Meg Got her Glasses

We got Megs glasses yesterday. She got two pair. I am sad.. They make her look even older and she is already growing too fast.

Some of the things she said when she first got them....

Mom.. your face looks funny.
Mom... your shirt looks funny too.
She was a little apprehensive to walk at first. The first step that she took down a step she moved very slowly and asked for my hand.

As we walked outside she said... I can see the top of the mountains.
She really had never seen where the mountain ended and the sky started. She also later told me that she could see the clouds in the sky. Wow, I really am glad that we found out when we did. I feel bad that she has missed so much detail in life. It has been fun to watch her experience new things. She has adjusted well. Other than the novelty of cleaning them all the time she has been very good to just wear them. She looks at herself in the mirror a lot. I am sure it is weird to see herself and the detail and the glasses are new.

By the way... The bruises and the scrapes are from her falling down the front porch stairs a few days ago. It was interesting my reaction was... poor thing you probably couldn't see where prior to this, sadly, it was Meg you have to pay attention... GRACE! I really have nicknamed her GRACE because of that. Now I feel mean.

The nicer side of Tanner

Due to many request that I hurry and post something much less disturbing than the scary picture of tanner below.... He has graced us with a very pleasing photo and story to talk about.

Tanner has worked very hard at school for the last month on learning all about the United States and the Constitution. They had a Mock Congressional Hearing at school the other day. He and four other students had to present a point to the City Judge, Principal, Police chief, and the DARE officer. They really did a great job. I was proud of him. He did a great job speaking and answering their questions. Way to go Tanner, We love this side of you! We hope to see much more of "THIS SIDE"!

This is a descriptive picture... This is often how Tanner acts lately!~

Random Cell phone pictures

The other day I decided to upload some of the pictures we a have taken with our cell phones over the last while. Here are some of them.


Megan in her cute hat that Amie gave her for Christmas! We love it.

Tanner sitting on the Happy Birthday horse at the Texas Road House!

Me! Eating the BIG JUDD Burger! I ate the whole thing by myself!! Just kidding. Brent, Drew, Rae and I shared it. This was on our way to West Yellowstone with them to do the show.

Uncle Adan so wonderfully braving the very cold snowy day to support Tanner at his soccer game! We love you Adan! He didn't have much to keep him warm. It was about 20 degrees, wind blowing, and snowing. He used Adam's sweatshirt to cover his head and ears. What a sport!

(Above and below) Tanner and Landon's day at the salon. Tanner really got into it with some highlight, the dryer and a magazine! He felt very great about himself when all was said and done. Landon decided to sport a MULLET for a while! Well, for about 2 minutes until we cut the rest off! LOL! :)

(Below) Josh, Meg, celebrating birthdays at the El Toro and Amie and Jamie at the Cafe Sabor restaurant in Logan. They sing to you and have to wear the Sombrero.
Lookin Good!

What fun moments we would have missed out on sharing if they have not invented the mighty cell camera!

My blind baby!

A long time ago! Well, about six months ago Robyn made an assessment of Meg that her mother and father had failed to see. Meg was in Robyn's kitchen and wanted to watch TV, but was eating.. Keeping her in the kitchen. She kept sneaking over to stand in front of the TV, and Robyn would send her back. Then Robyn, looked at her and said... "Stacey She can't see!" I said oh, she can she just likes to stand in front of the TV. Well, since that time Brent and I have observed Meg squinting at the TV and other things. Megan always likes to stand right in front of the TV. We finally got her into see the eye doctor and what he had to say really was a shock to me. I thought he would tell us she was slightly impaired and may need a slight prescription. Well, he told us that she really has a severe impairment. The poor child has very poor vision. She will have to have the thick coke bottle glasses. He showed me with some lenses how Meg sees and it brought tears to my eyes. Everything is blurry to her. We had one man at the eye glass shop tell us she has never seen the color red because it would be so blurred to her it would look pink. Meg had to have her eyes dilated and it was a nice warm sunny day... after we had a soccer game for Tanner and she was very self conscious that her friends would not like her big sun shades. After several hours of shopping with Megan and trying on many glasses and fighting over the fact it needed to have a barbie sticker on the front we found two pair of glasses for her. So 250 dollars later I am preying that the glasses we bought are a little less frightening than the picture below, and the lenses don't make her eyes this big?? We should have her new glasses next week, and we will be watching her really see for the first time!

I know your laughing! Make sure to click on the picture and check it out large... PRICELESS!

Easter Sunday!

Better late than never!

A true confession! I have not been blogging because well I work to much... and when I am on the computer I have been addicted to Farm Town on Facebook. I decided that I will have to give it up! Sorry Rae, and any other farmers.

Easter Sunday after church Robyn, Scott, Colby, Cameron, Kyler, Mom, Grandpa Branch, Amie, Tom, Brayden, Trevon, Melissa, Anna, Carson, and Adam came over. We had a nice ham and turkey dinner and after we had fun things for the kids to do.Robyn had the cute fun paper plate bunny ears for the kids to make. We even got grandpa to wear one for about 20 seconds. Then we sent the kids out to decorate their paper bag. This is something we (me and my sisters) always did as a child at Grandma Izzy's. We each contribute to the candy pool, and then make each bag the same. Each childs bag is hiden and they have to search it out. Cameron got the hardest one to find of course. Colby hid it in the sand at the park. Burried!! It took him a while buy he clued in and found it. Tanners was up in the top of the park canopy. You can see Colby hiding it in the picture below. We really had a great day. I love to spend any time I can with my family. Thank you all for coming! It's so fun to have you all to share our holidays with. Drew, Rae, Rob, Lena and Chad we missed you!

Proud Mother Moment!

Well, some of you may know and some may not... but Brent, the kids and I have not been active in the church for quite a long time. Meg never has never been to nursery and I think she has been to church only once with me. That's how long it has been. Well, Thanks to some "nudging" from my great neighbors, and some missionaries, and some small desires we have been to church twice now. After going the first week one of my neighbors, Nylyn asked me if Landon and Megan would be willing to sing with a few of the neighbor kids in sacrament. I let Landon and Meg choose and they both said yes. So for two weeks they practiced this song. I thought they both did so well considering neither of them had heard it before. Great job guys! I am so proud of you both. My mom, Grandpa Branch, Melissa and her kids came to sacrament on Easter Sunday to watch. It was great! Thank you to all who have been such great examples to me and my kids along the way.

Sorry! I could not figure out how to turn the video but you can hear them. :) Crank your head to the side?

RSL Game!!!

Last week we took the boys to the opener RSL game. We got there and the weather was not to bad. They boys however were praying for rain. Why? you ask! Well, If we got rained on during the game we would be able to go to a game in August for free. Every tiny rain drop the boys would say Oh! Yes, its raining. I kept telling them it really had to rain. Well, after the first half they got their wish. We got dumped on. It really was a lot of fun. We were prepared with warm clothing and rain gear. The game was a lot of fun. They started the game off with a goal only a few minutes in.... and won the game 4 to 1. We went with Tanners soccer coach and a few of the boys he plays with and their families. Can't wait to do it again in August! Hopefully we don't need all the rain gear then. Thanks to Adan who so kindly took Meg for the night.

A great opportunity!

While Brent is still not working, We were lucky enough to go with Drew and Rae to West Yellowstone to work a snowmobile show. Rachel works for RU Oustside. They sell all sorts of great snowmobile gear. We left last Thursday and came home on Sunday. Although we worked long days at the show and sometimes our feet hurt from standing all day... We had a lot of fun with Drew and Rae at nights. We love to hang out with them!!! And even better Brent and I were able to make some much needed money!!! Thanks Rae for letting us tag along. And Thanks to Rick..... Rachel's boss for letting us work for you at the show. It means a lot!!!
We went to the three bears resteraunt.... There are bears behind us! This is me and Rae supposedly scared :)

An absolutley NO FUN post!!

So, Here is to a post with "NO FUN" involved. Last Friday I got home from work, cleaned up the kitchen counter from the kids after school feasting, and went outside to get my paperwork from my car. When I opened up the garage door... there was Brent pulling in backwards to up to the garage? Why backwards you ask? Because, he had to unload his work tool box. Yep, they had a lay off at work and now we have joined the many, many who are out there without a job. We have said for the last eight months as we have heard about others who have been laid off and not been able to find work, how thankful we were we had stable jobs. We were not expecting this at all. There was not talk or warning, just an "I'm sorry". They did say that they were hoping that it would be a temporary lay off, and he could return to work in a few months. I guess that is better than.... "Good luck!" There are no jobs to even apply for, so good luck does not go very far. Anyway, I have been trying to figure out how we can budget down, how I can work more, and what we want to and do not want to give up.

Missing Comments!!!!

Ok! It may sound silly...... or selfish..... but I am so sad that no one comments on my blog anymore. That is why I blog... to share and hear what you all have to say about it. I have a counter on my blog and I know you are reading it... but you never leave a comment. Me and my poor pathetic self check back every day to see what you think..... and.... nothing. I try to leave a comment on other blogs so they know I was there. Anyway... If you think something when you read my blog... good or bad... please post a comment. If I must admit that I am begging for your computer friendship through a small typed comment on my blog... I guess I lay down my pride and say it!!! Please be my computer friend and talk to me!!!! P.S. If you are talking to me on facebook..... thank you! But I truly am a Blogging fan... through and through!!! Facebook is just not the same!

Vegas Baby!!

Last weekend Brent and I got to take Tanner to St. George. He had a soccer tournament down there. We were lucky enough to drop Landon at Robyn's, and Megan and Stephanie's. (Thank you, Thank you!) On the way down, back and in between we listened to Inkheart... We are now ready to see the movie. We got down there on Saturday and were pleasantly surprised by the sun. We were expecting rain and cold..... via the weather report. The boys lost their first two games that day. It was sad... They dominated the ball, had possession most of the time... but could not get it in the goal. The other two teams got lucky with a goal and they lost both games 1:0. On Sunday we had the day to ourselves. Tanner decided he wanted to go to Vegas. I am not sure what reason was stronger: The promise of a great buffet or getting to see the unkown. Anyway, when we were really close to Vegas we decided to drive to see Hoover Dam. None of us had ever been there. We had a good time there. It was a fun site to see... at least once in your life. We got back to Vegas at about 1:30 and walked and watched for hours and hours. Tanner loved Vegas. He was a trooper to keep up with all the walking after just a long day Saturday. His favorite part was the Valcano at the Mirage. I always love the water to music at the Bellagio. We got Landon and Meg a gift at the M&M store. We ate at the buffet in the Mirage. Tanner was in Heaven.... His favorite place to eat is Golden Corral. Thank goodness this buffet was a huge step up from that. He ate and ate... went to the bathroom and ate some more. Good thing... he made it worth paying for. The next day they played another game. They played a team that beat us in the fall... We were victorious. It was good to leave with a win. We had a great time. It really was a fun experience to go with just Tanner. I think we need to try to do an alone get away with Landon and then Meg when she is a little bigger. Here are some pictures and a video clip of our fun.....It was really hard to get a view of everything. It was all so big. Down at the bottom of this picture are trucks and large poles. They would be very big if you were down there. It made you dizzy to look down the wall from the top.

They are currently building this HUGE bridge. This is one side that they will be lifting up to meet the other side. It was neat to see how they were doing it. Modern Marvels Hu???

Like T's shirt? Some Lady walked by and asked me how cheap I was. At first I was not sure if I should be offended or what. Then I remembered Tanners shirt :)


You can just barely see Tanner and I on the bridge. It really was Huge! This is the small side! As big as this bridge looks..... It will be TINY compared to the new one they are building.



Do you think I should be jealious???

We took Tanner to ride the New York, New York roller coaster.... It is always fun!
And my Favorite!!! We were in the 3D M&M show!!!I love T's Face!

Old Fart!

Landon had his 100th day of school last week. They dressed up like old men. This picture makes me laugh because this is just how I picture Landon as an old man. Grumpy!!!

Yet another bragging moment for Mr. T

Last weekend we spent Four hours on Friday and Four hours on Saturday morning at the pool at Mt. Crest! Why??? To watch Tanner swim a total of 9 events. He cut time off of every event. From 3 to 12 seconds off (that's quite a bit). He has made it to the senior team on the Logan Gator Swim Team and has really improved. He took Second place over all for all Ten year old boys. This was a huge meet with boys from SLC to Idaho Falls. Great Job Tanner! We are very proud of you!