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!