely back to his lovely self again and he is driving us NUTS! He seriously won't stop barking. He wants to be able to go back in to his kennel outside and I am not ready to let him out there yet. Plus Roxy (his mom) and buddy shared 2 kennels that we put together but now we have separated them to their own and I don't think he is going to like that. They usually have so much fun together but we need to keep them separate for at lease a month. We need to make sure Roxy hasn't been infected with it too. So I am happy that all of my sleepless nights have paid off. Now we just have to keep our fingers crossed that the other dogs won't come down with it. If we can make it until next wednesday without any more sicky dogs then I think we are out of the woods.

I also got some good news. I know I mentioned before how I was going to write to the pharmaceutical company for my insulin. Well I received word that they are going to give me my insulin for the next year. I already picked up three months worth. This is a HUGE relief.

Anyway TGIF and I hope everyone has a great weekend!

another day down...

Well we have made it another day. Today when I first woke up I didn't think buddy was doing very well but by this afternoon he was perking up. I finally was able to get some food in him. My vet told me to give him cottage cheese and white rice mixed. Well he would have none of that. I looked on the net to see what I could give him and found no help so I thought I would just try a little tuna. Well that was it. He only ate a little but it got his hunger going so I went and bought some baby food and some canned chicken and mixed some tuna, chicken, cottage cheese and a little rice. NOPE! He didn't want that so next I decided he really needed the protein the most so I just gave him a mixture of tuna and chicken and that was the magical mixture. I have given this to him 3 times and he has eaten it up every time so hopefully his little guts process this well. I am sick of cleaning up doggy diarrhea.

Now we have another problem now that he is not lethargic he has found his little barker. He has barked and barked and barked and barked. He wants to be loved on but I won't let the boys love on him because I am afraid they won't get all of the germies off of them and then proceed to pass those said germies on our other furry babies. So we are stuck with a dog barking and driving us nuts but hey I am proud of how well he is doing. I know the odds were not in his favor but I was very persistent and hopefully he will make a full recovery. I know we are still not out of the woods yet but I know we have felt all of your prayers and love so thanks and still keep us in your prayers for a little while longer.

still hangin on

Well our little guy is still hanging on. I am completely exhausted. I guess when "we" decided to treat buddy at home it meant that "I" would do all of the work. I seriously had 3 hour of sleep the night before last and I had maybe 4 last night.

I had to stay up till 11:00pm to give him his meds. After I gave him his meds I crawled in bed and I got the worst cramps ever (sorry TMI) So I decided to get up and take some Ibuprofen. After I got up I ended up getting the worst low blood sugar so it took me until 1:00am to get settled from that. So I got in bed and I hear a splatter in the bathroom where buddy is. So I ran in there and he had gotten out of the shower and pooed and peed on my bathroom floor instead of the shower so cleanup was a nightmare. If you have ever had a dog that has parvo you will never forget the smell of their poo. OMG it is awful. I feel so bad for him.

After I got all of that cleaned up I got back in bed and at 3:30am I got the worst diarrhea (sorry again TMI). I think I am just stressed and lack of sleep interrupted my system. I am really tired and really wish I could go back to bed today but I now have 3 sick kids that stayed home from school so I have to play sick maid to them. I have to go grocery shopping so bad, I haven't showered in 3 days, my dishes haven't been done for 2 days I would die if anyone came over right now. I think I just need you all to send me some energy vibes today.

Buddy has parvo

Oh my gosh it is 1:40am and I have just gotten back from the vet. Our sweet little buddy has parvo. He was fine yesterday and today he has been throwing up all day. I thought he might just have a bug or maybe ate something bad but after reading the horrible internet stories I thought maybe he might have it but he had no blood in his stool. Then the last clue surfaced its ugly head and I knew. I just broke down and cried. It was around 11:00pm when that happened and I immediatley called the vet and they told me to bring him right in. I was seriously crying the whole time. They gave him a IV under his skin and they filled his skin up so it could slowly hydrate him. Then we decided on at home care so they finally let me take him home and do a home treatment.

I need everyone to please say a prayer for buddy and our other dogs. The other dogs so far have no signs but it can take up to 10 days so we are going to have to watch them. In the meantime we have to bleach everything. Roxy is in our shed right now and she is not liking it and Bailey is in my office sound asleep and has no idea that anything is wrong. That is until the morning when we won't let her out. We even have to bleach our yard.

Okay here is the thing that really pisses me off. Alot of our neighbors let their dogs out at night to roam. Thus they get into my yard which is where my dogs play and infect it with their nasty diseases. We have lived here for awhile and always had dogs and never had this problem. Recently though me and some of the other neighbors have noticed alot of dogs roaming in our nieghborhood. I think that I am going to have to put a stop to it. I am going to start calling animal control on them. I hate to do that but it is not fair for people that keep their dogs put up to have to shell out tonz of money on vet bills and then ultimately have their pets die.

Adam is upset to say the least. He was so loving and nurturing to him all day. He was so worried and concerned. I am very proud of how well he is handling it. I think he may have said at least 20 prayers by now.

Buddy is in my shower (easier cleenup) sound asleep right now. Hopefully we can keep him hydrated and get him back to health.

***UPDATE***

It's now 2:30am I can't sleep I keep worrying about all my dogs. I think I might be in constant tears for the next 10 day until I know that everything is okay. I should know in the next four days if buddy is going to make it but it is going to take ten days before I know if my other dogs got it. The hardest thing about this is if my other dogs get it I don't know if we will be able to afford treatments for my other babies. THIS SUCKS SO BAD!!!!

Sad but true...

I got this in an email today. I thought it was funny :)

wonderful weekend!

Well those of you that live in utah know that we got pounded with rain. Lots of it actually. Of course this meant there was no yard work or outside projects to be done. So what else is there to do? SLEEP :)

We did do a garbage dump run first thing on saturday morning. It was wet and yucky but we had to get a load of construction mess out of the yard. Then we all came home and Rick and Adam went to get a dog house for Buddy and then they went and visited with Rick's grandparents. The younger 2 and I stayed home and wrestled around and made paper airplanes which I do have to say I can make a mean airplane.

After Rick came home I was exhausted and decided since it was a rainy day I would go lay down with my window open and enjoy an afternoon nap listening to the rain. It was absolutely the best Saturday afternoon I have had in a long time. Rick even did a pretty decent job of keeping the boys out. Although I did get a little stirred when I felt a little kiss on my cheek. I am not sure which one it was but I think it was Dee. LOVED IT! Then I drifted back into a slumber.

Sunday was a pretty laxed day too. I slept in and decided to throw the sheets into wash and pick up a little. Nothing to strenuous I didn't want to break a sweat or anything. The boys played and played and watched them some NASCA.R.

My sis called and asked me to go shopping in the afternoon. And who can resist some Sunday afternoon shopping. Not me :) So we went and took her little guy with us (FYI he was not happy with us twards the end of the trip) I got a real cute shirt from Maurice's. Then the mall closed on us so we went over to target and hit their 75% off sale racks and I got 3 shirts that totalled $9. They will be cute for Mexico. Shopping was a great way to end the weekend.

Purple ***UPDATED***

So my all time favorite color is purple. It was my grandfathers favorite color and I think I always liked it because it reminds me of him. My grandmother also loved purple lilacs. I am pretty sure that this is why purple has always been my favorite color. They were amazing people. They were a huge part of my life growing up.

So I was watching a show called shear genius and there was a hairstylist that put this amazing shade of purple in one of the clients hair and I absolutely loved it and decided I wanted to do that to my hair. So I finally talked my very conservative(love ya shan) hairdresser/sister into putting the color in my hair. I LOVE IT!

I know it was out of her comfort zone to do it but I wanted to do it real bad. Anyway I tried to take a pic but you couldn't see it very good so sorry no pic. I also did an all over color that is a shade darker than what I have been doing. It is basically a real dark brown.

I used to work for a bank and for years I was not able to do anything too outrageous so I figure I don't work and I am basically home most of the time so why not. Rick likes it mostly because he likes seeing me have fun so like I said why not.



This is kindof what it looks like. Except I have short hair and she is way cuter than me :)






***UPDATED***

I thought I would post the pics. You can't see too well but if you click on the pic you can see a little better.