Just a quickie....

Jack is the biggest spaz on the planet. I can give you instances if you'd like to hear them... my two favorites to date are

1. When you ask him why he's so cute, he answers , "Because My Mom is SMOKIN' HOT". Yup. Thanks to David for that little embarrassing one when his nursery leaders ask... :)

2. Kasey David and I were sitting around discussing dating. When Kasey asked Jack what he would do if a girl liked him, but he didn't like her. Without missing a beat he looked up and said, "I would kill her." His little voice made it SO funny! It sounded more like"I wood kiwl huh". Ok, so therapy will be expensive, but for now, FUNNY!

Which leads me to the newest Jack item...

Last night was actually somewhat relaxing. David was downstairs on the computer, Harris was watching a show, Riley was showering after her soccer practice and Jack was quietly playing upstairs with his trains... until I heard a gagging noise. So I went to check it out, and asked if he was ok, and he replied, "Yes, but this doesn't taste very good." It was the spray cleaner that I left in the bathroom. ARGH! We gave him his weight in water to dilute it and just watched him for a while. He's fine. WHY!?!?! Why would you want to drink that?

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AND - Karaoke looks like it will be on Saturday the 27th. It starts at 9, and even if you don't sing, COME! PLEASE! I really want to try to see everyone! It's a restaurant with great 1.99 appetizers, so it's a cheap date too! :)

BIG NEWS!

So! I am doing this as a blog post because I don't want to forget anyone, but I am leaving

Here

And flying into

Here!

For those who don't recognize it, I am coming to Portland! Sans Kids! Nice! My frequent flyer miles were going to expire, so I had to use them. My dear husband recommended I come to "Home" for a few days to just relax! :) September 26-28, (I know, so short!) Anyway, I am hoping to get a crazy Karaoke night together on either that Friday night or that Saturday night. Either email me or comment back and let me know! All parties are invited, so COME ON! It will be Lengend-(wait for it)-DARY! (If you don't know where that quote comes from you must go directly to Blockbuster and rent "How I Met Your Mother" season One through whatever is available)

Anwyay, We will go with the evening that more people can do it, I am thinking that we'll do it at the Golden Crown in Beaverton near the Target on Beaverton/Hillsboro Hwy. Mre details to come, Hope to see you soon!!! :)

The Wonderful World Of Little Girls...(AKA Riley's 10th B-Day!)

Riley's 10th birthday party was decided on LONG ago. We walked into "Justice" (which is an off-shoot of Limited Too, think Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, High-School Musical and little girls clothing.) and she saw a sign for Webkinz parties. Now. If you don't have a little girl between the ages of 5-14 you might not recognize the obnoxious teen idols I mentioned above, you everyone has to know what webkinz are, right? They are overpriced stuffed animals that come with a special online code that gets you into the "webkinz world". These were introduced to us last Christmas by my brother Todd (Who WILL get what is coming to him for it) and my kids were hooked. To be honest it is a cute little online world, they have little houses and cars. But MAN. It's out of control! We have at least a SQUILION, I swear! So back to the story. We walk in and she sees a party going on, and it's "So awesome Mom!" They do makeovers, hair, games and you get a webkinz pet. What could be better? Anyway, after much begging she talked me into it, and here are the resulting pics... After the makeovers (and some excedrin for me) we headed back to our house to create our cupcake masterpieces. That was a HIT! You have to try it for your next party. It's messy, but SO much cheaper than a blasted cake! :)

Here's the "Before" pics...

Here's us getting to Justice.

Here's the girls diving into their goody bags. The make-up and combs for the makeover were in them, and well as Justice Cash to spend at the store. Pretty cute...

Here's Riley getting started. Isn't she so cute??? :)

Now that the hair is done, the girls are oh so carefully applying their make-up. This was SO funny to watch!!

Here are Riley and Liv, as they are applying their make-up, I couldn't resist this picture, is there anything cuter?

Here they are all loaded up! They have all their stuff (which was a TON!) and have their make-overs completed! Very fancy, huh?

This was the cupcake area...

And the cakecake creating...

And finally, the presents. It's always a good thing to do the presents, because as the Mom, you know the end is in sight! :) So, Happy Birthday to my Baby girl! You only get into double Digits once!! We love you Riley!!!

DISNEYWORLD!!!!!!

So the last blog being about mostly school I grazed past the infection that I had pretty quickly. The truth about this blasted thing is, it was horrid. The doctors were completely confounded and couldn't figure out why while watching me, the redness started getting worse. Like going up my neck and around the back of my head, down my torso. It was super scary. They did all sorts of unmentionables to me, and then started telling me that I couldn't eat or drink, as they were planning surgery. I must have said the next phrase at LEAST 100 times. "Do whatever you need to do, but I am going to Disneyworld in 10 days, so do it quick." The next day, same comment, but down to 9 days. I really think the whole power of positive suggestion worked, because we went to Disneyworld on the 27th, and it was AMAZING! I am so grateful that we got to go and I wasn't in a wheelchair! (I would STILL have gone! COME ON! It's freaking Disneyworld!!!) Anyway. Below is the skinny on the trip... :)

Wednesday the 27th we got on the plane to go! Woo-Hoo! There is much excitement in the house, in the car, and then in the plane. Fortunately it was containable excitement and we didn't get too many people too irritated. We got there that night and the inevitable happened. All the things I forgot started coming up. ARGH. The restaurant reservations, the end of the antibiotics for Jack, and it was BLASTED HOT. We (meaning mainly me) we having a rough night that night. But the heavens opened and so did Disney World at 9 AM! :)

First day was Magic Kingdom. We are SWEATING SO profusely, it's amazing. It was 95 degrees, and 95 percent humidity. I am not kidding when I say you could see the humidity in the air. It was like little clouds. CRAZY. For those of you who are looking confused at the extra adult in the pics, that is My niece Kasey. We talked her into coming to help even out the parent to child ratio. We were back to man-to-man defense with her there. PS- She is single and obviously SO cute, so hit me up to hook her up! :)

Happy Birthday to me!! :) Is there a better to way to spend your b-day than Space Mountain? I mean, seriously!?!?! Plus one of our waiters thought Kasey and I were sisters, 5 years apart is what he guessed. :) NICE!!! Maybe he just wanted a huge tip... but I loved it anyway! And YES. My shoulders DID get sunburned. OUCH. We went to this beautiful "palace" for lunch, and we had AWESOME food. Plus the Pooh Bear characters joined us for pics.

Onto the next day, David's favorite place! The Animal Kingdom. Now before you look at the next pics, you MUST remember that we were just talking about how hot and muggy it was? We got off the dinosaur ride, (which is all inside) and walked out to get our stroller (parked outside) and it was like someone turned the sky faucet on high. Pouring like you wouldn't believe. We missed most of the shows and such because it was SO rainy the animals wouldn't cooperate. David's shirt is a light-grey normally. We were SOAKED! Jack scored though, we let the kids each pick something, and he picked the hooded dino towel. He was warm and dry, the little punk!

This picture is SO funny to me. mainly because I was roaring at Jack to try to keep him from being afraid, and then it took! I had no idea! It was hilarious though. Check out Kasey too, she was FREAKED! And note the complete lack of Harris. He is actually sitting next to Kasey, you just can't see him, since he's ducking so low!! Hahahha...

The day was on to Disney's Hollywood Studios (Formerly MGM) where we did Tower of Terror and some other fun things. This was Jacky's favorite lunch, as it was the Playtown Disney Character lunch. So the Little Einsteins and JoJo the clown were there. It was very over-stimulating for the adults, but the kids were loving it!

Possibly the most fun for my boys was where we stayed. We stayed in DisneyWorld at the "Camp Wilderness Cabins". There were little frogs, toads, and lizards that the kids could catch, and they were just in heaven!!! I can't tell you how awesome this place is. The cabins themselves are rustic and a bit small, but they perfectly fit all of us, and had a fridge and stove, so we didn't have to buy every meal. The dining plan with Disney is a MUST! Watch their site, sometimes (like ours) the dining plan will be "thrown in" just to get you to book. Probably this time of the year because it was hurricane season and we were washed out of the parks once. But only one day was it really raining, so we made indoor smores (thanks to Kasey's expertise of heating them on the element/burner) and watched movies. What a great trip.

If anyone is a glutton for punishment and would like to see more pics, let me know, but I was figuring this would do it! :) This should sum up the trip. It was fun and wonderful and next time You all have to come with!!! :) Have a great school year everyone!!

FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!!

What? How on earth has it happened that All of my kids are in school now?? Jack only goes a little over 2 hours, but still! It's so crazy how time has flown by once again! Here's a couple shots of the kids getting ready to GO! The first couple of Jack on him going to the "meet & greet", but he swears he was going to school, so we counted it... :)

The traditional door pose

Jack's version of the traditional door pose. :) It's his new thing. Expect to see ALOT of those in the upcoming DISNEYWORLD RETREAT!!

THIS face could melt hearts. I am telling you. He can be SO stinkin CUTE!!!:) This little castle is in the waiting room at his preschool, and he LOVES IT!!!

Here are Riley and Harris trying to look all "Too cool for school" this morning. Remember the butterflies you'd get on that first day or two!?!? :) So much fun!!

Of course little peeker has to sneak his head in on the shot. (Note the head to the side thing...)

Here's the Big Man on his first official day!!!

Jack and his sibs getting to go to school together for the first time!! :) YEAH!!!

Jack picking out his cubby, he chose the Elephant.

Hanging up his little bag. And below, having fun with the bugs... What an awesome day!!!

I know, I know, it's been a while...

And it HAS been a while. I am not going to go into a bunch of details surrounding this whole medical crisis, but I had found a lump while doing the home exam that all WE WOMEN should be doing. It freaked me out, but I patiently waited for a mammogram. They couldn't see anything either. On a routine visit Dr Bair asked Karin how I was doing and bless my sister for telling him! He told me to not stop until I got an MRI. So we did that, and we found the lump. When you have cancer running along strongly enough that every female in on your Mom's side all the way back to Great-grandma, you kinda in the back of your mind are bracing yourself for it. They had to send me in for a Breast MRI guided biopsy. These are not easily done. Not fun. But TA-DA! We got great news back that it was negative. They were able to do the lumpectomy without further complications. But. Those of you who know me, know that there is no such thing as "without further complications". This last weekend our friends the Maags TOTALLY balied us out as I ended up going into the ER because of pain, fever, swelling, EXCRUICIATING pain, did I mention the pain? We were there for almost 6 hours, and lots of testing. I have a bad bacterial infection that isn't responding to antibiotics. Blek. It's getting a bit better now, so hopefully those who think I have been ignoring you or just blowing people off, it's just cause life has been SO stressful. Today we see the DR again, and hopefully see if the new drugs are working. I know, this isn't my normal blog posting, but I guess I was wanting to make sure you ladies out there militantly check yourselves. BUT, I do have one thing that will make you giggle... After all it wouldn't be a Jennie Post if I didn't give you at least ONE giggle. The Surgeon that I saw is in a large practice with 6 or 7 other doctors. So I was looking at the wall where it states all the DOCs name, and I pointed to one in particular. DOCTOR REBECCA TITTENSORE . Yep! You read that right. I said, to David, MAN! Maybe I should be seeing her instead!!"

So enought of the medical drama. I just knew that most of you had heard bits and pieces from people already, and wanted to make sure people know I am in the clear now! Onto the more fun post.... First days of school!!

Happy Birthday Dagen!!

So it's here. David is officially as close to 50 as he is 20. He turned 35 today, and it was a nice lazy Sunday. (No, not a homage to SNL's Andy Samberg's Chronicles of Narnia rap, but that was awesome...) Anyway, Jack and Riley are sick, so one of us had to stay home from church. David stayed and got to stay in his jammies all day. And, he got to sneak in a mini nap while watching "Monster Quest". How much better can a b-day be? Anyway, being that we have sick kids, it was just us this year, but it was great. David's choice for his birthday cake was of course, not cake, but the raspberry-lemon pie that I make for him.

Anyway, I already got gooey on Father's Day, so I won't do it again, but he deserves his own blog post for his birthday. Happy Birthday Dagen, we LOVE you!

Make sure you note that while David is getting his birthday spankings from the kids, that Broozer is being REALLY protective of David. He's BITTER at Harris for making David "sad". Hehehe, what a spaz dog.

We're home!!!

Wow. That was seriously one long trip. We were gone for a full 2 weeks! It was awesome though. Some of the highlights, Meeting Olivia, staying with Charles and Sara, of course the Molalla parade, seeing my Uncle John and Aunt Toni, oh, the list goes on. and so do the pics... I am only highlighting a few, but here we go...

First off, Meet Olivia!! :) Here in an outfit from Aunt Jennie... she is so tiny none of the outfits we bought fit her! Thank-goodness for upto 7 lbs size Gymboree!! Isn't she cute???

Here are the kids and a few of their cousins on the favorite hammock at Grandma and Grandpa's. With Harris and Jack are (L) Hailey (Corrin's), and (R) Hannah (Kristin's).

Here are Daddy and Jack asleep at the hotel. One of the hotels anyway. We stayed at 3 different ones! This was my favorite though, as Grandma and Grandpa Carter kept the older two and we actually got some sleep! Obviously... :) Jack really fell asleep that way, no manipulating the photo!!

Ahhh, the Molalla carnival. Honestly, some of my favorite memories of all time have been here. This was Riley, Harris and myself on the scrambler/sizzler/whatever they call it now. We all loved it and rode it twice!!!

Here the kids are (still at the Carnival) with their winnings. David was thrilled. More stuffed animals.

Here we are at Charles's house and Riley, Harris Bailey and Caddie are in the middle of a performance. The first of many. :) Bailey is closest to the camera, Caddie is more in the background.

Last, but certainly not least is Kenzie. She might be grouchy at me for posting this, but I LOVE THIS PIC! It's so her! We are all decompressing back at G & G Carter's house after the 4th. Note in the background Hannah and Bailey are tormenting Baby Charles (Corrin's). Oh, the love of cousins. (Kristin's husband Aaron is on the left of the pic)

Stranger than fiction...

So this blog is one that I need opinions on. Here's the back story. Yesterday I went to get the mail. I grab it and start walking back to the house looking through it. Almost every day I (and most of you too probably) get those card stock type flyers that are usually advertising a chiropractor, or dentist, and this day was no different. I usually throw them away without really even looking at them, but for whatever reason, I looked at this one. I flipped it over to look at the back, BOOM! There is a picture of my Dad. I swear! I thought I was losing it, possibly due to heat... but I went in the house and really started to study it. IT REALLY REALLY looks like him! But, he doesn't live in Utah, has never been to that clinic and just isn't the "sure take my picture to put on your random flyer" type of guy. I scanned it, sent it to my family members, and waited for the ridicule to roll in. Nope! They are swear it's him too!!! WHAT???? SO. Here's where I need your help. I am posting two pictures. One of my Dad taken a few years ago, and one of the "mystery possible identical twin" guy. I need to you to tell me if you think it's him! This is especially geared to those of you who know my Dad, (Diane, Kenon, Charity, Cami, etc.) but absolutely open to anyone!! :) When I finally talked to my Dad, he said he's never even tried one of these type of sleep apnea masks on, BUT. He has a mask, he refuses to wear! His is supposedly different. But what if while he was doing his sleep study they took a freaky pic of him and are now using it? WEIRD. Anyway, let me know what you guys think...

Totally him, right???? :)

Olivia Update

Here's a cute shot of Olivia from last night... She really is gorgeous, right? :) What a great first night at the hospital shot!! And one more of the new big sibs and mom and baby...Hope everyone has a good weekend!!