ode to the tooth fairy

On Friday night (I was wondering what I was going to post about, thanks Kace for coming to the rescue!) Kace said how loose his tooth was. I went and felt it and sure enough it was really loose. He said he wanted to pull it out himself. So he wiggled and wiggled until it came out! He was so proud of it and whoever I was talking to on the phone he ran over and asked if I had told them about him pulling out his tooth!

He was so excited to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy to come and leave him money. I asked him if (since we were coming home late from Nate's dad's bday party) he was asleep when we got home if he wanted me to put it under his pillow for him OR if he wanted to do it himself then next night. He informed me that he would WAKE UP and do it himself. Sure enough, Nate carried him upstairs that night, 5 minutes later here comes Kace in asking where his tooth was. So he put it under his pillow.

I asked Nate if by chance he woke up in the night if he would PLEASE go play tooth fairy. He said sure, but I woke up (Ty woke me up, dang it!) and grabbed a handful of change (hoping there was something silver in there. I went to put it under his pillow and I COULDN'T FIND THE TOOTH! He wasn't even sleeping on his pillow so I picked it up and felt all around. NO TOOTH!

The next day I was outside and when I came back in Kace had just woken up and ran to me and said (matter of factly), "$1.36." WOW!! He was so excited! But then he said, "Um, the tooth fairy didn't get my tooth though, it's still there." CRAP! So I made up some story about how maybe the tooth fairy had already collected enough teeth for that night and didn't need his this time, but he should put it under his pillow the next night because she might come again.

All of this reminded me of when I lost my first tooth. (I told Kace the story!) I was so excited and my mom was across the street at my cousins for a baby shower or something like that, so I clutched my tooth in my hand and ran over to show her. Sure enough right in their gravel driveway I dropped it and was DEVASTATED! I looked and looked in those blasted rocks, but never found it. Another memory I have about losing teeth is that we would go next door to my grandparents and my grandpa Andrew would give me 50 cents for every tooth. Good times! :)

Poor little boy

Poor Ty has had a very rough week. Last week he and Kace woke up throwing up a couple of days before Thanksgiving. He STILL is having a hard time getting over it (he actually threw up at the church at tithing settlement :( . He doesn't have a fever or anything and seems to do this every time he is getting a tooth, so this had better be the last of the teeth. Then on Sunday he and Kace bonked heads and it resulted in this fat lip.

Then, for some reason the poor kid has been plagued with a wart virus. He gets them ALL OVER his body. They are just tiny little bumps, but they are so contagious and spread like CRAZY! So we have gone a couple of times to get them removed. The nurse puts on this numbing stuff on his skin and puts some tape over it. We have to wait an hour for the stuff to numb his skin, so we went to see A. Jessica at work. She gave Ty a sucker, actually two, to make it feel better. He gladly took them. More like grabbed them, but he did give her a kiss as payment, so that was nice.

Then we wait an hour, go back to the doctor's and he scraps off the warts with this sharp little tool. TY HATES IT! He screams, kicks, hits, etc etc. The nurse wasn't very nice this time, she said (in her most annoying voice), "Do you just cry and whine about everything, little guy?" I wanted to ask her if she wouldn't cry and fight if she was getting things scraped off of her body, but I didn't. Then the doc hurries and puts band-aids over all the little holes. He said there were probably 50-60 warts that he scraped and he is sure he missed some (great, so we get to do this AGAIN!).

My poor little boy.

PS Maybe in a few more days I can post something on BYU, I might be starting to get over it by then. THOSE LOSERS! How in the world do you throw 5 INT in one game, FUMBLE once and have tons of passes knocked down.....well maybe I'm not ready yet.

Lots of stuff

First of all it has been a LONG time since my last post for which I am very sorry. I have been meaning to do this for awhile, but of course never got around to it. A LOT has changed in my life over the past few weeks. The biggest change was that I was called to be YW President. When I was called in and the bishop asked me I would accept this call, I started crying and asked him if he was SURE about this. So he said he was, and here I am. This week was my first week and my first lesson. I think it went okay, but of course I forgot to remind the other girls (mia maid and beehive pres.) about BYC so me and the laurel pres went alone. OOPS! I guess I will eventually get the hang of it. Anyway, this is what I am feeling like these days. I know, I know, it is a really hot picture. I can't help it!

Also the other day we were getting Kace ready for school when I noticed that Tydon was outside on the deck in Nate's "spot" and he was holding himself. I then noticed his diaper right by the door. Sure enough there was Ty PEEING (or watering the rose bush as Nate says) just like his FATHER! AHHHHH, I had to call Nate right up and he LOVED it. Don't worry I am not ready to start potty training just because of this one incident.

One more thing, my sis-in-law Mel started this business. She is making tutus and onesies that are super cute so check it out! www.cuteobsessionsbymel.etsy.com.

Also Heidi made a very nice post about me as her sister so if you want to read all about ME check it out here. You may have to scroll down a few posts, but all of her posts are pretty entertaining, so you may like them. :)

Oh and RISE AND SHOUT for rivalry week. For the U fans out there, you know who you are, HARLINE IS STILL OPEN!!! and 4th and 18.....enough said haha

Trick or Treat

Kace was so excited for Halloween this year, which made it extra fun for me. Ty was also excited once he saw his costume. He would run to it and look at it and make superman sounds (a little different from the caveman sounds we are used to hearing, although he IS starting-finally-to say many more words so that is nice). We started out evening out by going trick or treating to people's houses. We went to some of the people in our ward that wouldn't be attending the trunk or treat. They really liked that.

Ty would do the 'wiggle dance' at each house and grab his pumpkin and run to the door. It was so funny :) They both learned that at the houses you can take almost a handfull of candy and at the trunk or treat you are limited to just one. Ty had a hard time grasping that concept and I ended up dragging him away from the 'trunks'.

Kace really wanted to say, "trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear" I can't believe that saying is still around. Don't worry he just said in the car and the next day at Great-grandma Andrew's. She informed him that she didn't think he would be able to get to her underwear!!

Overall we had a great time and of course got way TOO much candy. We spent the day yesterday dividing it into piles (candy bars, tootsie rolls, smarties, suckers, etc)-we have been busy or would have done it earlier. Kace informed me he didn't need my help this year and that he could do it himself. Oh, MAN I love the dividing into piles part.

I wasn't going to bring candy to the trunk or treat because I was feeling scroogish and just wanted to take the kids on their rounds and leave. BUT of course I started feeling guilty and went to the store at about 4:30 to get some candy. I am glad I did, because it seemed like a lot of people were having the same ideas (about not bringing candy and bringing their kids and leaving). Kace liked passing the candy out anyway.

Tagged again.........TWICE!

8 Favorite TV Show:

* duh, BYU games
* deal or no deal
* american idol
* powerhouse, pretty much anything sports......jazz games, right now the world series.....
* 2 news--they are really funny, especially in the morning :)
* I used to watch Friends a lot, but then Nate told me it wasn't appropriate around our kids (he's right of course!) so I haven't watched it for a long time. Don't worry he has also stopped watching Simpsons :)
* ummmmm
* sorry I can't think of another one

8 Things I Did Yesterday:

* Cleaned the house as usual, it is messy again though. I don't understand how that happens and so fast too.
* Went to Subway (Nate is gone and we don't cook when he's gone!)
* Took Kace to school
* Mowed the lawn for the last time (I really just wanted to see the leaves get mulched and so it wouldn't look so much like I needed to rake them) :)
* Did laundry
* played on the computer
* Read books to Kace and Ty the guy
* Played a game with Kace

8 Things I Look Forward To:

* The next BYU game and hoping they will show up
* building a shed.........and then we can work on finishing the basement
* Christmas and pretty much all holidays
* Nate coming home
* a date night with free babysitting
* naptime (so I can try to get something done)
* hunting season to be OVER!
* basketball season to begin

8 Favorite Restaurants:

* FIREHOUSE PIZZERIA
* Romano's macaroni grill
* Bluebird
* Tepanyaki (now that I have been there, I want to go again)
* Jim and Nick's
* Olive Garden
* Subway
* Anywhere else because I don't have to cook :) Thanks T I stole this one from you!

8 Things On My Wishlist:

* new windows
* new lawn
* shed
* external hard drive
* a smaller camera to just put in my purse. Then I won't 'forget' my camera anymore
* a new countertop for the kitchen
* BYU to win stupid Utah (that really should be at the top, but this is in no particular order)
* Nothing really, these things are just extra (except for the one above). We don't need anything and are very blessed. These are just my selfish desires :)

Now I am supposed to post the 4 picture in my 4 folder in my pictures..........should be interesting......

Okay, this wasn't too bad. Obviously it is Kace all dressed up for Halloween in 2005.

Okay, now I don't want to tag anybody, but if you want to do it feel free, it makes for an easy idea of what to post about..........well, maybe I should tag Kim because she hasn't posted ANYTHING for quite awhile and Natelli, because she can't think of anything either.

once upon a time a boy 'threw a fit!"

Yesterday Kace got mad when I asked him to do something. He went in time-out (for like 30 minutes!) and we went on our day. That night as I was getting into bed I lifted up one of my pillows and there was this cute note under it. I LOVED IT! I think he did a pretty good job for doing it all by himself. I did laugh too because it was funny, but SO cute at the same time. I remember writing notes for my parents and leaving them under their pillows (do you remember that mom?)
Anyway, since this blog is my journal I went to ICON today and had Heidi (she wanted me to mention her name :) ) scan the note into the computer, Now I can have it forever......oh, and don't mention this to Kace he might be embarrassed.

Translation (I don't think you will need it, but some of the words are a little hard to read):
Sorry I threw a littil fit
I don't no wat I was thinking today (we had a discussion on what he was thinking during this hard moment)
I am sorry

Nate's projects.........FINISHED........almost

Every year at tithing settlement we set goals with our bishop, one spiritual and one temporal. Nate's goal last year was to get a door cut into the foundation of our house so we could have another entrance into our basement. He got that done, but we never poured cement for stairs. So this summer we did that........along with a little patio. It looks great!

Also, Nate has been so excited (pretty much ever since we moved here) to dig a pond and have fish and ducks. And ever since we have moved here I have wanted to plant more grass in the front yard (right now it seems as if it is a big pile of weeds), Nate had always said that it would be really expensive to water it (our front lawn is pretty big). We do have one acre share of water rights so he borrowed our neighbor's backhoe (A LOT!) and started digging. Sometimes he would dig until 1-2 in the morning (weird). He just wanted to get finished. The boys loved riding in the backhoe with their dad, unfortunately I forgot to get pictures. I will keep some when he does the trenches. Everytime Ty heard the sound of the backhoe engine coming down the road he would do this wiggle dance and start RUNNING for the door. He does the wiggle dance for any sort of machine: tractor, 4-wheeler, big truck, cement truck (yep, we got to see it when we poured cement), etc.
The pond is pretty deep, about six feet and just feels up with the ground water. I couldn't believe how high the water table was, but it is. Nate had to pump out the water for a long time before he started digging, because it was hard to dig with the water.

These are both pictures taken from upstairs in our house, just so you get the idea.

I will have to make sure the boys don't go out there, right now, they don't, but hopefully they always remember that rule. Nate says he will build a fence, but who knows if that will keep them out. I am kind of nervous about that.
All he has left to do (I think) is dig the trenches for the water lines and we can plant grass and have a sprinkler system. YEA!
He has already got a couple of ducks and is looking on ksl everyday for other free ones (even though I keep telling him that they aren't FREE we have to take care of them) and has the fish that him and Kace have caught from the river by our house.

Nate made a HUGE pile of dirt that has since become a favorite place to play for the boys and their friends. It will make a KILLER sledding hill in the winter. He is going to use some of the dirt to back fill where he wants to build his monster shed (someday, people, someday!)

This is the view our upstairs bedroom window of the monster dirt hill. Also is a shot of the great swing set (also HUGE) that my dad built for the boys. How lucky are they?!

Well, I am off to get ready for tomorrow we go to Ft. Worth, texas. RISE AND SHOUT!

A hunting we will go.....

That's right people, I am a very VERY nice wife and went hunting to the mountains with my dear sweet husband. He was hunting for deer, which I saw a doe (but he didn't really care about that one). The highlight (for me) was seeing some mountain goats and some moose (not quite as exciting as the bear I saw last year, but exciting nonetheless). They were fun to watch.

So we woke up really (REALLY) early (thanks to Nate's sis Caitlin for watching the boys) and headed up the canyon. I usually don't care too much about the hunting part, but I do enjoy watching Nate get excited when he sees something. Too bad we didn't see much else, but did have a great hike. I also like that part of the hunt........the workout. It works muscles I didn't know I had (and I have lots!) :)

Aside from me going this time, I am getting sick of the hunting season. I usually start out pretty good and then get sick of him going (and taking time off). He is still going so I guess we know who rules the roost at our house!

Where did 6 years go?

So I was informed last night that I was a bad mom because Heidi has a post about Kace's birthday before I do, his own mother. I really had started it, but wanted to get everyone else's pictures first..........oh, well, mine will have to do.
I can't believe my Kace is 6, where does the time go? The past few weeks he has been wanting (begging, whining, crying, etc) to go the the aquarium in Sandy, I had told him we had to wait until his dad could go with us because he would really like that. So FINALLY (kace's words) we were able to go. We went down on Friday (his bday was on Saturday) and went to the aquarium and then stayed the night at (my) grandparents Spencer's.

I would have had more pictures of Kace, but he was RUNNING through the aquarium like nothing else. We were out of there in less than an hour. He hardly wanted to stop, but oh well it was his day!

In the morning we met my entire family at IHOP for a birthday breakfast. Kace opened up his presents there and enjoyed all the attention in the world. One who did not enjoy it, was Ty, OH BOY, WAS HE ONERY! For some reason that kid picks the WRONG time to get sick (and of course it was when we saw Heidi and Clayton so now he is NEVER going to get cousins because of all the crying he did........he REALLY isn't like that ALL the time!)

The present opening. About in June I saw Kace throwing his toy(s) around and asked him why he was doing that....his answer........"I don't want them anymore." This translates into me SPOILED BRAT so I told him that I wasn't going to get him any toys for his birthday this year because he just decides that he doesn't want them anymore. Well I stuck to my guns and didn't get him any toys. Clothes, movie and soccer "stilts" (they are cleats, but for some reason Kace keeps telling everyone he got stilts.........don't know where that came from!) Although everybody else did.

After IHOP we went to the BYU/UCLA game, am I glad Kace picked that to do, because it was what I really wanted to do! In case you haven't heard (I don't know how you couldn't hear about it though) BYU KILLED UCLA 59-0. We went to the tailgate party and Kace got to throw a football in the hoop, spin the wheel for a free milkshake, shoot a basket, etc. He had fun, but it was HOT! And then for Nate's favorite part of the day, we stopped on the way home and got some ducks for his pond (next post)

Kace wanted to go and give the players high fives when they came out of the locker room so we went and WAITED. Needless to say Kace got bored. Nate did too, I am pretty sure, but I was surprised when he said that watching them come out and run onto the field made him miss playing football and wished he could play again.

Kace's hand kept being smashed against the person he was standing by. And by person I mean 25 year old man. You would think that it would be just kids wanting to give them high 5's, but NO they are mostly adults. I know most of you are probably thinking that I, Rachel probably still does that too, but NO I HAVEN'T DONE THAT SINCE I WAS A KID, come on people.

And then on Sunday we enjoyed my cousin, Tyson's farewell and then went over to Nate's parents for a nice family birthday dinner. When I asked Kace what he wanted for his bday meal he said, "mac and cheese." Typical. So I said, "steak or chicken?" So we had steak as well as this really good home made mac and cheese. He had a great birthday!

more stuff we've done...........

Well it has been awhile (sorry Heidi), I was just waiting for some more things to happen so I could have some pictures to post. We went bowling last week for FHE and had a great time. We played 2 games and I broke 100 the first game so was kind of proud of that. Kace loved it!


I know, I know Ty looks real good in his 'too little' clothes, I now have to break out the 3T clothes bin to find something for the big boy to wear. I just wanted to show you the little bowling shoes, I couldn't believe they had them that small! Also, he only messed up our bowling computers one time, so that was good. :)

Soccer has started again and I told them when I signed up that we may not be to many Saturday games, because of hunting and football games, but I think we will only miss one game. I asked Kace before his first game if he was excited and he said, "YES! I don't think I can go to sleep!" I then asked him how many goals he was going to score and he said, "Oh, probably a thousand!" At least he has confidence!! So his first game his team did well and won, we shall see how the other games go. He loved having real 'refs', even though it was just a 8-9 year old kid. He was funny he would blow his whistle and say, "um, Kace, you can't push other kids down.............um, the red gets to have a kick." It was entertaining. For the grandparents and others who want to watch they play every wednesday at 5:30 and every Saturday at 11:30.

We went to Lagoon this last weekend thanks to Heidi, Clayton and Cortney. It was ICON Lagoon day and only those who work at ICON can sign you up to go (thus the reason for the thanking), it is a great deal, they rent out the entire park and so it is not crowded at all. I don't think we waited in line for one ride. Even the white roller coaster you just walked right to the cars and got on (LOVE THAT!). Anyway, it isn't crowded, the parking is free, you pay $11 to get in AND you get a all you can eat meal (Nate loves that part!) We have gone the past three years and loved it. We get the excuse of Lagoon Day coming up for not riding the rides at the county fair ($10 for the ferris wheel, I DON'T THINK SO!) Kace said his favorite ride was the roller coaster, but by the end he said it was the haunted house (even though he was scared and wanted to hide under the hood of the car the entire time) He said the ride he didn't like was the wild mouse, because he felt like he was going to fall off. On the way home Ty kept saying, "WA-HOO, wa-hooooo!" We are just glad he is saying anything besides 'grunt'

Fair, Dinosaur Park and first day of school

Well the day has finally come to send Kace off to school. He has been so excited for today and couldn't wait until it was time to GO! Unfortunately we have afternoon kindergarten and so we have to wait until AFTER lunch. He was so excited to ride the bus, but there aren't enough kids to make a bus route, so they are paying the parents to drive their kid to school each day. (STINK!) oh, well at least I only have one other kid to load up each day. Kace's class has 15 students, 10 of which are boys. Poor, poor teacher.

This is Kace doing the "Michael Phelps." This is his favorite "weird face" to do these days (I wonder what we have been doing with our time!

Nate's mom and dad invited us to go up with them to their old bishop's condo at Wolf Creek. We went up last week and had a great time visiting, swimming and playing basketball. We spent the night and in the morning Kace decided he would really like to go to the dinosaur park. So off we went. I was really surprised about how scared Ty was with the dinosaur. He wouldn't let go of my leg most of the time. Kace of course loved it, but really wished we would have invited a friend for him to have fun with (next time we will!)

I tried to get TY in it too, but it just didn't work out that well.

The fair was last weekend. I had no idea how big the fair was until I moved to Elwood. The BE County Fair is HUGE here. Everybody goes............so we did to and had a great time with our friends looking at the animals and tractors. Anybody who knows Ty knows his great LOVE for tractors, 4-wheelers, etc so it was really hard to pull him off. I tried numerous times to get a picture of him on the tractor, but of course he always moved and they were all blurry, so maybe next time.

Only 5 more days until BYU games start! RISE AND SHOUT! :)

Summer of weddings..............wedding #2

Well Kami's (my sister) wedding finally came. She married Erik Paul on August 7 in the Logan LDS temple. She looked beautiful! We are so glad she met Erik! He is a really great guy and we couldn't be happier for them!
Kami and Erik met at FHE last year in October (I think, she didn't really tell us because she didn't want to say anything if it didn't last....she's weird that way)

Here is our family after the sealing, Kace just can't stand to have a normal face in a picture.

They didn't have a reception (thanks) so we just met at the temple and enjoyed a nice sealing. Of course all the temple workers were paranoid that dad wouldn't make it on time because he wasn't there 1/2 early like he was supposed to. The ladies kept coming in and asking me "where my dad was?" I told them he would be here right at 1:29 (they got married at 1:30), but he beat my expectations and was about 5-10 minutes early. One of the temple workers went into the bride's room and asked my mom if her husband was a farmer?! She said her husband was a farmer and he was always late! We thought that was funny!

My dad, Nate, Kace and Ty. My dad is the cousin my boys never had, he plays and plays and plays with the boys. He also can't say NO-at least to them, he definitely could say it to me when I was growing up.

My sibs and I

Sisters--what more can I say! They're great!

Maybe someday they will have children of their own!

Ty really liked it up in the tree.

We then enjoyed a nice dinner at Maddox (YUM raspberry butter and rolls!) , I was stuffed! Thankfully the waitress let us take a box of rolls home (thanks Clayton for being the first to ask). Pathetic I know, but they are really good!

The third and fourth weddings I didn't take pictures at, but they were this last week. Our friend and neighbor Shaliese got married to Zenoch Bishop (Rob Bishop's son--) and Nate got to be the witness for that sealing so that was neat for him. And my cousin got married last week also, so we have been busy with all the weddings!

Football camp here we come.................

I am just going to put a link to Heidi's blog for this one because I haven't gotten all the pictures yet.

At the beginning of her post she put the telephone conversation she had with dad over a month ago. This is how mine went......

ring, ring, ring

Rachel-hello
dad-hey, Rach will you do something for me
Rachel - what? (I honestly thought he would say that he wanted me to go to the cannery or that the National Food Storage Convention was coming to town and we were all going-he has been very into food storage lately)
dad-I want you, your mom and sisters to go to the BYU women's football clinic.
Rachel-OH, when is it?
dad-July 31
Rachel- who is going to watch my kids?
dad-grandma

HE HAD IT ALL PLANNED! :) What a small favor for me to do!

We had a great time, even mom who was so nervous to go! Anyway, click HERE to go to Heidi's blog to see the great pics and her description, everything in her description was true, especially about the psycho ladies (we got so sick of them), but if you go to her blog you still have to leave a comment on mine! :)

Trenton 24th of July festivities

For as long as I can remember the Trenton 24 of July festivities has been one of my favorite activities of the year. It has changed throughout the years, but is still SOOOO FUN! Kace was very excited this year, because he remembered last year. We didn't make it to the breakfast, but after breakfast there is this awesome parade that goes around the block twice. Kace really likes this parade because there is a LOT of candy (all the kids from Trenton are in the parade so there aren't too many watching). Kami and I had to teach him how to better get the candy. He was picking up each individual piece and putting it in his bag, clearly the more logical way to gather would be to pick up multiple pieces at a time. Then when the parade had gone around once we pulled out our other sack (to make it look like he didn't have much candy of course!).

After the parade we have all the games. There is a zip-line (Kace loves this!), a rock wall, bounce house, volleyball, plinko, fish pond and other little kid games.

Cortney, Clayton and Heidi had a race to the top. I think Clayton won, but I'm not too sure about it.

Kace LOVED the rock wall......he would have done it all day if I would have let him. He hardly used his legs at all he just pulled him up with his arms. He made it to the top and was so proud when he touched the button at the top.

New this year was the hippity hop race. I took it upon myself to participate in the hippity hop. You had to have the best time at the end of a three hour period. I had to keep coming back and checking my time (a couple of times I had to do it over so I could be in the top three........SHELLI!) Anyway, I finished in 2 place, should have been first, but it is really a workout and a little 14 year old took first away!

The prize was a cool squirt gun, which I hid from Kace and will probably give him for some present in the future :)

Kami thought she was a better hopper than I because she had more air, BUT she just didn't get my picture at just the right time!



Kace got a shark painted on his face (Karen Cottle was the artist!)

After the games we had lunch and watched Heidi, Clayton and Cortney (my siblings) play in the volleyball tournament (which they won)

Then the foam came....the firemen bring their firetrucks and spray all this water and foam on the soccer fields. The kids run and get all wet having a great time.


Here is Kace and Clarissa (anna keen's daughter). Kace was excited about the foam, but really didn't want his shark to come off. He decided to go in it when I told him it would have to come off anyway that night.

Later that afternoon we went to the homerun derby where Heidi, Cortney, Brandon and I participated. None of us won, but we had a good time!

I went home a little early this year and missed the dinner and fireworks (Nate had to work, so I came home to be with him), but Kace stayed over at Grandma and Grandpa's and had a great time!

Trenton was such a fun place to grow up :)