This year it's my turn to hold the annual Christmas Get-Together so who else would I get to make my invites???
I am also Thankful for the imagination that allows me to stare at men like Clive Owen which in turn, allows me to have wonderful and naughty lusting thoughts!!! hehehe How hot is he?!? JK but really??? :)
My ever so hardworking son who takes pride in all that he does...
The exhaustion that sets in after a hard days work...
My son who enjoys the traditional watching of "The Amazing Race" every Sunday night just as much as his Mom does...
My crazy and energetic daughter who never stops being hilarious,creative, and using her imagination. "You can never be too prepared" was the line that she was stating during this event...
The neighborhood boys who come by every afternoon on their way home from their "yard cleanup business" to give Carter a few laps on their four wheeler which leaves him smiling from ear to ear...
The best-friend brother and sister sleepovers that have them giggling for hours which in turn leaves their Mom eavesdropping and smiling as she drifts off to sleep...
The things that come out of my daughters mouth sometimes, most times, crack me up! We were just talking about it today at lunch, how our kids are all such sponges and soak up everything and anything they hear. So today when I got home this is what I was presented with....
"Mom. When I grow up, big enough to use your hair straightener, I know what I want to be. I am going to be an illustrator. An illustrator is someone who draws the pictures that are in the books. Do you think that these will work for my portfolio?"
Portfolio? Where did she get that one? Honestly who is she? How old is she? Oh boy.
Let me begin this post by saying that our "Girls Night Out" was so great! We had so much fun being a little obnoxious like we tend to do when we get together and the fact that it was WAAAAAY past our bedtime did not add to the rational thinking :)
One of Tara's friends actually ordered these pins and some actual "Forks High School" T's from the real live "Forks High School" in Seattle. They didn't have the right sizes left for us in the T's, so we settled for these pins as our fan decor.
Sara, of course, could not let us forget about the upcoming BYU-UTAH game (I don't want to talk about it) so she showed up in this attire. Way too funny and such the brave, confidant, and normal Sara way to act! Oh yeah...don't forget about our vampire teeth..
Rock on Sara. Now I can at least say that she can talk it up allllllll she wants after last weekends game. (I don't want to talk about it)
This picture of me turned out way too perfect. The look on my face and the vampire look of my eyes says it all! The best part is that Tara was trying to take a surprise picture of me and this is me giving her the "no, no, no" talking to. How sad that my face can really get and look that pissed off and evil. hehehe I look so mean!
...just being posers...as our teeth are falling out and we are trying so hard not to laugh!
We got this bright idea to switch from our seats up to the "handi" seats but the only problem is that those seats come in pairs of 2. So we decided that we would take shifts and squish the 3 of us into the 2 chairs. That worked all too well until the butts started falling asleep so down Sara bailed to sit down by Angi and her sis (who was luckily able to be called and come at the last minute because we somehow had an extra ticket)
Yep. This is us at 2:15 in the morning and the exhaustion was starting to set in....
I was so surprised that this guy was the only extremist when it came to going all costumed out. I've seen quite the ensembles at some of these midnight shows but it was pretty calm that night!
I don't want to talk about it.
OH YOU KNOW that we got tickets for tonight's midnight movie premier of "Twilight"!
The other day I had some appointments downtown that finished up right in time to get me stuck in the 5pm homeward bound traffic. The way that the sun was setting, the slow traffic, the commuter news, etc, it all reminded me of the time in my life when I had been dead set on my career.
So I was in complete denial last week and woke up to our yard being completely covered in snow. I was not prepared. Everything from last year was too small and in Carter's case...broken. Notice the safety pins keeping his coat together? Yeah...broken zipper. Yes. I freaked out and immediately called "Lands End" and $25o later...all new snow clothes expressed shipped out to our house. When will I ever learn???
Let the countdown to Summer begin!!! hehehe I'm SERIOUS!!!
7 Things That I Can Do
That is what Carter said when we told him how old Trevor was turning. It was his birthday last week so we took him out for dinner. He turned 34 and once again, it was another reminder that I too am getting old! Yuk!!! Please tell me that I don't look that old????? (no...not that Trevor looks old...please tell me that I don't look like an old 32 yr old!!!)
Another reminder of my age is the number of years that this has been in existance. (and this picture shows only half of it!) This is the infamous Terry brothers "pop wall" that has endured a million parties, numerous near death experiences, grand kids, a mothers threat to take it down, a mission, and a wedding. It began with a joke to keep and put up all of the pop that they had been drinking and it turned into their masterpiece. Oh if only the Pop Can's could talk. What a story they'd give! They've even said that they're going to go buy some clear plastic to place over it to keep it in place forever as an homage to the many adventures that the basement has endured. My Mom's not having it, though. She said that the moment John-Charles got married, that it was coming down. Now it's changed to while Michael is on his mission, she will destroy it but we'll see. Not if the rest of the siblings have anything to do with it. Just another one of our hilarious, ridiculous, Terry family memories. :)
I know that you're all so excited to see this again but I have to make sure that you remember what it is that I am referring to. hehehe Sorry. It's too hard to resist.....
So we went up to Primary Children's Hospital yesterday to meet with our doctor to talk about Kindra's MRI results and it's good news! It's NO news really but it's GOOD-NO news. The MRI and the XRay results did not show anything wrong at all so we're sort of back to square one. They are still going to do some research and in the mean time we are going to do some physical therapy knee strengthening to see if that will help it to "pop out" less.
Don't worry. I will keep you posted on the adventures of Kindra's "knee mystery"......
Watching BYU football games wearing the true blue colors of BYU...
...and helping his Mom clean the garage and put away all of the summer toys-pools-bikes-scooters-lawnmowers-blowers and anything else he could think of that needed some organizing! 
When Kindra brought this home last week, she already knew exactly what she was going to put in the Mystery Bag. Yep. You guessed it.
I thought that this picture was perfect! It showed just how proud she really was of her "mystery"
Kindra... "Mom. Guess what? There is going to be a book fair at the school and my teacher told us that we could go and get any book that we wanted. I've already found which one I want."
"Mom. Come look at the gorgeous hair cuts that we gave my ponies."I'll spare you the rest of the details about the learning conversation that had but after it was all said and done, I realized that I should be so thankful that it was only the ponies hair that I had needed to worry about!?!
