Yay! Finally Pics on my blog

Family Pictures! Hurray!


Staisha giving us a hard time, as always


Sari always doing a pose!

Last Saturday LeAnn and Pher went to go take pictures of ther family and invited us to come along! Thank goodness since I dont have a working camera and i despertely needed some pictures done. Here are some of the ones she took. Staisha does not like getting hers done. That was a challenge but LeAnn did an awesome job. Oddles and boodles of thankyous! :) By the way, I'm way jealous Cole behaved so well getting his done! And hers looked so good. It was fun!


going down the stairs


I so hate this! lol Poor me


going back up the stairs

My goofy little boy!

sari :)

I Got Tagged

I was tagged by Jen Bickmore.

Rules:Link the person who tagged you. Mention the rules on your blog.Tell 6 unspectacular quirky things about you or your family.Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them. Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers' blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

1. When I first started my job, it tore me up to be away from my kids. Now I look forward to the two days a week I work to get a little break( I know, thats so bad).

2. I love taking my son Boston to the movies. He laughs so loud at the littlest things. Its so cute and very entertaining at the kid's movies.

3. I have cankles! In which I hate them but I've learned to have a good sense of humor about it and its a big joke with my family and friends. Its like my ankles are filled with liquid. So wierd, and if I squeeze them, it hurts. lol

4. I abesolutely can not stand to mop. I don't like it. Lance does the mopping in this house. I think I have maybe mopped maybe 5 times in my 9 years of marriage.

5. I can be very critical of myself. If I'm going somewhere, I sometimes change a zillion times. It drives Lance nuts! I always seem to find flaws and ask my husband "Do I look ok?"

6. I love making and eating treats. I think I am addicted. If there is help out there, please let me know! lol

:)I hope you enjoyed this brief look into my quirky life!Now it is your turn, I tag LeAnn, Natalie, Corie Green, Corrie Havlecik, Jen Brimhall , Page Murdock & Anyone else who wants to do it!!! Go do it!! :)

Agh! The Wind

Today is Saturday and it is way windy. I'm not sure how fast the wind has been blowing but it has been a long time since I have seen it blow like this. This is what it did to my trampolene.



I'm very lucky. The damage could have been much worse like having it end up in the neighbor's yard. I do not like windy days. On the bright side, it does make it for a kick back day at home except for the gym time and cleaning I had to do this morn. :(

The Pony Tail Challenge

Everybody has got to check out the Pony Tail Challenge this week.(I have a link here on my blog) The challenge is to try to be on time to something this week and not be late. And goodness, that is a major challenge for me. I am late for everything. If I set a time to meet someone, they automatically know to be at least 10 minutes late. lol I am awful. My challenge is to get to church on time this Sunday. I know, your probably wondering, "Can it be done?" That is my biggest challenge each week. So Staisha, No dirty diapers before we leave the house for church! lol JK They are having a prize giveaway for this challenge and it is awesome. They are having a drawing for these beautiful clocks. There is a link to the clock website on the Pony Tail Challenge blog. They are so cool. Wish me luck!

Yay! Back to Work

Great News! Lance finally and I mean Finally went back to work. The doctor's office faxed me the work release form on Wed afternoon. I immediately faxed it to the railroad. Everything didn't get straightened out until Friday night though. :( But its all good. Lance got put on the Engineers extra-board Saturday morning and 5 minutes later he was called to work! Yay! He went to Needles and that was an adjustment. He was was gone for 34 hours! Needless to say we missed each other tons and the kids missed him too. Staisha kepted asking Where's dad? So I'm hoping things get back to normal soon and we have a lot of catching up to to do due to missed work. :) He was off for 9 weeks and boy did it go by fast.

Update on Lance-i-poo poo

I can't believe it! Lance has been off work since August 4. And boy did time fly by. Thank goodness! lol Last week we went to the doctor and he told Lance he can go back to work on October 1st. :) Hurray! Well today is October 1st and I dare mention to say: no work. :( (boo hoo) lol On Monday, Lance called the railroad saying I can go back to work and I have a doctors note. They said we need a certain form filled out by you and the doctor and have it faxed back to us. So we filled out our part and faxed it to the doctor that same day. The doctor said it would cost us $25 (which has to be paid before they fax it back. So ridiculous!) and take a week to get back. So we pleaded with his secretary and she said she would try her best to get it signed. Well today is the day he is suppose to mark up for work and we still haven't received the filled out form. So i keep telling myself Whats another day in the grand scheme of things! My hubby will be back to work soon! Hopefully! lol Oh on a side note. Lance is pretty sad now that one of his ankles now looks like a cankle. It keeps swelling up. I said to buck up and join the club. At least he doesn't have two cankles! lol

Sari's 7th Birthday

Present cake I made

Her party guests

and more bday guests

Sari getting ready for cake!

Go Sari

Sari's birthday seemed to have lasted all weekend. Her birthday was actually on Sunday the 14th but we had a party on Saturday the 13th instead( Sorry Greg for stealing part of your bday. Thanks for sharing your family with us!). Sari was way excited to have it at Captain Tonys. So was I ( They clean up the mess and its not at my house. LOL) We had lots of fun. Thankyou everybody. Thankyou Leann for letting me use your camera. You rock! A cute thing I noticed looking at all her bday pics was that wherever I saw Sari, I saw Kennedy right next to her. Sari loves her cousin Kennedy! On her actual bday, I asked Sari what she wanted for dinner. She said she wanted Chicken and black beans with Kennedy and Kaden and family. So we had a little family get together. Today I brought homeade oreos to her 1st grade class( that was what Sari requested) and they had a little party there and sang happy birthday. We lots of fun this weekend. Birthdays are so much Fun.

Tag! I'm it!

I have been tagged by LeAnn. I have to list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 current goals, 3 current obsessions, and 3 random facts about myself. Then I tag 5 more people. This sounds fun, so here I go! ;)

3 JOYS

1. Family and Friends

2. Treats

3. Lifting Weights so I can eat the treats!

3 FEARS

1. Idenity Fraud(I'll explain why on my next post)

2. ANTS

3. Something bad happening to my family and friends

3 CURRENT GOALS

1. Surviving the terrible twos(Even though my baby is 20 mo)

2. Improving my visiting teaching

3. Trying to get a camera!

3 CURRENT OBSESSIONS

1. Going to the gym

2. Going to the movies. Now I cant since Lance broke his ankle :(

3. Making Treats, of course

3 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT MYSELF

1. I am a Spin Instructer at the local gym

2. I love playing softball

3. I love my Husband

The the people I tag are Paige Murdock, Corie Green, Natalie Moss, Jennifer Bickmore, and Corri Havlicek. Have Fun!

Sissy Ankles!

Lance in the Winsl0w E.R.

Lance right before his Ankle surgery in Flagstaff

X-ray with 3 screws after surgery

On our co-ed softball game last Thurs. Lance broke his ankle sliding into second base. and Yes he was safe! It happened around the 3rd inning and we didn't know it was broken yet so he hung around the dug out for the next 4 innings! After the game, in which we WON!, we took him to the E.R. in which they told us he had broke it! So the next day we took him to see an Orthopedic Surgeon and he told us he needs surgery with screws. And then we were screwed literally! So yesterday lance and i drove to Flag and he had surgery on his ankle. Corie watched Staisha and Sari when she got off the bus, LeAnn watched Boston, and Susie brought us dinner. Thank you guys for all the help and support. We love you! Oh, so now we tell Lance he has sissy ankles and if he would have come from good stock like my cankles, we would not be in this mess.

Nicknames!!!!

Corri Havlicek(sorry i prob spelled that wrong), asked me how I got my nickname Criddle. I come from a family of 10 siblings. the oldest, which is my sis Diane made up nicknames for the younger ones. Nathan is called Nate. Gary is called Kapare. Julie is Jupoo lol Jimmie is Crim or Crimkin. Cris is Pher. and she named me Criddle, which she sometimes calls me Criddle biddle. oh she also named lance Lance-i-poo. In which Autumn calls him lance-i-poo-poo. Only my big sis Diane would always call me Criddle untill i moved here. Once Susie heard my nickname, she calls me by that all the time. Which i so love! :) We have a great time with nicknames. And now i use that name as my signature sometimes for texting. It feels like home using it here! And thats the story of my Nickname!

WOW! i finally did it!

Holy cow! I finally made a blog. Most of my friends have one but I just couldn't bring myself to make one. Thanks Jen Bickmore for getting me going. now i got to figure out the whole picture thing! wish me luck. It will prob take me another few months to get that going!