We're still here!!

I haven't been as ambitious to post since my camera died, but we are still here. This last week was Gussy's first pine wood derby race. He took fourth overall. He really wanted to win and kept talking about winning. Rick says to me "I haven't said anything about winning, where is this coming from?" So I tell Gus "This is about having fun, not winning" Gus "well they have these 'dervy' kits as prizes and I really want a 'dervy' kit for next year". The whole time I'm thinking, I can go buy you one at the scout office, it's no big deal. Any way he ended up taking 4th overall out of 17 or 18 cars. The winners were all seasoned veterans except Gus. So I told him he should be proud of himself.
Rick went to do his psychology clinicals this week in Evanston, WY. He was gone for 2 days and he got back last night at 7:30 and then got up at 2 a.m. to go do his preceptorship. He only has like 2 more yeah!! Before he started doing his preceptor I kept telling him to go to days. Then when he started and had to leave at 2:30 a.m. I decided that graves were better. I don't like being alone at night, but when you leave that early I'm still alone for the majority of the night. And it interrupts my sleep. It's all about me.
So we have been discussing how painful it is to get out of bed in the morning. Rick told me he thought it was the bed. I was thinking that it was just b/c I'm fat and out of shape right now. When he came back from WY, he said by the way I slept straight thru the night and it didn't hurt to get out of bed. And that was at the Best Western. I guess we need a new bed. The couch is actually more comfortable to sleep on than the bed.
Marcus has another ear infection. That makes what 3 this year. So he has been loads of fun!!

Happy Birthday Gussy!!

Today is Gussy's birthday. I would show pictures of his cake and etc., BUT I still have no camera. He got a baseball glove and ball so now we can play catch and all that good stuff. We fixed him hot wings and french fries and had an awesome cake.
Rick and I have been finishing a sprinkler system that seems to be taking forever. But that happens when you only work on it every few days. We are so out of sprinkler shape or either that we are getting old.

This Ones For You Scott!

So say hi to Jazmine Isabell. This isn't a very good shot but you can see that she is unable to do up her pants. She has a few issues so pray that all continues to go well for her.
We spent the day at the cannery. Canning corn and tomatoes. This is what we looked like when we were done. Valeree and Mom went over to Tremonton to pick tomatoes this morning. She said that she only picked like three bushels. When she showed up at the cannery I told her that she had way more than three bushel. (Dad said that she was crazy wacko and mom blamed it on Valeree, saying that she kept telling her she needed more. They will all like their goods come winter.)

This was what we ended up with. It was lots of work, as usual, but it will sure be tasty come November or January. We ended up doing 93 2# cans of tomatoes, 2 five gallon buckets of tomato juice to make devils bru with and 40 cans of corn. We thought we had done alot but the lady that runs the cannery did 200 cans of tomatoes on Tuesday!!
Here is Valeree's savage dogs trying to eat Alex. Just kidding but Alex better watch his fingers. They seemed to have eaten one of her MIL's chicks and a kitten that wandered to close to there cage.

Here is Grandma's new kitty. His name it Tiger. We decided that she needed some cats to take care of the mice she has out here. Notice that I said "cats". Unfortunately Squeaky met an untimely demise today. SHH we still haven't told Libby. She is the care takers of the kittens.
This was part of the $40 roast that dad went to the grocery store to fetch while we were canning. He just knew that we would be famished when we came home. I think this roast was 13 lbs. Dad also went to the garden and dug up the mashed potatoes that we had. Valeree then added 1/2 a cube of butter to the potatoes. Although tasty, not very healthy on the arteries. Valeree was helping in the kitchen. It went something like this

Libby: "Valeree I have something to tell you"

Valeree: "Just a minute, I'm cutting up your meat"

Libby: waiting patiently

Valeree: "oh my gosh they're on fire"

In case you were wondering if Dad has gotten any cleaner this should let you know. These pictures don't do the mess justice. Mom has decided that she is not going to clean it up. She has been so busy canning that even though it is bothering her she is too "busy" or tired to clean it up.

I finally got my rejection letter from Weber State today. It went something like this , impressive application but we have chosen to go another way blah blah blah.

Waiting with anticipation

I've been waiting now 2 weeks to hear back about my interview with weber state. I can't wait any longer. The anticipation is killing me and I can't put on any more weight. I called last week about it and they said that within a "couple of days" they will be letting everyone know. I said it doesn't say who got the job? No it doesn't, that would be nice though. They shouldn't have said that they were going to decide that day who was going to get it but that it might take a week or longer to let them know. If they already know lets get this going. I would even take a rejection notice at this point in time. I need Rick to steal me some anti-anxiety meds.

It's never there when you need it!

Alex fed Marcus like 3 fudge stripe cookies and his face was covered with chocolate. I needed a picture of it but like all things when you really want it, it is never around. Perfect photo op. By the way the camera is only going to cost $94 for them to open it up who knows how much parts will be (they will only be 5 cents but for them to put it in, it will cost another $94)
I had big plans for today, like finish all the laundry. The majority of the time was spent trying to find Alex. I was looking for him every thirty seconds or so. Marcus is also getting more teeth so he is not being very good either. He doesn't have his front teeth but he is starting to get his eye teeth, strange. So I doped the baby up and he finally went to sleep so the rest of my time was focused on Alex. Thanks to the big rain storms I was able to do some laundry and cleaning today. Not much and now I am exhausted.