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Okay, I had to run when I did the last post and I didn't have time to get my favorite part in. When I walked in the door from Rock Jam, Peyton came running over to me and said "Mommy!". I loved it, he is always excited to see Jake but not so enthusiastic when I come in the door, guess that is what happens when your always together. I picked him up and gave him a big hug. He was hugging me back and then he looked at me and while rubbing my arm, he said, "I am so proud of you." I said, "Well thanks". It is so funny what kids come up with and just to see how sincere he was, was a hoot.

Girls just wanna have fun!

My best friend Courtnie and I decided to go to Rock Jam. Her parents go every year. So, we left the kids home to bond with their dads, and away we went. We met her parents in Fruita, then headed to the concert. We just went for one day, because two days was too long for us to be away from our kids and hubbies. We had so much fun just dancing, singing, laughing and being silly! The concert was great! We saw the Marshall Tucker Band, 38 Special, Puddle of Mudd and Chickenfoot. We just might have to make this a tradition!

Projects

I am kind of a slacker when it comes to blogging. Here a few projects that were done a while ago, that I kept meaning to get on here. The first one is this cute old book shelf/toy box that Jake's mom had given us for Peyton. I painted it bright blue to match his room and I thought it turned out really cute. Here are the before and after pics.

Our other big project was our yard. It still has a long way to go. But, it actually looks like people live here now. Jake and two of his buddies, Travis and Jesse, did our sprinkler system. They even did a drip system where my plants and flowers will be. They also helped with the sod. Thanks again guys! It's awesome and I am so excited that we are finally getting somewhere with it!

This was taken the day we laid the sod. It is looking much better now! I will keep posting pics as we get it better and better!

July 24th

For July 24th we went to stay with my Grandma Abbott. We had such a good time with her and Peyton did not want to come home. He kept saying he wanted to stay with Grandma. I said okay, but me and daddy have to leave. He just said k- bye and waived. We had to bribe him to get in the car. I know the feeling of not wanting to leave her house. Her house has always been my favorite place to go away from home. Here are a few pics from the 24th. I thought that Grandma was going to have a heart attack that we were doing sparklers right on the porch. She looks alot more calm in the pic. haha-- Peyton did so many snaps, that is 5 boxes on the sidewalk. He loved 'em. We did lots of other fun bigger ones on the street. I didn't get any pics of those.

Stuntman

Santa had brought this little four-wheeler for Peyton and apparently he is grown out of it. We often find him doing tricks on it. He can ride it backwards, ride standing on the foot pegs and ride standing up on the seat. He also likes to run it into things like the couch, fridge and of course the walls and peel out. Leaving lovely little peel out marks on our baseboards.

Too much TV

Jake brought home this cute little horny toad for Peyton. He thought it was so cool! We asked him, so what do you want to name him? Peyton sat that for a minute -as if in deep thought- then he yelled out, "His name is Geico!" I guess that is the sign that our two year old watches too much TV.

If you want something done..... Do it yourself

So in April I was getting bids and such for landscaping. I found somebody who had a decent price and I had heard that they do a really nice job. They did the yard up the road from me and it looks great. We decided to go ahead and go through them. He said he was working on a job and had another one the following week. He would just throw us in between because ours isn't that big and wont take long at all. He said it would be all the way finished in two weeks! I was so excited! Well, two weeks went by and still they never showed or called. I called him, he said the rain was holding them back and they would hopefully be here the following week to get started. Well, a couple more weeks went by and a no show no call again. Then I called him and he said he would be here the next wed. I remember because I was going out of town and couldn't wait to come home to my new yard. Well, I came home to even taller weeds. I had called him again and he said he would give me a call back after checking with his guys but he thought they'd be able to do it the following week. Never heard from him again for 2 more weeks. Finally, I called him again and he told me the rain was really holding them back. I said I understand. He said they would be here that Fri. and if they didn't show Fri. It would for sure be Mon. or Tues. So that next Wed. After he didn't show or call again I called him. He said this rain and dtdtdta. I said I understand, we were just hoping that it could have been done by July 7th because we are having company. I don't want it rushed not done right. He said, Oh I wouldn't do that to ya. I told him alot of the time that it has rained around other parts of town it hasn't rained at our house and instead of his workers going home they could have been coming over here and been making $. He said he would talk to his guys and call me back tonight or tomorrow. Tonight and tomorrow went by ---NOTHING-- I called him the next day. He said "I have a cement truck right here and I can't hear you." I'll call you right back. That evening when Jake got home, Jake asked if I had talked to him and I said no I left him a message this morning leaving my cell # to make sure if I wasn't at home he could still reach me. He never called so I called him this afternoon and i told him about the cement truck and the guy saying he'd call me right back. But, I still hadn't heard back from him. Jake got the phone and called him and he told Jake, when your wife first called me I told her I was booked for the year. REALLY??? Then he said, I have been calling your house today to get permission to come over and your wife hasn't answered. REALLY??? Jake said, You have permission!! We want it to get done!! I know it's a holiday weekend but we wanted it to be done. He said the guys working for him don't celebrate the fourth and he'll see if he can get them to come and give us a call back. He never called back. In the meantime, I found out that he has a business partner, so I decided I would call him to see if we were even on a schedule and if we weren't I would get someone else. I didn't want to be the jerk and schedule someone else if the first guy was actually gonna show. I told the business partner what had happened briefly and asked if we were on some kind of schedule. He said he'd check and call me back. Well, the other guy called back and was all ticked at me!! REALLY?? He said if you are going to go behind my back and talk crap to my partner you'd just better go somewhere else. I told him I didn't and that I just wanted to know if we were on a schedule and if it would ever get done because you always say your gonna be here and you don't show and then you say you'll call back and you don't call. He told me if I was gonna be that way and go behind his back to go somewhere else. I told him that is fine we had already made those arrangments and I would make sure NOT to recommend him to anybody that I knew. That was this morning. I felt horrible not knowing what was said between his partner and him I called the partner back. I told him that I was really sorry I didn't mean to cause any problems between them. I know that they are in business together. It wasn't my intentions to "go behind the other guys back and talk crap" I just wanted to know if they had us scheduled. He said "I am sorry." I don't deal w/ that part of the business and you didn't know that when you called me and all I told my partner was to make sure that you were taken care of. I told him well, we are taken care of all right! I didn't want to be on bad terms w/ anyone. But, he told me to go elsewhere and we had already started to get that lined out anyway. He was so nice and apologized again for his partner and said "hey, you and I are on good terms". I told him thanks and goodbye. So this morning. Two of Jakes wonderful friends came over and have been working on it. We should have the sprinkler in by today and the sod down on about Tues. YAY!! Thanks so much to JAKE, TRAVIS, and JESSE! We are finally going to have a front yard!!! and save $$$$ YAY!! THANKS SO MUCH AGAIN YOU GUYS!!!!