RED ALERT

I think the dental profession is out to cause me a nervous breakdown. Tara is right about dentists - they are evil and shouldn't be trusted!

NO NEW TEETH! I repeat...

NO NEW TEETH!

I was so devastated I almost started crying while laying in the damn chair with the dentist's hands in my mouth. And his reassurances that I shouldn't be upset and it will all work out did nothing to help.

Apparently the lab who made my new teeth used the wrong shade of white. Did you know there are like a million shades of white in the world of teeth? The new teeth were shade A1 (or possibly B1 as the doctor and his assistant discussed back and forth) and I am closer to an OM3. Te choice was mismatched teeth (which would just add to my white-trashiness) or wait another two weeks (which is what the secretary -Dawn- (who is not my favorite person due to past run-ins) told me the lab needed to make the teeth). The dentist said, no we can do a rush order.

(So now I have another reason to hate Dawn, she lies!)

In went the stupid retainer/flipper thing and off I went to the lab.

The lab man was really nice (although I still blame him some) and he matched the shade to the other teeth in my mouth (which is probably a good thing because he thinks I'm closer to an OM1, so if he would have just gone with the dentist and OM3 I may have had to go through all of this again... next week).

My six month timeline has come and gone. Dawn started it all by telling me about the two week teeth making process, then the dentist went out of town (five days more) and now the teeth are wrong (seven days more).

All liars! Then they try to make you feel better when you know for sure they haven't had to deal without front teeth and teasing for the past SEVEN months.

(And apparently, even a day later, I am still deeply upset). So I know you were all anxious to see the new beauties, but we have to WAIT another ENTIRE week for them. (And take another 1/2 day off work because I was too depressed to return yesterday).

The Tale of Two Teeth

There once was the girl named Jamie, although some preferred to call her Mimi Weisenheimer (I have no idea why), who had a beautiful smile that included wonderful teeth. She lived in a great house in a little town called Magna.

She spent her days being teased and harassed by her many brothers.

On one of these such days, her big brother offered to take her for a bike ride to see the moon. Jamie (being the trusting individual her mother raised her to be) went along for the ride. Jamie sat on the bike seat and her big brother pedaled the bike to the top of their road. And they saw the moon, and it was a glorious full moon.

After looking at the moon, they headed back to their great house in the same manner (or maybe flying down the road because that's what boys like to do). Until the big brother CRASHED the bike. Jamie went flying, face first onto the black asphalt road.

When Jamie made it home, probably by herself because her big brother was sometimes a cry baby and may have stayed lying in the middle of the road (remember the snowballs?), it was discovered that the black asphalt had chosen to knock out four of her wonderful teeth.

Jamie was horrified! And she spent the next several years without front teeth and having to hear repeatedly (thanks Lynn) "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth".

Then one day, her big teeth came in. And Jamie had teeth again (although they weren't wonderful because she had a HUGE overbite).

Several years later, Jamie's fabulous mother, got her braces to help make her teeth fabulous again. Jamie hated the braces, but wore them and got them off and had beautiful teeth again. (Except for the weird calcium spots, but teeth whitening helped with that).

Another several years pass, and one of Jamie's big brothers has a child (actually his wife had the child, but you know what I mean). This child is the love of Jamie's life, Stinky Pete. They are inseparable! Until one day Stinky Pete is mad and uses her head to smash into Jamie's wonderful teeth. Jamie immediately forgives, remembering this is the love of her life, but her teeth continue to hurt.

Several months pass and Jamie decides to have her wonderful teeth checked by the dentist. The dentist reveals that Jamie's fabulous teeth have no root and will surely fall out. He recommends she avoids biting into apples for fear of ripping the teeth out. Jamie freaks out a little, cries a little, and avoids apples a lot.

Jamie then consults the dentist about how to remedy this tragedy. He offers to put a wire in her mouth to stabilize the teeth. Jamie agrees and quickly learns that the wire causes more damage and ruins her years spent in braces. She has the wire removed.The dentist assures Jamie the teeth won't just fall out, but again advises against eating apples. Jamie has more fear of teeth falling out in public.

Several apple-less years pass, until Jamie can't handle the pressure anymore. So Jamie gets Flex insurance money and has the teeth ripped out by a professional. Then she spends months (and months) and two weeks (really closer to three weeks) wearing temporary false teeth to prepare her gums for the permanent false teeth.


And since Jamie still has several brothers, a VERY mean mother, and numerous sisters-in-law she spends the entirety of those six months (plus three miserable weeks) being teased and harassed. Then she decided she didn't care and chose to share her toothless grin with all of the blogger world.

Enjoy, for now I have new teeth and can eat all the apples I want (I hope, I haven't asked the dentist if this is true or not).


And sometimes she played with the false teeth and made fun faces....

Precious!

This little beauty (the car, not the child - although I am his favorite) is ALL mine! Finished paying her off last month. And since I'm never buying another new car, I guess she is stuck with me.

And now I get to pay for a new clutch and a 90,000 mile check-up. (I blame my mother for stating that once it's paid off it will fall apart).

Group Hug...

As part of my ticket package for George (the BEST concert of my life) I got tickets to Toby Keith and Brad Paisley (still to come). Kelly was suppose to be my big date for all the shows, but so far he has bailed on all of them. Sucks for him.... these are fun times!

Toby was a lot more white trash than George, but Barbara and I had a great time.

Willie Nelson joined us.... luckily this is the only song (Beer for My Horses) I can even stand that he sings.

This is not a group hug, this old guy was totally wasted drunk. About half way through Toby's singing he fell down. His lady friend had to check on him several times. He got back up when Willie was singing and really tried to cheer and dance....

... which led to this full on hold position for the last two songs. I told Barbara USANA is one of the BEST venues for drunken concert viewing. Lots of laughs....

Running blind

Life has seemed to run off without me. Sorry about that, but there was no way to get around it.

Work has been busy as usual which seems to consume all my time, then I go to bed.

And then all of a sudden my grandfather passed away. This was the biggest change of all and really stopped me in my tracks. The family was consumed with caring for my grandmother, planning a funeral, and working around daily schedules.
The funeral was an amazing tribute to a man I loved with all my heart. I spent the majority of the time in tears, but only from the love I always felt from him. On the way to the cemetery Stinky Pete said she had a horrible headache, I told her it was from all the crying we had done. I told her it totally sucks that we cry and then have to deal with a headache - she completely agreed.
Erin did a wonderful recap of the day and actually remembered to bring her camera along. (I was lucky my clothes matched that morning).

Work continued to pile up while I was on leave, so I have spent the last week catching up. The one day I worked last week was spent returning calls, e-mails, and closing cases. Yesterday was spent in Northern Utah visiting numerous clients. Today was spent in Provo area doing the same. Tomorrow brings new teeth......

The Few...

My granny and Aunt Gen came to town for a family reunion. And since they don't drive much, my mom offered (read "was guilt-tripped") into driving them. Which led to me attending (as my mom was bending my arm behind my back) and I got Stinky Pete to come along.

It actually wasn't too bad. Basically sitting around and eating.... things I enjoy. There was nobody I knew except Granny, Aunt Gen, Aunt Neta, (pictured below with Nedra and some other lady only related by marriage) and Dorothy Jean.
These are the last remaining first cousins (that attended).

Granny having no intentions of looking at me...

Mom and I (sorry we looked drugged, we had been sitting there for five hours... first to arrive, last to leave).

Granny, with her cute little wave at the camera (no green bananas for her).

Aunt Neta and Aunt Gen... amazing women!

Tighty Whity

My mom had a minor (my brothers that had to fix it might have thought it was major) sprinkler/water problem - which involved some digging, mud, and other stuff..... (Honestly, Chris tried to explain the problem to me and all I heard was the Wa Wa Wa sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher - I don't like to get involved).
Anyway, Justin and Boogers finished up the work and filled in the hole along with enjoying a little water fight. Not sure Boogers will appreciate these pictures in 15 years when he is in high school. All I can say is.... your mom took the pictures :)

Head banger

I had to add a few more pictures of the baby. She is lots cuter now that she has been home and smothered with love. It took several tries to get the headband picture, but it turned out pretty good. She is still a little small for such a big flower (but I love it anyway).


She can definitely nap with purpose....

Tool-belts

Grandma found these cute shirts for all the boys. (Don't worry, the girls got some cute outfits as well). The Pickle was in Bear Lake and missed the party, so it was just Boogers and Eugene modeling. They definitely love their tools.... and anything new!