Alex's B-Day!

We had a fun time having a party for Alex and the extended family. We had a dinner with my brothers and Issac's brother and mom and step dad. It was fun. After dinner Alex opened his gifts and then we did cake and Ice Cream. He got lots of clothes, book, and a fire truck and he loves the fire truck. We love Alex and are Glad that he got to come to our house. He is having fun at school and is learning lots and has started making sounds at school so I think that he might be over coming his shyness. I really hope so, so they will know just how smart he is. We are STILL waiting to hear back from the Dr. to see if he has the cornella de langue syndrom. We are moving on to the next phase of having x rays taken of his hands. They are also going to test the whole family to see who has it and who doesn't. It will be nice to find out. He is getting smarter and smarter every day. He can say the all of the letters and count to 20. He can also name all the colors and shapes (even the weird hard one's). We are so proud of him and hope that he will continue to progress in life so he will be on track with his fellow class mates. I also hope that we can find out sooner than later if he has the syndrom so I can tell his teachers so they will know how to teach him in school. He is very loving to his baby sister and a BIG tease to other sister. At least she can body slam him if need be so when they are older I think that he will not be able to beat up on her.

Moab

Issac and I decide that we were going to go to Moab for our five year anniversary. We went to two parks Arches and Canyonlands. It was so beautiful how the rocks could form like that. With all the different colors. We had to go to both parks in one day because there was not enough time to see them in two days. The town of Moab is really old and cute. We stayed at the Moab Vally Inn and you could tell that it has not been updated for years, but that is the kind of town that it is. We bought some gifts for the kids. It was so nice of Issac's mom to babysit for us. It is so nice to be able to get away from your kids and enjoy some time with each other. With me working part time it was nice fore us to get some alone time. I hope you enjoy these picture. In the third photo you can see a road this is where the farmers use to take the cattle on and then they started mining in the 40's. Then in 1960 they decide to make the state parks.

Becca's 1 year birthday!

We had a fun time watching her eat the Ice ceam cake that I made for her. I forgot to take a picture of the big cake. I made butter cram cake and then I put butter pecan Ice cream on top of the cake. If you would like to know how to make and Ice cream cake just ask me and I will tell you. She had fun letting me help her open her gifts. She would get really happy to just open the cards. Thanks to of those of you gave her a gift she loves them all. We are so glad that she came to us. She is a very happy baby and does not get mad or cry about much. She can be sick or getting teeth and you would not really know it. She is learing how to do the army crawl. We took her in yesterday for her 1 year check up and found out that she is 3 months behind on her grose motor skills and her fine motor skills. She is in the 75% for her height and weighs in at 20 LBS. I have a big girl! The dr thinks that she and Alex have the cornella de langue syndrom so he wants us to talk to Alex's gentic dr. I guess that we will see. If she starts walking by her next check up then I will not worrie about her. The dr. had a medical student with him and he had him get a medical book and they talked about the two kids and what featurs that they have that would lead them to belive that they both have it. There was more things that they said about Alex then Becca. I guess that I will email Alex's dr and see if he has more news for me. Mabye we will be doing early intervention with Becca too. Only time will tell.

Getting to know Issac and Brooke

Consider yourself tagged. It does take a little while to do (consider it family history ;)) and it is fun and brings up good memories. I would live to read your list :)
1. When is your "engagement" anniversary: Official engament I am not really sure, because we knew that we wanted to get married shortly after dating, but we were married in September of the same year that we started dating.
2. When is your "marriage" anniversary: September 25, 2004
3. How long have you known your spouse: about 6 years
4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged: about 9 months
5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time? On a dateing web sight
6. What is your spouse's full name: Issac David Rands
7. Do you have any children: Alex 4 in 2 weeks, Lizzy 2.5 and Becca 1
8. How many - boys/girls: 2 girls, 1 boy
9. Do you have any house pets: nope we had Issac's sisters dog for a little while and after that we knew that we were not cut out for havening a pet yet. We have to many young kids.
10. Do you own a house or rent: own
11. Do you live in the country or town/city: West Jordan, UT
12. What is one of your favorite activities together: camping and watching movies
13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot: not really
14. When did you first kiss? I can't remember, but we had been dating for a while and he decided one night while we were talking at my car and watching the planes go by that he was going to do it. He was really shy and I was only the second girl that he had kissed. Lucky for me :).
15. What church do you attend? LDS
16. Did you get married in a church? Where? Idaho Falls Temple
17. What town is your current address at: West Jordan, UT
18. Do you work or stay at home: Work at Olive Garden
19. Where did you go on your honeymoon: Hawaii
20.What was the funniest gift you gave when dating? I don't remember
21.How long have you been together? been married 5 years
22. How long did you know each other before you started dating? well Issac was living in Demoin Iowa and wated to start talking to me on line so I decieded that I would talk to him, but then his job ended and I joked with him that he needed to move to UT and he was able to get a job in Sandy, UT so we talked to 6 months and then started dating when he moved here.
23. Who asked who out? he sent me an email saying that he wanted to meet me, but I had to break up with a boy first.
24. How old are each of you? 33 and 36 (in December)
25.Where do you each work or go to school? Issac works for ACS and I work at the Olive Garden
26. Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple? I would have to say that because I have to work it is hard on us to be apart and that he has to watch the kids 3 nights a week.
27. Did you go to the same school? nope he is form CA and I am form ID
28. Are you from the same home town? nope
29. Who is smarter? Him
30. Who is more sensitive? Me
31.Where do you eat out most as a couple? Our first date was to Applebese, but we eat any place.
32. Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Hawaii
33.Who has the craziest exes? neither of us
34. Who has the worse temper? He does he takes after his dad.
35. Who does the cooking? mostly me I will cook when I am home, but when I work I make a cacaseroll for him to throw in the oven.
36. Who is more social? I would have to say that we both are.
37. Who is the neat-freak? He is, but I try to keep the house nice.
38. Who is more stubborn? that is a toss up, but if you were to ask him he would say that I am.
39. Who hogs the bed? him
40. Who wakes up earlier? Who waks up or gets out of bed. If he does not have to get out of bed he will sleep in and I get up with the kids.
41. Where was your first date? I met him at his apt and we went to dinner and then a movie.
42.Who had more boyfriends/girlfriends? me
43. Do you get flowers often? No he thinks it is a waist of money
44. How do you spend the holidays? We switch off every other year
45. Who is more jealous? I don't know that we are jealous
46. How long did it take to get serious? 2 months
47. Who eats more? He does...he is a guy.
48. Who does the laundry? Me
49. Who’s better with the computer? He is
50. Leave a piece of advice for the other couples. Last Sunday when we went to the deacation at the new temple someone said (I am sorry I can't remember who said this), but they said that you should have a picture of the temple in your kids rooms by there beds so when you are praying or talking with them they can see it. I never thought about before.

Please Mom!

Today I was watching the foodnet work Chanel and they were showing a commercial for Kraft easy mac. Alex said to me "Mom can we go to Walmart and buy some mac and cheese please mom can we" I told him no. He then came and sat buy me and said "Mom can I spank your butt please mom". I had to laugh at him he is talking so much and doing a great job. He will be back to school on Tuesday. He says that he is glad to be going back to see his teacher. He will enjoy the us ride too I think. That makes me happy.

I stink!

Today when I was getting Lizzy dressed she told me that I stink. I said I stink ya you stink Mommy. I had to laugh. I guess that I had really bad breath because she covered her mouth and nose. I had to laugh because it was so funny to see her cover her mouth and nose with her little hand.

Today is the day

We told Alex if he would go poop in the toilet then we would buy him "BIG" boy underwear. We took him to Walmart and let him choose the ones that he wanted. He decide that he would get Thomas and Cars. He was so happy. We brought him home and made him go potty and then we put on the underwear. He then told me when we were done that he had to go potty again. YA! How happy was I. Lizzy was sad :( that she didn't get to have her "BIG" girl underwear, but we told her to do the same as Alex, but she didn't so she doesn't get them yet.

A Few Weeks Ago.... We went to eat some lunch with Issac. We decide that we would go to a Toco Bell. While walking in a guy walked in behind us and held the door open and then said "oh are you having fun with grandpa today". Issac was holding the baby and I guess they thought that he was not the dad due to his gray hair. We had a BIG laugh about that. What could you say to the guy. OH these are our kids? We decided to leave it at that.