To Urgent Cares, Emergency rooms, Orthopedic Surgeons, and Walgreens...

To Urgent Cares, Emergency rooms, Orthopedic Surgeons, and Walgreens...

I hope we never have to see you again!!!  Although I really appreciate that you have worked with us pathetic cash only patients it really has been a bummer on our budgets.

We have been extremely blessed to have had insurance to pay for medical costs for the last 7 years.  And thankfully nothing too dramatic has ever occured.  But alas, Murphys Law has prevailed and in our first 2 months of attempting to stay alive without insurance we have had a broken arm, a lego shoved up a nose (same one who broke her arm), and strep throat.  Seriously!!!! We haven't even been in our new house for a full month yet!! Let us get settled!!!!

Anyway, I hope our depleted savings is helping you to purchase yachts, pay for memberships at the spa and country clubs.  I hope you forget us as quickly as I want to forget your bills. And please be kind to families coming in with 5 new patients all testing for strep throat and bill them for one office visit instead of 5. (Or when out of compassion you decide not to bill for one patient, let it be one of the 4 without insurance instead of the 1 who has insurance and wouldn't pay anything anyway?)

We finally moved!!!!!

Actually, we have moved, but our stuff is still somewhere between New Hampshire and Arizona.  BUT, we have a house and we have our family back together again!!! So if you want our address leave your e-mail address in a comment and I'll get it to you!

It's a bigger house than what we've been in the last 12 months (camping RV is fun with three kids!!! NEVER doing that again!!!).  It's big enough for us to not kill each other in the middle of summer when we're stuck inside for 3 months trying to keep cool our first summer here. 

It has a big yard. Great space for a garden, a few turtles, and if Eric allows us, CHICKENS!!!!  Ha Ha!!! I find my obsession for barnyard animals hilarious!!!

So far we love our new ward. It has a perfect size primary and an awesome choir with an awesome pianist, so I get to sing!!!  Yippee!!

We are busy getting life together to start a new school year, make new friends, and this week I'm training for a new adventure!  Let's Play Music! It's an awesome music program for young kids.  I'm training to be a teacher this week and hopefully giving my kids (as well as other potential musicions) an opportunity to fall in love with music this fall. 

Eric is loving work while the rest of us miss having him around.  It's a harder transition than I thought it would be. Even with the 2 months without him!

You Give Me "Fever"

Presenting Janalee and Kami

in their

Spring 2011 Dance Review

Jazz class "Fever"

Thanks again Kami for coercing me to dance again this semester!!

I also danced in one ballet number and another Jazz number with the college kids.  They even got me on the floor doing cartwheels and splits!!  I had no idea I still had it in me!

My college Jazz class ensemble. You can't tell too well from the picture, but my skirt is sparkly toole. Glitterific!

Easter 2011

Half of the eggs, but the best part of the picture is Brielle's tongue!

Putting on lipstick using the blue robins eggs!  Yummy and cute!

Grammy sewed the girls matching Easter dresses.  Major ruffles!!!  Super cute!!

The boots or the bum? I couldn't resist snapping this photo!

Allison found so many eggs her basket kept dropping them every time she bent over.  She quickly found an alternative! Thanks Homer!

The expression as she discovers that some of the eggs had dollars in them!

Allison soon found this out, too!

The spoils of plunder! Cute easter baskets! Grammy sure made easter this year cute, fun, and memorable!  Thanks Grammy!

PS I didn't get him into any pictures, but Eric was here with us this weekend as Sunday was also his birthday!!  It made the Holiday extra special! We had to say goodbye again as he had to get back to work Monday morning.

Sweet Sisters...

Lately Brielle has taken a huge interest in others reading books to her.  Good thing too because Allison loves to spoil Brielle so it keeps them both busy!!! I snapped this picture early December, hence the Greenery in the background! This is Brielle's favorite book.  It's a count down rhyming book with kitty cats. Allison now knows all the words so she feels like she's really reading her the book!

New Sister-In-Law!!!! Yippee!!!!

Heather, Brian and their daughter Kiaya, who had a hard day with all the attention.

The Beautiful Bride!!!  I am so glad that she's my sister-in-law. I can finally call her mine!  All this time she's been my brother's girlfriend, fiance, and so on, but never mine. But now she's my sister!!!!!

Brian is the sweetest dad to his little Kiaya!

Little Dancerella~

My girls are taking a ballet/tap class and are LOVING it! Here Allison performs a christmas number for a Country Club gathering of a bunch of old ladies. Lot's of people. I was lucky enough to be able to get a picture of her up on the dance floor!

Isn't she so cute!

My little Tap Dancer!!!

Black Velvet

My friend, Kami, and my M.I.L., Valerie, talked me into taking a dance class at the college last semester. The girls Ballet teacher teaches adult ballet, tap, and jazz classes there. Valerie danced the Polar Express "Hot Chocolate" with the Tap class. We even got to dance in a number for the Holiday Dance Review!! Our dance number was to "Black Velvet" and was wickedly cool!! Maybe I'll figure out how to put it on youtube someday! It was so much fun to get all decked out for the stage again-like in High School but without the peer struggles!!! Kami had never performed like this before so she had a super fun blast!


Unfortunately I forgot my camera and didn't get a good picture of the whole class in our costumes, but this is me and Kami after the show in our elf hats we wore for the finale number.

After the show on the way home I had to immortalize the long lashes I wore. See the sparkles?? Thank goodness for post-Halloween costume sales!!! And thank you Valerie for the RED lipstick!! I can almost get away with it!

Allison sporting the other pair of lashes! She thought she was ready for a show, too! I wonder about that girl sometimes, but then this huge fashionista diva comes out and I know there is a girly girl in there somewhere!!

Where's Waldo?

Actually, it's "Where's the Fish Family?" Can you spot us? This is my Dad's family (His mom, brothers and sisters, and their kids, and some of their kids.  I think the grand total was 73 grandkids and 27 great grandkids, although they are not all in attendance at this reunion and a few got left out of the picture (it's hard to get the Payne Train moving!!).  I'm sitting next to the youngest grandbaby (two weeks old Alexa, was blessed at the reunion) My grandparents sure have a quiver full of blessings in their family!!!
CLUE: Front and center-ish, and Back row yankees hat! I have Brielle and Eric has Kallyn and Allison.

New Years morning

We played card games forever until it was midnight on the east coast, then we put the kids to bed and partied hard at more card games till it was really midnight here in the west and we kissed in the new year, put in a movie, and stayed up for another 2 hours. This is Kallyn getting her beauty rest in order to have a great new year!!! Can you tell who partied hard?