Presidents of the United States

In honor of Presidents Day: James Carter was President the years Jeff (1978) and I (1979) were born.

I've never been much of a politics person so I couldn't tell you the first thing about any administration, but I love a good human interest story. I remember the Bushes (Dad and W.), the Clintons were.....well, memorable that's for sure.... and now Barack Obama - we'll see what happens. Although I may not agree with everything they say or stand for, I do believe they are great leaders who are here to do great things - not everything will be a success, but at least they're willing to do it. I'm not. :) Happy Presidents Day! Enjoy the Olympics too - GO USA!

The Presidents

18th Century

1. George Washington

2. John Adams

19th Century

3. Thomas Jefferson	15. James Buchanan
4. James Madison	16. Abraham Lincoln
5. James Monroe	17. Andrew Johnson
6. John Quincy Adams	18. Ulysses S. Grant
7. Andrew Jackson	19. Rutherford B. Hayes
8. Martin Van Buren	20. James Garfield
9. William Henry Harrison	21. Chester A. Arthur
10. John Tyler	22. Grover Cleveland
11. James K. Polk	23. Benjamin Harrison
12. Zachary Taylor	24. Grover Cleveland
13. Millard Fillmore	25. William McKinley
14. Franklin Pierce

20th Century

26. Theodore Roosevelt	35. John F. Kennedy
27. William Howard Taft	36. Lyndon B. Johnson
28. Woodrow Wilson	37. Richard M. Nixon
29. Warren G. Harding	38. Gerald R. Ford
30. Calvin Coolidge	39. James Carter
31. Herbert Hoover	40. Ronald Reagan
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt	41. George H. W. Bush
33. Harry S. Truman	42. William J. Clinton
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower

21st Century

43. George W. Bush

44. Barack Obama

Who was President when you were born and what President do you remember most?

"Graduating"

First Sunday of January. 1.3.2010 First Sunday of our new Trailside Ward, we were actually early for church (hasn't happened since) - it was a great day! We now meet at our Stake Center and even Jeff came to Sacrament meeting with us. I didn't know he was coming, he just did.

Lea is CTR6 - again....the naming of classes changed again so it's the age you are, not the age you are going to be. :)
Lucas - a SUNBEAM!
Abbey - 18+ months and happy to be in Nursery.

 

 

Another upgrade

Another much needed upgrade. Jeff's mom, dad and Grandma Risenmay were coming to visit the weekend of Jan 30. I realized I only have 2 guest towels which I've had for about 12 years - freshman year at BYU.....wow, I'm old.....

Decided to change things up a little and buy new guest towels. I spent a lot of time wandering the same three aisles in Walmart, putting stuff in my cart, finding something new and returning stuff back to the shelf....probably a good hour trying to decide on colors. My favorite colors are blue and black, Jeff loves green, but I was trying to branch out......so hard for me!

So I came home with this and put it together before I got Jeff's opinion - I wanted to see it all together before we decided yes or no. For some reason he was home on a weekday and this is what we have.......

When Lea came home from school - she was so excited and informed me that the other "beach" curtain was actually "ugly". :) Plus I don't know the last time I changed out the liner - it was time.

Merry Christmas to me!

Christmas was a month ago - let's not go there k? 

My present from Jeff was to buy the pavers for our extended patio and have them installed. He was even willing to pay someone to install them!!!?!?!? Now if you know Jeff at all, this is HUGE....he's a big proponent of "doing things himself". hehe 

Well of course work got in the way and he was unable to do it himself. So the pavers came and sat by the side of the driveway since the first week in January.

We tried to have them done a couple weeks ago and my luck, it's the only 2 weeks it rained so the ground was too wet......more waiting......been waiting for this since we moved in......2005.

Friday was the big day - Feb 5th - I think Jeff was trying to stretch this out for Valentine's day too. :) Lucky for him I'm not a big fan of $50 for a dozen roses and chocolates so we celebrate the next day with the clearance flowers. :) Another post on how cheap we are. haha!

the BEFORE

prepped ground - took them 5 hours to get the ground level and ready to go.....thank goodness they did this and not us!

stacked pavers

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The BIG REVEAL!

AWESOME! And it rained Saturday night, woke up to a lovely patio and no more mud!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (to Jeff, Guillermo and Alberto)

Sweet sounds

Sweet sounds of the Risenmays:

*Jeff - Sun/Mon was a cross between Darth Vadar and Marge's sisters from the Simpsons and he missed Monday of work.

*Lea sounds like a barking dog - dry cough that just hurts to listen too. lucky it never got into her lungs so no breathing treatments - whew.

*Abbey has just been whining and crying - her ears have hurt and I think she just got used to the whining....

*Lucas - well he just repeats himself every 2 seconds until you finally respond - grrrrrr.......

*Me - this is what Jeff likes to refer to as "Pretty" Alison. Congested (allergies, possible sinus infection), can't breathe, sneezing, can barely hear, kleenex up my nose because it just. feels. better., just need a nap - why won't you sleep too!? :)

Ahhh, Sweet Harmony. :)
And thank goodness for the sale on kleenex last week. We've been pretty snotty.

Quick update

Lea's fever is gone and she's back to 98.9 - haven't seen that temp for her in a while. YEAH no doctor visit today! For some reason, when she gets sick, her fever spikes immediately. Always has - she's been known to wake up with a temp of 104 and Jeff saw 105 a couple weeks ago when she had the flu. It always comes down and settles around 102, but it's always been like this. So the throwing up was a one time thing last night and she slept soundly for the rest of the night. Now she's bored to tears literally and wanting to play, but I won't let her (mean mom - that's me!). Another day of school missed and it was a half day anyway. Crossing our fingers she's back tomorrow for another half day.

Nap time was mandatory today and everyone slept for at least 2 hours - that was beautiful!