Go Grizzlies!

On Friday April 3rd we ventured down to the E Center to attend another Grizzlies hockey game but this time we brought along Nils. Nils is a Foreign Exchange student from Germany staying with Koren and Dan for the next few weeks. He had never seen a hockey game and the girls were dying to see another Grizzlies game so we thought we could all go and give Nils a new experience. Our first stop was dinner at Applebees. After we filled our bellies we made our way over to the E Center.

Even though the Grizzlies lost we managed to enjoy ourselves quite a bit. I think it was the big fight at the end that Nils, Todd and Lindsay, yes Lindsay, enjoyed the most. I believe we've learned a valuable lesson however; NEVER attend the first night of a two night game set. Just about everytime we've attended the first run of the series against a team, the Grizzlies seem to lose the first night and win the second night. Friday night they lost 6-0 to the Alaska Aces, and yet they won Saturday 5-2. Somehow they have managed to make it into the playoffs and of course the pleas to attend another game have begun.

Goooo Grizzlies!

Gadget Crazy

Ok, so I wanted to spruce up our blog page. While perusing the many options, I came across the Gadgets. There are far too many to choose from and I had to force myself to stop when I realized that everyone would need to scroll down to the bottom of the page just to see them all if I kept going. I tried to stay away from those that were too "advertisy". Hopefully I've added a few that everyone will enjoy.

If you feel like you need a bit of a laugh check out the one labeled Parenting Humor. It updates like every 30 seconds. There's been quite a few times that I've literally laughed out loud. Erin, if you check the gadget out it says who to email with your stories, I really think you should contribute some of your kid adventure stories! Or maybe you should just create a gadget of your own, even better!

I'm not sure I'm too pleased with the healthy living one, I might just have to remove it or find a replacement, but I figure we all could use a bit of daily healthly living advice.

You're may be wondering why I have the puppy one on there. We are currently researching dogs and cars. Now that we have a house that actually came with a doggie door, we can no longer hold off buying a dog. The plan is to go out puppy shopping at the local shelters in the next few weeks. So anyway, I thought it would be fun to see pics and a bit of info on puppies.

Oh how they grow up so fast

We just received Lindsay's and Katie's latest school pictures and I had to share them. The two of them are growing up so fast. Lindsay seems to look so much older now that her bangs have begun to grow out. She's becoming my little social butterfly.

Lindsay seems to be growing a bit faster than Katie would like her to however. Recently we moved Allison downstairs to "the best room in the house" according to Todd and Lindsay couldn't get her out fast enough. We've told Lindsay it doesn't officially become her room until next year when we'll be ready to buy her a new bedroom set, but in the mean time it will serve as a play room, yet she has decided that's where her clothes will be and that is where she will do all of her "getting ready" in the mornings. This morning Lindsay of course went in to "her room", closing the door, and proceeded to get dressed for the day. After Lindsay's exit, Katie decided she needed to do the same thing but she was very quickly informed that that wasn't her bedroom and she needed to get dressed in her room. Of course Katie thought otherwise and quickly informed her sister, whilst fighting back tears, "That's not a bedroom! It's a playroom!" Lindsay said "No, it's my bedroom too!" Katie replied, "It is NOT a bedroom, there's no BED in it so it's just a room!"

And in case anyone is wondering what about pictures of Allison. There won't be any professional ones, as she chose to "forget" the packet last fall and we didn't get to order any. Although I plan to post a pic or two of her and her lovely new braces in her cool new hang out soon.

Fav Recipe Site

I just thought I'd share with anyone that's interested one of my favorite sites.

A few years ago I discovered the Kraft Foods Recipe site and it's now my go to for those moments when I'm tired of the same ol same ol for dinner. I have found a lot of great easy recipes on Kraftfoods.com that everyone seems to really enjoy. The thing I like the most about their site is most of the recipes are very busy mom friendly and if they don't start out healthy they will offer a healthier ingredient substitute suggestion at the end of the recipe. It also includes nutrition information.


Happy cooking!

Adventures in Orthodontics

I got my braces Thursday.

As you can see, I was smiling the whole time.

More or less.

It /still/ hurts, and my mouth is really sore from all the teeth being pushed together. My braces are navy-blue, and they look spectacular. Katelynn's asked to see them quite a few times already.

Baby Garner Update

Unfortunately I don't have any new pictures of Baby Girl Garner, as the most recent ones are on my mother's camera, but I do have some information that I guess I will pass along since NO ONE else (Damon), seems to be keeping the Garner family Blog current.

Baby Girl Garner is now known as Lillian Winter Garner (hopefully I spelled Lillian correctly). At last check, yesterday, Lillian is doing "awesome" as stated by her proud Daddy. She's growing as she should and she's spoiling her Daddy by sleeping like an angel, only waking every 3-4 hours during the night. She's been such a good baby that when asked, Damon claims that he's too afraid to have another child because he's convinced they won't be blessed with such an angel next time, that we're all only allotted one "good" baby apparently.

Lillian was thoughtful enough to give her Mommy and Daddy at least one rough evening about 2 weeks ago. Damon had decided since he didn't have to work the next day he would get up with Lillian for her late night/early morning feeding. After going through the routine, eating, burping, diaper changing, he set out to get her back to sleep. Lillian had decided she had other plans for her parents and decided to stay awake crying off and on for the next three hours until Mommy awoke at 5am, took Lillian in her arms and she promptly fell asleep. Daddy was beside himself!

I'm sorry I don't have more to report and any new pictures. I will have to see if I can remedy at least the picture part.

Story Time!

Well, soon it'll be story time. You'll just have to wait a day or two. =P

I should have the second part up by Monday if I'm lucky.

Thank you everybody for all of your comments; it's wonderful to hear the reactions. I've joined a Young Authors club at school, so that'll give me some more critique with my writings. Once again, thanks for all of y'all's comments, hehe.

It's meant to be a bit confusing as to who's speaking the first part because I wanted to keep the audience in the dark. I start a lot of my stuff with pronouns instead of names for people, then let the information unfold throughout the story.

I originally meant for the paragraph starting with "Indeed she should be." and onward to be in a different font; if it doesn't show up, please tell me. Sorry it was a bit confusing. =3

Thank you,

Allison, whose screen name has been changed to Dungeon Master for security reasons.