The senior games in St. George

Dad and I went to St. George this week and he played in the Huntsman Senior world games in basketball. He left on Monday and I went down on Wednesday with Steve Peterson and his wife Polly. I didn't want to drive down by myself so that was nice of them to take me down. They played teams from Oregon, Montana, Canada, and Utah. They Played for the gold on Friday and they played well and were ahead the whole game and lost it at the end by 4 points so they got the silver. They played a Montana team that had not been beat so that was pretty good I think. Dad was certainly feeling the effects of playing a game everyday for the week. They played 4 ten minute quarters so the games were full games and these old guys aren't used to that. I don't think I have ever seen so many tall old guys in my life, some of the teams even had 7 footers! Dad was one of the big men on the team so he had to defend some pretty big guys. I had fun walking around the main streets of St. George. Dad spent most of his time at the library because he had to finish a class for work and it had to be done by friday. We drove home after the game on Friday and were home by 10pm. It was a fun week!!

Hersheypark in the Dark!

So, we've had a pretty exciting weekend. It all started off with a good old fashioned church cleaning. We were the only family to volunteer to clean the church this week, so it took us a little longer than expected. Jaedon was a pretty good helper for about 15 minutes, and then he spent the rest of the time in the nursery playing with toys. We treated ourselves to a wonderful lunch at McDonalds as a reward for our hard work.

We then went to Old Navy and got Olivia a costume for Halloween. We didn't have much to choose from, so we went with the pumpkin. She was pretty cute.

We then got Jaedon dressed up and headed off to Hersheypark.

It was fun as always at the park. We went on a lot of rides, we trick or treated at Treatville, and played some games. The first game we played we won big! I saw this game over by the frogger, one of Jaedon's favorite rides. I decided to walk over and see how it was played. They stacked four wooden blocks on a platform and you were given two softballs. If you knocked all the blocks off the platform with the first throw, you won a huge stuffed dog. If it took you two throws, you won a little stuffed dog. I watched as people threw $10 and $20 worth of softballs trying to win the big prize, none of which were even close. The game only cost a dollar, so thought it would be fun to give it a shot. I hadn't pitched since I was a little leaguer and walked 7 batters, beaned 2 batters, and gave up a grand slam bunt all in just 1/3 innings of work. Needless to say, I wasn't allowed back on the mound after that incidence. So, naturally, I didn't have high expectations for actually winning this game. Jaedon and I stepped up to the booth and we gave it a shot. Sure enough, on the first toss I knocked off all of the blocks! I felt sorry for the poor saps next to me that had spent a lot of money without having won a thing. They all asked me how I did it and where I aimed. I told them it was just plain luck. It was still quite the adrenaline rush.

And that about wraps up our weekend. Hope you all had a good one as well!

Can't figure it out

You would think with the birth of my fourth child that I have everything figured out with kids. Well I don't. I am still trying to figure out the best time to leave the house without interrupting anyone's naps. Yesterday we left after Bryce finished his morning nap and then Evan fell asleep in the car. So Evan slept for 30 minutes in the car and didn't nap the rest of the day. So he was cranky and I was going to put him to bed early. Well he developed an ear infection and I didn't notice until dinnertime. So we took him to the doctor and the pharmacy. So he was up later and was a nightmare because he wouldn,t take his medications but he didn't feel well.

ok i just wanted to see if this works and if i can send letters and pictures so here it goes.

Hammerin' Hank!

It sure has been good hearing from you all. Mel's B-day was a success, I guess. Unfortunately for her, I'm not big on B-days and I'm a horrible party planner. I can barely manage getting presents. For the first time in my life, I bought her photoshop about 1 month in advance. Then Adobe decided to come out with a new version during that time. Just my luck! It's one of those darned if you do, darned if you don't kind of things.

I thought I would post a movie of Jaedon playing baseball. He's dressing up as Derek Jeter this Halloween, so I decided he needed to swing like a champ. With just a couple days of practice, I think he's ready for the T-ball league!

Greatest day of the year!! (according to me)

So yesterday was my birthday and I turned 27!! I can't believe I am 27, I am getting old!! But it was a pretty good day. In the morning Jon made breakfast and then of course had to leave for school. But when he was done with classes he came home, (about lunch time), and we opened some presents. I got a shirt, Adobe Photoshop 5 (YEAH!!), and Jaedon gave me a big tin bucket of chocolate, or as Jaedon says it, cockers!! Then Jon had to leave again and do stuff for school, but when he got home he made the best dinner ever!! For appetizers we had boneless honey BBQ chicken wings, with a homemade honey mustard sauce. It was good! For a drink I mentioned a lime ricky. Well, in our searching for a recipe, I found out that this is an alcoholic beverage. I always thought that it was just an Artic Circle drink. Poor little innocent Utah girl that I am!! But we got the next best thing with lime in it. Coke! (with lime). Then for dinner my chef made salmon, rice and asparagus. It was very delicious! Then the best part was dessert. Peanut butter brownies with a cream cheese frosting, and with ice cream. It was to die for!!! But it was a very good day. Thank you to all who sent cards. I loved them, and wish you all could have been here to join in the fun!

Try this again

I am trying this again! I deleted my old google account and started all over, but that still didn't work (I wasn't able to upload the pictures). I then thought that I should try going through explorer as my browser instead of Mozilla (which we usually use) and it worked!! YEAH So I will post some more pics in a little bit.

This is Kace on his first day of Preschool. He was very excited and enjoys this preschool very much. Last year it was more of a glorified play time with some crafts and projects. This year they actually learn something (it seems like to me anyway) and it is much more productive. He has fun and has made lots of friends. He especially likes that he is the only five year old in his class.

Mel sorry my typing skills are not very good and I was trying to see where I should type the explanation of the pictures and I chose that one sorry I am a novice!

Photo's from Dad's camera

Dad wanted me to downlaod some of his pictures from his camera and as you will see some of these photo's are old. Mac, Isaac, and Nate are in the first ones and the last pictures are from yesterday when they shot the turkey and we ate it for dinner today. It was good it tasted like turkey!

Silly Mom

Mom do you realize that you put October "24th". It is the "14th". And you typed, well it seemed like you typed your "post" or message in the "label box" instead of in the place to type your message. Which is the BIG white box just up above the "label" box. You are silly mom, but I still love you!! And am glad I am apart of this family!

Melvin and friends

I have been meaning to post these pictures for awhile now so you could see that the best fishing in Utah is in Wyoming. We had alot of fun and caught some nice lunkers.

Deer in the canyon

This morning when I was looking out the window there were all of these deer coming over the cattle guard. I went out on the porch and took pictures and they just looked at me like I was a strange person. Maggie and Lily even walked up the steps and the deer just looked at them. I don't think the dogs even knew they were there. So I am sending a picture of the deer.

Sunday October 24,2007

Little Livy

So here are some pictures of Olivia in this very cute dress. We were able to get her smiling again, but this time it was for sure gas, because shortly after she filled her pants and it leaked out the FRONT!! Never seen that done before, but we have never had a girl before either and things have been differently compared to Jaedon.

BUBBLE BATH!!!

So I know that I already sent this video in an email, but it just cracks me up when Jaedon gets excited about things. The face he makes and then the way he says things. Unfortunately he doesn't really make the face in this video though, but is still very cute and funny how he says it. And he was so interested in the bubbles that he didn't really say it like he does either, but you can kind of tell how he does or would say it. And I wish you all could be here to watch him, watch himself. That is another funny site to behold as well!
Like Jon said in his post, Jaedon got his haircut and looks SO much better! I really like the nice clean haircuts, no shaggy do's in this house. But it was so nice to cut his hair and not have to fight him. The mirror trick seemed to work!

Count Me In!

I've just been blogging for a couple of days now, and I really enjoy it even though it is not my thing, Mel. Although, anything requiring some capacity of tech saviness is enough to get my fire of desire burning! This weekend has been a great one by my standards. No studying!!! I took a horrible pulmonology test on Friday. Anybody know what the second most common reason for failure of pharmaceutical intervention in treating asthma is? I didn't even know what the most common reason was, let alone the second most common. You would think that in med school they would stop testing trivial material and get into the nitty gritty of biochemical pathways, pathophysiology, and treatment for common and complex disease processes. Anyway, I start my renal block on Monday, so I have been enjoying my weekend off. Jaedon and I got matching haircuts. He did a great job of sitting still, although we had to bribe him with a treat and bubble bath. We let him hold Mel's mirror and that distracted him for the most part. We also went to Chocolate World today to get Mel a birthday present. Jaedon picked it out all by himself and I thought his choice was an excellent one. I just hope Mel shares with us! And Mel, I drifted in and out of Sister Beck's talk, but from what I remember I kind of felt the same way. I didn't feel inadequate, but I did feel like I needed to try harder to be a better parent. Funny how our thought processes are similar, but at far different ends of the spectrum if you know what I'm saying. And if you don't know what I'm saying, I'll just explain it to you tonight, ha ha. And I know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, but Hillary and Barak were at the top of my presidential list. I guess I'm just a liberal at heart.

Boys, get with it!

So all of the men are lacking, except for my husband. I know you are probably not very excited or "in to it", but it would be funner if you contributed stuff. Caitlin and Rachel you have signed on to be contributers but have not contributed. Rach, I know you have an excuse, I did send it again by the way. I wonder if maybe you need to delete your blog at first too. Well, just see how it goes this second time. So here is a question for all of you, well I guess for mainly the women, what did you think about Sister Beck's talk. I only heard bits and pieces, but from what I heard I felt inadequate or lacking as a mother, and that I need to do more. And here is a question for all, who were your top politician picks from, I think it was Rachel's email. Mine was Mitt. Love you all!!

My Trip to PA

Mel, Jaedon, Jon and Olivia on the docks at Inner Harbor. This next picture is of us before we went to church.

This is when we were at Hershey Park and Mel won this stuffed Bert for Jaedon. He was so proud of it and it was almost bigger than he was. Olivia is such a good baby and just went along with us and slept most of the time.
Jaedon Grandma Jones and Olivia, Thanks for the fun time I had while visiting!

Jaedon and I in Inner Harbor

This is when Mel and Jon came to [ick me up from the airport, We had to wait until 9:30 to pick up my luggage so we went to Inner Harbor in Baltimore and had dinner and looked at the sites. It was so good to see the Bassett family in person!

Evan was tired

Well all of my boys have been sick this week to some extent. Evan just was too tired to stay awake anymore.
Bryce is growing but is still happy. He is now 17 lbs at just 3 months. So needless to say he is hungry all the time. I am trying to feed him cereal, but he is still really young and has the shove everything out with your toungue reflex still. We are working on it though since he has gone from sleeping through the night to wanting to eat every 3 hours at night.
Doug is in Pahrump(a little town outside of Las Vegas) today and then he will be in Elko on Monday. His work did promise exciting business travel.