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Post an update! Yeah! Yippe!

My sincerest apologies for the lapse in three months without a post. We've had a lot happen within that time. We went from living with chase's mom (and a huge thanks to her for letting us do so) to a small place of our own (thanks to a great friend with awesome hook ups) and so we are back in Layton! We really enjoy our new place and love the fact that Jackson has his own bedroom and lots of room to wander and explore. Jackson enjoyed his first halloween as motocrosshero(!) and a frog... We went trick-or-treating with uncle Payden and also visited Grampa at his work and did a bit of trick-or-treating there.

Jackson also had his first birthday back in November and was a little cowboy (a very handsome cowboy I might add).

He had a lot of fun and a big thank you to all who contributed! We had a lot of fun and we are so grateful for good family and friends and good BBQ! We also had Christmas pass in the time I last posted. This was Jackson's second Christmas and had a blast ripping open presents. It was fun to watch and realize my boy is growing so fast. Chase and I had also celebrated our 3 year anniversary and what a wonderful 3 years it has been. We have made so many memories and continue looking forward to the ones we will make in the future.

Chase is enjoying work and learning more about the restoration company. He has taken on a lot at work and had learned a lot and has become a great asset to his company. I am still with the Holy Smoke BBQ and am still enjoying (with the exception of a few days and a few customers) helping run the joint. I have made some great friends working there as well!

This weekend I will be traveling down to Vegas for Tiffanie's birthday with our friends Jerr and Trish and am looking forward to the much needed time off. However, this will be the first time in my marriage that I have gone somewhere without Chase and it will be the first time being without Jackson for more than a few hours. I'll be sad not to have my boys around, but my girls will be sure to cheer me up. This will be the first time in years that I have been out with friends and I am very excited!

Other than work, playing momma and dadda, we're just trudging along making the most out of what we have been blessed with!

Time...

It's been a while since my last blog... okay a long while. I've had so much on my mind lately and have had a rush of emotions the past few months. So in my ramblings of feelings, stories I will do my best to update all ya all on the Sawyer life.

Chase terminated, by his own choice, ( and my stubborn opionion) his employment with The Brokerage. All in all they did not treat him very well and I felt they were becoming quite dishonest in their dealings. Chase is now working with a resortation company that cleans and finished houses that have been damaged by water, fire etc etc etc. So far he is enjoying it and learning a lot and is happy not to have the stress of the Brokerage hanging over his head anymore. I am currently working for a small, privately owned BBQ joint in Layton and have been enjoying it as well... It's a lot of work, but I seem to enjoy it okay.

Jackson is almost a year old! I cannot believe it! He has the cutest and funnest personality. He's walking all over the place, eating 'big boy food' and feeding himself, talking and learning all sorts of new words, loves to bark and meow. He's become a great napper the past few weeks (which has allowed me to sit down and post this) and is an incredibly happy boy. I feel so incredibly blessed to have him in our lives, words truly cannot describe the amazing emotions I feel knowing Chase and I have the oppritunity to rasie a child of God.

So this last week we headed down to the dunes with my family and some friends of my dads... It was a blast to get away from life and the stress of life and just be able to relax for a bit. I did realize something this weekend that I'm sure I will experince more than just this one time. It was UEA weekend for a lot of people and so all the campgrounds were packed. We had something less than the privalge of camping next to a wild and crazy group of obnioxious people. The first night we were there, they had a dog that barked all night long... the second night they cranked up the music all night long... Which wasn't much of a problem until their sreaming music started waking up Jackson and then started becoming rather suggestive with the lyrics. I was upset the first time it woke up Jackson, but continued to do my best to relax and let them do their thing until the lyrics took a turn for the worst and I was furious... Without even stopping to think about what I was doing (walking into a group of about 20 drunk people) I calmly walked around a tree to their camp and polielty asked them to turn it down a bit. I didn't ask them to turn it off, just to turn it down. The guy to my right looked glazed over as if he didn't understand a word I was speaking while the guy in front of me proceeded to say he'd turn it down at 10:00 when quite time was enforced. I looked at him, rather upset and loudly explained they were keeping up children we'd been trying to keep alseep for the past 2 hours and if the music wasn't turned down in 15 minutes (it was 9:45 at the time of my verbal adventure), I'd go complain (to who I didn't know) and that I'd appreciate it if they'd follow through. I didn't really give him anytime to make a come back and I walked away. I guess Chase had followed me and hid in the darkness as my back up incase anyone came after me. I just don't understand how inconsiderate people can be. I didn't ask them to turn it off, just to turn it down to the point where our children could sleep in peace without having to fall asleep to sexual exploiations of some sad pathetic lyricist that can't find anything better to sing about. They did turn it down at 10:00... I hope it was becasue they were afraid of what I could do to them in my sober stance. There are just some things I will never understand. Other than that, we had so much fun and did Jackson... The loved playing in the sad and getting dirty.

Some other news... Chase got his Elk this year!!! And it's some dang good meat too. Other than that life has just been life I guess... We're just trudging along like most families doing our best to make it by. We're looking forward to Halloween with Jackson this year and his birthday!

I have a few pics to post, but I need to download them to the computer, so there is more to follow, and hopefully soon!

Up hill we go...

I just got home from a bike ride with Jackson this morning... It's my attempt to lose some weight and for today and attempt to help Jack feel better. He hasn't been feeling very well and has been couped up in the house for a few days, so I figured I'd take him out to get some fresh air and burn some calories while I'm at it. The awful thing about riding my bike is that I live on a hill side and most routes I can take are uphill. Granted, once you go up, you have to come down but it takes 15 mins to go up and 2 mins to come down- and for a squatty mommy who hasn't really worked out (other than a few tae-bo workouts about 7 months ago) it's a bit difficult, especially seeing as how it's not only the weight of myself and the bike I'm dragging uphill, but also my 20 lb son and the bike trailer. So needless to say it's a little rough, but I'm am making the attempt, and when I get back into shape, I'm sure I will start to enjoy it a bit more. Jack seems to like the time outside tho, and claps durning the ride, especially when we are getting some speed coming down the hills.

Well, Jack is 8 months old now, and I truly cannot believe it... It's been going by so fast and I wish I could somehow grab time by the ankle and slow it down- My baby boy is going to be all grown up before I know it. He has been crawling and getting into everything and he's starting to not only pull himself up to tables and chairs, but he's beginning to walk around them as well. I just hope he's not walking till after our family trip up to Lyman, just for my sake.

For the fourth of July we went to Lagoon with my some of my family and spent the day there. We had a great time and Lagoon was surprisingly not busy at all which made it even better. We didn't watch fireworks because the day after we woke up early and headed to Heber to go wheeling with some friends. That was also a lot of fun although I could have done with out the nasty dust roads... I literally went from a redhead to completely black hair. It was everywhere- in the nose, the ears, the shirt... everywhere, but it was worth fun we had.

Continued...

And now I will continue with where I left off before the haircut fiasco. So far this year we have gone to the sand dunes (April) Paiute Trial (May) and we just got back from a short trip from Idaho. The sand dunes where Jackson's first camping trip... well his first long trip anywhere. He did great, loved it and loved being on the rhino for our short family trip. Joe, Avery and Brea were also there along with my family and Mike, Crystal and the boys. It was a blast, especially when Ave and I got lost on the rhino trying to find the bathroom in the dark. Paiute was muddy and a bit rainy, but at least it wasn't dusty like last year. We had a 9 families there and rode our hearts out every day. Jackson had a blast too and again loved riding in the rhino. When he heard it start up he'd kick his legs and get a huge smile on his face. We took the jump up for him as well and hooked it on a "zip line" Chase had tied to two trees. Jack though it was great! Needless to say it was another great get-away (especially since I'd started working)

We just got back from our last trip a few days ago with some friends from Idaho. We just headed up the canyon a ways from where they live and camped out for a few days. It was hot, but the place was beautiful! We camped next to a small creek and even though the forest ranger stop us to tell us our UTV was illegal on trails for 4 wheelers, we still managed to find "truck trails" to have some fun on. Our next trip we are looking forward to is Flaming Gorge with Chase's Dad and family.

Another Adventure...

Before I being to tell you about our crazy fun get-away's this year, I must tell you about this first... Last night while I was at work, Chase decided to embark on an adventure of his own... I did get a text about it though... that he had cut Jackson's hair. It was getting long and I guess it could be trimmed up a little, but Jackson got a hair cut, not a trim a cut. So I called Chase on my break and we laughed together because Chase cut the top and couldn't seem to figure out how to even out the back and sides... Here are some pics of Chase's work of art.

Short on top...Long on the sides and back... Jack didn't seem to mind tho...

Anyhow, I decided this morning to see what I could do to help my goofy baby and his hair. It took me about an hour, probably because of my mild case of o.c.d. Here's what I got done, and I feel pretty good about it (no offense to the hubby)...

I know it's nothing professional, but with my rollie pollie ollie trying to squirm out of his seat (I don't blame him) it's the best I could do and he doesn't look half bad. He did a great job though, for the majority of the time and as long as he had a some treats he was happy as could be.

Update...

It has been mentioned by a few that my blog needs to be updated... I agree and now that I have worn out Jackson and put him down for a nap I can try and focus on this for hopefully the next 15 minutes or so (cross your fingers).

Jackson is now 7 months old, is about 17 lbs and 27 inches long, or at least he was a month ago at his doc visit. He has his two bottom teeth and is cutting his top ones and has been Oscar the grouch for the past few weeks as well as a cling monster. He's become a big daddy's boy... The minute Chase comes home all Jack's attention is focused on his daddy and won't have a thing to do with mommy. It's cute and nice because it gives me a break. Jack has also learned to wave a bit (he's till working on it) and he loves clapping. He will clap his hands together while smiling and say yeaaaa. We are in the process of teaching him how to blow kisses and say bye bye. He has been full fledged crawling for about a month now but previous to the crawling, he'd been "army crawling" (or scooting if you will) since he was a little over 5 months old. He's also been pulling himself up to table, chair, couches and anything he thinks he can grab onto and will hold on with one hand and jump or reach down for things below him. The doctor said he wouldn't be surprised if he was walking by 9 months (yeah, but I don't know that I'm ready) Jack has been so much fun and the light of my life. There's truly never a dull moment when he's awake and has kept me on my toes from day one. He loves his fruit and will eat most veggies, except carrots or mixed veggies. His favorite that I can always count on him eating is sweet potatoes.

Here is a pic of trying to get him to eat carrots...

He is very hands on and would grab the spoon or put his hand up to his mouth and spit it out then play in it. I couldn't help but laugh. He also loves bath time and playing with the water and it comes out of the spout.

He is all boy and takes on after his dad and I love him so much!

We recently got back from a few trips. Our first was the end of May down south to Piaute Trail which I will have to post about later because Jack just woke up. More to be posted soon... hopefully...

Greed...

My mind has been in so many places the past few weeks, or months for that matter. My heart at times has grown heavy towards people, and then has been lifted for others. A gal I work with has a baby girl a month or two younger than my son- her daughter has a medical condition she cannot afford to correct or make better and isn't able to work full time to receive the benefits to help. She came through my line with a few items for her daughter, one of which was a bobby to help her daughter keep her head elevated. She ran her debit card through and it was declined. Her tears, that seemed to already be in motion as she approached my counter, began to flow freely. She said she was embarrassed, and called her husband to see if the other card had money on it- he said there were only eight dollars on it, which wasn't enough. I had a few dollars in my pocket that I gave to her and was happy to see her eyes light up as she thanked me again and again and left in a hurry to get back to her daughter... At this time my heart was lifted after a long day’s work until the guy next in line made the comment that made my heart heavy again. He didn't understand the situation so what gave him the right to say something so degrading? Just because he as the funds and ability to take care of his family somehow gave him the right to speak so poorly of others? I tried to shed some light on the situation for him, but of course his cell phone had to right and he had to answer it, so I quietly continued to scan his items with my heavy heart.

I have a very hard time understanding why things have to be the way they are... why prices on everything have to keep rising, and where TV shows are becoming raunchier… someone says it much better than I ever could…….


GEORGE CARLIN, a comedian noted for his political and black humor, along with many taboo subjects, said this after his wife passed away:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete... Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

George Carlin