Best Friends

Everybody has one. My Best Friend is Tiffany Clarke. I love this amazing woman with all my heart and soul. I was there for her in grade school when kids teased her because she had a short haircut. I was there when her husband left her and their kids for another woman and I will always be there for her no matter what.

I am grateful that she lives so close to me and that our boys are 5 months apart. Kayl and Logan have become fast friends. (Kayl still needs to works on sharing) Today they decided to be explorers. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Sicky

I know I've been a slacker lately on my blog so here is an update.
Kayl got sick a month ago and slept for three days straight. He had to sleep with someone in the room no matter what so our bed got taken over.

The Joy of Stickers

I keep getting the Disney Movie club invites in the mail and yesterday Kayl discovered the stickers that come in the envelope. I took them off and stuck them to his body. He spent 2 hours entertaining himself by taking them off and putting them back on. He also kept trying to stick them on me. Maybe I should invest in stickers.

Todd frightens Kayl

This is Kayl's real scream. He usually goes around the house with a high pitched scream but we discovered if you actually scare him his real scream is much funnier! Enjoy!!

Kayl meets the wall

I don't think Kayl should listen to me!

Prayers for my friends

I have three friends who need some prayers right now.
First is Katie Harkin. Katie and I met when I worked at Dollar Tree and we became really close friends. Last Sunday she gave birth, after being in the hospital for two months on bed rest, to twins. I got the phone call from her an hour after and she was said to report that one of them was stillborn. We cried together for thirty minutes. Her other baby is in the NICU and was only a pound and a half when he was born. I told her that I would pray for her.
Second is Emily Jacobs. I met Emily when I worked at Iggy's. She was one of the sweetest girls ever. Emily was in a terrible car accident in Denver CO the other day. She lost her right leg just below her knee. To make matters worse, she doesn't have insurance. She is a fighter and has been thru 8 surgeries so far. I pray for her nightly so she can come back to her family in Utah safely.
Third is Julia Robinson. I know her thru Tyson Stewart. The other day her dogs were outside in Provo when they were shot. Her dog Baily made it home and is doing surprisingly well. Her dog Roscoe has still not been found and she thinks that he was killed. I can't believe that someone would shot some innocent animals in the middle of the city.
Please pray for my friends. I know they need the prayers right now.

Food for the Bi-Polar disorder

For a long while now I've had Bi-Polar disorder. I know it is hard to believe that I could be depressed most of the time. I've found excellent ways to hide it. Anyway, I usually get really depressed when I get stressed. I found out recently that most of my stress was caused by our money issues. They have now started to resolve themselves and the stress lifted for three days. I felt completly at ease with life and knew everything would work out.
Today I was hit by some blindsides that knocked me off my game. First, Todd almost lost his job because their insurance company won't insure him to drive the company truck cause he has had a few to many tickets which means he has to use the van for work which means I have no car to run my errands I need to run during the day. Second, Todds father tried to contact him today to beg for money cause he just lost his job and left his wife. Third, I've had an ongoing medical problem that has been making me sick for years but the doctors don't believe me.
For the past 5 years I haven't been able to control my body temperature. It has gotten really bad lately. I constantly have a fan on in the winter and a heater on in the summer. I thought for the longest time that I was crazy. I have no fever what so ever and I pant like a dog all day. I usually have the door open when I can. I think it is part of my depression. I don't really know cause I've had my depression longer.
Today was a very stressful and depressing day for me. In the past when I got depressed I would eat and eat. In the beginning of my depression my comfort food was Bacon. Terrible for me but so yummy. Soon it became sweets such as chocolate or strawberry jam. Weird I know. This new comfort food is totally outside of any comfort food that I can think of. I always want a Cobb Salad from Iggy's when I get depressed. At least it is healthier than my other comfort foods.
Sorry, just venting today. Very stressful.

Fear

I have a lot of fears that most people would think are stupid. Lately one has come back into the mainstream of my life and that is the fear of scary movies.
It all started when I was like 8 or 9. I'm not totally sure, my parents would know better. My dad loves to watch scary movies. His favorite thing to do is just when it is the scariest scream really loud and make everyone jump. I think it had a bigger impact on me than my other siblings.
I wasn't even able to watch Jurassic Park without running to my room in tears. My siblings would make fun of me but I knew that if I watched anything remotely scary I would have nightmares for weeks. It took me 2 years after Jurassic Park came out to finally be able to watch it on my own.
I don't even have to watch a scary movie to have nightmares. There was this one night my dad had rented Poltergeist and everyone was watching it except me. I had shut myself in my room so I didn't have to watch it. The problem was my room was in the basement where everyone was watching the movie so I could hear the sound and the scary music. I didn't sleep for two days.
I know it is a silly fear but it is a fear that I cannot get over no matter what. I'm trying so hard to because Todd loves scary movies.
Two Halloweens ago, we had cable, and all month long on AMC they had horror movies. I watched a few and found that some of them were funny, but there were some that still haunt me to this day. I watched 30 min of Nightmare on Elm Street and I haven't been able to sleep some night because of it. That is one of the movies that Todd wants to watch.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy certain scary movies. I've seen some of the Shining and thought it was alright. Todd wants to see; IT, The Shining, Misery, and Nightmare on Elm Street.
I refuse to watch IT. I'm terrified of clowns and I've seen ten minutes of it on tv when I was like 11. I think Sarah was there with me. Misery looks okay, but I will never watch Nightmare on Elm Street.
I know it sounds funny to some people but this fear is one that I have tried for years to get under control and just when I think that it is a movie comes on and my fear is right back to a high level again.

Haircut time

Todd and Kayl both got haircuts last night. I don't have any pictures of Todd but his haircut is the exact same as Kayl's. I was trying to grow Kayls hair out but it became a bother since he's been sick. I think he looks cute anyway his hair is!

The Bathroom (at last)

So, Todd and I finally sat down and cleaned the bathroom last night. I can actually see my countertop and the top of my Washer and Dryer again!! I'm amazed how fast we work together!! It was done in a hour and a half!!

My new kitchen organizer

If you want to borrow him just let me know!! LOL!

Early Spring Cleaning

The Entrance to my nice clean kitchen

As you can tell I've been in a cleaning and oraganizing mood.

I love how clean my kitchen is now

Next stop my organized Bedroom!

Thanks so much Mom for the filing cabinet!! It's been a life saver!!

Kayls room. I'm proud to say that he helped put his toys away!!


My next project is the bathroom, which I am totally dreading doing! Anyone want to come do it for me? I'll post pictures when I'm done!!

My little Gamer

We've started Kayl very young, I suppose, into the world of Halo. He loves to watch Todd and I play it. We started to give him a controller when we play so he can pretends to play along. He knows all the buttons and when he happens to get a hold of my controller he is pretty good at killing aliens.

I just thought it was funny.

You'll also notice I gave him a little haircut!!

Hmmmm......

What happens when you decided to clean your house at 1 am?

You and your husband start sing and dancing to this song for an hour or two!!

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Christmas Morning

This Christmas was awesome!! See for yourself!!
When Rachel gets back Kayl is going to take her on a drive around town in his spiffy new car!!

Christmas Eve

This is the First Christmas since I was a kid that I am super excited. Mostly I just can't wait to see the look on Kayl's face when he wakes up and finds all these neat toys under the tree. Tomorrow is going to be awesome!!

Christmas Letter

I've been busy lately and haven't really thought about this letter. Which is so much different than last year. I try my best to sum up the year.

January started our year with not much change. We lived in an apartment with 7 cats and Kayl. We both were working extremely hard and Kayl was starting to stand a little on his own.
February came and went with not much change. Kayl took his first actual step in March. We got really excited and hoped that he would start walking. Also in March our family became a forever family. It took us three years and we are now proud to say that we have been sealed for time and all eternity.
April flew by so fast that in two days we found an apartment to move into and we were in May 1.
We were really sad to see our cats go to the shelter but for cheaper rent we had to make some sacrifices.


June and July saw Todd working 60 hour weeks while my job slowed down to 10 hours weeks. Kayl finally was running all over the house and we couldn't go one day without Spongebob playing. August and September went by with no problems. Come October we had our Fair share of hard time. First Kayl's tooth broke and we discovered he needed surgery. It was all ready when we found out that he is not covered on our dental insurance. We put it on hold for now.
I got fired from my job three days before Kayl's birthday.
Kayl turned two with no problem and a huge party.


In November our thought turned to the Army. We went to the recruiter and everything, but when it came time to spend the night apart, we couldn't do it. Instead, Todd went out and got himself a new job which starts on January 1. We also celebrated our 3 year anniversary on the 18th of November. I'm still on the job prowl and Kayl is still learning to talk. We are doing great and hope to remain so for years to come.

Thanks for reading

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Katharine, Todd and Kayl Tangreen