Your Laugh for the Day - On Me!

O.K. so I woke up this morning (Jim was already up and at the gym playing racquetball) and I saw what looked like a long piece of caution tape, about 3 feet off the ground drapped around the footboard of our bed, it then wrapped around the bathroom door and into our masterbath.

My first thought was that Jim was playing some kind of practical joke on me and drapping caution tape throughout the room, my second thought was - oh, how sweet, he has some kind of surprise for me downstairs and doesn't want me to come down yet.

Well, I got out of bed and soon realized that it was not caution tape but it was toilet paper and it was attached to me! I had gotten out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom - it was dark, I didn't turn on any lights and barely opened my eyes and somehow had gotten the roll of toilet paper attached to me and brought it to bed with me!!

Jim thought it was so funny that when he got up at 5:00 a.m. he just left it so I would see it!

So, there you go - your funny story for the day!

Wisdom of the Teeth

This week Tessa had her wisdom teeth removed - I am glad I only have four children and thus only have to go through this experience four times!

Testy Tessa
On Wednesday afternoon Tessa had her four "boney impacted' wisdom teeth removed by an oral surgeon. We opted for an oral surgeon this time vs. a dentist after Cali's experience with her wisdom teeth (more on that later) The nurse warned me that they really had to dig to get them out and she was going to be sore and swollen - they were right. Not only was she swollen she has bruises under her eyes!


Five days later Tessa still does not look like herself. The first day (when she was half way coherent and not being onery because of the pain) she looked in the mirror and commented "I don't even recognize myself.' Still today at church, the brother in the front row turned around and asked who Tessa was (half joking but half serious)! She is still in a lot of pain, we are trying to manage it with motrin instead of the oxycodone she had been taking. Trying to prevent an addiction as she is the child who use to ask for motrin as an afternoon snack!


Cali and Clark both had their teeth removed by a dentist who instead of an anesthesia used the drug halcion - I must say Cali and Clark's wisdom teeth experiences were a lot more amusing as a result.

Crying Cali
They say that many times the reaction people have to halcion is similiar to how they would behave if they were drunk - in that case we now know that Cali would be a very emotional drunk.

As we drove out of the dentist's parking lot after the extraction Cali burst into tears, crying and sobbing. She was convinced that the dentist (a family friend) had used no pain medication and that she had felt EVERYTHING. In between her sobs she told me that we could no longer be friends with him because he was a very MEAN man! She sobbed all the way home - I tried not too laugh too much but it was really hard! Once home she began sobbing and crying for her Jamba Juice that a friend was bringing over "I Want my Juice!" sobbing almost uncontrollably. Her recovery was a rough one too - in fact the dentist admitted it was the hardest extraction he had ever done and they actually ended up going up into her nasal cavity so she was put on an anti-biotic which we discovered later that night that she was allergic to!

Cali has refused to give me permission to post a photo of her after her extraction - needless to say she didn't look great!

Crazy Clark
Clark also was given the drug halcion. Because it can make you quite incoherent they suggested that I give him the drug a few hours before his appointment but to put him in the car first and let him fall asleep there since he was a bit bigger than I am and I might have trouble getting him into the car once the drug took effect. So we put him in the car and I gave him his drugs but two hours later, 30 minutes before his appointment he was still wide awake. I called the dentist and they said to give him another pill. We arrived at the office - Clark walked in on his own, sat in the waiting room and began looking at a magazine. Still it seemed like the drug was having no effect.

Well - a few minutes later it hit - sitting in the waiting room there was a cute, blond, high school girl -Clark proceeded to lean over in his chair, stare straight at her and ask me in a loud voice - "Is she hot mom, is she hot?" I smiled and explained to the girl that he was on drugs. He then proceeded to roll out of his chair and onto the floor - now this was a very small waiting room and Clark was taking up the majority of the floor space.

The doctor came out quickly and helped Clark walk back into the office. All went well and they got him back into the car for me to go home. I realized I was out of gas so needed to go across the street to the gas station. As the car was being filled with gas (remember we live in Oregon and they do it for you here!) he proceeded to jump out of the car and began dancing around and singing. We now know that Clark would be a very funny drunk because if you know Clark, you know he doesn't sing or dance! I got him back in the car and he started demanding to know where his teeth were - he wanted his teeth because he wanted to make a necklace out of them - he asked over and over again. (I quickly called the office but they had already disposed of them).

On the way home he assured me he was fine and that he was good to drive over to the high school and go to Lacrosse practice. I assured him he was not! When we got home I needed to go to the pharmacy to fill his perscriptions but was afraid to leave him home along - thinking he would try to leave and drive to school. I took his car keys with me and called my mom to come down and babysit him. Clark has no recollection of any of this!

Lovely Logan


O.K. so maybe he doesn't look too lovely but it was a lovely, easy extraction. Logan also had his wisdom teeth removed by an oral surgeon. He was sore and swollen but other than that he was the easiest wisdom tooth extraction we had - sorry Logan no funny stories! But I do have a picture.

So my week was full of changing ice packs, dispensing drugs and sewing. The deadline for costume completion is this coming Saturday and I have A LOT of work to do yet - wish me luck.

Boy Update:
Logan and the Young Ambassadors performed in Logan Saturday night and did a workshop before the show. They also had a fireside tonight. He sounded tired when we talked to him on the phone tonight.

Clark had a boy's night on Friday night with his roommates to Benihanas and then a group date last night to make empanadas with one of his buddies who went to Argentina on his mission. Clark's stake received a new Stake President today - President Monson's son.

So if you made it through all four wisdom teeth experiences - click on comments below and let us know whose story you like best!

Bittersweet Week

This was a bittersweet week - one full of lots of activities but also some sadness with the passing of our Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley. The girls and I just returned from my parents where we watched a recording of the funeral. (for some reason our recording didn't work:( The girls were not home on Saturday so were unable to watch it. What an amazing man! The funeral was a wonderful tribute to his life, his character and his service.

I spent a lot of time grocery shopping this week in preparation for the Stake Relief Society dinner I was in charge of Friday night. We feed about 350 women - originally we planned on 250 so am glad we decided to up those numbers. If you are interested in what we served and the recipes check out my other blog. I had an amazing committee of women and all ran fairly smoothly except when I realized I had left all the salad dressing in the refrigerator at home - fortunately Jim came to the rescue and ran home and got it!

We had a wonderful program after the dinner - a woman, Tayva Patch, who is an LDS actress was the speaker. She has been in a lot of different LDS movies including playing Mary, the mother of Jesus in The Testaments and Lucy Mack Smith in The Restoration. She has played many other women of the scriptures. She shared her experiences with getting to know these women and playing them. It was very good and interesting.

For our YW activity this week we had a lesson on etiquette which I taught at our house. Tried to make it fun for the girls and we even did some fun napkin folding tricks. It is amazing how many people do not know how to set a table properly! (the napkin should never touch the silverware!)

Thursday night Cali performed in the "Give My Regards to Broadway" show at Westview. This is where all the kids practice their acts that they are taking to Regionals which was this weekend . Cali sang a song from "Into the Woods" - '"On the Steps of the Palace" Of course she did an great job and looked beautiful!

Friday was spent cooking and preparing for the dinner Friday night. Saturday I got to sleep in - yeah! Cali spent the day at Regionals and finished up at 3:00 - just in time to get home and get ready for MORP (Prom spelled backwards and the girl ask boy dance) She had an hour to get ready before 28 kids (yes 28!!) showed up at our house to take pictures. With a handful of parents taking pictures too we had a houseful.

Tessa spent the evening having a "Spa Night" with a group of friends - they gave themselves facials, did each others makeup and did their nails - Tessa came home with black fingernails!

Jim and I spent the evening at a going away party for a family in our ward.

Boy Update:

I think it was a sports watching weekend for both boys - Blazer game on Friday and Superbowl today. Clark and Brooke went bowling Saturday night and then up to Salt Lake to Brooke's house for Sunday dinner and to watch the game.

Logan was a bachelor this weekend as Shayla was gone all weekend with rehearsals and auditions. Think he was lonely. He did get his laundry done and his apartment cleaned though!