Redneck Snowplow

So Rhett thought that he would get all crafty one day and made him a snowplow.Yes, it is a redneck snowplow and it actually worked really well.
The kids loved it almost as much as Rhett did. Everyone knows how much my husband loves to push snow. He would do it anywhere, anytime it loves it.

Picture's of Winter in Jensen

That is the river in front of our house and it is nice and froze.

It is foggy every morning. As soon as I hit the highway the fog is gone.

That is our favorite fishing hole in front of our house and yep nice and froze.

ABC's about Me

I am a sucker for things like this, so ya'll need to do it too!

A - Age: 32
B - Bed size: King
C - Chore you hate: Toilets
D - Dog's names: Back when I had one, it was Gracie she ran off about a week ago.
E - Essential start your day item: glasses
F - Favorite color: right now red
G - Gold or Silver: Silver
H - Height: 5' 7''

I - Instruments you play(ed): Piano
J - Job title: MOM!! Wife, substitute teacher
K - Kid(s): Taylor, Haegen, and Bryce
L - Last Book Read: House of Glass
M - Mom's name: Loye Ann
N - Nicknames: chauny, chauncy
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Taylor when she was two. Sick
P - Pet Peeve: Late people and my whole family is always late
Q - Quote from a movie: "Now your just coming off as stupid."
S - Siblings: Danielle, Amanda, Dillon Keaton, Nikki
T-Time you wake up: Weekdays 5:00 weekends when ever I feel like it.
U- Underwear: Garms
V - Vegetable you dislike: none that i can think of.
W - Ways you run late: I hate being late.
X - X-rays you've had: hummmmmm
Y - Yummy food you make: Dessert. taco pie (that I still need to get to Michele)
Z - Zoo favorite: Gotta love the monkeys

How Do You Know When It is Cold????

Yes this is the Green River in front of my house and it froze. Is is cold. burrrrr

Can't wait for spring.

Halloween 2009

So I know that I am super behind on this post but I needed to get caught up because I use this to journal. So the day before Halloween the boys decided that they wanted to go deer hunting and camping with their dad and grandpa in Colorado instead of going trick or treating. So at first I thought good for me but then that night I was sad. So Taylor, Nikki and I went to hang out with my Grandma Mecham . Here are some pictures of the night, above is my sister Amanda and my nephew Luke.
Here we have the hippie sisters Danielle and Amanda with the nerd Justin and the punk Keaton.

Danielle and Amanda yes my sister's got all the looks.

Justin dressed as himself lol.

Mission Call

So yesterday my baby brother Keaton received his mission papers. He is going to Oaxaca Mexico. I will get pictures of the big event. He does not leave until March 17th. Congratulations Keaton. We know you are really excited.

Taylor turns Thirteen

Oh wow I can not believe that I am the mother of a teenager. I just hope and pray that she has better sense than I did. lol She is such a good kid. We finally gave in and gave her a cell phone for her birthday. She has to help pay for it every month, I think that helps them to appreciate what they have a whole lot more.

Haegen told me that he wanted a cell phone and I started to laugh. I said Haegen Taylor is thirteen and just barley got one. I swear kids think that they are 20 years old now a days.

Quick Catch Up

Wow I went to one of my friends blogs and noticed that mine said last updated 4 weeks ago. Wow I knew that I was slacken' but holy cow, four weeks.
So just a quick run down on life. Not much to report. I have been subbing alot and loving every min of it. I subbed last week at the middle school in the special ed department and absolutely loved every min of it. Every one of those kids just stole my heart.
Well I have two birthdays done and one more one it's way. Rhett and Haegen had there birthdays and had fun now I have Taylor's next week..... that's right everyone I will officially be the mother of a teenager. (sigh) That is weird. I am not old enough lol.
Well this weekend I will try to get pictures on here of Grandpa's big elk and birthday party's.

Our New Fisherman, and Not So Big Bucks

So one night Rhett was across the river and Haegen came in and said mom can I go fishing. I thought sure why not. So he went and got worms from grandpa and went right in front of the house to fish. Well not 5 min. later he came up to the house with a catfish on yelling mom I got one. He was so excited. He took it off put it in a bucket of water and went back down to catch three more that night. He was so proud of himself. Bryce just liked to stand my and watch. He is not much for standing still and being quiet.

Not Rhett will be mad that I even bothered with this. lol He says it's not the horns you eat. (Tell yourself that hunny.) So we got the Deer hunt over and the Elk is still on. I think he got so much crap on his deer that he will hold out for a decent elk.

He said he only shot it because the kids said that they wanted to see a Deer. ......Right. Who wanted to see a dead deer?

More Boys.....

Ok my poor little niece Ellcie.  Here is how the grandkid list goes.

Taylor--girl

Braxton--boy

Haegen--boy

Bryce--boy

Ellcie--girl

Luke--boy

Carver--boy

now Dillon and Heather are going to have another boy.  Way exciting but poor little Ellcie.  Don't get me wrong she is so cute and it doesn't bother her in the least.  She knows how to hang with the boys but, be a girl all the same.

Congratulations Dillon, Heather and baby Carver.

Found My Calling

So as I mentioned in my last blog, I am substitute teaching this week for my Uncle Chris Manwaring who got the new Art teacher job at the High School as the old one retired. 

(Good Job Chris)  Well I have absolutely loved it.  I have been in between decisions lately.  I was thinking about going to the Prime Cut Academy because I do like to do hair and it only takes about a year to get through it.  Well ever since I was in high school I wanted to be a high school teacher.  Well instead of pursuing that I got married and started a family.

So any way I was talking to my Grandma Manwaring and Uncle Chris one day, and they really gave me some good advice.  They had me ask myself some good questions to.  Like do I want a fast fix to a job or follow my dream.  Well so I thought well ya I think being an elementary teacher would be the job for me.  Well after subbing this week at the High School  that is where I want to be.  I absolutely loved High School myself and the kids are really great here.  You don't have to babysit because they are old enough to know what they should be doing and you just need to help them stay on track.  Don't get me wrong I know that there is alot more to it then that and I have no idea after one week what it is all about, but I just love this age.  Well after I finish school which I have not even started I might have a change of mind but as for now here I am.

So after talking to my Grandma and Chris and a good friend from my past I have decided to go to school.  That is really a scary decision.  But, it will all be worth it in the end.  Right???

See I'm not even done with this entry and I have second thoughts on age groups.  I teach the eight year old class in primary and I think that they absolutely great and would be fun to teach also.........

School...School and School

So I am one blog slackin mama lately.  I didn't even get pictures of my kids first day of school.  How sad is that.  

Taylor started the seventh grade this year.  I so can not believe that I have a seventh grader.  She like school as much as a 12 year old would.

Haegen is in 1st this year and he had a rocky start.  I loved every min. of kindergarten but I think that was hugely related to his very best friend and neighbor was in his class.  This year the first week I heard I hate my new school.  It's to long and it's to hot.  But, now we are doing Lot's better.

Bryce, oh my little Bryce.  He is in Pre school again this year and of course he hates it.  Any thing requiring him to sit and listen he hates.  

I am subbing at the High School all this week so the grandma's are in charge of getting Bryce to school.  He already pulled the I'm sick card yesterday.  So if he goes to school he gets to come home and pick out a hot wheels car.  i know bribes not good, but what do you do with a 5 year old.

Carver's First Party

My brother's baby had his first birthday party he was so cute.He dug right in to his cake.

The kids found the candy.

Carver loves balls and books. I have never seen a kid his age sit and play as good as he does. He will find books and sit down and read them it is so cute.

Then all the big kids had to go and climb the big tree of course.

Fishing and Other Fun Things.

Well Rhett went to Oklahoma with is brother and Cousin and went fishing and boating and had a great ol time from what I hear. I am still thinking of what I can do for my own vacation. While Rhett was gone the boys thought that was free range to sleep with mom.
We went to Josie's cabin. It is amazing that there is so much that we take for granted here. There is alot of things to do just in our back door.

Great Views

Hiking around, the kids love lizard hunting,

So not much but I guess I better try to keep up on my blog better.

Wrecked Cars

Yesterday Rhett's mom was taking Haegen to school and her tire fell off and she ran off the road. We wondered if Haegen broke his arm but he didn't it was just really sore.
Then a few weeks ago my dad hit a deer just on the highway.

ouch!!!

Glad it wasn't me.

Bryce Gets Blamed for Everything

Bryce had a bad couple of weeks. Here he was fishing with Rhett and he fell off the pump house and hit his face on a metal post. His face was sore and swollen. Then after exploring in Grandpa Kevin's field he got stung on the eye by a bee.

So the other day Grandma Ila was missing some raisin bread and she said Bryce did you feed it to your rabbit's? Well he all defensive and said why I get blamed for evysing (everything). Poor Bryce he is so picked on.

Happy Birthday Baby Carver

Happy First Birthday to my favorite little Carver. You are such a funny little guy, you love, love, love books. At your birthday party you got some books and opened them right up and started to read them. You are the biggest little cuddle bug I have ever met. You haven't seen me very much but you just cuddled up to me and loved me until grandma took you.

Happy Birthday baby We all love you.

Picture's...Picture's and More Picture's

Well I just had to post more pictures from when Kristi took our picture's and boy were the kids crazy. Here is my brother Dillon his wife Heather and their baby Carver.
Here is my sister Danielle and Justin's daughter Ellcie she is four.

I like this one of Taylor looking out at the pond.

Here is Carver throwing dirt. He loved the dirt it was so funny. When we would pick him up he would fuss and try to get back down to play in the dirt.

This is a typical photo my Haegen and Bryce wrestling around. I swear I need to put those two in wrestling.

All the kids took off down the road to go exploring, that is their favorite thing to do. To get them to come back we had to tell them that there are coyotes. Bryce is scared of them because you can hear them howling at night down here on the river.

Here is more of Dillon and his family.

More of the kids running wild. Thanks Kristi for being so patient.

Then my brother in law Justin and his Lucas. He loves his daddy.

This one shows Danielle and Justin's kids personalities perfectly.

I love this one of all the cousin's I think it shows their personalities also.

Then my kids, yes trying to get them to hold still was nearly impossible. Haegen was more concerned with his stick then the pictures.

Then we get my little sister Nikki and my Taylor posing like the best friends that they are.