piano man

We found a great deal on a keyboard on craigslist and so we decided to get it to help Jackson fulfill his life long dream on being able to play the Piano Man while singing and playing the harmonica. He printed the music out last night and has been hard at work.


Hobbes took a turn and if you look in the corner you can see our mini Barack Obama cheering him on.

Cousin It even made an appearance.

congratulations!

Sissy is one of my oldest friends and today she told me she is engaged. I am so excited for you Sissy! Congratulations!

giveaway

The place we had make our fabulous t-shirts kindly sent us an extra adult small, so if you fit in an adult small or you know someone who does and you are a Utah fan, leave a comment and Jackson will decide who wins (he doesn't know this yet). So you had better be funny. Go Utes. I think I may count how many of our posts have that in it now.

happy valentines

Jackson's Valentine's present was a long time coming but the printer's finished them a week or two ago and my little sister kindly picked them up in Sandy for me and my parents distributed the other t-shirts and mailed the rest to me. We love them. Go Utes!

the madness has begun

One of Jackson's favorite holidays has begun, March Madness, and yes it is like a holiday to him. March Madness is celebrated in our house by having games playing on the TV and the computer at the same time, so we don't miss anything. Not one single thing. People at work have been surprised to see how much I know about college basketball and how prepared I am for March Madness, now you know why. Maybe March Madness should be moved to the gift giving holiday list, it's only fair after all, since the Utes football season opener is a gift giving holiday around these parts.

new phones

Hello everyone. We have been having phone issues this past week or so. They have been resolved but Jackson and I both have new phone numbers. So if you didn't get the e-mail I sent out with our new numbers you can either leave a comment or e-mail me and I will send you our new numbers! Happy Wednesday.

Happy St. Patrick's!

For a little bit of St. Patrick's Day fun. Our President showing his Irish roots...

day 3

Jackson and I couldn't tell if the swelling was worse or the same today. Looking at these pictures (yesterday on the left, today on the right) it looks more swollen to me.

day 2

Beautiful, right? The best part is that according to the Doctor the real chipmunk cheeks will set in tomorrow or Thursday! However, we have figured out a few keys to post wisdom teeth success. Take two loritab not one, this will make you far happier as well as making everything less painful. Eat applesauce not pudding, it is easier to slurp out of the spoon when you can't open your mouth. ALWAYS make sure you have enough substantial food (i.e. mashed potatoes rather than a Wendy's frosty and pudding) before taking the massive ib profen. I am off to watch more movies, other than the chipmunk cheeks my one week "vacation" from work is swell!

Cara minus 4 teeth

For those of you who didn't know, Cara went to the oral surgeon this morning to get all 4 of her wisdom teeth extracted. They were all impacted and the Dr. said they were tough to get out. The upper ones came out in one piece, but they were impacted and very close to the adjacent teeth. The lower ones were also impacted and were horizontal. They had to come out in 3-4 pieces each.

This is her the night before. She is so excited.
Night Before, Upper Jaw. If you are looking for her wisdom teeth, you won't find them. They have not erupted (sorry, dental lingo), meaning they haven't come through the gums.

What a beautiful mouth.

Right after the surgery as I wheeled her out to the car.

Few hours after the surgery at home.

She is doing great now, and getting through the pain and bleeding.

Michigan Tennis

We went and watched the Michigan tennis team play Wake Forest tonight. It was my first experience watching a tennis match (besides Jackson's 7 point No Champs championship). We had a good time, even though Michigan lost most of their matches.

Both teams are ranked in the top 25 I believe. It was really fun to watch a match in person, can you tell?

After the match we watched Kung Fu Panda, Hobbes was strangely intrigued by this movie, he watched much of it right next to the screen.

utah game

Well that was embarrassing, for the record there was no spider and certainly no dunk. I got excited when any of my shots weren't air balls, I have some serious talent... I was talking to Jackson today and I telling him how embarrassing his post was, he laughed at me and said how do you think I feel when there are tons of really close up pictures of me. Touche.

We had some friends over to watch the BYU/Utah game.

Ashlyn and Anna had a wrestling contest. I can already tell that Nate is going to be one of those parents.

I am pretty sure Pam and Jackson are ready to boycott me, I'm not sure Jordan noticed.

The Olson family.

#8 for MVP

Relief Society basketball has finally began for the year. It's about time! Cara was so good this last week that the team that played after her was short a player, so she was recruited to play 2 games.

A spider was on the court.

In addition to the runaway spider, this random lady unknowingly walked right in the middle of this intense relief society battle.

This was taken just moments before Cara spun baseline and threw down a monster dunk.

Cara had taken the ball down the entire court by herself on a fast-break, but when she stopped, the ball didn't.

If you couldn't tell, this is Jackson.