DaNell's Surgery

Today DaNell had surgery on her mouth to correct an impacted tooth. Everything went well, she is home recovering. The Dr. said she would be sore for a few days and that she would feel like the roof of her mouth has been burned :-( They did give her some long lasting Novocaine, and we are keeping the pain meds going in an effort to prolong the pain. I'll update everyone again tomorrow on how she is feeling.

Weekend In a Nutshell

We had a nice weekend, Saturday we went to Elmo for a bit, then we came home and prepared a Chicken dinner and just watched a couple of movies.
Sunday Dave made the best burgers we have had in a long time. He braved the cold to bar-b-que and we all agreed it was worth it. We also had some family stop by and visit, it was nice and we had some laugh's. Monday we went back to Elmo and ended up watching some old home videos of DaNell when she was little, she was about 2 1/2 and was telling a story about some cows that were on the road between Miller Creek and Elmo, it is so funny we have now watched it about 30 times over and over, makes us laugh every time. It does make me a little sad to see how much she has grown and makes me miss those days. But I am proud of her to see all that she has accomplished and to know that she is on her way to great things in life. I Love You DaNell!
I am going to post about all of my kids in the next little bit. I Love Them All and wouldn't change any of them for the world! So stay tuned :-)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!

Taylor's Box

Here's Taylor's box, he wrapped it in Duct Tape, since he has been dubbed duct-tape at school this year at school. Then he drew the Nike sign on it, he says it's the best box ever. Each year, the classes do a competition where the kids vote and 2 boxes from each class win...low and behold 1 of the winning boxes :-)

Schydi's class didn't vote, her teacher put their names in a cup and just drew out 2, hers wasn't one of them, but she was happy anyway. They are both happy with all the cards and goodies the acquired today.

A couple ideas

These were a couple of cute ideas for Valentines Boxes I saw in Taylor's class. For his party we played Valentine Pictionary with all Valentine sayings, it was fun and everyone in his class had a chance to draw. Here's to the next big party!

Schydi's Valentine Box

Here is a pic of Schydi's Valentine box she decorated with minimal help from DaNell.

She wanted it to be HSM and has been waiting for days to make it. She really liked the results and wanted to take it to school already, I had to explain that she has a whole other week to take it !

Half-Time Entertainment

Who needs Bruce Springsteen? Here at the Ranch we had the "Full of Bologna Boys" along with "Davy Skunket" appear and keep everyone entertained. It was only for a limited time, I was sure glad I had my camera ready :-) Now what could be better than that for half-time?

Dang it

Well the Superbowl didn't quite turn out how I would have liked. I really wanted to see the Cardinals win..which they almost did (if it wasn't for all the penalties and the bad calls) they would have totally took it :-) Oh well, such is life. On the other hand, the food was really good, I am still full, this leaves me to ponder, what is the next big sporting event to plan for?

SUPERBOWL SUNDAY

Has arrived......I am beginning the food preparations early this morning. I am attempting to make one of those 7-layer bean dips to go along with the chips, then on to the meat tray, rolls, and goodies. I think the reason I am beginning to really like football, (besides the fact Taylor is obsessed, and I want to be able to understand what's going on when he starts playing :-) ) is because of the food...I have had a great time deciding what we should have to eat for all these games. Football food is great! Just wish more of the games were on during warm weather....our BBQ grill is getting mighty lonely!

GO CARDINALS!

6th place

Taylor participated in the Spelling Bee last Friday, and I think he did pretty well. Out of about 40-50 kids he wound up being in 6th place missing the word "vigilante" (by 1 lousy letter). He seemed like he had fun doing it, but was very nervous to have to speak into a mic in front of all those people :-)