Jeff and Bree

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

It has been forever since I've posted, but with good reason...we got a virus on our computer (from facebook)and it has been such a head ache. We are hoping it is taken care of, but I am still not sure...the hacker apparently had access to everything I've ever done on the computer... SCARY!!! I seriously can't believe there are people out there who have nothing better to do with their time than hack on to my computer...I mean really, I am not that interesting, nor do I have much money to steal, nor am I that hot that someone would want to stalk me (ha ha). AHH! So, I will hopefully be posting again soon, but not positive.
Any way here is our good news, we bought a house! It is in the subdivision we are already in, so no ward or school changes. It has a lake view and it is on the (corner of) the golf course. We are excited! Hopefully if this lame hacker stays off my computer I will be able to post some pictures.

My (not so) little Evan turned 9 in March (big sigh :0( ) and I owe that sweet kid a post. It was a big year for him... he got baptized, he moved 3 times, he rode on an airplane for the first time, and visited many new places, these were just a few of his highlights. The move has been the hardest on him, but I would say in the last 1-2 months he has finally settled in. He's got some really good friends now and loves his school. He is still a sweet heart, but has started to develop a "smart-alic" side to him. In his 3rd grade program he was Posiden. He had a really big speaking part and sang a song with just two other boys, he did soo good. Once he got the part down, he kept wanting to ad-lib...he was pretty sure he could say the parts better than the writer of the play.

Evan's current favorites are.....Color-black
His Best Friends- Alex and Jeremy
His favorite movie- How to Train a Dragon
When grows up he wants to be an inventor
His favorite book is "Star Wars the Clone Wars"
His favorite song is "Eye of the Tiger" and "Right Round"
His favorite food is-pizza, tacos (meat and cheese only), and ice cream
His favorite toy- Wii (his life line), and his star wars millennium falcon
His hero- Thomas Jefferson (he just did a big report on him and had to dress like him to give the report...so cute)
His favorite TV show- this one I've always done before, so wanted to do it again, but it was really hard for him to come up with one since we don't have TV, but he said at Grandma's he likes "Ben 10"
I was getting all sad he was NINE when my husband so kindly pointed out, "Well, just think... next year he'll be in the double digits!" Oh snap! That is old! He is such sweet guy. He is really helpful and we love him to death.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

HAPPY ST. PAT'S!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from us all! Hope your day was as fun as ours! We had our traditional green breakfast for dinner (we've done this for 8 years), all green M&M's, cute new green shirts from Grandma Sharon (thank you Grandma Sharon!!!), this year we added rainbow cupcakes (I found in Family Fun), and some dang good shopping

I have to share my shopping from today. I don't know how I lived without CVS! I love it! This is what I got (there are two lip glosses you can't see very well)....

I paid $4.20 and saved $70.79 PLUS I got $6 off my next purchase...so I came out ahead! YEAH!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Our week

This Sunday we went on a little adventure after church. Jeff had heard about this bridge, but we weren't really sure where we were going. Turns out it wasn't very far and we can't wait to go back! It is the "worlds longest single span wood truss covered bridge." It was so cute and the river under it was beautiful! I was wising I had a really cool camera that I could play with the pictures from this place, but alas, I still have my crappy camera that is trying to die, but I still got some cute pictures.

Evan got his wolf the other night and was super excited to become a bear in boy scouts. This is Jeff and Evan doing their "wolf cheer."

The other night I was cutting Jeff's hair and Paxton said he wanted his all cut off *tear, sob, sigh* so here's the new Paxton-with no curls.

Apparently Cooper feels I'm not feeding him enough lately because he is helping himself to things!

Those cinnamon rolls were ones I had made for young women's. Good thing they had burned a little, so I had to make something else anyway.

And here's one of Rilynn because we can't leave her out

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Good week

THIS

PLUS THIS

= $19.04

That's some good shopping this week

Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Year's letter

About the time I should be starting to work on a Christmas letter, we decided that we would be moving a week after Christmas. So, I decided to to write a New Year's letter.
This year started out with a trip to McCall's ice festival. On the last day we were there, Jeff kept getting phone calls from people he worked with saying they had just got laid off and wanted to say how much they had enjoyed working with him. He got so many calls we started feeling a little uncomfortable and come to find out, he lost his job as well. It wasn't long before we heard about a possible job opportunity in Sacramento. In March they flew us out to check it out, and we decided to take the leap.

At the end of March we went to the Oregon Coast with my family for a week before we all went our separate ways (us to CA and my brother's family was moving to OR) we had a blast. Jeff started his new job (a manager of a Chevron/Quiznos) in Auburn California in the middle of May. The kids and I waited until school was out and moved down in June. We LOVE it here! We've been to San Francisco twice, Santa Cruise, and of course Sacramento. It is beautiful, if only California wasn't so stinking expensive it would be perfect!
Evan is 8 and he started 3rd grade and is enjoying it. He is video game junkie. One of his favorite things right now is scouts. He misses his friends in Boise, but is making new ones and loves being closer to his cousins that live here.
Paxton is 5 and has started kindergarten. Kindergarten here is all day, and he loves every minute of it. He's starting to do a lot of reading and loves to tell me all about his day when he gets home. He took swimming lessons this summer, although he has always been a little fish, he is a much safer fish now.
Rilynn is now 3 and is a social butterfly, everyone is her best friend. She is girly, sweet, sassy, bossy, and tough all rolled into one little body. She started a little joy school just one day a week, but she wishes it were 5 days a week. I'm pretty sure she really one cares about the socializing part though.
Cooper is now a year and a half and is the biggest handful I've ever experienced. He climbs, breaks, dumps out, and destroys anything in sight. On the other hand is is my biggest cuddler I've ever had. He also has very cute dimples that save his life daily. He such a fun baby to have.
Jeff loves his new job. He's playing indoor soccer and basketball each once a week. He's such a fun dad and had alot of fun playing with the kids at the lake in our neighborhood this summer. He has made a lot of new friends and has many "man dates" with them. In August I was visiting Boise and Jeff called and told me he had booked a Mexican 6 night cruise for our 10 year anniversary and for my 30th birthday. We went in October and had an amazing time. Cabo San Lucas is beautiful and a cruise was such a relaxing yummy calorie filled way to spend our time. I can't wait to go on another.

I am staying busy with four kids, it's the best job I could ever hope for. I work in Evan's class once a week and as an art docent in Paxton's class. I am in the young women's presidency which has been so much fun. We miss our family and friends in Boise, but we are loving it here. I truly feel very blessed everyday.

I hope you all are doing well and this year brings you much happiness!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Santa is Rich

Jeff and I went Christmas shopping and when we got home Jeff unloaded "Santa's loot" while I went and got the boys from our friends house. It was pretty late when we got home, and we knew the kids were just going to go to bed, so Jeff just threw the presents on the bed (we had just gotten them one present each from Costco-so they weren't in any bags). Paxton went in our room and comes out and says, "I'm sorry, I just saw the presents"....O.H. S.N.A.P! We aren't giving them presents from us this year, so we couldn't use that to play it off...we were totally busted. I told Jeff to tell him Santa brought them early or something...ANYTHING, so Jeff takes Paxton downstairs and this is their conversation.
Jeff, "Paxton, I have to tell you a secret, but you can't tell anyone. We saw Santa tonight."
Paxton, "Santa? Where were you?"
Jeff, "We were at Costco and he asked us to do him a favor, to save him a trip. You can't tell anybody, but Santa doesn't always make all of the toys, he buys some of them."
Paxton, "I know, he's rich! Did everybody talk to Santa?"
Jeff, "Some people did, not everybody."
Paxton, "Did he talk to the bad people?"
Jeff, "No, he doesn't talk to bad people. So..., which present did you want?"
Paxton, "What were they again?"
That kid cracks me up! He also just had his school music program. Apparently they talked about enunciation because Paxton enunciated the heck out of those songs! His mouth was moving so big it looked like he was trying to bite into a triple cheeseburger. I couldn't stop laughing. I tried to get it on video, but the head of the chick in front of Paxton kept getting in the way and for some reason I can't get the little amount of video that I recorded to download.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Aug. 19, 2011 Rilynn says, "I thought I was going to be 5 on my birthday!?" I said, "You are 5 today!" Rilynn says, "But then why is Chrissy still taller than me?"
July 2011 If you ask Rilynn what her middle name is, she says, "Rilynn Reed." Can you tell who gets in trouble the most?-that is actually Paxton's middle name.
May 27, Rilynn gives me a real flower for my hair and after I put it in, she tells Jeff "Mom has a flower in her hair that looks like a hack-a-lugie."
May 20, 2011 Jeff tells the kids, "Don't talk to strangers, don't playin the road, & don’t smoke cigarettes." Rilynn asks, "What’s a smigerette?"
March 2010 Cooper is saying family prayers and sees Rilynn (who he calls Yah Yah) with her eyes open. He stops his prayer and yells, "Yah Yah, go night night!"
Jan 15, 2011 Eating breakfast Jeff asks, "Pattie, or Link?" Paxton says," Why did you name them?" Jeff was asking what kind of sausage he wanted.
Aug.2010, Rilynn asks her teacher, "Why does your dad have that mustache?" It was actually her husband.
June 2010, We are looking at miniture horses and Evan says, "Oh, so this is what midgets ride."
May 2010, We gave a homeless man some food and we were explaining the whole homeless situation to Evan. Evan says, "We should invite him to stay the night at our house for a while!"
May 2010 Rilynn is sitting next to Jeff pestering him to do something. Jeff jokeingly says, "I will in a minute Rilynn, get off my back!" Rilynn says, "I'm not on your back...I'm on your chair!"
April 2010 At Paxton's school they did getting to know you papers, they had to fill in the blanks; it said My Dad...is a candy store worker.
April 2010 Jeff is changing his shirt for his soccer game and Rilynn, says, "I don't like your boobs."
March 10, 10 We are talking about owning farm animals and Paxton says, "I know why Dad wouldn't want a cow...because he doesn't want to squeeze it's tenders to get the milk out."
Jan 22,10 At the store and Rilynn sees cash register receipt rolls and says, "Look at this cute little toilet paper!"
Jan 2010, Rilynn currently calls the movie theater "the alligator" and she calls an umbrella a "gorrila"
Jan 20, 10 We are talking about the 10 commandments and I ask if they know what "Thou shalt not covet" means. Paxton says, "It means don't cut in lines." Then to "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they God in vain" Paxton says, "But we have to say it in the pledge of allegiance!"
Dec 4 09, I'm threatening Rilynn that if she doesn't take care of her toys, I will get rid of them. To this she says, "Well if you do that, you can't go to Paris!"
Nov 10, 09 Paxton is using his hands at dinner, completely ignoring the silverware placed before him and says, "But mom, did you know when the Indians were alive they always used their hands. And they only used one plate and all shared, that's gross!"
Nov 8, 09 Evan says to me, "I want to start fasting every Sunday." I said, "But Evan we only have to fast one Sunday a month." He says, "I know, but I want to be the prophet someday!"
Nov 1, 09 While listening to "Lay Your Hands on Me" by Bon Jovi, Evan asks, "Is he talking about lay your hands on me, like the priesthood?" holding his hands like during a priesthood blessing.
Oct 28, 09 Rilynn says, "Look Mom, it's a blue chicken!" It was actually a peacock.
Oct 17, 09 We were asking the boys where they want to go on their missions. Evan said, "Texas, so I can see an alligator-gar, or Boise."
Oct 15, 09 Rilynn noticing she had a bumpy rash says, "Mom, I have polka dots!"
Sept 28, 09 In family prayer Evan says, "And please bless you will destroy all the drugs and bad things in the world."
Sept 27, 09 Cooper's toes are pushed up against the bench at church and are all white. Paxton says, "His toes look like little cheetos."
Sept 26, 09 Evan, "Can we make a Mii that looks like Jesus?"
Sept 23, 09 Evan is teasing Rilynn and telling her she is a big boy, she says, "I'm not a big boy! I am a big girl boy!"
Sept 9, 09 We were reading about a fire station built in 1891, and Evan says, "I think that's when my mom was born."
Sept 8,09 Paxton asks, "If I get hot lunch at school, is my milk hot too?"
Aug 26, 09 We meet a lady while at the lake and she asks the boys how old they are. When Evan says he's 8, Paxton says, "And he got baptized!"
Aug 21, 09 Rilynn, "I see the lake!" Me, "yep there it is." Rilynn, "It wants me to come there!"
June 18, 09 To the tune "I am a Child of God" Rilynn sings, "Teach me all that I must do, to live with Grandma Sharon someday."
June 6, 2009 We have to walk through a casino to get to the restraunt and Evan gets all excited and says, "I didn't know they had video games here!"
June 1, 2009 I tell Paxton, "I'm losing my marbles!" He asks, "What marbles?"
May 21, 09 Rilynn asks Paxton for a piece of his gum. Paxton says, "You can only have this if you'll be nice and NEVER be mean again, and NEVER hit anyone, and NEVER bite Tyson, and you can't be grumpy ever again or you can never have another piece!" She says, "Okay." I think it was a whole 2 minutes before they fought again.
May 21, 09 Paxton pulls a tampon out of my purse and asks, "Is there gum in this?"
May 2, 2009 Getting ready to go to Evan's baptisim he asks, "Mom do you think I should take my googles?"
May 2, 2009 Evan asks Jeff, "If there are a lot of people getting baptized, can I go last so I can swim around after?"
April 09 I ask Evan, "Will you take me on a date?" He laughs and says, "NO! You're too old!"
April 09 Paxton asks, "How did Jesus get a baby in your tummy?" I say, "Mommy's have special eggs in them that grow into babies." Paxton says, "Eggs?! That's CRAZY! Will the eggs I eat turn into babies?"
April 09 While shopping at Pauls Rilynn has her own mini cart and is struggling to put a gallon of milk in it. I say, "Rilynn do you want me to help you with that milk? It is heavy." She says, "Yah put it in my freakin cart!"-oops that is totally from my vocab!
April 09 Evan and I are talking about Paxton's birthday and the presents he was getting. I said, "Evan, I don't want you to be jelous of your brother I want you to be happy for him when he gets a present." Evan says, "Well, I didn't want to be jelous either, that's why I had to make sure he wasn't getting more presents than me!"
March 09 I'm telling Paxton we're moving and Tyson and Logan are going to move into his room he says, "I don't want anyone to fart in my bed!"
March 09 Rilynn, "Dad you have your face on." She was noticing his gotee was growing back.
Feb 09 Rilynn says she needs to go pee, I say okay let's go. She runs down the hall, grabs herself and says, "Oh, my tenders!" This happens almost every day-thanks Kung Fu Panda
Feb 09 Evan is so excited about going into scouts and asks Jeff, "Dad what was the first thing you did in scout?" Jeff says, "I got my wolf and my bear." Evan's eyes pop out,"You shot them?!"
Feb 09 Jeff is leaving for a church meeting and Rilynn says,"Dad you forgot your scripture powers." (scriputres)
Feb 09 I showed Paxton the nerve twitching on my arm and he says, "It must be because all your fat."
Feb 09 While hiking I tell Rilynn, "Hold my hand okay." She says, "No, I hold myself okay."
Feb 09 Rilynn is pestering to color, I say, "Rilynn just a second...chill out." My 2 year old says with total attitude, "Okay I will chill out!"
Feb 09 Mom, "Look at my owie from soccer." Rilynn JUMPS off the couch, "Mom, you need me get you medicine?"
Feb 09 Paxton randomly says to Jeff, "Dad your a lousy tipper."
Jan 09 Rilynn is playing with paperclips and says to me, "Don't touch Mom, it is very dangerous."
Jan 09 Ev asks where we got the book "Chocolate Fever" (we are reading it together) and I tell him it was mine from when I was his age. Evan says, "Oh, I guess it's VERY OLD then!"
Jan 2009 We were talking about Grandma Anderson (who doesn't have any teeth left) Paxton says, "She has red teeth!"
Jan 2009 Evan and Tyler are talking about different places to vaction and Evan says, "I never want to go to Egypt, because I don't want to be a slave or a mummy."
Jan 2009 shopping at Target Rilynn is itching to go, so she says, "Come on Mom, I leaving you."
Jan 2009 when asked what Paxton wants for lunch he says, "I want a hamburger with no ham, just a burger."
Jan 2009 Paxton discovered he loved cucumbers and ranch at dinner. The next day he got pickles and alfredo sauce out of the fridge and said, "I want more of what we had last night!"
spring 2006 at preschool Evan says to his class mates, "Whoever loves Jesus raise you hand!" His friend Ryan didn't raise his hand, so Evan says, "Ryan don't you love Jesus?"