About Your Hubby

Alli tagged me for this one so here it goes!

1-What's your husband's full name? Chistopher Todd Castle

2-How long have the two of you been together? 10 wonderful years!!!!

3-How long did you date? From September 1997 to March 2008 when we were married

4-Who eats more? Chris does except for slush punch of course

5-Who said, "I love you, first?" He did!

6-Who is taller? Chris is 6'1 and I am 5'4

7-Who sings better? I love to sing but to say that I sing better would be big headed. Chris actually has a really nice voice even though he does not think so.

8-Who is smarter? Chris is except for finding things

9-Who does the laundry? We both do. Chris used to be a dry cleaner so he does really well with the laundry

10-Who does the dishes? I do most of the time but on occasion Chris will when he sees I need help!

11-Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Well that depends on what you define as the right side but if you are laying on the bed than that would be Chris

12-Who pays the bills? I do.

13- Who mows the lawn? I do but not because Chris won't I just like being outside so I do it.

14-Who cooks dinner? I do. If Chris did we would be having sandwiches every night!

15-Who drives when you are together? He does most of the time

16-Who is more stubborn? It depends on the situation at hand but probably me

7-Who kissed who first? He kissed me!!!!!!

18-Who asked who out first? Chris asked me out at a dance after the night we met to go on a hike in the mountains with some friends and to have peach cobbler (FYI I do not like peach cobbler) but I ate it anyway!!!!

19-Who proposed? Chris did on my birthday. There has never been a better gift!

20-Who is more sensitive? That would be me!!!!

21-Who has more friends? I have no idea????

22-Who has more siblings? Chris beats me by one he has 1 older brother and 2 younger sisters & I have two younger brothers.

23-Who wears the pants in the family? We both do. Or at least we try too!

What can I say, I LOVE MY HUSBAND!!!!!!

I tag Sarah, Denay, Cherstin, Jerusha, and Laurie

Sunday Afternoon

What does a 4 year old do on a Sunday afternoon? Jen you'll appreciate this one I am sure. As you can see Hayden decided that he should wear some mascara and color on himself. Where he thought he might be going I'll never know!!!!

It Never Fails

Why is it that when your husband is gone that things seem to go wrong. Chris is gone for 8 days to High Adventure Camp and he needed to drive so he took the reliable car of course and left us his Toyota. I needed to run some errands while Alyssa was at a birthday party. When we went to leave Target I put the key in the ignition and crack!!!!!! The key split in half inside the ignition. I tryed to fit it together praying that I could just start it to get home. It did not work. Luckily our friends the Schooley's came to the rescue and got it to start. The only problem is that you have to hot wire it to start since part of the key is still in the ignition. We got a ride to church today and the Schooley's were nice enough to let us borrow their car for the week which we are eternally grateful for. So, thank you Schooley's you are a lifesaver.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

Happy 4th everyone! Our family had a nice day we started our celebration a little early on Thursday evening. We set up our new tent and had a little camp out in our back yard. We played the game Sorry and read some books. We had a good time. The next morning we took down camp after the kids played a little and around noon we went to the base pool for 3 hours or so. Hayden was finally brave enough to go down the big slide without me and he had a blast he started going down on his belly and realized it was much faster that way. When he would get down he would say" That was fun I do it again" needless to say I believe I stayed at the bottom of that slide waiting for him for about 30 mins. After we got home we had to get Chris all packed up for High Adventure Camp on Saturday. Around 5 we went to the Moon's for a barbecue with our friends where the kids played in the water again. When we got home everyone was exhausted!!! Since Chris had to be up at 5am and the fireworks do not start until around 11pm since that is when it gets dark around here we did not get to watch them this year. Sad huh. After everyone had said goodnight and their goodbyes to DAD they fell asleep pretty fast. I ran down stairs on the couch and tryed to watch the fireworks from our living room window. I got to see a few which hey that is better than none. Needless to say we had a fun time and we will miss Chris. See ya in a week Dad!

Book Tag

I was book tagged a long time ago. Sorry Sarah! The closest book to me is The Tale of Despereaux which I'm reading to the kids So on pg.123 the 5th sentence it reads "Ma? said Mig. "Ma, couldn't you stay here with me?" So now to tag others I would like to tag Alli, Jen, Cherstin, Laurie, and Denay. As for the rules. #1 Get the closest book #2 Find pg. 123 #3 Find the 5th sentence #4 Post the 5th sentence #5 Tag 5 more people! Have fun all !

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

I returned home from camp on Saturday evening at about 8:30pm. Chris and the kids came to pick me up at Denay's house and I was so excited to see them. We stayed up late talking about everything they did that week with their dad and I kept Chris up with stories of camp. Needless to say the following day at church was pretty long. I was so emotionally and physically exhausted. On Monday morning we were to take Chris to Bismarck for a doctors appointment. Our friends the Palmers offered to watch the kids for us. It was hard to say goodbye to them again but something was telling me that I had too. Which I found out later why. About a month ago Chris had gone to the dermatologist to check out a sore that he had had on his forehead for almost a year that would not heal. They did a biopsy and discovered that he had carcinoma (a form of skin cancer). His appointment in Bismarck was to have it removed. We had to get up at 6am to be there at 9am. We did not leave the clinic until around 1pm. Which made me very grateful that we did not have the kids. So thank you Palmers!!!!! The nurses and the doctor were very nice to both of us. They explained the steps of the procedure and then took me to a lounge with recliners, food and drink. After about 15 mins. Chris walked in with orangish yellow stuff all over his face (beta dyne) oh how I wished I would have had a camera. Anyway we were to wait there until they examined what they had cut out to make sure that they had gotten all of it. Which they had not so Chris had to get cut in some more. They then came to get me once they knew that they had gotten it all. When they took off the gauze where he had been cut his wound was now the size of a silver dollar and it went as deep as the thin layer of muscle that you have over your skull. I have never had a very good stomach for things like that so as soon as I could I needed to sit down. As I was sitting there Dr. Appert was explaining the options that we had to reconstruct his face as best as possible. He gave us three options. One being to stitch the way that your forehead lines go the only downfall to this is that it would raise his right eyebrow to about the middle of his forehead. Choice 2 being to graft skin from somewhere else, which would leave a burn looking mark there instead. Choice 3 cut from the top of the hairline down to the top of the right eyebrow and down to the corner of the right eye which would give the Doc enough skin to stitch things up so that with in a year or so Chris would look the same except for a faint scar. The recovery time would take longer and Chris' eye would swell shut and be bruised for a couple of days or a week. He chose choice 3 of course and we left the clinic with a bag full of dressings for the week and a prescription for Tylenol with codeine and some antibiotics. We then got something to eat and Chris discovered that he really did not like the feeling of chewing which has lead to a week of a soft food diet. He is feeling much better now that it is day 6 and we are off to Bismarck again to hopefully have his stitches removed.


Doesn't he look lovely!!! And no, I do not beat him!

Camp

GIRLS CAMP 2008

AROUND THE WORLD IN 5 DAYS

'O The Places You Will Go'

Camp always comes and goes so quickly. I was so excited to take the girls to camp this year. When I was a young woman and went to camp I had the opportunity to go to a high adventure camp almost every year that I went and I remember how rewarding it felt to accomplish some of the tasks that the camp would require. I really wanted the girls to experience that for themselves. We were able to attend a boy scout camp in Minnesota called Camp Wilderness, which offered so many activities. Low and High ropes, climbing towers on land and water, canoes, swimming, archery, shooting real 22's and so much more. We did have to drive aways but to me it was so worth it. We had a great time it was fun to see all the girls pulling together and making new friendships. I tried to go around and experience all the activities myself this year and let me tell you the High ropes course was amazing. We did hit some rough spots with rain almost every day and some wet tents and beds along with a tornado warning and we did have to take a couple of girls home due to death in their family and illness but over all camp was amazing. Knowing that this would be my last year with these girls was harder than I thought it would be. Testimony night was wonderful. The quarter master that runs the scout camp had decided to come to our testimony meeting and he actually stood to talk to the girls saying how he had been watching them all week and that he was so impressed with the courage and self worth that he saw in them. He said that he did not know much about our church but after hearing these girls bare their souls and knowing that we were raising girls that are so confident and amazing made him want to seek out more information in our faith. What a testament that we were where we should have been this year. These girls never cease to amaze me! They carry a love for the Lord that is so real. I have to tell you that a part of me was excited that I would not have to plan camp for next year,but oh how I will miss it. What can I say camp was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!