**birthday, idaho fun, and a little excitement**

As promised.... a new post.....FINALLY!!!

There might be a bit of an overload.. sorry!!

We have had a few things going on... I turned 27!! I hate that I am one year closer to turning 30, but there is no way to stop it, so I guess I have to deal with it. I had a great day!! Thanks for all the birthday wishes from everyone!! Brandon got me flowers.....my favorite.. DAISIES.

I got to sleep in and then Brandon made me some waffles and actually put candles in them and sang to me...

He got me a few gifts..a cookbook (don't worry I asked for it, no hints), a shirt, and money for a new camera.

Later that day.. we headed up to Brigham to celebrate with the fam to have lunch and cake. Mom made a delicious lunch and for dessert.....my absolute favorite.. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!! It is no surprise what kind of cake I want.. it is the same EVERY year! The pic is a bit dark.. whoops!

Hadlee decided that we needed to make some party hats. We got a little out of control and made one for EVERYONE!! Not everyone kept them on the whole time, but it was a good idea!!! Brandon's parents came and brought the CUTEST flippin' tutu and headband for our little girl. I want to put it on her NOW!! :)

and a little monster game with aunt Riley. It was much funnier in person!! :)

Then..............

A couple weekends ago, we headed up to good ol' Driggs, Idaho to my cousin's mission farewell (I know they aren't supposed to be called that, but didn't know what else to call it). We were able to take Tee and Trey with us, so their Mom could enjoy the new baby in peace! :) Grandpa and Uncle Wayne were so excited to get the snowmobiles out and pull the kids on sleds behind them. It was a little warm and not a ton of snow, but it was enough to do go sledding. I drove around on the back of Brandon's snowmobile for a minute and told him not to go fast as he had a pregnant women with him...He was glad to get me off and switch snowmobiles and TAKE OFF!

Excuse Brandon's beautiful attire.. we weren't really prepared, so this is what we came up with from the closet at Grandma and Grandpa's! :) SEXY!!

Tee and Trey couldn't stand the wait and were ready to GET GOING!!!

with Grandpa...

We had tons of fun and some of the kids were soaked, but had a blast!! I think Hadlee might have had more fun eating the snow as they rode along! :) Funny kids!

AND....FOR THE EXCITEMENT!!!!

I guess we weren't having enough excitement, so I decided to create some. Okay.. not really!!

WARNING: SOME PICTURES MIGHT BE A LITTLE GRAPHIC!!

I was trying to be an EXCELLENT wife and make some Navajo tacos for my cute husband from my new cookbook. I had everything ready to go and just had the scones left to cook. I had the oil on the stove heating up. I ran in the other room for a minute to turn off my work computer and saw a reflection of FLAMES on the kitchen wall!! I ran in there to see flames as high as the flipping ceiling!!!!! AGH!!! I panicked and yelled for Brandon (SO GLAD HE WAS HOME!). He came in and didn't know it was grease, so he grabbed the pan and threw it in the sink and it blew UP into even bigger flames!! I was in too much panic to tell him it was grease! The flames were HUGE.. the heat flew Brandon back and hit the floor HARD. Luckilly there wasnt a ton of oil, so it put itself out with the water. I just kept thinking.. Oh crap... we cannot start the whole complex on fire. The alarms started going off.. I opened the door and our neighbor came running up. He said that there was 2 feet of BLACK smoke at the top of our apartment! That can't be good for a pregnant girl! We got the windows open, the alarms turned off so the fire trucks didn't have to come. We went downstairs and it wasn't till then that we noticed our BURNS!! We ran them under cold water for 20 minutes while trying to decide how I got burnt when I didn't even touch the stupid pan. We figured that when Brandon threw it into the sink.. it splashed out onto my hand, cus my clothes were covered in grease! Brandon's pointer finger and thumb was burnt BADLY!! He was in tons of pain that night and the stubborn thing just kept cleaning and wouldn't put ice on it!! Mine is 3 of my fingers on the knucles and below. It took skin off! It didn't hurt too bad. Brandon's was killing him. Mine didn't hurt, so Brandon was worried about it being 3rd degree and burning my nerve endings. Our neighbor was great and let us hang out down there till our apartment cleared out and we got calmed down a little. He bandaged up my fingers.


Brandon called his sister,Tai and bro in law Joe to come help. Tai took me to Instacare to get my burns checked out... only 2nd degree.. thank goodness, but the most painful!! He prescribed me some pain meds and I didn't understand why because they didn't even hurt at the time, but a day or two later, I totally UNDERSTOOD! My mom is amazing and drove down to SLC the next day to bring us some miracle Maleleuca OIL and JEL to put on our burns and made it here before Brandon left for work. I was in so much pain. I am so not a medicine taker and especially being pregnant I hesitate to take medicine, so I dealt with the pain and only took 2 extra strength Tylenols the whole week and that was only at night so I could sleep! That and A LOT OF ICE!! It was a few miserable nights and days of PAIN and tears. I really was ready to cut off my fingers! My little Phyiscal Therapist keeps reminding me to move my fingers so that I don't loose functionality of them. Brandon's pain was gone after the first night sleeping with ice on it.. but now is straight DRY LEATHER! We are well on our way to recovery. My stupid burns took over a week to scab. I am so scared of the scars it is going to LEAVE!! AGH!! Hello maderma, biosilk, vitamin E and any other suggestions! :) It had to be on my fingers where everyone can see! Oh well.. just MORE THAN GRATEFUL it wasn't our faces. I have no idea how in the world people that get burned all over can deal with that pain!!
Yes.. this is my hand.. not Brandon's.. it is a bit swollen!!


The kitchen looked awful covered in black. Brandon and Joe started cleaning while we ran to Instacare.. it went into the family room on the ceiling.. OH MAN!! People that live in my apt complex... DO NOT TELL THE MANAGERS!! :) I am still a little embarssed about the whole thing, but oh well.. Accidents happen!! I cleaned till 12:30, with one hand, that night to get at least the first layer of black off. It still didn't look so good. My wonderful Mom came over the weekend and helped scrub the rest of it off as she told me NOT to do it and get infection in my fingers. It is pretty much back to normal. Thanks to EVERYONE for their help. What would we do without these people in our lives?

We are so grateful that it wasn't worse and it wasn't our faces that got burnt or that they weren't any worse and that the damage wasn't worse!! We feel super blessed and protected!!
The next day.. I was so scared to cook ANYTHING...I had the fire extinguisher out and ready to go.. just in case!! Where was the fire extinguisher during the fire, you ask? Well, to be honest.. we didn't even think of it and the next morning couldn't even find it. We now know exactly where it is!! Why didn't we do baking soda?? IT was in the cupboard above the fire and didn't have time to think that fast! Our baking soda is now in a different cupboard!! We now know what we would do different if this were to happen again.. we sure hope not, but... for all of you...IF this were to happen to you....DON"T PANIC... Look at the movie on my sister's blog so you will know what to do!!! www.toynfamily.com.