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Monday, October 29, 2012

LASIK


I am the happy recipient of a modern day miracle...vision correction!  Last Saturday was the procedure and Jared took pictures of the process, and filmed the surgery.  It was pretty cool experience, but afterwards my eyes stung pretty badly.  They were watering like crazy and I could barely open my eyes.  Fiora drew a picture of me laying down with closed watery eyes. I had (and still have) red blotches in my eyes from hemorrhaging blood vessels. But the very next day the stinging was gone and I could see 20/20, amazing!  Beware, the following pictures are for documentation and were not the most pleasant on the eyes, ha ha.

Waiting for the LASIK to begin!

Prepped for surgery


Fiora's depiction of me after LASIK

RED eyes, you couldn't see the red if I smiled
SO EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO SEE!

Savanna's photo shoot





Holly took some pictures of Savanna at the beginning of October and they turned out so pretty!  That made Savanna's day, all we did is go to my parents to watch conference and on the way home Savanna kept saying how fun that was, I'm pretty sure the photo shoot made the day for her. Thanks Holly.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Derby and Recital

The French's Malt Shop

We have some great neighbors Bob and Nan French who we visited last week. Weston wanted to show Brother French his Pine Wood Derby car because Bob helped him cut it at his wood shop.  The French's also have a malt shop and served everyone up, it was very fun.
I had no idea how big the little Derby car race was in scouts, this being my only's son's first year in scouts, people were very serious about it.  There was a track that timed each car by the millisecond, and everyone's car had to be weighed in and people were oiling their axels and pounding in graphite.  I thought Weston's car looked great, he chose the design himself, and I only completely helped paint the white lines, he did most of the rest himself. Weston's car won all three runs of his heat, but overall placed 5th, because there were some serious competitors at this thing!  Still he had fun. He won the "Best Scout Spirit" because of the colors.
Blue and Yellow, scout colors

Weston's car's time: 2.9029

The TRACK

Getting his award
Savanna's violin recital
Savanna played "The Two Grenadiers" for her violin recital this fall.  She has been practicing for 2 months and was super good at that song, I had a lot of fun practicing with her as her accompanist. Unfortunately she forgot to tighten her bow for the actual performance and didn't play it AS well as usual, but it was still good.  She is really improving at violin, this year in orchestra she feels right comfortable and is playing the songs well.

 

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Magenta glasses


I called the LASIK center to see if they could help me out with my "glasses-dropped-in-the-lake" problem and they said they had some glasses I could use for a week until my procedure. I was very grateful as I drove down there wearing Fiora's glasses that I didn't have to pay money for glasses for a week, but when they handed me the magenta colored square plastic glasses I thought it was a joke! They just said "sorry" and I walked out with a desire to laugh and cry at the same time. I always considered myself a non-material unvain person, but these glasses pushed me passed my self-conscious limits. The first couple days I would only wear the glasses meant for a 6 year old when driving, and would hide them in my purse and just suffer with the limited vision, but as the week wore on I just gave up on worrying about what others thought about it and just wore them all the time.  I'm grateful for my magenta glasses, I can drive and don't feel totally disabled, and I even got a couple compliments from people who no-doubt thought I was trying to make a bold fashion statement. At least the primary kids didn't laugh at me, but Jared certainly has, multiple times.  One more day, one more day...

Fiora's cake

Savanna the baker

Savanna and Fiora had a blast with their cousin Lucy Carpenter over fall break.  We had her over Sunday and Monday and they played constantly.  I was surprised how involved Savanna was in the cousinly play and how tolerant Fiora was of her constant presence. Savanna talked me into taking them to swim at the Lehi pool Monday and I'm glad I did because I ran on the track the first half of a hour and then sat in the hot tub the second half and it was awesome!  I love having older kids that can watch themselves. Savanna also talked me into taking her to the store on the way home to get cake making ingredients. She spent the rest of the afternoon with Lucy and Fiora making cakes!  The one Sav is holding is a white cake with peanut butter buttercream frosting filled with recess peanut butter cups and topped with fudge frosting bananas and grapenuts. It was super yummy!

Jared and I celebrated out 13th wedding anniversary on the 16th of October. Jared took me to all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster and then up to Park City for an overnighter.  Jesse and Kelsy were kind enough to come over and spend the night, my kids aren't THAT old yet.  Jesse said the kids all but took care of them, I was happy to hear they had a handle on everything. It worked out great and we had a great time.

Just this evening we went to Cornbelly's, and happened to run into the Carpenters as we were pulling in. What a lucky coincidence! We spent the first half of our time there with them, and then my kids wanted to branch off and do some older kid stuff and we lost them.  But it was fun to hang out with them for a little while!  Here are some cute picture of the excursion:
Carpenters at Cornbelly's!

Jared rocks!

Pumpkins everywhere!

Treven, Fiora, Lucy, Weston

CUTE Carpenters

Corny Schauers
Train ride

The Corn Maze

Scarecrow on stilts

bull swings

milking a cow

Savannas udder didn't work

Friday, October 12, 2012

Book shelf, Birthday girl, Boat ride

Heather and Charles Albright
 We made a few life long friends while we lived in Mississippi eight years ago, Cody and Utahna Albright. They still live in MS but we keep in touch and try to see them whenever they come out this way. Jared had the opportunity to be Cody's grandfather Charles' realtor this past summer and Jared enjoyed Charles company! Once the deal was closed he took Charles out to lunch and I was able to come along.  Charles is a really great guy, just like Cody and Utahna!



Before
 Remember that dresser I pruchased last month? Well it has a matching desk and shelves for a corner and Jared painted it up so we could put it in Fiora's room.  Looked pretty good afterwards I thought!

After

 Weston was "Hero of the Week" in his class last week. His teacher does this cut thing where the Hero sits in the middle of the class and they all take a turn to tell him what they like about him.  He was also highlighted with a poster and question/answer session. Weston soaked in the attention. It was fun to be there.

Hero of the Week!
 If you read my last post about Karli's mission, you will remember the character "noble Dawn" who was of course a real person, and a Sister in Tucson Karli was able to teach and see baptized. Dawn really bonded with Karli, and my Dad was able to get Dawn and her three traveling companions tickets to general conference.  They made the trip back down to Eagle Mountain to have dinner with us and visit. It was so great to meet her!
Family gathering with Dawn

Karli's friend and recent convert Dawn and her fiance Ryan
 My sister Heidi turns 33 TODAY!  I took her out to lunch for her birthday Wednesday at Kneaders. They brought her out a free pastry with a sparkler in it, but accidentally gave it to the wrong person. We made them get another sparkler going for us so we could take a picture, it was too awesome. Holly joined us, it was so fun to have some sister time. I wish we could do that more often.
Holly and Sophie
Mehki entranced by sparkler

Happy Birthday Heidi!
 We had a fun fun day yesterday. For fall break instead of going out of town we decided to have a "fun day with Dad" around the valley.  Jared took work off and took us to the Natural History Museum, to see BRAVE finally (which I absolutely loved), out to eat and JCW's, carved pumpkins so I could get the pumpkin seeds and roast them, and fishing with Aaron and Lexi on their boat in Utah lake.  That was super nice of Aaron to take us out, it was a ton of fun.  We started out slow, but the last hour the fish were practically jumping in the boat. We must have been on top of a school of white bass because all we had to do was dangle our lures over the side and they were biting every 15 seconds.  The kids had a blast. 
making friends with dino bones

Jared's first visit to the dinosaur museum, trouble maker.
Savanna still had fun even though she's a tweener
Aaron going from one pole to the next getting fish off our lines!
 Unfortunately during the last hour of the fishing trip, my glasses fell in Utah lake.  Little Lexi (age 3) was with us and getting a little bored of fishing, so I held her on my lap and we ate granola and bonded. She was talking up a storm with me.  I was loving it.  She had her mom's sunglasses on her face and was putting them on upside down and she put them on like a headband.  I said, "Now you look like a hot mamma!" She laughed.  Then she grabbed my prescription glasses and put them on my head like a head band and said, "You look like a hot mamma too!" It was so cute and funny how she said it I laughed my head off, and tipped my head back while doing so and those glasses slipped right off my head and dropped in the lake.  Had I known it was only 3 feet deep I would have jumped in after, but thinking it was deeper and not wanting to put my head in the lake water I hesitated and panicked--I'm not allowed to wear contacts because I'm having LASIK next Saturday, nor do I have any contacts or extra glasses. Jared stripped down to his skivies and got in, trying to feel for them with his feet.  But the boat had drifted and he couldn't find them, poor guy was in the cold lake for 20 minutes trying.  It was all very funny.  Thankfully the LASIK center has some glasses my prescription that I can borrow until Saturday.  I felt so disabled yesterday without them! 
Jared in his skivies, love you babe!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Karli's Book

I made this book for my sister on a mission and wanted to have it in my blog-family-history. I had a lot of fun making it and Karli loved it! All the pictures are either postcards she has sent me or pictures from the mission field.


QUEST TO THE LAND OF HeirZONA
By Heather Schauers
(Base on true events)


Once upon a time, there was a fair maiden named Karlisu. She was the most honest, helpful, insipiring, and kind maiden in all the land of Utahna. Karlisu was beloved by all who knew her.
One day, Karlisu was walking through the stout forest of Southfork on Mount Timpanogo, when she happened upon a cactus.  “What is a cactus doing in the land of Utahna?” Karlisu wondered.
Suddenly the Cactus spoke to her. “Howdy fair maiden!” Karlisu yelped in fright and hid behind a safe fir tree.  The Cactus chuckled.  “Don’t you be ‘fraid now, I know who you are Karlisu, and I’ve traveled all the way from the land of HeirZona to ask you to complete a quest!”


“Quest?” Karlis repeated meekly.  She approached the cactus.  “What kind of a quest?”
“I reckon you’ve heard of these quests before, it’s a quest to the hot and firey land of HeirZona to save their people from the invisible demon who blinds their eyes and dulls their hearin’, and only the most honest, most kind, and most inspiring gals in the world are able to do it.”


“How will I ever be able to save anyone from the invisible demon?” asked Karlisu doubtingly.  “I’m just a simple maiden from the land of Utahna, and I have a rare phobia of speaking my mind!”
“Now don’t you worry darlin’! The great God of Heaven will help you save the people of HeirZona. And He will give you a companion to help you on your quest!”  Karlisu clasped her hands. “If God will help me then I will do it!” 
“And remember,” said the Cactus, “having courage is being scared to death, but saddlin’ up anyways!”  And then he vanished!



Karlisu fled down the mountain to tell her family! She had a rather large (and somewhat odd) family that she loved more than anything.  “Oh Karlisu!” her family said. “We are so proud of you for accepting your quest, we will miss you but we know you can do it!!!” Little Trav even did a victory dance for Karlisu.

Fair maiden Karlisu saddled up and moved to a town called Toosahn, sad to leave her family, but excited for what lay ahead. Just like the Cactus promised, she was given a companion, a fair maiden of royal descent--Sister King! Sister King helped Karlisu learn how to survive her quest. She studied and worked hard, and Karlisu thought, “this isn’t so bad!” She even broke free of her phobia and spoke her mind!

But difficulty lay ahead for Karlisu.  Sadly, Sister King had to bid farewell to Karlisu and journey elsewhere in the land of HeirZona.  Karlisu found herself in the company of someone very different from herself…fair maiden Sister Reid.  This new companion was a wonderful person, but she missed Sister King so much she could barely move on. “Oh how will I ever complete my quest now!” languished Karlisu.
Thankfully, Karlisu and Sister Reid met many people who they were able to save from the invisible demon.  This boosted Karlisu’s spirits, “God is helping me complete my quest and help the people in the land of HeirZona!” Karlisu sent home letters to her family entitled MIRACLES and PEACE, BE STILL, and shared her testimony with all she could. Not even the burning sun could scorch her joy.
Then, one fateful day, Karlisu was carried away to another part of the land, and the people in this part of Toosahn spelled it differently—TUCSON—and they had different ways, and did not welcome quest-goers as did the people in her first land. Karlisu did not know what to do to help the people in this part of the land!
But God was with Karlisu, and sent a blessing to her at this crucial time in her quest…fair maiden Sister Blood!  Karlisu could face any challenge and conquer any foe with Sister Blood at her side!  She continued to work…
Progress was slow, but Karlisu never gave up.  Eventually she passed her 6 month mark!  She was 1/3 the way done with her quest!!  “I know a victory dance we can do!” she said to Sister Blood.  They danced and rejoiced together at surviving up to this milestone.

But more troubles lay ahead…Karlisu fell ill to the terrible desert fever, and the same week also fractured her wrist.  She no longer felt strong and fair, she felt weak and tired.  But she had learned that no matter what her challenge is, God will help her complete her quest.  “Just send me people who need to be saved, and I will keep going!” she prayed.  She applied Udderly Smooth Salve to her wounds, put on her orange skirt, and got back to work.

Karlisu’s determination paid off!  Soon she met noble Dawn, who was at risk of being bound by the invisible demon!  Karlisu and Sister Blood reached out to noble Dawn and she grasped their hands, and they were able to free Dawn from the blindness and deafness!  They wept for joy as they saw the light come into Dawn’s life!
Karlisu not only helped save people, she also sang and danced for the people of HeirZona, sharing her talents with all who she met on her quest.  Her adventures are not yet over, but she is stronger and more faithful, and willing to keep going.  And she is still the most honest, most helpful, most inspiring, most kind, and fairest maiden in all the land.




THE END…

of this chapter…

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