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!