Oh ya, I had a great Valentine's Day

I don't have pictures, but believe me I am one spoiled wife. Cade bought me a really pretty sort of antique-ish looking clock with a pendulum. It matches my bedroom colors perfectly and I can't wait to hang it up....we just haven't had time yet. And just when I thought he did such a great job with his gift, he pulled out a little box. Inside was a bracelet and I thought it was so pretty and then he made it even better when he told me they are real diamonds (1/3 karot total) set in sterling silver. I'm still not sure if I should've been mad at him for spending so much though when we don't really have all that much money, but I just couldn't be mad because I love it so much.

However, we did save money by cooking dinner at home instead of going out to eat. I decided I'd rather cook and spend a little extra on his gift than go out to eat. I got him a good looking black polo-type shirt, a new bottle of my favorite-smelling cologne--Lucky You, and a Dallas Cowboys necktie. I was hoping to find a more dressy shirt that could go with the tie, but that didn't work out. Anyways, we had fun and the best thing was that we got to spend lots of time together last weekend with the holiday Monday.

Such Cute Kids

I've decided posts without pictures are not so much fun and I never know what to say. So here's just some cute pictures of the kids.



Jaylee with her daddy's elk antlers. She's almost as tall as them.



Jaylee being an elk using railroad track pieces as antlers. At first she just had one on each side, but then she told me she would "grow bigger" and added anther piece to each side.....she does a great elk call too.




Rance trying to read a book. Forget the kids' books, he's going straight for the novels.

Daddy Jed and Rance comparing tongues......now we see where Jaylee gets her really long tongue, too.

This is my favorite picture of all. He just looks so sweet.

Kinley's 3rd Birthday

Sometimes I wonder what thoughts go through kids' brains.....so here are my interpretations based on what we caught on camera.



Kinley: "How the heck am I going to get this thing open?"
Jaylee: "Don't worry sis, I'm here to help."



Kinley: "Well that was fun, what's next?"



Jaylee: "Sweet, I can't wait to play with this."



Kinley: "Yay, a bear."
Jaylee: "I wanna see too."



Kinley: "Get away from my bike; this is mine."

Kinley: "This is the closest thing you're getting to a smile for the camera."

Photo Tag

4th Folder 4th Picture...
Paige tagged me to do the following
Here are the rules:
1. Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on the computer
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder
3. Explain the picture
4. Tag 4 people to do the same
5. No cheating (cropping, editing, etc)

This is my brother Cory helping Cade make a fire to burn the rest of our garbage before we left for home. The dog in the background is Itchy. Usually these two are good at making fires, but they didn't have much success with this one. They basically burned everything by hand then we took the rest of it with us.

I tag: Caci, Karli, Heather, Aly

A Few Pictures

So I'm really bad about downloading pictures from my camera so here are some random ones from the last couple of weeks.

Cade putting in our new dishwasher....yes we bought a dishwasher. I love not having to wash dishes anymore.

We gave Missy a bath after she peed on herself in her "cage" on our drive home from Holden. She looked so tiny all wet. She didn't much like the water though.

I got a perm and I'm loving how fast I can style it. Just get out of the shower, scrunch it with mousse and go. This picture is just before we went to the first of many theatre performances.

Cory and Cade trying to build a tower out of playing cards.

Cory finally got a second layer to stay up....for about a second; just long enough for me to snap the picture. Cade did one almost as good, too but I didn't get a picture of it. Sorry Cade.

School report

School is going well so far this year. Cade is taking an Arts Symposium class which requires he attend 20 different fine arts performances. Since he doesn't want to go alone we get me tickets too and make it a date night. So just about every Friday and some Saturdays we get to go on a "required" date. The first one we went to was the Hot Club of San Francisco. It was a group that played gypsie jazz music to old silent films. There are so many fun things we get to see this semester and I'm so excited for almost all of them although some look a little lame from the descriptions. Cade is also taking some other general ed classes like English and Math and is still trying to decide if he should switch majors or not. Right now his major is Ag Communications & Journalism with and emphasis in Public Relations. He hasn't really enjoyed his journalism classes though and is considering changing to Ag Technical Systems (I can't remember the exact title of the major) and get an emphasis in business. Then he could be a diesel mechanic and also have a background in business. Luckily most of his credits will transfer to the other major since they are both Ag degrees and in the same department even.

I am in the home stretch of school now. I start 2 new classes next week (our classes are 4 weeks long each and we only have 1 or 2 at a time). Then I have 3 more classes plus a CNA course and then my Pharmacy Tech externship and I'll be completely done. When I'm done I'll have an associate's degree in Medical Specialties and I can choose various areas to certify in. I'm choosing Pharmacy Tech, CNA, and medical coding/billing (I don't technically have to certify to work in this area though). I'm so excited to be done. My externship should be finished mid July.

just makes me angry

I recently found out about a piece of legislation that Obama plans to sign the minute he is officially in office. It's called the Freedom of Choice Act. What this act does is to make all forms of abortion legal nationwide. Individual states no longer have a choice on the matter. From what I understand, abortions will be able to be performed at any time during the pregnancy. Also, live born babies with problems from a failed abortion can be left to die with no medical treatment at all. Not only this, but it forces doctors and nurses to go through with an abortion whether they want to or not. Even Christian-based facilities must abide by this law which goes against every fiber of their beliefs.


It's amazing to me how many years ago murder was defined as the shedding of innocent blood. Well either that definition has changed or unborn babies are no longer considered innocent. The very idea of this law being passed makes me furious and sick to my stomach. It's cruel, selfish, and inhumane. "Freedom of Choice" they call it.......well what about the choice of that innocent baby? If you feel the same way you can go to http://www.fightfoca.com/ to sign a petition that just might make Congress think twice about passing this new Act.