Colyar Family Christmas Gift Exchange 2008

Okay, so this only really applies to our family (and anyone else who wants to give us a present!). On the way home from the airport this weekend after picking up Casey (Kev's little bro) from getting off his mission- Me and jessica figured out who has who this year! So I want to write it down so it doesn't get all confusing again...

Craig and Kristi have Chad and Kirsti
Chad and Kirsti have Danny and Jess
Danny and Jess have Kev and Steph
Kevin and Steph have Casey
Casey has Craig and Kristi

As for the grandkids- do we still want to get each kid a present this year? Or is it getting to be too many now? Let me know if the list doesn't seem right to you guys! I'm pretty sure it is though...

Utah State Fair 2008

I love the fair! I haven't missed one in many years. I love going and seeing all of the animals, walking through the vendor booths, seeing the photography exhibit, and eating all the really unhealthy food. This year was so much fun because Jackson is totally into animals and mooing and baaahing, and oinking, plus we had lots of fun family time!


This is the bunny exhibit, if they didn't want $85 for a baby I think I would have bought 1 or 2- or 6 or 7...


Chris and Lanie having some Funnel cake...mmm... Me and Kevin opted to try the deep fried snickers (heavenly) and the deep fried oreos (disappointing)

Aysa and Caden ( My niece and nephew)

two wild packie sucking animals...

Me and Aysa- This is my best pig snorting face.


Same attractive face from me- Brinlee (my other darling niece) was supposed to be making a lamb face, not a cute girl face!!!


Getting up close and personal with the sheep


Jackson being kissed by "ma" isn't his dinosaur hat cute?!


Caden the drooling cowboy

The ABC's of Jackson

So I attempted for the first time a digital scrapbook. I went for a super easy project that was already mostly pre-made. I LOVE it. It turned out so cute and has been a lot of fun.
Here is a link to see it! Use the full screen image to be able to read it:

http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/post/start.sfly?postId=/gallery/1/post/GMGDJgybtGLVu1YA0ToDxs

Tell me what you think!

Laid Off again :(

So on tuesday Kevins work told him that they were cutting back to a 4 day work week (they were doing 5- 10 hour Days) and then by wednesday they told him he was being laid off... They let go of 11 guys this week. It was a really hard blow! This is the 4th job in a row he has been laid off from in three years... They assured him that it was nothing to do with him or his quality of work- it's just that new construction has slowed down so much. With Kevins medical past (cancer last year) we cannot be without insurance so its going to be really hard the next few months paying a ton for COBRA.

Yesterday he had a job interview at a mechanical plumbing company and got hired! A few weeks ago he told me that this is the kind of plumbing he wants to get into, but at the time I told him he couldn't switch jobs, because he needs the insurance. So it worked out good. They pay a little better, but he'll make quite a bit less without 10 hours of overtime a week, and once he has a bit more experience in mechanical plumbing they will pay him really good. They pay way better on the insurance, in three months they will pay 90% OF ALL THREE of us!!! yea! His last job barely paid any of it. So it has worked out pretty good, we are so grateful that he was only out of work for 1 day! He is a total bounce back kid! He always finds a job pretty quick. Lets pray that this job says busy. He's working at a firestation today! Pretty cool...

I'm proud of you Kev!

My first Ice Cream Cone!

He's had Ice Cream before, just never in a cone. Bet you can't guess what flavor it was???

Go Cougars!!!

Rise and Shout the Colyars are out!!! Well, the air is getting crisper and that means one thing- (to Kevin) FOOTBALL (or as jackson calls it "basketball"). All day last Saturday Aug 30th Kevin had this silly grin on his face, I finally asked him why he was smiling so creepy and he said "I'm just so excited!"



This was BYU's first game of the year against Northern Iowa, which we won! Jackson was so good and had a lot of fun.

Yep, there it is... the creepy/excited smile...

Jackson's new place to keep his suckers. He would suck on it and then stick it to his neck fold for safe keeping. The guys behind us thought this was so funny!