"FINN" MAN

Finnman is Freed !!!!!!

2009-08-30T20:51:00.000-07:00

Finally after 11 days in the hospital Paul is home. He is doing well. The first 2 days he seemed to tired easily but today was a little better. He will probably be on coumadin therapy for the rest of his life because of the clot in his leg and the multiple pulmonary emboli in his lungs. We are so thankful and feel very blessed that things went so well. It has a way of giving you a new perspective on life.
He was getting so border in the hospital that he set an appointment with a client on Friday morning he got dressed and walked over to his hospital sold the client and went back to his hospital room. When he returned the doctors came in and asked him where he had been, they had been in his room 2 other times. He told them that he was out walking.
I am so grateful he is home. I missed my best friend while he was away.

Crazy Day !!!!!!!!!

2009-08-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

How life can change in an instant! The days started off with Paul going to the doctor with lower left leg pain along with right sided chest pain, what a great combo!Well after a long day at the doctors office ,Inland Imaging for US and a trip to the ER don't stop anywhere. He is staying at a high priced hotel called Sacred Heart. Diagnosis Multiple PE ( pulmonary embolism) in his lungs and a big clot in his left leg. He gets to stay for at least the next 2 days if not more. Probably coumadin for Life. We are greatful that we caught it in time and things are going well.
I have my last final in about 7 1/2 hours so I better go review.

We're ALIVE

2009-07-20T16:45:00.000-07:00

Well much has been been going on the past few months. Spring quarter of school was horrifying. I will not do that to my self again. Microbiology, A&P, and psych was just too much even with a little help from my friend. I am actually updating because Deric got on me and asked if I was still blogging. My schedule is much better summer quarter I can actually have a life besides school and work.
I will strt our blog with what we did in April for our Anniversary!! DISNEYLAND!!!

MAD SCIENTIST

2009-03-11T23:34:00.000-07:00

Pipet Rockets who knew you could do such awesome things in school. My lab partner and I tied for 1st place. Actually we should have won by our selves we only shot one rocket and it was AWESOME everyone else shot until they could beat or least tie for first. We were pretty excited.
I also came up with a new theory for school. NERDS I ate small box before chemistry! Seriously I thought I bombed our last test but I got a B the nerds must have worked. So before next test I might try one of those bifb boxes or 2 or 3 of the samll boxes.
Well Paul is getting excited to head to Boise for the NCAA BB tournament. We hope the Zags will be playing. I get to stay home and study for finals. I'm so lucky!!!!!
Whoops she did it again. Keely that is she has managed to hurt her left knee this year. She was playing BB on the boys team at school. During practice she heard her knee pop. She had an MRI on Monday she has a bone contusion and samll tibial fracture. She is suppose to be non weight bearing for 8 weeks that is not going so well.
To top it off the transmission went out in the cruiseer 2 weeks ago Friday.
Nothing like keeping my life full of excitement.

New

2009-03-11T22:22:00.001-07:00

Crazy

2009-01-29T22:36:00.000-08:00

Well I should be studying Lewis dot structures but it makes my brain hurt after a while. It is my 3rd week of school and I am having a hard time getting into a routine. I know some of you want to know what Paul bought from craigs list but you will have to wait at least till this weekend so I can get a picture. Its pretty funny you'll know what I am talking about once you see a picture. Paul is so good to put up with me making fun of him. I can't believe it will be 10 yrs April 1st. I guess if it has lasted this long I will quit asking for my $37.71 refund from the dating service. ( did I mention they are out of business) I'm not sure what that means.
Paul decided he is going to play church basketball in our new ward.
Paul is liking his new job except for all the hookers and the terrible stench of burning flesh that comes from the crematorium. It's kind of scary to go to his office!!!!
We are excited about the superbowl GO CARDINALS !!!!!!

WHERE HAVE WE BEEN

2009-01-18T16:18:00.000-08:00

We had stake conference last week and they did a stake reorganization. We we put into a different ward the Bowdish ward.Today was the first Sunday in our new ward.It was great. We knew some of the people, they were in our ward before
they changed the boundaries 4 years ago.
We had a wonderful Christmas seeing family and missed the ones we did notget to see. We were excited about the news from Rachie and Jordan. We are always excited about grandkids. CONGRATS!!! to Paul anf Tiann on their new bundle of joy.
We have just been busy with work, school, and football playoffs. Paul is gladthe Cardinals won !!!! and goingto the Superbowl. The snow is finally melting I am so glad.
Deric is in Japan now. He said the time change was difficult to get use too.They have not been able to go off base yet. They will next weekend.He is excited aboout that but hates to be away from Jenna.
I told Paul that he could keep up with the blog.I told him that I do not have that much free time. He was not that interested.
Paul bought his first item from Craigs list. He was pretty excited about it.
Sorry nothing to exciting this time. There willbe next time.

View from kitchen window

2008-11-23T15:27:00.001-08:00

BALLOON LANDING

2008-11-23T15:15:00.000-08:00

The FORESTERS had their annual TURKEY BINGO last night. I told Paul we need to go I'm feelin lucky today. I won a TURKEY the first game we played. Then if you bingo after that you win cold hard cash. I hit another BINGO for $15 and the BLACKOUT for $50 it was so AWESOME. I felt bad for Paul so I gave him 15 and the turkey I kept the $50. We did not get home until almost midnight.
This morning we were awoken by the sound of a hot air balloon. We have seen them during the summer many times but this sounded really close to the house. Paul got up to investigate and it was landing across the street in the cemetary. I hurried and grabbed the camera. It was COOL!
We are going to Utah for Thanksgivining to see Paul's mom and Dale it will be exciting.

FINALLY

2008-10-19T21:20:00.000-07:00

I am finnaly getting caught up on my blog. I can't believe it has been a month and a busy one it has been.My helper at work decided to quit and stay home with her son. I miss Angela alot. We are on our 3rd replacement now. #1 stopped showing up for work, #2 quit while I was off for Deric's wedding and now we have #3 she has been there for almost a month it just might work out.
Deric never fails to keep me stressed out. It took me a week just to recover from the wedding and all the stress. (yes Deric you know what I am talking about)
The week after recovery our new oven arrived and Paul installed it. It works great. The first thing we baked was a pizza imagine that.
This last weekend on Saturady we went to a fund raiser for the animal shelter at a farm near my dads house,went on a hay ride, picked out pumpkins, and won 3 prizes from the raffle I was feeling lucky. We then went to my dads made some candle holders, had a bonfire and bragged about being the big winner. Today we went on a bike ride,wrote an english paper,took some chairs down to Paul's new office next to the crematory thats kind of creepy to me, and had Brian and Mat over for dinner.
I will try to keep up on my blog but between working, school, a husband and 2 teenage girls my life is pretty crazy.

New oven

2008-10-19T20:39:00.000-07:00

Last weekend Paul installed our new oven. We did not have one all summer we just used the grill or we ate out. It is getting to cold to grill and to expensive to eat out all the time. He is turning into an awesome little handy man except when he tried to fix the tile in the shower but we won't talk about that.

Wedding

2008-10-19T20:35:00.000-07:00

I know it has been way to long. Here are some long overdue pictures of the wedding,reception and moving day. Who knew that a time could be joyous and sad at the same time. It was wonderful and we love Jenna and her family.

2008-09-18T18:18:00.001-07:00

The fair and more

2008-09-18T17:53:00.000-07:00

We have been doing some things since my last update. September 6th we had our 1st annual work BBQ at Dr Jansen house. I also went to Jenna's Bridal shower that day. September 8th was FREE day at the Spokane County Fair. We like to go see the hypnotist show it is so funny. They also had a kangaroo that was pretty awesome. We saw a GIANT watermelon. The prettiest scarecrow that I have everseen. Keely and Brian went to Jail for riding on the kiddy rides. (not really but I do have a picture of them in Jail). Watch the video and the slide show for all the excitement.

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2008-09-08T23:20:00.001-07:00

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TAGGED

2008-09-07T14:54:00.000-07:00

Well Marissa tagged me to welcome me to the world of blogging. The sad thing is that the people that I know of that have blogs are the same people that Marissa tagged. So I will try this.
The rules Link the person who tagged you. Mention the rules on your blog. Tell 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking the them. Leave a comment on each of the blogger's blogs letting the know they've been tagged.

1. I am really OCD about matching. If I wear an outfit I like everthing to match. People at work make fun of me. I tell them they are just jealous. What is worse sometimes I make Paul match the same colors I am wearing. I know WEIRD uh?

2. I make up nick names for peolpe. Sometimes someone reminds me of a character in a movie or cartoon and soon they have a new name. Not everyone has a name. So don't think I have some speacial name for you and I didn't tell you about it. Actually Paul gets in on the game to. Keely and Brian for expample we have nicked named Audrey and Jack from the movie "European Vacation "

3. I love to read in the bath tub. If you ever see our Church magazines they will most likely have pages that look like they have water damage. If it doesn't that means I was bad and did not read it.

4. When I retire I am going to sleep in everyday. I love to sleep in an ideal church time would be 11;00 for me but we have 9:00 time right now. That is hard I like to stay up late. The other night I was up late working on a project and cleaning the kitchen Paul got up and asked what the heck I was doing.

5. I like to read but I like non-fiction books. My life has enough drama I don't need to add any to it. (hee hee)

6. I have not always been so overweight. In 1997 I weighed 100 pounds less. I have recently been working on that and hope to lose it over the next year. That is why Paul and I bought bicycles we are getting serious about losing weight. I have to tell you a story that encouraged this. When we went to visit our kids in Boise we went on a climb up camels back. I told Paul that 11 years ago this would have been no problem for me and that I do not want it to be anymore. THANKS KIDS for the inspiration to be more fit and healthy. We love you all.

Tagged Michelle, Deric, Heather. Thats all.

Wedding Events Begin

2008-08-31T20:24:00.000-07:00

We have had an exciting week.

1. We have been riding our bikes everyday. It has been a great time. We are suffering from a small ailment of saddle sore. We are hoping that gets better as we continue to ride. We are going to North Idaho bike riding with my dad & mom on WSednesday.

2. Jenna had one of her bridal showers on Thursday night. I can't believe Deric will be married in 26 days. We love Jenna she will be a great addition to our wonderful family. We have been truly blessed with the spouses our children have chosen.

3. Brian Keely's BF has set a BAPTISM date for September 20th. He has been taking discussions at our house on Sunday's. I am truly happy for him.

4. I have been packing Derics things up to get ready to move. I have to admit it does make me tear up a bit but I know he will be in good hands.

Big Surprise

2008-08-24T22:11:00.002-07:00

Well I am pretty stoked Paul let us buy bikes. It took me awhile to convince him. He had a bad experience on his mission like crashing into a tree. So he is not real excited about bike riding. We are trying to get into shape besides round. I rode to work one day last week the weather wasn't very good most of the days. Paul will try riding to work this week. (hopefully he avoids the trees) or I will never hear the end of having to get bikes.

THIS WEEKS ADVENTURES

2008-08-24T22:11:00.001-07:00

Dog Olympics

2008-08-24T19:34:00.000-07:00

After church today we rode our bikes to a school near our house that every year they hold what I call a dog show. Paul informed that it really is not a dog show so I call it now the dog olympics. If was almost over by the time we got there but it was a nice ride and fun to see the dog go throught the obsticle course. If I had only trained Riley we could enter the show.

Dylan's Birthday Party

2008-08-24T18:56:00.000-07:00

Saturday we went to "Elvis's " aka Dylan birthday party at my dads house. We always have fun at my dads. We made bubbles outside,squirt gun fight, had cake, opened presents and Dylans favorite ride the four wheeler.

West Coast Adventure

2008-08-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we went to Yelm Wa for my brother Randy's big "50" B-day. We had an awesome time. It is the first time had had ever been to his house.
We also went to the Ocean and tot he State Capital. It was great to get away.
I will be finishing up classes this coming week then I will have a month off. Just enough time to get all hyped up for Deric's wedding. We feel very blessed in our life. We have a wonderful family and enjoy every moment with them. Well MOST !!!
I have a big surprise next week for the blog so come on back.

Get Away to the West Coast

2008-08-17T17:35:00.001-07:00

Keely and Lizz at the Ocean

2008-08-17T16:29:00.000-07:00

Superman was at Boondocks

2008-08-06T15:47:00.000-07:00

I think BROWN is getting to Jordan

2008-08-06T15:33:00.000-07:00

2008-08-06T15:21:00.000-07:00