Disneyland and Turkey Day!!

What a wild and crazy week we had, starting with Sunday Nov. 18th. Ron and I had planned on joining the Ogden family on their family vacation to Disneyland.  They surprised their kids with this fun vacation. Our plan was to attend Sacrament meeting and then head for Cali.  I received a call from Brit just as Sacrament was starting with some not so fun news about our little Kaido man, to make a long story short our little guy had two seizures with the first one he stopped breathing and Brit had to give him a rescue breath, which got him breathing again. The second one lasted until they they arrived at the hospital. Stayed the night for observation.
With Brit and little Kaido man in the hospital we decided we would still head to Cali and meet up with Des and her family. Knowing that we could turn around if we needed to head back or come home early if we needed too!
The Odgens had made it all the way to Vegas before they told the kiddos where they were going, and I just have to laugh because there response was "I thought we were having Thanksgiving in St. George." but they were a little hungry at the time so after their belly's were fed they got alittle more excited about going to Disneyland.  Ron and I arrived  around 10:30 and went to bed for a long fun day on Monday.

These are the faces of this family having an awesome time at the Happiest Place on Earth!!!!

Monday we spent our day in Disneyland and was able to hit all the rides we wanted to except for Indiana Jones, they were closed down.  It was very packed Mon. but we managed to make it to the rides we wanted to.

This is why we were able to get on the rides that we wanted with out much of a wait. Because the past 15 months my Oldest baby girl has been through some very rough times. With surgeries, Chemo radiation and did I mention surgeries, she has been through so many with one more coming up in Dec. it has left her with low energy which is so very hard to see because she has always been so energetic and on the go.  I know that she will get it back but will take some time. We just feel so very blessed that she is doing so good and still here to be the wonderful wife and mother that she is.  Well anyway someone had told Des about a special pass that she could get with the rental of a wheelchair, and thus the fast entrances onto the rides.  



 

We of course went on Star tours and they dump you right into the gift shop, anyone who knows me well, knows that I LOVE Yoda, they had the most awesome Yoda backpack that I really wanted to buy, but really $60.00 for a Yoda backpack at my age, I just couldn't spend that much money. So I had Emma take a picture of me with his ears on.  We stayed to watch Fantasmic and the Holiday fireworks, I think I loved those two the most, Fantasmic was done on the water and a fun light show and then the Holiday fireworks were beautiful done to Christmas music, this is my second time at Disneyland during the Holidays and is my very favorite, I love the lights, the music and just all that the Christmas spirit brings with it.

Here is our second day that we spent in California Adventure, less people there and again were able to get on all the rides we wanted even Cars Land twice.  We didn't ride the ferris wheel because that line was long and it takes fooooorrrrever to get that thing around and get people on and off, but I was not heart broken because out of all the rides that one scares me the most!!!!!!  Weird I know.

Loved Tower of Terror, our poor little Ellie was so big and brave she really didn't want to go on the ride but she humored us and went on but had her face buried in her Mommy's lap the whole time, and when we returned to the motel she really didn't want to get on the elevator to go up to our room.



 



 

By tues. night this Grandma was one worn out grandma, I ached in parts of my body that I didn't know could ache. But so worth it to see the excitement of our grandkids. Thank you Odgens for the fun time and hotel that we were able to crash in.

Wed. morning came to quick and we were headed home after saying good by to the kids for their third day to go between the parks.  We were a little worried about the heavy Holiday traffic, but we breezed through until we arrived in Vegas and of course there were a few accidents on I15 there to slow traffic down a bit. But we made it home and stopped to see our little Kaido man to see how he was, so far so good no more seizure. I crashed when I got home, so worn out. Thursday morning brought an unfamiliar Thanksgiving no Turkey to cook today because we were to celebrate it on Fri when the Odgens got into town.  We went shopping for all the goods went out to eat with the Isom family and did a few preparations for Fridays dinner.  I feel so bad I didn't get any picture of our Thanksgiving dinner but with the hustle and bustle of trying to get everything prepared I was just glad my body was letting me accomplish what I needed to. We had a great time with most of our family here, Mclanes did not make it from TX because they were her in Oct for the wedding, we missed them.  Saturday the Odgens left and some of us went to our traditional holiday movie to see "The Rise of the Guardians" cute movie.

Which brought us to Sunday and we celebrated Chantelles birthday, so more family time which I love. When Monday arrived I think I stayed in my PJ's all day and did a little cleaning and putting away the Thanksgiving decorations.

Back in Oct after the wedding I caught a very nasty cold which I haven't had in a long time because I take my Vitamin D3  :)  But this one hit me really hard and lasted the normal 10 to 14 days, the nasty nose and sinus pain went away but I have had a slight cough since then not a bad one but just one that is annoying. Started feeling heaviness in my chest before we went to Disneyland but pretty much tried to will it away. Well, after not being able to bring up the tubs for my decorations on Monday with out huffing and puffing and having to sit down in between doing everything, I decided I would break the bank and go see a Dr. $150.00 later I was told that my cold had turned in to an infection in my bronchial tubes, which I would call bronchitis, but then I am not the Dr., he was kind enough to give me a breathing treatment with no charge, it was so nice to be able to breath again. :-p That explains my total exhaustion for the past month!

My Christmas shopping is complete, and we are ready for a trip to TX in Dec to see the Mclanes, so bring on Christmas, my favorite time of the year!!!!!!

 

 

 



"Happenings" post Wedding

After the wedding rush was over, I started my next project of another wedding, Sharise's new sister in law. She has Nov 1 for her date, this time I had a Bridal bouquet and toss bouquet, the moms, the dads 2 grandmas and 2 grandpas and 8 wrist band for the sisters to make.  I have found a new love of making fabric flower and putting them together in many different way. Would love to do another wedding!!! Here's some pictures of the flowers:

During the making of the wedding flowers, we took a trip up to SLC, it was time to take down my dads greenhouse, one of our wonderful gardening neighbors bought the greenhouse. I know that it will be put to good use. It was a hard thing physically and emotionally to take that down. My dad loved his greenhouse and spent many many hours growing beautiful flowers. 
Took this great picture off of Desirae's blog, I love this picture, that is where and how you would find my dad walking up and down the greenhouse and peering through the flowers to see who was entering his domain!!  Love this man!

This is after the tear down, it was so sad.  :,(

 

Then the rest of the month went on, as I prepared for Halloween, and let me tell you when you have an empty house there is not much to prepare, no Halloween costumes to get ready. But of coarse one still needs to buy the candy and make goodies, so that is what I did.  I made an army of skeletons for the families I visit teach and for my family that is in the area, knew they would never survive a trip to SLC and TX through the mail their bones would be shattered.  Don't know if you can tell but there is both genders there. Pink bow on the head and blue bowtie on the neck.

 

 

Then we got together to carve pumpkins, the Sunday before Halloween, this is the outcome

Love the roll from Kaiden he barely fit in the pumpkin and Haiven was not liking the pumpkin on her head, she was a good sport and humored us adults but did not like it. The top third pic over is the picture that Josh had drawn on his pumpkin and that is how it was when they left, this is how it ended up.

He was up till 2 in the morning carving his pumpkin.

 

Wednesday Halloween day came and I was able to go and watch Raylies parade and I took Luke so Brittany could help out with class parities.  While getting my oil changed in the van Luke and I walked to Arbys for lunch, and met grandpa there, as you can see in the picture he was enjoying his chicken strips.







He was a very good boy for grandma, he is a very active little guy, but I enjoyed having Lukie and grandma time. Then I met Brittany at the school again to watch Logans parade.

When Ron got home from work, he was all excited to get dressed up and go to the trunk or treat here in Leeds. I was kinda of surprised because for years he has not cared to dress up, so I never really even thought about dressing up, but he dressed as a jogger and I dressed as myself and we were off to the trunk or treat. When the candy was gone we left and headed to the kids house to see them trick or treating, it was a fun day and now ready to move on to November!!!

 

Here's a picture of all my cute grand kids, I am a lucky grandma!!