Payden's Graduation!!

PAYDEN GRADUATED!!! We are ELATED!!! :D After 4 years of working multiple jobs, tons of homework (and NO SCHOOL LOANS!!) My hubby has reached the end!! He majored in Construction Management and got his Associates in Architecture. He will be attending Graduate school in Architecture after we take some time off for a year or two and work. Last Friday night both of our parents were able to come into town to help us celebrate Payden's College Graduation. I did Cafe Rio pulled pork in the crock pot all night long and all day and we had awesome homemade fajitas. I also made homemade cinnamon rolls for dessert afterwards. But kinda were for anytime before and after ; ). Payden had to go earlier then the rest of us, so after he took off I got dressed and got the kids ready to go. Then our parents, me and the kids headed off to the BYUI Center for the Commencement. The kids were SOOOO good. The second ceremony where Payden walked across the stage, got his name called and received his diploma cover, they had a bit more of a rough time. But the first meeting... they were awesome! It helps that Mema and Nanna were both there to help me with Traetyn and entertain Braylie. :D It was really a great experience to have both of our parents there for Payden's graduation! We are all so proud of him for what he has accomplished! It was awesome to be able to share it together!! He has really done a ton of hard work to get where he is. It doesn't quite seem real yet. Maybe that's because we don't have a job just yet. I keep telling myself that it's just the timing. None of the other jobs have worked out because the PERFECT job for us is just around the corner. Here's to hoping that's true!! haha This post is kinda scatter brain, as are the pictures... but it has been way too long since I have posted and College Graduation definitely deserves a somewhat thought out post on this here blog. haha As for now, we still have no job like I said. So if you hear of anything... anything at all, shout it our way! I'll keep you updated as far as that goes. We're kinda waiting on one in Pocatello and out at the INL Site. For now he is looking for something, anything to get us by until he finds a good long term job that will offer us what he deserves to be paid. But besides all of that, we are looking forward to Christmas this weekend and being with the Toone Clan in Blackfoot! Spencer and Kristen and their new little girl Brooklyn are coming, so we are anxious and excited to be able to meet her! Take care! and Merry Christmas!

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OK, so I am only posting this for my journal purposes and for the fact that I want to print this off at the end of the year. Braylie's 2nd Birthday. Lame, I know. It was way long ago at the beggining of July and It is now the end of Sept. But I figured I'd get it in anyway. Here is the Link of a friends blog who featured and helped (A TON) planning and pulling together her party! :) She had an adorable blog and is sooo talanted and has the best ideas for stuff! Check it out! Follow her and like her page on Facebook. She has an etsy too!!! So we planned this party in 2 days!!! YA! It was sooo much work and my house was a mess for that whole week, but, I loved how it turned out and she seemed to have fun so it was soo worth it! We planned on having the splash park as the entertainment for the kids but of course, the one day it was closed of the entire summer for maintenance, was the day of Braylie's party. So we just at hot dogs, chips, lots of candy and played with party hats! :)

I mod podged the balloons and glittered them to add a little sparkle.

Our inspiration was a cupcake design that looked like disco mirophones out of mini ice cream cones and doughnut holes. The cupcakes didn't turn out quite how we planned and ended up looking more like ice cream cones but they worked and inspired us for EVERYTHING PINK!

I got tons of different kinds of pink candy and together Emily and I used all of our own jars and other containers to display them! :) Emily had JUST recieved her new sillouhette in the mail like the day before so she cut out the cupcake holders, paper party hats and the cotton candy cones from that. She also designed the water bottles lables.

I also made tissue paper pom poms to hang from the rafters. I loved the polka dot ones! And my sister in law cut them down after the party and reused them for her daughters party the next week so it was perfect!! :)

Emily (who planned the party with me) and her son Dawson with Traetyn at the party

Daddy and Braylie <3

We ended the day with a ride on the carousel with Daddy and cousins! And the horse got to hold Braylie's homemade microphone in it's mouth :)

Overall I'm happy with how it turned out :) I love my little girl!!! I can't believe that she is 2 and that she now has a little brother too! Crazy things happen when you blink moms! I warn you if you have little little ones like my Traetyn. It'll be gone before you know it! BUT, every stage is SOOO fun! Braylie is really really developing her speech right now and it is sooo fun! Today I walked down the hall and said gosh... ( i dont remember what i was frustrated about at the time but we were trying to get out the door so it could have been anything) and behind me I hear a little echo "gosh" haha. And if I call down the hall for Payden or something, again I have my little echo saying, "paynen!" :) Being a mom is AWESOME! Each year she gets better and better! I can't wait for year 3. I LOVE YOU BRAYLIE!!!

School!

Payden started his LAST first day of school on the 12th of September of his undergrad schooling!!! We are so excited for him to be graduating this December! ;) And let me tell you... AM I TRUNKIE OR WHAT!!! I am sooo excited to move! I love our current apartment and really don't mind being in Rexburg at all but I am just sooo excited for some change! And the thought of living off of more then part time jobs at 8 bucks an hour and having the husby have to work 3 jobs and go to school full time is a fun thought as well!! :) Here are a couple pictures of him leaving to school on his first day. He was running out the door and I was like "WAIT!! I want to get a picture of you on your last first day!" You can see as he was in a hurry that he was thrilled! jk haha ;)

Random update

Has it been a month already? ahh... life goes by too quickly. Well this isn't going to be a real exciting post or long at all but I thought I would stop in and say hi. Right now our life is crazy. I went to Caldwell for 10 days and just got back a week ago. I guess you could say that I've just been trying to put all the pieces back togehter of everyday life since we've been gone. I'll post the pics soon. Payden is working from 6:30am to 8pm everyday right now except the weekends and last friday he didn't get home until 12:30 at night. During the day until 3pm he works at a really expensive golf course in Victor Idaho by Driggs as sort of a caddy. He mostly parks vehicles and carries bags for golfers and stock them with water bottles and washes the golf carts down daily. He is making a good wage there and also gets to split tips evenly each day with his fellow workers so thats awesome! After the golf course he goes straight to coaching High School Football at Teton High. Hence the getting home so late on Friday nights because of the football games. He really loves coaching and being able to teach and work with the kids. I'm so proud of him and I'm thrilled that he can get paid for something he loves so much, even though his schedule is hard on me and the kids sometimes, it's worth it. So after saying that you would think I would have all the time in the world to blog... haha. Yea.... So have you ever come to the realization that the more free time you have the less you get done cause you just think that you have all this time to do it in and then all of a sudden the time is gone and you have done nothing with your day? K, so that's my life. Pretty much every day. I wouldn't say 100% of my days because I do get around to cleaning my house and cooking a decent emal every now and then but I fall into that category a lot. Plus with taking care of two kids all day every day by myself is pretty exhausting and when I have a minute the last thing I want to do is to have to sit and think and type up a blog post, select pictures and try to seem like my life and my post is all put together the way it should be. haha. Sad to say but there are some days that Payden doesn't even see Braylie because he leaves before she wakes up and is home late after she is already to bed. That make an exhausting day for me. And even days when she does get to see him, its like for a half hour or an hour max and she's so excited that he's home and just loves playing with him, that she has been having a hard time going to bed. She just wants to stay up and play with Daddy. Makes sense Braylie. Mommy's with ya, I need some time with daddy too after a long day with just the kids and I'm only willing to extend your bedtime an hour at the most. Sorry little miss. So that's pretty much what is going on with us. I've been watching movies and playing with the kids and the other day I crocheted an adorable hat for Braylie for this winter! I LOVE how it turned out!!! Traetyn will turn 4 months old on the 13th (CRAZY!!!) and he will be getting to try rice cereal and oatmeal for the first time!!! I'm WAY excited! He loves to eat which is such a difference from Braylie so I'm just hoping he goes to town with it and gobbles it all up! :) I've made promises in the past that I have not kept about posting soon and more often so for now I'll just say, I hope to be back and make a real post later this week with an actual purpose and pictures involved.