GRACELYNN NOEL CHAZEN

From my journal:
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Last night, Judy, Alexa, Gavin and I accompanied Greg to the hospital to see Gracelynn and to see how Niki was doing. Gracie is beautiful and Niki is doing great. Gracie has dark hair. Lynn, her other grandmother said, “Finally, one that looks like the Chazens.” Eric; Greg’s brother had a big grin in his face.
Alexa and Gavin kept taking turns holding the baby, Gavin with Greg’s help. Gavin had a silly grin on his face and Alexa kept patting the baby’s head, smiling and saying “She’s so cute, she’s so cute.”
Three year old Gavin got all teary-eyed and wanted Mommy to come home with him; she is staying in the hospital until Friday and possible Saturday.
Judy and the kids and I ate dinner in the (Riverton) hospital cafeteria; the Wind River Grill. The kids had chicken nuggets and Judy and I had cheeseburgers and of course, Diet Coke. Alexa had chocolate milk and Gavin drank orange juice.
My brother Brent and his wife Linda called this morning to offer congratulations and to see how everyone is doing.
My cousin Sherilyn and I exchanged the following e-mails.
"Fred C. Jepson" 12/20/2011 8:39 PM ;
fyi
Our daughter Niki gave us our 8th grandchild at 4:01 a.m. this morning. A beautiful daughter Gracelynn Noel Chazen.
from Sherilyn
Congratulations! That's wonderful! Another one who will have her Grandpa wrapped around her little finger! I'm lovin it!

MAMA

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 –My mother was wiser than I thought at that age.
I have always been sentimental, crying over sad songs etc. (Going back to 4 July 1948 again-pivotal date in my life.)
One day I was singing Tommy Edward’s “she is on the Morning side of the Mountain and I am on the twilight side of the hill."
Mother put her arm around me and said, “You know what that song is about don’t you, it’s about an older man in love with a younger woman.”

I miss my mama!

UNDER WEAR? - Good thing I can laugh at myself

Monday, December 12, 2011
When my Jayden; now age twelve was in diapers, I said
in front of my mother and someone else; maybe Brent, “My grandson wears Huggies and mother wears hugies,” to which my mother got angry.
Fortunately I learned years ago not to take myself serious and to laugh at myself.
Lately; the last couple of years, I have been having more and more trouble with leakage and the last year or so I have been acting out my dreams, kicking and trashing. One time I threw myself out of bed and landed on the floor hurting myself slightly. A couple of times I dreamed I was going to the bathroom. One of those times I woke up in time and one time I didn’t.


The night before last I told Judy that I was having problems and that the day before I went to the bathroom to discover via evidence that I had wet my pants semi-severely and didn’t even know it until I saw the evidence, who knows how long after the fact.
Judy went out and bought me a bag of L-XL adult, male diapers. I expected some huge things that showed unless I was wearing a mumu and which made me bowlegged. Thankfully they are very comfortable and I feel much more at ease wearing them.
The only drawback is that I have to drop everything to go number one.

No photos forthcoming.

RAPPING or WRAPPING

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Last night Judy and I were at Niki and Greg’s. Judy helped Niki wrap Christmas gifts while I distracted Alexa and Gavin.
By the way, Niki is huge with child. Gracie or whatever her name is couldn’t come too soon to suit the mother.
Niki had made Lion House recipe chicken noodle soup. Good stuff!
Alexa ended up helping with the wrapping of the things that aren’t from Santa. Mostly taking them from the home office into the living room and putting them under the Christmas tree.
At one point Niki was complaining about being tired. Judy said that she was tired too.
Alexa said, “Mom, you go to bed. Grandma, go home. I can wrap the rest of the presents.”
I guess someone asked her if she knew how to wrap presents. She said, “Yes, you cut paper, wrap it around the present, put some tape on it and put a bow on it.”
It would interesting to see a five year old do it on her own and have it turn out looking nice.
At least she’s thinking.

Greg had gotten into his grubbies ready to paint the toy room upstairs in preparation for it being Alexa’s room so the new baby can have Alexa’s old one. He had no sooner gotten ready when Scott, a neighbor called saying he had an extra ticket to the University of Utah basketball game and invited him to go with him.
I don’t know how much of good time he had; the Utes got killed; again; this time by Cal State Fullerton. They have the worst record in school history.
(BYU again blew out their opponent [Weber State]. BYU and Utah play each other Saturday if I remember correctly.)

Gavin and I played and had a good time. He has a red plastic toy camera and he was pretending to take pictures of me. He kept telling me to say cheese, pushing the button then handing me the cheese. When you push the shutter button a little piece of plastic cheese pops up. After a while he announced, “I’m going to take (the camera) into my workshop and fix it.” He left the room for a minute then came back and told me that it was fixed.
Later we were in the toy room upstairs playing “library.” He told me we had to be quiet in the library. He got a couple of books and turned the pages. Then he said, “Those (imaginary) kids are being bad. I’m going to take their book away from them.”
He walked across the room, picked a book up off the floor and put it up on a shelf.
I wonder if they have a library in his preschool.

In all fairness to the Utes I am adding what Wikipedia has to say about the Utes.
1. Utah Utes men's basketball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Utes_men's_basketball
The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA.

Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful!

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Last night at dinner we got talking about the weather; how cold it is. After a moment Jayden said that he wants to go back to Hawai’i, come home ever so often, turn in his homework, get new homework and go back to the islands.

BLANK at The BANK

Monday, December 05, 2011
Obviously there has not been a lot to talk about. I have spent a lot of time not feeling on top of the world. Often I have not felt well or else the medications I take make me groggy. What a life. I wish I could live in a warm humid place at sea level. I seem to always feel well in those places.
I keep asking the Lord to grant me this wish but I feel like I am being ignored. I ask for a number of things…same results.

Depressing!

On a lighter note I was talking to Corey on the phone today. He pulled into his bank’s drive thru, placed a check in the tube and pushed SEND. He was so distracted by the phone conversation, he drove away.
A few moments later he realized what he had done and went back to the bank.

Oh yea, Stacey is "dying" for sushi. She told me that if Corey decides to go to Simply Sushi (or just Simply a we often say) (all you can eat) on Thursday that she wants to go with us. We do Thursdays because that is the manager's day off and Apple will make us special rolls that are not on the lunch menu. Lunch is $5.00 less than dinner.