8 days til christmas YIKES!!!!!!!

I have been feeling very bah-humbug this year for christmas. It is comming way to fast. Brittanys to big and just wants money. No little ones to get us up at 1:00 am to see whats under the tree. I was reminissing about christmas's past and i think i am missing the service aspect of the season. I need to get cracken. I havent even done anything for my neighbors yet. If you have any fun, cute, cheap ideas let me know!!!!!

Liz Kartchner

ME with Elizabeth Kartchner

Becky what a cute smile. They discoved they made the same clicking sound when they smiled.

Liz's wonderful new book. So many neat ideas.

My signed copy (eat you heart out ERIN!!!!!! :)

Our family has finally joined the 21ST century. We have Internet at home!!!!! Yahoo

These are a few pictures from Becky an My encounter with Liz Kartchner!!!! She had an open house close to Becky's. I was so excited to see her new book i have been trying to get it every where but it has been sold out. Liz was so cute and nice. We explained to her we had sisters that would have loved to come but previous engagements prohibited ed them. Erin called at the perfect time Liz took the phone and started talking to her like they were long lost friends. I am so excited to start creating scrapbook pages, her book really is inspireing.

yahoo!!!!

As many of you know (or can see) i have struggled with my weight for the last 15 years. I LOVE to eat. I would marry food i could!!!!! I have been doing the HCG shots and i have reached the 37 pound mark!!!! I have been doing it for four weeks now!!!! This has really modivated me to get my butt in gear and get with the program!!!!! I think i will be starting Weight Watcher after i am done (2 more weeks of shots and 3 weeks maintance). Then I will start the shots again in 6 more weeks. I dont mean to brag but i am kind of proud of myself. Brittany is doing the diet to and she has lost 17lbs. Pretty soon we will be so foxy Guy wont know what to do with us both. HAHAHAHA

HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY BRITTANY

Today is Brittanys birthday. YAHOO!!! She is finally 18 it seems like the whole time you are a teenager you cant wait to be 18. Now the day has come and the only difference is she could buy cigarettes legally if she wanted to. I love on Gilmore Girls when Lorilee gets in bed with Rory and tells her about the day of her birth. I can remember feeling scared, excited, nervous, in anticipation of this little bundle of joy coming to our family. My mom and Erin were already with us (Phoenix, Az) because they were so excited to see the first granddaughter born. (no really i that i was having labor pain the first part of August, my mom thought i knew what i was talking about so she had my Dad rush them down now 3 1/2 week later the doctor was finally starting me) Brittany was perfect she had the most beautiful skin and a full head of black hair. The nurse said to us she needs to have a beautiful name to go with this beautiful baby. We had the hardest time agreeing on anything. Everything I liked Guy didn't. Finally we decided on BRITTANY SARAH LEWIS. We love you girly!!!!! Thank for being the best part of our family!!!!!!!

THIS GIRLS GROWING UP FAST

You know it seems like yesterday I was 9 month + pregnant waiting for this little thing to come out of my body. Now almost 18 years later how far we have come. Yesterday Brittany got her Young Womans Medallion. She kind of left it to the last minute, but thanks to a Great Young Womans leader to light a little fire under her, she got it done. I am so proud of her. She even bore her testimony when they gave it to her. (if you know Brittany the only time you hear her testimony is at Girls Camp and maybe at Seminary). Grandma and Grandpa Thomson came and so did her Dad. It was a need expericane. I am so thankful for the Great Example she has been to our family.

Way to go BRITT

THE LAST HOORAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brittany will be graduating on Friday!!!! Yahoo!! This has been a real roller coaster. I am definitely a helicopter mom. And i am so so so excited i don't have to check on line progress reports after today. We had our seminary graduation on Sunday and Brittany said to me, ya know if you would have left me at Kearns I wouldn't be graduating from Seminary (bad friends and influences) I said I know. Then she said i wouldn't have been graduating from High School either. I am so thankful that I listened to that still small voice that said move her to Murray High School. She has really thrived there. I am so proud of her and all that she has accomplished. Shes not the valedictorian but she has really improved and applied her self. I is scary to think that the world now will consider her an adult. But she is ready. She has a testimony, a car (Even though it is broke) all she needs now is a job. Maybe after her Graduation Trip to CALIFORNIA, OCEAN, and DISNEYLAND!!!! Pictures to follow.

figured i would write

so my mom doesnt get on as you can see so i figured i would write about what we have done the past week i want to say thank you to krista for the cutest pictures we took for my senior anncouments they turned out so cute :)

Laura said: this is my beautiful almost graduated daughter Brittany. We had such a good time taking these pictures with Auntie Krista (PROPS) thanks they turned out fabulous!!!!!!! Its hard to believe that the long road with the public school system is almost winding to an end. YAHOO!!!!! Only 17 more school days til Graduation.

the Doctor ended up do the more evasive of the two procedures. They ended up having to put in the plate. He said the bone was broken in four places making it impossible to pin it.

this is right before his surgery

anticatpation of surgery 1/8/09

after a great trip to wendy's we dicovered we could cut pretty much anything out of vinyl

this is what happens when you give a forty year old man some vacation time and a dirt bike (in the snow) this was the boys latest trip they took to sand dunes, and this is what they came back with... can you guess who it is??? this is guys finger. pretty gross huh???