First day of Fiesta Days!

My mom decided she wanted to come pick Jesse up from me in Evanston and take him back to Spanish Fork so that her and my dad could take the grandkids to the first day of the Fiesta Days Carnival for $1 a ride night, family night. He was so excited that she was going to drive the two hours to come get him. Now he gets to stay with her until Friday night when I head down for the celebrations. I don't want to miss the parade on Saturday. Here are some of the picture my mom sent me tonight of him having a great time at the carnival. You can tell he is having a blast with Camryn and Cheyanne.

The workin man!

Last week Randle was running late coming home from work. I had to be to work by 8pm. Since Randle was running about an hour and a half late, I had no choice but to take Jesse to work with me. He does love coming to work with me. I had to post this picture that I took of him. Because I work in a Laboratory and we play with blood, urine and feces, you always want to wear gloves and your lab coat. I will say that I do wipe down the counter tops multiple times during my shift, but you never know what is roaming around. It is a clean lab, no matter what you think. Not much was going on at work when we arrived. My friend Denise was working and I was her replacement. Nothing really came in for me to do the first little while, so I turned on my laptop so Jesse could play PBSkids.org. My friend Emily, and ER nurse brought me over a strep screen to do. These were Jesse's words:
Jesse: "Emily did you bring me work to do?"
Emily: "Yes I did. Are you helping mom tonight?"
Jesse: "Yes, and I have been waiting for work so I can help her."
Emily: "Well here you go."

I then told Jesse that if he truly wanted to help me, then he needed to wear a lab coat and gloves. Of course I don't have a lab coat xxx-small, so he wore my XL coat. I bunched the back of it up and tied it with a rubber band then found X-small gloves for him to wear. He looked so cute and he was so helpful to do things. He helped me rotate my blood samples for the day, watched me run the strep test. He looked at some CBC differential slides, asking questions of what the red ones were (red blood cells) and what the purple ones were (white blood cells). He then said, "Take my picture, I look like a doctor, like Grandma Jan. Send her a picture of me." So we did, along with a few other people. When Randle arrived at 9:30 pm to get him, Jesse answered the door to let him in and Randle said, "boy you really are helping mom aren't you?" Jesse: "Well ya, that's why she brought me, to help her!"
I just had to laugh. He wanted to stay all night with me but I told him he couldn't and had to go keep daddy company at the townhouse.

July 3, 2010 Hamblin Park

This July 3rd was the day Evanston, Wyoming celebrated Independence Day. They had all the festivities at Hamblin Park. There were Bounce houses for the kids, a four wheeler pulling a kiddie train, live music, food, treats, dunk the Red Devil High School teams,saw dust hunt, family scavenger hunt, and Bingo. I took Jesse and my friends daughter, Danica. Jesse and Dani played and had so much fun. It was a nice warm day for them to play. Now I did make sure Jesse was lathered up nicely with sun screen, but I forgot one person, ME! Because it was a nice SUNNY day, my back, shoulders, chest and arms now look like a cherry. Aloe has been my best friend. Mindy lathered Dani up well too, so the two kids were fine. Just tired and exhausted from playing in the sun all day.

Then about 6 pm, we headed to Kay & Bill's house in Kemmerer for a BBQ and fireworks. The food was great and the fireworks were awesome. Jesse was waiting for Josh to light another one, when Jesse's patients was running out. He told Josh, "Hurry up, I'm bored!" The way he said it was funny, but we had to tell him that because we dont have special cannon's to shoot them out of it takes a bit longer between each firework. Needless to say, after each one lit, he jumped up to help Randle, Josh, Kaisha and their friend Dalton choose which one to light next. They all had fun.

Moved!

To update our little family yet again, Randle was offered a job in Wyoming. When the news came, we were excited, yet nervous. We knew that if he didnt take the job we would still be going from pay check to pay check plus wondering if his pay check would be big enough to pay anything at all with it being commission based. Jesse was thrilled with the idea of daddy taking a job in Wyoming. His biggest thought was that if we moved he would see mommmy everyday again.
We waied the pros and cons, and guess what? We have moved to Evanston, Wyoming over the last couple of weeks. Jesse has stayed with me the last two weeks, minus the time with my parents while Randle has been taking his certification classes for the new job.
We are enjoying it, and with the 4th of July this weekend, we will be staying right here in Wyoming for it. Wyoming festivities here we come.

I really don't need to explain this one much. This is the best sounds I could ever hear from my Jesse. I love him so! He is so ticklish that I love to make him laugh. It'll put on smile on your face even if your super sad.

Baking!

Jesse and I decided to make Home Made Cinnamon Rolls on Saturday. We started about 9am so that we had the day to let them rise. Jesse's favorite part of making them is spreading the butter on the dough, then the cinnamon and sugar, then rolling them up. He just loves it! I had to take some pictures of him doing it.
After they rose for a few hours after rolling them up, we went to start baking them. Jesse went over to play with his cousin Braxton while I was baking them. I tried to get Randle's attention to back get Jesse with me when I was done baking, and this is what I found....


Yup! He and Lilie were asleep in the recliner. She woke up when I went to take their picture, but when she was sleeping, her body was curled up next to his body and the arm of the recliner. And he says he doesn't like the dog! Sure!

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, mother-in-law, sister-in-laws, grandmothers, friends, aunts and many others. I hope your days was as great as mine. I spent the morning with Randle and Jesse in Eureka as we took Grandma GG to the Elks Lodge for their annual Mother's Day Breakfast and program. We have been taking her for that last 7 years. On our way there, Jesse asked where we were going, I said, "To the Elks for breakfast. He said, "So do I get to shoot one their?" We all laughed, I don't think I've heard GG laugh that hard in awhile. I explained that it was called the Elks Lodge and that the only Elk they have their is all ready dead and hanging on the wall. He was OK with that, but it was sure funny at the time! We then headed to see Grandma JoseAnn, the Grandma Darla, and then to Grandma Janice's. We needed to get as much visiting done before I had to head to work. We made it home a little after 3 pm. Just in time for us to eat our Salisbury Steak we had put in the crock pot in the morning. Then I had to leave to come to work.
I love Jesse and Randle and am thankful for all Randle does. I love my little man more than anything. I hope everyone else had a great day~

I love these lyrics...Angels

Angels-Sung by David Archuleta in Season 8 of American Idol

I sit and wait
does an angel contemplate my fate
and do they know
the places where we go
when we’re grey and old
‘cos I’ve been told
that salvation lets their wings unfold
so when I’m lying in my bed
thoughts running through my head
and I feel that love is dead
I’m loving angels instead

and through it all she offers me protection
a lot of love and affection
whether I’m right or wrong
and down the waterfall
wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
when I come to call she wont forsake me
I’m loving angels instead

when I’m feeling weak
and my pain walks down a one way street
I look above
and I know I'll always be blessed with love
and as the feeling grows
she breathes flesh to my bones
and when love is dead
I’m loving angels instead

and through it all she offers me protection
a lot of love and affection
whether I’m right or wrong
and down the waterfall
wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
when I come to call she wont forsake me
I’m loving angels instead

Watch the Oceans trailer on Movies.com

Watch the Oceans trailer on Movies.com

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I took Jesse to see this movie today, Oceans. He absolutely loved it! If you have a child who loves animals, mammals or just plain anything that moves, they will love this. It is a documentary film, but very worth going to. Check it out.

Jesse's 4th Birthday!

Jesse's birthday turned out great! He wanted a Madagascar Birthday Party, which was soooo cute! Even though the company didnt send me the amount of things I ordered it still turned out great! He picked his cake out and told me everyone who he wanted to invite, which I had to stop at some point. We ended up with 17 kids plus the adults here. All the kids had a blast playing the games, eating pizza, cake and ice cream.

WOW!

Jesse and his new big boy bike he got for Christmas.

Well, I can't beleive that it has been since October since I have posted last. I guess with my working out of town and staying super busy when I am home, I have put this on my list of "it can wait for later".
A lot has happened since October. I still am working full time in Evanston as a Medical Laboratory Technition, Sunday nights to Wednesday nights. Jesse and Randle are doing great while I am gone. Of course they butt heads, they are too much alike, but the bond they have is closer now. Randle got laid off the Monday before Christmas, which was hard, but we managed. He recently has gotten a new job in Orem at A Auto Repair. So far so good. It has been good in a way for just having a job while many are still without one.
Jesse has gotten better at spelling his name, even though sometimes he gets his S's and Z's confused. He said to me today, "Yay! It's snowing! Maybe we can go sledding, huh, ya, lets do!" I had to explain that it's a Spring snow and would melt faster than we could make it somewhere to go sledding. Funny kid!
My goal now it to blog at least once a week. Let's see how I do.
I hope that everyone is well.

Happy Halloween

This year for October Randle has completed a big project in our home. He has finished our rock wall and the installation of the wood burning stove, with the help of our Schwans's man, Rick, and Terry Branin. It looks great! I will post a pic later. Randle has already biult a fire in it most every night since it was finished. The first night was so funny because he closed the damper to far and the fire alarms went off in the house because of the smoke. You live you learn and that hasnt happened again. It sure does heat the whole house very nicely. Our next prject is going to be the laundry room and water heater.
For Halloween Jesse is being Wolverine, from X-men the cartoon. He picked it out himself. He got to wear it the the Witch-a-palooza at Gardener's Village a couple of weeks ago. He loved all the witches there, he even flirted with one of the witches that was in the show we watched with dinner. He wanted to follow her everywhere.
I am excited to take him trick or treating this year, since I have my witch costume as well. I love being able have these experiences with him.
My job is going well, I just hate being gone from Randle and Jesse 3 1/2 days a week. So I really enjoy my time at home. Randle's job is still going ok, and hopefully will continue to do so. We just keep our fingers crossed, but so very thankful that I have my job to help us out when times are slow for him.
I have started my Christmas shopping, which I think came way to early this year. But I am excited to see Jesse's face and be with all my family during the holidays.
To the start of the holiday season everyone, enjoy these times with you loved ones. Cherish all the moments. I am glad to have you as friends and family.

Our Busy Lives....

Seems as the busier we get the less we do. Make sense, not really. Now that I am working a fulltime position in Evanston, being gone from Sunday night to Thursday morning leaves me little time to get things done at home. I prefer spending the time with Jesse and Randle than doing anything else. I am home for 3 1/2 days and gone for 3 1/2 days. The job is great and with being done with school the extra income with help us not be as strapped and finally get caught up. The time away from home sucks, but we are dealing with it. I talk to my guys every morning when I am getting off work and they are waking up, then sometime during the day after I have woke up then again at night when it is bed time. Jesse picks books out for me to take to work so that I can still read to him over the phone. He also has me tell him different stories to go with them or change them up using people he knows in the books instead of the book characters. He loves have his Uncle Jason in most of his stories, especially the skunk stories. And Jason is usually the one to get spraid by the skunk.
Our washer died on us last Friday night, so needless to say it was a better deal for us to buy a washer and dryer than just a washer. We got the LG brand front loading washer and dryer. They had a deal that if we bought the set then they were only $497 a peice in stead of $799 a peice, saving us about $650 by getting the set. Good thing I am working full time now, we wouldn't have been able to get them otherwise. They are really nice and Randle has actually been using them more than I have.
Jesse and I are taking Virginia shopping today then just spending the day doing things and she and I need to get done. Errands, ice cream, you know the fun stuff. Jesse just loves going to her house, plus when he calls her he keeps her on the phone for half hour or more talking her ear off. But all the kids love their GG, and she them.
Randle is also doing a great job at the rock wall he is putting up for our fireplace. After all the grouting is done between the rocks then Randle will start on the roof project to get the chimeny up and everything that goes with it.
So that is a little update from us. Hope everyone is well.



I will post more updates of the fireplace project as they come.