Grandfather

Life is good. My gradfather in Idaho is getting ready to die. He is 89 years young and is ready to leave this life and go on to the other side to see my grandmother and some other family members. He was a great greandfather he and my grandmother would come to our dance recidles and piano recidles. He would still come to things even after my grandmother died. He taught me how to make cinnamon roles and come to my young womens one night and taught the girls there how to make them too. It was a fun time to be with him and cook with him. When we were younger we use to stay with my grandparents for a few nights in the summer we all looked forward to spending time with them. They treated us like we were the best kids ever. I am trying really hard to get next weekend off work so I can go and see him before he dies. My mother has all ready told me that he wants me to sing How Great Tho Art at his funeral. I am happy to do it. I get better and better at singing it with each time that I do it. My sister Celeste will play for me on the piano. We make a great team her and I. My Aunt Debbie and her son Jeremy and my Aunt Joyce came to help out with my grandfather. My brother Bryce and his family went to Idaho this weekend to help my Uncle Dee move out of his house into my grandfathers house that will become his until he passes away from kidney failer. I have a painful sinus infection and it has made me cough all the time so I try not to talk. Which if you know me that it very hard to do. Talking is one of my favorit things to do. I had to call my work yesterday and tell them that I was not able to come in as my head was pounding really bad. I hope that I will start feeling better soon. My kids keep asking me why are you not talking? I have to keep telling them that my voice has gone away. Alex and Becca have strep throut. They were not even feeling very sick. Years before before Alex got his toncles out he would tell me that his legg was hurting. I would take him in the the dr and the dr would say that he has strep so this week when he told me that his leg hurt I knew that he had strep. A few days later Becca come to me and told me that it hurt when she went pee. Lizzy had, had that problem a few months beofre and she ended up having strep and then knew that Becca had that too. They just kept playing like there was nothing wrong. Most kids get a feavor, stomach ach, or throw up, but not my kids that is why I had a hard time thinking that they really had something wrong with them. It has been a month sence my father in law passed away. I know Issac is having a hard time with it, but I know that he will be ok. I hope you all are doing well. God Bless!

LIFE

There is not much going on. I was picking up the kids from school yeasterday when Alex's teacher Ms. Wood told me that he has been talking more in class. He had just taken the Dibbles test (reading test) she said that he did really good. He talked realy loud for the lady giving the test, even louder that he had for his teacher and if his teacher came closer to where he was reading he would speak quiter. What a silly boy I have. I was teasing him the other day if he thought a girl in his class was cute and he said how did you know. I told him that she would like it if he were to talk to her and he smiled and told me no that she would not like it. I tease him every now and again about her. I know he likes it. He has the BEST speach teacher Mrs. Cantanavous she gets him to talk to most people that he needs to be talking to. The lady in the office was telling me yeasterday that she tries to tease him when gets his meds. after lunch I feel so blessed to have her there to help him. He sure has come a long way. I love it when he gets up to bare his testimony. You can not HEAR him, but you can FEEL him trying to convey his testimony. I know he chooses when he want to talk and if he does not want to he will not. Lizzy got kissed on her shoulder yesterday by a boy in her class. everyone in the calss knew about it. The teacher said that she had all ready told him before that it was not ok to kiss anyone. I guess that he had done it before this year and she had told his parents what he did and now she gets to tell them again. I told Mrs. Pruze that the father of the boy scares me because he is super creepy. He will just stare at me and it makes me feel very uncomfortable I just try to pre tend that I am busy with something on my phone so I do not have to deal with him. Lizzy was leader in me a few weeks ago she was super happy to get that. She got to sit at a special table and got to have a lunch brought in by Chick Fila. Her teacher also wrote her a little note. I was looking at Lizzy in her calss today and she was a lot taller than most kids. She looks like she could be in first grade. Her and Alex are the same height and almost the same weight. Becca is enjoying her pre school class. She has a really great teacher Mrs. Hansen. They get to spend part of there morning with Lizzy's class so I am sure that is fun for the girls to see each other. She is still acting like she can't do things, but I keep pushing her along and make her do them. Yesterday we went though her and Lizzy's clothes and I was able to get rid of 2 garbage bags of clothes. She was helping me put the clothes in the bag so that was nice. She is starting to talk really well. She is also wanting to learn how to read. She will bring me a book and ask me what does this say. She wants to be like her big brother and siter and read a book. She is good in the morning when we are reading our Book of Mormon to repeat the words that we say. Issac is still enjoying his job. They were so great to let Issac have so much time off when is father passed away. They said that they were sorry for him and told him that he could take as much time as he needed to take it all in. Him and his brother Tony went to speak to a lawyer about is father's things and they have done almost everything that they needed to do. I am sure that it a load off of all there minds. I am still working a lot, but I like my job. I feel really comfortable working there I and would like to think that I do a good job. Saturday I was there until 1:00 I was helping the manager and waiting for her to finish all her stuff. I got home at 1:15 and then I had to do something for my lesson for the next day so I was up until 1:45 and then I didn't want to get up the next morning for church. My primary class this year is much eaiser I just love it! I get to work with a wonderful Sister in the ward so that is nice too. The girls I teach are so quite and the one boy that I have does not come all the time, but when he does he is quite too. I have been trying to listen to good music on Pandora so I can make sure the spirit is in my home for when the kids get home from school.

Dave's Passing

Robert David Rands -- 1947 ~ 2013 -- We sadly announce the passing of Robert David Rands on January 13, 2013 at his home in Orem, Utah. Dave Rands was born on January 22, 1947 in Ogden, Utah. As a young man he served honorably both a building mission in the Northern States Mission and a proselytizing mission in the Canada Alberta mission. He was a US Army veteran as well as a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff. He earned a master’s degree in education and enjoyed teaching for many years. He was a dedicated scoutmaster while raising his family in Southern California. In his retirement, he enjoyed fishing and woodworking. He considered his family to be his greatest achievement. He is survived by his parents, Robert and Lorraine Rands, brothers Richard and Paul, sisters Janice Scott, Constance Romito and Marte Eyre, and by children Ann Hardt, Anthony, Issac, Jeremiah, Suzanne Cook, and Matthew, as well as 20 grandchildren. Funeral service will be held on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 10:00 am in the Hillcrest 1st LDS Ward Chapel, 1450 South 800 East, Orem, Utah. Family and friends are invited to attend a gathering at the church from 9:00-9:45 am prior to services. Interment - Utah Veterans Memorial Park in Bluffdale, Utah. We had a great day at the funeral yesterday. My children as well as all of there cousins sang a song for him called I Am A Child Of God. I was able to sing a song to him as well the song is called How Great Tho Art. I belive that singing has a way of touching your heart in a way that you would not always expect it too. He had served in the military for a few years so we were able to lay him to rest with the military doing there 21 gun salute and taps being played. He was a great man and I am sad that my children will not really get to know him that well. I hope that they can keep some fond memoried of him though. All of the older grandsons and the brothers and brother-in-law all were waring a tie to the service that belonged to him. May he rest in peace and may we all rememeber the good times that we had with him.

Christmas ECT!

I have been bad at posting on here. The past 2 weeks I have been working over 40 hours at work. I have been trying to keep up on the house and the kids. The kids had a fun time with Christmas. They were all super excited to open there gifts. We started having them open them one at a time. I got away with buying wrapping paper that was dual sided so I used one side for the gifts from me and Issac and the other one from Santa. It was so fun to see them get so excited for Santa to come. Lizzys teacher told her class that if you are super quiet then you will be able to hear Santa's slay bells. When she woke up in the morning she told me that she didn't hear them. I told her that she must have went to sleep super fast and that is why she didn't hear them. We were lucky we got to sleep in a little. Alex was up at 6:30, but we made him come and lay in our bed until 7:00 then we let him wake up the girls. He was glad to be able to wake them up. He likes to do that every day. We got the kids a thing called a dream light. It is a stuffed animal made by pillow pets and on the top it has a big plastic thing that light up your room with stars and a shape of the animal that they have. All the kids say that they are afraid of the dark so this has helped out a lot. Me being in primary knew that we would be studing the Doctrin and Covenants this year and I can't belive that Alex will be in senior primary so I knew that he needed to have one so I bought him a Book of Mormon/Doctrin and Covenants/Pearl of Great Price and had his full name put on it. He really liked it. It is hard to belive that he will be getting baptized this year that he is turing 8 in September. It just blows my mind. We got the girls a Doctrin and Covenants reader and a New Testament reader. These are books with photos and easy to read stories. The kids like them because they can read them to me. Issac and I have been making more an effort to read our Book Of Mormon every morning. We read 1-2 chapters each morning before Issac leaves for work. speaking of Issac's work he officially got hiried on with his companie. We will be able to get insurance in March I am so stoked I can go and get some new glasses. It has been about 2 years and I know that my prescription has changed. I will be looking for another eye dr. however because I do not like the other dr that we have been going too. We will also be able to get Issac into a dr. to see what is wrong with his shoulder. He has constant pain and feels like the bones are rubbing up against one another. He is still training for the St. George Marathon. I am so proud of him for doing this. He is very strong and will succed.

Let it snow, let it snow!

Today is a snowey, snowey day. I am not looking forward to it, but we need to have the snow. The kids are super excited for it they want to go out and play in it. I think it is going to be hard to tell them then no when they get home from school. I think I will have to bribe them with something. I will have to tell them that when they get done doing there reading homework then they can go out and play. I am not ready to deal with the mess yet and not all the kids have boots. I guess I will have to get on that. LOL! Issac is still enjoying his job. He will be hiried on in a coupple of months. That will be nice. The companie is all about the family. They let him leave when I need to get to work as long as he tells his boss and is able to get his 40 hours. We are still hoping that he will be able to get a job that he will be able to provided for the whole family so I can quit my job. I would like to be able to be home at night so I can cook dinner and read with the kids. Speaking of the kids. Alex and Lizzy had partent teacher confrences this week. They did good. Alex is reading at a second grade level and not doing so well in math, but we will work on that with him. I found a math book for $.79 at a book store. He will be getting that for Christmas. He actually got into trobble the other day. I had to laugh. I made him tell me what happned he told me that he was fighting over a marker. I guess 3 kids were involved and had to pull there names. I asked him if he used his words to tell the other kids what he wanted and he said no. I told him that next time he needs to. His teacher said that she felt bad that she had to have him pull his name because he was actually playing with other kids. We had a great laugh over that one. We did however tell him that he can not do that again. We set a goal with the teacher for the next confrence he has to talk to her for 5 mins a day. When asked how he liked that he said he didn't so I told him to bad he should have talked him selfe then and told the teacher what he wanted to do. When I went to talk to the speach teacher she told me that he is doing really good. She said that he had gotten a little scrape on his finger and would not talk until he go a banaid. So she gave him one and the he started talking more to her. She also told me that he was not talking to the school psychologist he would not talk to her, but then she told him this "don't you think that you should use your words with her don't you think that she would like to hear you"? He siad no, but when she talked to her again she said that he was a little chatter box YAH!!!! He is making grat progress. Know that he needs to be in the school and that he needs to be with this speach teacher because she is the one that is really helping him come out of his shell. I will be enternally greatfull to her for helping him to succed in life. He got up last fast and testmonie meeting a bore his testmoine. Lizzy is doing great in school. She is getting the highest greades in almost every area. Her teacher said that she is a good student she is a big helper for the teacher. Her speach teacher tells me that when she comes to calss she walks around like she ownes the place. That made me laugh. she is reading at a first grade level. I do not have to worrie about her not wanting to talk she has lots of friends at school. Some days I find that she has taken her hair out of her pretty. She tells me that she wanted her friends to see how long her hair is. I think that is funny. I have to keep her hair in brades in order for her to keep her hair done. Beecca is enjoying the pre-school class that she is in. She gets to go 3 times a week from 8:30-11:15. She has a really great teacher. I am not sure how long the class will go, but I am enjoying that she gets to go. she is such a happy girl. I have to keep telling her that she is old enough that she can do stuff eventhough she keeps telling me that she can't. Silly girl. I have been feeling rally good latley. I will have to see what the weather does to me. the only thing that has been really hurting his my hands, but I can live with that because that is better than my back hurting.

VOTE!!!!!

I have only voted once in my life, but I knew that we needed to have the right man becomming our president so I decied that I was going to vote. I will tell you that I voted for Mitt Romney because how nice would it be if there was a guy running our country who can recive revelation for our country. He will be a great leader. The most amazing thing is that he has the prestood, the athority to act in the name of God. I feel like when he prays on matters of our country he will listen to the still small voice speaking to him telling him what he should do. If you think about it when Nephi and his family were in Jerusalem they were told that the city would be destroyed. They listed to God and were able to get to the promis land which we know is the USA and right now we are not doing that great! We need a leader to get the U.S. back on top not headed further down the list. The world is going to stop listing to us if we do not regain back some power. Just like in the Book Of Mormon when the Nephits were prideful and would not listen to God then when it came time for war then they would be defeated, but when they would listed to God then they would win. Please go and vote for Mitt Romney he is our man for prisdent. He will be the man that will lead us in the way that GOD wants this country to be led.

Family Happinings

Becca has been starting pre school and she loves it. I think that her teacher is the best! I have had all of my children tested by her to see if they can get into the classes at school that I want them to get into. Alex and Lizzy were tested by her to see if they could get into all day kindergerten and then Becca was tested to see if she would be able to go to pre-school. I was happy when I found out that Becca was going to be in her class. She is super nice and works well with the children. Alex was tested at school for reading and we recived a letter in the mail telling me that he was not reading where he should be reading. Issac and I were floored because when he had left kindergeten he was reading at a first grade level, but probably could have went further, but his teacher didn't want to push him to much. I was finally able to talk to the teacher and found out that he was teasted in the libary with a bunch of other kids and I think that he shut down. A few weeks later I saw the speach teacher and I talked to her about it and she was going to ask if she could give the test to him because she thought that he would do a much better job. One other thing that I told her that the teacher had said was that he needed to be reading faster. His speach teacher said for him that is not important. What he needs to be doing is getting all the sounds out right not reading faster. She said that she would talk to the teacher about it. She did say that he was doing a great job in her class. He is talking lounder and much more. That made me soooo happy! I told her that I thought it was the year around school system that really helped him. she agreed with me. Lizzy is having fun the kindergarten. She tells me that she has a best friend and that she is going to go to her house and play. I informed her that I needed to meet her parents and talk with them first. She then told me that she was going to ske for Issac's phone number so she could give it to her BFF. I just had to laugh I thought she was so funny. That girl is going to give me a run for my money. She keeps having to many mood swings she will be nice for one second and then trun all bratty. She will yell at me, spit, and hit me. I just wonder how she is going to be when she becomes a teenager. I have hope that she will mellow out sometime....soon I hope. I have been told by many people that it is just going to get worse YAH!!! for me. Gotta love girls! I went to work yesterday and found out that I was up for a review and that my manager had done it and she had given me a small raise($.20). Which I was happy to get. Any raise is better than no raise at all. I am trying to become an assitant manager. We shall see how that goes. I am still working alot so we can get our car paied off and so I can have Christmas for my kids. I know some of you will think that I am crazy, but I have been buying stuff all ready. In fact I think that I am almost done with one of them. I just want to be done so I can enjoy the holiday seasons. Issac was informed a few weeks ago that he will be able to be hiried on full time with the companie that he is working for now. He was hiried through a temp agency for the job and was glad that he would be able to get hiried after the 3 months was over. They are all about family. They want you to take care of family first then work. How cool is that! I was happy about that for sure. He is still training for a marathon that will be in St George next year. His brother and him are trying to run it together. It will be loads of fun.