I love to see the temple!

ok i had to post this picture! I love it sooo much! I took this picture at seths wedding reception at the Joseph Smith memorial building. Little G loved looking at the temple. He would run around the reception like a crazy boy and then ask to get up so he could look out the window! Oh my little baby is growing up! He is looking soo old! It is crazy how fast time flies!

Back in Town!!

Man this has been such a busy couple of months for us! We just back in town from Utah. We were there for J's brother seth's Wedding. The wedding was sooo amazing and the reception was sooo much fun. I know j and i both loved being able to show Mr.c and little G in person where their mom and dad got married. Mr C loved the temple and it was such a beautiful day on may 6th, the day they got married!I will post some pics of seth and tara later..i still need to download them to the computer. I do have some cute pics of the boys from the wedding. i will try to post those. I loved being able to go back to utah and see family and friends! But congrats Seth and Tara and i hope that you are having fun in cancun!!!!

More Hawaii Pics

Here are a few more!

HAWAII!!

Ok here are a few hawaii pics! Oh man i miss it sooooo much and i wish i was still there!

Grandpa Ralph

Oh man i just wanted to post a few little stories about grandpa ralph! We love him dearly. He is j's grandpa. He is currently living with J's mom and dad in cedar city utah. His amazing wife passed away a couple years ago so J's mom dayna has been doing such an amazing job with taking care of grandpa Ralph. Grandpa Ralph is 91 years old. He has had many strokes and from this He has short term memory loss and so i feel for him soo much because he wants to remember sooo bad, but cant. He will take things from wherever he is at and hide it in his shirt pocket. Whenever any of us are with him we always need to pat down his sweaters to empty out his "memory tresures"(which once they were put in the sweater they are already forgotten what the memory stood for) But grandpa Ralph is such an amazing man and he always brings a smile to my face. I love that my husband was named after him also. And i love getting to see what "treasures" he puts in his shirt pockets because they are all soo different...

So We are really excited that grandpa Ralph would be comming to hawaii with us. He loves going on adventures. He is always asking "Now where do we go Now?"
So Hawaii with grandpa, and Mr. C with his broken leg and little G was quite the adventure. I will have alot of stories to post about the fun times and memories we have with grandpa Ralph and i cant wait to post but since there are soo many i want to share these few funny stories.

Now Grandpa Ralph calls Dayna (j's mom/ and his daughter) "Sis". Well he will always ask "where's Sis?" And we know that he is referring to J's mom, Dayna.

So we had decided to go on this amaxing little day trip in Mauii. It is called the Road To Hana. IT is amazing. The scenery is breathtaking. And within the trip you can stop and take hikes to your very own private waterfall for an amazing swim. I loved it soo much. Well we had been driving this road and let me tell you about this road, It is super super curvy. And i mean super Curvey. Literally it is like cork screw turn after cork screw turn. J and i tried to do this drive when we went to mauaii 3 years ago but about 7 minutes into the turns i well.... lets just say i lost it. I puked everywhere. So this trip i was prepared. I had taken my Dramamine and i was ready to go.
On this trip in Mauaii it was J and I, Our two kids, J's mom and J's brother Seth. We had rented a huge van...and Grandpa Ralph would get soo upset if Dayna didnt sit right next to him. And since he doesnt understand soo well he would always think Dayna was mad at him if she wasnt sitting by him. Poor grandpa. She wasnt at all mad at him..just with two car seats and 5 adults we all had to get split up around the van. Well on the drive we were in the car for a total of 14 hours. but that includes the stops to the various waterfalls and pits stops and the million times we stopped for pictures.
Grandpa at the end of the drive was starting to get confused on Dayna's name and would call her "wanda" (who is is wife who passed away) And we would always let him know that Wanda had passed away and that grandpa is living with dayna and that Dayna was here with him and we were all taking care of him. Well he would constantly ask over and over "now wheres Wanda?" That meant, "where is dayna". Becuase dayna would be sitting in the back by one of the grandkids trying to entertain them, and grandpa ralph couldnt see her and since she wasnt by him he would get soo confused. Well we would always politly correct grandpa and say Where wanda was and where Dayna is. Well we were on our way home from this Awesome adventure ,But we had been in the car all freakin day and the kids were soo tired and grandpa was tired and at the back of the van this is the is the conversation i hear:

Grandpa Ralph: Now where is wanda again? (and remember he has asked this over a million times)(meaning Dayna, who was up in the next row sitting next to little G.

.Mr. C (who is sitting in back by grandpa ralph, and i can tell is getting irraited with how many times this question has been asked.)

Mr.C : He kinda huffs and puffs a little bit and says "grandpa Ralph, Wanda is in Heaven!." Like duh grandpa i am four years old and i think i know everything! I mean any of you who have a 4 year old know exactly waht i am talking about. And Grandpa ralph is giggling over it and it was soo cute!
It was just sooo cute how the 4 year old had finially had it and wanted his great grandpa to understand..hahaha soo classic

Then when we were leaving kauaii for the last time grandpa was struggling walking up the curve to the car...so we check his pockets and guess what..he had taken some big ol rocks from the ground and then tucked them as comfortable as possible in his shirt and doing so he was hoping we woulndt check..hahahaha needless to say we found the rocks and thank goodness we did it before the airport security. Oh grandpa!!! we love him to death. Anways..there are soo many grandpa ralph stories so i will have to post more another day.

Nemo kicked the bucket!

So back when i was potty training Mr. C about 21/2 years ago i told him that if he got his potty training down i would get him a fish. Well he got it down and he picked out a red beta fish and named him nemo. Well nemo has been around for almost 3 years and Mr. C has loved having this fish.

We had gotten back from our trip to hawaii.I will write about that later... and when we got home i check on nemo and well he is bloated and kinda floating on the bottom of the tank. He is still breathing but it didnt look too good. I knew that he was not going to make it another day. SO the next morning i prepped Mr. C and told him that his fish was sick and old and that he may die. Well he cries and cries and cries. ...and cries. That evening i go to check on the fish and i watch with my own eyes as it swims to the top, takes a deep breath, then floats back down to the bottom, and then all of a sudden he stops breathing. Poor little nemo. He just kicked the bucket and i will have to break this to my son in the morning.

Well morning rolls around and i decided to let Mr. C decide on if he wanted me to flush him or him to flush him. Mr. C was soo sad that nemo died. He is crying. He cant stop. He asked if we could have a funeral and so i said sure(anything to help the poor kids out).

We take him into the bathroom where Little G is trying to talk like a fish and is soo excited about watching nemo be tossed into the toilet and then conner is bawling like a baby. I was trying soo hard not to laugh. The scene was soo funny. Mr. C told me he wanted to start out with a prayer and then sing to nemo "families can be together forever." how can i say no to that. IT was soo sweet..so Mr. C says the cutest little prayer and then he starts singing. When he is done I said ,"ok Mr. C..lets flush so that little nemo can be happy in fishy heaven. This is our conversation.
Mr. C: (while he is crying)Mom is nemo with grandma wanda in Heaven(his great grandma)? Is is going to be resurrected just like President Hinckley will be. Is he going to get a new body and then be a prophet?
Me: I am stunned ..i am trying so hard not to laugh. It was soo cute that he wanted to make sure little nemo will be able to be resurrected and that he will be able to be with our family forever. I told him that Heavenly Father would take care of nemo so he doesnt have to worry.
Mr.C Then Flushes.Little G is waving and still trying to talk like a fish and Mr. C is just kinda in shock
So after the little "funeral" we had, Mr. C wants to call and tell his friends what happened.
He calls his best friends james and noah. And the funniest little comment that i am still laughing was when Mr. C and james had their conversation.
Here it goes:

Mr. C: (As he is bawling)James my fish nemo died. He is in Heaven with Grandma Wanda.
James: Thats ok Mr.C..you can get a new fish!
Mr. C: He sits there kinda stunned...hahaha i am still laughing about it.

I still laugh at these little boys and how funny they are. I mean james didnt even pause..that was what was soo funny...I felt exactly like james. I mean it is a fish for peets sake.. So needless to say i hope that echo(our dog)doesnt kick the bucket for a long long time..i cant even imagine what Mr. C will go through if he was that emotional over the dang fish!! But it was a good story. I will have to post about our trip to hawaii. We had a blast...the broken leg with Mr. C was a bit of a hardship but we survived. And i could blog for days about funny stories with Grandpa Ralph(that is jesses grandpa) i will have to do that..they are some of the funniest stories.

psycho therapy!

Ok..So i thought this was pretty funny. As most of you know J and i own 3 franchises refinishing kitchen cabinets and harwood floors. And so i get the awesome privilege of taking all of our phone calls, booking our estimates, booking our jobs and just try to keep things in order for J. Well, i always use this super cheesy extra nice voice when i answer our phone calls. Most of the time J tells me that he has had people offer me jobs right and left to be their secretary too...apparently they love my phone voice which i think is pretty funny. Maybe i ought to go into 1-900 business...hahahahaa that was only a joke! Anyways this last few weeks have been super busy for the business which is good but at time can be very stressful. And to make matters a little more crazy my 4 year old Mr. C broke his leg and has a cast from his toe to his hip. So basically i have to help meet his every need and it can be trying. Especially when i am on the phone with a customer and i have Mr. C screaming that he needs me, and then Little G starts in on the screaming too just because his older brother is so why cant he. So today this is how this special call that i got happened.
The phone rings...i need to answer ..Little G is already screaming every time i leave the room..he is having major separation anxiety. I think Mr. C is good because he is sitting in front of yet another movie. I decide to take this call...I give our introduction, find out what this customer needs and proceed to try to book his estimate. Well, all this guy can hear in the background is Mr. C SCREAMING my name over and over and then Little G starts in crying his little brains out because his mom has disappeared out if his sight. I kindly let the gentleman know that i have a 4 year old who broke his leg and so therefore both kids are at the office today. I kindly ask him to hold so i can try to get the screaming monsters to stop...well guess what.... they don't stop and they start in louder. SO, i barricade myself into my office and plug one ear so i can try to hear this poor guy. earlier in the conversation I had asked him what his name and address was, but in the midst of the chaos i forgot. So i said to this customer, "What did you say your address was?" and woahhhh..i triggered something in his mind. And he let me know about it for seriously 35 minutes...and my kids are still screaming and i am afraid that Mr. C has probably peed himself or something since he cant get to the bathroom and he will not stop screaming. I being the awesome person i am listen to this guy for no joke 35 minutes as he is explaining to me that when i use the past tense like when i asked what his address "WAS" and not said "WHAT IS" your address that is makes it seem like i don't care. he went off forever on psychology 101 and said i would get alot more business it i would just rephrase things differently. I honestly didn't think two second about it but i tell you it was really quite funny and interesting. Apparently he is some psychology major dude and so he wanted to help me get into the minds of our customers. So as i listened to him i was becoming a little irratated because i still am afraid that Mr. C has wet himself and i just wanted to get what should of taken 5 min to schdule scheduled and over with, so i could tend to my son and make sure he is ok. After i hung up with him i was pretty frustrated and apparently i was breathing heavy. Well little G caught on to that and i couldn't stop laughing because J asked Little G, "what does mommy say? and then Little G starts making this grunting noise that was totally the way i sounded..it was pretty dang funny. But next time i get a call, i can make sure in the midst of the chaos in this house, and trying to run a business, and tend to children, that i make sure i do not use past tense with our customers because dang it i dont want another 35 min lecture!