FRIENDS

Two of my best friends are going through some rough stuff right now. I know I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are priceless. So much of who and what we are is because of our friends. So anyone who reads this please add Abbi and Annie to your prayers. Abbi is on a ventilator for a strep A infection and has Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. She is touch and go right now, but it sounds like she is slowly getting better. Annie is having some complications with her pregnancy with twins and could use some extra praying for her too. Thanks everyone.

A Good Dog is Hard to Find

Many of you know that I have a GIANT dog that I adore, but for those of you who did not know about him, or would like to get to know him better, this post is dedicated....to Forrest. (sentimental music playing in background)

We have had him for about six or seven years now.

We adopted him from the German Shepherd Rescue of Northern Utah. A lot of people think that means he knows how to rescue people...he doesn't.

He is pretty handy to have around the house though.

You probably can't tell how large he really is here, so I had jane sit by him...

See there she is.

He enjoyed catching frisbees, he even was in a frisbee catching contest..he didn't win, he just isn't into competition, he does it for the love of the game. He also enjoys eating bees or hornets (one of my favorite things about him), swimming, chasing cats, getting into the garbage, and long walks, well not so much anymore.

Forrest doesn't get around much now.

He just lays around, his hips hurt him a lot.

He has been on a lot of trips with us. We took him to Havasupie (I'm sure I didn't spell that right), Canada up to all the beautiful sights up there, Flaming Gorge and many other camping trips.

He is still a very good dog.

We love you Forrest

Baby Photos

These pictures are dedicated to my Mom.

They are all of my baby boy, I don't want to bore anyone so if you don't want to look at really chubby baby pictures, skip this post.




Look how we have already got him pumping iron. (not to mention the strategically placed foot)

We miss you Mom and Dad!!!!

Wait a minute.....

Bad Mom Blogging

I'm pretty sure blogging has made me a worse mom.

The other day I took Jane grocery shopping. She threw a GIANT fit and I could not get her into her car seat. The tantrum was over cheetos by the way, I wouldn't let her have any because she started crying and running away from me in the store. I spent several minutes trying to get her into her car seat and Heath was still in his car seat in the grocery cart by the car. I couldn't put him in the car yet for fear Jane would run out in the parking lot. Finally, I put her in the car and shut the door, ran over to the other side and buckled him into his side, jumped into the driver seat so she couldn't drive away and let her wild rumpus end. I just sat there and let her wind down which took a few more minutes and then she was FINE, just like someone had flipped the tantrum switch on and then off 15 minutes later. SO the reason blogging has made me a worse mom, is that I noticed that I had my camera in my car during this drama and I thought, hey, I'll take a picture and put it on my blog.

Is that bad? Although Marci (Wes' mom) made Wes wait until she got a good shot of him after he pulled the Christmas tree on top of himself and that was way before blogs. And Marci is a wonderful mother!

More pictures of our week

Goooooo Aggies!!!!

These Aggie pics are of their last home game, it was a great game and Carroll's last home game, after three minutes Jane turned to me and said, "I'm tired of clapping." I should also let you know that she claps with her thumb in her mouth, I should have gotten a good picture of that.

With Carl and Fisher, Dave and Marci at the Aggie game

Dad and Jane. Dad's a true Aggie!

More Aggie Fans, Ian and Oliver, Jane's cousins.













Snowmobiling Trip in Logan last weekend.

Happy Birthday Afsonai-she is so Awesome!

Playing 'Apple' while everyone else was snowmobiling. The pool was outta commision.

Jane during Pricesses on Ice-Dad took her Wednesday. Can you tell she was in heaven?

Jane even gets her cousins into playing pricesses and tea party.

Jocelyn knows how to wear a crown!

Oliver or "Prince"

I overheard Jane say, "Prince I love you" and Oliver obligingly replied under his breath, "I love you too, Miss." What a good sport!

Five kids...no sweat.

The Crew

This week has been busy and fun for me. Monday Wes invited me to go snowboarding with him and his friend Jeff, who is from Logan, but currently at school in Arizona. So we conned Grandpa Dave and Grandma Marci into hanging out with Cactus and Jane for the day and I donned my snow bibs and had a great day up at powder mountain. It was perfect! Lots of snow and a little bit of sunshine. It felt like I am almost me again! The only complaint I had was this...I ended up hanging out on the mountain with six boys. Jeff's wife Jo, is super awesome and a great skiier and boarder but she had other plans, thus stranding me on the mountain with too much testosterone. Women...what's up? Crank up the 10,000 maniacs on the i-pod and GET ON THAT HILL! I am so sick of being the only girl!

Girls of the slopes unite!

Seriously lets talk about something besides boarding gear!

Then

My sister Kara, went on a little trip to visit her husband Travis, who just graduated from basic training in Oklahoma! CONGRATULATIONS TRAVIS! Now he is specializing and will be gone for 6 more weeks and then he gets to come home and be a family man again!

So I got to spend Tues through Sunday at Kara's house carpooling her punks to various and sundry events. Jordan, Kindall and Russell are the smartest, nicest, smelliest (how did that get in there?) most fun children a gal could have. The highlight of my week with them was when Kindall and I fell asleep at 9 on Saturday night and Ryli came over to get Kindall to sleep over. Ryli talked to me and Kindall and we thought we had both dreamed about her until Kindall noticed the toothbrush that corresponded with the dream she had about Ryli was sitting next to her. Sorry Ryli, I guess we were partied out!
Here are some pictures of my week
Amy and Ryli gettin pretty for work at Call's Drive-in. I love their root beer and over-priced burgers, not to mention endless fry-sauce.
Miss E, the Gerfen's dog. She loves long walks on the beach, eating chapstick and licking feet.Kaden and Jane, they are good buddies!
Russell and Jane playing Polly pockets, Russell is a sport: ) he takes such good care of Jane. He loves to pick out her clothes and do her hair, she is his life-sized dolly. After I got home and went to post this, I realized I had no pictures of Kara's kids! How the...? Amy, Ryli and Kaden belong to my sister Kay, they came and helped me out this week. I will fix this post, but for now take it as is.
Also, Kallan got baptised on Saturday! Yeah!
Congrats Kallan, I am so excited for you

I label this photo as "Jowls". Do I have the market cornered on cheeks or what?