Happy Birthday Tanner

My baby boy is five, one more year until school thank goodness, not that he is not ready, because I think he is, but he misses the cut off by 12 days. I just don't think I am ready for him to grow up. He already surprises me so much by things he says and does, sometimes I think he thinks he is a teenager and man he sure can sass and backtalk like one as well. But it is his birthday and we will only talk about the good right. I know my child is not perfect, but man he is such a good kid. He is the best big brother in the world to his sister, she is one lucky girl to have him as a brother because he will always be their to protect her and take care of her. They are both at the same daycare now and they love it they have been their since the end of July and the teachers say Tanner still goes and checks on Brylee at least once a day. Tanner is a fun loving kid and is a Mommy's boy, I hope he stays that way. When Tanner has his mind set up it is set up and no stopping him in whatever he is determined to do. Like riding his bike, he wanted to take the training wheels off and he was ready and didn't want help and took off. He is a thinker, and sometimes you can just see in his face he is thinking deep. He got that from his Dad because I am not much of a deep thinker. Tanner is also a deep sleeper as well so he talks in his sleep and he does get that from me. One night I heard him crying and went in to check on him and he was sound asleep. I have heard him laugh in his sleep as well.

Well for Tanners Birthday we went with our good friends to Chuck E. Cheese's in Sandy, the Layton one opens tomorrow if it stays on schedule, missed it by a week, oh well. It was so much fun driving down with our good friends the Wards and the kids had a blast. Tanner got to see Chuck E and said after, "Mom I was only a little bit scared." I just had to put the picture of Brylee and Austins reactions to the scary mouse. What mean parents we are huh!! Because of my good friend Sarah's wedding on Tanners Birthday I went to the wedding, then we headed to Sandy for lunch then back up to Layton for the reception that night. We had a little family party the next day and I did my traditional birthday cake. He wanted a guitar since that is what he wanted for his birthday too. Too bad the guitar is late, I blamed it on UPS, you know if USPS would have delivered it, it would have been on time right!! ha ha. He had fun with his cousins at his party and we always love when family gets together. Thank you everyone for making his birthday special for him. I was making him clean up his room to get ready on Saturday morning and he said, "Mom I don't know why I have to clean my room, my cousins are just going to mess it up!" Then he had a few neighbor friends come over he started getting mad at them for getting the toys out because he didn't want to have to clean it up again, he decided to go play outside so they wouldn't mess up his room. He was right it was a disaster and only took a few minutes after his cousins came over and thinking about it, I think it still is, why clean it up when it is going to just get messed up again right!! What comes around goes around right, I am sure the same things happen when we go to family and they play. I do try to have him clean up when he goes to grandmas or somewhere, but sometimes ya just get in a rush. I remember when Tanner and Ridge were playing it was about a year or so ago and they were down stairs at our friends house and they were being so good and we were up stairs with the Brylee and Austin and able to talk as adults. Come to find out they were having a good time playing with all the games and christmas stuff and had taken them off the shelves and playng them all together and also playing like it was christmas too with her christmas decor. I think Amy said it took her two hours to go through the games and clean it up. I am sorry again about that Amy!! Well I will quit writting so much Jason says noone reads what I write anyway because I write too much.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TANNER-I LOVE YOU MY BUGGA BOO!!

Grandmas Testimony

OK-so my grandma, whom is my Dads Mom, has asked me before to type up some family history stuff for her and about a month ago she gave my dad a envelope with some stuff in it for me to type. Of course she is coming this weekend and I have procrastinated until right before she comes to type it up for her. Little did I know it was her funeral arrangements. I wasn't prepared, but honored to type the things I did for her-the obituary draft, life sketch, funeral arrangements, misc items, and her personal testimony. I guess to be able to live until you are old enough to experience life and be able to write and plan your own funeral is quite an honor. I don't think most are able to plan their own funeral, but then it got me thinking about my own funeral and that some people my age do actually have to think about this sort of thing. I have not been hit with the trial of bad health or an illness or something terminal that would make me want to plan my funeral arrangements, but really we need to be living our lives each day as if it were the last because we never really do know when it will be our last. If we are lucky we can live to be in our eighty's or ninety's and have a good long healthy life. I have been lucky to have a good relationship with my grandma because my Dad will go and pick up my Grandma for a weekend or so and we go over to spend time with her while she is in town. I have taken advangates of some of the times to take her home so I can have that one on one time with my grandma to visit because when we do get together the kids can get pretty wild and loud, so it is harder to visit one on one. We have stopped on our way too or from Bear Lake to see her and of course pick up a pizza at Fredrico's pizza too, all of our favorites huh Grandma & Dad! I love you grandma!! And it was so touching to me that she wants her testimony read at her funeral with her obituary.

I just hope that my life I can reflect a way that others may see the light of Christ through me. I am by no means perfect, but I know that because of what our Older Brother Jesus Christ did for us all we have to do is do our best every day, or those tough words endure to the end. I don't want to think of the end of my life, but it has helped me to realize I do need to do better because I have along way to go, so I better shape up. The gospel is true!! If you are just snooping on my blog and arn't a member of the church check the following link, it can only do you good. http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/

I plan on taking an updated picture of my kids and Grandma Great this weekend since the below one is a year old, I can't believe I went that long. Below is also a picture of my Grandma and her second husband when they got married in 1983. Grandpa Miner he was quite that guy, he let us work in his garage with his wood and tools, we always came home with a project we had been working on, I wasn't too creative, for me it was usually just a pencil holder or something like that. I am thankful for parents, and grandparents, family, and friends that are good examples to me that help me to be better and want to be a better person. I think we all get in a rut and have to dig ourselves out at times, and other times we need the help of others to get us through the storms in our life. And most of the time it is nothing serious, just need to get back to the basic normal things in life in our daily routine of reading the scriptures and prayer including family prayer, FHE, and remember the things that are really important in life that we so easily get out of. But as long as we keep getting up and trying again we are trying so that is all we can do. Like my mom used to always say when we would try to get out of going to school, she knew we were faking it, "Get up, Get to work, and you'll feel better!"

Gospels True and Life is Good!!