This was my Easter/Birthday present this year and

I LOVE THEM!!

The three of them were real troopers for me and I really appreciated it!!

I LOVE MY FAMILY!!

As most of you know by now my new job is as

a School Bus Driver.

This is me on one of the buses. I have really

enjoyed working with this great group of people

and especially the kids!!

I've been able to take Jimmy on his first Field Trip

of the year. I knew for three weeks but never told

him and surprised him when he steeped on

the bus!! I don't know who was more excited :).

I have also taken some of our neighborhood kids

on a field trip yesterday, it was a lot of fun too.

I think that this will be a good fit for us and enjoyable!!

JIMMY FINALLY LOST HIS TWO FRONT TEETH!!

sorry for the not cleaned out... we started out with it being but it took a few times to get a good picture...

Jimmy has done a lot of growing up lately!!

He is so excited that this happened!! He is one of the last ones in his class to have lost their front teeth.

He proudly went to school YESTERDAY (yes a new post lol)

and showed anyone that he could :)

FOR FUN!!

Over time Chris has shown that he loves his "blue tongue" ...

I did have to show a picture that it's not just his blue tongue but by far it is

HIS FAVORITE!! :)

Well since May I've taken over 600 pictures... have you seen any of them??? NOPE... I've been a real SLACKER I guess!! I haven't meant to but it is what it is. So I'll do some catch up posts here over the next little while. Some of them will be really old, but after the cold weather today maybe it will be nice to see some warm stuff :)

So here is what Chad and I worked on in May... Our garden. We cleared out the whole back corner of the back yard and then put up a fence. I can't find the pictures of that right now?? We planted 40 different kinds of fruits and veggies. We were so happy with what we had accomplished.

We tried to router till all that grass up after trying to take it out by hand but neither one worked. So we rented this tiller... It worked like a dream!!! Like taking a warm knife through butter :)

The only draw back to this was that now Chad is convinced that we now need to acquire one!!! I'm thinking that when we get out of this mess we've been in he'll be pushing for one!! lol

It looked Awesome and we put a ton of hours into it, the heartache was that the gate did not work at keeping the dogs out of it. They decided that they also loved all the work we did to make them a "play area". I think all the manurer we put in did it in for us. We did everything including putting our dog run back up to keep them out. Ultimately they won and destroyed our work.

Just wait till next year!!

They will HATE life if they even step one single paw in there!! lol

No really we think we have it figured out for next year. I did read that dogs are really hard to keep out of gardens. I read a post that had hundreds of people that were struggling with it. Didn't help that all three of them were ALL young puppies this spring...

NEXT YEAR!!! IT'S ALL OURS!!

We're already planning it :)

Another Testament of Jesus Christ - The Book of Mormon


This is the comment that username "dogbadgereye" said;
"awesome it truly brought the spirit in such a way that is indescribable. What joy we can find in the knowledge that our Father in Heaven loves all his children and gives us the knowledge that he would never forget any of his children."

I couldn't say it any better myself. I found this tonight and I know that the Lord directed me to see it. I needed this and knew that I needed to share it.

I have been trying to figure out what to post since it's been so long. I do have so much to catch up on and wanted my first one back to be something important to me and worth sharing before I start with all the other ones that I need to do. So when I saw this even though it's so late I knew that I needed to take a few minutes and share our SAVIOR'S LOVE with all that I LOVE!!

I hope that you all know how much you are loved by our Savior and that
WE ALL MATTER!!

Today was Chad’s BIG Birthday. He has been dreading it for a year now, he even had a dream about it and it wasn’t a good one. He sincerely asked me to keep his birthday low key and to not make a bid deal out of it. So I really tried to honor his wishes. Two weeks ago we went out to dinner, dessert, and movie that he wanted to see, that is what he wanted to do and we really had a great time.

His Mom has been planning on coming out since I think Easter we first talked about it. So we were able to keep it a secret and she got here today and surprised him!! It really meant a lot to him!! She took him to get the gift that he really wanted, it was great to see him smile and be so happy!! He has dreaded this day for so long, it was nice to see that he was able to relax and enjoy himself.

His Aunt Jo also surprised him and showed up to go to dinner with us. Mom surprised him with going to his favorite place to eat (and where we don’t get to very often) Tacono’s Brazilian Grill, then to the Hotel for a dip in the pool. She brought out our Nephew Tyler, and we had the boys (they love Grandma and was excited to see her and share in Uncle Chad’s Birthday),

the three of them were really good!!

I was amazed at how much Chris ate…WOW!! He tried EVERYTHING that Uncle Chad did!! What a trouper,
HE LOVED IT TOO!!

It was a fun packed day for the boys; Grandma took them to lunch and the park before we went to pick up Uncle Chad from work. And now they are all having a “sleep over” in the House tent in the Living Room…. Wow that’s a lot in one day for little boys :)
They are SO HAPPY!! And have had a BLAST ALL day!!

I love you Chad, I’m glad that you had a great day!! You survived and it wasn’t so bad :) It has been my pleasure to share 12 Birthdays with you; I hope that we have MANY, MANY MORE!!
Some of the things that I LoVe you for, see in you, and admire in you are;
You have an amazing heart and capacity to love.
You have the ability to make people smile and laugh,
especially me.
You can make a serious and tense situation lighter with a joke or a funny poke at something no one would have seen.
You try new things and have an adventurous soul and spirit.
You are able to take risks, even when it scares me to death.
You are always supportive of me.
There are so many more, Thank you Chad for being in my life and heart. Thank you for staying with it and us. Thank you for loving me. I hope that the next ½ of our lives are filled with Joy, Happiness, Fun, Everything you hope and wish for, and above all LOVE!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!!

He danced!! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!! He was GREAT!!

That's our Chad!!