Happy Award

My friend that I have known since high school gave me this award. Her blog is hilarious at times and really makes you think at times, and most of the time it makes me smile and brings happiness to my otherwise hectic life. T and her husband recently started an adventure traveling the country in a RV, exciting let me tell you! There is a link to the right for her blog "tMOOnie"

Here are the rules

1. Copy and paste the award
2. List who gave you the award and leave a link to their blog

3. list 10 things that make you happy

4. pass the award on to other bloggers and let them know

10 things that make me happy

1. When my kids give me hugs and kisses out of the blue

2. Hugs from my husband after a bad day

3. A clean house

4. "me" time

5. Phone calls from friends from WA

6. Great friends

7. Sunshine

8. The smell of rain and dark, rich soil

9. Helping my kids learn something

10. My family

I'm going to give this award to

Hailey

Paula

Renae

Potty Training was a SUCCESS, at least for one of them

Gage has been doing REALLY well with the potty training. He only wears diapers at night. We just need to teach him that he needs to stay in the bathroom when he's done instead of walking like a peguin out to the frontroom to tell us that he went pee or poo. He got a Mater car because he is doing so well. GOOD FOR GAGE......now on to Jett but I think we will wait until summer when it's a little warmer.

Jett's 2nd Birthday!!

We finally had Jett's birthday tonight. It was great, Brett's family came over and we had soup, cupcakes and ice cream. Since Jett is really into sports we got him a Jazz jersery (he's wearing it in his video) Grandma and Grandpa Dredge, Jon, The Rodebacks and The Brown's got him a really cool toy. Its an ESPN better batter. I wish I had one when I was little. It is the coolest thing EVER! It's an outside toy but until it warms up and the snow is gone we will have to play inside. So far nothing has broken (knock on wood). and yes, he is batting left handed. I really hope he plans on taking care of mom and dad after he becomes famous!!

Happy New Year! and some other things

One of my goals for this year was to keep my blog updated as much as I could. So here it is the 3rd of January and I haven't even posted Christmas pics yet. Oh well, what can you do?

So I got Jazz tickets for Christmas! We also bought three tickets for Levi for Christmas and since we are the only people he knows here he took us! What a great brother! Thanks Levi!Brett opening presents
Levi opening presents (funny movie by the way)
Gage REALLY excited for his dinosaur playset (mom not so excited, took me an hour to put it together)
New pjs from Grandma Val
So far it's been a great year! I had surgery a week ago and everything is going well with the recovery. Not to go into too much detail, but no more kids for Brett and Jaycee. We sold one of the four wheelers because we don't really need two until the kids get bigger. Brett and I made it to midnight on New Year's eve. Jett's birthday was on Saturday. There's no pictures because we postponed the party til next week because Gage was sick. But other then that, it's been great! I can't believe Jett is TWO!!

Guess who is coming to town?

No, not Santa. My little bro LEVI!! He arrives thursday night and will be staying with us until the 29th. I'm excited, the kids are excited and Brett is too. He will have a helper to do house stuff with!! Whoo hoo!!

first big snow

This morning Brett woke up for work and looked outside to dumping snow. I took him to the front runner station because that early in the morning no one has had a chance to shovel. I'm grateful we have four-wheel drive. I might just have to get Gage some snow boots so they can play in the snow. I love the snow but not the cold that comes with it. Because our house has no insulation and single paned windows our house is FREEZING! We can't keep the thermostate about 63 because then the furnace would just run all day and night. So we have been using space heaters to keep a little warmer. I think I'm going to cry when I see the gas and power bill for this month.

Happy Birthday to me!

November 21 was my birthday. At first I was not willing to celebrate my birthday because I wanted to be in WA celebrating with my friends. But we bought the house so that was out the window. Don't get me wrong I'm glad I have a house, and there are always other years I can go celebrate with my friends. But I had the biggest surprise this year. We had a triple birthday to do to and Brett's sister's house. Starr's birthday was on the 20th and Austin's was the 23rd so we all celebrated together. I wanted to go early so we could leave early but brett kept watching tv and wasn 't getting ready so finally he starts changing and while I was changing he told me someone was at the door for me. So I walk out into the front room and there is my little bro!! he drove all the way down from WA for my birthday. What a great surprise. We went out to dinner for my birthday and had great sushi at the Last Samuri. Brett made me an even better cheesecake. Then Brett's mom took my shopping on sunday. Even though I didn't want to have a birthday it was a great 30th! Thanks everyone!

Sorry there is no pictures, had the camera on me the whole time, just didn't cross my mind!