New Bike!

Rand was so so excited when I picked him up from Gramma's house today and there was a bike in the car for him!! He looked at me and said "Bike!" "Tyler!" with this expression asking why is Tyler's bike in our car? He rode the bike the last time he played at Tyler's house and so he knew it wasn't his. So I told him that Tyler gave it to him and he got all sorts of excited and all the way home he was telling me: "Tyler, mom, Rand bike mine!!" I could just see the little wheels turning thinking that Tyler gave me the bike and I gave it to him and now it was his!


Thanks for the Bike Rachel!!! Rand absolutely loves it!!

Oh, I have to say I am sorry Tonya, Grandma is definitely Rand's FAVORITE person!!! He would not leave Gramma's house tonight, we kept asking him if he wanted to go home and see Jack and he would say "no! Gamma!" Finally he agreed that he could go home and see Daddy! So we need a shout out to Grandma Melmo!! Thank you so much for being Rand's "Gamma!" That boy loves you so much!! Thank you, thank you for all that you do for him and Dustin and I! Love Ya!!

Busy Week!!

This was the week for being busy and running around and absolutely no sleep! My week got crazy on Tuesday when we were up to three in the morning to help pack our friends Rick and Rayshe'l Macdonald so they can move to Wyoming. Then Wednesday we were up late again, Dustin went to a bachelor party and Tonya and her kids came over for a visit-and to avoid the testesterone that was invading her house! Thursday was busy because I had to work and I was exhausted and then we went to celebrate Pyper's Third Birthday, Yeah for Tink!! Friday I had a four hour shift then had to rush home upload my call report and then rush back to town for a get together at Rachel and Jermey's house!! Saturday I was late for work, because we overslept, maybe staying up past two for the third or fourth time in a week had something to do with it! After work I visited with my mother in law, then went grocery shopping and couldn't sleep till 2, again!! And today I had to work, shop, and now it is past midnight and I am finally blogging for the first time this week!!!! I am so tired and my brain has been so gone this week!! Like Tonya-I am GLAD it is FINALLY over!!!!!!
Here is a huge loonngg slide show of everything we did this week! And yes it is way out of order-but I am tired so give me a little slack. It starts with Pypee's Bday party, then some pics of Dustin and Rand playing on the trampoline last Sunday, then some pics of Rand and Tyler riding a bike around Rachel's apartment and finally some adorable tired Peeka pics!!

Silly Stories!!!

My boy has been a ham and a half today! His latest thing is that when he says Grandma Sue it comes out-AAAHHH SUUUE! every time! Today we went and visited Daddy at work and he had to sit at the counter, press the buttons on the calculators and tell all the customers Hi! See ya lader! It was so funny to see all these macho guys just melt and smile at the little man behind the counter! Then we went to Smith's to cash a check and buy a money order. We got our cash and he started asking, dollar? dollar? and holding out his hand. So we gave him a dollar and he tried to give it to the cashier-so of course we had to let him pay for the money order and boy did he think it was awesome that she took his dollars and gave him two quarters! He told her tanks! and See ya lader!! The real pinnacle of the day was when we were heading home and I was preparing to make a right hand turn and from the back seat I heard-Go! Go! Go! GAS! All I can say is like father like son! I can't believe that he is not even two yet and already backseat driving!!!!

Mowing with Daddy

Today Rand and Daddy worked extremely hard! Grandpa and Grandma Gordon loaned us their riding lawn mower to mow our back back yard. So while I was working at Wal-Mart, Dustin and Rand mowed and mowed and mowed. To keep the grass out of his eyes Rand wore his snow boarding goggles! Such silly boys!

Mowing the lawn!
Rand's little mischievous smile after finding mommy's keys and setting off the car alarm!!
Drinking water from a cup bigger than he is! Can't drop the ball!
Look at that dirty face! This is what happens after a day of hard work outside!!
Also, yesterday we went and watched Rand's cousin, Seth play soccer! Here are some pics of his serious soccer skills!

Taking a water break!
Bugga and Rand watching the game together! These two have been inseparable lately!
Running after the ball!

Get the ball Seth! Go, Yeah!!
Thanks for letting us come and see you play soccer, Seth! Way to go!

Congrats Dustin!!

As if we are not busy enough with my new job, Dustin decided to join the volunteer fire department for Clarkston! So now we will never see each other-oh wait we don't anyway!! All kidding aside, I am extremely proud of him! I think that he is really going to enjoy this and do an awesome job. He has to take a bunch of classes and since the city will pay for it he is thinking about taking EMT training as well! I can't wait-I grew up with my father trained as an EMT and with my kids, especially my little daredevil-Rand- I think it is going to be awesome having a trained EMT in the house, very handy!! I just needed to take a moment and say how proud I am of his decision and in spite of how irritating he is, most of the time, I love him more than anything and can't imagine my life without him!! Okay sorry about all the sappy sentiment-you can all stop gagging now!!

Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers in my life-Everyone of you are unique and beautiful! Thanks for all that you do! And yes I know that it is a day late, but I still want to say it! Happy Mother's Day!! I hope everyone had a great day!
I had a good day, in spite of having to work! I actually had a lot of fun at work-I just went to Wal-Mart for four hours and talked to customers about Kodak Cameras! After work I did a little grocery shopping-found myself another mothers day present-Cala Lilly's that I can plant outside! I then went to Borders and picked up the Host by Stephanie Meyer for my Mother in Law. So we went and visited Grandma last night and Rand kept telling us: Car! See! Gamma! We had a blast playing at Grandma's house and ordered yummy Chinese food for dinner! And best of all Grandma gave me a new coffee maker! No more instant coffee-YEAH!!!!!

Two posts in one!

I am going to share two days in one! Yesterday we had dinner with our friends Rachel and Jeremy Cronin and their son Tyler! Today we picked up Arbys and went to a park! Here is a slide show of Rand and Tyler enjoying dinner and desert! It was quite funny because Rand would only eat the cone and not the ice cream, while Tyler ate everything and wanted more chocolate topping!! Tonight Rand climbed his first tree, with Daddy's help of course! Enjoy!

Here is a pic of Dustin and Rand that I cropped and turned to sepia!

Good News!!

I woke up this morning so excited!! My cat came home last night!! For those who don't know the whole story-I am not a cat person, I haven't liked cats for years. However when we moved out here to Clarkston, My Dad gave me Mischief, to help keep mice away. He doesn't chase mice very much, but I love this cat!! He and Rand get along so well! Well anyway I was very upset when Mischief got out on Monday-we thought that he was lost! Last night I was getting ready for bed and heard meowing outside and sure enough Mischief was home!!! Yeah I am so glad to have my cat home!!! Here is a pic of my very hungry dirty kitty!

On other news-Mother's Day came early at our house! Dustin wanted to suprise me and so he bought me a dozen roses-from Rand, and another dozen from him! He also bought Golden Compass-from Rand and he gave 27 Dresses from himself! Even better, he brought home pizza, so no cooking and washing dishes!! It awesome to get spoiled for once!! I also got my final grades for this last semester-One B, one A- and the rest As!! My GPA is 3.77, it is down a couple of points-but I am still very happy with it!!

These are the roses from Dustin:

These were "from" Rand!! It was really sweet, Dustin got Rand to carry these to me with a card!!

Funday, Sunday

I am catching up on my blogging-Finally!! On Sunday Dustin, Rand and I went to our Friends Rick and Rayshe'l Macdonald's baby blessing. They have a son named Alex who is just a cute cute baby boy!!! It was a blast! We went and had lunch at Willow Park and after playing for a while Grandma and I took Rand to the willow park zoo where Rand loved watching the monkeys, the birdies, the turtles and the snake! His all time favorite was the big giant tortises that were moving around! He had a blast-every duck he saw he had to talk to them-Cak, Cak (his way of saying quack, quack!)



Swinging with Gramma!

He loved swinging in the BIG swings!!

Here is a monkey from the zoo that my monkey liked to watch!
One of the many swans!
I thought that this picture turned out pretty neat-It is a reflection of a Tree in the water with a fish swimming by-Brag Book worthy?- I am not sure-I need some feedback!!
Rand's favorite turtle!
Bald Eagles!
Dustin and his Friends Rick, Jermey, and Seth!

Rocking Fun!

Tonight we decided to play rock band-nothing on TV, what else is there to do?! Well Dustin and I battled on Guitars while Rand rocked it out on the unplugged drums!! Here is a slide show of our rocking night! I tossed in a couple of silly pictures of Rand with a sticker on his nose-Enjoy!!

Napping!

The other day Rand was playing in his room for awhile and he got very, very quiet. Now usually when little kids go quiet they are coloring on the wall or playing with something they aren't supposed to. So I waited a little bit and still no noise. I went and checked on him and this is what I found. He had put himself down for a nap-with his toys!! What a goofball!! I just wish he would do this at night-I am getting so tired of having a kid in my bed!!