I want a new camera!

Yes, I think that's what I really want for christmas. Jason has been looking for me and lets hope he finds the right one. I love taking photo's of my kids. Jaden only likes to take pics when he is with Jordin. He loves her so much!! He is also a great help at getting her to laugh or smile for a photo! Here are a few pics that Jaden helped me take and as always he wanted to jump in! I just love my big boy!!!







This is a fun time for Jordin. Her first taste of green peas. It didn't go over so well!!!! She got really mad at me and wouldn't even open her little mouth. I was laughing so hard. Fun times!!

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My friend Angela from High school is posting past photos every Friday! Just thought that I would join in!! This was one of my senior year photos!! I was talking to my friends when the pic was taken! This is one a Jason’s favorite pics of me. He still has it on his desk!! I think that's sweet!

Look who just turned 4 months old!!

Our sweet little Jordin is 4 months old. We can't believe how fast she is growing. We just love every thing about her.

Just some fun little things that our sweet little Jordin has been doing!!

She had her first taste of rice cereal. I know, it's really early, but all she wants to do is eat and she won't take a bottle so we think that rice cereal will fill her up! Yeah right! LOL!!She eats so much, but yet she's still so little.

She loves to play with her feet.

Daddy likes to give her treats that she shouldn't have. Oh well!

Jordin just loves her new play toy! so much to do:)

Every day is a new and fun day with the kids. Jaden is the best big brother and I know that he will always take care and watch out for his little sister. He loves to help out with her in every way. Let's just hope that it stays that way. I'm sure he will, he's a great kid. So, not much else going on here on the Rez. Oh yeah, this past week we saw our first snow on the ground!! Nothing like Omaha snow. LOL!

Halloween was great. The day was very busy. Jaden had his little school party at about 1pm. So I got to the school and I was the only parent who came to his class. That was kind of sad. The kids just love to see little Jordin and Jadens teacher likes the help. The kids in his class really like to show me what kind of work they can do and they love to hear that they are doing well. I think that I need to go in more often to be with the kids. They love the outside attention. After school we just came home and got the house ready for the trick-or-treaters. Jaden loves to get things ready for Halloween. Jason took Jaden out for alittle while and then I got to go out with him. The weather was great, so I took Jordin out with us and we walked around. I couldn't believe how many people we saw. We bought about 6 big bags of candy and it was all gone by 7:30pm. The people out here really get into Halloween. That's why Jason is so busy at work. Candy, Candy and more Candy!!! anyways we got in about 7:30 and just kind of hung out. Then at about 10:15pm some older trick-or-treaters came by to see if there was any candy left. We thought that was kind of funny! Well here's our fun pics from the night!!!


Theses pumpkins took some time. We love carving pumpkins. Jason really gets into it and Jaden loves to pull out all the insides. I know that you can't see them very well but they looked really cool.


Just some cute Halloween pics!


Jaden with one of his little friends that live by us, Kayden.

Jaden was Nathan Hale from a Play Station 3 game or an Army Guy. Which ever:)

Jordin, our sweet little sleeping pumpkin!

Jaden at school with some of the kids from his class. They got to march around the school. The lead teacher had a drum. It was really different but the kids had fun.



Halloween was fun. We can't wait till next year. Now it's time to get ready for Thanksgiving. So who wants some turkey? If you want I'll cook!! You just have to make the long trip to the Rez!!!

More fun things!

Ok!! Every time we go to Utah we have to go eat at my favorite place, Costa!!!! I love the food. I could eat it everyday if I could. My sister-in-law Cami use to work there and I always ask her if she knows how to make the food. She said she didn't get to make the food and they never would let anyone know how to make it!! All she knows is that with the sweet pork they used alot of sugar and butter. No wounder it taste so good. So I went on the Internet to see if I could find something like it!! Well I found a great recipe and then I added alittle more to it!! Wow was it good!! Jason loved it and we have been eating it for a few days now. You can do so much with these things. I made the sweet pork, Cilantro Ranch Dressing, the lime rice and the Pico. Now I Just need to learn how to make the home made tortillas. So here is the recipe.


Sweet Pork
Serves: 12
Difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 6-8 hours

Ingredients:
• 4 lb pork shoulder roast (the more fatty the roast, the better)
• 1 Cup of Pace Picante sauce. (Medium heat is best, but the mild version will work)
• 2 Cups brown sugar
2 1/2 cups coke
• Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup white sugar at the end!

1. Remove pork roast from packaging, and wash. (Avoid cutting the roast to expedite cooking time)
2. In a separate bowl, mix picante sauce and brown sugar and wisk until sugar is mostly dissolved.
3. In a crock pot or slow cooker, place the roast in the cooker and cover the roast with the mixture of picante sauce and brown sugar and also add the coke.
4. Place on medium heat, cover and simmer. Check it every hour or so to rotate roast in the juices. The roast will eventually produce enough juices to make the right consistency, so do not add water.
5. Once the roast is fully cooked, it will begin to fall apart. Use a fork to separate the meat into smaller segments. Add the 1/2 cup white sugar then mix, Cover and continue cooking.
6. After 8 hours, continue to shred the meat until no chunks remain.
7. If it appears to be too juicy, turn slow cooker down to its lowest setting, remove the cover and let it reduce as needed.
*you can freeze the meat.


Cilantro Ranch Dressing
• 1 package of Hidden Valley ® ranch dressing. (prepare according to directions)
• 3 Tbsp of prepared salsa verde)
• cilantro (1/4 bunch)
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 1/8 tsp Tabasco
Clean and rinse cilantro and remove large stems. Pour prepared ranch dressing in a blender, and add cilantro leaves, salsa verde, garlic, lime juice and Tobasco. Blend until cilantro is finely chopped. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until dressing has thickened.


Pico de Gallo• 1 cup diced tomatoes (remove seeds)
• 1/3 cup diced red onion
• 1 Jalapeno diced (at least a Tablespoon, but more if you prefer)
• 1 Tbsp minced garlic
• 2 limes juiced (about 1/3 Cup of lime juice)
• 1 Tbsp cilantro, plus extra for garnish
• Salt and pepper
Mix all ingredients in a bowl, and stir well. Chill.

Enjoy!!!


Just thought that I would share some more cute pics of Jordin. She is getting bigger and it's sad to say that I have to put her 0-3 month clothes away. she is really long and is growing into here 3-6 months clothes very fast.
It's fun to see her grow but it makes me sad that she is getting bigger. I love everyday that I get to spend with her and my family. I feel very blessed!

All ready to go!

Our sweet little miracle

October Fun!

October is off to a great start. My bother and his family drove up from Washington to come and see us. I think that they were crazy driving that long but it was so great to see them. They also stopped at alot of great places on the way and also went to see our Grandmother and some other family members in New Mexico. Anyways we had a great time while they were here. It's been great having all of my side of the family come and see us out here on the Rez. Thanks, I love you all.
Jaden and his cuz Brennon

Dinner Time

Brennon loved to make Jordin smile. He thought that was neat.

Cameron was so much fun to watch. He doesn't say much but he just gives you these looks and they are so cute!!


Some other fun things have taken place as well. Jaden lost his second tooth. The story is we were just sitting there and then he said to me, "Mom I lost my tooth. But I don't know when or where I lost it." I thought that he might have lost it when he was eating his food. He was kind of sad because he said now that he didn't have the tooth the tooth fairy wouldn't come. So we looked around the house and there it was on the floor by the kitchen table. It blended in with the floor, but how weird that it just fell out of his month onto the floor without him knowing. LOL!
Anyways the tooth fairy came and he got his $2.00. He was a happy kid. so now all he wants for Christmas is his two bottom teeth. :)
Tooth number 2

Then once again we went to Utah for a BYU game. Jason had a four day weekend so we took off to Utah. While Jason went to the game with his brother, I took the kids bowling with Cami. Then we went to Bed and Bath and I got some new stuff for the half bath down stairs. I love getting new things for the house. I just can't wait until it's my real house. Someday! Once again BYU won. Everyone was happy. But when BYU played TCU, they lost. Jason wasn't to happy about that. Oh well you can't win them all. So now I think that we will be staying here for awhile. no more trips to Utah until maybe next year. It's time to save our money so we can go to Vegas and Disney World next year. I can't wait. well Halloween is around the corner and then the rest of all the fun Holidays. I will be sad that we can't go anywhere but it will be nice to be with our little family. Maybe next year or the year after. Someday!


Jaden loves Halloween and all the fun things that go with it.

I just love the Joker!!!

Jordin looked so cute with her halloween stuff on.

Jaden loves to go bowling