First Date

Wow!!! I thought I would have a little more time before I wrote this post.

Today my best friend came from Roosevelt, and brought her daughter. We decided to meet up for lunch. So that means Jesse got to tag along. Boy was he happy.

While my friend was shopping I took the kiddo's to cold stone. After we ordered and sat down to eat our yummy treats this is what both of them said to me, "Mom we are on a date."

Really your 4. I can live with this though because of the great company that these friends are. I love my Rooseveltian friends they are the best. I couldn't ask for anyone better for my son to be hanging out with. So if I must write this post so early in Jesse's young life, as long as it's with Raegan I must say DATE ON.

They are quite the posers aren't they?

Today

Seriously doesn't a freshly plowed field just make you want to get out and get your hands dirty. Growing up on a farm their was nothing better than this. A field all ready for planting. I love all the neat rows and just how much the dirt is just begging to be played in. I think its time to break out the tiller and get my garden going what do you think?

Oh the things you will see while you are driving down the street in Springville.... Oh man aren't thy cute. Gene brought this fork lift home today. Trusses are coming tomorrow. I will have to post pictures tomorrow.

Jesse was so excited to ride on "the tractor" with his dad. I was actually following them and didn't get a chance to get in front of them and take his picture smiling.

I know, I know you read my post right before this and I say I need to take more pictures. This is what I come up with? A newly plowed field and the back of Jesse and Gene's heads.

Well it's a start not a good one but a start none the less right?

Spring Break Cope Style

Ok so maybe this mom needs to learn to take more pictures. It is really sad that I did things with my kids all week for spring break and I only have 3 pictures.

We started our spring break of with a bang. Snow storm on Sun and Monday. What is a mom to do? Well Mon we stayed home and didn't do a whole lot just cleaned and vegged. It was nice.

Then it was of to the children's museum in Salt Lake.

Since it was cold and stormy we decided to ride trax in to kill time.

It was fun. The kids had a blast. Seriously this is how you know you are in Utah. 2 Moms and 11 kids. Wow I think we have the words crazy tattoed over our foreheads. Kids running every which way.

I took my neighbors/ cousins kids with me. Well I let Kelty and Bailey and Shundo go of by them self. Pretty soon my phone rings. (oh what would we do with out cell phones). It's Kelty mom Kennedy can't find you guys. She found us but she can't find you. Oh wait I did bring extra kids with me. Totally spaced it of. Sorry Birds I love Kennedy like my own just forgot I brought her with me for like 5 mins.

Anyone out there wanna let me take your kids for a day?

So my only pictures are at the children's museum.

Then on Wed. it was Jesse Birthday. I tell you I suck at the whole picture thing. So my sister and I decided to take the kids swimming at her in-laws house. Then it was of to my mom's for pizza for lunch. 8 kids later we are eating at my moms and letting them run through her house. She loves us let me tell you. My mom got Jesse a birthday cake and we sang to him and he loved every minute of it.
Then Christy decided to take her kids and go home. Well she ended up with all the kids at her house. She was only just going to take James home with her but being the type of person she is when Jesse started crying and saying he wanted to go to her house. She said "I am not going to make him cry on his birthday he can come with me?" Isn't she the best sister ever.

Since it was Jesse birthday Gene took a couple days of work. We where going to head to a show but we decided that he would like Jumping Jacks better. So we went down there. He loved it Both his brother and sister and big bounce houses and all the running around he could handle what more does a kid need?

Then Thursday it was of to Mcdonalds for lunch for Jesse. Grandpa Dave took pity on this mom and took my to older to kids to this auction place they have found and David is in heaven. James likes it and Kelty tolerates it. I was loving just having one kid for the day. So we meet up with Gene's cousins at Mickey D's and let them play.

Then it was of to home to get ready for another round of party's for Jesse. We didn't have the grandparents down on Wednesday night. So thurs we had a bar-b-que. Also we had our good friends come out from Roosevelt. They have kids the exact same age as ours and they are the best of friends.

So Thurs we partied again. The reason our friends where here is because their son was playing in a baseball tournament. So friday morning They went of to games and took James. Kelty and her friend just had to stay home and be girls they loved it. Jesse and Reagan played and played. He played 3 games and James was a trooper and stayed for all three and from what I was told he didn't whine to much.

Saturday morning was meet with more games. So of they go to the park while the girls and I stayed home and just vegged. Gene wandered the yard and tried to figure out what to do with our yard.

So all in all it was a great week. We did a lot and for one this mom is glad that school started again. We played till we dropped almost everyday.

We hope all you had a great spring break. We didn't go anywhere but managed to do a lot around here.

Oh I also took my bike over to the bike store to get serviced and James found himself a new bike that he wants.

This is what our future Mailmen look like. Mighty cute I must say. Jesse and His friend Cheyton. Such good buddies.

Just a quick update

This is where we are at in the construction phase of the add on.
If I survive this it will be a miracle. I hate the mess and not having a yard.

It will all be worth it in the end, I am sure. Just pray that mother nature keeps up with some warm days so we can get the siding of the house and get the 2nd level going soon.

I am so excited I can't wait.

My middle child turned 9 WOW!!!!

James turned 9 this weekend. Wow where did time go. Wasn't it just yesterday I was having him?
All he wanted to do was go swimming at Omi's (my sister's in-laws house.)
I don't usually do party's. I just don't like to think up all the games and stuff to have to do.
But how do you resist this. Drop kids of at my house, feed the hot dogs, and some sugar, more sugar. Take them swimming, feed them more sugar, then drop them of home to mom and dad. Yeah that is how I roll.


But really who wouldn't want to do a party for a kid like this? He was so happy and it was so easy on my part. I sat in a chair by the side of the pool.

This is Princess Raegan. She was so funny. I wish I could have gotten her when she was moving her legs around like a real DIVA. So funny.

I think it turned out to be a really good day for James. His best friend lives in Roosevelt, and in the past this is the reason we have not done party's is because we usually meet up with them in Salt Lake and then spend the day together. Well this year was different. Easton had ball games in S.L. so they where going to meet us later for dinner. Well since it decided to snow his games got cancelled. So they where out here way earlier than we thought. We rounded up some swimsuits. They had a blast. I love that he has this best friend that makes his day. They had so much fun hanging out and spending the whole day together. Happy Birthday James.

Growing up...

I grew up on a Sheep farm, that is to say the house I lived in happened to sit right in the middle of that farm. As far as me being a farm girl far from it. It was to dirty and gross and I hate my hands to have that gross feeling to them. So to say I grew up on a farm is still in question. No I do not know how to drive a tractor, I can't ride a horse. (According to my niece and husband, I say I can they say I can't the jury is still out on that one.) I don't know the difference between Alf alfa and straw. I really do but again my niece begs to differ. I had to teach some preschool kids about a pumpkin patch and corn maze that my niece runs. I told the preschoolers that straw comes from corn. Who knew it doesn't it comes from grain? Good thing my mom was their. So I don't know much when it comes to the farm stuff. I admit it. I do have reason or so I like to think I do. Wanna hear it? I know your dying to hear this story.

This is my version my father may have a completely different version but I like mine best. So this is the story. I am the youngest of 3 with 5 years between my sister and I and 9 years between my brother and me. I have heard that my dad did all the good father things with my sister as far as making her go out and drive the tractor and teach her how to bale the hay and so on and so forth. But the kicker is this. My sister is a way girlie type of girl. Hates to camp, hates to be dirty in any form and hated the farm. So my theory is by the time I came around my dad was sick of trying to make my sister go work on the farm so he figured why try with me? Well I am not a real girlie type of girl but the whole farm thing for me was so not cool when I was growing up. So I didn't push back either to have my dad teach me. So when I say I grew up on a farm you know what I mean. I just happened to live their. Anything on the outside of the lawn was foreign land to me.

So today we take the kids up to see the new baby lambs. Apparently at this time of year its real busy on the farm with Ewes having babies from about the middle of January to some time in April. Again who knew? So here are a few pictures of my kids in what is called the jugs? This is where after the baby lambs are born they put them so that they will bond with their mother and nurse and stuff. Kinda like the maternity ward in the hospital only way DIRTIER.


This is Jesse checking out a new baby and the mom is not real happy that he is hanging around so close. Look at that stare he was getting.

















Same Mama Ewe looking at Jesse. Jesse thought she liked him, I do know this. She did not like Jesse being this close to her baby.















The stare down continues.
















This is my brother putting a brand new baby lamb in the jugs. I know that this mother does not like my brother either but she had to follow here baby.
















This is Kelty taking a picture of me taking a picture of her. We are so savvy at this house let me tell you. This picture is a perfect shot of why I don't like the farm. Can you see all those cobwebs above Kelty's head? Ewwe gross. Kelty even made the comment. Mom didn't Grandma Whiting ever come out here. This place is disgusting. Inside joke you have know my family and know how clean they are. (My aunt actually has a vacuum just for the outside of her house. No lie but that is a whole nother post.)








So this is our family Sunday afternoon trip to the farm. Please don't ask any farm questions I really won't be able to answer them. It was a fun time but glad to be able to come home and put our clothes in the wash we stunk.

Gotta love it.

Today I am so thankful Letter Factory.




While I was doing this,




















Jesse was doing this. Watching Letter Factory.

So while I am sewing a Levi quilt to donate to the school for an auction.

I figure I am not a neglectful parent if he is watching letter factory right?

It works at least for me. He is learning his ABC'S, I am working on things for

the other kids school. I guess you can only do so much and what you can't do

the great people that make this awesome videos so parents like be can do

everything. We hope anyways right.