I've Been Tagged Too!!!

I was tagged by Brittany (sorry it took so long, I seriously can't think of 6 interesting unknown things about me)...

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Hopefully there is something new you never knew about me!

1. On my 16th birthday I went to our neighbors house and Donny Osmond was there. It was one of the first times I had met him so I was SO star-struck! So we're all outside talking and all of the sudden Donny came running at me and threw me in the swimming pool. Now keep in mind I was fully dressed and had on BRAND NEW leather sandals! But, how could I be mad...That night at my birthday party he gave me one of his CD's that he had written "All washed up at 16" on the front of! I still have it to this day!

2. When I had Chandler (my 1st) something went REALLY wrong with my epidural and it numbed me from the chest down. My heart all but stopped and when I woke up I was surrounded by nurses and doctors! I spent the remaining 5 or 6 hours throwing up all the medication they had given me to bring me back to "life" and running a fever until he was finally born. (Can you believe I still had two more?)

3. I LOVE sports!!! I love to play & watch sports. Although I don't play much anymore I used to play a lot and LOVED it (back me up here Lacy...you were there). I love watching the Diamondbacks, ASU, and mostly the Phoenix Suns! Funny thing is though, I would rather watch my brothers, my kids or my dad play than any professional game.

4. I had such a great wedding proposal! The day Bryant proposed he sent me a dozen roses at work that told me to meet him in the temple (St. George) visitor's center. So after work I go there and the sister missionaries at the desk ask me my name and I tell them, and they said, "Oh he called and said he was going to be late, but he wanted you to have this" and they pulled out another dozen roses and a card. They told me he wanted me to meet him in the gazebo outside. So as I'm walking to the gazebo I'm reading the card. I get to the gazebo and he was there waiting for me with another dozen roses (can you guess that I really love roses?). So he of course starts acting like nothing's up and says I have something for you (so now I'm thinking oh man, he really is going to propose)...and he pulls out some mint chocolate truffles (another one of my favorites). So after a lot more stalling he finally says, oh I got you this too (he had the ring hidden in the rafters of the gazebo). I was so happy and couldn't stop crying! I should also mention that he had just had back surgery and wasn't allowed to ride in a car, so he walked like 5 or 6 miles (at least)to get to the temple!

5. "I hated high school. I can lie and say it was so much fun, but that would be a lie. I really was glad it ended and never would want to do it again. I loved graduating and had so much more fun after high school." Okay so that is what Brittany wrote and I'm leaving it because I feel the EXACT same way! I was friends with my friends away from school (and many of them I didn't go to school with) so I HATED high school! I haven't looked back since graduation day!

6. Each of my boys is named after somebody in my family! Chandler's middle name is Dwayne (same as Bryant, my dad and my brother David), Kayden's middle name is Allen (same as my father-in-law and my brother Brian), and Hunter's middle name is Ryan (same as my brother Michael). I didn't have enough kids to get to Jeramy, or any girls to get to Teesha...but I love that each of them has something "special" about their name!


Now I tag Tiffany (I waited so long I only have 1 person to tag)!

Halloween!

So we made it through another Halloween! I must admit that I'm not a HUGE Halloween fan...I know I know that's a terrible thing to say as a mother, but it's true. Costumes now days are TOO expensive, they only wear them for maybe 2 hours, and then there are all those cany wrappers all over the house! It may also be because I am the biggest chicken EVER and hate to be scared or scary things in general. But, as much as I dislike Halloween, my kids love it! This year we had a nice break (in cost) because my mom brought her trunk of Halloween costumes down the last time she came and the boys were able to find costumes out of that! Actually Chandler was going to be a caveman, but it didn't quite come together the way we wanted, so he went to Plan B which was a football player! Kayden was a jailbird (a costume that my dad wore to a party once...needless to say there was some major rolling of the pants involved) and Hunter was a dinosaur (a costume that my brother Jeramy wore I think he said in like 3rd or 4th grade...hahaha it's okay Jer I still love ya even though you used to be so small). We walked around our neighborhood and surprisingly there were TONS of people passing out candy, and lots of people on the streets! It was fun to meet new neighbors...In fact, two different neighbors joined us, with their kids, to walk around. It ended up being a really fun time. We were done by about 7:00, so that was nice. Here are few pictures of the boys from last night. Of course, when I want the best pictures, my camera has a mind of it's own and some of them are blurry, so sorry for that! Also, Hunter's makeup looked a lot better in person...he looks kind of sickly in the pictures haha! You can't see his tail too good, but in the picture with all of them he is holding it so he could sit down...
Also, the pumpkins they are standing next to are the ones they did themselves (Hunter had a "little" help from Bryant) but the other two did their own!

Catching Up!

WOW! I have been REALLY bad at posting! Things have been so busy lately! Football is almost over...Kayden's last game is Saturday. Chandler's team is still in the playoffs. If they win this Saturday they play on the 10th for the Regional Championship game, then we will be going to Tucson for the State Championships! And you won't believe it, but if they win at the State Championship they go to ORLANDO, FLORIDA for the National Championship! I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there! Also a couple of weeks ago Chandler's team also rented some stretch limos to take the boys to their game in...so that's where these pictures come from. These kids now days...so spoiled!



Work has been good for me. I stay pretty busy typing in the mornings and then again in the afternoons, but then I am done by the time the boys get home from school. Hunter is pretty good about keeping himself busy while I type. Although I might add that that "busy" isn't always good things haha! Yesterday he went into the garage to play with his "moon sand" and found a can of blue spray paint and let's just say that we have a really smelly, really blue section of our garage now!

Even though I am not posting as often as I should be, I AM reading everyone's blogs and keeping up to date with you all! Thanks for being better bloggers than me!

Teesha's Wedding Pictures!!!

Teesha finally got all of her wedding pictures back! They turned out SO pretty! Here are a few of my faves!

Her Beautiful Wedding at the Lake!

Hunter enjoying the sand! Gotta love the red dirt in UT!

Teesha giving her ringbearer a kiss!

Daddy & Daughter!

All of Us!!

Teesha & I
It was such a great day and she was so beautiful! Everything was just perfect! It was so fun to look at the pictures and bring the day back!

What A Day!!!

Today was another day of football! We were done early today though, because Chandler & Kayden played at the same time. Bryant & Hunter took Chandler to his game and they played a tough one and won 6-0.
Kayden's game was away at Paradise Valley High School. His coaches had told us that they wanted all the kids to ride together in a school bus, so we all met at 7:15am.. to our surprise the "school bus" was actually.....Two Strech Hummer Limo's!!!!


The coaches had decided that since the boys had been playing so great (undefeated) that they would treat them to an away game...pro ball style! You should have seen the kids! They were in absolute heaven! One of the coaches brought McDonald's for all of them, so they sat in the parking lot and ate and then took off for their game. It was so sweet to watch the limo's pull up to the field and see our boys get out! Even the other team was taking pictures of them!
Then when we get out to the football field...it is a BRAND NEW astro-turf field. Seriously it was like a pro football field. I guess this high school just spent over a million dollars on it! Then to top it all off, they took a list of all the players and their numbers and had an announcer!!! I'm telling you...the kids seriously had one incredible day! Oh...and by the way...they won 20-6!!!

I GOT A JOB!!!!!!

So, last week I told Bryant that I had been thinking about trying to get an at-home job! So I called Transcription Exress and went through an over-the-phone preliminary screening. They called me on Monday and said that I had passed the screeing and wanted me to come in Thursday (yesterday) for an interview/tests. So I went in yesterday and took a typing test, a spelling test and a homonym test. In order to pass you have to type at least 60wpm with 90% accuracy, get at least 27 of the 33 misused homonyms and get 10/12 on the spelling test. I was so darn nervous that I was SURE I failed the typing test! My hands were shaking so bad that afterwards, I could barely even write to take my homonym test. Not only that, they usually only have a few people show up for the interview and there were 20 of us there yesterday!!! They were going to take the top 2 over-all scores and put those two people in a training starting this coming Monday, and then the next four scores in a training the following week. Anyway, so my hopes weren't very high when I left. I was so frustrated because I can type fast and I knew that I had hit the wrong key and gone back to fix it about a million times because my dang hands failed me.
Anyway, at about 4pm or so yesterday afternoon, they called me and said that I typed 68wpm at 97.7% accuracy, scored 11/12 on my spelling test, and got 29/33 homonyms correct (pretty good considering I only found 29 of them). She then asked if I could start training this coming Monday! I almost fell on the floor! I couldn't believe that I was in the top 2. Especially with only typing 68wpm. That is a terrible time, but I guess it was enough to get me through! I was so excited!
So wish me luck with training next week! I still have to find someone to watch my boys M-W because the training runs from 8:30am to 2:30pm and of course Chandler & Kayden are out of school! But I'm sure that will work out fine...just keep your fingers crossed for me that I will catch on and not make them sorry they chose me!

Happy October!!

I am so excited that it is October!!! October, to me, is the beginning of the holiday season! My kids and I are getting excited for Halloween to come, then before you know it, it will be Thanksgiving, and then Christmas!! YEAH!! I love this time of year! Sugar cookies have become a big part of our Halloween and Christmas traditions and I can't wait to get started!!! My kids already know what they are going to be for Halloween! I think this is the earliest that they have ever known! Chandler is going to be a caveman, Kayden is going to be a prisoner and Hunter is going to be a dinosaur!



Saturday Chandler & Kayden both had football games again (of course). They both WON again! Chandler's team won by a lot...I can't remember the score. Kayden's game was a close one though, they only won 20-16. It was a fun game! Kayden did great! Thank you to everyone who came to support them on Saturday! It was fun to have so many people there to watch. I actually remembered to take pictures at Chandler's game, but because I am on the sidelines with the team at Kayden's game it makes it harder to take pictures. So I posted pictures from Chandler's game and next week I will post pictures from Kayden's!
The blogs are so quiet with everyone gone to California! Hope you guys are having a good time and I can't wait to read all about your trip and see all your pictures!