Happy Birthday TiKa!!!

Well who is TiKa? WiKa TiKa Boo is our 3.2 lb. purebred black/tan chihuahua. Not many people know we have her because when people come over we don't dare to let her out and about because of her small size. TiKa came to us by plane from Hemp, Texas back in July of last year. The kids thought it was so neat to meet their new puppy at the airport! TiKa was my early graduation gift. I was a little nervous about the potty training while I was a full-time student still but she aced it in a week! So TiKa turned a year old today and she probably won't gain any more weight, unless she decides to eat a whole lot more! We love having TiKa as a part of our family. She loves playing with Vanessa and Chandler. She dodges them pretty good when they are running around. Vanessa and Chandler are pretty gentle with TiKa, with her being so small. TiKa knows the basic commands and is very eager to learn more new tricks in the future! We plan on her growing old with us! Happy Birthday TiKa! We love you!

Here is TiKa's baby picture

TiKa about to meet her new parents

TiKa and her new mommy

TiKa taking a cat nap, oh I mean dog nap!

Chandler & TiKa

TiKa and her first sweater for Christmas

TiKa basking in the sun

TiKa wearing her new cowdog outfit

Fun at Arctic O

Today we enjoyed having our lunch at Arctic Circle with Becky and her son Jacen (20 months old) along with my friend Kimberly and her sons Ciaran (3 yrs. old) and Cabhan (pronounced Cavin, who is 22 mo. old). We enjoyed the food and the kids enjoyed the playground after we finished eating. It's fun to watch the kids and see how their personalities come out. Vanessa made friends with everyone and two boys especially took a liking to her. (What am I going to do when she becomes a teenager?!) Chandler obviously doesn't like crowds, he even told us that he hates the kids (a word that Vanessa picked up from preschool and only said once, now Chandler is always saying it and we're trying to fix that). He is a bit timid and shy and takes awhile to warm up, but Dave said he was exactly like that when he was Chandler's age so it really shouldn't bother me now. Jacen seems to be a little like Chandler, but I think we have to wait a little longer to see how he turns out. Ciaran and Cabhan are pretty easy-going kids, Cabhan was a little tired and sad. We really did have a fun time!


What a fun Group!

Twinkle, Twinkle little CAR!

Twinkle, Twinkle little CAR! How I wonder what you CAR! Up above the world so CAR! Like a diamond in the CAR! Twinkle, Twinkle little CAR!
How I wonder what you CAR!

Uhhhh, wait a minute! That’s not how it goes!
What is up with that?
Well, you might just want to ask the car obsessive, Chandler! Chandler loves cars! He sleeps with them; he chews the tires off of them, he teethes on them, he loves them! He has them! So every time mommy sings, “Twinkle, Twinkle little star” to him each night, Chandler sneaks in the word “CAR” at the end of each verse! Talk about car obsessive!

Oliver Winston Glass

5-11-07: After I had my graduation I heard that my sister-in-law, Lenora had been admitted to the hospital because she was in labor and was scheduled to have her baby boy by c-section at 4 p.m. I didn't get to hear about the baby until after 6 p.m. Little Oliver Winston was born at 5:30 p.m.

not only was Oliver a pound bigger than Ashton by 6 lbs. 13 oz. they were also exactly two months apart!!! Oliver is a cutie! He looks really similar to his older brother, Elliott! Lenora and Ben are really excited to have a new little baby boy!

Lenora with her second baby Oliver

Oliver in Ben's arms

I get to hold little Oliver!

Mother's Day

We spent Mother's day with my side of the family and had a wonderful time. We had a barbeque on the grill with lots of yummy food. We gave and received simple fun gifts. We have such great relationships with my brothers and sisters that there is seldom a boring moment. We love to rile up each other and joke around! It's the best of times. I am really thankful to have the family I have! I am grateful to have the Mother I have. No other mother is quite like my mom, Janet. She makes life interesting and fun. What other mother has taken their daughter toilet papering when they were young? ha ha! I love it! My friends loved my mom growing up and would bragg about her! She is continually loved! Thanks mom! Thanks for being you! (Dave missed out on the pictures because he was feeding Ashton and watching the Utah Jazz game.)

Here is the crew at the Frisby home

Jake and Britt be their normal selves!

Too cute!

The boys!

(Ashton & Chandler)

Vanessa the only and mommy

Here I am with Britt

My Graduation!!!!!

On Friday, May 11th, 2007 I finally walked the walk and graduated from Salt Lake Community College in Barbering and Cosmetology!!!! But I didn't walk quietly, and who would when you have fought the fight to get to this point? On the stage after my name was announced, I stopped and looked out at the crowd, threw my arms up in the air and screamed as loud as I could. I did it for the long hours at school but really was considered "work!" I did it for having three children through out school! I did it because as I got closer to being done with school, it got that much harder! I did it for when I was pregnant with Ashton; I went to school from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. with only an hour break, my pregnancy made me so tired that for the break I slept in the back of my car! I did it because I made it through the toughest times to get here! I did it with honors! I did it!!!

Thank you for all those who supported me, especially my husband Dave, who paid for my schooling and encouraged me to keep on keeping on! I have surely been blessed!

Graduation was awesome! My graduation class was over 3,000 graduates! The ceremony was awesome with the theme of "You raise me up", which is also a song by Josh Groban and sung by one of the students at SLCC.

My parents treated me to lunch at the Macaroni Grill, which was delish! I had a wonderful day, not to mention a brand new nephew to top it off!!!!

Here I am with Dave!

Daddy and I!

Brittany and I!

Dave and dad waving at me as I walked in!

Children's Discovery Garden

On Thursday, May 10th we went to the children's garden at Thanksgiving point for Vanessa's monthly field trip that her school puts on. Each adult is in charge of a group of kids, so I had to keep an eye on Vanessa, her friend Lexi, Chandler and baby Ashton. I didn't realize what a responsiblity it was to keep track of that many kids, especially when Vanessa kept running off with Lexi!
The first event was the Noah's ark; it had shallow water for the kids to play in all around the ark. Every once in awhile the Elephant on top of the ark would spit out water from it's trunk to get the kids wet. Vanessa immediately took her shoes off and ran around in the water. Chandler, a more timid and shy little boy, took about 10 minutes to warm up and finally he walked around in the water. They really enjoyed the Noah's ark; I think it was their favorite one! Then we were off to the Bear caves. You could hear recorded sounds of bears growling as you made your way through dark tunnels! The tunnels really made me work to keep the kids together because there were about three or four different openings where the kids could go in and out, which made it hard to keep tabs on them! The also had a pretty eco-pond to look at and right after the pond was a fun kid-sized light house. They spent a good amount of time playing inside the light house, going up the ladder to reach the top and peer out the windows. The last event was the caterpillar that you could climb inside of and play on. After all the events we headed back to the Noah's ark to play there "one last time", but as we were walking back, Chandler decided to give me a scare and hide in a hedge so I couldn't find him. We had all the children yelling, "Chandler", and since he is such a quiet boy, it makes it that much harder to find him. We finally found him in the hedge and he was just playing by himself and not aware that he was lost. We had fun playing in the water again and then we headed home and stopped by Arctic Circle for some hamburgers and the kids really enjoyed the field trip!

Simple pleasures on an early morning walk

Today was an interesting day! After Chandler, Ashton, and I dropped off Vanessa at school, we decided to go on a walk around the block. As we were on our walk a little piece of nature scurried on by. At first I thought nothing of it and then I looked down in some flowers and saw the smallest baby quail! Chandler and I circled around it, as we faintly heard its parents squabbling in the near distance. We were careful just in case there were more, and there were! There were three little baby quail just sitting in the street! I was frightened for them! They barely knew how to walk and I was wondering why their parents had them cross the street. Maybe they were threatened? As I was a threat to the parents too! So I scooped up all three quail in my hands and put them in the flowers in one of the yards to join the other baby quail. What an experience to hold such little lives in your hands! Chandler and I had such a delight looking at the baby quail. We left them there in hopes they would find a safe place to hide.

Ashton's Blessing

Ashton is now 8 weeks old and his blessing was Sunday, May 6th at our ward house. I would have post this blog earlier but after the events of the blessing I was drained! Ashton is about 9 lbs., he is still very small, but very chunky. The blessing was a huge success and I enjoyed all of the family and friends that came to share in Ashton's blessing. In testimony meeting I was very touched by those in my family and some friends who bore their testimonies! Thank you so much! There was a testimony in particular, I won't mention anyone's names, that really touched me and was very well said! Thank you again! Also, thanks to all those who gave a helping hand in preparing food and serving it. I missed those who couldn't make it to the blessing and hope they can come to any of the other one's in the future. I tried to get pictures of all those who came, but some I didn't get the chance. So take a look at the pictures I posted.

Ashton Scott in his blessing outfit

Here I am holding Ashton

Karen, Granny, Britt, Brian & Becky

My mom, dad, & Uncle LaDell

Brian & Becky

Jacen enjoying the food

(Brian & Becky's son)

Brad, Steph & Peter

My cousin Sarah & Matt

Aunt Sid & Uncle LaDell

Grandpa Rene & Grandma Renee

Melissa & Tim

Lenora holding Ashton

My good friend Marci

Dave, Jared (Marci's hubby) & g-pa