I've Been Tagged!

A. The rules of this game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the question about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, and then leaves a comment on their blog letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog to get the directions.

10 yrs ago:
I was a junior in college, playing volleyball at Weber State, and changing my major every other week. I had good and bad friends. Made good and bad choices, I was still trying to find myself in some way, looking back now. But all in all having fun.

5 Things on my list of things to do today:
1) Work on my lesson for Activites Days activity.
2) Work on my blog while Nate has his rest time.
3) Work on what girl names I like, and hit Jared up on them when he gets home.
4) Play with Nate, and Jared.
5) Make dinner, FHE.

Things I would do if I suddenly was a Billionaire:
Figure out what Jared would like to do with it, he always has the best ideas. Buy a new home wherever we wanted. Pay off our car and buy another car. Make an art room and paint and draw more. Get Nate in preschool, it is so expensive here. Buy my mom a car....I owe her. An pay a lot of tithing. After that who knows.

3 of my bad habits:
Wow where to start...I'm sure I could be a much better mother. I wish I knew how to handle every situation the way the Savior would.
I need to find the time to work out...I have no muscles left.
I need to find the time to get out in the outdoors more...and enjoy the beauty all around us.
I need more patience too. Oh that is more than 3 I guess I'll stop.

Places I have lived:
Clearfield, UT
Cornish, UT
Pocatello, ID
Ogden, UT
Ibarra, Ecuador
Logan, UT
Wellsville, UT
Salinas, CA

Jobs I have had:
Dishwasher, Salad Girl, Waitress, Pie maker, Pizza maker, Painter, Coach for Club VB, Fitness Attendant, VB Summer Camps, House cleaner, Lawn mower, Mother...I think that is almost all of them.

Things most people don't know about me:
I hate Cake...oh most people do know that about me. I can be really Random, use to be called Random Rena...oh ya you all know that too. Well let me see, I once had my belly button periced, how stupid and now I have a scare to look at and remind me how dumb that was, at least I didn't get the tatoo. I really want people to like me for who I am and so sometimes I try to hard. I can't stand too much mess, it drives me crazy. I am a little crazy.

I tag only one person, Alicia.

Nate's Birthday!!! I can't believe he's 4.

Happy Birthday Nate.

Jan 26, 2008

This year we thought that we would have a birthday party for Nate

with his friends at Chucke Cheese. He had 2 girls Parker and

Breanne,and then 4 boys, Mack and Creed, who are brothers, Gavin,

and Caleb. There was plenty of pizza and drinks, and ton of games

to play, and Chucke Cheese even came and sang happy birthday to

Nate and watched him blow out his candles. All of the kids had a

great time. It was so awesome to see our little boy having such a

happy birthday.

Here is Nate's birthday cake. This was his second choice he really

wanted the Disney princess cake, but I talked him out of it. He loves

the new Ninja Turtles movie so this worked.

Nate need a little help blowing the candles out...Daddy to the rescue.

Mommy and Nate.

Opening his presents at Chucke Cheese...

Nate and Parker, "His girl friend, getting some love."

Nate and Dad at Chucke Cheese.

Jared and Nate before Church. Nate could hardly wait to get back

home to open all of his presents and to play with his mom and dad.

"Look at how spoiled I am!!! "
Thank you for all the great gifts.

Changes, big and small!

We are happy to announce that we are pregnant. I am due on May 21st, which means I am 23weeks along. We are going to have a little girl...or so we have been told after our last ultra sound. Nate is very excited to have a sister, I think its because he loves playing with girls and there princess like toys. :) We are doing well and I get to feel her kick everyday which is wonderful. I'm feeling pretty good, morning (or should I say all day) sickness is over for the most part. Now its heartburn. If its not one thing its another, right. Well we just thought we would share this news with you all. And I'll do better now that I feel better keeping up on our blog.

Christmas visit!

Santa Nate-o

Mom and Dad came out to see us the end of Nov and beginning of Dec. We had a great time with them shopping for Christmas gift, where they spoiled all of us, and then playing with Nate's cars and toys. Nate made dad into a bridge for his cars and he made mom silly and crazy, as you can see.

We had lunch at

the mall before they

headed home

and got some cute

pictures.

Here is Jared and dad.

And here is one

of

Mom, Nate, and me.

We played at the Park too.

Nate loves this park

because he acts like the

playground is a ship and he

is the Captain.

Grandma was a mermaid,

and I was his worker.

He has quit an imagination.

We love having visitors,

it helps keep our

spirits high!

So thanks to all of you who have

come out to see us.

A visit from Mom

Mom came out to visit!

We went to the Aquarium.
We met a friend while we were

eating lunch. He was cute

and fluffy and would take food

right out of our hands.

After awhile our little squire

was making my mom

uncomfortable because he was

a little to comfortable being

right next to us and begging

for food, plus Nate

was feeding his new pet

more than he himself was

eating.

The Squirrel wasn't the only

one begging for food.

We had several seagulls and

pigeons too....but they were easier to

scare away. Hehe

We also went to Chucky Cheese and played at the park. Jared was in San Francisco for a Sas class for his work, so it was nice to have mom here so we were not alone.

My Sweet Grandma

I love my Grandma Gilden. She is so kind and sweet and has always been there to help us and to show us such love and care. Nate loves her so much too. He has a special bond with her, she use to watch him once in a while when we lived next to her, and he always wanted to go over to see his great grandma. We really loved seeing her on our trip.

In earlier years, when we lived next door.

This is Nate on his 2 Halloween.

Here are some other pictures of my wonderful Grandma. This was last Christmas when we went over to her house and exchanged gifts and visited. I have so many wonderful

memories of visiting her and have always felt that she loved me. Here is Grandma with her sister Afton, when Afton came to visit from CA.






Then there is Karma, my Grandma's best friend and younger sister. They do everything together and they are always there for the each other. Two peas in a pod you might say.

I have many great memories with each of them, and wanted to say that I love them. Thanks again Grandma for all you do. I hope we have many more memories to come. Love you.

Russell and our Temple Trip

Logan Temple

August 28th

We went to the Logan temple to accumpany Russell. He was recieving his endowment. It was so wonderful being in there with our family and enjoying the joy and spirit inside the house of the Lord. Thats one of the great things about Utah, the accessiblitiy to go to the temple. Russell looked so good and happy, I'm so glad that we got to be there with him.

Here are some pictures of all of us after the sesion. Mom had already left for home so she could pick up the other kids and Nate, so they could go out to eat with us to celebrate too.

From left to right: Rena, Jared, Russell, Blake, Tina, Grandpa, Grandma, Julie and Sean.

We went to Olive Garden after to eat and celebrate. The kids, dad, Nate and Katie joined us to eat...Katie is Russells girlfriend.

Katie and Russell (Above)

All of us (Below)

I Thank my Heavenly Father that Families can be Together Forever.