Happy B-day Rod!!

Rod's birthday was on the 28th, although we kind of drug out the celebration over a few days. :) First of all on Friday we ate at a Chinese restaurant which was really good. Then on Saturday after Rod worked, we went to Wal-Mart and got a few things then I made homemade pizza and we watched a movie. Then on sunday which is the pictures below, we had a few neighbors and friends over to eat cake and ice cream with us.

Rod, the big 23! He got all of his candles in one breath!

Sam and Shauna are next to Rod, Brok & Anne are on the other couch, then Brittney & Matt, Tony & ChristieAnne, and on the right is Riley & Cassie. It was a lot of fun to have everyone together for just a little while. Thanks everyone for coming!

Rod's cake. It looks like a little kids drawing, but I had a lot of fun making it!

Baby Gus Has Arrived!!

So I'm a little late posting this, but March 10th around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning Becca had a baby boy!! They didn't know what they were going to have so it was really exciting to find out! They are naming him Angus Hyrum Bond and calling him Gus for short. So they are sticking with G's for the boys I guess....Gavyn and Gus. :) He weighed 8 lbs 11 oz and I'm not sure how long. I haven't gotten to see him yet so I'm REALLY exicted to go home this next weekend for Ruth's reception so that I can see baby Gus!!

The happy family now plus one!

Proud Grandma and Grandpa

Gavyn was a little sick so he couldn't hold the baby, but I think they were both pretty interested in their brand new baby brother.Josie said "No! My mom is bringing home a baby sister!" when they were still at home with Grandma Probert. Grandma Probert told Josie that her little sister let Gus come first, so not to worry, she will come later. From the looks of it, I think she's forgotten all about Gus being a boy or not! So cute!

Picture Tag

I have been tagged from Klaudia--Go to your pictures, get into your 6th folder, and post your 6th picture in that folder. Then tag 6 more people.


So this is a picture of my brother Kolby with his son Gavyn while they are branding calves. I don't even want to tell you what he is putting in Gavyn's hand......but as you can see, there is a knife in Kolby's mouth..... Sorry, it really was my 6th!! Besides, some people think they're a delicacy. :) haha

Now I tag Chelo Hillegas, Elise VanO, Brittney Mason, Anne Sorenson, & Melissa Whatcott.

Decorating

So I tried to decorate our barren kitchen and bedroom yesterday just a little. I got all the greenery and flowers and the vase and then got the blocks and painted them, I'm not sure what I think of the finished product.... I think it needs some work honestly. Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm not quite finished in our bedroom, but I like how the flowers match our bed..... in case you were wondering why I used blue and yellow. :)

Kolton & Amanda's Wedding

On February 19th Rod and I went home for Kolton and Amanda's wedding which was on the 21st. It was a very nice ceremony and they had a lot of people come to their reception. I know that our family was very greatful for all of the love and support that was shown to Kolton and Amanda. Here are a few pictures from that day.

These two couldn't even make it to the beginning of the ceremony! They were out and sleeping in the corner before it started. :)

This is our entire family as of now. As you can see, Rebecca is expecting in March, Amanda should be having her baby in July, and Klaudia is expecting in September. The number of grandkids are going to double this year! And no...... Rod and I aren't expecting. We don't want to follow the crowd. haha

Busy, busy, busy

So maybe some of you are wondering why we still have pictures from before Christmas up and why we haven't updated our blog. Well, we're just busy, busy, busy! This semester Rod wakes up at 4:30 to get to work at 5! I definitely don't envy him. His shift goes until around 9:30 in the morning and by then I've been up and am gone to work, or on Tues & Thurs I will have gone to my 7:30 class and have been to work. Then Rod has classes in the afternoons and all day stuff on Tuesday with Ambassadors. I usually get off of work around 5 or 5:30 and then on Tuesday's I have a class at 8:00 pm until 10:30 pm. On Thurs I have class at 5:15 pm till 8:00 (I really don't like night classes!).

Yeah, so this leaves us with very little time to do homework or even have some time together at that. It's been a little crazy, but we figure we can survive one semester of this......hopefully! So we apologize to all of our friends that may think we dropped off the face of the earth. We're sorry we haven't had time to call and chat or get together. We really miss our social time! Well, come summer, hopefully things will be a lot better and we will be able to do more fun things!

Our Christmas Tree!

This year we bought our very own Christmas tree! I begged and begged till we finally went to the store and picked it out along with all of the decorations. I feel like it really is Christmas time now with a tree in our house! It is fake, I've always been raised with real trees, but since we're renting, we don't think we can have real trees in our house. This is good though because we will have it for many years!

While we were putting up the tree Rodney decided to be funny and put the two branches in for arms. It made me laugh.

Here is Rod by our undecorated, but put up tree.
And here it is! Some of it looks gold to me in the picture, but it's just silver and blue. I like it a lot!