Do you think this is really true?

A rooster lived for 18 months after having its head chopped off?
Strange but true. A farmer from Fruita, Colo., thought he was just putting dinner on the table when he picked up an axe and beheaded one of his chickens. What happened next became the stuff of legend: The headless rooster bobbed and weaved back to the henhouse and lived for 18 more months.

The animal, later dubbed Mike and celebrated with a festival, Web sites and various magazine articles, survived because the blade missed his jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death. The axe blow landed high enough that most of the chicken's brain stem and one ear remained intact. Mike was fed and watered by inserting an eyedropper directly into his gullet. Sadly, he later choked to death in a motel room.

Residents of Fruita remember Mike as "a big fat chicken who didn't know he didn't have a head."

Extra points for the hubby

Chandler Arizona Hand & Stone Massage Spa
Address:2875 W. Ray Road Suite 8 Chandler, AZ 85224

Phone:(480) 899-9930Fax: 480-899-9931

Location:101 & Ray Road (Southeast corner) in the Whole Foods shopping center

My sweet hubby surprised me with a massage this weekend. Just what this old body needed. Training for this race (not until Jan.) is really hard work when you are starting from scratch. Marc believes in me and supports me beyond belief. So, he felt like my body needed some extra attention for the miles I have been putting on it. Anyways, he sent me the Hand and Stone Massage Spa right off of Ray and the 101. They are running a special for $39.00 bucks for a 50 minute massage. Go treat yourself to this. For those of you who have kids at BBS it makes it real easy and close.

Check out my pictures we had done on my b-day

http://piedpiperphoto.com/
Here is the website
Go to clients, where it says password put: pulsiferfam2008
They will only be posted for a week. Tell me your thoughts. Ignore the picture of Marc and I on the bench. That is just plain scary.

Love is in the air.....

JERUSALEM - Arava the disabled turtle is using her new set of wheels to get around in more ways than one.
Officials at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo say the 10-year-old spurred tortoise has begun mating since being fitted with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs.
The 55-pound turtle is unable to move herself forward with her front legs alone. So the zoo's staff built her a metal board with two wheels that can be strapped to her stomach. Arava arrived in Jerusalem a few months ago from a petting zoo in southern Israel with the unexplained handicap, and found no reptile romance. Zoo curator Shmulik Yedvad says it's not that Arava has come out of her shell with her unique new wheelchair, but that a particularly amorous 10-year-old male has been after her.

Vault

Here is her first vault. Her second go at it was better but I haven't mastered the camera yet.

Rachel warming up on the floor

Here is Rachel warming up for her meet today. This meet was just a meet against her other team mates to help prepare them for the upcoming meets against other gyms. She is getting excited and nervous for this upcoming year. She has never competed on the team before. She is the youngest one on level 5 .

Could it be depression?

I am at the end of my rope. I just need to have a bitch session with myself here on the old blog. I am counting on all of my loyal readers to leave me an uplifting response in hopes I will snap out of it. It all started in July when the housing market crashed and we decided we couldn't move to our new house that was built in Fulton Ranch. It was my dream house. 6 bedrooms, den, basement, 7 bathrooms, big kitchen and the list goes on. We lost 32k on the deal. When we backed out and signed the paper work saying we were walking away the paper work actually said that they would be donating our losses to a charity. Okay, I'm charity. So anyways most of you probably didn't even know we were going to move that is why I tried to not show my tears when it blew up. Marc and I decided okay who needs a house that big. Let's stay put and do some remodeling to our house. We met with interior designers, contractor, flooring over about a 2 month period. Got ready to go for it and we found out the credit line on our house has been pulled because of the decline in the market. SLAM in the face once again. Some other things have back fired too, but I gotta keep some things personal. I am feeling defeated! I feel depressed. I have a great life but still feel so down. Why does that happen? Do I expect too much? I feel like there is not enough of me to go around. I feel like a robot. I get up make breakfast, pack lunches, take kids to school, hang with Lilly, do errands, pick kids up from school, take kids to activities, make dinner,pick up kids the last kid up from activities at 7:45 at night. Come home, eat dinner, do homework, then go to bed. Repeat Monday-Friday. Who wants my life? Any takers? Oh, I almost forgot you get to love your husband a couple of times a week before you go to bed. I know that is a plus.

Dance class

Today was Lilly and her cousin Savanna's first dance class. Lilly was so excited to start class that last night she got her dance bag all packed and ready to go. Unfortunately that excitement turned to nerves today. On the way to dance she kept telling me she had a fever and was sick. She thought that maybe next week she would start. I told her the teacher wouldn't mind if she was sick. She then said that the teacher is not going to like the way Savanna dances and she is going to get busted. (Whatever Lilly. Ms. Queen of hip-hop) Once we got there and she saw Savanna she was good to go. We were able to watch them through a 2 way mirror. Needless to say we got a good laugh. I hope they continue to have fun and Lilly won't try to boss Savanna around too much in class. I think Lilly thinks she is Savanna's personal teacher.

Scrapbooking weekend

The mom's group from school had a scrapbooking weekend/b-day celebration for someone turning 40. This mom's group has been going strong for about 7 years now. (I think) Anyone is welcome to join as long as you have a kid. Your husband can be your kid if need be. We all know that the hubby can be as much work as an infant. So, we all met up Friday night at the resort where we were staying. Everyone was split up with 2 or 3 mom's to a room. In my room it was me, my sister and Brenda. So of course the welcome party took place in our room. For some reason my sister and I can get a party going. Go figure. Maybe it's the boob job we both have? All in all it was a fun weekend. Saturday we had massages, celebrated a b-day and ate dinner at the Cheesecake factory. Sunday was a day of relaxing in the morning and then to conquer my 4 mile run. I am still training for the race in January. Haven't given up yet. It is always fun to come home to a house of people who are happy to have you home. I love everyone yelling "MOM"S HOME!!!! ALRIGHT!!!!" and seeing Marc have a sign of relief come across his face. The kids were excited to see the scrapbooking pages I made for them. Too bad I forgot to scrapbook any. Oh well, next time.

Who can live without this?

This is what the kids want to get Marc for his b-day. First of all, how did they even find this thing on the Internet? I mean who googles i-pod and toilets? I guess that would be my kids. But, they said since dad spends so much time in the bathroom he would probably really like this thing. Just put your i-pod on the dock and have tunes while you take care of business. This will be the best b-day Marc will ever have.

I need some toothpicks

So does anyone have some toothpicks I can use for my eyes to keep them open? I don't know why I can't stay asleep at night. I have tried taking Benadryl, ambien, midol, and Tylenol pm and I still wake up around 3:30 in the morning. I get up and check e-mails, sometimes do a load of laundry, write down my to do list and whatever else needs to be done. I stay up for a couple of hours then crash on the couch at around 6:00am until 7:30 when the kids get up for school. I don't know if I just like having the peace and quiet and time to myself so my body automatically gets up or what. Any ideas or suggestions would be great. Today I went and roller bladed at 4:45 in the morning. It actually felt really nice outside. It was great to get the exercising out of the way but I am so tired and it is only 9:00 in the morning. I hope Lilly is okay babysitting me today. I promise to take a nap for her.

Allsion DuBois

Allison DuBois the physic medium was on the radio yesterday. I was lucky enough to get through the phone lines to ask her a question. I asked "We are thinking about doing some home renovations to our home do you think that is a good idea". Her response in a nut shell was this: I think you should wait 6 months. You are going to have an expense come up in November so you need to have some money for that. (that sucks) but after that go for it. It would be good. I see that you are using a family members friend for this renovation (which we were) she said you need to not use this person. He is trying to suck you dry of your money. She said that his work would not be worth what he was charging.
The thing that is interesting about what she said is that this guy we were using tried to charge us $800.00 for a doggie door to be installed. The doggie door only cost 329.00 but he called the company that was installing it and asked if they would charge us $800.00 and then cut him a check for the remainder since he set up the appoitment. Go figure. I will keep you posted with this so called "Expense" in November. You may see us on the streets and homeless.
Marc thinks this Allison lady is whack! Let's see if he changes his tune in November

Soccer Stud

Before and after pictures of my stud Josh. Gotta love the nice red rosie checks and sweat filled shirt. You know he had a hard workout.

Lo-Lo's

We made it to Lo-Lo's this weekend after the basketball game for some celebrating. It was worth the wait. This place had it going on! If you are into waffles and fried chicken you would think you died and went to Heaven. This place was crazy good. Plus no fighting or complaining going on from the kids. They all love waffles, chicken, mac and cheese and all of the other artery blocking foods they offer. They even have red kool-aid to boot. Plan on going straight home after you eat. You will need to unbutton your top pant button and lay down. You will feel like you are in a coma state of mind. Be careful driving home. Oh, by the way it is cheap.

Abby's tournament

Abby had a basketball tournament all weekend long. We are talking Friday night game at 8:00 pm, 3 games on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. Mind you the games were played at Grand Canyon Community College. Not close at all but worth it. Her team WON the Championship! They played great. It is so fun to watch. These girls are really amazing. They can drive to the hole, screen and roll, and still look pretty doing it. They had a professional photographer at the tournament and these were taken of Abby. Is she beautiful or what?