Happy Birthday Aunt Val!!

We had so much fun at Aunt Val's birthday party. It started out with a whole bunch of people going out to eat at Chilli's. MMMM... that was so good. I really did have every intention on saving some of my ribs for Blair but something happened and all of the sudden they was gone. lol. After dinner we went to Aunt Val's house and Played gestures/charades/pictionary. FUN! Jodi was cracking me up. She is so competitive. I thought I was bad. Then Casey made some better then sex cake. MMM that was really good. We also played Apples to Apples. Laughing wasn't even the word. I think that my jaw still hurts. By the time we left it was around 12:30am. There was alot of fog, but we didn't let that ruin our time.

Well Blair is 26 now. He is getting so old

December wrap up.

Well my little boy turned 5 this month. I really cant believe how fast time really does fly past you. I don't think that you understand that phrase until you have kids. So for his big day he got to do what ever he wanted. Started out with Ty and Chase coming to our house to play with him. Oh yeah Leslie came too. Then Blair got off early and he and McKayden played in the snow for like 4 hours. Presley and I cleaned. When the boys decided that they were hungry we set off for the mall to see Santa, then off to the brick oven. He was so happy when they came to sing to him. Grinning from ear to ear they asked him to stand up on the chair. Then he turned to shy mode. After dinner we went back to the house and had the family over for some cake and ice cream. Opened presents and fought over who got to play with what. Over all I think that he had a great birthday.

Christmas.

Christmas was a blast. I am always worse then the kids, I can never sleep, waiting for Santa to come. I told my mom that she could not call until seven in the morning cause I wanted to sleep in. But sure enough I was calling her at 6:40 telling them to come over. Presley was awake first. We made her go down and wake up brother and tell him that Santa had come. He shot up the stairs. Santa had hid there wiggle cars by our elk in the front room. The first thing that Presley sees it the cars and she yells A BIKE!! After about an hour of opening gifts we went over to Blair's parents to watch Kaleb open his Christmas. Then we went to Aunt Shelia and Uncle Gary's for the traditional Christmas breakfast. MMMM... Then on our way to my parents so see what they got. I think that every one had great Day.

The Pinkie Finger

Yes this is her pinkie finger. I know it looks bad, but compared to what it was this looks great.

CANS!!!

OK to all you parents out there. Always put you cans in the outside trash or make sure your kids cant get to them. Sunday night I had made candy yams to take over to Blair's parents house. Well I didn't cut the can lid off all the way so that I could drain it out. Well I put the cans in the trash not thinking another thing about it. The next morning "Monday" I hear Presley screaming like I have never heard before. I ran into the kitchen and she had stuck her hand down in to the can and it was pinned in there because of the lid. She kept pulling and I was trying to keep her from pulling her had out. but she did. It was not a pretty sight. she cut her ring finger and her pinkie finger BAD. I could see what was either tissue or fat coming out and in case you didn't know this about me I can not handle blood, and there was a lot of it. So we went in to Presley's room and sat on the floor cause I knew if i didn't I would pass out. McKayden ran and grabbed me the phone and I called Sandy Blair's mom, she works at our doctors office. Then I called my mom and told her to get to my house because there was no way I was going to be able to drive. Sandy called me back and said that a doctor was waiting for me. Then my mom made it to my house in just over two minutes, seriously, and we flew to the doctors. well and hour and a half later, and about five close calls of me passing out, and fourteen stitches later we made it out of the doctors office. Presley is doing great now. She told me that her fingers still hurt and I am having to kiss them a lot.

Graceland!

We had a great time when we went to Graceland. I never thought that I would get to go there, but well as you can see for your self, there we are. It all started Friday morning at 4am. I spent the night at my moms that night so that I didn't have to get the kids out of bed so early. I didn't sleep at all. So Finely at 4am I got out of bed, got ready, and headed up to the airport. I had to take 3 planes to get there, and by the was I am not that great of a flyer. I started in Salt Lake City, then off to Phoenix, then to Dallas, and arrived in Arkansas around 4:30pm. I got to the rental car place and they tell me that they don't have the car I asked for, just a small economy car. So instead i ended up with a brand new Mustang. FUN! I loved that car. It had so much power. In the south I think that they love there Mustang's cause there was so many out there. So I found Blair's hotel that he was staying at, unpacked and then he took me out to my favorite restaurant. The Olive garden. MMMM... it was good. The next morning we went from Little Rock Arkansas to Memphis Tennessee. It only took us about two hours. We got to see a lot of cotton fields, and a lot of Jesus Saves signs. I have never been any where that didn't have mountains so it was very strange for me. But after the two longest hours of my life we made it. We drove down Elvis Presley Blvd, and of course down at the end of Lonely Street was the Heart Break Hotel. We didn't waste any time. We parked the car and went to get our tickets. We were the second tour of the day. We got VIP tickets so that we could go through the Mansion as many times as we wanted, and we did. Blair was such a trooper. We went through it three times. It took us at least 5 hours to do that. then there was four more museums that we went in to.We got to go inside both of his planes. The Lisa Marie was huge it had two Georges bathrooms they both had 100% gold sinks. there was a queen sized bed, bar, and a big couch.




We did go to the grave sights like 5 times it was very neat. All of the Presley's were there Starting with His twin brother that died at birth Jesse Garon, then his mother, his father, Elvis him self and his grandma who out lived all of them. Were were there before they opened and after they closed that day. It was great! Later that day we went to our hotel called the Days Inn Memphis. It was great There was pic's of Elvis in our room they played Elvis music outside and in the lobby 24/7, and you could watch Elvis movies any time you wanted for free! There was an awesome swimming pool there but it was way to cold to go swimming. Everyone told us to go to Beale St. for dinner. Wrong I have never been more scared in my whole life. We even walked in to some teenagers fist fighting. We had to go down an ally for dinner. Which was OK Blair loved it but I wasn't to impressed. Then we had to walk back to the car. It is pretty bad when the lady that told us to go to this place was begging us not to talk to anyone while we were there. The next morning we went down to the lobby to eat breakfast and I saw this lady putting pic's up for sale. So I went over to talk to her and it turned out that she had done some movies with Elvis. So we chatted for a while and I didn't buy any thing from her cause she was charging so much. But it was neat to talk to her. She told me that he and Elvis had a great friendship and that he was very fun to work with. After that we went back up to the graves to say good bye. They let you go there from 7:30 - 8:30am. for free. Then we started our way back to Arkansas. I had the time of my life and I will never forget it.

GRACELAND HERE I COME!

That's right it is official I am going to Graceland! I leave for Little Rock Arkansas Friday morning. Then I am meeting Blair. Saturday EARLY EARLY we drive just 2 hour 15 minutes to Graceland. If you can't tell I am so very excited! Beware I will Blog about it when I get back!