Time to catch up

I just want to say I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in a while. Life has been very crazy for the past few weeks. Blaine was out of town doing a press check last week and I worked a few days last week. Many of you are wondering what I am doing for a job now. Blaine's bosses wife owns a mail house. Mail like you get in the mail not a male house:) anyway we run mail through a machine that address it and then it ends up at your house. Last week we did clipper post cards. You may not know that a post card comes with your Clipper magazine every month and that is what I stand and run through the machine. Yes I still work at Ribbons and Lace but not behind the counter anymore. I teach the hairbow classes once a week and I love it.This is what Blaine goes to Sacramento to watch print. So make sure to watch for it in your mail box. He most likely took it to your post office.
This is one of the many pallets the post card that we ran last week for Clipper. FYI Clipper is sent to 1.1 million copies are sent out so we stay busy that week.
This is the little printing machine that I run when it is the Clipper time of the month. You insert the postcard on the right hand side and then it runs along a belt and comes out the left hand side of the machine.

This is when it is coming out of the machine to the belt with the dryer to dry the ink and then I take it off the belt and put it in post office trays.This is the Big printing machine. Maybe someday I will learn how to run this one. We run about 19-20 thousand postcards an hour on these machines. Crazy right?
This is the inside of Blaine's warehouse this is only a very small amount of the Clipper magazine waiting to go to the post office. You can see why I have been so busy lately. I am very grateful to to be working though I really only work a week and a half a month so it gives us a little extra money.

Tonight was our wards cynco de Meyo (sorry for the spelling) party and it was a lot of fun. Good food and kids running around all over the place. I hadn't seen Ryan in a while so I went looking for him and this is what I found. Ryan was in the Primary room with about 50 billion other kids. The picture isn't all that great but you can see that he found a music stand that had a primary song book on it and was standing and waving his arms in the air like he was leading the music. It was so cute I guess he paid attention all those times we took him to choir when I was the choir director.
I went back a little while later and saw him standing at the microphone the funny thing was that it was on and he was really talking into it. Just wait till he has to give his first talk I bet he won't be so eager to talk into it then.


After we got home Blaine called me into the bathroom to see what our mister independent son was doing. He was yes cutting his own finger nails and he didn't want mom or dad to help. Believe it or not he was doing a very good job. Thank goodness these are baby nail cutters so he couldn't cut that bad.


We have been trying to get Ryan to put hats on and finally tonight he decided he liked this hat again. Really he saw daddy with his hat on so Ryan thought that he needed a hat as well. Whatever works right?So my little boy likes to cuddle and that makes me really happy but lately he only falls asleep if he has me in a headlock. Apparently it doesn't bother me that much because I usually end up passed out as well.

We have finally got Ryan to ware Pull Up's. Ryan has also decided that he is to big to take naps so this is what usually happens he crawls in our bed and passes out around 7:00. I am starting to like the no nap thing because he goes to bed so much earlier.So I made a copy of this from Ashely's blog so thanks. For Valentines day (yes I realize that it has been a few months) anyway Tim and Blaine took Ashley and I out bowling. We had a lot of fun especially our first game. Congratulations to Ashley because she beat us all with 100 point however we can just say that the wifes beat the husbands you can see that I got a 95 Blaine got a 92 and poor poor Tim got a 44. To give the boys some credit they did go on to win later in the evening. Let me tell you boys are such bad losers. Ashley and I started to play bad just so they wouldn't cry so much:) j/k

PIctures

This picture is a month old but I found it on my phone today and just had to post it. This is Ryan at the Harley store in AJ. When my dad was in town when we buried Emily that Saturday we went out to the Harley store. My dad just got a new Harley so we had a lot of fun looking and drooling over the bikes. If you can't see what Ryan's shirt says it reads "Don't mess with me casue my Grandpa's A Biker and he Kicks Butt" my dad got that for him at a bike show. We had a lot of fun that weekend and it just so happened they were having a big bike rally so their were hundreds of bikes and bikers there.Yesterday we got to take care of our friends Tim & Ashley's baby Lilly while they went on a day trip. We had so much fun we went to Red Robin (Thanks Ashley & Lindy) where we found out that Lilly loves cheeseburgers, Lilly and I went to Walmart, then after Ryan woke up from his nap we went for a walk to the school to play at the playground. Then while Blaine went to get pizza I put the kids in the bath. Ryan hasn't ever been in the tub with anyone younger than he was so he thought it was pretty cool to show off his splashing technique. The only problem was Lilly didn't like it when he splashed so I had to tell Ryan to wait till I got her out then he could have a splash party. I was worried that he would be jealous of her but he did really good yesterday.
Today Blaine and I went to the cemetery to plant some grass. We noticed that some other people had done that to help the grass regrow so that is something Blaine really wanted to do. We also found some cute little flowers to dress it up a little bit. We can't lay her headstone for another few months to let the ground settle so we thought this was the next best thing. Their are a lot of other families that have decorated there loved ones graves very cute with decorations and solar lights and little windmill stuff so we where happy we found this stuff. We just have to go out there every other day or so to water and make sure that the birds haven't eaten all the grass seeds.

Storage

Well I have been meaning to add pictures to my blog for a few weeks now but I haven't Had a chance to yet. So I figure it's better late than never right? A few weeks ago we had to move our stuff into storage. You see we have been storing our stuff at my brother in laws house because he had two bedrooms that he wasn't using and it helped because we didn't have to get a storage unit. Well he is having a roommate move in so we had to get our stuff out. So Three weeks ago we moved our stuff into a storage unit. Tim was helping us unload the truck and found one of my hats and we just had to get a picture. They didn't turn out that great because Blaine took it with his phone but it is still funny.


Thanks for all your hard work Tim your the best =)

Happy Birthday Blaine

This posting is only a week late but better late than never. Blaine turned the big 30 last week(April 7th) and was sicker than a dog. He has been such a baby about turning 30 so he kept saying " I turn 30 and now I'm dying" Whatever! Blaine has a infection in his leg that he got at the lake 2 years a go and every now and then it flares up. So Monday it was really bad he was running a temp of 102 and his leg was really really red. It took him a trip to the Doctor and some rest and now he is doing a little better. We got Blaine out of bed long enough to sing Happy Birthday to him and then he let Ryan blow out the candle we only put on so it wouldn't take Ryan forever to blow them out.

School Bus

I finally remembered to take my camera out when Ryan was getting on the bus. He is doing so much better with going to school. It only really took him a week to get use to the bus. We tried a normal backpack but he didn't want to ware it so we decided to let him take his little suit case and life is some much nicer. He is starting to babble like crazy. He sounds like most 1 1/2 or two year old sounds when they first start trying to talk. That babble that sounds so cute and they are trying so hard to tell you something but you can't understand a word they are saying. We are making progress.Blaine and Ryan hanging out on Friday after everything was over.

Ryan's Grandparents from PA gave him a bubble making machine. At first he didn't want anything to do with it. Sat morning he wouldn't let it out of his sight.
Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere
Waiting for the bus
Still waiting for the bus

Sneaking cars into his bag pack thinking that I am not watching. Mommies see everything :)
The Bus is coming
The bus
Ryan saying cheese on the bus. He started out as the only kid on the bus last week he got two new friends to ride with him. He was adventures today and moved and sit on the other side of the bus. What a big boy.