Our Easter Weekend

We got to go to Grandma and Grandpa Mocabee's this weekend. We left with Jared and Tracy on Friday night and Jody came up on Sunday after work. It was fun spending time with our cousins and Grand parents over the Easter weekend and here's a few pictures of what we did.

Colton shooting the 22

Isaiah shooting the 22 and he was just getting started, he later worked his way to the 410 shotgun.

The Fam getting ready to shoot

Jonas sucking on his first strawberry and loving it.

Tanners turn shooting the 22

Tytus wanted to shoot the pellet gun because it was quiet, he doesn't like loud noises.

Dallin shooting the 22

Me shooting Lance's 410 Shotgun

For the record I did pretty good, I hit about 2-3 bottles. I also shot Jared's 22. It was fun!

Mama helping Isaiah

Grandpa giving Grandma a 10 second head start!

Tytus and Micah ready to go home

Having fun with Uncle Jared and Aunt Tracy

The Hunt at the city park.

We got lucky and got to have two egg hunts. One at the city park and one at Grandma and Grandpa's. Dallin found a golden egg at the park and got a gold dollar coin. I think most of them also had change in theirs from both places. Micah and Isaiah both found dollars at home! I wish I could find money that easily!

The Hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's

Playing Tug-of-War with Matt the Cowboy, he won.

Every time we come to visit Matt comes over and takes us to his families farm so the kids can look at the animals they have. He puts a few of the kids on the golf cart and rides on over. This time Colton got to ride on a got goat, he fell of and got head butted. What a good sport. Isaiah wanted to ride also, with Matt's help of course. The kids just love him, they have a lot of fun with him!

Grandma and Danielle Lila

We dyed eggs on Saturday so the Easter Bunny could hide them when he came to visit.

We went to church with grandpa and grandma


Isaiah strikes his rockstar pose instead of something more sophisticated, this is why he reminds us of his Papa Rico in Arizona.

In one of the eggs that Danielle got from the park was a coupon for one free game of bowling. (We didn't even know that Malad had a bowling alley!) So on our way out on Monday we stopped to go bowling. Talk about old town. The little diner reminded me of old Vincent Drugs , for those of you who know downtown Midvale. Vincent Drugs was also in the movie The Sandlot. We also had to keep our own score on paper. I'm sure you get the idea of the oldness. It was pretty cool! The kids had a lot of fun for their first time bowling. We all had fun! I think we will be going back.

$ Potty Money $

Well I finally decided to potty train Isaiah. He didn't have much interest until I came up with the $ Potty Money $ jar. Let me explain why this works for him. Isaiah LOVES money! He's always asking for it, "just one money, just one dollar, PLEASE!" He even used to go to sleep with a couple of coins and would wake up crying because he dropped them in his sleep. Not so fun for mom and dad at 2 or 3 in the morning! Well since he loves money so much i decided that this would be great incentive! If he goes #1 he gets two pennies, and #2 gets one nickel. It took about a day or two but he's caught on pretty good. He gets all excited and will go without me asking sometimes. Or he'll say "I think I go pee pee" and run to the bathroom. It is so cute when he gets his money there's usually a "uh huh, oh yeah!" I love it! I can't wait to only have one in diapers, we're so close!

Jonas is starting to crawl now and he's getting pretty fast. He's also getting his 2 bottom teeth so he's been a little fussy. The kids do a good job of making him laugh though. It's so cute to watch.

We had some visiters this last weekend. The Dominguez family was with us! It was so good to see them! It had been 6 months since the last visit. Of course the kids had a blast. They played and played and played! They were sad to say goodbye but are looking forward to our visit to Az next month! They keep asking what day we are leaving, and how much longer? It won't come fast enough!

Kind of Busy

We've been kinda busy around here at the Livingston house. With the kids dental work and mine. I had a root canal done last Thursday and a tooth pulled on Monday. That morning the boys asked where we were going and I told them it was my turn to go to the dentist. Tytus asked if I would be getting shots, probably I said. Then he asked if I was going to cry, I hope not was my reply! Thank goodness for pain killers and for Jody having Mondays and Tuesdays off! I've been kinda loopy needless to say for the last couple of days. And my face is swollen and funny looking, I have the pics to prove it! Now that they pulled my tooth I will be getting implants for my teeth (not the other, just to clarify) in a few months. Can you tell I just love to be at the Dentist!

We took the kids to the Children's Museum on Tuesday and they had a lot of fun. They played house, built things up just to knock them down, saved lives on the rescue chopper, they acted out Little Red Ridding Hood on stage, they gave a news broadcast, played with water and ping pong balls, and played cashier at the grocery store. They were quite busy! Jonas even played a little and got to go down his first slide, which he liked a lot!

Jody and I just finished reading a book called " The Message" by Lance Richardson. I highly recommend it.

"If a man were to die, and then return, what message might those from the world beyond send back to us?" A lot of it of course was focused on family and the importance of service. Starting with our families and then on to others. It's got me thinking a lot about what I can do to help others. I want to serve but where do I start? Do I have time? Will I have a car? And I've realized that it doesn't have to be something big. So I'm going to start looking for ways that I can help. I hope no matter what it is that I can make just a small difference in someone else's life. I also hope that I can be an example and show my kids how to love and serve others.

My perspective by Jody

Well all blog entries previous to this have been entered by my wonderful wife. Don't let the title fool you into thinking I have a completely different perspective of what has been happening in the previous blogs that what my wife came up with because I don't. Actually she has been doing a pretty good job for someone who doesn't consider themselves to computer savy. Well after all the dental work with the kids and Danielle I will show you what I have been doing. I recently put together a storyboard of a music video idea. I did in for Aesop Rock's "No Regrets". I will now hope to be able to import the video because I have been having issues on other websites that I have tried this with. So here we go (keep your fingers crossed).

This video is a poor quality upload because it was originally formated for my ipod but I think you can still get the idea. I will be messing around with it still and may post a better quality version later. I'm still aiming at going to UVU in the fall to finish my degree in digital animation. I am currently working at Morgan Stanley and waiting for my version of the AIG bailout bonus check! Something tells me this will never happen. In the meantime I will just keep on doing tech support and doing my artwork. I recently switched to the swing shift where I now work Wed-Sat 4pm-2:30am. Those are some hard hours but it gives me time at work to do some art projects plus 15% shift differential and will eventually allow me to do some homework while getting paid. So I can't complain.

Other than that I've been watching the March Madness NCAA college basketball tourney religiously! I think Louisville has an honest chance to take it this year. Go Cards!

I'm sure that Danielle will keep everybody updated with the kids activities so I will just briefly mention a few. I will be going on Friday to the Daddy Donut day at school with Danielle Lila (these are the days I pick to help support my daughters education not the parent teacher conference day!) We will be getting Tytus registered for kindergarden and Isaiah for a concealed weapons permit. I was just kidding about the latter, I just wanted to make sure you were still awake. We will hopefully be signing the boys up for soccer soon and Danielle Lila for either Dance, Piano, or Hezbollah camp. I think she would fair well as a terrorist the way she handles her brothers (just kidding). Thats about it for my perspective for now. Enjoy

The Bad Guy

I was known as the bad guy the other day. I had to take Danielle Lila and Tytus to the dentist to have some work done. Danielle had a retainer put in to help stop sucking her thumb. She was very upset and crying when she said" I used to talk just fine. It's all your fault because you paid for this!" Tytus had to be sedated. Poor thing was soo moody and out of it! At one point he told his dad that he saw two Jody's. He made him walk away and come back. "See you have two heads!" It was pretty funny.

The retainer

Looking at sheep on the way to the park

Green mashed potatoes for St Patrick's Day

At the park

Jody and I

Webbed toes!

Jonas in Danielle Lila's toys

No he is not getting baptized!

Waiting for the bus