Our new house!

Well, here are a couple of photos of our new place. The first one is our front room and yes, we are ready for Christmas. The second one is the girls showing what they think about Christmas and the last one is of our breakfast nook. There are many more pictures and we will post them over the next few days.

Everyone is doing well now, although Utah did welcome us with the stomach flu and we all got it one day after the other. We also had a chance to go upto the mountains over the weekend and stay in a cabin, however because of the flu, only 3 of us went.

For all of our friends back in Ohio, we will take pictures of all of the mountains soon...we have mountains all around us, behind our house, in front...etc! It is beautiful and the sunshine is nice too.

We hope that everyone is having a great holiday season and we wish you all the best and send our love to all.

Love,

The Driggs Family

GOODBYE!

Last night we had a goodbye party for the boys. Wow I feel like my mother saying "all this music is just screaming" "it's too loud" and "you call this music?" How we change and turn into our mothers. Watch out Nycole and Ashlie. Well the party was a hit for the boys they had fun but I am truly happy to leave this part of Ohio behind.

Home!!

Kari is home and tearing up the house just like normal. All is well and now we get to test blood sugars on her every once and a while. Whoopie! I am sure Nycole will like to help with that task.

Tomorrow night the boys are having a going away party at The Green Room and Nate's band will play along with two other bands. It should be loud and fun.

What a day!

Ok today was horrible! We spent the day in the hospital with Kari and she is still there now and will be staying the night. The morning started out with Kari waking up happy as can be and within about an hour she became listless and quite lifeless, so off to the ER we went. After hours and many blood tests we were sent by ambulance to Childrens Hospital. We do not know what is wrong so more tests tomorrow. I did manage to get that Kodak moment for all to see.

Kenny or ???

I look forward to Mondays because I get emails from Kenny. I get extra excited when he sends photos. As you can see he is still Kenny the joker and having a great time while baptizing Mexico. He has had 10 this last 2 weeks, and has 2 more this next week. Go Kenny go! You can check out his blog at www.missionsite.net/elderdriggs and see other pictures and leave messages for him.

Lily comes to work!

Today is friday...casual day in the office and since Becky needed to take Kari to the school today for some testing, I decided it was bring Lily to work day too! We always have a great time together, in fact she even has her own desk in my office. Which she told me had papers on it that werent hers and that I needed to clean it off because it was HER DESK. We stopped at the circle K on the way to work and bought apple juice and powder donuts...which I later learned are very messy and not a good idea for a 5 year old who is wearing a black shirt...oh well...we had fun anyway and it was a very good breakfast! After a little bit of work, I took her to get her hair cut and Becky and Kari met up with us. Both of the girls got their haircut and they look even more beautiful...if that is possible.

Well, I have to get back to work...please cheer for the Rockies in the World Series because the Red Sox cheat, lie and steal! I have some other words that I could use to describe them, however since my children read this, I will leave it at that.

Love ya all!

So Much To Do!

Here I am sitting in my office as I try to get ready for the move. I have a lot of mixed feelings. I am very excited to move back home and be close to all of my family. It has been difficult at times (and not so much at others) to be away from them all. I really enjoy Ohio and I am glad that I will get to come back every couple of months and spend a few days in my office here. When it becomes baseball season again, my trips to Ohio will increase...GO TRIBE!! I have always loved baseball and the Cleveland Indians have been a very easy team to get behind and become a fan. They do it the right way and have built their team from their own farm system. They are not like some other teams that I REFUSE to mention that just go out and buy up all of the best players. So, now you know how I feel about that and I sure that none of you even cared!! Now that we are going to be back in Utah we will have to get behind their major league baseball team...oh ya...they dont have one...bu they do have the AAA team in Salt Lake that changes their name every year, so that is kind of exciting. I also here that they have a Major League Soccer team and that is way.....BORING!!!!!! Who cares about soccer? Isnt there enough people there now to get a real sports team? Ok, well I wasnt sure what I was going to write about, but I guess I figured it out...sports...what else? I love you all and will see you soon.

I am going to miss Ohio!

Ok so I do love Ohio! There are some of the most beautiful places I have ever seen here in Ohio. I will miss the falls with the beautiful colors and tons of leaves. The spring with all the flowers in bloom and the cool air. I won't miss the blistering humidity and the freezing humidity. But I have fallen in love with the little winding roads and the geese that walk across the road and everyone stops for them and they just wiggle their little behinds as if saying thank you. The lakes galore and the Amish. Oh how I long to be Amish and ride in buggys and bake all day long and sew all my own clothes and quilt. Oh well maybe in my next life. Yes I will miss Ohio but I won't miss Nycole, Aaron, Jordan, Ashlie, Andy, Pyper and of course Sasha. So yippee Utah here we come!

O Canada!

Well we did it. We ate all of Canada and there is nothing left. We started with the place in Buffalo where the buffalo wing was invented. They were great. then on to Canada where we stayed in a milk can yes a milk can check out the pictures. The hotel used to be a dairy farm so it was cheaper to just stucco the milk can than tear it down. We had a wonderful time with old friends and we discovered that old friends are the best. We look forward to many trips with the Ethingtons. We are now hoping to find out what color the Golden Gate Bridge is????

Waiting for the Ethingtons

We are getting ready for the Ethingtons to come and visit! YEAH!!! We are so excited to see them and spend some time in Canada with them, this time on the other side of the country. I am sure there will be plenty of asian photographers at Niagara Falls for Kevin and if not we will just go back home and let them climb all over him. We have alerted the fleet of kabukis and hopefully Marcus will be there to move our carcases (poor Marcus).

Happy Birthday

Well we did it. Lily finally had her birthday the actual birthday not the every other day of the year that she tells everyone it is her birthday. She is 5! We had a party and I made her favorite meal fried rice and egg drop soup and chocolate cake. She opened presents and didn't even care what they were she just was excited to open the next one and the card well she didn't even listen to dad read it. But she did get to try on everything she got and we of course took pictures so enjoy the party with us by checking out the photos.

Birthdays

I am tired of birthdays! Shouldn't the mother who bore the child be celebrated on the birthday. We are the ones who did all the work on that blessed day. I think that we should get to lay in bed just like on the original day and someone take care of us and rub our feet. Nycole got a long massage on Jordans birthday. Therefore I declare birthdays a celebration for both birthday person and the mother who gave birth to that person. We will make two exceptions in the family and I will of course stand proxy for them, it is one of the sacrifices we moms make for our kids. So tomorrow on Lily's 5th birthday I will give this new idea a try. It might only last a few minutes but it does take time for a tradtion to catch on.

Quick Trip

Well since my last post we drove to Salt Lake and back. It was very fast because my uncle died and we went to his funeral. Along the way we got to see Katie and family and leave the girls with them in Nebraska. We made it to SLC in record time and attended the funeral and then had a little family get together which was GREAT it has been so very long since we all were together and we realize how much we really miss everyone. Family is so very important and that was brought hime to us this weekend. We had a great time and cannot wait for Christmas to come back and see the gang again. It should be tons of fun to drive with all 4 kids this time.

Recordpub.com - Kent event to aid Chinese children For Love of Lily sets benefit show

Recordpub.com - Kent event to aid Chinese children For Love of Lily sets benefit show

Check out this story that ran in Monday's paper!

Getting ready for Christmas

I started today to get ready for Christmas. I took out samples of english toffee to sell and got an order for 50 one half lbs by one company. Yeah!!!!! I might make us rich for Christmas so that we can go to Utah. I just love memories! Haven't these kids grown.

What a week!!!!

This has been an exciting week. Dustin and Jen were here and we had a ton of fun. Kenny is still in Mexico!! The boys played Peabodys and Kari does not have chicken pox.

Goin Amish

Yep here we go to Amish country and we may not come back. Just pictue me in a bonnet and plain dress making bread. That just sounds like heaven to me. I will take pictures myself and post them if I come back.

Working?

I got a picture of the Royals at work and the reason for the picture is that I have to have proof that every once in a while they do work. It is hard on them so it only happens when we are in dyer need. But one day they will chose our nursing homes and hopefully they won't chose the one from Happy Gilmore.

Meatloaf

Ok I really did make this meatloaf recipe that Ashlie sent me. Steven was the biggest fan he loved it, dad just said "this isn't meatloaf" and Lily and Kari eat it very well. Nathan ???? I don't remember because he just isn't here most of the time for dinner. I liked it very much because it was a little bit sweet and my favorite food in the whole world is SUGAR.

First Day of School

Well here it is the first day of school and I have pictures! Kari goes in the morning on Monday and Tuesday and Lily goes Monday thru Thursday afternoons so I have some time alone with each of the girls and some time alone for me.

I have the cutest kids out there!

Sisters

Oh how we love our sisters! We want to be just like them when we grow up! They are so cool and wonderful. We love them so. We love our brothers too.