"You're How Old???"

That is what Carter said when we told him how old Trevor was turning. It was his birthday last week so we took him out for dinner. He turned 34 and once again, it was another reminder that I too am getting old! Yuk!!! Please tell me that I don't look that old????? (no...not that Trevor looks old...please tell me that I don't look like an old 32 yr old!!!)

Another reminder of my age is the number of years that this has been in existance. (and this picture shows only half of it!) This is the infamous Terry brothers "pop wall" that has endured a million parties, numerous near death experiences, grand kids, a mothers threat to take it down, a mission, and a wedding. It began with a joke to keep and put up all of the pop that they had been drinking and it turned into their masterpiece. Oh if only the Pop Can's could talk. What a story they'd give! They've even said that they're going to go buy some clear plastic to place over it to keep it in place forever as an homage to the many adventures that the basement has endured. My Mom's not having it, though. She said that the moment John-Charles got married, that it was coming down. Now it's changed to while Michael is on his mission, she will destroy it but we'll see. Not if the rest of the siblings have anything to do with it. Just another one of our hilarious, ridiculous, Terry family memories. :)

"The Fresh Prince" Said It Best...

"I'm at a point in my life where I've made a decision that nothing in my life is going to be without purpose. I've grown to realize that the only true happiness is to live in service to humanity. Not wasting this gift of life and specifically in this time. A new America. This wasn't just an African-American being elected to be president. This was an evolutionary flash point. Human kind has changed forever. The shift has occurred to America. This shift has occurred to the world. Right now, if you're not making someone else's life better, than you're wasting time. Your life will become better by making others lives better."

I've always loved Will Smith, but after watching today's episode of Oprah, I respect him and his values. I was sucked into every word that he was saying and I think that he's dead on. He's really got it figured out. He really sees the bigger picture. I agree 110% with what he said. "This was an evolutionary flash point. Human kind has changed forever." Make sure you are doing with it what YOU want because you can't take it back.

Remember This?

I know that you're all so excited to see this again but I have to make sure that you remember what it is that I am referring to. hehehe Sorry. It's too hard to resist.....

So we went up to Primary Children's Hospital yesterday to meet with our doctor to talk about Kindra's MRI results and it's good news! It's NO news really but it's GOOD-NO news. The MRI and the XRay results did not show anything wrong at all so we're sort of back to square one. They are still going to do some research and in the mean time we are going to do some physical therapy knee strengthening to see if that will help it to "pop out" less.

Don't worry. I will keep you posted on the adventures of Kindra's "knee mystery"......

Classic Carter...

Watching BYU football games wearing the true blue colors of BYU...

...and helping his Mom clean the garage and put away all of the summer toys-pools-bikes-scooters-lawnmowers-blowers and anything else he could think of that needed some organizing!

Classic Kindra...

When Kindra brought this home last week, she already knew exactly what she was going to put in the Mystery Bag. Yep. You guessed it.

I thought that this picture was perfect! It showed just how proud she really was of her "mystery"

Kindra... "Mom. Guess what? There is going to be a book fair at the school and my teacher told us that we could go and get any book that we wanted. I've already found which one I want."

Me... "OK. Let's go look at your piggy bank and decide how much money you want to spend."

Kindra... "Oh no Mom. We can GET any book. We don't have to BUY one."

So I had to explain to her how a Book Fair really works. It just goes to show how carefully we must choose the words that we use when speaking to children! I laughed hard...to myself!

"Mom. Come look at the gorgeous hair cuts that we gave my ponies."

I'll spare you the rest of the details about the learning conversation that had but after it was all said and done, I realized that I should be so thankful that it was only the ponies hair that I had needed to worry about!?!

Their Newest Member...

Last weekend I headed out to the Great Salt Lake salt flats to compete in my first Time Trial. I was not sure of what to expect but I'll be honest when I say that I was nervous. When I finished the St. George marathon, I was just so excited that I had accomplished it and even more excited that I had done it so well. But now it's a whole new game. Now I have to worry about getting better and better...faster and faster...national races...official times and placings. Yeah...a whole new game but I am so excited to do it! To see how far I can actually go with it. To see what other paths may be possible. I'm not promising anything but I've got to at least try and go for it! OK...so the Time Trial was a 10k and it would be timed and tracked. I got a lot of heat from the guys about my clothes. They had on their tight aerodynamic clothes and I had on my Victoria's Secret t-shirt that I'd been wearing all day long from the earlier race, my JCrew knit pants, and my "heavy" (as I was told) Puma's. "You'll need to do something about this", they sternly told me!
Well I survived it. I did the 10k in 33 minutes which breaks down to being a 4.71 minute mile which is my best time yet. It's now the time that I will use as my starting point so that I can start to track my improvements. It felt great to really push it and I will once again pay tribute to my iPod! :) It's going to take alot of time, work, and determination but I'm so excited to do it. I'm still amazed that this opportunity is even available to me. It's not like I set out to even do this and it just kind of happened! I swear...that's how the best things happen...they just randomly do!

Oh yeah. The smell? Total rotten sulphur ace smell! Makes me sick every time!Halloween night was pretty fun. The only thing that I hate is that no one goes out around our neighborhood! They do a "Trunk or Treat. I'm sorry but they are HIGHLY banned at our house. How much fun can it really be to go to a parking lot and run around to a circle of cars, get your candy, and call it good? Really. Ringing the doorbell and seeing how many houses you can possibly go to is the best thing! So we started out at my parents neighborhood going with the Terry cousins and then we went up to Trevor's parents neighborhood. You know that the night has been a success when you hear "Mom...This is the best Halloween ever! Look at how much candy we have!" Even though we had a few drops of rain, it still turned out to be a great night!