So a while back a friend's son had a cool looking necklace on. I asked her where she got it from and she gave the name of a gal up here selling them wholesale. Then the gal gave me the link to the site she gets them from and I thought it was worth a try both for my bad TMJ disorder issues and migraines and Ava's teething (since I have to order special teething tablets that dont have milk by products in them). I ended up buying one for Logan too. They are working for me and the kids! Ava is calmer and Logan hasnt woken up to tell me his teeth hurt since he started wearing his. I havent had a migraine and my shoulders arent as tight and hurting all the time! I love these things and will be using them for the kiddos for a looong time. They also look great! Anyhow here is the link and a 15% off discount code! http://hyenacart.com/inspiredbyfinn/index.php the code is post! Enjoy!!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Monday, November 16, 2009
Our house
While I am very grateful to have such a great house I am starting to wonder wonder what else? We havent been able to get our heater in the garage to work. So I called a technician to come out (at $145/hour we are in the wrong business!) So he replaced the fuel pump (how can a fuel pump cost $140 for a tiny fuel pump!) and then worked on it another two hours in -20 degrees and it still doesnt work! Porr guy just kept trying and I tried to get him to come inside for a minute or at least take some tea or cocoa or coffee. So he thinks the fuel company put #2 in the tank! I dont even know how we are going to fix that! LOL Poor guy had a bad night (I had to open the door while i was nursing Ava I was covered but he was really embarassed!) I just hope this is the end of the problems with the house! At least the black stuff stopped coming in the water!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Trick or Treating Alaska Style
So it was around 0 degrees (and was supposed to be -5 tonight) with a slight breeze Logan had on wool long underwear, fleece sweatpants, a long sleeve shirt, a flannel shirt, his snow bibs a fleece coat wool socks and -40 snowboots oh and a balaclava and knit cap and then the costume! Ava was wearing wool long underwear, a fleece jammer, a fleece bunting her costume then I put her in a carrier and put an artic weight carhartt on. I had long johns cloths my carhartt bibs, carhartt coat carhartt cap and the baby! I was Pregnant Sarah Palin! (Some people didnt know I had Ava in there lol! We stayed warm though and walked Logan around the nieghborhood with our neighbors Ted and Onan (who was Harry Potter so Logans Dragon and Onan went together!)
Halloween at the Museum of the North
We went to UAF Museum of the North for Halloween Night Friday. It was awesome they had their Laboratories open and showed the kids all sorts of cool thing (including squishing real eyeballs!)
Wow havent been on here in a while!
Well I wanted to look at a friends blog tonight and realized we havent put anything on here! We have been really busy trying to get things done before the snow flew and it got cold! Miss Ava is doing well and was 12 lbs 12 ounces at her 2 month check up! The doctor asked us if we had her doing squats because she is so strong! She already has total head control! He cant believe with all the reflux and digestive problems she has she is gaining weight! She has had the reflux pretty bad since she was born. She has to sit up for 30 minutes to an hour after she eats or she gaggs and cant breathe. I am completely and utterly off of Dairy, chocolate, coffee (decaf even), broccoli, rich foods etc.. I have to watch the amount of Soy I eat as well or else Ms. Ava screams for 3-6 hours at night and then throws up (we have had some interesting nights when Bill is at work). It is hard for Logan because I cant put her down even after nursing her for 30 minutes! I have to admit I have started to get discouraged with nursing her (which i never felt even having to pump 3/4 of the time with Logan). Life with Bill at camp has taken some getting used to. We are trying to only heat with wood due to the cost of oil here so that adds to things. But we are managing!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
New Dafoe addition!
Miss Ava Jeanette Dafoe was born on August 22, 2009 at 8:23 am after 30 hours of labor in Fairbanks, Alaska. Yes Alaska! We have moved to North Pole Alaska after both of our mines shutdown due to lack of financial backing. Bill took a job with the Pogo Mine and I get to stay home with my babies! So far we like it we will see when we have no sunlight and its 40 below for 6 months! Life is going well though and we are thankful to have a healthy family and a job period in this climate!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Havent Blogged in a while!
Things have been crazy lately (and Facebook is addicting) so I am sorry for not blogging for sooo long! Bill has had three interviews so far. Logan and I flew with him to Carlsbad, NM for 4 days to tour a Potash mine, then we went to Reno for 7 days to see family. Logan and I flew back to Helena while Bill flew to Fairbanks, AK to interview at a gold mine there (Pogo). While he was flying back on Friday another gold mine in Nevada called and set up an interview for this morning so Bill got back on a plane Sunday morning and should be home Monday night! Whew! Hopefully thoguh he will receive an offer and we can figure out where we are going! I hoep to get the house on the market this week and if you know anyone who wants to buy a 2280 sq. ft 4 bdrm house in Helena, MT on 6 acres let us know!
Friday, January 16, 2009
New Due Date!
Well because we didnt actually know how far along I was (given my inability to test positive on a stupid stick!) we had an ultrasound and our new due date is August 31,2008! I think it is a girl but Bill wants a boy!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Due Date August 17,2009 7 weeks along!
And yes once again I went through about 6-8 home pregnancy tests over the coarse of 6 weeks and they were all NEGATIVE! I guess I am the 1% on the box once again! Mamma always said I was special!
10 Crazy Nights!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas! We ventured to Reno for Christmas (driving with Logan). Going down wasnt bad (thank god someone invented the portable dvd player! We had a great Christmas and got to stop and see some friends along the way and in Reno. Then we tried to get home. It all started with Logan tripping at Scheels and hitting a tile step. He looked like a brontosaurus (he hit right between the eyes) and it was brusing up pretty bad. But he was acting OK. So we told the people at the store and they brought us an ice pack and we waited around for a bit and then headed out. Logan then threw up after stopping in Winnemucca so we stopped in Elk at the emergency room. After waiting two hours they did no tests no nothing and said he was fine. Well by this time it was 6 or so so we got some dinner and decided it would be best to stay there just in case. It never stopped snowing the whole night! The drive to Jackpot was a blast! Then the roads got better and then clear so we thought we were home free. Then we get past Burley, ID and they tell us that I-86 is closed and we have to go to Tremonton UT to get through. Well we werent driving two hours out of the way so I got on my handy lap top and found a cut across. It ended up being a snow packed two lane country road that took a bit to get across but it was beautiful and saved us 45 minutes. Once we hit I-15 it was a white out but we decided to try to keep going and maybe we could at least make it to Montana (we had given up trying to make work on Monday). The we started seeing cars in ditches and people sliding everywhere and decided maybe we should eat dinner in Idaho Falls. We heard that the roads were just as bad up ahead (and I had made reservations while driving just in case) so we decided to stay in IDaho Falls. They must have messed up the reservation as when we went to check in the gal said hmm well I have suites still available so we got upgraded to a suite for nothing! The next morning we got the wonder of driving over Moneida Pass in a white out, blowing snow and fog! Once we got to Dillion though the roads were fine, but Logan was not! We ate lunch and he didnt want to get back in the truck! Needless to say we didnt get hoem until Monday afternoon, but we were safe! I dont think we will be traveling anywhere for a while!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Santa Saga
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Merry Christmas!!
We have found out that Bills job is going to keep going so yeh for us! We are also going to be making the interesting trek to Reno for Christmas with Logan. Hope everyone is well and I will get more pictures up soon!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Halloween!!
Helena has a downtown Trick or Treat so seeing as how it doesnt get dark until 7 and we live in a rural place, I went into work early and left early to take Logan trick or treating with the daycare provider's (Logan too) children (Keona & Zaden) Then we met up with another friend (Jen) and her children Grace & Andy with her oldest joining us later Jace). She also owns one of the best kid store I have ever been in Outdoor Kidfitter Co. You should check it out if you have never been in! Anyhow here are some of the photos-Logan is a horse, Zaden a dinosaur, Keona a poodle, and Grace & Andy were Thing 1 & Thing 2 adn Jace was the murder guy from Scream!.
