31 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes, 51 seconds

Funny, funny boy...

I need to set this up first...Bridger's first baseball tournament this year is in March in St. George. It is over Easter weekend and is called March Madness. Jonathon coaches Bridger's team and they are the Fury.

So, Bridger called me yesterday when I had ran to Macey's. He was out of breath, so excited. He told me he was listening to 94.9 and they were talking about March Madness, ON THE RADIO!!! Whoa, the excitement! (Imagine a 10 year old, completely out of breath). Apparently you could go online and vote for which team you thought was the best. And he thinks he heard that the Fury was third! Uummm, I didn't have the heart to burst his bubble, and it's a good thing I was somewhere else so he couldn't see me trying not to laugh. So if you see him, try not to mention what the rest of us know March Madness as :o)

15 Years!

Happy Anniversary babe, I love you!!!

I Am No Longer A Flintstone!

Yeah!! For my birthday, my sweet husband gave me a new bedroom set! We have had a log-pole bedroom set since we got married 15 years ago. I was soooo, way over that! So we ordered the furniture, waited two weeks for it to get here, and the day it got here I made up my mind that, yes, I did want to paint the walls. (I'm so backwards sometimes). A smart person would have painted and then put the new furniture in the room. But I'm all about instant gratification, so we put the furniture in the room so I could see it, then the next morning I pulled it all out and started painting! I never do anything the easy way. So, check out the lamps---for once in my life my procrastination paid off. I had been eyeing these at Target's Global Bazaar, $100 each. In their normal lamp section they had a cheaper lamp that I was trying to talk myself into, so I waited. On last Tuesday I went back over and decided I was going to get the ones I liked. They only had the 2 left. I went to check out and the lamps rang up for $9.99 a piece!! Holy crap! I got them both for $19.98! That NEVER, I repeat NEVER, happens to me. Apparently it was close-out day for all the Global Bazaar stuff. So I no longer have Flintstone furniture! I still need to get stuff up on the walls, but I am now sleeping in the year 2008.

Shout out to Steph!

Happy Birthday to my sweet cousin Stephenie! Some of the reasons I love Stephenie:

• she is always trying to pull our family together.
• her honesty, always!
• I don't think there is anyone she can't get along with.
• she loves me even though Brandon, Derrick and I were not the nicest to her when she was little. Have I apologized for that?
• amazing mom!
• she's just GOOD! She didn't even do any of those naughty teenaged things we all did (or maybe that was just me).

Love you Steph! Hope you have a great day!

Grandma Dean

I have been thinking about my Grandma Dean a lot lately. I have tremendous love and admiration for this remarkable woman. She is one of Heaven's angels on the earth. She has raised 10 children who are all hard working, productive, and kind. She has loved and nurtured 47 grandchildren and close to 60 great-grandchildren (I can't keep track of this number!). She has made each one of us feel like we are her favorite, she loves whole-hearted and unconditionally. She was always so great at letting us be kids, no matter how big of mess that entailed! The only time I heard her voice any hesitation at our play was with the irrigation ditch, it scared her, but she still let us play in it :o). She would cook us endless amounts of swedish hotcakes, and let us eat sugar sandwiches. She is the most PATIENT person I know! I wish I had this trait of hers (so do my kids!) I am so blessed to have this wonderful, inspiring, example and teacher in my life. She has taught me to enjoy every moment with my children because they will be grown before I can turn around. She has taught me to love, nurture, and teach them to be compassionate, because one day they might use those skills to take care of me. She has taught me to live in the moment and have fun, because those are the memories I will keep with me. She has taught me to love and cherish my husband, because I will not be the same when he is gone. I am so grateful everyday for this woman that I am privileged to call GRANDMA!

Go Tigers!

Bridger had the assignment of making a Valentine's Day box for his class at school. They are having a contest to see whose is the "favorite". This is easy when you have to make it for a girl, everything Valentine's is girly, but for boys it's a little more difficult. He came up with the idea of a Tiger's fan and together we ran with it. He is so fun to work with because he entertains you the entire time! He is sure he is going to win. I keep telling him that the girls will vote for the cute, girly, frilly ones. He told me he's converted all the girls in his class to Tigers fans, so we don't need to worry.

I suggested that maybe he could wear something red today since it's Valentine's Day. The other picture is the outfit he came up with. The red would be the flames on the baseball. Boys.

Cammee Cakes!

The title of this blog is from my darling nephews and Bridger, who sang a song about Cammee Cakes all through Gage's birthday party. They are too funny!

I made my niece Kassidy's birthday cake on Monday. It was my second fondant cake, Gage's pirate cake being my first. It is so fun to play with the fondant and try to make it into the shapes and pieces you need for the cake you are doing. You can definitely tell I'm an amatuer, but hopefully I'll get better with each cake I do!

Spoiled!

I am so grateful for wonderful family and friends! On Saturday I received this bouqet of sunshine from my friends who I miss so much! Em, Zac, my baby Shae, and the darling Hardy family. There are some friends that you feel like you have always known and must have been friends in the pre-exsistence, that's how I feel about this darling family. I'm still trying to figure out how one of my babies got sent to them though :)

My kids and Jonathon spoil me to pieces! They are so thoughtful and helpful on my birthday. My mom and dad made me a yummy dessert and got me exactly what I wanted (how did you know?!), and my mother-in-law was so attentive in remembering something I told her I wanted months ago, and surprising me with it. My sweet brothers always remember and spoil me. I love my birthday, it helps me remember how blessed I am to have such thoughtful, wonderful people in my life.

Humility

Last week Bridger had his "un-birthday" at school. His birthday is in the summer so he gets to celebrate on a different day during the school year. He took treats, had Gage and I come eat with him at the birthday table, and all of his class signed a card for him. He brought this huge posterboard card home. I was reading the things all of his classmates wrote to him, when I came across one that is so typical Bridger. In the middle of the page there was a greeting that went like this:

Dear Bridger,

You look good.

From, Bridger

Perhaps on Monday our FHE will be on humility.

All boy!

I thought Gage looked so grown up and cute this Sunday for church. We put a tie on him for the first time. When Bridger was little he wanted to wear a tie to church, he was probably about 18 months. It lasted for a couple weeks and then he didn't want them anymore. So I came across this little tie that was Bridger's, Gage was soooo excited. It was just one of those clip on ties. He stood up on my lap in the pew and waved at his dad on the stand until he looked at him, then he waved his tie all over so dad could see it. When I picked him up in his class after church his tie was in his hand...in pieces. He doesn't know what happened to it! (Ha, Ha!!) So, I guess we're probably done with tie's until he's passing the sacrament.

A New Prophet

This past week I have been so grateful the our Father's house is a house of order. There was no fear in the death of our beloved Prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley. We all knew that we would have another prophet, divinely called, set apart, and ready to take this great work forward. This week, that very thing happened. I am so thankful for President Monson and the extraordinary life he has led, for the example he is to my family, for his kind heart and for his willingness to serve the Lord. We will miss President Hinckley, but look forward to being part of President Monson's dispensation.