A Week of Christmas Fun!!

We have had a blast this Christmas! We had a party in Salt Lake City on the 20 of December with all of Dustin's family-it was so much fun! Rand got to go sledding and feed horses and deer while all the grown-ups went to a play! After the play we all had a great time eating delicious food and visiting! Everyone exchanged gifts and Rand got a ton of fun toys! He got cars, Lucky Ducks, tools (real metal ones!) and Thomas the Train movies!!
Christmas Eve we had a fun time starting new traditions and enjoying the old! Rand helped mommy make cookies to leave for Santa and cut apples to feed the reindeer! After all the cookies were done we loaded up and went and visited David and Tonya and the kids. We enjoyed pizza and funny cartoons before going to visit the graves of family that have passed one and surrounded their headstones with candles and sang Christmas Carols! Then we had delicous hot chocolate before heading home and tucking Rand into bed so Santa can bring his presents!!
Mom and Dad woke long before Rand so we made breakfast and waited for the pitter patter of curious feet! Rand was so excited to see that Santa brought him Trains!! Tons and Tons of Trains! He got a huge set of GeoTrax and Lincoln Logs! He was having so much fun playing that he didn't want to open more prestents or even see what was in his giant stocking!
Later in the day we went and visited Gramma and opened more presents!! Aunt Gina gave Rand a wooden tool set and Gramma gave Rand a ton of Thomas the Train tracks, trains and buildings for the trains! She even gave him a huge carrying case for all the trains!
We had a great Christmas and want to thank everyone and tell them all we love them!!
Merry Christmas!! (better late then never!)

Tagged!!

I was Tagged by Leslie! So here is the fourth picture in the fourth folder--Rand (surprise!!) opening birthday presents for his second birthday, with Gramma's help!!
I now tag-Rayshe'l, Rachel, Valerie, and anyone else wanting to have fun!!!
Just go to your fourth folder in your photo files and upload the fourth photo!!!!
Have Fun!!!

Super Big Boy!!

I just wanted to give Rand a shout out!! I am so freaking proud of him!! We started hard core potty training about two weeks ago-and he hasn't had an accident for around five days!! Last night he proved how big he is when we were driving in Logan and we hear from the back seat: "Need potty, Need Pee, Mommy!" So we pulled into a gas station-him and Daddy went in and Rand went to the bathroom!! We were so proud of him that he got to choose whatever treat he wanted! He chose a KitKat and by the time we got home he was asleep with chocolate from head to toe!! It was great! I am so proud of my Little Man!! He is growing up way to fast!! Love ya Rand!!

Dog Drama!!

As most everyone knows today we had some major drama with our dogs! I went to bed about nine thirty this morning and Dustin got out of bed around 11 am and decided to feed our four big dogs. Just one problem-there were no dogs to be seen!! That's right all four were gone and the door to our kennel was open. Dustin went to find them and the first one he found was our husky Leo at the neighbors, standing by their goat that he killed. A few hours later Jack came home and then Dustin found the two labs, Mojo and Zoe running along the main road!! Fortunately our neighbors were understanding over the loss of their goat-the major reprecussion of all this is that Leo will be put down tommorrow. He now has a taste for blood and we can't let this happen again!
Oh-I am so tired! This was very stressful-we had people come and buy a puppy in the middle of all this! I didn't sleep and didn't get homework done till about thirty minutes ago!!
I am saddened by what is happening with Leo, but we really don't have another option! I am at the point that huskies are too much to deal with-I think that we will stick with labs from now on! I am so glad that we found all the dogs-they just need baths!!

Late nights, and stress!

Finals!! Time to catch up and finish all my classes-so I can start all over in January!! I wish sometimes that I was close to being done-only about oh-10 years at least!!!!! I just keep reminding myself that it will be worth it-I am not working at a cheese factory for the rest of my life!! I am so tired right now-I didn't work last night-so what did I do? Sleep? NO!! Homework and more Homework-and guess what I have to do today, tommorrow and for the rest of the week--HOMEWORK!!! It is nine in the morning and I still haven't slept!!! I am frantically attempting to catch up and study for finals at the same time! Wish me luck!!

O Christmas Tree!!

Tonight we had some great family time and set up our Christmas Tree. The pictures really speak for themselves!! Rand had a great time setting up the "Christman Tree" Santa was also called the "Christman." By the time the tree was done Santa was Santa and the tree was still a Christman tree!! He told us that the tree looked "beauful!!"

The Nutcracker!!

I had another fun girls night out!! Dustin is so jealous! Tonight I went to dinner at the Coppermill and then went and saw the Nutcracker ballet at the Ellen Eccles theatre! I went with Melody, Michelle, Gina, Lynette and Sue! It was a great night and a great performance! Thanks everyone!! Tonight has put me even more in the Christmas spirit-I can't wait!! I am the most excited to play "Santa" and give Rand his presents!!!

Awesome Weekend!!

The weekend isn't even here and it has already been a blast!!
Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We went to Logan and visited with family! It was a fun time filled with gabbing, good food, laughing children and Rock Band! What more could one ask for! I think that my favorite moment was when we got my dad, who never sings, to sing "Spirit in the Sky"!! Way to go Daddy! It was great to see everyone and not worry about homework for one day!
Friday night we had our friends, Rachel and Jermae, and Rick and Rayshe'l over to hang out. The amazing thing is that we all were together without children!! Rand is spending the night at Grandpa and Grandma Gordon's house! The total of grandchildren at their house is around ten children! I really hope they survive this night!
I had such a good time at Thanksgiving and now I truly can not wait for Christmas!! I am setting up the tree tommorrow!! Pics will come I promise!!!!
Speaking of pics I have a few adorable ones that Dustin took of Rand one night when I was at work (as per usual!!).

Is he Reading?????


Or Sleeping???!!!

How come they are soooo sweet when they sleep? Personally I think it makes it all worth it!!!

Twilight!!

Wow!! I loved the movie! I thought it was really pretty good! I went today to the four o'clock matinee-It was an awesome girls day out! I totally recommend leaving the kids and hubby and going to the movies!! I can't wait to see it again- I think it will be even better the second time-hopefully minus the tween girls screaming and drooling!!

This last week we have had a fun time playing with the puppies, so here are a few cute pictures! There are also some pictures of the day we spent in the mountains helping our friends cut some firewood. Last weekend was a fun time hanging out at our friends house, watching movies and just relaxing. I am so glad it is another weekend! I am so ready to relax-Oh wait-I have to do homework!!
On another note-I am excited and bummed at the same time!! I am finally done working for Kodak-I only put my notice in 8 weeks ago!! I am glad to be done so I can spend time with my family on the weekends and stay caught up on homework!! The bad news-I have to send back my camera! I will be back to using my old camera that only has 5 megapixels-I am so sad!! But hopefully I will be able to get a new camera in a few weeks!!

It is a little late (sorry everyone!) but here are the pics of my boy on Halloween! He was decked out in Thomas from head to toe! His shoes were even light up Thomas shoes!! He had a ton of fun going and visiting everyone and getting a lot of candy!! Dustin decided to dress up as well-as a woman! Why I do not know, but I loaned him the dress, heels and did his makeup!! It was a real fun night!

Fun Weekend!!

This weekend we had a blast!! We went to SLC to celebrate Dustin's Great Uncle Woody's 85th birthday!! We visited and ate pizza and cake, Rand had a ball playing trains with everyone, ecspecially Aunt Gina! He was inseperable from her all weekend, he even spent the night at her house Friday night!
Saturday we relaxed, did some shopping and then went to the Leo to see the exhibition of Body Worlds 3, which was a exhibition of real human bodies plasticized. It was really interesting, you learned all about the different systems of the body. Rand stayed with Aunt Gina and napped. Here is a picture I found on the web, because they, for obvious reasons did not allow photography in the display.

New Puppies!

On October 8 we had a delivery of 8 puppies!! They are adorable! We have 2 female chocolate labs, 4 male chocolate and 2 male yellow labs!! Rand has been having a blast playing with the puppies, holding them and even counting them. He counts them like 2, 7, 8, 9, 7, 8, 9, 4! He really likes the numbers 2, 7, 8, and 9!! He really makes me and his dad laugh!! What a kid!!

Puppies!

Time to catch up again!!

Blogging is hard to do when you are busy!! Holy cow-would some one please tell me what sleep or a day off is like??
Anyway things are going well! Here is a slide show of some of the fun things we have done in the last couple weeks!
Dustin had a blast riding his snowboard on rails set up in fron of Al's Sporting goods! It was a lot of fun seeing him and all the others try to make the rails. I was really proud of Dustin-He didn't fall once!!

Videos!!!

Here are some funny videos of Rand. In one he is attempting to catch flys with a cup and the others are a sword fight with Daddy!!!!

I'm Back!

I am awake enough to blog! Yeah it is a miracle! I have been working overnights from 11 to 7 up until last week when I switched to the string cheese line. Now I am working from 6 pm to 6 am. To make adjusting to this new schedule even more difficult I was scheduled five shifts in a row! But now I am done and do not have to be back to work until Tuesday at 6 pm! I get to catch up on some homework, sleep, and do some visits for Kodak!
Here are some updates!
Everything is going well, Rand is getting bigger and bigger! We were really bummed last weekend when Dustin went to Idaho Falls and fixed a bunch of problems on our car and on the way home it threw a rod! So now my beautiful car needs a new engine! We had a huge problem, we had another truck,a Ford Ranger, but it is not big enough to fit me, Dustin and the car seat-so Dustin did the only thing he could-put the Ranger up for sale and bought a new (used) 2004 Dodge Dakota. Now we have a truck big enough to haul whatever we need, plus we can all fit comfortably!!
Here are some pics of the truck and my poor car-it was dark so the pics look awful!

Demolition Derby!!

Last weekend Dustin and I took Rand to the Demolition Derby, it was so much fun! He had such a blast! I loved having the chance to see him so excited and happy. Of course I brought my camera, but it had no battery power of course!! So here are a few pics I took with my cell phone! Thank goodness for camera phones!!

Rand really is my child!!

Any one that knows me will be able to tell you that one of my all time favorite movies is Disney's the Little Mermaid. I love this movie, I annoyed all my brothers and sisters watching it over and over growing up. I now have it on DVD-which even though I have had it for a couple of years I am still so happy to have it!! For those who do not know the whole story it was very traumatic for me growing up because the only version of the little mermaid we had was a very bad recording. Every year I asked for a new one on Christmas and my birthday. I did not get a new copy till my eighteenth birthday when my sis Karen gave me hers because her boys didn't ever watch it. Needless to say I started cryed when my awesome husband gave it to me the day it was released on DVD!!!
Well anyway back to the point of this post--Rand has proven that he is indeed my child. He got into the DVDs and pulled out the Little Mermaid and told me "Mermaid, Watch it!" So you know I of course put it in and I could hear him on the other side of the house excitedly yelling "Mermaid! Mermaid!" And know he is cuddled up to me completely riveted to the Little Mermaid!! I am so proud!
Oh and by the way I tend to ramble on and on when I am tired so sorry and hope this post makes sense!!

Rand holding Alex!

Our friend Rayshe'l Macdonald came by for a quick visit on Monday night and brought her six month old son Alex with her. Rand was so excited to see the baby, Alex! He decided that he needed to hold him and so I got some absolutely adorable pics!! And I have to say that seeing Rand do so well and have so much fun holding a baby made me really baby hungry!

Thanks a Million Gramma!!

I just wanted to take a moment and say THANKS GRAMMA!!! Rand spent the weekend-Friday to Sunday at Gramma's house so mommy and daddy could celebrate their FIVE year anniversary!! Rand had so much fun! On Saturday Gramma took Rand to SLC where they visited Auntie Gina and Great Auntie Michelle! She also took him to see all the animals at Hogle Zoo!! He had such a blast and it has been fun hearing about all the monkeys, elephants, giraffes, and other animals he got too see. All night him and daddy have been lions growling at one another! I now live in a lions den!!! Thanks again Gramma you are the best!!!

Hi! Sorry it has been sooo long!!

I was looking at blogs today and realized that I have not posted for almost two weeks! and to make matters worse- I have no excuse beyond laziness and of course the lack of anything exciting happening!

Truly not much has happened. I am attempting to start an overnight job at Schriebers, so after Sunday I probably will not be blogging or doing much of anything beyond sleeping and studying. That's right I start work on Sunday and school on Monday! We will see if this actually works:)!

I have been trying to start work for the last couple weeks but things keep coming up and delaying me. For example I was supposed to start this last weekend but my poor baby got sick and so I had to stay home and take him to the doctor!! He is doing a ton better so I am hoping I will be able to start work this weekend!! It has been interesting, with the antibiotics he was on his appetite has been coming and going. The other day he barely ate breakfast, ate most of his lunch but totally refused to eat dinner! About ten o'clock at night he decided that he was hungry and wanted corn, of all things!! So I feed him a huge bowl of corn which he seemed to eat quite a lot of it but that was before I saw the floor!

This was just a small portion of my living room floor that was covered in corn! Shortly after the bowl of corn he ate a bowl of cereal, and then some mini hot dogs!!

I also have some pics from over a week ago when Rand decided to build a boat!! I was cleaning the cubes that normally house Rand's many toys and he took all the pieces and built what he repeatedly told us was a boat!! Here is just one picture of the boat about half way through the process. The finished boat was about half the living room!! The best thing was how proud of himself he was! He kept laughing and clapping and saying "See, Did it!!"

Helping Daddy! Silly Dogs and Lake!!

Today was one of the first days in a long time that we were able to spend together as a family. We had a lot of projects around the house that needed completion. First on the list was fixing and installing a separate kennel area for Zoe.
Zoe is our female chocolate lab and she is already in heat. We think that she is pregnant already but we decided that we needed a separate area for puppies-when they arrive! Here are some fun videos of Rand helping Daddy fix and the other is a video of Zoe-drinking water-we think!


You can see in this video that our male chocolate lab, Mojo, is very protective/possessive of Zoe. They were only separated for about ten minutes until Mojo managed to open the gate connecting the separate areas and let Zoe in! It is amazing. Mojo will not leave her side for anything and has even gone far enough to not eat and let Zoe eat his food!! They sleep all snuggled together as well!!
We decided after working hard all day we needed some fun! We loaded all of us and the wild pack of dogs into the truck and headed to Newton Lake! It was a lot of fun but almost too much dog to handle. Zoe and Mojo did fantastic by themselves, they would swim and fetch sticks that we threw into the water! Leo would be alright and swim for a little bit and then would take off forcing Dustin to chase him down and bring him back!! Jack, was the same as Leo! He shocked us and actually went into the water but then would take off running-and Mojo and Zoe would follow close behind!! So it actually ended up that Leo and Jack were kept on leashes while Zoe and Mojo swam!
Rand didn't like the water because it was too cold, which actually made me really happy seeing how the water was really mossy and stinky! Once we got the bunch home we decided that they all needed baths and we needed showers!! It was a tiring awesome day!!

Happy Dance for Ice Cream!

As those who know Rand have seen many times-he dances for food!! Well the latest installment of his dances is the happy dance that exploded out when we went to get him a bowl of ice cream! Oh how I love this kid!!

Goofball kid!

Here are some silly videos of Rand being himself. He is reading his Thomas the train book and he was doing this cute little dance whenever he would hit the chugga chugga noise. I was attempting to get him to do it on video but he was so distracted by the camera that he would only do it for very brief moments. He was distracted by clocks, cows, horses passing by and even tried to take the camera from me!! I have to say that I love how he is getting to the stage where he talks more every day. He is having more conversations, but the most frequent is something like: Rand: Doing? Me: Cleaning, What are you doing? Rand: Nofing! The great thing is this repeats about once a minute!! Yeah!!

Talking and Talking!

The other night Rand was lying in bed and just couldn't stop gabbing! It was so funny-here is a little snippet of our conversation:
Rand: Birdie!
Me: Where are the birdies?
Rand: Home, Catch em!
Me: We can't catch the birdies! Did they go home for the night?
Rand: Uh, uh! Balloon!
Me: Your balloon went to fly with the birdies, huh?
Rand: Yeah, balloon fly birdies, long time!!
Me: Yep, it's been flying with the birdies for a long time!
Rand: Big Sigh!!
That was the extent of the conversation and a few minutes later he was fast asleep! It made me laugh because earlier that week he got a balloon and had to let it go fly with the birdies and apparently he is waiting for the balloon to finish and come back home to him!!

Finally catching up!!

This week was my turn to be a blog slacker!! We went for a walk last Wednesday or Thursday and I took some awesome pics of the wild dogs and the boy! I just got so busy that every time I sat down to post I would start to fall asleep at the computer!! Then Saturday came and I was going to blog, but Dustin bought me Breaking Dawn!!!!! I started it Saturday night around Midnight and finished about 2 o'clock today!! I would have been done with it yesterday but Dustin made me take a break and go to Preston and have dinner with our friends Kelsi and David! It was a blast and I have to say the book was really good!!

EWW!! Dirty Feet!!

Rand was playing with Colton today and dropped a toy on his foot. He ran over to me and held up the hurt toe so I could kiss it better and to my horror this is what I saw!



EEWWW!!! Gross Dirty Feet!!

More dogs?!!

I think that we just might be insane! Last night dog number four came home! That is right four dogs! It was a normal day yesterday and in the afternoon Dustin called and said that one of the guys from work had a full blooded AKC registered male chocolate lab named Mojo that they couldn't keep anymore! Well seeing how our female Zoe is also a full blooded chocolate lab, and we should be getting her registered soon as well, we just can not pass up the possibility of breeding these two gorgeous dogs!! So if any one has any advice on dog breeding it is very welcome!!!!

The dogs all seem to get along well and Mojo actually seems like a calming influence for the wild pack! Here are some fun videos of my house full of puppies and an awesome one of Rand and Daddy having a towel fight! those two make for some good entertainment!!

Here are a few fun pics of Dustin and the dogs!!

Memories!

I saw this on Tonya's blog and thought it was really fun-so I have to do it too!

1.Leave a comment on my blog about a memory we might have had together.


Big or small, funny or sad, whatever just any memory.


2. Then re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory.



I did a search of quotes about memories and here are my favorites!!

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

2 Parties! 2 Fun!!

My son is officially two! I still can not believe it! This year we decided to have two parties-one here at my house and the other in Salt Lake City. It worked out perfectly because all of the family here around Logan were able to come celebrate with us during the week and we were already planning a trip to SLC to see a play at the Desert Star theatre, so instead of everyone from SLC driving here we just had a party there at Aunt Michelle's house! Everything just worked out perfectly!! Rand had a blast and loved all of his many, many presents!! Thanks Everybody!!

WE LOVE YOU RAND!!!

I have just spent the last hour or so arranging the slide show of my boy! I decided that a good birthday tribute would be a slide show of some of my favorite pics and moments!

The last two years have been the best of my life. Being a mother has really given me the meaning and fulfillment my soul has been longing for! I really can not believe that he is now two-

Rand I love you so much, more than could ever be explained! You are the most hilarious, kind hearted child in the world.

Some silly things that you currently do:

You like to dance with/about your food, specifically a potato dance, noodle dance, Popsicles, ice cream, the list is endless.

You love to clean and sing the "Clean Up" song. You clean up our plates even before we are done and you love to wash walls whenever you manage to get a hold of a paper towel!!

Your nickname you got from your mom. I love to play Peeka Boo with you and for some unknown reason I started calling you Peeka and it has stuck to this day!!

You love animals and being tickled!!

Your favorite color is blue, or green.

Your favorite things are trains, cars and the Big Trucks!!

Thank you Rand for being such an amazing part of our lives! We can not wait for what you have in store for us!! Every day you bring a smile and a laugh to us!!

Love always and ever, ever, ever, MOM and DAD!!

My Boy!