The Wizard

Travis was lucky enough to meet this man.

If you don't know who this man is, then you probably were in a coma for the past 3-4 years. Dr. Oz. 

He is known for his passion for health, he is known for his natural remedies. The big thing that Travis took home with him was that Dr. Oz is indeed a very hairy man. Travis touched his arm at one point.

For some reason, the Dr, Oz television show picked Travis's clinic to do a spot on. They were doing 15-minute physicals on patients. 

For the record, I like Dr. Oz. As a nutrition savvy person, I agree with many of his ideas. And I believe that he sincerely cares about people and their health. But from what Trav said, it sounds like he is a fame whore as well.

The truth: The man wore tons of make up, and at one point he was giving a woman a physical not knowing she was pregnant. After they discovered she was pregnant, he gave her an ultra sound explaining to her that her baby was perfect. I don't think they taught him about baby ultrasounds in his cardiothoracic surgery residency. That is just good TV folks. 

One time during the day, Travis got on an empty elevator, the door was about to close when Dr. Oz and his entourage got on the elevator. There were so many people that Travis found himself smashed in the back corner, right up in the good Doctor's grill. He smelled nice according to Travis.

Oh and no, Dr. Oz didn't eat a salad for lunch, he had Jack Stack BBQ take out... I don't think that is on his diet plan! But ya gotta have KC BBQ when you are here, so we will let that one slide Mehmet (that's his real name).

Lastly, Travis is famous. He got on the show!

Just go to this link and you will see his big debut at minute 3:42ish.

Thank you Dr. Oz for changing our lives. We will never forget you and your beautiful perfect hair.

Sweekend

Sweekend: A sweet weekend.

And that is what we had. 

Friday night:

We saw Les Miserables. It was fantastic! It was our early Christmas present, and totally worth it!

I'm so happy I married a thespian!

Saturday/Sunday:

We picked up and left the big city for some small town good times. We lived next door to the Beards for four lovely years! Then they graduated Dental school and moved to Sedalia, Missouri, which is about an hour and a half east of us. We were spoiled with Brownies, hide n go seek in the dark, blondie brownies, wonderful chats, pizza, small town church, coffee cake, The Johnson's and good times! 

Come back Beards!

All in all it was a great Sweekend.

Home

Over the mountains and through the plains to Grandmother's house we went....

1) I am grateful for airplanes, 7 hours is much better than 17.

2) I am grateful for the Jolley kids. They are the BEST cousins my kids could have!

3) I'm grateful for snow (only in December... wait, that was taken in November... er... I like snow sometimes).

4) I'm grateful for the pure joy that children have

5) I'm grateful that snow is delicious

6) I'm grateful for this girl 

7) and this girl

8) and that I am a mom

9) I'm grateful that my parents have a backyard that was a snowy tundra and a leafy forest all at the same time. (the above picture is from the same day)

10) I'm just grateful that I could watch that happen.

11) And also grateful that my Dad has so much spunk in him that he snow blew the kids afterwords

12) I'm grateful for my sister, she taught me to be a bad "A", or at least pretend to be.

13) I'm grateful for my other sister who is always hiding when the camera is out.

14) I'm grateful for wrestling

15) I'm grateful for Jon Jolley, and how funny he thinks he is

16) I'm grateful for leaves, why is it such a big deal to clean them up, they are fun.

17) I'm grateful that other people have pets for my kids to play with

 17) I'm grateful for baptism and that God has the purest plan for us

18) I'm grateful for this boy's example

19) I'm grateful for music

20) and talents

21) I'm grateful for beauty on the earth

22) Did I mention that I'm grateful for her?

23) Oh yeah, and her too

24) I'm grateful for Tam the Gram, oh so thankful!

 25) I'm grateful for people who love my kids

26) I'm thankful for perverted humor

27) I'm thankful for silliness

28) I'm grateful for Gladys Butler, my beautiful Grandmother. She is always hiding when the camera is around as well!

29) I'm grateful for parties, especially one's that I don't have to lift a finger for!

30) I'm grateful that I usually beat Wes at most things

31) I'm grateful for the Wilton and Charles kids. They are the BEST cousin's in the world.

32) I'm grateful for yet another amazing example in my kids life!

33) I'm grateful for this girl, and the girl she's about to have. 

34) I'm thankful to have the wackiest Momo around, no one has experienced true joy unless they have played the game Reverse Charades with her. 

35) I'm dang grateful for the plan, I get to see these peeps for eternity!

36) I'm grateful for my brothers and sisters in law. Each one adds a new flavor to my life!

37) I'm grateful for Travis's brothers. Wes, you are without a doubt the brother I never had and Kevin, I used to be afraid of you, but I honestly think you are the coolest, neatest guy around! I look up to both of you SO much!

38) I'm grateful to be free. I'm gonna say it, I'm grateful for our country, it really could be worse!

39) I'm so grateful that I have the opportunity to teach my kids new things

40) I'm also grateful for people who assist me teaching my kids new things when the new things become exhausting!

41) I'm glad that God knocks us down sometimes

42) Because he will always send someone to pick us up... and that I am grateful for.

43) I'm grateful for cheesy statements

44) I'm sure thankful for this man, Grandpa John. He is kind of weird and quaky, but how can you not just love him?

45) I'm so grateful for this guy and how much he loves his girls, all three of us.

46) And I'm oh so grateful for my beautiful little family... even know it took 5 minutes, one time out and a screaming baby to take this picture

47) I'm so thankful for this place. Its amazing.

48) I'm so thankful for the friends I used to have in Utah, I'm pretty sure that when they find out I was in Utah and didn't even call, they will dump me.

49) I'm so thankful to be back home with my Missouri family

50) And that Missouri has been the same temperature as Gilbert Arizona for this past week. Boo Yeah!

51) I'm grateful to be done with this long, drawn out post.

Amen