TRYING TO GET A CHRISTMAS PIC

I wanted the kids to come to my work so we could get a Christmas pic for our Christmas Cards. The only day Ashley could come down was today so I said just come to my work and we'll stand in front of the tree. Mikell and Zach brought Boston and we snapped a few photos. I loved the one of Ashley and Boston. Mikell put Boston in his WRANGLERS and his COWBOY SHIRT. He is such a cutie!

Sorry I couldn't figure out how to rotate this picture. Here's Boston's cute little butt in his Wrangler Jeans and his Rodeo Champion onesie!!

BURN BABY BURN!

Last night I received a picture via cell phone from one of Ashley's friends, Erica. It was of Ashley in a hospital bed with her arm wrapped up. I was like WHAT??? Ashley was at work and she was doing the AUTOCLAVE (that's how they sanitize the Vet's Instruments) anyway, the timer went off and usually the door will not open until the temperature goes down and the PSI drops to a safe level. Well, when she opened the door the STEAM burn her whole FOREARM! I couldn't believe it when I saw it! I called her and asked if she need me to go up to Logan and she said no, she had Lytton and Erica to take care of her. It was pretty painful for her but she has a pretty HIGH PAIN TOLERANCE!

Today she came down and I met her at WorkMed and when we pulled off the bandage you should have seen the BLISTER! Poor Baby Girl! She is such a TOUGH girl! She said it hasn't hurt much at all today thank goodness. We have to go back to the Doctor when the BLISTER pops. These pictures don't do it justice but take a look at her poor arm!

HURRICANE WINDS

We were warned that we would have some pretty strong EAST WINDS with gust about 60 MPH at times...well what we got was 90-102 MPH WINDS in DAVIS COUNTY!! It was SO SCARY driving to work. I had both hands on the wheel and felt my car shaking and thought it was going to flip over. Once I got to work Cyndi and Lesa pulled up and they were totally FREAKED OUT! Trees were down, the new building behind ours was fallen over, and debris was flying everywhere! We had a difficult time opening the doors to get in. Lesa's husband, Tom had to get out of his truck to help us open the door so we could all get  in. We weren't very happy that our boss made us come in. The winds were INSANE! We have to be to work at 7:00 am. The rest of the building comes in at 8:00. Everyone kept calling saying they weren't coming in. The POWER kept going on and off and we were told to not turn on our computers. So why did we have to stay? We can't help the public without computers and who would be stupid enough to come in on a day like this???  Well, many of our co-workers had trees topple on top of their homes, windows were blown out, and semi's were tipped over and traffic lights were all over the ground and people were being blown over. It was CRAZY! I have NEVER been in weather quite like this. I called my neighbor and he told me that my PINE TREE in my front yard FELL OVER and I was lucky it didn't land on my house. My FENCE in the backyard BLEW OVER, my SIDING on the side of my house FLEW AWAY, my BARBECUE  GRILL got  thrown across my deck and it ripped off the FRONT DOORS and my LIGHTS ON MY GARAGE got tore apart! My front window on Zach's bedroom window was broken and flew apart. I was stressed about my tree and how I was going to clean it all up because Zach was is Vegas but by the time I got home my WONDERFUL NEIGHBORS had the tree chopped up and hauled away! Our neighborhood looked like a WAR ZONE! It was so SAD to see all of the damage. By 7:00 pm the men in my ward had cut up and hauled every tree out and had cleaned up the neighborhood. I am SO BLESSED to have such wonderful neighbors, and I feel so BLESSED that my tree didn't land on my house! My neighbor took pics of my tree but I haven't received them yet. I will post them when I get them but here are some other pics of this WINDY DAY!

 Seriously hanging on and totally getting blown over. Not even kidding. It was so crazy!

                            Everyone's hair looked like this after being outside for just a few seconds!

 Where my tree once stood! The roots were wrapped around sprinklers! :(  Poor tree...I already miss it!

                                                       One portion of my broken fence!

 This was taken from my car window. It's my neighbors house. He lost a lot of trees! This is what all of Kaysville looked like. It was horrible!

Another view of my neighbors side yard!

 Remember how we set up for 4th of July Parade under one of these trees? Hmmm...how am I going to tell you where the blankets will be set up now? 19 trees down on this one stretch sidewalk!

                                       Again, trees that we sat under for the Kaysville Parade
The golf course by our house lost over 400 trees, Oakridge Country Clublost over 200 and Valley ViewGolf Course lost over 200 trees.

CATCH PHRASE

Ashley came down from Logan on Sunday night with her new friend, Lytton. We all played Catch Phrase and had a great time together. I love playing games and I really liked Lytton. It was so good to see Ashley. I hadn't seen her for awhile and was missing her. We all had a fun time together.

Lytton said he loves to play games and that he usually dominates....I told him to bring it on! He was good and he and Zach won! I was impressed.

Zach trying to think of how to describe his word

Ashley trying to spit the words out fast enough!

Kell giving clues

We all had fun and we all did good. I was lucky because I got to be on both teams to make it even so no matter how you play the game...I WIN! HA! HA!