Kyden

Baby Kyden has been in the hospital a few times. What a scare. I just have to say he is the cutest little boy I have ever kissed. I have been in Georgia with Kyden, Tasha and Zach since the 12th of March. I did get to see Tasha on her birthday something moms always like to do. I am thinking however that I just might be waring out my welcome here, and I sure do miss home.  We are still working on finding out what is going on health wise with the little guy. The kids are finally getting a few answers, but with more testing still to come and more answers needed. Kyden is growing and changing every day. I am blessed to have such a cute grandson. Even more blessed to have spent this time with him getting to know him. (sucky reason to be here but I will take it) Grandpa Kelly even got to come spend a few days with Kyden. (I sure enjoyed seeing him also) We believe we are on the up hill of this climb and that the sun will be shining on the top. I want to thank EVERYONE that has thought about us, prayed for the family, joined us in the fasting. I believe the blessing and prayers are being answered. Thank you so much, we love you all.



I just love these 2 boys!



I wonder if he has a headache?




He has just the cutest smile ever!!



This sums up our month!

We have been put into a blender it started on chop... and went through every stage before coming to a stop on puree. We are just greatful no one opened the lid to splash some of us out on the celing and walls or that no one has poured us out. : )

Now I know why I hated pictuers

 OK so this is going to be a bit hard for me, but here goes. I know why I hate my picture taken. It shows the truth. Now with 20 years passed by, I should have let people take them and then took a good hard look at what was there. I guess I was, well who know what I was thinking. I knew that I was not eating to much, for the most part I was just not eating enough, or at the right times. I also was not a fan of water, I wanted my coke. (Some times I still want one, funny thing is it really does not taste that good anymore.) So here is a bit of a time line. I guess saying things out loud makes me realize what needs to be done.
This picture in the red is from Tasha's wedding in December 2008 (YUCK sorry Tasha)

This one is from our Thanksgiving dinner at Millcreek in 2009 (YUCK YUCK)



Sorry this one is not a great picture but I think you can see some of it well enough. This one is cut from our family picture taken on Thanksgiving day 2009. In this picture I have cut my hair off. And I always thought short hair would make me look worse! Guess not. No really a few months before this picture I had changed a few things and lost a small amount of weight. BUT not enough. So in August I decided enough was enough and I have been work hard.

This last picture was taken on Christmas day 2010, I am pleased to see the progress I have made. In the family picture above I am finally not hiding behind something or someone. I still have lots of work to do this coming year! I have lost a total of 43 pounds between August and now.

This year my New Years resolution is to keep working and hope for great results! I can see the improvements in my face, and in my clothes. Sh'Kell will not go shopping with me because my pants are to baggy in the butt! (And she is right, some will just fall off if not for a belt)  I am running out of shirts to ware, they are turning into dresses. lol Today I have one of Kelly's tee shirts on!  I hope others can see some of the progress I have made. I have had great support at home from Kelly and the girls. Also I need to give my mom a great big thanks for being the one to do this with me and keep me on track. Love you all and I hope to keep this goal rolling.  This just might be the year I do it. I also need to give a HUGE thanks to two very special people in my life. Heidi and Kathleen my great friends and motivators at work. I could not have done any of this with out all your kind words and challenges! I am going to keep on trucking and save some money for a shopping trip this summer with mom. By then we will need new clothes!

Our grandson Kyden Zachary Holt
December 9th @ 1:00 am he finally came to visit.
7 pounds 1 ounce and 20.5 inches.

I am not sure what the funny smile is from. I guess it might be from lack of sleep and excitment!

Kyden is such a sweet little boy. I sure do miss him~

WOW hard to think that Kelly and I are grandparents, but what a fun time this is going to be.

Thanks Tasha and Zach for giving us such a cute little boy to love and spoil.

Grandma is feeling old like a granny.... only had 9 hours of sleep in the last 3 days!

No Trees......

Every year we have to take our fun time to clean up the mess...... And we don't even have those kind of trees in our yard. But it is nice to have the side in the shade during the summer so its all good.

Lots of leafs... Do you see any trees?

Looks so nice all done!

Nice to have that mess cleaned up.

New Year's eve fun with Kelly

Early in the morning... and we are headed to Indian Peak for a ride and for Kelly to show me some BIG deer and look for a cow elk. The fog is over St. George. I LOVE the one with only the temple showing.

This is how deep the snow was on all the roads. Riding the 4 wheeler was interesting. It would get into the snow ruts and toss us around. I had sore spots in my back for a few days from all the tossing around. It was pretty fun even with the sore stiff spots.

We have spent ALL DAY riding around looking for animals.......NO LUCK. Kelly did not bring lunch so while out in middle of NO where I got a very old hard granola bar and bottle of water. I loved the day with him. Next time I will plan better for the outing!

Finally on our way home, I caught a beautiful sunset. It was a great way to end the year.

Long time

OK... It has been forever since I posted the Raymer fun. Check back soon I will be updating this week. I have tons!!

Christmas 2009

Christmas at the Raymer's was good. One catch in the whole thing is NO PICTURES... I got a new camera but really have had no luck with making it work. SO no Christmas pictures to post :(
On a positive note things were great. We has Tasha here with us on Christmas morning. Zach was working and did not make it until WAY late Christmas night, so we got to have a small Christmas morning over again on Saturday morning with Zach. Kelly has been able to do a bit of cow elk hunting and the older kids went sleding. Bug and I stayed home and got a small game night ready to play while the whole family was home. Tasha and Zach will be leaving soon. I will be sad to see them go. I really enjoy the time we get to spend with them (not sure they feel the same at times... after all we are old people). Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas with the best new year to come.

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was the best one yet! The morning started off with having all my girls home. We had a nice breakfast, then everyone got ready for Cedar. There was no arguing with the girls. We all headed to Cedar for dinner with the Raymer's. Dinner was nice and we had a great visit with the family. The older girls and Zach headed home a bit earlier. Tasha and Zach were thinking about heading home in the evening.... but went in the wee early hours of the morning. We loved having them here.... time was short, but I will take any that I can get! Sure love and miss those two. Kamari has sure been great to be around this weekend.... she has her smile back. Love ya Kamari. Last but not last...Sh'Kell she has been a great help with getting the house all ready for Christmas. She helped me get up both trees and they are now decorated. Thanks to Bug we are almost ready to enjoy the Christmas holiday. I am just missing one last thing... SHOPPING for presents for my great family. I sure hope everybody had an AWESOME Thanksgiving!! Thanks girls, Zach and Kelly, love you all!

Anniversay

Holy Cow!!! Today is the 8030th day I have been married to the most awesome man! It seems like yesterday I was sitting in the Hulet’s kitchen watching outside as everyone arrived. I was so excited to spend the rest of my life with this kid. I had no idea the ride would be this awesome. I am not sure he would say the same thing…. But I love him anyways! All I can say is there have only been good times, and that I am one lucky person. Kelly is the easiest person to be with. I truly love the dad that he is! He would do anything for his 3 beautiful daughters… and of course he is thrilled to finally have a son to talk all those boy things. (and don’t forget the grand dogs!) I just wanted to say that I am truly blessed to have found someone to spend eternity with, one that loves me for me, one that treats me right, one that takes care of me and our girls, one that loves to include his family on the camping, fishing, hunting activities. Kelly loves to take me and the girls just about anywhere he likes to go! It is not often that I am sitting home while he is out having fun. He even understands when I need to leave town with my mother for a week on an hour and a half notice and the laundry is piled on the bathroom floor. He just wished me well and said see you in a few day! I just want him to know how much I LOVE HIM and that I am excited for the next 8030 days….

Thanks Kelly for being you and thanks for being patient with me and thanks for 3 awesome beautiful girls! I could not ask for anyone better.
Love ya more!!

Dexter

Meet Dexter.... Kamari's new boyfriend. Sure hope this one is better!! We love you Kam!

Getting old..... I guess!

Wholly Cow what a day!

So as you can see... I was rather disturbed at my mail yesterday! I know that with all the couponing I have been doing I have saved a ton at the stores and have been able to stock up on some much needed items. BUT WHOLLY COW.. HOW ON EARTH CAN I EVER PAY THIS??? It seems that last year at this billing time we used 7 units of water....this year we used 418 units? UM that is 411 MORE units, one would think that might draw a RED flag to someone at the water department? GUESS NOT! SO I called them to say WHAT THE HECK... and I got well you know a leak can run up your bill..... ONE WOULD WONDER IF A LEAK THAT SIZE..... I might notice something? I have NO WATER damage in the house.. and NO SOGGY SINK HOLES IN THE YARD!!!! SO either someone is smoking something or we will be with out water and power for who know how long... My budget for the power bill is about $150.00........ so looks like maybe for Christmas we will have power and water again??? BUT who knows. My fingers are crossed that the water department will figure out what is up and fix the bill. After all I have never had a bill even close to this in the um... 15+ years.

Clarification

I need to clarify something about my post on families. It seems that some extended family members read my entry and took it as if I was being rude to one of them. I need to state that I was not picking out or on someone I was just simply stating that I had let what someone said to me get to me years ago. I looked at a picture that brought back the memories and realized what I had let slip right through my fingers, and that I did have control and could have handled the pain differently. Like we all say hind sight is 20/20. I apologize to the ones that I offended it was not my intentions. Most people that know me know that I would do about anything for anyone and that I AM A CARING PERSON . Once again I am sorry, it was my intentions to share my feelings not to cause so much hate and discontent.

New Baby Tayson

Today my little sister had her baby boy. He is so precious and the poor thing has NO idea what is to come.... you see he has an older brother that is just excited to have another boy in the family... but that is not the problem..... he also has 3 year old twin sisters and one has been waiting the whole 9 months to snuggle him........ and from the giggles and snuggling she tried on him today......I sure hope he survives. He looks a lot like his older brother. We are excited to have him here safe and sound. What a great way to start your day with such a sweet gift from Heavenly Father.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Just some pictuers of the girls with friends. Bug is at Sand Hollow, Kam is shooting clays by Enterprise.

Boulder Mountain

In May we went to the Boulder Mountain for the turkey hunt. Well even though we did not see many turkeys... we had a great time and enjoyed each others company. Kam was able to come over with us and spend almost a week! I just loved having her there even though she spent most of her time laying on the couch reading the Twilight books! Hope she want to come again with us next year. As you can see from all the AWESOME pictures it is one of the greats places to hang out and rest in the woods. This is the first year I rode up to Hells Backbone Bridge. Dad remembers when it was just a log bridge, and told us about a car that was down in the canyon..... that had crashed off... and that he had climbed down to check it out... CRAZY!!!! We had a great time and are looking forward to next year!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Familes are Forever

Family.... what is this really?

As I was looking at a family’s member blog this hit me rather hard. I have wasted the better part of 20 years of memories and love with some of my family. About 16 years ago I got a call from another family member stating that my grandparents were far too old to be tending my girls. It seems they are not too old anymore since they are always tending others. So my response to this was OK than…… and I never had MY/OUR grandparents ever tend my girls again. I gave all the power to them and now 16 years later I see that not only did I give them the power I also let it cost me the relationship I had with them and the one that my girls could have had and deserved. There once was a day that I spent a lot of time at my grandparent’s home. I use to walk over their daily just to practice the piano. And now I bet months go by without talking to them. I feel like the bad person in the family. I really wish that I could change some things in life… but we all know that we can’t so I guess I will just have to live with it. The part I would not change is the wonderful family that I have. I have three beautiful girls and a GREAT husband. I only hope that I have done any justice in rising them right. I know at times they all three think I am stupid and crazy at the same time. I know that a few of them are still in the stages of not really liking me….. even though I LOVE THEM WITH ALL MY HEART! I am in hopes this stage does not last very long. So enough of all this…. I am stoked to making a change in not letting my stubborn self get the best of me, and for not letting family…… run me off anymore. After all is your family suppose to be family not your judge!

Winner gets a prize

So this is my trip to Wal Greens tonight. I had a few register rewards that expired tonight. I had Kelly go with me.... he was not thrilled at first, but after the outcome he was OK with it.

SO this picture is of all the stuff I got there........ look it over and at the end there is a question with a prize!

This one was almost the best one!

OK... anyone going to get this one right???

Count them... Seventeen packages of Bum Fottie......

Bet you will die when I finally post the total on this shopping trip!

This was the last one.... I needed to use the last register reward I had..... the m&m's where just a filler.

I want all of you that might still be looking at my blog... I know I have not updated this for a few months..... SORRY! summer is here I will get better I do have a ton of pictures and lots to post about. SO the winner gets..... not sure yet. (maybe a lesson in how to use coupons) This is really for all the people that give me crap about the coupon binder! Guess how much I spent at the store tonight! AND MOM AND HOLLY DON'T CHEAT!

So anyone even close yet?

The deodorant I got at Walmart?? any takers on guessing how much I spent here?

Sure hope someone can get close... be sure to study the pictures and don't leave anything out when calculating your guess!

Great Work Friends!

SO I work with these 2 wonderful, creative and crazy at times ladies. They go across the street to the park to eat lunch. There just happens to be a climbing wall at the park and one day I get a call to come over.... well when I get over there they are sitting on top of the climbing wall eating lunch. SO while riding Saturday Kelly says to me.... here are some NEW rocks Heidi and Kathleen can eat lunch on! SO GIRLS... one day I will bring my truck to work and we will eat lunch on the rocks!!!! I love these ladies and they MAKE work a great place to be! Thanks Heidi and Kathleen, YOUR THE BEST!!!