Tom and I heard Sam choking upstairs, so we ran up to save her life. Only to find her dipping the little plastic tea pot in the toilet and drinking the water... You'd think it couldn't get worse. Until I tell you that the toilet wasn't flushed.
This child will have a great immune system one day....
True or False? Concealer will cover marks on your face.
Answer: False. Not if they are made from blue food coloring...
With that in mind, my blue face and I are off to Stake Auxiliary Training...
(At least it's only a spot...)
The twins and I were having "one of those" conversations. It eventually led to this...
Alix - "So you're going to die, mom?"
me - "Oh sweetie, not until I'm old"
Alix - "But mom, you're almost to old now!"
me - "Not really. I promise, I'm young and fun!"
Erin - "Well daddy really is almost to old."
me - "Oh yeah?"
Erin - "Yeah. The man has no hair!"
Well. Point taken. We'll miss you Tom.
This is Tom - Halloween 2007. Back when he still had an abundance of hair... (hey, it's all relative...)
Costumes mandatory! Here is documentation of the fourth (possibly fifth) annual Bishop's Adults Only Halloween Party... (After three years, you get to capitalize your party's name...) It was a blast as always. My stomach hurt the next day from laughing so hard.
The lovely ladies
and excluding Corwin, the handsome gentlemen...
The finals in the "mummy game" (The Hills took home the gold!)
Tom and I rockin' a new look. I forgot how handsome he is with hair...
Erin, the "green witch"
Brooke was a magical "wizard"
After eating a powdered doughnut off a string
Alix and Sam - not a skunk, a cat... people were confused all day...
Few things are better than carving pumpkins as a family. Here are the finished masterpieces...
Mine is the one full of holes. My mother asked, "What is it?" Pure fun. That's what. Everyone should go after a pumpkin with a power drill. It was the most fun I've ever had carving a pumpkin... Tom's is next, then Erin, Alix and Brooke's on the bottom.
Annual pilgrimage to the Pumpkin Palace. (Sam is helping me take the picture...)
Erin - had help drawing the face, but carved it all herself.
Alix did her own face and carving with absolutely no help from anyone. Period. No discussion. No input. On her own. Don't even think of helping her. End of story.
Brooke was less adamant about it, but did hers all by herself as well.
Ta-Da!
Seeing two huge pods of dolphins swimming beside you.
A little zip-lining adventure.
Relaxing in the sun.
Sharing it all with a great friend!
We had the greatest time! We got to do a ton of stuff. A helicopter tour all around Maui, the zip-line, the dolphin excursion, SURFING LESSONS (awesome, by the way. I'll post pictures of that when I get them from my friend's camera...), a sunset cruise, a luau and all the relaxing in the sun you could wish for. It was amazing! Thanks to such a great hubby and mom and dad that made it all possible! Maybe one of these days, Tom and I will make it on a vacation together...
I'm off to Hawaii for a week... I can already feel the sand between my toes! The picture is really Samoa, but it's still tropical, right? See you in a week...
Sam and I spent 8 hours yesterday at Seattle Children's ER. She's had a mid-grade fever since Wed. and starting Thursday night, she couldn't stand up. She couldn't even sit up by herself. It was very scary to see her trying to do stuff and just not be strong enough. I called her mitochondrial specialist early Friday to see if it was normal for mito kids to get this way with a fever. They said to get her to the ER. She doesn't have the swine flu (which is lucky since my best friend has a kid in the hospital with the swine flu...) just a cold. She just doesn't have the energy to fight off a fever and run the rest of her body at the same time. She was quite dehydrated and so they gave her an IV (horrible ordeal. Bad circulation + dehydration = 3 tries and a year off of my life) and gave her a bunch of fluid. She started perking up a little after the fluid and they also gave her a super-vitamin IV bolus that is supposed to help her get her energy and strength back more quickly. I'm exhausted. She's exhausted. But we didn't have to be admitted. Great thing to sleep at home. Now we just force fluids on her and try to keep her fever down as much as possible. She is able to walk (clumsily) today and it is good to see her back on her feet. What a trooper.
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