1st Grade

I cannot believe it!! Jace is in 1st grade this year... I cannot believe how fast these years have flown by. He is really becoming a little man and I don't like it one bit! I miss our lazy mornings when he was little and we had nowhere to be.

He did great this morning and he is super excited about getting to eat lunch at school. He has Mrs. Smith this year and has a couple good buds that he sits right next to so he was thrilled about that. I only got a little teary eyed as I left him with his teacher. I know he is in good hands, this teacher has gotten rave reviews by everyone I know!

I sure love this guy....

(Don't mind the date on the pic... it is really wrong)

Brother had to take a pic with him.

Mutton bustin

I was so bummed about this video... I stood there at that gate and waited and waited and waited with my camera and finally the batteries started acting funny so I turned it off. They then announced Jaces names and pulled the chute open... so all I got was him falling off. He did good this year, rode for about 3-4 seconds. He LOVES to ride... anything and everything! He is already talking about riding saddle bronc. Josh has some friends who own steers and horses and have told him to bring Jace over and let him start riding, so we will see! Joshs connections to the rodeo may not be a good thing for me!

You might be a redneck if....

This is your entertainment on a Tuesday evening (after a couple Coronas)

Fair

I haven't posted in awhile... I have been recovering from my surgery and it has been a tough one. As soon as I start feeling better I try to do something and end up feeling worse, it is kinda 2 steps forward and 3 steps back.

In the meantine of all this Josh took the boys to the Canyon county fair and they rode in the Big wheel race and both won! So they were invited back on Sunday for the finals and if they won they got a brand new bike. Ry won his division but the little boy you see him racing is Trenton Fisher who is in his preschool class... kinda strange! Jace didn't win his but they had fun.

The 1st video is Jace riding the bull.... the kid LOVES to ride bulls... or anything else for that matter. Lately he has been bucking in the laundry basket and even saying "lets go boys, lets go" to which I have to "open"the chute.

He will be muttonbustin this Friday night so I will post pics of that!

my surgery

On Friday the 17th I went into the hospital at 5 am for my hysterectomy. It was just time to do it... even though I am only 30 I have had so many problems and have had anemia for so long now it needed to be done. I have done nothing but dream of babies for the last month.

I went in at 5 am and my surgery started at 7... it was suppose to be a simple procedure (no cuts) but turned into 17 staples across my abdomen and the removal of an ovary which was not planned. That is the kinda luck I have.

All in all I am doing ok... they released me from the hospital on Monday and as long as I stay on my pain meds every 4 hours my pain is pretty minimal. I am sooooo very blessed and grateful I have the family and friends I do, I know my boys are taken care of and I can just take this time to get better and not have to worry about them. I can not imagine any of these people not in my life and I hope they all know how special they are to me.

Camping 2009

In no particular order... we had sooo much fun!!!


Jace riding... the hill was super steep, he did awesome!!
Josh and I

Rylan and Emma... they were inseperable!!!

Jacers!

Yes... Jace did it to him

All of us.... minus Jen and Rachel

My 18" trout!!!

Jace riding!

A Sad moment

We have been back from vacation but my bathroom is still torn apart since we are remodeling it so we have been staying with my in-laws for the last few days. 2 days ago I went to start up my camera to pull pics off and realized Jace had deleted every picture on there... every single one of them. Our coast trip, our trip to Vegas and several others. I have not posted about it until now becuase I have been too mad. He didn't mean to do it but he has been told hundreds of times not to play with my camera... so I am just mad about it right now.

So there will be no pics to put on here... only the memories in my mind will remain.