Workin with Water!

LeGrand has a pretty cool job.  It's a bit more dangerous than sitting in an office, but it's also much more exciting :)  He Operates & maintains Hydro Electric plants. {Hydro Electricity involves HUGE turbines, usually in dams, that use water to generate electricity} --Here in Grace, the Hydro plants are half of the reason there's even a town, the other half would be potato farms :) A very Large pipe connects two main Hydro Plants, one in Soda Springs & one in Grace that are run off of water from the Bear River.  Half of the pipe has been updated and is steel, the other half of the pipe is very old and made from wood.  The wooden part of the pipe leaks, a lot.  This winter I have really enjoyed the scenery this pipe has created with all of the leaks.

Come summer, part of LeGrand's job includes patching holes, not fun!

At the Soda Springs plant the flow over the dam is all frozen and it looks awesome! 

New Eyes!

I'm lucky enough to be married to the greatest man alive!
Last weekend I got 'new eyes' all thanks to him!  I had Lasik!  I was a bit nervous, it does happen to be my EYES they were gonna mess with!  BUT, the surgery was so quick and easy and recovery was just as quick and easy, I couldn't believe how great it went!  I can't praise Dr. Hoopes at Hoopes Vision enough --they are rated top in the country & they totally live up to it!  (BTW, we aren't related {that we know of} although that would've been a great perk!)
I had my procedure at about 3:00pm Thursday afternoon and by Friday morning at 9:00am, I was seeing 20/15 - A.Maze.Ing!!!  --I never even had any pain!  I'm so grateful for the 'luxury' of being able to have this done, I'm already seeing life in a new light -I have been wearing glasses since I was 11- & looking forward to swimming :)  Technology today is unbelievable!

**LeGrand was adamant that we document the whole day in pictures:)**

{Eating at our Favorite Chinese Place - Water Moon in Draper}

 {a little Sweet Tooth Fairy}

 {Checking In}

{Doc. Hoopes & I}

{Making the flaps}

 {15 Seconds Per Eye, and....}

{Done}

{The kids got SPOILED - Teddy Bears, Suckers, Hot Cookies, Snacks -they were in Heaven}

 {LeGrand & Kali getting their Kinect on} 

{My Right Eye got a little beat up!}

LeGrand let me do lots of shopping and we enjoyed time with friends, we ended off the weekend at dinner with a few of our favorite people from our old neighborhood, it was great to catch up!  I'm LOVING my new EYES-and it's kinda been nice having an excuse not to wear makeup for the last week ;)!

These Two!

I sure love these kids!
Lately they have really started playing together and it is so great! They love each other and for the most part get along great (until big bro. starts getting too rowdy).  It's fun to see & hear them as they play, sissy pretty much will do anything Laexin says, and he loves being the boss!

Loa is chatting more and more - she says: dad, mommy, snack (sounds more like 'nak'), treat, ball, barbie, walk, drink (sounds like 'ink'), help, toy, bath, Jesus, nite nite, poop, juice (sounds like 'uice'), toast, water (sounds like 'wa'), up, please...
Her little personality has really started showing, she grabs her butt and pats it and tells me, "poop, poop, poop" - she tries to copy everything Laex does, he was dancing in the living room last night and she was copying everything he did!  She loves to give kisses and whenever we say 'time to go nite nite' she starts blowing kisses to everyone.  The other day she was pretending her doll was going 'nite nite' and she was blowing kisses to her :)  She is stubborn {like her dad ;) } and likes things 'her' way.  When she's hungry, she needs food-NOW {like her mom ;)} Once in awhile she has to spend time in her bedroom because the screaming is too much :) --usually doesn't take her too long to settle down.  She is warming up to nursery.  She had a much harder time going than Laex.  Nursery is upstairs in our building and as soon as we would hit the stairs to head up she would start crying - then one Sunday she did great until we got to Nursery, I put her down and she went straight to the Nursery leader, looked up at her, and started sobbing - I just had to leave, it broke my heart!  But thanks to me being 'tough' for a few weeks, she's starting to like it --it helps that her brother always talks up the fact that she gets to play and have snacks! :)  Two nights ago, dad had her say the prayer, it was so sweet, she either said or tried to say everything he said!  It never fails that we sit down to eat and the first thing she does is grab a bite, then fold her arms for the prayer :)!
Can't believe her 2nd birthday is right around the corner!!

Laex is such a ham!  He can talk longer on the phone than most adults, and has started 'sneaking' my phone to play games on --the good thing, he can't for the life of him tell a good lie :)  he either tries to lie and it's very obvious he is, or he just tells the truth!  He's such a smart kid.  He loves school - his teacher sent home a paper telling the parents that they were going to start working on writing their names, and to practice at home with the kids --well, he already knows how to write his name :)  He loves to tell & show us all of the things he learns when he goes to school.  He got a United States floor puzzle for Christmas - it has all of the states shaped like they are, he puts it together at least once a day and can name several of the states!
Last weekend we were in Logan and he and LeGrand went in Best Buy and LeGrand said he wanted to go straight to the phones, and kept calling them 'smart phones' - we can't figure out where he learned that other than through commercials on TV --then this morning he was showing me something on my phone and asking me why it did that, I said, "I don't know" and he said, "I guess that's just what I Phones do" --I asked him how he knew it was an I Phone (neither LeGrand or I have ever called it that), he said, "Cause if it has an apple on the back it means it's an I Phone" --too SMART!  He picks up on everything and doesn't forget a thing.
He got a CTR ring at church and told me that he has to wear it every day because when he is going to make a wrong choice then he can look at it and remember to make a good choice. 
He is recently way into video games and would spend his whole life playing if I let him - he teaches us how to play :)  He also loves to be outside, he pretty much goes and does whatever he wants, he loves exploring and comes in and tells us all the stuff he finds.  He always has Patchy side-kickin along :)
He is so loving - he always says how much he loves Patchy & sissy and he constantly tells LeGrand and I that he loves us!

Couldn't be prouder of these two!

NEW YEARS 2012

This is how we celebrated! 

Thats about as BIG as it gets in Grace Idaho :)

January 2012

This has been such a crazy 'winter', I need to record it so I can remember :)
For the first time probably EVER, our January has been more like March -it's really screwing me up, I feel like it should be spring and we haven't even had our winter yet!
We spent the last week taking walks nearly every day in only our coats, the sun was shining and it was nice - no snow on the ground!
We had the missionaries over for dinner and made fish on the grill - crazy!
Normally in the winter I stick to working out inside, but last Friday morning, LeGrand was off and we bundled up and went for a run - it was about 32 degrees and nice.
I'm getting a little nervous, I have a feeling when winter finally hits we're going to have snow clear into July :) But for now, we're taking advantage of the nice days!