Sadie and Lady!

Toby and I are so protective of our little girl. We didn't think it was that bad until Jesse and his dog Lady moved in. We watched him and we thought, "Man he is a worry wart!" But it also made us notice that we might be worse then he is. So now we all just embrace it and totally obsess over our little girls. Jesse and I went to Morgans house to get her big dog house that they made. On the way home we didn't tie Sadie down to the truck and I was worse then a mother on her kids first day in Kindergarten. Man I was watching constantly, we were on the freeway...she has never done that before. She had BOTH of her paws up on the edge and her balance is not very good, not to mention that she is the hoppiest little thing you have ever seen. So she was up there hopping all over not very stable. She was not liking being out there either so she was barking a lot. At one point I opened my window to tell her to stop barking and she freaked out and tried to get to me and man was I a mess. "NO NO NO NO get back get back" Jesse was totally making fun of me. But that was horrible. Man my stomach was in knots the whole ride home. Then Jesse and talked about how protective we are with you dogs. Like when he sent Lady on the airplane with out him. He was freaking out. That made me feel like less of a freak. I didn't think that you were supposed to have feeling like this for a dog.

Kids and Dogs Invade the Lawler's

My parents have a 3 bedroom house. Jordan and Toby came back from Texas a couple of weeks ago. So of course Toby and i took one room and Jordan took the other.

But Jesse (my older brother) was going to move back in with my parents. OK so 6 Adults in a 3 bedroom. Good thing 2 sets of them can share. Anywho we needed to decide where to put everyone. Toby and I could either stay in the really small room that I was staying in (and it is really really small. like one dresser and a bed fit in there and that is about it. If you get more then 2 people standing in that room it starts to over flow). But we had another option...the living room/moms office.Its a really big room with a door. It actually was kinda hard to decide because my mom workes all the time at her desk so we would have as much privacy. We decided the living room. Its a whole lot bigger and we can be real close to Sadie.(No dogs allowed in the Lawler home). So moving up there was no fun. We had a lot of stuff in our truck for storage and we went through all that and man we just have a lot of junk. So not we have a house full...parents could you imagin. You were empty nesters for about 3-5 months then you have 3 of you 4 children move back in, one of them has a husband and 2 of them has dogs...

If you know my parents the kid part was great but the dog part is so not their favorite. But we all fit and things are working out well. Jesse cooks a bit and we LOVE that and there is so much space for the dogs in the yard!!! This will work for quite a while.

So we kind of feel like this but we are also really enjoying having everyone around! And its fun having all the dogs around too.

Toby's Gone Again!!!!

Pinnacle is the security company that Toby works for. They really needed some guys out in Canada to help out. But instead of sending out a couple of guys they just wanted Toby. It was a very sudden decision. And now he is in Canada and working. I am totally bummed. We had to change his cell plan again and so his minutes are limited even from me so that makes thing even better-NOT. But the hardest thing is that I don't know when he is going to be home. He is coming home when they don't need him any more. He is devastated that he won't have his puppy around...HIS PUPPY!!! not his wife but his dog. Man that makes me feel great. No he doesn't like being away from me either. Just to brag a bit for him...When he got there (he drove) he met the salesman and they all knew about him and they were all really excited to have him there to install for them. He is asof today 9/23/08 8th in the company. So he feels needed and who doesn't like that! But Sadie and I are missing him so we are OK if he comes home soon.

I love my birthday!

I try to something fun for my birthday every year. 2 years ago I had a whole day extravaganza. This year I decided to have a Luau party for my birthday!! We got all kinds of decorations. We got lei's, torches and umbrellas for our drinks, strawberry daiquiri and pina coladas virgin of course.

This was in my parents front yard with all of our fun decorations.

We started playing some baseball. Angel really smoked us all.

Then we got a volleyball and started passing. It was funny seeing us try to play with all the trees in the way. Toby got really good at playing off of the them. Oh man then the real fun started. Pinata Time!!! Mom was up first! It was so much fun watching her!

We filled the pinata up so much that it was about to bust just from hanging there.
OH man a pregnant woman with a bat look out!
See I told you that there was a lot of candy. It was hard to keep Raelin and Ryker away for the candy flying out while we were hitting the pinata. One of them almost became the pinata but what would have came out would not have been very yummy.

This is my cake that Morgan made. She has been making awesome cakes since Raelin was born. So she made this for me this year and I think that she did an amazing job. Jesse just moved back in with my parents and he showed up the day of my birthday. He has a 9 month old puppy, Lady. So you could imagin how much fun it was to have her and Sadie play. We did a little marshmellow roasting and hung out by the fire. My birthday was so much fun. It's just going to get really hard to keep topping it year after year.

Toby's Surprise

Sorry no pictures but its a good story. One night I was trying to access my bank web site so make sure I was all caught up. But I couldn't get on. I called Toby and he told me that he was trying to get on and forgot the password so it locked him out. That was a bit odd because he NEVER goes on there. Later that night Toby called and asked if my dad wanted any security equipment for his house or the cabin we were building up in Scofield. I started to get curious because he wasn't schedualed to come home for another week and a half and he was wanting to know so that he could go and get it. Again I was getting very curious what he was up to. Late that night I called Toby to say good-night. He was out and about and that was not normal. He said that him and Jordan wanted a mid-night snack. The the really big mystery was that as we were saying bye Toby said to call him in the morning. Uh yeah like Toby would be up at 7 in the morning? All of this really got me thinking "Maybe he is on his way home!!!"

The next morning I did call him and he was really awake! Not normal. Evertime I called him that day he was in the car and he "said" he was on his way to jobs everytime. I was starting to get really excited and I was really getting my hopes up. It was so bad that my mom asked me to go to her class to help her and I was thinking that Toby might be there...he wasn't. I didn't tell anyone that I thought that he was coming just in case i jynxed it. But I was about to explode. So I went to my old job and talked to my friend Mandy and I told her all about my suspiscions. She started to get all excited too. But we then calmed ourselves and I tryed not to think about it. So I went home and tryed to drown myself in TV to distract myself and get the time to pass as fast as possible. So I was in my room playing on the computer when Dakota started to bark!!! Oh man my heart started to pound and I got so...pumped! I looked out my window as best as I could with it all stained from the sprinklers. AND...it wasn't him...:( I think that almost everyone in the ward for some reason stopped by. So every 2 min my heart was pumping at the speed of ...a fast pumping heart. So you can bet that trying to get to sleep was almost impossible. Then at about 11 o'clock at night my door opens and I said hey (thinking it was my dad) but no it was TOBY!! I don't think I have ever given someone a longer hug. Even though I was on to him it was still such a great surprise and I am so happy to have him home. I missed him so much and now I can FINALLY sleep at night!!!

Brunettes have WAY more fun!

So Mary and I were having a lazy girl's weekend. We went to dinner at Chili's with my mom. That is always fun! Mary forgot her toothbrush and I was not about to spend the weekend with a stinky Mary. So we went to Walmart to get her one. We ended up wandering around the surrounding isles. We stopped at the hair dye where Mary was contemplating going darker. But I was the one that I ended up getting the dye and we dyed my hair the next morning. I didn't tell Toby just thought it could be a fun surprise when he got home!!! He REALLY REALLY likes is. I like it too but my hair is not as soft as it usually was, but its a fun change! This isn't a very good picture but its all I've got.

New Job

OK here is the story. I was supposed to be working as my mom's aide in the 4th grade at Mountainville Academy, but one week before school started she got a job offer at another school. This school was a public school, which meant better almost everything. So she took it and that left me to think if I wanted to continue to work at the other school without her. It was a hard decision because THE reason that Toby and I decided to move back to Utah was because of this job at Mountainville. I decided to go and still work for them, but they had hired a new Director and I found that things were different and not in the best way for me. Some of my favorite people I worked with were no longer working there, including my mom. They were only offering 4 hours of work a day...I had been working 6. It wasn't as good as last year but it was ok. I had a good teacher to work with and it was nice. On the first Thursday of school my mom came home and told me that they had a job opening at her school (which just happened to be down the road for Mountainville). On Friday I went to mom's school to talk to them about the job. I was just wanting some information and it ended up being pretty much a job interview. The job was "the computer teacher"...TEACHER. Well technically I would still be an aid so the teacher of each class that came to my computer lab would still have to be in the room but I would run the show. I was pretty excited but I was still not sure if I wanted to move schools. Well in the end, I took the job and I am LOVING it. Tuesdays thru Friday I get to teach computers. It is so much fun. I enjoy working with computers and it also nice to have my mom here. So things are going really well. I'm happy that I made this choice!!!