Bang are Back Baby!!!!

Jaden came and asked me a few days ago if she could have bangs. She hasn't had bangs for about 3 1/2 years. So I guess I can see way she would want a change.

This is her before, with her beautifully messy blonde mane.
This is how much we cut off. 5 inches
And this is after. Its crazy that having bangs can make a person look so different. She was so excited to go to school today to find out what everyone thought of her new look. And was very happy to report that everyone loved them. She is gorgeous with or without bangs in my book! I'm pleased that something as little as giving her bangs makes her so happy!

Past Week of Happenings... for you Daddy!!!

Starting off with something you didnt miss.....

Look Honey, our very own E.T. .....and BIG FOOT????

Bradley and Owen sporting their cool mohawks Dinosaur Style! Dont you just love the look on Bradley's face? What a STUD!!

Autobot Jaden ready for war at Jordan's 5th birthday party. Candice let me give her a makeover. I think she took pitty on me because you are gone and I'm lonely!! She even let me put mascara and eyeliner on her, and she can't stand it when things touch her eyes. What a great sister I have!

Owen feeding the duckies. Although I think he feed himself more then he did the ducks.

Bradley fed the ducks whole slices of bread. So needless to say he ran out of bread very quickly.

We even saw a turtle. This was the highlight for Mr. B-Rad.

We went to visit Aunt Nan at work and she wasn't there when we arrived. So while we waited Owen swang in Cole's swing. Weeee

Yeah Coca Coley is here and happy. What a good boy he is. "Hey Uncle John! Guess what?? I'm only 6 months and I'm crawling and I cut my 1st tooth!"

Today is the finale!! Jaden and I went to her Hawian Jamboree. (Again the amaing Candice to the rescue, she watched the boys or me so I wouldnt have to chase after them.) They played 2 games back to back. It was really neat to play against other teams on different Leagues. This is a video of Jaden hitting and running the bases at the 1st game. She did such a great job at both games! Those Aggressors just keep getting better and better.

Here is The Aggressors after the last game. They just received a metal for a season well played. Jaden you cant see to well. She is at the far end and moved when I took the picture.

Our cutie Jaden after her game posing with her metal! The day was really windy, but the weather was nice. Her and I had a lot of fun hanging out with her team today. It's to bad that shortly after we got home I became really sick. But our wonderful daughter came to my rescue and made dinner for herself and her brothers. Peanut Butter and Jelly. She's a keeper!!

P.S. I would of taken a picture of myself, but if I look as bad as I feel, you might never come home to me. So just imagine me at my most beautiful!!

We Love You and cant wait to see you!!!

So much to be GRATEFUL for!

John is gone AGAIN!! Back to Wyoming with my Dad! Poor me. I am so upset with the company that he works for here in town. They haven't had steady work for about 2 months. STRESSFUL!!! And now John has to work 700 miles away in Wyoming while I stay here and take care of the kids and the house and everything else be myself!! I miss him and hate it when he is gone. I don't do well!
This was me for the past week. Mad, bitter, sad, and lonely. About a week ago my Mom told me that we needed to go to the temple, and I needed to pick the day!! I thought, how can I go? Who's going to watch my kids? But I also thought, "I need this." So I told my Mom that I was going to find someone to watch my kids, then I'd let her know. That Sunday, walking home from church the wonderful Katie Clark offered to take my kids for a day. (WOW! I didn't have to find anyone, they found me!) I set everything up for Wednesday. I dropped Jaden off at school, got the boys ready and took they to Katie's and headed to my Moms house. When I picked her up I was venting about John's work and how much I miss him. Of coarse being a Mother, and also missing her husband, she reminded me that I am looking at everything the wrong way. I asked "how am I supposed to look at it?" Her reply was " be grateful, he's working!" "I am grateful!" I argued.
We arrived at the temple and were to late to make the 10:30 session like I hoped so we did sealing instead. As we were doing sealing I reflected on our conversation. I guess if I were grateful I wouldn't be so upset, I thought. Another thing that my Mom kept telling me this week was to be content. Which was frustrating me, because I thought that I was pretty content. I had already decided to not put my house on the market. And I felt really good about that decision. I wondered to myself, maybe I need to be content with were John is work right now, because if he were here, he wouldn't be working. Then the AW HAW came. By this time we were done with sealing and went to the Celestial Room. We sat down and I started to cry. I just miss him so much. On the plus side, my kids are behaving very well and at least we have money coming in to pay bills and put food on the table. And what a wonderful blessing it is that John is able to go up there with my Dad and work. Without that, John would be looking for another job. This whole thing is just as hard on John and the kids as it is on me. Travis is also up there and Leanne is going through the same thing. I have been so selfish! I felt so overwhelmed with emotion and then a calm came over me. And I thought with every blessing comes sacrifice. And this is my sacrifice! What is a few weeks compared to a life time? And hopefully someday an eternity. This is nothing! I can do this!!
Thank you Mom for taking me to the Temple and sharing your motherly wisdom with me. I am truly grateful for the opportunity John has to work with my Dad. I love it when the men of the family work together. I am so very grateful to our Heavenly Father for all he does for me and my family. I am grateful to my family for their support and love. I am grateful to my children for behaving so well and helping whenever they can. I am so grateful to my husband for being so wonderful and willing to work where ever he can to support our family. I am grateful to my friends for their service. And I am grateful to be humbled.

Tagged Again

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car): Sunny Dodge

2. YOUR GANGSTA STAR (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Pistachio Sandal

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal): Orange Horse

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born): Clair Salt Lake

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (first three letters of your last name, first two letters of your first name): DavHe
6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Yellow Water

7. NASCAR NAME (the names of your grandfathers): Carl Melvin

8. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Marasco Manhatten

9. SPY NAME (your favorite season/holiday, favorite flower): Fall Daisy

10. CARTOON NAME (favorite fruit, article of clothing you are wearing right now): Rasberry Bike Shorts

11. HIPPIE NAME (what you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Special K Willow

I tag Past and Present Iron Mountain Ward!!

All About Me!! TAG You're it

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was 17 and a junior in High School. I was dating John, the love of my life. And loving choir! I was a huge choir geek!

5 things on my to do list:
1. clean all bathrooms
2. help Jaden with homework
3. make dinner
4. clean out garage
5. go to Home Depot to buy plywood for attic for everything I took out of my garage.

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. Golden Spoon frozen yogurt
2. warm brownies
3. snap peas
4. cherry yopait yogurt
5. anything chocolate!!!

5 places I've lived:
1. Delta, UT
2. West Jordan, UT
3. Springdale, UT
4. Henderson, NV
5. Las Vegas, NV
boring I know!!

5 jobs I've had:
1. Golden Swirl (aka Golden Spoon) I was a professional swriller- very proud of that fact and judge the swrilling capabilities of others.
2. JCPenneys Photo Studio/ Photographer
3. Sears Portraits / Photographer
4. Las Vegas Drive-ins HATED IT with passion!! If I were you and you go to the Drive-ins, dont ever buy any food from the concessions and if you have, I'm sorry and glad you're not dead!!
5. Nanny for guests on the strip

5 thing that you might not know about me:
1. I have a fear of cats
2. I desperately want to go sky diving
3. thrill seeker
4. I sleep on the left side of the bed (It actually changes depending on which side is closer to the door.
5. I only have 9 toes! I'm kidding I have 10 HA HA HA

Please and Thank You

Owen loves to talk and have conversations with everyone. If only we could understand just what the he is saying! My absolute favorite thing that he says that I can understand is Thank You. He knows a little sign language, but the more he is able to communicate without it, the less he uses it. In the video he says thank you, bye bye, and his version of please in sign. I tried to get him to pose for a picture, (it's so cute, he tips his head to the side and says, "CHEESE") but he wouldnt do it.

I enjoy watching him grow and discover the world around him. He is such a sweet and good natured baby. I just love this little guy and all that he does. God has blessed our family with so much, but the most wonderful blessings he has given me are my three beautiful children! I cant thank him enough!

To Move or Not to Move????

Over the past couple weeks I've been debating on moving! Our house is starting to feel a little cramped and we could use more space. But on the other hand, it's not the best time to sell at all!! Would we even get what we need out of this house to put enough down on a new one??? It's also a great time to buy. We could get a nice size home with room to grow that we could live in for a long long time!!! What to do?

John is gone again this week, back to Wyoming with my Dad. While he has been gone and I've been wondering what in the heck to do, I decided to declutter my house. So if I do decide to sell then it'll be ready to show, but if I dont then at least it wont be cluttered! I had a big huge desk in my bedroom that I moved to the spare bedroom that use to be Owen's room. I took Owen and put him in Bradley's room. Before I did all of this, I called the phone company to make sure that the DSL would work in the other room. I was told that as long as I had a dial tone I should be fine. After 4 hours of taking off bedroom doors (then discovering that I didnt have to), taking Owen's crib apart, putting it back together, taking a piece of the desk off, moving the deck (this took about an hour and a half by itself), then putting it back together, getting the computer set back up. All of this was done by myself with no help (granted I didnt ask for any, but that is not the point)!! I was beat! Now all I needed to do was check to see if the internet worked. Of coarse it didnt! I called back the phone company and was on hold forever, tranferred to about every single department, to set up an apointment to have a technician come out and switch it around. What a mess!! After all was said and done, the tech was to come out Friday at 10am and I was happy with how everything looked at the end of the day. I just hope that John is not to upset with me moving Owen in Bradley's room. He didnt want them to be together until Owen was 2. They have been together the past 2 nights and have done great. Owen did wake up the first night crying for about 10min. but Bradley said he didnt wake up. So anyway the tech came out today and I needed to move the desk again. When I called the costumer service rep. told me not to worry about moving the desk, that the tech would do it. I thought "yeah" because, it's dang heavy!! Well I asked the tech if he could help me move it, and he said "how do you want to move it?" I told him that I would take the one the side piece off, if he could pull the main piece away from the wall. While I was doing this, he is in the other room doing what he needs to do, to switch things around. He gets done before me and watches me struggle a bit trying to find a place to set down the side piece so it doesn't fall over and everything doesn't spill out of it. When I'm done I look over at him to give the o.k. to move the main part of the deck, and he just stands there. So I move the desk while he watches and directs me on how I should move it!! I'm thinking, "Were did you grow up? A barn? Didn't your Mother teach you any manners??" I was so mad!!! I couldn't believe that he just stood there and was telling me how I should move it!! Did I mention, the desk was dang heavy? I know I told him! Oh! Maybe thats why he didn't help me, I should of told him that it was light. Then maybe he would of moved it for me. Oh well I guess, at least the DSL works. Now I can get back to my, and everyone elses blogs that I've missed so much!!!