Kade's Sunday Nap

Kade was so tired one Sunday, 6/22/08- church is during his nap time, that as soon as we walked in the door from church he walked back into our bedroom and within a few minutes we found him asleep at the end of our bed on the floor. It was so cute. He loves to hide under pillows, or the bed skirt or the blankets hanging off the bed. Sometimes he’ll crawl all the way around the bed under the bed skirt and just laugh. What a goofball. I love it!

Glen's Graduation

I know this is three months late, but it doesn’t mean I’m not proud of my husband! Glen worked sooo hard for his diploma and we are both so happy he’s done! I’m going to backtrack a little. Glen took a semester at Northland Pioneer College in Show Low before his mission and then after his mission, in New Zealand, he attended ASU in the fall of 2004. We got married in April of 2005 and moved close to ASU. Glen went to school full time and worked part time. Over the years he has worked at ASU, he drove school buses for Tempe, did Pest Control in the summer, and then worked at AZ Back Institute. School finally became too hectic and busy that he finally decided to quit his job at the Back Institute and just focus on his last year at school! Glen was so dedicated that at least a few times a week he would wake up at 2am to study, then go to his classes, fulfill his callings in the church and still find time to be with his little family. He is such a hard worker! Needless to say we were so excited for his graduation day! Tim and Cara treated Glen and I, and also Tim’s brother Bryan and his wife Jen, to dinner and a show, “Man With The Pointed Toes”, at Hale’s Theatre for his graduation present on Thursday, May 8. It was so much fun and so nice and generous of them! Then the next day, Friday, May 9, at 8am was Glen’s graduation! I can’t believe they have graduations that early. Traffic was crazy and needless to say I was late to the graduation, but it was probably a good thing because it was sooo long! After they called Glen’s name and we all yelled and cheered, then Tim and Dave took some of the kids outside to play in the grass! After graduation, Glen’s family came over and we had lunch and swam all afternoon, and then that night we had a dinner for him at a ward building nearby. It was nice to have a big area for the kids to run around. A big thanks to my family and Glen’s family for pitching in and helping out with everything. We tried to do a Costa Vida dinner with the salad in the tortillas with beans and meat and rice, etc. It was great! My dad also presented Glen with the “Lewis Mafia” ring. He’s kind of made it a tradition. My dad received one when he graduated, and now when each son has graduated my dad has presented them with a ring. So my brothers joked that Glen was now part of the mafia. I’m so proud of this big accomplishment he’s made. He graduated with Cum Laude Honors, but if they would have taken his 3.62 GPA at the end of the Spring semester he would have been Magna Cum Laude. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. His intent was to take it into Physical Therapy, however, he has received a job, through a guy in our ward, with Martin Worth Medical which is a section of Biomet Orthapedics and has a lot of potential. So the whole Physical Therapy thing is on hold right now. I love my husband and I hope he knows how much I appreciate all his hard work and dedication to his family! He’s the BEST!

Spring Break and Ice Fishing

I know this is really ridiculous that I'm barely writing about Spring Break, but we had such a good time I had to back track. Glen and I had a great Spring Break! We were both off school and Glen wasn’t working, so we took full advantage of it. We first went to Ajo. I believe we got down there on Sunday, March 9, 2008, after church. We pretty much just hung out, relaxed, played games, and had fun. We also wanted to spend time with Jewls before she left to China, and it was fun to have Janae there too, home from EAC for the week. Monday or Tuesday night, even though it was early, my mom was so nice to have a cake and everything to celebrate my birthday, just like the good old days. I always love going back “home.” We left Wednesday morning, March 12, so Glen could work on Lacey’s house in Mesa. On Thursday, March 13, my birthday, Glen was so nice to bring me breakfast in bed. I have to be honest though, I did hear him cooking, but I was going to soak up every bit of this. Haha. I stayed in bed until he brought it to me. I had already received my present; he gave me permission to go buy some new pants. He’s so funny. He decided he didn’t like any of the jeans I had so he said I could go buy new ones, which is fine by me because my jeans were so old and nasty. Of course, with the pants came a few shirts as well. My excuse was that I found pants at Sears for only $5 and then another pair at Aeropostale for $10 which I paid with a gift card. I was so excited, and Glen approved.haha. Anyways, so we got back from Ajo on Wednesday, and then on my birthday, Thursday, we headed up to Clay Springs. On our way, I think a little past Payson, we got a nice little present from a police officer telling us our tint in the two front windows were too dark. I knew they were dark, but I couldn’t believe he actually pulled us over in the middle of no where for that, he had to of been bored. I think our tint was around 30% and the legal tint is 10%. So as soon as we got back the next week we had to fork out over $100 to fix it. Oh well. In Clay Springs, Lacey and the fam had a nice birthday dinner for me. Lacey also made these cute recipe cards and homemade perfume for me! She’s so creative! That Saturday, 3/15/08, on our way home, we went to Willow Springs to ice fish! Dad Jackson followed us in his car so he could join us. Just to let you know, ice fishing is so much fun! I guess any fishing is fun when you can’t get your poles back in the water fast enough. Glen and I both have two pole stamps and we were only able to keep up with one pole each. The fish were biting so fast. We ended fishing out of a hole that was already there in the ice, and caught all our fish, 12, from that hole. Then the next weekend we went again and caught our 12 in the same hole. Dad had tried a couple other holes and only caught a few, something was just special I guess with that one hole. I don’t know. We had gone up Friday evening, 3/21/08, hoping to fish, but we got there too late and didn’t catch anything. We watched a movie in our car and just slept there. The next morning we went out and caught our limit within a few hours. As we were heading out we were happy to see Dad Jackson, Grandpa Jackson, Aunt Margaret and the kids. So Glen and I decided to stay and help them catch some fish. We had a lot of fun. They caught several more fish. Aunt Margaret was prepared and shared lunch with us. Thank you. While there, we also found out that as long as Kade is holding the pole we can catch a few more fish and it counts as his. Ha. Anyways, this is a long blog, but it’s more for us than you. But just to let you know, we are definitely going ice fishing this winter if anyone wants to go. Hopefully I’ll keep up with the blog and let you know when.