MEOW

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Last night Judy and I met Niki and here brood at Winger’s on 134th and Bangerter for dinner. Alexa was wearing her black (and purple) cat Halloween costume. She was really cute she had whiskers painted on her cheeks and a black cat’s nose painted on hers. She kept saying meow and jumping all over the place. I don’t know if Gavin was tired or what but he wasn’t as animated as he sometimes is. We need to get a picture of Alexa.

NEVER-ENDING SAGA!

Monday, October 26, 2009 Corey has been sick the last twenty-four hours or so. He stayed home from work. He said he would pick Jayden and Bailey up after school so I wouldn’t have to “babysit”. Later this morning he called. He sounded terrible. He asked if I would get him something for his aches and pains. I said OK. He also asked if I would get the kids happy meals. They are always hungry after school and he didn’t feel up to preparing anything for them. He also asked if I would pick them up and drop them off at home. I talked to the pharmacist at Walgreens in Lehi. He asked if he had a fever. I told him that it had gone down. He said that if Corey would go to the doctor, the doctor would give him some medicine. He also said that for the aches and pains he would just take Tylenol or Ibuprofen. He took Ibuprofen this morning but only 400 mg. He should be taking 800 mgs. I passed this information on to Corey. When I picked the kids up after school, Jayden announced that he talked to Izzie. They are still friends and might still play together at recess but Jayden is not to “follow her around.” Darn! I had already picked out my Tux for their wedding. Bailey didn’t hit me when I brought up Quincy’s name.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAIR JEPSON

Monday, October 26, 2009 My father is 100 years old today. I wonder how he is celebrating his birthday up in heaven. I’ll bet he is being silly and saying something tongue in cheek. My mother is probably watching him and shaking her head; not exactly in disgust but perhaps a little bit in embarrassment. It is him I got my sense of humor from.

UPDATE

Sunday, October 25, 2009 An update on what when on between Jayden and Izzie; Stacey got it out of him. Jayden had chewed Izzie out for talking to/being friendly with another boy. Izzie told him she would if she wanted to and he got mad. He later told her he was sorry but she didn’t accept the apology.

POOR IZZIE

Friday, October 23, 2009 This afternoon when I when I picked up Bailey and Jayden after school as is my want to do, Jayden had a long face and was rather grouchy. Bailey, as she always does, chimed in with, “Izzie isn’t talking to Jayden”; no explanation. Jayden in so many words told me to drop the subject and said that if he wants me to know anything he will bring the subject up. As we were waiting to pull out onto the road from the school parking lot, we saw Izzie walking down the sidewalk. She recognized my white Chrysler Town and Country minivan and look at us with a long face. A moment later she did the same thing. I waved and she waved back. Again she looked over her shoulder at us. Still Jayden said nothing. I took the kids home where they did whatever kids do until Corey called and asked us to meet him at Wal-Mart while he did his honey-do-list shopping. By this time Jayden was in good spirits and at the store he and Bailey were their usual over the top goofy nuts.

ALEXA and GAVIN

Thursday, October 22, 2009 The other day I watched Alexa and Gavin while Niki ran off to a meeting. Niki had laid Gavin down for a nap but the minute I walked in the door, Alexa ran into his bedroom and woke him up. We were afraid he might be grouchy but he was a perfect angel. At one point Alexa yelled to me from the other room and told me to “come here Grandpa!” Little Gavin who is barely walking jumped up, grabbed my finger and towed me off to find her. He is a smart little cookie. He just doesn’t say much. Another time he grabbed my finger took me to the front door and down the sidewalk to the corner of the street. On another visit, Alexa grabbed her “glass” slippers and a princess dress and had me put them on. I sat on the floor with a glass slipper on each of my big toes and the princess dress pulled up under me chin. I must have been quite the sight. Lately every time Alexa comes over to our house she goes into our bathroom and comes out with Grandma’s makeup all over her face. It is rather cute actually.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 My ten year old grandson Jayden has twin friends named Zack and Cameron. Recently they have been going over to Jayden’s to play after school. Their mother has a rule that wherever they go they have to call home and tell her where they are. The other day when they called, Jayden took the phone and said “Hi Cameron’s mom, my name is Jayden Jepson. We haven’t had a chance to meet yet. I just wanted to make sure you know that Zack and Cameron are here playing. Our phone number is… [Left out for cyber safety reasons]. Did you get that; do you need to get a pen…good, OK well don’t worry, they will be safe here. OK, bye.” The kid’s mom came up to Stacey in church Sunday and said how cute she thought that was.

A FULL DAY of KIDS

Friday, October 16, 2009 Today Jayden and Bailey didn’t have school and both Corey and Stacey had to work. So, of course I had the kids for the day which is fine with me. We had breakfast at McDonalds in Saratoga Springs and lunch at McDonalds in Saratoga Springs. Do you get the picture? For lunch Jayden ordered a double quarter pounder with cheese. Bailey got a double cheeseburger. I was smart enough not to order anything. I ended up eating two thirds of Jayden’s and half of Bailey's. Later Judy called and told me to meet her at Sizzler for steak. I was still full from lunch. Oh well! At about 3:30 the kids and I got in the car to meet Corey. I called him and he advised me that he was on the seventh fairway at the Ranches Golf Course so we drove to the clubhouse and waited for them (Corey, Greg, Mike and Danny) to finish. Bailey wanted to walk out on the course and meet them. I said they wouldn’t let her. She and Jayden, on their own went into the pro shop and asked the girl behind the counter if they could. Surprisingly she said yes. I explained that we had no idea where to look for them and anyway they should be about finished and would be back at the clubhouse before we could reach the bottom of the hill. A moment later we saw them on the ninth green with their final putts and then climb into there golf carts. While the kids were talking to the girl in the pro shop Jayden told her, “My dad’s the fat one that can’t golf and is a lousy driver!” speaking of the golf carts. (He had no way of knowing if Corey could drive a golf cart or not.) Today Bailey told me she is no longer going with Blake and then immediately reminded me that they never were girlfriend boyfriend. She has a new heartthrob named Quincy. Bailey said, “But Blake is still in my class.” Tonight Judy and I saw the movie Opa a romantic movie filmed on the Isle of Patmos. We quite enjoyed it though it didn’t get wonderful reviews.

POOR SIERRA.....boys!

Monday, October 12, 2009 Yesterday Chris and Sierra came over to visit. Chris took over and barbequed steaks, which was good since I had been dizzy for four days and yesterday was particularly bad. While I was sitting at the computer, Sierra came in and sat on my lap. She had a long face. I asked her what was wrong. Molly piped in, “She and her boyfriend (Wesley Wright) broke up.” Then added, “He kissed another girl!” Sierra said the that they didn’t exactly break up, she said in fact that they weren’t really going together and added that their relationship was…and then gave it some name I had never hear of before. It was really quite complicated. I didn’t realize it had gotten that involved. I thought he was just her date for the prom a while back. I had heard that he was quite the “mover” anyway. Oh dear! What is a poor girl to do?!!!!

MORE on FUNNY KIDS!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2009 Today Corey, Stacey Jim, and I went to Joy Luck for lunch. While we were there I asked Stacey and Corey about their trip to Southern California a week or so ago. Stacey sent me the following e-mail: Well where should I start? There is a lot. Every time Bailey caught a wave (she and Jayden were riding boogie boards in the ocean, I assume near San Diego.) she would yell ”I’M LIVING THE DREAM " and when she was at Disneyland doing the Jedi Training Camp, she wanted to fight Darth Vader because she said she wanted to have her revenge. She didn’t get to fight him when she did it last time. So when it came to her turn this time, just before she got up to fight him, she yelled out “I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE VADOR.” There is a whole bunch more but hard to put in an e-mail. As for Jayden, there was a lot that he did that was funny but I guess the funniest was with Crush. He asked Crush “where do you sleep” and Crush said “the bottom of the ocean” then Crush asked him “Where do you sleep” and Jayden said “in my bed.” Crush asked him what’s that like and Jayden said “yep it’s really comfy. There're these guys that hunt for birds and then they rip out there feathers and stick them in my pillow.” By this time every one in the room was laughing and Crush just looked at Jayden then looked at us then at Jayden then at us and finally said “You have serious thrill issues dude.” There is a lot more but to hard to type it all out. Corey told me earlier that originally Jayden was going to say what he said when we were at Crush (a talking turtle that interacts with the kids in the audience) last time. That time Jayden was asked something about eating Chicken. Crush, the turtle asked Jayden what chicken tastes like. With a smug tone of voice he said, “Like Turtle!” This time he told his cousin Hunter to say that one. The kids really liked doing the boogie board. Jayden finally got tired but Bailey kept going for quite a while. I talked to Bailey about it after I picked them up after school she was still excited about it. I asked Stacey to refresh my memory on what happened on the previous encounters. The following is her response: Bailey never got to fight Darth Vader she wanted to so this time when she was chosen to fight him she was way to excited. Jayden’s conversation with Crush in Disneyworld was, he asked him what his favorite food was and Crush said seaweed. (I think) then Crush asked Jayden what his favorite food was, Jayden said chicken and then Crush said what does that taste like? Jayden said like turtle. Crush then said I am going to keep a sharp eye on you dude.

NORWEGIAN SKY

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 Dear Diary Or whatever! Yesterday morning Judy and I arrived home from yet another cruise. I’m sure I said it before, but the reason we took this three dayer was so we would be frequent sailors on NCL (Norwegian Cruise Line) and thus get a discount on the one we plan on taking with them next February; a twelve day cruise in the Mediterranean; Greece, Turkey, Egypt etc. (Judy’s cousin Kathy is a lounge singer on the Norwegian Jade, this ship.) This last cruise was on NCL’s Norwegian Sky out of Miami. We sailed to Nassau the Bahamas and to Great Stirrup Cay, their private island and back to Miami. We never got off the ship. We have been to Nassau a couple of times already and we just didn’t bother with the island. We enjoyed the ship especially the dinning. NCL has “Freestyle Dining” where you don’t sit at the same table with the same people every night. In fact we dined alone at every meal. The first night we made 7:30 reservations at Cagney’s their steakhouse and the second night at Il Adagio’s their Italian restaurant. Each was excellent. To get on flights, we flew from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas and from there to Atlanta. We stayed in Atlanta overnight and flew into Fort Lauderdale on the 7:00 a.m. flight the next morning and from there we took the shuttle to the ship. Coming home we flew from Miami to Atlanta, couldn’t get on two flights so stayed overnight there again and took the 7:00 a.m. nonstop home. All in all we had a good time.