Okie Okie

Well Jeff is doing good in Okie Okie (that is what Logan calls it) It is really hard and Jeff gets a head ache from all of the information they are giving him and he is quite overwhelmed but he is sticking in and working hard. Almost one month down, 2 more to go. I am going to be visiting him in September and we are both very excited. It is really hard being away from each other.

The kids are doing good. Logan plays outside and rides his bike around. He is getting so smart, I am amazed at some of the things he knows and says. He gets to start school in September and we are excited for that.

Sienna is doing good too. She is really smart as well. She knows so many of her body parts and she is starting to sing the ABC's which I have never even really started teaching her. I think she will be a fast learner.

Old Pictures

this is from the 4th of july 2005 I think.
This is Jeff I think in 2004
I am not sure when this is but I think it is cute.
This is yellow stone 2004 or 2005?

so I was looking through my parents pictures that they have on thier computer and came across some good ones so I decided to post them. Ahhhh.... the memories.

Flamming Gorge

Well I would post pictures of our vacation but Jeff has my laptop and I can't seam to get the pictures onto my dad's computer. We had a lot of fun. We stayed in Jake's family's cabin. We stayed for a week and went boating, rock climbing, shooting, played games and just hung out. It was nice to get away and have some fun.

Jeff is doing good in Oklahoma. He is missing his little family a lot but is sticking in there and doing good in training. He just took a test and got 99.2% on it and so I am pretty proud of him. He said the weather their is really yucky humid and hot. He has been studying like crazy and of coarse playing his new PlayStation 3.

Goodbye my love

Today Jeff leaves for Oklahoma. We are very sad to let him go. We have been having a little fun before he leaves. We went and saw Batman of course, we went out to eat, we hung out with the kids and just talked with our families.

On Sunday night we had a little fun with the camera so the following pictures are quite funny. the pictures are taken while you shake your head really fast and let your checks fly. It is fun.Dad kind of looks like the joker huh.

Moving update

Well it has been pretty crazy around here. Jeff is leaving for Oklahoma in 6 days and the rest of us are moving to my parents house. So I am taking a little break right now from the moving stuff. We are pretty sad to have to be away from Jeff for so long, it will be hard but we know it will be worth it in the end when he is in SLC and working. All of his hard work will pay off soon. Today is the last day of work for Jeff and he is really excited.

So the next time I write Jeff will be gone and I will be at my parents house.

Apartment

Well I guess our landlord changed her mind about us needing to find someone for our lease. Jeff talked to her today and she said since we are moving we can get out of our lease without any worries. So ya, never mind on the last post (I erased it). So thanks all.

Us and the updates

Logan had lots of fun at the parade

Sienna with Grandpa
Logan and his second cousins Max and Blake.
Fireworks at the DeMille's house. Grandpa, Kaylee and Sienna.

Well after months of filling out papers, phone calls, going to interviews, getting exams, and just waiting, Jeff has finnaly recieved his firm job offer from ATC. He leaves for Oklahoma in about 3 week. He starts his training August 1st. He will be gone for 3 months and is leaving all of the rest of us behind, not by choice. We are excited but sad to be apart for so long, it will be good to get it all done and over with so he can start his job.



Landon and Aubry, my brother and his fiance, are getting married on Friday and we are excited for that. They are a cute couple and we are glad to have Aubry in our family.



We have been having some fun before Jeff leaves like going to the movies, boating, and just hanging out together and with family and friends. We had a really good 4th of July. It was nice to be home and celebrate with the family this year. We went to the parade in Kaysville with the family and to Grandma Greens BBQ and the kids played on a huge blow up water slide. After that we went to Jeff's family party and played a little croquet and did some fireworks.

Boating was a blast!

Well we finally got to go boating again after 2 1/2 years of living without it. It was a blast. We went with Landon, Aubry, Logan and my Dad. With Jeff and Aubry injured still I got lots of time wakeboarding. I was pretty happy I got up everytime and remembered how to wakeboard after not doing it for so long. I did try and jump the wake but failed miserably and landed on my face.

Logan was haing some fun, he got to drive the boat around for a little bit and he was so funny.

Jeffrey Scott DeMille

50 Things I have discovered about Jeff in the 8 1/2 years that I have known him.

1. He likes to be productive, if he just sits around he gets in a really bad mood.
2. He loves being a Dad. He is always trying to be the best dad ever and he has always helped out with the kids!!
3. He is really good at doing math in his head.
4. He almost didn't graduated from High School because he had 52 U's. He worked all of them off. When he did work them all off they told him it was the record for the most worked at Layton High.
5. His pet peeve is people driving with dogs on Thier laps. The other day traffic was backed up on highway 193 and Jeff went around it to turn and he heard a lady in her car calling her dog that had jumped off her lap out the window and was running down the middle of the road. He was pretty happy about that.
6. When he was younger he would get diarrhea when he got nervous.
7. He loves Popsicles, even in the winter time.
8. He hates reading books.
9. When he is around lots of people and he sees that someone is not fitting in very well he tries to make them feel comfortable.
10. He loves to ride anything mechanical and likes to fix them up.
11. He is really good at ironing, better than me by far!
12. He loves fishing, when we living in Alaska he wanted to go about every weekend.
13. In High School people all thought he was pretty tuff but I think he is just a big softy. He was always trying to pick fights with people though, I don't think he ever did.
14. Jeff is not selfish at all.
15. Jeff loves Fried Rice.
16. He loves cuddling.
17. He is really impatient.
18. He hates his hair. He wish it was thicker and darker.
19. When he was younger he got a wave perm.
20. He used to record him self on a video camera before the first day of school to see if his outfit looked good enough.
21. He was in the chore in jr. high.
22. Jeff is just like him mom. I have never met her but he is not very much like his Dad except one thing, he loves to exaggerate just like Kevin.
23. Jeff's mom died when Jeff was 15. Jeff and his dad lived on there own without a woman to take care of them.
24. Jeff and his dad had Christmas a day early because they were bored. (that is the stuff you do when you don't have a woman to stop you boys)
25. Jeff weighs about the same as he did when he was in high school.
26. I went on a date with his friend and when he saw me he broke up with his girlfriend just to have a chance at me.
27. Jeff wanted to have a honeymoon baby. I talked him out of it.
28. He used to love animals when he was a boy. He had many animals that he buried in his yard. He once dug up his hamster and it was crawling with maggots and stunk really bad.
29. He played foot ball his sophomore year in high school and would have played more but had U's.
30. He was on the golf team in HS but threw his club at another kid and got kicked off the team. (the kid deserved it though)
31. Jeff broke both feet and the same time, his hand, his foot again and got a peg in the knee, all from motorized vehicles.
32. Jeff is really good at drawing but doesn't do it very much any more.
33. He loves playing Madden football on the PS2.
34. Jeff is very cheap.
35. He was the class clown in elementary school.
36. Jeff can't touch is toes or sit with his legs straight out in front of him.
37. He got a 3.87 in college and a 1.50 in High school. It shows what effort and determination will do for you.
38. He loves being close to our families.
39. He knows a lot about airplanes and airports and it bugs him if you think you know more because you don't.
40. He can count to 100 in 22 seconds ( I did it 18 but he was pretty close)
41. Everyone is surprised he is LDS because he is so cool (they say) and they always want to know more about the church because of him.
42. He has colored my hair.
43. He dressed up like a girl once for Halloween and some guys hit on him.
44. Up to just a few months ago Jeff thought Next door was spelled Nextstore.
45. Jeff is a major stresser, that is why I do the bills.
46. Jeff hates to follow the rules.
47. We used to go bowling every weekend for about 2 months and then we got sick of it. Jeff was really getting good.
48. Jeff doesn't like his name.
49. Jeff doesn't like to watch movies very much. He hates watching movies he has already seen. But he forgets them pretty fast.
50. He is the best husband ever!

50 Things about me you might not know

Ok I think this is going to be hard but it might be fun, thanks for the idea Miquelle.

1. I hate icing
2. I had a plastic surgeon stitch up my nose after I split it in half when I was four. I can see part of the scar when I have a cold.
3. I am afraid of heights but I can't resist jumping from them.
4. I hated to read until I was 15, now I really enjoy it.
5. I don't like the feel of wood on my teeth, like Popsicle sticks.
6. I love to be on the computer
7. I have never been a fan of sandwiches
8. I love to sing but I am not very good at it.
9. I wanted to be a spy when I was younger.
10. When I was younger I loved to make people laugh but as I got older people just thought I was being dumb instead of funny so I stopped trying to be funny.
11. I like taking pictures.
12. I would rather me drive than Jeff but I still let him most of the time.
13. I am not a people person, I still get scared when I am around a bunch of people I don't know.
14. I didn't cry for my wedding or either of my children's births, but I did cry from a stupid commerical once when I was pregnant.
15. I have eaten dirt and I liked it.
16. I love camping and fishing.
17. I once went river rafting of a two person kayak with Jeff and we didn't even know how dangerous it was until a few years later.
18. I fell rope swinging when I was 17 and almost landed on the shore. I landed in a few feet of water from about a 15 foot drop. I haven't been on a rope swing since.
19. I love watching movies more than once.
20. I have always had the mind set that I can do anything a boy can do, so far I have kept up.
21. I don't make friends very easily.
22. I really enjoy shopping and I am a sucker for a good deal.
23. I have a kept a journal since I was 8. I have about 10 so far.
24. I really love to draw and paint but I don't feel like I am ever good enough.
25. Crocheting isn't fun for me until I am finished.
26. I don't like my handwriting.
27. I hate talking on the phone, I would much rather email.
28. I almost got in a car wreck 3 times yesterday.
29. I just started liking tomatoes and now the are unsafe to eat right now, go figure.
30. I like to play starcraft, I know I am kind of a dork.
31. I don't know how to play chess.
32. Sometimes I get ice cream just to eat the cone.
33. I don't like my feet to be touched when I am sleeping.
34. I like to watch sponge bob.
35. I hate it when people have horrible grammar, but I don't care if I do.
36. I am a night person, I love staying up late.
37. I eat when I am bored.
38. I like snakes and spiders. I once had a huge black widow I kept in a jar and it gave birth to millions of tiny baby spiders so we had to kill them all.
39. I need a vacation.
40. I would like to visit every state in the US.
41. I never wanted to wear my watch when I was younger because I was afraid of people asking me the time.
42. My favorite smell is vanilla.
43. When I was younger I used to melt cheese in a measuring cup and eat it.
44. I hate brushing my teeth, but I kind of like to floss.
45. I try to hear my upstairs neighbors conversations.
46. I like to collect good recipes but I don't really like to make them.
47. I like to dance but I am not very good at that.
48. I used to play the cello and I quit because I didn't think I was good. I wish I hadn't.
49. I am not very good at taking care of sick people.
50. I want to have one more kid and I think I will be done.

Oklahoma is the place to be

Well Jeff finally got a hold of someone at the FAA and found out that he will be leaving for Oklahoma on August 1st. It is kind of a bummer though because he will miss our family vacation and our 6th year anniversary on August 9th. He will be in Oklahoma until October 28th! It is going to be a long three months!

Nothing yet happening

Well, we have been at a stand still lately. No news yet from the FAA. We are probably not going to buy a house, which we were thinking about for a while but are not sure. The kids are doing good, nothing too different with them. Jeff's foot is healing now and he is done with the doctors appointments and x-rays, Yea! I have been pretty much up to nothing. I guess the one sort of interesting thing lately is Sienna went swimming for the first time at a pool. We went to Clearfield pool yesterday and the kids played and had fun. Sienna loves the water. I guess it is ok for nothing to be happening than bad stuff happening.

Zebra Stripes

Jeff took me on a little night out for mothers day. We went on a picnic and then we went to see iron man. We had a lot of fun. On the way home from the picnic we saw a zebra off the side of the road. We were excited to see him but he seamed really excited to see us I guess. ha ha

Good News

Well we have good news. Logan got in to the preschool that we wanted for him and he is really excited for that. He keeps asking me if he gets to go to school yet. I think he is really going to love it. Some other good new is Jeff got a "tentative" job offer for the Salt lake center. This means that as long as he passes a physical, psychological, and background test he will get a firm offer. Today he is going to get his physical test. He should have all of that stuff done by Thursday and then we will be hearing from them a few days later for the actual date he will be going to Oklahoma. He might have a chance at going to OK in May if he requests it but he thinks that they will offer him an August date. So as soon as we find out I will post it. Jeff will be going to Oklahoma for training. He will be staying in a hotel and living with a roommate. He will be very busy learning all of the things he learned before but more intense. After 3 months he will have a final test which is the final deal breaker. If he passes that then it is home free after that and he is guaranteed a job. The FAA works in mysterious ways. It is a little frustrating to deal with them but hopefully all will work our well.
Sienna is doing good, she is starting to be a real climber lately. She climbs up on the rocking chair and rocks it until it almost rocks over. She is a little dare devil. She is saying lots of words but is very shy when it comes time to show other people. Sienna is getting molars lately so she is a little unhappy but she takes it pretty well.

Whats up doc?

My lasik surgery turned out to be great, I love it. It is a little weird to get used to but I really enjoy it! Jeff's foot is doing ok. He got the pins out and his cast off and now he is wearing a boot. He still can't walk on it and he says it hurts still so it looks like this is going to be a long recovery.

I just signed Logan up for preschool the other day so hopefully he will get in. They do a random computer lottery draw. If he gets in he will be going to a local elementary school for 3 days a week, it will really be fun for him. He is really excited.

Sienna is starting to say lots of words. Some of her favorite to say are "up"(grandpa taught her this one), "more", "Don't" (Jeff taught her this one), "bottle", "baby", "Ni-night", and of course, "mama", "Dada", and "Loow-g"(Logan).

I can see!

Well yesterday was my lasik and everything went great. It all was so fast and easy. Jeff's dad Kevin drove me and the kids down and they all got to watch the surgery on a tv. The first few hours my eyes felt like someone poked them really bad, so they kind of stung. After a little nap I woke up and found that I could see pretty well, other than the fact I was wearing little eye bubble cover things and they it didn't hurt at all. Today I woke up and could see perfectly. I went into the Doctors and he checked my eyes and I had 20/20 vision and he said that in one of my eyes it looked like nothing had even happen to them and the other he could just see a slight line, which was great! I am so glad i got it done. I would recommend it to anyone!

Lasik

Today is finally the day I get my lasik surgery done and I am so excited! I am so ready to get rid of these glasses. I am getting it done at the TLC center by Dr. Treft. Lindsay's Husband Jake and his family all got their eyes done by him and they all have had good results so I am hoping for the best! I will post how everything went as soon as they let me start seeing again.

By the way we haven't heard anything about Jeff's interview yet. We should be hearing from them anytime soon though. He has to do a psychiatric test and a physical and then he will be off to go to Oklahoma for 3 months and then finally he can start working.

I just got a new calling at church yesterday, I am on the Enrichment committy. So if anyone has good idea's for enrichment activities, mainly focusing on home and service just let me know.

Hooray!

Well Jeff has finally received the call for an interview but at a very inconvenient time. Kids had a lot of fun on Easter this year. They went up to Granny Green's house for the annual Easter egg hunt, which Jeff and I missed which I am very sad about. They had fun though. On Easter we all stayed home and took care of daddy. The Easter bunny brought the kids some fun stuff. We went to the park and the kids played with cousins and then we went to Grandma Mindi's house for a yummy dinner!

Surgery

Everything went pretty well with Jeff's surgery on Friday. He got two wires through two bones and 3 pins that stick out of his foot for one of the bones, that he will have to have taken out in 3 weeks. He is doing really well, he has some good medication so he is not in too much pain. When he woke up from his surgery he was pretty sick but the next day he was much better. He has to stay off his foot until the pins are out so we will see how all of that goes.

Update

Well Jeff is doing good. He doesn't get surgery until Friday so he is kind of mad about that, but as soon as that is over then he can start healing again.
So I will try and tell you the story of the broken foot. So pretty much his butt broke his foot (one disadvantage of having such a tight butt) this is what happened. He was going off of a jump in Farmington canyon. He said he has been off his jump about 20 times before but this time there was less powder to soften the landing. When he landed his butt slid off of the seat and slammed into his foot when he was sort of on his tippy toes. After it happened my dad came over to see what happened and at the time Jeff said it didn't hurt too bad and he would just go sit in the truck for a while. Well he was in shock at the time so on the ride back to the truck he could really start feeling it hurt and swell. When they got home I took him to IHC and they made us wait in the waiting room for about an hour. Finally we went back and they did some x-rays and took us back into the room. The radiologist came by and said well now I have two good stories to tell about today, one boys arm broke and your humm humm hum. And then she left. Another guy came in wanted to see his foot and after that we decided it was bad. Well, it was bad, but luckily he didn't tear any ligaments or anything else. Tomorrow the Doctor is going to try and put the bones back in place but if it looks like they are not going to stay on their own then he will put pins in.