Another Year Bites The Dust

... and another one down, and another one down. Another year bites the dust!

Gotcha singing it now, huh?

We have been partying here tonight! We had hamburgers for dinner and have been playing Mario and doing hair all night.

Now for the frustrating news. I took Carter into the doctor today. He's had a bad cold, but along with that a high fever, diarrhea and totally lethargic for days. But to complicate things, the diarrhea has been going on for a while, and a few weeks ago he had blood in his diaper.

So the PA we saw was so frustrating. After telling him Carter's history, he told me that it sounded like nothing was wrong with Carter and that it is normal for toddlers to have diarrhea. I argued with him! I am not normally a person to do that, but it really shocked me that he would say it was normal!

He then told me (after not backing down) that we could do some tests to rule out that there was anything wrong with him: an ultrasound, after that a biopsy of some kind and then a colonoscopy.

He pulled up the test results from the beginning of this year when they took his blood and tested it for allergies. All of those tests had come back negative by the way, even though he had not been on gluten when they tested him which he has to be for the test to work properly.

This PA kept going on and on about how this is totally normal and how he is not allergic to any food AT ALL.

You know, I'm totally open to the possibility of Carter not being allergic to any food, but then at least try to help me figure out why he has had diarrhea for a year!!

I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm pretty sure I am totally done with that office.

Eve

Let's talk about snow

We have so much snow!! It is ridiculous! And the funny thing is that in Twin Falls, which is 45 minutes away and in the same valley, they have no snow. It has been snowing there but it hasn't stuck. Weird, right?

The roads have been horrid for days, even though the roads have been plowed. The snow has been blowing back onto the roads after it is plowed off. Yesterday they closed the highway to Fairfield because it was just too treacherous.

And every day it snows more. I love it!! Except we would be up a creek without a paddle if the snow were to cause the power to go out. I hope that doesn't happen.

Yesterday I decided it would be the perfect day to go deliver christmas goodies. Ha. Ha. I was gone for four hours and only delivered 1/3rd of what I needed to because it took forever to drive anywhere and I kept getting stuck. At this point, I think I'll just forget about it.

This is a picture Logan took as we were driving the jeep to the post office on Monday. It was really slick that day and I could not drive straight. As I was sliding down the street sideways in town, a man stopped me, pointing excitedly at my back tire. He freaked me out! I stopped the jeep in the middle of the street, he freaked me out so bad. But anyway, he came over to tell me that my back tire was spinning...    crickets

Well DUH!!!

I WAS IN FOUR WHEEL DRIVE!

Some people's children.

I was very unhappy that I had stopped and lost my momentum going down the road just so he could tell me that.

Samantha As Goldilocks

Samantha had her Christmas concert yesterday. Her grade did an operetta of The Three Bears, and Samantha has been ridiculously excited for this for weeks because she was chosen to be Goldilocks. Yes. I know what you all must be thinking, because Trevor and I were thinking it too.

How in the world is she going to be able to stand up in front of all those people without bursting into tears or freaking out in some way or other?

She handled it pretty well. I'm not saying she didn't freak out, because she totally did in her own way. But besides the pushing part where she almost knocked a kid down, I'd say she mostly kept it together! Lol!

Two In One

Two mice caught in one night inside my house.

That. Is. Just. Plain. Disgusting.

A mouse chewed a hole through the kick plate in the kitchen cabinets. That is how they got in.

I am thoroughly grossed out.

What is my problem with mice?

They love me!

They follow me everywhere.

Strike that. Three mice.

A third just caught while I was typing this.

Ack! Help me!!

I feel so violated!

Trevor is tracking the third one as I cower and scream from the bed in the bedroom watching him from afar.

The funny thing is that the second mouse trap went off as trevor was tracking what we thought was the second but turned out to be the third. Make sense?

Ick.

I bet we catch even more today since they had all night to congregate in my house.

Heaven help me.