CASSIE & BRANDON

I can hear you now

2011-02-09T12:57:00.000-08:00

I feel like alot has happened since my last post. We Had Christmas the boys got kind of spoiled this year. Brandon got them BB Guns and camo coats so there all ready to go Hunting. Jaxon got a BBQ set and some play food. And Jaden got Some games for his DS and a remote helicopter. Also In December or maybe it was November anyways Don Heap got me an appointment to get my ears checked. (I'm so grateful for everything he has done because I would have never went and had it done my self)Anyways I got my ears checked and yeah I'm kind of deaf. I think everyone else always knew that I was deaf but for some reason I didn't think that they were very bad. So on the hearing chart they have Normal, moderate, and severe. My hearing starts out in the Moderate section and the higher the pitch the worse they get. I never got into the severe section though. So I have moderate hearing loss we don't really know what caused me to have bad ears. I think its probably just something that happened when I was born. Anyways they got some molds of my ears and about a month later I got my hearing aids. I've had them for a month now and I think I'm finally used to them. At first everything was SOOO loud! And I could only keep them in for a few hours and then my ears would start to hurt. (they go all the way inside my ear canal) Each day got better and better and now I can hear high pitch sounds and they don't hurt my ears. I can hear the oven beeping when the timer goes off, and my phone ringing, and the furnace I can hear it blowing air. My Ipod makes a beep when i plug it in, and the blinker in the car I never knew it was so loud. And the sirens I can hear them before there right next to me. Anyways its been amazing to hear things like everyone else. I have to thank Don and Deanna and my Parents for giving me this great gift. So onto Brandon he's been doing really well he's still working in construction and going to AA meetings every morning. He is now the Sunday School president for our ward. I love the changes that he's made and to see how happy he is. Jaden is doing really well in School he's starting to read little things like " A car, A tree,. Its amazing to me that he didn't even know the alphabet 5 months ago. Jaxon is getting big too. He's not getting into things as much anymore he likes to say the prayer at dinner and tell Jokes. He can already count to 10 and is learning his colors. Hum... I think that's all I have to say for now. The pictures are all at christmas except the one of my ear. I was trying to get a picture of my hearing aid but you can't see if very well. so yeah just enjoy the picture of my ear.

Holiday's

2010-12-06T18:58:00.000-08:00

Well we just had thanksgiving a few weeks ago. This year we went to Salt Lake and had thanksgiving with the Heap side. Everyone had a pretty good time and I think almost everyone was there It seemed like it didn't last long enough though but we still all had a good time and Enjoy all the time that were able to spend with the family. After we ate dinner we headed to Delta to my parents house and had some of there thanksgiving left overs and then Me and my sister took the little kids to see santa the next morning. I was excited to see what the kids were going to ask for because Jaden wouldn't tell me he just kept saying that I have to wait and see. So when Jaden got up on santa's lap he told him that he wanted a Teddy Bear! I was like a Teddy Bear? are you serious? my 6 year old wants a teddy bear. So I'm like ok what ever that should be easy to get. And then Jaxon got up and he told santa that he wanted a bag of candy. I'm like sweet Christmas will be easy this year. I've had MY Christmas presents for like a week now I got a fun new Nikon camera and some new pillows and a memory foam mattress. I know how exciting new pillows and a Mattress pad thing. But i love the new mattress its a little firm at first but then you slowly sink into it. And the pillows there ok better then what we had before but nothing to really brag about. So Yeah I think were about all ready for Christmas. This week I'm going to my traditional Christmas shopping trip with my mom and sisters so I'm looking forward to that. OK well I guess I have to go now Jaxon is needing attention. so here's some pictures OH yeah I'm so mad my battery died right before we were going to eat thanksgiving dinner so I don't have any pictures of that but I did get a picture of Camille's trampoline with all the snow on it. I just couldn't belive that all the snow broke the trampoline I just had to get a picture of it unfortunatly that was the only picture I got on Thanksgiving.

Scooters

2010-11-11T17:40:00.000-08:00

Well I don't really have anything to say I'm just bored. I've already checked my facebook,e-mail,and Iron County bookings so I guess I'll give an update. Oh for anyone wondering what the Iron County bookings is well Its a site that I'm obsessed with It shows you all the people that got arrested in Iron County it has the mug shot, and what they did and there bail and all that. I really like it because it has alot of people on it that shop at smiths. So I like to see who's a thief and who might write a bad check. Oh and every once in a while there's employee's on there that's always interesting. Anyways so as for my update I'm pretty boring I really have nothing exciting to say about my self. Brandon just finished his last day of rehab today so that's exciting were proud of him. Its been a long 6 months but I know it will be worth it in the end. So he'll be needing a job in about a week if anyone knows of anything please let us know. Jaden is doing good in school we had kind of a crappy start but things are good now. He also lost his first tooth so that was kind of exciting Both of the boys have been on a swearing kick lately I don't know where its coming from. I don't use foul language and Brandon's not here that much only on weekends. So I'm blaming it on School and daycare. Jaden got a part for the primary program so the first day he got it I bugged him all day to say his part. he got it memorized But he's pretty sick of me asking him to "say his part" So the other day I said "Jaden say your part" and he said "WE PRAY DAILY FOR THE PROPHET, FOR G**D'S SAKE!" So yeah I haven't really been asking him to say his part since then. Anyways Jaxon is still a handful I was thinking that when he turned 3 our terrible 2's would be over. Hum.... I'm trying to think of something cute or funny that he's done and I have nothing. Well I guess if you think that writing all over the walls, getting into the eggs and throwing them on the patio,squirting out all the shampoo and soap in the tub, asking me if fawk is a bad word,spraying a can of hairspray through out the house,climbing in the sink and spraying water all over. is funny well then I guess I'm glad that someone thinks its funny. He was a pretty cute Mario for Halloween though he wasn't very happy when it was time to put his costume on so I only got like one picture of him. But they had a fun Halloween we had a party with my family and then did a little trick or treating. And that brings me up to date I guess. here's some random pictures for ya. Oh yeah and I am aware that my title has absolutely nothing to do with my post. I just thought I would use one of the "Labels for this post" I guess I better go Jaxon is throwing the couch cushions off. (surprise surprise)

My big boy Jaden

2010-09-01T20:01:00.000-07:00

After reading my last post It made me decide that I'm ready for another vacation. Work SUCKS after 10 years of the same thing I guess I'm just getting burned out? It's really no that bad I'm greatfull that I have a job and that i get insurance and vacation time and all that. I just wish that I could stay home and tell Jaden's freakin teacher that he'll ride the bus home every flippin day. Yes Jaden had his first day of Kindergarten on Tuesday so far he love's it. Me its kinda a big pain in my butt. Since at my awesome work place I never have a set schedule things are different everyday. So some days my kids go to the baby sitters and some days they go to day care and on my 2 days off a week there home with me. So at Jaden's assesment when his teacher has me fill in the paper about how he was going to get home from school everyday I was like OHH dear. So I told her that "I don't work a set schedule and its differnet all the time" She said "Ok" so I was assuming that things were all ok. Well today while I was at work I missed a call from her she wanted to know If Jaden was going to ride the bus home or day care was picking him up. I noticed that she called before Jaden's class even started so I was like "Oh she didn't get the note yet" They sent a paper home with Jaden that said if the kids were going to be picked up from school that they needed a note otherwise they would be sent home one the bus. So I sent a note with him saying that someone would pick him up. Well now I'm getting off work and I go pick the boys up from the babysitter and I ask if Jaden got picked up ok. His baby sitter says yes and that she told the teacher about the note in his backpack (allowing her to pick him up)So i was like ok everything went good. Well on my way home I noticed that I had missed another call from his teacher saying that she needs to know if he's going to be rideing the bus home or his day care picking him up she doesn't want any confusion. So I look into Jaden's backpack and the note is still there along with another paper that i had sent with him. So she obviously didn't even look into his folder. So on her second message she wanted me to call her back and leave a message. So I call her back and the phone rings about 5 times and then just hangs up. It didn't even give me a chance to leave a message. So as you can tell I'm annoyed with his teacher right now. Maybe it's me and I'm the one being difficult and confusing. But there is one thing that I think is werid why didn't she look into his folder?? They send home all these papers to join the PTA or order school shirt or to get permission to have your kid take flouride. So I fill then out and send them back and they are still sitting in his folder. Anyways wow I'm glad I got that off my chest. So Jaden had his 6th birthday on Aug 18 we had a little party with his cousins and he got his DS that he's been wanting. So it was a pretty good party everyone had fun. And his first day of school was pretty good except the bus didn't really know where to drop him off. the passed our house and stopped at the end of our street but he made it home and love's school (so far) I'm sure I have more storys but Jaxon is bugging me to watch a movie on the computer so this will have to be the end of this post. until next time.

sorry the picture is sideways I don't know how to fix it.

3 weeks of vacation

2010-07-23T08:56:00.000-07:00

I've had the last 3 weeks off work. So we have been pretty busy I tried fitting in as much as I could into 3 weeks. My first week off we celebrated the 4th of July in Delta with my family. We got up and went to the parade and Then went to my moms house and let the kids play in the water and had our traditional BBQ. I was thinking about taking the boys the the derby (I haven't went for at least 6 years) so I wanted to take the boys. But i guess the derby is a pretty big thing I guess you had to get your tickets in advance this year and they sold out like a week or two before the 4th. So maybe next year we can go. Then we ended the night lighting fireworks and watching the city fireworks. It was another great 4th. Then we spent some time in Salt Lake visiting Brandon (I think that the few people that read my blog already know whats been going on with Brandon)If someone has been left out then e-mail me and I can get you up to date) Then we celebrated my birthday. I spent part of the day in Salt Lake I took the boys shopping with me to the mall. That didn't last to long. I didn't have a stroller for Jaxon and Jaden just couldn't hold his bag anymore it was to much pressure. So I think we were only there for maybe an hour. Then we went to delta and I took the boys swimming at the pool. I'm sad that every time we went swimming I forgot to take my camera so I don't have any pictures for that. After our trip to delta and salt lake we headed home for a few days cleaned the house, did some more swimming and then we went to Hatch for the Heap family reunion. The boys had a blast playing with all there cousins. Jeff and Ashley were in charge this year. They did a great job they had a little carnival set up for the kids. And the talent show (I didn't have my camera for that either) Jaden was the performer from our family. Most of the kids got up and did a dance they had been working on. We heard that Dynamite song probably a 100 times. But Jaden didn't want to dance with the rest of the kids. He wanted to do the "robot" by him self. After the reunion we went back up to Salt Lake to see Brandon one more time before I had to go back to work. We also had a pre birthday party for Jaxon. I have to give a HUGE thanks to Camille. She made sure that we had a good time. She took us to the Mayan its a restaurant that looks like your in a jungle and every half hour they have people do tricks and dive into the water. Its pretty cool the boys loved it. Then we went and spent a couple hours visiting with Brandon. The next day we went to a splash park it was a good and fun way to cool off. After that we went to Chuck E Cheese and had a party for Jaxon. My camera was dead by the time we got to Chuck E Cheese so no pictures for that either. The kids didn't understand the ticket thing though. Jaden would leave his tickets and just couldn't stop playing games to go get his prize. But they still had fun. And Jaxon really got into the games. Literally he got into the game. We noticed that we hadn't seen Jaxon for a while so we went looking for him and his aunt Natalie found him stuck in a game. He climbed into this big shoe and couldn't get out. When Natalie found him he said " can you help me get out? I'm stuck in this big shoe" Poor little guy he ripped his shorts trying to get out. Oh well they had fun and thats all that matters. Thanks Camille and Natalie for giving him a birthday party. Then we spent the night in Delta and headed back to cedar the next morning for Another Birthday party for Jaxon. Thanks to Rochelle for making him a cake. We had a water gun/balloon fight and had some cake and ice cream. We had another fun day. With only 2 more days of my vacation left I'm sad but also happy that we got to do alot of fun things. Tomorrow is the 24th of July so maybe we can have one more great day. My mom is going to come down and help me can some pickled beets. And hopefully My sister will have her baby. Well I think that brings me up to date. Ta Ta for now.

Ok so the pictures are all out of order and I don't have Jaxon's birthday pictures uploaded yet so that will have to be on another post along with Jaden's t-ball. Oh and Thanks again Camille for cutting my hair and takeing pictures for us. Ok i really have to go now.

Trips to Salt Lake

2010-06-07T18:53:00.000-07:00

We went to Salt lake this weekend and camille informed me that I haven't blogged for a while. I don't really have any excuses except that I'm lazy. So here is a little bit of what we've been up to. First I'll start off with Brandon and the boy's trip to the zoo. I had to work so I was unable to go but I think they all had a great time. They got to go to the Dinosaur museum and the zoo. The only story I remember about that trip was that Jaden wondered off and got lost in the dinosaurs museum. Hopefully he learned not to wonder off. Then this last weekend we all got to go to Our nephew Dusty's wedding. I'm mad that I didn't get any pictures. And we were kinda to tired to go back to the reception. But I guess it was very pretty and they had a little photo booth there. I wish we would have went back to at least get pictures in the picture booth. gosh we could have gotten a cute little family picture for free. Anyways the Wedding was pretty and the preacher lady who married them was quit the story teller. Then after the wedding we went and visited with Brandon's sister Natalie for a little bit. Then we got to stay at Camille's for the night. Oh I got to experience what its like to hear normally. I try out Kamrie's and Deanna's hearing aid's. That was a pretty cool thing. I didn't think my ears were that bad and then I was like "wow." I couldn't believe how clear and loud every thing was. And they were so little you can't see them. Its definitely something that I need to look into. I also had my first time eating at the Training Table and having a taste of those yummy cheese fries with the bbq dip. Then Camille and Deanna treated me to my first pedicure. (thanks so much camille and deanna. and thanks camille for telling me what that little Chinese lady was saying. yeah surprise surprise I couldn't hear her very good) But it was nice I could definitely get used to having those more often. And my toes are so cute they have cute little flowers on the big toes. I wish I would have gotten a picture of all our cute toes. Then we went to Jeff's house (brandon's brother)and the boys got to swim in the pool. Then we had to head back to cedar. I wish we could have stayed longer Thanks to Camille and Deanna for showing me a great time and hopefully we can do it again soon.

Easter

2010-04-11T09:06:00.000-07:00

Easter morning Jaden and Jaxon got up and found their Easter Baskets then we got ready and headed to Delta for the day. My mom had her Easter dinner and Egg Hunt ready when we got there. Since the weather was crappy we just hung out at my moms for a few hour's And then it was time to head back to Cedar. But everyone had a great time and can't wait until next year. Other then Easter we haven't done much, Oh we were with out a heater for about 9 days I was pretty mad about that. It all started on the 1st when I noticed that when our heater came on it smelled like melting plastic. Since we don't really know anything about heaters we decided to call someone to come look at it. The next day some dude from Cedar Valley Heating and Air came out. Sure enough he found a piece of plastic in there that was melting. So he removed what was left and then we had him service it. (big mistake) so he got it all cleaned (or what ever they do when they service it)and left. since it wasn't really cold that day we didn't realize until that night that the heater wasn't coming on. It was too late to call the guy so we just had to be cold that night. Just so everyone knows I strongly dislike being cold. I hate getting up in the morning to a freezing cold house. so i was not happy at all. OK back to my story so the guy came out the next day and said that some wire came apart or something so he fixed it and then left. I was at work and Brandon thinks its always hot so he usually has the heat turned down during the day. So once again we didn't realize until dark that it was cold in the house. Well now it's Easter weekend so we were just screwed. So we got to freeze over the weekend. So Monday we called them and told them it still isn't working. So the same idiot came out and said that some switch was broke and he couldn't get a part until the next day. (he was nice enough to bypass something so that we didn't have to freeze that night) so idiot came back the next day put the new part in and amazingly we had heat. 2 days later our heat won't come on again. So by this time I'm pretty pissed off. I was like OK the only thing that was wrong with the heater was melting plastic it was still working fine coming on and blowing warm air. Then this moron comes out and "service's" it and it hasn't worked since Obviously HE did something. we could call some one else to come look at it but then we have to pay who knows how much to fix some problem that we didn't even do. So I told Brandon to call them again and tell them to not send out the same moron. So finally a smart person came out and fixed what ever was wrong (I think) its only been 3 days. So ya sorry for the long boring story but for anyone that lives in Cedar I strongly advise if you have a heating or a/c problem don't call Cedar Valley heating and air. For some good news Jaxon is kinda potty training him self. If we let him run around without a diaper then he has no problem peeing or pooping in the toilet. But he has no desire to wear underwear or pull-ups. And if he has a diaper on then he See's no need to go potty in the toilet. But its definitely good. I'm so excited to think that maybe before he's even 3 we can be diaper free. After buying diapers for the last 6 years I'm pretty excited to know that were getting closer to being done with wiping poopie bums. And my little artist Jaden is getting so big. We got him registered for kindergarten. One of the things they did was to quiz the kids on colors and numbers and stuff. so when it was Jadens turn I was a little worried (he just likes to draw more then practice with the alphabet and numbers) but he did pretty good when the teacher pointed to the number 8 jaden said "that's a figure eight" He must have learned that from Grandpa Don. But I have to say I love Jaden's drawings. The other day he drew me sitting on the couch holding the remote and he even drew the checkered blanket I had. what a funny boy he got mad at me the other day so he drew a "no mom" sign. Well I guess I better go make some lunch. Jaden just informed me that he hasn't ate in days. (don't take that seriously we feed our kids every day I promise)

Poor Jaxon was freezing in this picture thanks to the moron who messed up our heater.

Jaxon was so tired that he fell asleep sitting up

this is Jaden's "no mom" picture

Jaden trying to be like his dad he had to draw some facial hair

Bye Bye Bobo

2010-03-14T10:52:00.000-07:00

Hum.....I don't really have anything exciting to say I just thought i would update my blog. It's almost spring and were just getting winter in. Getting sick of the snow why can't it snow when its supposed too? I think my last post was right before Christmas so I'll just go from there. I did get my Ugg boots I had to write them an e-mail. the first time they didn't respond. So I wrote them again and I wasn't nice they e-mailed me back the next day. Some how they got my money but not my order. Hummm I'm still wondering how that can happen. they got my money but had no idea what it was that i was ordering? Anyways so i e-mailed them again with the info on the boots i wanted. And then about a week later the UPS man came by and no one was here to sign for them. So they left a note that said they would re deliver. so I waited and waited and then i got an e-mail from the Ugg people and they were like ups tried to deliver now if you don't pick up your boots at the post office they will be sent back to us. I was like Oh my gosh are you kidding me. Stupid UPS said they would re deliver. so I had to hurry and go pick them up if I would have waited one more day they would have been sent back to freakin china. So I have learned from this don't order things from china and don't listen to UPS when they say that they will re deliver. Anyways we had a good Christmas and New years. Valentines day Me Brandon his brother Wes and wife Jennie went to st George and waited about and hour and half to eat at the olive garden. But it was worth it we had a good time. Now its almost St Patrick's day and Easter. I hope i can get Easter off work so We can go to my moms for her Easter Egg hunt. Oh and I can't wait for some corned beef and cabbage. I never had it until a couple years ago and now I love it. I suggest that everyone try it. Now i guess I'll get to the topic of my post. Just over a week ago our cat Bobo disappeared. I guess its a normal male cat thing to do. He wasn't "fixed" so i guess he went out looking for a female stray to hook up with. I guess its kinda my fault. Our home teacher is also a vet and he said that he could just come over to our house and do it ("fix" the cat)(I guess its not a major thing?)but now its to late. a couple days after he went missing I Sadly told Jaden that I don't think bobo is coming back. I was prepared for Jaden to be all sad and cry and then he said "well can we just get a new cat?" Then i was like "Uh Jaden we can't just replace bobo were not going to find another cat like bobo." I guess I was more attached to it then the boys were. I don't think Jaxon has even noticed that he's gone. Brandon even misses it and he's not much of a cat person. He really didn't like bobo at first he was like "I'm allergic to it" (I guess him being allergic to the cat just went away? or he was just making it up)anyways we both got really attached to it. Brandon was like " I can't believe that i miss that stupid cat." But I've seen him get excited when he thinks that bobo came home. the other day this other black cat was in our garage and Brandon was like "BO BO" (in an excited voice)then it ran off so I know it wasn't him. then he heard a cat meowing outside the door so he ran over and opened it only to see Bobo's girlfriend. all these stupid stray cat's coming over giving us false hope. So that's the story of our missing cat. And that's about all the news I have. But hopefully spring will come and we can get our garden started and Jaden is signed up for t-ball so hopefully will have some good things to talk about in the next post. That's all I got for now. Sorry to bore you all with my cat pictures. This is just my tribute to him i guess so I can let go of our beloved Bobo.

Happy Holidays!

2009-12-22T18:55:00.000-08:00

Hello anyone who might still look at my blog. I know its been a while since i last up-dated. Life's just been busy I think December is the busiest month of the year for me. There's just never enough time to fit everything in. I love Christmas and the holiday season but there's part of me that is going to be grateful when its all over. I guess I'll start with Thanksgiving, this year we went to Delta (well Brandon had to work that day but he was able to go to his parents house and have some turkey dinner.)So me and the boys went to Delta and had a great thanksgiving meal with Aunts,Uncles and Cousins that I haven't seen since my Grandpa died. So It was really fun seeing everyone and there kids. Then the day after thanksgiving we went and saw Santa. Jaden asked for 3 dogs and a baby dog. And Jaxon he just wanted to see Santa's fire truck. Santa came in riding on a fire truck and Jaxon thought it was soo cool. So when Santa asked him what he wanted he said "I just want to see your fire truck." Then we had the Heap Christmas party which i didn't get to go to because i had to work. But I know that Brandon and the boys had a great time. Then Me, my mom and sisters went to Vegas to do some Christmas shopping. We stayed at the Palms. You know its the playboy hotel we had a pretty wild and crazy time there. Ha Ha I'm totally kidding it was pretty mellow Me and my sisters gambled a little bit and that was as crazy as it got. On the 18th was the one year mark of Brandon's accident. It made me think back on all the things that happened this year It was a tough one but were finally getting back on Track. Our insurance just payed on all the hospital bills so that's a relief. And Brandon is doing great. He has a good job and he's gotten past allot of struggles. So Thank you so much to Don and Deanna they have helped us out so much and to all Brandons brothers and sisters. You have all helped Him so much. Anyways Brandons birthday was yesterday there's not to much to say about that. He got off work at around 8:30 a.m. And then i had to go to work at 9:30. and he had to go back to work at 3:00 so the boys gave him a couple presents and that was it. Hopefully we can do something fun next year. That brings me to today. Only 2 days until Christmas and I think we have everything except my boots. I'm coming to accept the fact that I got ripped off. I ordered some Ugg boots from hugesaleuggs.com I came across this site and they had real ugg boots for like 65.00 so I got a little to excited and ordered some with out even really thinking. Then i realized that they were going to be coming from china! Then i was like Oh no what was i thinking if it sounds to good to be true then it probably is. So here i sit with only 2 days until Christmas and no boots. Oh but they made sure that they took the money out of my account. I ordered them on the 30th of November and its supposed to take 10-15 business days to get here. So yeah I'm about 95% sure that i just threw $65.00 out the window. But at least the boys will get there gifts I guess that's all that matters. Now for a quick update on Jaden and Jaxon. Jaxon has started talking really well. he really gets into his story telling and he always starts his story's with "once upon a time" Oh and I think that he is starting to understand the word "no" He actually did something good the other day. I had brought some lotion and shampoo home from the store and it was sitting on the table. ( I had to replace the lotion because Jaxon had squirted it all out a few days before) so it was sitting on the table and i was getting dinner ready when Jaxon came running in the kitchen with an empty bottle of shampoo (the shampoo i had just bought wasn't on the table anymore) so I just knew that Jaxon had dumped the shampoo out somewhere. So i yelled at him and asked him where he put the shampoo he kept telling me in the shower. so I prepared my self to find a big mess in the shower but to my surprise he had threw the old bottle away and put the new bottle back in the shower. So I apologized and then let him put the lotion away. It was a great moment it gave me hope that he might actually turn out to be a good kid. Oh that was kinda mean to say. But really anyone who has watched him knows that you can't take your eye's off him. He's so much like his dad that I'm a little worried for him. wait that wasn't very nice either. um.... ok moving on to Jaden he is becoming a great little artist. He's even learning how to spell his name he's doing good at counting and the alphabet too. Well I guess i better go give the boys some attention. And i didn't mean to be mean to Brandon or Jaxon I love them dearly. ta ta for now and HAPPY HOLIDAYS to everyone!

Oops I forgot to add these pictures to the last post

2009-11-02T13:49:00.001-08:00

Halloween

2009-11-02T12:08:00.000-08:00

This year for Halloween we Had a little party. My parents, The Avery's and The Stillmans came over. We decorated pumpkins and made some Marshmallow witches. My mom made some delicious clam chowder and hot chocolate. Then we were off Trick or Treating. we had to watch Jaxon close because he kept trying to grab handfuls of candy. I Think that about covers all of our Halloween excitement. Oh our uncle mike dressed up as the Joker from the "Dark Night" he was pretty creepy he even had the creepy smile down.
Now for an update on the fam. Brandon started a new job about 3 weeks ago. He works for the Diamond Ranch Academy. Its a boys home in Hurricane. He likes it so far He works long shifts but then he gets like 4 days off. And he gets all the good stuff like over time, 401 K, insurance, He gets paid to sleep there, free meals, weekends off. I think the only downside is the drive but that's really not that big of deal. Since were both working alot we decided to put the boys in a day care. But they've only been once so far. So I guess will see how that goes. Jaden and Jaxon are still doing the things little boys do everyday. watch cartoons, dumping all the toys out and the occasional fights. Jaxon is still a little terror He has to be watched at all times. And that's not easy for me to do so the other day he got into my shave gel and had it all over his neck and face. I said "who did that" and he said "swiper did" for those of you who don't know who swiper is he is the fox on dora. And Me well I still work at smiths 33 hours a week and then I'm mom the rest of the time. But My mom sisters and I are planning a trip to Vegas to do a little Christmas shopping So I'm sooo excited for that Its the only little vacation I get all year and I'm very ready for it. And Our insurance has finally decided to pay on ALL of our hospital bills (only a year later) But I feel so much better knowing that we don't owe like 20,000. oh but my credit card they just decided to raise my interest rate to 23.99% I know that alot of the credit card companies are doing this. it just makes me mad because Its like I've had the credit card for like 6 years and I've made my payments every month and on time. But oh well I guess its just time to close the account. I guess that about does it for the last couple of months.

Summer Fun

2009-08-24T20:21:00.000-07:00

Well its getting to be the end of summer and that makes me kinda sad. I'm not ready for the cold weather. Today when i was getting off work I noticed that the Halloween candy was getting put out. I can't belive that a couple more months and it will be that time. where does the time go? anyways we didn't do a whole lot this summer. But we had Jaxon's birthday on the 21 of July then the Heap reunion on the 1st of August and then Jadens birthday on the 18th of August. I had the boys birthday pictues done at kiddie kandids in st george so while we were there we went to the sand hallow aquatic center. I wish i would have had my camera there, Jaxon LOVES the big slid. me and Brandon had to keep takeing turns takeing him down. Jaden dared go down once and he was screaming the whole time. but that was probably one of the funnest things we did all summer. Oh our garden has been giveing us some suculant vegtables. We've had corn, turnips (I haven't ate any of thoes yet the smell of them makes me sick)lots of zuccini, and yellow crooknecks, carrots, peas, and a ton of cucumbers (which I'm going to bottle some pickels out of them) a bunch of green tomatoes we've had about 5 red ones. and the cantalope are starting to get ripe so hopefully they will be good. and two big watermelon. hum.... I doubt that anyone really cares to know about our vegtables so moveing on now. Brandon and I are still just working at smiths so that keeps us busy. Oh i have to tell you all this story that happened at work the other day. It was like 2 or 3 in the afternoon when a customer came into the store and informed us that there was a child outside locked in a van in the like 95 degree weather. so one of our employees made an announcement over the intercom for the owner to come up front and get the kid out of the freakin hot van. Then I went on break and when i was done the Ambulance and a couple of cops were there. I guess the lady didn't finish her shopping fast enough and so the cops were called and broke the window out of the van to get the kid out. I guess the little boy was in there for at least 15 min. I don't know what ended up happening to the lady But i hope she feels horrible. who in there right mind would do that? I know that some people have accidently left there kid in the car. But this lady left her kid locked in the van with no windows open or a/c on. and she freakin was shopping it wasn't like she was going to run in and then run back out. Anyways some people are just seriously stupid. So i guess we've had a good summer. here's some pictures from our summer.
This was our first sleep out on the trampoline It didn't quit go as planned first Jaxon wanted to go inside so i took him in and then Jaden decided that he wanted to go inside so i took him inside and we all fell asleep. Then at like 2 a.m. Brandon woke up and realized that he was the only one out there so he came in too. Maybe next summer it will work out better.

These picutes are of Jaxon's Birthday

Becky I had to put this picture on here for you since you like nature things i thought this was a cool one that black bee or what ever it was it was HUGE

The Heap reunion

Jaden's Birthday

Camping

we went camping with my parents so we decided that we needed to play the classic girls camp game "GORILLA" It didn't work very good the kids were to little. they didn't understand that they wern't supposed to roar on the 3rd time so yeah It didn't work but Nikki got a good picture of my mom and Jaxon ROARING!

Hum.....

2009-07-11T22:30:00.000-07:00

Well I guess its time for my monthly update. So far this month we've had the 4th of July (my favorite Holiday) My Birthday and next is Jaxon's birthday. For the 4th of July we headed to delta to watch the parade have our bbq swim and do fire works. The boys even got to see all of the parade this year. No one got locked in the car so that was good. After the Parade we went to my mom and dads and had our bbq Then we got the slip n slide and pool out. I decided that next year I'm takeing my swim suit and am joining in on the fun. Both Jaden and Jaxon are pretty good slip n sliders. Then we just hung out until it was dark enogh to do the fireworks. It was a pretty fun 4th next year we might even go to the Demoliton Derby. Then for my big 28th birthday well it was a good day. We didn't really do anything got some Papa Erphy's (papa Murphys)But Jaden calles it papa erphys. And now I'm just trying to get ready for the boys birthdays. Oh I got them a trampoline its supposed to be for their birthday but we had to put it up as soon as we got it. I think I like It as much as they do. I can't wait until we can sleep outside on it. I just have to convince Jaden that he won't get eaten by mosquitos. Our Garden is finally starting to grow stuff. Were getting a bunch of little tomatos. And we've picked some big Radishes and today I picked a few peas. So I'm pretty excited about that. Oh I'm very excited about this. Jaxon is really starting to like Cartoons now. He'll sit and watch t.v. now. I Know that's probably not a good thing But I really couln't be happier. Its so nice to be able to actually get some things done now. I don't have to worry as much that he's getting into stuff. I wish i would have written down all the things that kid has done. He has ruined aboutu 4 of my tubes of Mascara he thinks its a marker I guess and draws on the back of the chair, he got into the bottle of tums, vitamines, My sisters midol, he dumped about a half bottel of syrup on the floor, he got into the garage and got a gallon of paint and some how got the lid off and decided to dump it out on the carpet. I bet he's ruined at least 10 of brandons tubes of chapstick. he's squished all the tooth paste on the floor Oh and the icy hot I think he thought that was toothpast too and tried eating it and then came running in sticking his tounge out saying "hot" I think you all get the point I could go on and on. So now maybe you can kind of understand why I'm pretty excited that he'll actually sit and watch cartoons. Now I'm just kind of Rambeling so I guess thats all I have to say for my post for this month.

I think this picture is funny. Jaxon and Ashton were pouting and didn't want to watch the parade so my dad was trying to convince them to join everyone and watch the parade

Falling off blog planet

2009-06-02T16:42:00.000-07:00

Its been a while since I last up-dated my blog so here's a little update. I picked up an extra day at work so now I only get 2 days off so I don't have to much time to blog. We got a new addition to the family His name is Bobo. He's a cute little black kitten. he's been keeping us entertained he plays with the boys really well. Brandon has been busy working, golfing, doing work in the yard, driving me and the boys around. Yeah My car broke down about 2 months ago and its sucked. It took like 3 weeks just to find out what was wrong with the thing and then we found out that it needed a new engine well my car isn't worth putting a new engine in it, so its still sitting at the auto place. So we've spent alot of time just driving each other around. But thanks to my parents they got a new car so they gave me there old one. Its sooooo nice having my own car again for me to know that I'm not stuck home all day is a great feeling. Jaden is getting bigger every day he's getting pretty good at riding his scooter and he's getting excited to start school (were hoping that he gets into the head start program) and he's very excited to get his new trampoline it should be coming tomorrow (hopefully) I'm probably more excited about it then he is My dad would never let us have one so the little kid in me is like "yes finally my own trampoline" Jaxon is still into everything, after one of his messes I remembered to grab the camera first. so the pictures I'm going to put up are of him getting into the Ranch dip. We took the boys swimming with the Avery's and the Stillmans a couple weeks ago. And they loved it we went to the pool in st george, yes we drove to st george to go swimming at there pool. For those of you who have been to the cedar pool know that it SUCKS! the only place for little kids to play on is the ramp that goes down into the water. Anyways we all had a fun time at the st george pool I even took Jaxon down the big slid and he loved it. He was shivering the whole time but he was loving every minute. But he's also getting so big he's talking really well and catches onto things really quick. And me well hum.... I feel like I just work and check on the Garden. I am obsessed with our Garden we planted it right before mothers day and almost everything died we had about 4 tomato plants live. And we had planted cucumbers, yellow crookneck, golden squash, and zucchini and they all died. So I went and bought some more tomato plants and then some cucumber and squash seeds. Well everything we planted from seed is coming up and I'm so excited I'm crazy I know but everyday i see a new plant coming up and its a happy feeling. I get all excited to get up in the morning to see it anything new came up. And today I noticed that we have some apples on the tree's and some peaches on the peach trees. Hum.... I think that about wraps up the last month. now i must go get some cleaning done oh one more thing that really bugs me. were only supposed to water on odd days and not between the hours of 8am and 8pm so i guess that means the kids can't play in the water during the hot summer days and I only get like an hour to water before it gets dark. Is that stupid or what I know we have to conserve water But hey I'm just trying to "go green" I have to keep my plants watered for them to live. So of course I'm going to be breaking the rule's until we get in trouble. And then I'm going to say "sorry man I was just trying to "go green"

Easter

2009-04-17T19:46:00.000-07:00

For Easter I had to work all weekend fun fun. Brandon and they boys went to Hatch and got to visit with Don, Deanna, The Sherratt's, The Lunts and The Vernon's. The boys were able to go to the easter egg hunt there. Then on Sunday Morning the boys got up and got to see what the easter bunny brought them. Then Brandon and I went and had our Patriotical Blessing's ( I don't know how to spell Patriotical?? neither does the spell check) But you all know what I'm talking about huh. Then it was off to Delta for the day. My mom always does a little easter egg hunt for the kids she even hide's a "golden egg" It usually has money in it. And this year my mom was so sure that no one was going to find it so she let us Adults look for it too. Nikki ended up finding it so she was the lucky one who took home the prize of $5.00. After the Egg hunt Grandpa took all the kids for on 4-wheeler ride's. Then it was time to head back to cedar. But I think we all had a good time Here's the easter pictures.

Life Laughs

2009-04-10T21:34:00.000-07:00

Those of you that know me know that I don't read books. I can't even remember the last book I read. Even in High School we had to read these books and then take a test on them. I was like yeah right I'm not reading a book. So i just had someone else read the book take the test and write down the answers. Well the first time I tried to use the cheat sheet I got caught. The Mean Liberian caught me she came and got me out of class and was asking where i got the cheat sheet I was like "oh I found it" Then she wanted me to go home and tell my mom what I had done and then I was supposed to go back and talk to her. I was like yeah OK I'll go tell my mom what I did yeah right! Anyways so my point is I did what ever I had to do to get out of reading a book. Well I've been a LITTLE tempted to get motivated to read "Twilight" since everyone says its this great book. Well this week Brandon and the boys have been gone so I've had all this quit time to just do nothing so I was like Ok I'm going to read a book. Well while I was at work I found this book by Jenny McCarthy called Life Laughs I read the back and It was pretty funny so I was like Forget Twilight THIS is my kind of book. So i bought it and had it read in 2 days It was a pretty funny book and now I'm excited to read her other books. So i guess I'm going to be one of the few people who never read the twilight books I just can't make myself be interested in a romance book about a vampire. But I am Proud of my self for even reading a book. Sorry I have no pictures to go along with this story hopefully after Easter I'll have some cute one's. Bye for now

Up Date

2009-04-01T15:40:00.000-07:00

I think this is the longest I've gone with out blogging. I don't really have any excuse or exciting reason why I haven't blogged I just got lazy for a while. And I just don't have anything real interesting to talk about. Hum... we made a couple trips to st george this month (march) Me and Nikki took all the boys to the Museum a week ago. We thought we were going to the Dinosaur Tracks or what ever it is. But we went to the wrong place. But all the boys had fun at the museum anyways. They got to see all kinds of animals. We would still like to make a trip to the Dinosaur tracks sometime so if anyone has ever been there and has any info about it let me know. that's about all that's happened here in the last month. Brandon has been staying busy doing tile and doing things for his parents. And that about does it Hopefully April will be a little more exciting. Here's a bunch of random pictures. I have to explain the one's of me and jaden. I was telling him to make a "funny" face I guess he didn't know how he would pinch his cheeks so i taught him how to do a pig nose

Nylon Heads

2009-02-28T19:02:00.000-08:00

I've been debating weather or not i should put these pictures on here but I finally decided what the heck. So I have to warn you there kinda scary so if you don't like scary things then don't scroll down to the pictures. Now here's the story. In middle school me suz, and becky thought it was funny to put nylons on our heads. It really was entertaining. So then the other day I was chasing the boys around with a blanket over my head. and Jaden was like "your a scary monster" so then the nylon idea popped into my head. and I was all do you want me to be a real scary monster" and he was like YEAH! so I was like ok. I knew that when they saw me with a nylon on my head they were going to freak out. But I did it anyway. I know I'm mean I still act like a kid sometimes. At first Jaxon was laughing and then when Jaden saw he freaked out just like i knew he would so then Jaxon started getting scared too. But then I showed Jaden that it was just a mask or nylon and then he thought that it was kinda cool so he wanted to try it on. so i was like ok. Oh my gosh it was kinda freaking me out. but i had to get a picture of it so I took the picture and then showed it to him. He didn't like it so much I'm definitely thinking that he will never put a nylon on his head again. Then we had to have Brandon and Jaxon try it out. Brandon didn't look as scary and Jaxon only had it on for a few seconds. Ok so prepare your self if your brave then scroll down. This is your final WARNING!

Hooray for my boys

2009-02-18T11:35:00.000-08:00

HOORAY for JADEN!! My last post It ended with Jaden on the toilet (hopefully going #2) Well it didn't happen I put him on the toilet all day and he couldn't go (he was constipated) So the next day Jaden wasn't feeling good at all his stomach hurt and he didn't want to eat anything and he had like 3 naps. So i knew that something wasn't right with him he doesn't have naps anymore unless he's sick. So i knew we had to get his poop out so i was putting fiber in his milk all day and still he didn't go so then at like 3:30 that night i woke up and heard Brandon talking to Jaden so i went to see what was going on. And Jaden was on the toilet trying to poop. He's been constipated many times before but this was probably the worst that I have ever seen. It broke my heart that he was hurting so bad and i couldn't help him. so we had him on the toilet and then he would cry and say that he just wanted to go to bed. So finally we decided that we had to use a suppository. I put the first one in and he pushed it right out so then Brandon put the next one in and a few minutes later he got it out. So then I had to buy him a toy after going through all that and he did get it out in the toilet. so i went and got him this spiderman toy that he's been wanting. Well the next day i got home from work and Jaden thought i got him another toy. I told him he only got toys if he went poop in the toilet. Well Brandon gave in and took him to the store to get a toy but Jaden had to promise that he would go on the toilet. I really didn't think he would since he had a bad experience last time. But they got home and about 20 min later Jaden started yelling "I have to poop, I have to poop" so we ran him in and he went with no problem. I was so proud of him but I still was thinking "don't get your hopes up" but he went again today so I think he's finally getting the hang of it. I'm so proud of him I was so worried that he was going to have to go to school in a pull-up. Way to go Jaden! I'm also very proud of Brandon. He's been going through the biggest challenge of his life. Its been 2 months ago today that he had his snowboarding accident. The accident that saved his life. His accident made him realize that life's to short. And that he didn't want to keep living his life the way that he was. He's struggled with Alcohol and drugs since he was 12 or 13. So for the last 19 years Alcohol and drugs were his life. Well i could go on and on But I'm So proud of him I know that it hasn't been easy. But I know that he can do it. Well i have to go so HOORAY for JADEN and BRANDON. WE LOVE YOU

Bored

2009-02-12T08:52:00.000-08:00

Hum...... so i have nothing exciting to write about its still snowing outside I'm getting sick of that. I look at all these other blogs and see all these fun thing's people are doing and I'm like wow I'm boring. All my weeks are the same If I'm not at work then I'm at home picking up toys. But Monday Tuesday and now Thursday's are special days. Monday I get to watch the Bachelor Tuesday is the biggest loser and now on Thursday is Survivor. yes those are the things that i look forward to every week. Oh and ER is on tonight too George Clooney is supposed to be making an appearance sometime I don't want to miss that one. Anyways so I've been telling Jaden that will do something fun so yesterday we went to Wal-Mart!! yep that's right wal-mart. I strongly dislike the place but Jaden has fun playing in the Arcade part. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on this exciting trip but I did get a picture of jaden sitting by Ronald McDonald. Oh my heck I don't know how i forgot about this exciting event. Jaden went #2 in the toilet a few days ago that was a huge thing for us. he's been having a hard time going #2 in the toilet so this is hopefully going to be a big step for him. I'm trying not to get my hope's up since its only happened once but he's on the toilet right now so we might be making some progress. Jaxon gets pretty excited about the toilet too after Jaden went Jaxon had to sit on the toilet and pretend that he was going to. I love the picture of him on the toilet "pushing" Oh we have valentines day in a couple days that might be an exciting day for me AT WORK. Ok well I think that about wraps up our excitement for the week. I better go check on Jaden

Jaxon "pushing"

Nothing much

2009-01-29T21:49:00.000-08:00

So polly informed me that my blog page is cute but hard to read (which i agree) so I changed it and I guess i just like the backgrounds that are hard to read I don't know if the new one is much better. Its going to have to do for a little while though just cuz I'm to lazy to try and find a new one. Anyways so I took Jaden sledding a couple days ago we went with Nikki and her boys and I'm so mad I forgot to take my camera. But I did get one on my camera phone that I'll have to put on later. It was so freakin bright anyways that i couldn't even see what i was taking a picture of. So Jaden and I were the first to go down he was ok until we turned around and were going backwards after that he said that it was too scary. Then nikki and Aiden went and he loved it. And Ashton he was like Jaden he went once and that was enough. But i think they all had fun just being out and playing in the snow. Then we got kicked out (we went sledding at the hill at canyon view where school was still going on) so some man came out and was saying something we couldn't hear him so we just figured that he was telling us to leave. But it was fun while it lasted. The Next day we packed up and headed to good old Delta. we didn't do too much we just went home to go to the dentist fun huh. The boys love going there though they have so much fun playing with all these different toys. And good news I had 0 cavities. Brandon had 1 ha ha really that's not funny but here's the thing sometimes I don't use toothpaste, just water to brush. And it really really bothers him that I don't use toothpaste he says that I'm going to get cavities bla bla bla. And then we go to the dentist and look who had the cavity so of course i had to say "um maybe you should try no toothpaste." Ok so I'm just rambling on about nothing so I guess I'll go I don't have any pictures again sorry I'm boring.

Back to work

2009-01-22T07:53:00.000-08:00

Ok so i didn't do very good keeping everyone updated on Brandon. He got released on the 9th and is doing much better now that he doesn't have his chest full of blood. He even went back to work today. (I'm a little worried about that I hope he doesn't over do it) So I'm happy to say that things are getting back to normal. Nothing to exciting going on. Were just trying to prepare ourselves to be in debt for the next 30 year's. Hopefully our insurance will cover ALOT of the medical expense's. I'm sooo grateful that were lucky enough to have insurance. Or we would really be in debt for the next 30 years. Did you know that if you have a car or a house the government considers you to be rich? When Brandon was in the hospital the financial lady came in to talk to us. She told us to apply for Medicaid so we did only to get turned down because we have 2 cars and a house. I was like ok we still owe alot on our house and Brandon can't work so were living off of my part time income. I doesn't make much sense to me. In order for you to get any help from the government you have to not have a house or car and be lazy and not work. It makes me think that we live in a messed up world. So if any of you are thinking about trying to get help from the gov make sure you meet these requirements. no job, no home, no car. Ok I probably shouldn't have even brought that up. There are alot of people who lost there jobs and need help and I'm glad that there getting that help. I guess I'm just feeling bad for myself. We just needed a little help since Brandon couldn't work and I'm only getting 24 hours at work. And they think "oh well since you have 2 cars and a house you could sell them and pay for your bills." Oh well what ever. I hope no one was offended by that. moving on Jaden and Jaxon have been quit the little dancer's lately I'm going to try and put a video on here of them dancing. it's kind of long but you have to watch it till Jaden does his "buckin bronco" move. The boys have been there active little self's. Jaxon is a handful but I'm hoping that his love for cleaning doesn't ever stop. He still love's to cook and he really Love's to vaccum. So we get the vaccum out for him and let him go. The only problem is that the vaccum is bigger then he is so he can't really move it around to well. And Jaden still Love's to draw he can sit at the table all day and just draw he's even learning how to draw his name. Thanks again to everyone who has helped us while Brandon was sick. Thanks for all the meals, watching the boys (and Brandon), The prayers and the support. It makes things so much better just to know that we have the best Family and friends. We love you all and thanks again. Ok well I can't get the video or pictures to work. It says that my pictures are corrupt or the wrong format so i guess this will be a boring post sorry.

Getting up to date

2009-01-07T23:51:00.000-08:00

Wow I feel like alot has happened since i last updated. I guess I'll begin with Christmas. We had a pretty good Christmas The boys were so excited to open there presents. Jaden had to jump up and down after he opened each of his. And Jaxon had fun tearing off the wrapping paper and his new elmo toy. actually I think we all loved his elmo. except maybe brandon he was kind of getting sick of hearing it. Anyways so we opened presents and then went to my sisters and ate some ham and prime rib and played some guitar hero. We had a whole band going on two people playing guitar a singer and a drummer. It was pretty fun my dad even showed off his awesome guitar skills. But the best part was when me and Nikki decided to take pictures of everyone. I haven't laughed that hard in a looong time. It was so funny watching every one's face's you really had to concentrate if you missed to many note's then you messed it up for the whole band. So after some guitar hero we went home and hung out with Brandon's mom and dad for a bit so all in all it was a pretty good Christmas. Then we had New Years I had to work New Year's day but new years eve Me and the boys went to my sisters again to play more guitar hero and eat lost of good food. Now for an update on Brandon his ribs seem to be getting a little better each day. But he's still unable to lay down so he sleep's in the recliner. He was getting constipated from the medications he was taking so he took some ex lax and after that he had the runs (I hope he doesn't get mad that I'm telling all this) Then his feet were still swollen and he had been really bloated and gassy. His stomach looked really swollen or bloated I was gong to take a picture but he didn't like that idea so much. So on Monday morning he went to the doctor for a check up. We didn't think it would be a good idea to try and take the boys so Brandon drove him self there. Well at about 9:00 he called and said that the bloating that he was having wasn't normal so the doc sent him to the hospital for some ex-rays. But the doctor gave him a prescription so he wanted me to go pick it up so that he would have it when he got home. So I decided to go get his prescription and run a few errands I dropped the boys off at nikki's so that i could be a little bit faster. I had just picked up his prescription when I got a phone call from the hospital they told me that Brandon had gotten his ex-rays done but they were sending him to the ER and he wanted me to go there. That's all the dude said so the whole way there i was like what is going on. I finally got there and Brandon was in the room crying. So i was like "what's gong on?" And he knew as much as I did. He got the ex-rays done and then they sent him to the ER. So we just had to wait for the doctor to come and talk to us. ( I love how they take there sweet little time) So the doc finally came in and told us that He had a bunch of blood around his lung and that they were going to have to put a tube in his chest and drain it out. So then we had to wait for like another hour and a half for the doctor to show up. (He was at the dentist) So he finally showed up and told us that on top of having a bunch of blood around his lung he also has cerosis. It effects your liver and is caused from drinking to much. In a way that was a really good thing for Brandon to hear. He now knows that his drinking has to stop. If he stops drinking his liver can repair its self. It won't be as healthy as it should but it will be in better shape then its in now. So were all just hoping and praying that he can do what ever it takes to stop drinking. Ok so back to the blood that's around his lung. The doctor explained that he was going to cut a hole in brandons side and stick a chest tube in there and it was going to suck out the blood. They let me stay in there and watch I was on the other side so I didn't see them cut the hole but I saw the most blood that I have ever seen. when they cut him open the blood just started pouring onto the floor then they got the tube in and it started filling up these containers. He lost 4 1/2 pints of blood ( I can't remember if it was pint's or quart's but it was ALOT of blood the most that the doctor has ever taken out of anyone) After they got the blood out they did another ex-ray and saw that his lung collapsed. His lung was squished from all the blood. So that brings us to where were at today. He's been given more blood and his lung has inflated a little bit, he still has the chest tube in since he's still draining out some blood. Hopefully they take the chest tube out tomorrow. And his lung if it doesn't get better on its own they have to do surgery and put something down his throat and blow his lung open. Hopefully they don't have to do that but i guess will do what ever we have to so he can come home. Me and the boys are really missing him and we want him to hurry and come home. I hope something good comes out of all of this. They say what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger. I have to thank everyone for helping us get through this. We have the BEST family and friends in the world. I really don't know what we would do with out you all. I don't want to end on a sad note so I have to tell a story about Jaxon I think he's going to be a chef when he's older. He gets the pots and pans out and puts them on the stove and then gets a spoon and pretends like he is stirring something. today I heard him getting into the pots and pans. But i was watching my show so I was like oh big deal he can play with them for a little bit. So when my show was over i went to check on him and he was still in there "cooking" Then i looked in the pot and he had put some cookies and a half of a pop tart in there. So I had to get a picture of him and what ever it was that he was trying to make. Oh my I had no idea it was 2:22 a.m. I better wrap this up. I'll keep you all updated on Brandon and here's some pictures of Christmas, and chef Jaxon.

WHAT A WEEK!!!

2008-12-21T21:37:00.000-08:00

First I have to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Brandon. Sorry that your b-day sucked this year B. So our week started out good on Monday we went to Rochelle's and had a delicious Chinese dinner. Thanks Rochelle it was yummy. Then Tuesday and Wensday were just normal days. Thursday was the last day I had off until Monday so i was going to get Christmas shopping done (i was going to find some little gifts for all of you who got me something and i haven't gotten you anything. I"m sooo sorry)Anyway so i was going to do some more shopping and get Brandon a few things for his b-day. Well the day started out crappy. I was planning on watching Nikki's boys so that she could go to the twilight movie. so i was trying to get everything done before then. So i got the boys all ready and loaded them up in the car, opened the garage door and was like "ohhh crap" There was noooo way my car would have gotten out without getting stuck in the snow. So i was like ok big deal I'll shovel the drive way. HA HA HA yeah so i decided that shoveling SUCKS! I took me an hour to shovel the whole drive way. so i ended up taking the boys back inside while i finished shoveling. and of course when i got done and went inside Jaxon had destroyed the house. Anyways ok so i got over that and went to the store and noticed that i had missed a bunch of calls. So then Rochelle called and informed me that Brandon had been hurt snowboarding. So i was like ok so i called his cell phone and his buddy mikie answered and told me that he wrecked snowboarding and that he was in alot of pain they knew that he had broken ribs and a passable punchered lung. They were trying to decided if he could ride home with his friends or if he had to be taken in an ambulance. So that all sucked pretty bad There was nothing i could do but to wait. So his buddie finally brought him home and he was really hurting. They gave him 2 shots of Morphine up at Brian Head but it was wearing off now so he needed to take some pain pills. Well he hadn't eaten all day and took a loratab on an empty stomach. And that made things worse. he couldn't keep anything down and I guess throwing up with 3 broken ribs hurts real bad. Brandon said it's the worst pain that he's ever had. He finally fell asleep for about an hour and then at like 1 a.m. he woke up with some bad sharp pains. He couldn't breath very well and since they told him at Brian Head that it was possible that he had a puncherd lung I decided that we needed to take him to the ER. So we got to the ER and they did more x-rays to make sure that something else wasn't wrong. And everything looked good except he had like a little pocket of air outside of his lung. Its called some big medical word that i can't remember. but its just a very tiny pocket of air and that's what was causing him to have sharp pains. They said that we just had to watch his breathing and if it got to where he felt like he couldn't get enough air then we would have to go back in. So we finally left at 5:30 a.m. I got about 3 hours of sleep and then had to go to work. It sucked so i worked all day and then we had my work Christmas party. So I went to that. (I felt bad leaving Brandon home but I freakin paid like 92.00 for that dumb party so i felt that i had to get my money's worth.) Our work is kinda screwy they make the employee's pay for there Christmas party. You have to join the "association" and then they take like 2.oo out of your checks each week and then they use it for the summer party and the Christmas party. Anyway so i went to the party and the food sucked The prime rib, potatoes and rolls were cold. The shrimp was ok. But i did get a 25.00 gift card to Target. It was quite the day. So I'm sooo sorry Nikki, shallon and Becky I really was going to get you all something for Christmas but it kinda screwed me up when i had to pay the Brian Head medical place 300.00 for all of Brandons stuff. I hope you understand. I hope you all have a great Christmas and thanks so much for being my friends. And a real big thanks to Brandon's friend Keven, Rochelle, and my mom. for taking care of Brandon it means so much and were so Grateful to have such wonderful family and friends. I feel bad that the only picture i have of Brandon's birthday is of his cake. Its just so sad he can't lay down. So he has to sleep sitting in a chair. I don't know if this is a b-day that he's going to want to remember. But I do have alot of Random pictures. That I'll post. Most of them are just of the snow but i have to tell a little story about the flower picture. There's this guy that works at smiths his name is Jim Jone's and he is one of the funniest people that i have ever met. He works in the produce dept (keep that in mind when looking at the flower picture) So he made me this flower arrangement I was like "oh he's so nice" then i started looking at it and noticed that he put some bok choy (I think its a green vegetable that Chinese people eat)celery, and a green onion in it. So you kinda have to look close to see the green onion and celery. And then I have to post the picture of my shoveled drive way on there. But the picture doesn't do it's justice. It seriously was one of the hardest things that i have ever done. There really was a ton of snow. Anyways i have to get to bed so thanks for listening to me complain. And I hope you all have a great Christmas and a happy new year.

oops

2008-12-12T10:01:00.000-08:00

So i just realized that the beautiful sunset picture didn't work in my last post. Sorry to get you all so excited to see the picture and then it didn't work. here it is. Its really not that cool but here ya go

Christmas makes me go crazy

2008-12-10T23:14:00.000-08:00

I love Christmas time but it sure is stress full. I went to wal-mart today to hopefully finish my Christmas shopping. I even went at like 7:00 p.m. thinking that it wouldn't be to busy. Ha Ha boy was i wrong I was still constantly moving out of people's way and waiting for people to move out of my way. So yeah i ended up leaving with one thing for Jaden and one thing for Jaxon. So then I was like ok I can't handle wal-mart I really really do not like that place. So i decided that i was going to hurry and get everything else online. So here i am I've been looking at toys for oh probably like 2 hours now and have bought NOTHING! I think about getting something and then I'm like "oh i better not get that it has small parts that Jaxon could choke on" Then I was going to get some fun looking blow up toys then i read the reviews on them and thought "oh well those are a piece of crap they get hole's in them very easy." And of course the toys that look really fun are way out of my price range. I'm driving my self crazy i really don't want to go back to wal-mart but if i order online i have to do it really soon so that they get here in time. And then you have people that give you gifts and you don't have anything for them so then you have to stress about what to get them. Ahhh ok I just can't even talk about Christmas anymore. OK so here are some positive things to talk about. I'm grateful that I have my voice back I had a sore throat for a few days and then i lost my voice. that really sucked i had to work and try to talk to customers all day long. So I'm very happy that i can talk normally again. And my funny little boys always make me happy. Jaden had been really into drawing lately so i finally bought him a note book after he used all the envelopes and post its. I never really payed attention to what he was drawing until today when i was picking up his room and i came across his note book. I was flipping through it and he's actually pretty good. I came to one where i was like "oh my gosh that's spongebob" So i had to put that one on the fridge. I think he might just be our little artist. Then there's Jaxon and man that kid sure keeps me busy. He has to be watched 24/7. he can start the dishwasher, turn on the gas stove (yes he knows how to light the burners), get water or ice out of the water/ice dispenser. He catches on to things real good. But there is one thing that I think might come in handy. He Love's to clean he Love's the mop and Broom and to help me wipe things up. So I had to get some pictures of him cleaning. ok well its now 1 a.m. so I better wrap this up and go to bed. here's Jaden's work of art and my little cleaner in action. The last picture i just had to put on because just think its pretty. The sun set was awesome Oh one more thing i forgot to say about Jaden's picture. He was so proud of it I was like its "spongbob" and he said "yeah and he has his spatula" how cute is that I didn't even know that jaden knew what a spatula was but he does" Ok i seriously have to go to bed now.

Thanksgiving

2008-12-01T14:52:00.000-08:00

This year we went to Hatch it was a very short trip. We were going to go the night before but the weather was to bad. So we ended up going the next morning. The weather was still bad the next morning so we had to go a different way. But it was all good when we got there. But we could only stay for a few hours and then had to leave. My mom was taking the boys back to delta with her so we had to be back to cedar so my parents and the boys could head to delta. Anyways our thanksgiving was Good it just didn't last long enough. I didn't even get any pictures just one's that i took on the way. I'm hoping to steal some from Camille When or if she puts any on her blog But I have to share this story because I think its so funny. When my mom took the boys back to delta with her she also took my niece Peyton. Her and Jaden are good friends so I was like Oh Jaden is going to have a blast. So i called my mom to check up on them and she said that they were all being very good But Jaden and Peyton got into a little fight. So she started telling me about there fight and we were both laughing so hard. My mom was in the other room but she could hear what was going on. I guess They were fighting over a Christmas book or something and Peyton was just going off on Jaden She was telling him that he better apologize and that he better be nice or he won't have any friends. I guess she went off for like 10 min and the whole time Jaden just sat there and didn't say anything. Finally Jaden said "I just don't understand you" (he got that from me I always say that when he's crying and i can't understand him. I say "i don't understand you I don't know what you want)So then Peyton said "well you speak English don't you?" Oh my gosh that still makes me laugh so hard. Ok well I have to go to work so I'll post later when I can steal some pictures from Camille. (thanks camille, If you do post any)

Tagged

2008-11-24T13:24:00.000-08:00

I just noticed that i was tagged by becky so here it goes
Tagged - Fours!

Four things I love about my Hubby:

1.Hard worker
2.Great cook
3.does laundry,and cleans
4.he love's everyone (I've never heard him talk bad about anyone)

Four Jobs I've had:

1.Janitor
2.Cashier at Home Depot (for 2 weeks does that count)
3.Cashier at Smiths
4.

Four Movie's Watched More Than Once:

1.Iron Man
2.Night at the Museum
3.The Grinch who stole Christmas
4.The little mermaid

Four TV Shows I Watch:

1. Survivor
2. The Biggest Loser
3. Big Brother
4. Danceing with the stars

Four Places I've Been

1.Florida
2.nevada
3.Mexico
4.California

Four Places I've lived:

1.Delta
2.Orem
3.Cedar City
4.

Four Favorite Foods:

1. Pizza
2. Shrimp/Crab
3. Homemade soups
4. anything sweet

Four Places I'd Like to Visit

1.Hawaii
2.Alaska
3.New York
4.Paris

Four People I Tag:

1.Nikki
2.Shallon
3.Camille
4.Teri

If you don't do this tag...bad things WILL happen to you!
So go.......go post this tag!

My salt lake trip

2008-11-24T12:15:00.000-08:00

This weekend I went to Salt Lake with my parents and sisters. My dad had an EMT convention up there and had a free Hotel room. So its become a tradition that me and my sisters go up there and go Christmas shopping. (while my dad is at his conventions all day) So my sisters and I drove to delta on Thursday and picked up my mom and then headed to salt lake. We stayed at the Shilo Inn (I don't recommend this Hotel)this is the second year that we've had to stay there. The first year I was the only one who went and we stayed at the Grand America Hotel it was the nicest hotel that I have ever stayed at. well the next year we stayed at the Little America it wasn't as nice as the Grand America but it wasn't bad. Then the last two years we've had to stay at the Shilo Inn. Let me just say that hotel needs a lot of improvements. First of all there were no parking spots. They probably have like oh 900 rooms and about 40 parking spaces. So the last night there we had to pay 8.00 to park across the street. Then there shower sucked, the water just trickled out of the shower head. And you had to wait about 10 min for the water to get warm, There Hot tub was broken, The wireless Internet didn't work, And the remote didn't work. But i guess I can't complain since we stayed there for free. And we still had a good time. I took my camera but didn't even take any pictures until our last day when we were heading home. There was just so much to do and not enough time to do it in. But we did make it to the Gateway, Modern Display, Cabellas, Trolley Square, and Target. And I'm very Happy to say that I got most of my Christmas shopping done. I think we all had a great time and I can't wait until next time. Oh and I have to thank BECKY and ROCHELLE for making it possible for me to go. They watched my kids while I was gone. You guys don't know how much I appreciate that. Here's the few pictures that I got. I took some on my cell phone but i don't know how to put them on here so these will have to do.

Cool I got the pictues off my cell phone to work there not the best quaility but I think there cool because we were by the fountains

HALLOWEEN

2008-11-02T20:35:00.000-08:00

For Halloween my parents were down so we just had a little family party. I think all the kids had a pretty fun time. We tried to make home made root beer (it didn't taste very good though) It said on the back of the root beer bottle to put club soda in it. well I guess your not supposed to your just supposed to put the water, sugar and dry ice in. Oh well now i know for next time. Oh and I made my first pie ever. I made a sour cream apple pie. I'm not even a very big apple pie fan but it was pretty good. Jaden didn't really want to be Iron man but he did put his costume on for a few pictures. And Ashton (nikki's boy) wanted nothing to do with his green dragon costume he never even tried it on. So he and Jaden traded costumes so Jaden was Iron Man and a green dragon. And Jaxon didn't like the costume's I had for him either I had a lion or a dog they both had a hood on them and he hated that. but I did get a picture of him crying with the lion costume on. So he ended up being a red M&M. We didn't even go trick or treating. Brandon and I both had to work that day and after the party we were to pooped to take the kids out. But they didn't seem to mind to much. It makes me a little sad that people don't "trick or treat" anymore. Lots of people just go to the trick or trunk thing. I guess its a safer way. Its just sad that you can't trust what people are going to give your kids. Anyways i guess the kids have fun no matter what. Oh and one more thing that happened on Halloween. On an earlier post I told everyone about Jaxon losing my Credit, Debit card, and 60.00 in cash. Well I found it. Jaxon was getting into everything so i went to see what he was doing and he had pulled the drawer that's under the stove out. (you know how stove's have that compartment on the bottom of them?) anyways that's where i found my melted cards and my burned money just the corners of the money were burned so we were able to still use the cash. Anyways here's some pictures of our Halloween night.

My melted cards and burned cash

Tag your it

2008-10-29T16:28:00.000-07:00

TAG
What was I doing 10 years ago?
I was a sophmore in high school failed cosmetalogy that year (I hated the class so bad so i never went). I had to go to summer school because of that. Hanging out with polly and Becky dragging main.

What are 5 things on my to do list today?
clean house
go to the bank
go to the store
go to the wizz (to find a halloween costume)
make dinner

What are my 5 favorite snacks? (in no particular order)
OHHH that's a hard one I love just about any kind of snack
lately I've really loved these honeycrisp apples (there expensive though like 2.00 an apple)
any kind of chocolate (except dark yuck)
thoese little kraft cheese and breadsticks
any kind of chips
any kind of candy

What 5 things would I do if I were a millionaire?
get out of debt
buy a new house
buy a new car
give some to my family
travel

5 places I have lived:
Delta UT
Provo UT (for like a summer)
Cedar City UT

5 jobs I have had:
Janitor at the Delta Middle School
I worked at Home Base for like 2 week's (does that count)
smiths (I've been there for 8 years now)
5 people I tag:
Nikki
Suz
Becky
Shallon
Jaime

one cute blue eyed boy and his cute dad (wearing some cool velcro shoes)

2008-10-28T12:39:00.000-07:00

The other day Jaxon was in the best mood He loved having his picture taken. he was even saying "cheese" And all the pictures were so cute so i just kept taking more. So of course I have to post a few. And I just had to put the pictures of Brandon and his awesome shoes on here.
A few week's ago Brandon went to hatch to pick up the boys who had been staying there for a few days. Well one day Brandon took Jaden duck hunting and they got there shoes all muddy so Brandon borrowed some from his dad to wear home. I don't know if Brandon picked this pair out him self or if his dad told him to take them. So when i came home from work I was like "cool shoes" he told me that he had just borrowed them since his were all muddy. Well then I noticed that he kept Waring them around (even out in public). So i was like your really like those shoes huh? And he was like yeah there comfortable and they were his grandpa Heap's. they even have his grandpa's initials on the back of them. So I was like ok well that's good his awesome Velcro shoe's have a meaning to them. So I'm not embarrassed for him anymore. Who knows maybe he'll bring them back into style. Actually I don't think Velcro shoes were ever in style. Anyways look for yourself and you'll see how hot he looks in his Velcro shoe's.

what a stinker

2008-10-25T19:01:00.000-07:00

So about a week ago I was changing my clothes to go to work. (so Jaxon was left in the other room for maybe 5 min) Well when i came into the living room I saw that Jaxon had got my purse off the table and had everything thrown everywhere. Everything was out of my wallet scattered all over. Well i was in a hurry so i just put everything back in my purse and left for work. Well when i was leaving work (witch is at midnight) I was going to go get some gas and noticed that my credit card, debit card, 60.00 cash was missing. So i just assumed that it was at home. Well i got home and it was no where to be found. I seriously looked everywhere. I looked in the trash, under the couches, the oven, the dishwasher, Jadens room, Jaxons room. well you get the point. Every place that i know Jaxon can get into I looked. The only thing that I can think of is he threw it down the toilet. At first I didn't think that those things would go down the toilet but I remember that Jaden had once flushed a candle lid down the toilet. So I'm thinking that it is possible. Anyways so I've been going crazy with out having a way to get money out of my account. I have to write checks everywhere and lots of places don't even accept checks anymore. So i went to the Bank to order a new debit card and that was a nightmare. I went to the teller and told her i needed a new debit card. she said "OK well bob (I don't remember his real name) will have to help you with that." Well Bob was busy with another customer so the lady told us to have a seat and he would be right with us. The lady gave the boys a sucker but when the suckers were gone the boys were getting pretty sick of sitting there so then some other lady came out and gave them another sucker. well when that was gone the boys patience had run out. Jaxon wanted to run all over so he was screaming for me to put him down and Jaden was getting upset because i wouldn't let him climb on the chairs. So i was just about ready to leave when "Bob" came over and asked what I needed. I told him that i needed a new debit card and he was like "oh well they can help you over there" since he was still with this other customer he sent me to the SAME LADY that had told me I needed to wait for "Bob". I was soooo mad now i was finally being helped but my kids were not being any better. So then i had to wait for her to call some number and have them send me a new card. Obviously this lady had no idea what the heck she was doing so I won't be surprised if i never get my new debit card. I did learn something from this though I'll be going to the other zions bank from now on. I still have not found the 60.00 cash or the cards. I've asked Jaden if he's seen them and he kept telling me that Brandon had took them. Brandon likes to take the cash out of my wallet so then when i go to get it and its not there I'm like "oh great your dad took my money again" So Jaden is so sure that Brandon took my money. Maybe one day it will all turn up. Well i don't really have any pictures that go along with this story so here's just some random pictures.

This picture I posed the boys I told them to put there arms around one another. I think it turned out pretty cute. so I told them to do the same thing in the second picture and they ended up holding hands. They couldn't figure out how to put there arms around each other so i guess they just decided to hold hands instead.

A lonnnng post

2008-10-18T16:46:00.000-07:00

Woohoo So I finally have the internet again and I'm soo excited. So for thoes of you who didn't know we moved into our first new home well its not new it was built in 1995. but its new for us and its so much better then where we were liveing before. We had a few problems at first but I think now things are finally comeing together. So i have to tell everyone my long story about the whole internet. We called Qwest and told them that we were moveing and we wanted to TRANSFER our internet and phone to our new address they said ok. So then we were moveing in and Qwest came to set up the phone and internet and they informed us that we had damaged phone lines. And in order for them to fix the problem they were going to have to dig a trench in our back yard to put new lines in. so they gave us temporary service for 30 days until we decided what to do. so i was like Ok well we don't have money to fix that right now and we don't even need the stupid phone we just thought we had to have the phone line so we could have the internet. So then i was like Ok there has to be a way to get the internet without haveing a phone line. so i called up qwest and asked them and the lady said that where we live it was required that we have a phone line. So I was like ok she was like i can get you the basic phone line and you can try it out and if you don't like it then you can cancel so I said ok. Well she never told me that we could only get dial up where we live she just said that its required that we have a phone line. so she said that we would have the internet on like the 26th or something. well the 26th finally came and the internet was still not working and our caller ID and voice mail stopped working. So I called qwest up again and they said you should have gotten the dvd in the mail to set up your dial up connection. I was like "WHAT?" DIAL-UP CONNECTION? she was like yeah then she goes on to tell me that they don't offer high speed out here. I was like ok well I would at least like to get my caller ID and voice mail working again. so she put the caller ID and Voice mail back on (oh and i guess she decided to add on long distance) Oh i forgot to say about fixing the phone lines. we found out that we wouldn't have to pay anything to get them fixed so we had the fugal people come out and dig the trench and fix the lines. well when they dug the trench they dug through our sprinking system. so After all of this I just couldn't deal with anything anymore. so about 3 weeks later I finally called Qwest again and told them to take off the long distace and cancel the stupid dial up (that i wasn't useing anyway) we decided to keep the phone line just so that we don't have to give our cell phone numbers out to everyone and its just kind of nice haveing a home phone. Anyways so i decided to get internet through Bresnan and its all through the cable lines. and I works great. so I'm really sure that all of you wanted to know the whole long story about the internet. so now I'll fill you all in on the more interesting things. Since we bought our house I decided that I needed to pick up an extra day at work since I was one day short of getting insurance anyways I thought it was something that I needed to do. so I had them schedule me a night shift. Well lucky for me they decided to schedule me 2 night shifts a week. So I've been busy working about 33 hours a week and I'm finally started to get used to it. Its a big change for me to go from 18 hours a week up to 33. So I've just been busy with work and watching the boys nothing to exciting about me. And Brandon has been keeping busy too (which I'm so gratefull for) he's building a big cabin right now in Brian Head. And Jaden well he started peeing in the toilet about 3 weeks ago and I couldn't be happier about that. He still poops in his underwear though that really sucks. Jaden is also getting excited for halloween he's going to be Iron Man (weather he likes it or not)he wanted to be a knight so I got him a knight costume well he didn't want to do that anymore so at wal-mart he found an Iron man costume that he really wanted so i got it for him and on the way home he started crying because he wanted to be Bat Man. I was like sorry your going to be Iron Man. And Jaxon he's getting so big he's starting to say more words and he is quite the adventerous kid. He love getting into the toilet, unlocking the dishwasher so that he can pull out all the dishes. and opening the oven door so that he can help him self to our dinner, and throwing the couch cushins off the couch. He difinatly keeps me on my toes. Well I think that about sums up the last couple of months. So here's the pictures of the house and just some cute ones of the boys.

missing the internet

2008-10-04T19:38:00.000-07:00

some of you might be wonder why i haven't posted for a while. well for thoes of you who didn't know we moved. everything was supposed to be transfered to our new house. well our phone worked but no internet. so i called qwest and they forgot to transfer the internet instead they disconnected it. so then they told me that it would be working on the 29th of sep. well it didn't so i called again and they were like Oh "you didn't get the disc in the mail? I was like yeah i got a disc and they told me that i just had to put the disc in and download it. well the disc is for dial-up. so i called them and they said High speed isn't available where you live. So I'm like ok well I'm not haveing dial up. So that's were I'm at right now I'm waiting to get my new cell phone (witch will be the end of this month) and then I'm going to see if i can get the internet through verizon. Anyways sorry i have no new pictures and nothing exciting hopefully the end of the month I'll have internet again. And i can put some pictures of our new house up. hope everyone is doing well. Were doing well. I've been busy working. I've had about 33 hours a week. and Brandon has been busy too. Jaden is peeing in the toilet (hooray) he still poops in his pants though. and Jaxon has been busy exploring everything that he can. We love our new house it has so much more room then we had befor and a big back yard to play in. well i gotta go so hopefully i get get through one more month of no internet. I'll try and keep everyone posted.

2008-08-19T12:56:00.000-07:00

You Belong in 1988

Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.

What Year Do You Belong In?

Jaden's Birthday

2008-08-19T12:22:00.000-07:00

We Had Jaden's birthday yesterday I think it went pretty well I'm not a really good party planner. We just had family over for cake and ice cream. (what we do every year) Maybe one of these days I'll actually plan a fun party. But Jaden had a good time and i guess that's all that matters. The Avery's gave him a couple of Transformers which he LOVE'S. They have kept him entertained all day today the only bad thing is he has a hard time changing them back to the car shape. So about every 10 min I have to change it to the car so that he can change it back to the Robot. I decided to make him a cake this year to save some money. It tasted good but my decorating skills need alot of improvement. I was going to have Jaden decorate it but he was to busy playing. So it was all up to me if I really wanted to make fun of my self I would post the picture of it. But I'm thinking that i really don't want to do that. Anyways so Jaden is now 4 years old I can't believe that it was 4 years ago that we brought him home. He's getting so big and learning so much. We love him so much and are so glad that he's a part of our family. Happy Birthday Jay we love you. here's some pictures of Jadens party

sorry the pictures aren't to exciting but all the other pictures have the ugly cake in it.

2008-08-15T07:31:00.000-07:00

You Are Snickers

Nutty and gooey - you always satisfy.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

The Next Tiger Woods

2008-08-12T16:11:00.000-07:00

The other day I was watching Nikki's boys and I had just put Jaxon down for a nap. So I knew that I had to try and keep Jaden, Ashton, and Aidan as quit as i could so they didn't wake up Jaxon. Keeping 3 little boys quit isn't an easy thing to do so I decided to just take them and play outside. (I don't really like taking them outside because we don't have a fenced in yard and we live by a busy street. and it wears me out trying to chase all 3 of them around)So we went outside and I got my old golf clubs out (my dad bought them for me when i was like 10 or 11)so they each got a club and a woofel ball (you know those balls that have holes in them so they don't go very far) At first I helped them all hit the ball then I just let them do it on there own. It was pretty funny to watch them Jaden actually looked like he kind of knew what he was doing. But they all had fun playing golf and Jaxon was able to have a good nap. So i think I'll be letting them golf more often.

here's the 3 little golfers

Look at that swing

Aiden going for par

Ashton gets an eagle

Just some cute pictures of our golf day

Heap Reunion

2008-08-05T16:15:00.000-07:00

We went to the Heap reunion this weekend. I think everyone had a fun time we went fishing at panguitch lake (no one caught any fish) but the kids all had fun playing in the water. Our little cousin Alexis had a little scare Her parents noticed something on her leg it looked like some grass but then they realized that it was a leech. So that was a little scary. Then we had a spot light on uncle Wes and the talent show. The kids also had fun riding 4 wheelers and catching some great prizes at the fishing pond. And one of my favorite things was the delicious Cafe Rio dinner that Brittany and Camille made. I think i could eat that sweet pork for a week (Camille I'm going to have to get that recipe from you)I think that about sums up the Heap reunion for this year we can't wait to see what uncle Jeff has planned for next year. Here's some Random pictures of the reunion.

Lanie Jaden Morgan

Jaxon playing in the water

Stetson and Reagan preforming there talent

Jaden pretending to sing

Kamrie preformed her ballet dance

My Sweet Boys

2008-07-30T13:49:00.000-07:00

Every Morning I let Jaden watch spongbob squarepants and then when its over at 10:00 then its my turn to watch my show. (The Young and the Restless)when either show starts Jaxon recognizes the song so he gets excited and starts dancing. Here's a video clip of him dancing to spongbob. I was a little late getting the camera out and I missed the song so I had to sing it for him. So please just try to ignore my beautiful voice.

For the last few days Jaden has gone outside and picked me some cute little flowers. (or I think they might be weeds) but it's still very sweet of him. So then when he brings in the flower we have to put it in some water. Then when he's not watching I throw them away.

I went and had Jaden and Jaxon's pictures taken a week ago. Every year they get a free 8 by 10 picture from Kiddie Kandids from being in the Birthday Club. Jaden did really good he loves to have his picture taken so it wasn't hard to get him to smile. Jaxon on the other hand wasn't wanting to smile at all. but when she would snap a picture this big light would go off. And Jaxon LOVED it he thought it was sooo cool so we got a really cute picture of him saying "ohhhh" Here's there pictures that we took. (there not the best I just took a picture of their picture's if that makes any sense)anyways here they are.

The 24th of July

2008-07-26T18:14:00.000-07:00

For the 24th we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Heap's house in Hatch. We missed the parade and the race that hey have in the park for the little kids. Jaden had even been practicing for the big race. We told him "just run as fast as you can" and then he would say "yeah and don't push anyone out of the way" So he was all ready for it and we missed it. Oh well maybe we can make it next year. We were still able to go to the park and let him play some games and get lots of prize's. one of Jaden's favorite things was shooting the bow and arrow. (with help of course) After the parade we just hung out at grandma and grandpa's house. Behind there house they have a couple horses one of them is just a colt. Lucky for Jaden he's really been into horses lately (that's all he wants for his birthday) At first he would just sit on the fence and watch them. He was out there all day we would keep going out to check on him. And as we were about ready to go home we went out to get him and he wasn't sitting on the fence, and i couldn't see him anywhere. finally Brandon saw him he was right down by the horses feeding them some grass. That was Jaden's favorite part was feeding the horses. Here are some pictures from the 24th

This is Brandon playing in the horse shoe competition.

Jaden had a dinosaur painted on his cheek

Jaden's favorite game shooting the bow and arrow (with brandon's help)

Jaxon enjoying a cupcake

Last we have Jaden and the horse's

Jaxon's party

2008-07-26T17:25:00.000-07:00

We had Jaxon's birthday party on Monday (the 21st) he got lots of toys (which Jaden thinks are his) But I think he had a fun time. We had Grandma and Grandpa Heap there, The Lunts, The Stillman's and The Avery's. And some neighbor friends. we gave Jaxon his presents and He didn't have a clue what he was supposed to do. So we tried to help him and he still wasn't interested. so all the cousins opened them for him. His favorite present was his battery powered toothbrush. He loved digging in his piece of cake though. I knew that he wouldn't be shy about digging his hands in his cake. (Since that's what he does with any kind of food you give him squeezes it with his hands) so I just gave him a little piece and he still managed to make a really good mess. But I think everyone had a really good time. Now we just have to get through Jaden's and then we don't have to worry about birthdays for a while.

Jaden and the cousins opening Jaxon's presents for him

Jaxon makeing a big mess with his cake

HAPPY BIRTHDY JAXON & CONGRATULATIONS JADEN

2008-07-21T12:22:00.000-07:00

So far today has been a big day. Jaxon turned one years old. I can't believe that it was a year ago that we had him. He's getting so big and learning so much. We are so grateful to have him in our family. We haven't had his little party yet so I'll have to post pictures of that a little bit later. The other day I could hear Jaxon but i couldn't find him. Those of you that know where I live know that there's only so many places that he could be. So i looked in his room and he wasn't there I looked in my room he wasn't there. He wasn't in the bathroom or closets. I finally looked behind the entertainment center and there he was. He squeezed him self in between the wall and the entertainment center. I think I'm going to have my hands full with this boy. We love you Jaxon and happy birthday.

Also today Jaden went number 2 in the toilet. I'm so proud of him he is almost 4 years old and still not potty trained. This morning I knew that he had to go poop because he went and hid behind the couch. so I said "lets go on the potty" he cried and didn't want to but i made him. I finally got him to calm down. he only sat there for about 5 min and then he was like "I did it" I was so HAPPY I hope that this means were one step closer to him being potty trained. So good job JADEN!!!

I'm superman

2008-07-17T09:21:00.001-07:00

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Fashion show

2008-07-10T11:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Jaden decided to give me a little fashion show. Lately he's been really entertained with shoes. So yesterday he had to try on some of Brandon's boots. first up we have the snowboarding boots.

next up we have the cowboys boots (i think that's what they are or just normal boots)

Last we have the hunting boots or work boots.

After doing a post of just Jaden I feel like I need to have some pictures of Jaxon too. so here are some pictures of his muddy face.

yummm doesn't that look good.

sorry I'm not interested in adult movies

2008-07-08T17:12:00.000-07:00

So someone by the name of "to share" left a comment on my blog telling me that they had found a very good free adult movie site. I just want everyone to know that I'm NOT interested in adult movies. I have no idea who "to share" is. I don't know how to delete that comment so I want everyone who see's that comment to know that I don't watch adult movies never have never will. and i don't know the person that left that comment. Anyways so I've decided to approve comments before they can be posted. So I hope that I don't offend anyone by making you think I have to approve your comment first. I just don't want messed up people telling me about there porn site's. And to all my family and friends thanks for your wonderful comments. keep em coming. And "To Share" (who ever you are) how about you just leave your comments to people that you know like porn.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

2008-07-08T11:31:00.000-07:00

I celebrated my b-day on the 6th it was on a Sunday so i had to work. But I guess that's ok I still had a good day. When i got home Brandon had dinner ready, the house all clean, And he had bought me an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen :) At work I all most made it my entire shift with out anyone knowing it was my birthday. But then my great brother in law mike (who also works at the store) forgot to tell me happy birthday while he was at work so he called and told the manager to tell me happy birthday. So then I knew that everyone was going to know. Sure enough about 20 minutes later a fellow employee got on the intercom and made a big long announcement how it was my birthday and how i had been working with the company for 25 years. Anyways after they embarrassed me they gave me this cool herb garden plant. It has rosemary, oregano, and thyme. I have no idea how to use fresh herbs so if anyone knows how let me know. I just hope i can keep it alive. So thanks to Brandon and my friends at work for a great birthday. And thanks to Nikki (who spent way to much money on me)for ordering me a pair of really cute keen shoes. I'm way excited to get them. so here are a few pictures from my b-day.

The 4th of July :)

2008-07-06T22:38:00.000-07:00

Hooray We just celebrated my favorite holiday the 4th of July. The boys and I went to delta. Anyone from delta knows that the 4th is a big deal there. They have the parade, the activities at the park, the demolition derby, and then the fireworks. So we were all excited Jaden was so excited to go to the parade and see the horses, airplanes, the fire trucks, and get lots of candy. So as we were all heading to the parade we had a little problem. My mom, sister and her kids all got in there car and left. As me and the boys were pulling out of the drive way I remembered that I had to grab a couple plastic bags for my nephews (who were meeting us at the parade)They had to have there bags to put there candy in. so I ran inside and got the bags came back out and the car doors were locked. I put the boys in there seats but didn't buckle them in. one of them locked the doors. But i was like well Jaden can unlock them. So i told him to unlock the door. well he kept pushing lock lock lock. All he needed to do was slide his finger over and push the unlock part. Well he wasn't understanding. so after about 10 min I didn't know what to do the boys were crying luckily the a/c was on so they weren't sweating to death. So I called my mom and she walked home. By the time she got there a neighbor was there he had a wedge in the door and a hanger trying to unlock the door. He wasn't having any luck and Jaden still couldn't figure out how to unroll the window or unlock the door. So my mom went in and called the lock smith who was out of town. So she called Sahara Moters and no one answered. So then we really started to panic everyone was at the parade so who was going to come and help us. Meanwhile the boys were just screaming. So my mom decided to call 911. So They said they would send someone over. Just as me and my mom walked out the door we heard everyone cheering. Jaden had finally unlocked the door. Some how my sister had calmed him down and got him to unlock the door. so my mom had to go call 911 back and let them know that we didn't need help. It was an experience that I'll never forget. I knew that we were going to find a way to get them out but seeing my boys in there just scared to death screaming and not being able to do anything was a horrible feeling. I think I've learned my lesson no matter how big of a hurry I'm in I'm going to make sure my kids at buckled in there seats before I do something else. Anyways the rest of the day was pretty fun. We actually got to see some of the parade and get some candy. Then we went to the park and Jaden got to ride a horse. and see some live fish They had this big thing of water with all these trout swimming around and they let people get in and catch fish with there hands. It was really weird I thought it was sad too like half the fish were just floating there dead. so they had to blow a whistle and everyone had to get out so they could get the dead fish out. And what ever fish you caught you got to put in a plastic bag and take home. It was so weird Jaden liked seeing the fish though he thought it was cool he wanted to get in and get a fish so i had to tell him that most of the fish were dead. Anyways I'm skipping that part next year. so after the park we went to a matinee we want and saw Wall-e I wasn't to impressed with it. It doesn't compare to any of the toy story's or finding nemo. Then we went home and hung out until it was dark and then we did fireworks. It was a pretty good 4th of July. And I can't wait until next year.

this picture is of Jaxon just after we got him out of the car. He was still kind of sad. The rest are just of the kids getting candy at the parade and Jaden riding the horse

Camping

2008-07-02T09:57:00.000-07:00

We went camping last weekend with my parents. The boys had so much fun! Jaden loved playing in the water and fishing. I was only able to get a few pictures since the battery in my camera died. Jaden even slept in the tent with Brandon. While Jaxon and I slept in the trailer with my mom and dad. Jaxon woke up in the middle of the night and just screamed for about 2 hours. But for his first camping trip he did pretty good. At first he had a hard time getting used to the rocky, uneven ground. he had a few good face plants he's a tough kid though he got right back up and went on his way. One time he fell down and ate some dirt he didn't like that to much. We were able to see a deer, a wild turkey and her baby's. And on the way home we saw a porcupine. It was pretty cool its the first one that I've ever seen. I passed it and then I had to back up to see what it was. As i got a closer look I could tell is was a porcupine I started telling Jaden what a porcupine was how they have sharp quills or I think I called them thorns or something anyway I shouldn't have told him that because then he was scared and didn't dare get out and see it. So i picked him up and It was staring right at us so then I was getting a little nervous. I was thinking "If he's feeling threatened he's going to charge after us and and were going to get stuck with his quills" so I hurried and got jaden in the car and we just watched him from inside the car (I felt much safer) I wish so bad that i could have gotten a picture. We were so close to him I could have touched it. Anyways we had a great time camping and can't wait until we can go again.
Last night I was watching t.v. And when Brandon got out of the shower I heard him say "Jaden what are you doing?" so I was like oh great what did he do. Brandon came in and said "Did you see what Jaden did" I was like "no" "I don't want to know" Brandon made me go see what Jaden had done. I was relieved when i saw all of Brandon's shoes, and my shoes all lined up in our room. Speaking of shoes I just had to say how sad I am that Jaxon is missing one of his shoes. It just happens to be one of my favorite pair a cute little slip on camouflage shoe. I'm about 95% sure that Jaxon threw it away. Lately he's been throwing everything away. It seems that he's been trying real hard to throw away his squeaky shoes I found one in the garbage and Brandon found one in the garbage. He threw away the plug that goes to the tub, lots of toys that I didn't bother digging out, sippy cups, clothes. Just about anything he can get his hands on. Well I guess I've rambled enough I better go get something done.

Summer Fun

2008-06-24T16:47:00.000-07:00

Today we went and bought a little plastic pool. We put Jaden's little slide in it. Then Jaden's cousin's came over and we had a little pool party. All the boys had so much fun! They were all a little shy about going down the slide at first but after they went down they loved it. Jaxon wasn't quite sure he was standing in the pool and fell on his butt. And after that he was done. So he just relaxed on his blanket and watched everyone slide. So Jaden is still not potty trained I've decided to just forget about it for a couple months and then I'll try again. Its just so weird to me that It doesn't bother him at all to sit in his messy, stinky diaper how can that feel good?? It doesn't bother him if his diaper is sagging to the floor either. Usually when he gets up in the morning we change his diaper (he usually doesn't even want to be changed but we make him. So the other day I decided to see how long he would tolerate his wet diaper. He got up at like 8 and I don't think we changed him until about 4 that afternoon. His diaper looked like a thong here's the picture.

Lazy summer days

2008-06-18T15:45:00.000-07:00

So I haven't done any Posting for a while, Mostly because we haven't done anything to exciting. In a couple weeks my parents are going camping and its the 4th of July (my favorite holiday) so hopefully I'll have some cute pictures and fun story's to tell. The weather is finally starting to feel like summer so I'm very excited about that. The boys love going outside, unfortunately we have no fenced in yard So i can't just let them go play. I have to go out with them and follow them around. Seriously there is no sitting down both my boys have an obsession with the road as soon as i put Jaxon down he heads for the road. So most of these pictures are of Jaden and Jaxon playing outside with there cousin's. There are a couple pictures of Jaden one of them he is holding a big clump of cookie dough. The other is of his shiny greasy face. He got into the cookie dough while i was in the shower and was playing with it like it was play dough. Oh and then there's a picture of my nephew Aiden. The poor kid fell while leaveing my house and got this sore on his head. OUCH!!

Check out my Slide Show!

2008-06-05T10:26:00.001-07:00

crazy baby

2008-05-29T12:08:00.000-07:00

I hope this video will work. Jaxon is growing up so fast he's already walking and can say about 5 words. and he's not afraid to dive off the couch or bed. That's how he gets off of things he just takes a dive head first towards the floor. at first we thought it was funny because he's not scared at all if he wants down then dang it he's going to get down. even on our bed that is higher up then the couch he would dive right off there if we would let him. So i got a video of him diving off the couch and after i watched it I was like "oh my gosh the kid is going to break his neck" so here's the video you can see for your self. its funny and kinda scary at the same time. Jaxon isn't the only crazy kid. the other day jaxon was sleeping and jaden was watching cartoons so i jumped in the shower. when i got out i noticed the back door open and jaden was no where in side. so i went and looked out back he wasn't there so i looked out front and he wasn't there. so then I started to panic i went inside to get my shoes on and i looked out the front window and saw this little boy sitting in the gutter by the road. I ran out there and got him. my heart was pounding so hard and jaden was just as calm as could be. it didn't scare him that he was just chilling on the side of a busy road. I guess boys will be boys.

OOPS!!!!!!

2008-05-26T13:30:00.001-07:00

whoops I forgot to put the scary picture of me with my hair pulled back on the last post. sorry I've been a little sleep deprived. But here's the scary picture of me that i was talking about in the last post.

More Random Pictures

2008-05-26T13:14:00.000-07:00

I love this picture of Brandon and Jaxon. And I'm kind of embarrassed of the picture of me with Jaden. I took if right before i was going to work. so I had my hair pulled back. AHHH!!!! no one ever told me that i look that scary with my hair pulled back. I'm all forehead but what ever I decided that i needed to put some pictures of me with the boys on here. even if I look a little scary.

NEW CAMERA!!!

2008-05-26T12:19:00.000-07:00

Hooray I got my new camera. Since mother nature hasn't been very nice we haven't done anything real fun. so I've just been taking random pictures. Jaden went to the dentist on Thursday and had his cavities fixed. his appointment was at 8:00 that's pretty early for me to have to be up and ready and have jaden up and ready but we made it. and he did really good. The dentist said he was one of the best 3 year old that he had ever worked on. it was kinda funny they gave him some medicine to make him sleepy so that he didn't have to feel the shots. He was acting so funny the doctor came in to see how the medicine was working . He said "hey jaden how you doing?" and Jaden was just staring into space with his mouth wide open. And when he was all done I got to go back and see him and he started hallucinating he was grabbing the air. But he's back to himself now and his teeth look pretty good. so the first picture is of him showing off his fixed teeth. The picture of Brandon you have to look close at his forehead you'll see a red dot. He tripped and hit his head on the corner of our dresser. I wasn't here when it happened but he said it put a pretty good hole in his head and it bled for a while. the sad picture of Jaxon tells you how he's felt the last week. He's been wanting to be held all day and doesn't sleep good at night I can't wait for him to get better. The rest are just random pictures.

Bubbles

2008-05-19T12:29:00.000-07:00

we went to delta for a couple days and the boys were so excited to take a bath in Grandma and Grandpas big jetted tub. Nikki and her boys were there too. so we got all the boys loaded into the tub and poured some bubbles in there and then turned on the jets. In a matter of seconds the tub was over flowing with bubbles. Nikki's boys were pretty freaked out by it. But Jaden and Jaxon were loving it. They had a blast covering themselves with bubbles. Most of the pictures were blurry but here are a few.

First Steps

2008-05-05T15:26:00.000-07:00

So I haven't had any new pictures to post we haven't done anything fun or exciting. so here's some pictures of Jaxon and Jaden wearing there sun glasses. Its all I have for now. But I do have good news to share. Jaxon took his first steps. Yesterday while I was at work Brandon saw him take about 5 steps. I was a little bummed that i missed his first steps But today me and Jaden were just sitting here And I looked over and jaxon was taking little steps. I was so excited I was all "Jaden look Jaxon is walking" As soon as i said that he dropped to his knees and started crawling. Jaden said "look Cassie Jaxon is crawling." I was like yeah you missed it he was walking But i guess Jaden was pretty proud that he was crawling too. So I think that he'll be walking before he turns 1 for sure. Way to go Jaxon!!!

Red Cliffs

2008-04-23T10:28:00.000-07:00

We went to red cliffs on Monday with my sisters and there family's it was so nice to get out of the house and the weather was great. For my first time being there it was tons of fun. we barbecued hot dogs and then went on a hike to where all this water was. I'm defiantly going to try and go there more often.

Brandon Playing with the kids

2008-04-21T09:56:00.000-07:00

Here you go Camille here are some pictures of Brandon playing with the kids. The last picture is of Brandon after a long day of wresteling with the kids. Brandon would probably be mad if he knew that i was putting the pictures of him sleeping on here. But i think there funny. He's been buliding this private school out in enoch so they've been working long hard days. that's really why he was so tired.

Jaden and Max

2008-04-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

we went to delta last week to visit my parents for a few days. They have a puppy named max he's just the right size for Jaden he's not to little but not to big. Me and my mom were laughing so hard watching them wrestle. The last picture is of jaxon wishing that he could go out and wrestle with the dog

Jaxon chewing on q-tips

2008-04-10T18:23:00.000-07:00

Jaxon's getting another tooth So he's been wanting to chew on everything. I was trying to do my make up the other morning and Jaxon wouldn't let me do anything I was giving him all kinds of toys to keep him busy but nothing worked. So then i gave him my mascara to chew on that worked for a little bit so then i gave him a q-tip to chew on and he loved it. Now when i get ready in the morning I'll i have to do is give him a q-tip to chew on and he's a happy camper.

I got worms

2008-04-06T21:25:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of Jaden's new pets. I brought some gummy worms home and gave them to Jaden. He loves candy so I new it wouldn't take him long to scarf them down. But then I noticed that he wasn't eating them He was just packing them with him. He even put them to bed with him. So I asked him if I could eat one of his worms and he said "no these are my baby worms you can't eat them." I just love this picture He just look so happy to have his worms.

hair cuts

2008-04-03T14:36:00.000-07:00

I guess its time for my second post. I decided to cut Jaden and Jaxon's hair today. And it actually turned out ok. I have no idea how to cut hair so i just cut Jaden's strait across and he would'nt let me cut above his ears so it looks funny. and Jaxons I cut to short But it looks ok it made him look older. The last time i went and got Jadens hair cut i took him to great clips. It was right befor christmas and the two girls that were cutting hair were dressed up as the grinch caricters. one of them was the cute whogirl and the other girl was dressed as the grinch she was kinda scary looking her hair was colored green. Lucky Jaden got to have the grinch cut his hair. her was so scared of her. after we got him to sit down he didn't move the rest of the time. Here's some pics of the new Jaden and Jaxon.

my first post

2008-03-31T15:00:00.000-07:00

well this is my first time blogging and i have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. and I only have 2 friends that do this blog stuff so sorry suz and becky. I don't know how to add pictures and all that. and I have a pretty boring life so i don't have any real cool story's to tell. Oh it snowed last night. I'm pretty sick of cold weather by now. I finally got jaxon down for a nap I don't know whats been going on with that tyke. for the last month he's not wanting to take naps and wants to be held a lot. I thought he was teething but nothing is poking through yet. The pictures are of jaxon crawling and the other of jaden and his gross eye. he still has eye problems not as much as he used to though. ok lets see how i did for my first blog page