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!!