Orders

I've been a slacker!! Now that I'm back at work and volunteering daily my blogging has stopped. I'll catch up soon.

I thought I would let all my friends and family who don't already know, Bryce received his deployment orders for Iraq on Tuesday. His orders are from October 6, 2008 thru January 4, 2010. The unit is staying in Salt Lake during the month of October and then leaving for California for some training in November. The good news is he gets to come home on the 26th of November for Thanksgiving, and then he leaves again on December 1st for the rest of the deployment.

I've tried to stay positive though this preparation period to make it easier for him to know that we are going to be OK, I don't want him getting over there and worrying constantly about us, (he will anyway), but now that the orders are here and the date is getting closer it's getting hard!! It is really hard to stay positive when you are having attorneys make out a Will "just in case." I've started making a paper chain with the kids to keep track of how long till he comes home. It's going to cover my whole house by the time we're done. I did this when he went to Kuwait also and the kids loved it!

I want to thank all our family and friends for thier love and support through all of this preparation and waiting, and let them know how much it means to both Bryce and myself. Neither one of us could do this without knowing we have good friends and family to help us out. We love you all!!

Tag I'm it!

So I have been tagged by KRISTIN.
3 Joys:
* FAMILY
* FRIENDS
* MY JOB
3 Fears:
* HAVING ONE OF MY CHILDREN HURT/DYING AND ME NOT BEING ABLE TO BE THERE FOR THEM
* HEIGHTS
* HUSBAND DYING AND LEAVING ME A SINGLE PARENT
3 Goals:
* BECOME MORE ORGANIZED
* HAVE MORE PATIENCE WITH MY KIDS
* BE A BETTER WIFE AND MOTHER
3 current obsessions/collections:
* TWILIGHT SERIES BOOKS
* PENS (FOR SOME REASON I COLLECT PENS FROM THE PLACES I VISIT)
* AMERICANA DECOR
3 Random Surprising Facts About Me:
* MY FAVORITE SUBJECT IS MATH
* SOMEDAY I THINK IT WOULD BE FUN TO BE A PHARMACY TECH OR A CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR.
* I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE. I TALK TO MUCH THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO SURPRISE ANYONE WITH

I Tag Crista, Coley, Sara U and anyone else who wants to do it!

headbands and bows

I have been making cork screw hair clips for a my girls and the nieces and my sister KariAnn decide that I should try to sell them. I decided that I would try to sell interchangeable headbands to go with them. I found the cutest crocheted headbands that work really well with any clip. Here is a preview of some that I put together.

I have quite a few colors of headbands and bows, and the headbands come in 1 1/2 inches for infants or 3 inches for older girls and adults. They are so fun to mix and match

Summer Fun

Bryce took a couple weeks off of work so that he could spend some time with the kids before he leaves for Irag, this is how he spent most of the two weeks. After his little vacation he went back to work for about a week and was offered a job with Ogden City Police Department, he doesn't start until August 18th, but he still had some leave time at Davis County, so he decided to use the rest of his leave and have another vacation. So, he took another week off work before heading out with this Marine Corps unit for annual training. He and the kids have had a lot of fun this summer.


We went to the rodeo during the week of the 24th of July, Brenan and EmmaLee were doing the muttin bustin. KariAnn had to leave early and left her kids with us and her youngest daughter Hailey wouldn't go to anyone but Bryce.

Rylee and Rashele and I got to go to day camp with the Activity days girls. It's the first time our ward has every gone, it was a lot of fun.

Mini Me

Bryce has been going through his gear issued to him by the Marine Corps making sure every thing is in order before his deployment, and the boys decided they would help. I caught them on the front lawn trying to pick up one of Bryce's packs. It was pretty funny. If they were able to lift it up they didn't stay standing long.

Noland tried to help Brenan lift it up. No sucess

Brenan couldn't even walk with this gear on, that alone was too heavy

Can you believe he has to wear all of that gear?

ball games, ball games, ball games

Monday thru Thursday nights all we do is go to ball games. Bryce and Rylee both play on Monday and Wednesday nights, and Noland and Brenan both play on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Rashele decided not to play this year, she didn't like it much last year. I played with Bryce last year, but, I decided it was too hard with both of us playing and he enjoys it much more than I do, so I just cheer him on. It's much more fun to be on the bleachers watching anyway. Here are just a few highlights from some of their games.
Bryce up at bat, and on third base waiting to run home
Noland at bat (this was a home run hit)

Brenan sliding into home

Rylee ready at third base

Relay for Life

The Relay for Life was a lot of fun this year. I took my kids for the first time this year since we walked in honor of my dad we thought it would be fun to do it as a family. I invited a the family of a little girl in our ward that has leukemia to walk with us this year also. It was neat to see her lead the survivors lap, it brought tears to my eyes.

The Jazz bear was there and we were able to get some pictures with him.



The weather didn't cooperate with us very well hence the coats, we got rained on quite a bit, but we still had fun. My dad wasn't able to be there this year because of his trip to Brazil, hopefully we can all make it next year. And we would love to have anybody who would like to come with us next year. .