New Style

So after long contemplation mom has decided to go with a new hair style. This took lots of magazines and debating. But all in all I love it and it feels Great!

Mom is Home!!

To start with I want to again thank everyone for the support and help through the past 8 plus weeks. My trip to Thermopolis was wonderful and I had a great experience but can honestly say I am glad to be home. During my trip of being away many things occured.... our niece Rachel went to Poland to lead and English camp and returned safely, Dennis and Deb are leaving this week for Poland and a wedding in England, and Brett is staying clean and has been reunited with his two girls and 17 year old son, and hopefully my best friend Becky Jo does not mind me sharing that she is pregnant with her 3rd child. I am so glad to have family and friends that I do and all the exciting things that God leads them to.

I have had no difficulty falling back into the mom role and the girls and Ken have had no problems allowing that role to be filled.

The girls did come for a week to visit in Thermopolis and I wanted to share a few pics of the Thermopolis scenery.

Theresa softball team from her Thermopolis

Two fawns that came to visit nightly at the house I was staying at.

Mikaela checking the sulfar water as well as Kayleen and Liz

It's the final countdown

This has been one of the toughest fights for this reporter to have to cover. We have seen both conventional and unconventional fighting styles from both of them and truly one of the strangest fights I have ever seen. I have immense admiration and respect for both of these fighters. They trained very hard for this bout and now it comes down to this final round. It is now or never, all or nothing, leave it all out in the ring tonight. These two have forgotten all about the bumps, bruises, and cuts and are ready to get this fight over with. The judges have the fight scored evenly through eleven rounds, so lets see who wants it more. The bell has rung and both fighters come out of their respected corners confidently. After eleven rounds this has become second nature for both of them. They meet in the middle of the ring and exchange some meaningless jabs. There was a rumor circulating that this fight was fixed, but anyone that has been watching would know that nothing could be farther from the truth. Theresa starts to move Ken back into the corner and starts working on his body with some mean hooks to his stomach. It is like she threw a roast in the crock pot and turned it up to high. Ken pushes her back and lands a couple of quick jabs, but I think he is grilled cheese. The two of them square off in the middle of the ring and it looks like they are both going to try and deliver the knockout punch. If either one of them lands this it will be all over. I cannot watch! OH NO! They both missed! I cannot believe this most unfortunate series of events. They both fall to the mat from the momentum of their misguided punches and have knocked themselves out. As I look around the ring in utter disbelief, I see "The Tude" is getting ill in the other corner. As the two fighters try and come to, Liz looks like she is in some serious pain. The ref has started to call both of the fighters down and is starting his count out...1....2.....Liz is calling out to Ken, but there is nothing he can do from his position....3.....4......Liz tries to call out to Mom, but she is not able to do anything........5...........6.....
....Liz is getting worse and is doubled over................7....................8...................Ken calls out to a friend who tries to get Liz to the hospital, but cannot move her. Luckily there is an ambulance here at the arena, so they whisk Liz off to the hospital.......9.......and in Theresa's corner they are getting ready to throw in the towel and in a surprising move Ken's corner stops them............10!
The arena is as quiet as ScotiaBank Place when the Avalanche kick the Senator's bottoms in hockey. Both of the fighters have lost and to come this far only to literally fall must be heart breaking for these two competitors. I guess that concludes our coverage of this fight and .....wait! Someone is entering the ring from between the bottom two ropes. It can't be....NO WAY! It is....it's.......it's....."Mood swing" Mikaela is doing her signature tumbling to the middle of the ring and she is grabbing the microphone being lowered from the ceiling. Let's listen in....."Before my Mom hit the mat she reached out and touched my hand thus "tagging out". "In doing so she relinquished her power to me and I declare myself the winner of this fight". "I am the only one that did not have a glove laid on me during the twelve weeks, so the belt is mine". There you have it folks and we have received word from the hospital that Liz just had the stomach flu and has made a full recovery. Unfortunately there is no cure from a broken heart delivered from a boy who remain nameless, so we will just call him Joey. Only time will heal that wound. This fight has been brought to by these fine sponsors: The two Christy's, Guitar Hero Queen K, Grandma L, Grandpa L, Opa, Older Den and Deb, Bev, Tman, Unk B and Ant S with the precious O, and Paulster. You all have no idea how much we are indebted to all of you. Sometimes it was watching the girls, a phone call, an e-mail, or a game of golf, but you all were a huge help to our family. Thank You from the bottoms of our hearts.

GO! Go now! Go now and leave me!

It looks like Theresa is pulling out her bag of tricks this round and Ken does not know if he is coming or going. After "The Tude" and "The Swinger" arrived at the fight, Theresa quickly whisked them off to her corner. This has turned out to be a brilliant strategy by Theresa by finding Kens one true weakness....being alone. She has discovered Kens kryptonite as he has been listless and uninspired these last three weeks. It appeared back in round eight that Ken had an insurmountable lead in this fight, but Theresa has played Ken like a Stradivarius. Enough fiddling around and lets get back to the fight. Ken had to back into the kitchen to try and cook up something to defend himself from this onslaught. He resorted to calling Theresa names like Chicken Fajita, but that did not seem to faze her. Then he dug deep and lashed out with Turkey Tetrazzini and that seemed to hurt her a bit. Then without hesitation he we went with a low blow, he didn't...not....oh yes he did, Cookies and Cream Malt. Theresa stumbled back into the ropes with a little drool coming from the corner of her mouth. She shook her head and stretched her jaw and charged at Ken with both fists a flayling. She smacked Ken with a game night with the girls and then a combination of a family walk, minus him, and girls only television show. He wouldn't understan. Ouch! I think Kens eyes have swollen shut and they are going to have to get some cold compresses on those puppies ASAP. I cannot see how the judges cannot have this fight scored equally between these two fighters. We have seen a lot of action and thrills throughout this fight which seemed like it would never end. When this fight started it seemed to drag on and on like a gay parade in San Francisco, but now the rounds seem to be flying by. Next week is the final round and it is up to those of you who read this dribble to decide who is the champion. Please do not vote per family lines for Kens family is much smaller and riding the fence and saying that they are both winners in my book. Gag! I believe both fighters have left everything they have out in the ring and the fight would not have been if they didn't find a way to make it work. The two of them will be pulling out all the punches in the final round, round 12.

Can they go the distance?

It is the middle of round ten of this scheduled twelve round fight and both fighters are looking strong. They both received assistance in their corners this round from new and old friends. The alone time this week for both fighters has seemed to rekindle a mutual respect and, dare I say, love for one another. They took this round to "feel" each other out and there was a lot of hugging and dancing out on the mat. We predict that this round will produce a lot of the same as they gear up and figure out how to deliver that knockout punch in the final two rounds. Both fighters will be rejuvenated in between rounds ten and eleven when they will receive that added boost with the arrival of fighting legends, Lizzy, "The Teen with Tude" and Mikaela, "The Mood Swinger". Both of these fighters have fought each other numerous times and have even tried to spar with Ken and Theresa only to find themselves grounded back to reality. The "Mood" and "Tude" may come back in need of attitude adjustments after being at Camp G.A.I.N. (Grandma Always Is Nicer) for two weeks. One is claiming to be homesick while the other one is holding out and refuses to show any sign of weakness. This reporter wonders where she gets that from.

Getting back to the fight at hand and a quick review of the highlights of round nine. Theresa had the upper hand this round showing her agility and fancy footwork. She danced around Ken like he was a statue. Ken usually is solid as a rock, but this round he had his foundation shaken and started to show signs of crumbling. By the end of the round he had gotten back into his groove and came back to his true form. Near the end of the round Theresa had some equipment malfunction when she had a blowout in the rear of her shoe. She tried to call Kens corner to get a spare, but Ken only heard "blowout". He tried to call her back and to no avail with all the noise in the arena. Luckily she text Kendra who is over in Kens corner and let him know that she had a replacement and a passerby was changing the blown shoe. Theresa did not get home until late in the round. She decided it was time to clean out her corner and got rid of a lot of dead weight by having a "garage sale". Items that were laying around not carrying their weight were traded or gone. Ken was seen in his corner between rounds practicing his golf swing. That is the way he ended the ninth round and how he started the beginning of the tenth round.

There will be fireworks at the end of round ten, but they are not going to come from these two fighters. We hope to see these two fighters finish strong and that they both walk away to fight another day. Ken has tried to land a couple of windmill punches, but Theresa has kept her guard up. Theresa started out this round a little sluggish after drinking some outdated orange juice. Ken is still looking puffy and red eyed, but he claims it to be allergies. Will there be a victor in this bout or do both of these fighters walk away with their own personal victories? Both fighters have shown signs of greatness and moments of weakness. You will be the judge of the winner as you vote in the final twelth round. GO KEN!! Hey, no bias or bribing of the judges. GO THERESA!!! Now stop that!