Monticello Trip

The weekend before Halloween we drove down to Monticello to see my cousins that live there. It is always nice to go see family and just chill. While we were there we went to Grandma Hansen's house and raked leaves. Of course you can't rake leaves without jumping in them.












Everyone got involved. It was way fun! The kids had a blast and were upset when we started bagging them up. Tyler even went as far to jump in the bag as we were putting the leaves in there. It was way funny!
Thanks Hoggards for letting us come and see you guys and stay at your nice new house! We love you all!

CEO Breakfast

We were able to attend a breakfast at Brandon's school this morning. His teacher nominated him to recieve the award called a CEO (Chief Example to Others) at Northlake. Brandon is doing so well in school he makes me so proud. His teachers have all always had such great things to say about him. He is currently carrying a straight A report card (minus a couple A+) :) I am so glad that he is a much better student than I was at that age....sorry mom! He is such a sweetheart to everyone. Just one example that I can think of that I wanna make sure gets written down somewhere is...One day he was ridding his bike to school with a group of kids from the neighborhood and one of the girls in the group had her tire go flat. Brandon stayed back with her and walked to and from school that day so she wouldn't be alone. What a GREAT kid I have been blessed with. LOVE YOU BUDDY! I can't get the video to upload :( I hope one day I can figure it out and post it someday.

Our Summer in a nutshell

So I decided that since the summer is over I will try to roll it all into one post. We did a lot of fun things this summer, I am sure I will forget most of them but here we go....
We started the summer off by moving to Tooele from Logan. That has been an adjustment for all of us. Being landlords has been good so far, I am sure glad we found good renters. The rest of June was spent trying to organize the new house (although it still isn't done). In July we had the Meadows reunion up in Joe's Valley. It is always a blast to see everyone. I spent the time visiting with everyone and jumping off of the rock into the water. After the reunion was the glorious occasion also known as my birthday. Of course July consists of the two "firework holidays". We love fireworks! Next comes August, nothing too exciting went on in August. I decided to go FT at my new job of 2 months at Chase bank...still deciding if it was the right choice, but there is no turning back now. It will be another adjustment for us all as I haven't worked FT time in about 2 and a half years (since I had Ty).



Brandon started 3rd grade at his new school called Northlake Elementary. He has enjoyed it so far...he was so excited to go and make some more friends. The only thing I have found humorous so far is he was glad to sit in the front of the class (he has been in the back the last 2 years) but on day 2 the teacher switched him to the back cause a kid was talking too much so he had to be moved. I guess that is a good thing...that he was moved because he was the good kid in class not the talker (at least not yet). I hope it stays that way.

I guess it is time

So we have lived in Tooele now for 3 weeks and I am still working on adjusting to the new place. We love the house but I miss Logan and the people there still. I also hate driving by the lights at the ballpark and not being able to stop and play. Andy is able to come home every other night, but it usually ends up being between 3-4 in the morning so we really don't see him any more than we did before. I am missing my yard too. We fixed the fence right before we moved so the boys were able to go out and play without me worrying about where they were. We have a fence here but no grass. One day we might...probably when it is too cold to play outside. I will take some pics once I get all the pictures hung up on the walls. I have started my new job at Chase, so far all I have done is computer training and a little shadowing. This upcoming week I will be training in Salt Lake for 3 days. The following week I will finally be able to sign on to a computer and help some people with their transactions. I think I am going to like it there once I get on and running. The people I work with are really nice. The only thing I am not excited about is the fact that they have a dress code which consists of black pants and blue or black shirts. That is going to get old fast! :) It will be good though.

I have also decided that I can't look at other people's blogs anymore. Everyone else is having so much fun and we have just sat around doing nothing for the begining of the summer. Now that July is here we will have so much going on that I will have something to post. I am also wanting to get some family pictures done sometime soon. So I will be putting them on here too.

Until Next Time...

One more day....

I decided to go ahead and write this up now, since it is now technically Friday and we are on our last day here in the beautiful city of Logan, Utah. We are all going to miss this place. It is a good thing it is only 1 hour and 42 minutes away. (Yes I clocked it on Wednesday) I went down for an interview. Anyway....I am going to miss all the wonderful people I have met while here these last 10 years. Many, many friends have been made. Also, many good things have happened to our family while we have been here. First off...when we moved here it was just the two of us, who knew starting out up here we would have 2 little boys in the time that we were here.

What a joy they are in my life! I love them so very much!
As we move on in our journey together we will continue to be blessed, I know we will. Change is always hard, but in the end...it all works out the way it is supposed to.

You can never beat the beauty that is up in the Cache Valley, but this picture of Tooele doesn't look to shabby either.
Stay tuned as we go about this change in our life, as always...I am sure it will delight those who follow along. :)

Week in Review....

SORRY...IT IS A LONG ONE...

Okay everyone, I have decided to write (type) down how I have been feeling this week. Started off the week with a last minute trip down to SL so I could have an interview with a branch down there, felt like it was a wasted trip the minute I got back in the car....leading to frustration that they wouldn't just do a phone interview first then a face to face, saving me the 3 hour trip. Turns out my suspicions were right, received a call on Wednesday that I did not receive the job. On Monday night the ladies I bowled with on Wednesday nights took me to dinner at Aggie's. I was bummed about the interview but they cheered me up really fast, I love them all. I was also able to ride the motorcycle to dinner so it was awesome! Of course at the end of dinner I went to being sad cause I realized it was the last time I would see them before I moved.
Tuesday was pretty uneventful, I worked all day so not much time for anything to happen. Got to watch Biggest Loser so that is always a good day. :)
Wednesday was disappointing with the phone call I received. Plus trying to figure out which mortgage company we were going with was starting to really grind on me. I turned it over to Andy and then stressed about what he was doing about it. I can't remember much about Wednesday so it must not have been too exciting either. Went and walked by the Logan river and saw how full it was. Tyler fell down a little bank and got his arm in the water, scared us both more than anything.
Next...Thursday...once again I worked all day, but that evening I went to Zumba and then some ladies in my ward threw a "going away" ice cream trip. I sat there in the little ice cream shop and took in all the people who loved me. Making me go through a whole slew of emotion in about one hour. I am going to miss everyone up here in Logan. I stayed out until 12:00 talking to 2 of the ladies that came, I think we were all just glad to get a break. We were standing in the rain for about 30 minutes of it.
Friday brought some packing, not very much is done. Everyone keeps asking me why I don't have much packed, all I can tell them is I have had to open the boxes I do have packed at least 4 times to look for something I didn't think I would need. But I did pack up a few things on Friday. Then that night we went to a ward dinner and then to get some more ice cream. Staying out until 10:30 with one of the same ladies I was out with the night before. Her name is Ashley and we became instant friends, making it even more hard to leave.
Now we are onto today (Saturday), once again I filled my day with activities to help me avoid packing and making it all come to an end. Three of my high school friends came up and we did lunch, then one hung out for a few hours then another one of my friends came over with her boys and we decided to go get more ice cream! In case you don't know this about me....I LOVE ICE CREAM!!! I did go to three different places so it is completely different, right?
The whole week was filled with the stress about the mortgage, finally on Friday we made a decision and we are now hoping to close by the 26th so we can move in on the 28th...that's right folks that is next Saturday! Only 7 more days! I better get moving on the packing thing. I pack when I am okay with the move and then when I start getting sad about the whole thing I stop. I do have some ladies from the ward coming over on Wednesday morning to help, but I don't want to have too much left for them to do. Of course by Wednesday I will be okay with everything being packed up, cause I really won't need any of it but some clothes and toiletries. I have such wonderful friends up here that they have invited us over for dinners Wed-Fri of next week so I won't have to worry about that. I just hope that one day I can be as great as everyone has been up here. Everyone sure is making it that much harder to leave!



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It is official!!

After about 10 months of saving chore money, birthday money, and any left out change Brandon is the official owner of a Lagoon season passport.

I decided after I finished my bowling tournament yesterday that I would surprise him with a trip to Lagoon. He was so excited he couldn't stop talking about it the moment he found out we were going.

He was a couple dollars short to pay for the whole thing so I told him the night before that I was planning on taking him but he didn't have enough money. We decided he could do some chores for the grandparents. He didn't have enough time to do them all that night so he had to write up a "contract" with Grandma Hadlock so he could come to her house and work off the money she gave him.
(sorry it is sideways) It was written on a lid from Cafe Rio. So funny!
Then we were off to Grandma Anderson's where he volunteered to clean her toilets and she said that was worth the rest of the money he needed, so we were off.
Before hand Brandon and I had made a deal...if he would go on the Wicked

then I would "buck up" and go on the Wild Mouse with him

So that is the deal for the whole summer, every time he goes on the Wicked with me I have to go on the Wild Mouse with him. I am sure hoping that he won't hold me to that. He really liked the Wicked....my opinion of the Wild Mouse didn't change (still scares the crap out of me)!
I was so proud of him being so big and riding on all of the big rides. He had been on most of them last year, but fell short on height for some, but he rode them this year with no problem. One of his big accomplishments was he opened his eyes in the loops of the Colossus

He was so excited when he did that. He says next time he will tip his head back and look for the track. He is so funny.
One interesting thing happened to us while on the Tidal Wave...

there are quite a bit of birds that like to fly around this particular ride, some small, some big. Well, we were just ending our ride when a big ole goose flew over it almost hitting us in the head. We screamed and ducked, meanwhile, the goose got the crap scared out of him too...literally! Brandon ended up with some of the evidence on his hands, arm, shirt, and shorts. GROSS! Not as gross as the poor kid a couple rows in front of us, he got it right in the face. Next time I will be wearing a poncho :)
It was way fun to go and enjoy the excitement he had the whole time we were there. Of course we rode the classics like the white roller coaster, musik express, jetstar 2, and the sky scrapper. At every turn there was a huge smile on his face! I am so proud of him saving up his money to get his passport. He decided last year that he wanted to do it and then did it.