Crazy busy!

I have been crazy busy since starting back to school on Aug 25. I am enjoying a quiet night alone thanks to my loving husband who took Caiden and went camping so I could get some major studying done. I know I should be studying instead of blogging, but I seriously don't think I can cram anything else into my brain today. I have not even looked at blogs for a whole month! I am so glad I don't have a job to add to my stress! (Thank you Jayson for letting me stay home!)
So far I am staying at the mandatory "B" average that we have to have in order to move on the our RN year, so that is something to be proud of. I am in no way an "A" student, but that's ok. Everytime I take a test and it's above 80% I give a little sigh of relief. Caiden misses me being home with him, but he does like his friends to play with. Sometimes he asks if I can come too, but I always have to tell him no. :(
We have a new roommate living with us in our basement bedroom. She loves Caiden and always spoils him with candy. She is a little girl from Vietnam who sends money home to her family. She is such a blessing for us right now because we so badly need the money for the babysitters.
I just keep having to remind myself that it will all be worth it! Only 15 months to go!!

Happy Anniversary!

Wow, I can't believe we've been married for seven years already! Time flies when you're having fun!! Jayson and I usually like to do something really fun for our anniversary, but because we are trying to save money for when I start school, we decided to just go on a real date- which we don't do too often. We went to the cheap theater in Kaysville and watched Prince Caspian and then we went to Jayson's favorite restaurant Famous Dave's. We had a good time together and we still love each other very much.

Camping

This summer we have done a lot of camping. On our most recent trip, we went to Bear Lake for a swim. Caiden loved it last year when we took him and he loved it again this year. He loves to play in the sand and get covered from head to toe then run in the water and get all cleaned off.

Discovery Center

We went to the Discovery Center in SLC today. There were so many things for kids to do! We got to go with Grandma Wadsworth, Aunt Kimmy and Joshua. We stayed for about two hours and then I had to drag Caiden out kicking and screaming while I looked like some abusive mother. After eating a sack lunch, we let the kids play in the fountains at the Gateway. What a fun day! The pictures below are of the real Lifeflight Helecopter they have on the roof of the museum! The kids liked it except for when they pushed the button that made it sound like they were taking off! Scared them half to death!

Aerospace Museum

We went to the Aerospace museum this week and got to see yet another of Caiden's favorite things, airplanes! There were so many airplanes, I could not belive it! Funny to admit, but I had never been the the museum and it is in my hometown of Roy. Oh well, I know Caiden enjoyed it more than I did anyway.

With his two friends Kenya and Avonlee.

Fireworks!

We had Grandpa and Grandma Wadsworth over for some fourth of July fun. We went to the West Point dinner and ate some yummy chicken. Caiden played in the bounce house with Grandma while we waited our turn in line ( long line for free dinner!)

Caiden loved the fireworks! We kept him awake this year so he could watch them for the first time and he absolutely loved them. In fact, everytime he meets a new person he has to tell them, " I watch fireworks, they go BAM up in the sky!" It was like the highlight of the summer for him!

Rasmussen Reunion

We had a fun family reunion this weekend up in Idaho with my side of the family. Caiden was in heaven because Grandpa let him ride on the tractor, which was my Grandpa's old tractor that I rode on as a kid! We saw lots of fun cousins and relatives and played some fun games! The theme was Christmas in June so we played the game where you decorate one person to look like Rudolph and I got to be the lucky one for our team! Lots of fun!

Fathers Day

We had a great Father's Day this year with Jayson's Dad, brother Mike, and sisters Kim and Kaylynn. Everyone came to our house for a barbecue and we actually went to a park because we didn't have any outside tables. The kids played on the play ground and we ate and visited and met Mike's new girlfriend, Melissa.

Kaylynn, Kim, Melissa, and Caiden enjoying smoothies that Mike made us! Yummy!!

Dinosaur Park

We went to the Ogden Dinosaur Park with our fun neighborhood playgroup this week. caiden wasn't scared, which really made it a fun day. His favorite thing was to play at the park there, so basically I paid five dollars for him to play at the park-go figure.

LAGOON!!

Jayson is working a fun summer job at Lagoon as an EMT. We got to go on family day for only 10 bucks per person. We took Caiden and Grandma and Grandpa Wadsworth with us, but unfortunately Caiden didn't have as much fun as we hoped he would. The kids have to ride solo for most of the kids rides which was going really well until the ride started moving. He cried the whole time and was screaming, "Mommy, help me!" Talk about making me feel like a bad mom. After that (which was only the second ride) he didn't want to go on any rides. Now when we talk about Lagoon he says, "Scary goon". Maybe next year...

This is the first ride we went on and it was ok for Caiden because we were there to make it safe.

This is the one he started crying on. We thought he would be ok cause he picked a seat by the little boy, but once it started moving, he got freaked out! Poor little guy.

We convinced him that the cars were safe so he did try that one by himself! Yay!