Jaydee & Grandma's water story

This happened a few weeks ago: Ruth (Grandma Flake) & Vicki spent a week in Costa Rica.  I was reading the email from Ruth to Sam one night.  Ruth mentioned they had went white water rafting and she had fallen out of the boat.  Sam & I chuckled, then I pulled up some pictures of white water rafting and zip lines in Costa Rica to show Jaydee what Grandma had been doing.  I didn’t think she had paid much attention to the story, but the next day we went to see Ruth who had just arrived home.  We got out of the car and Jaydee went right up and said “I WANT TO SEE THE PICTURE OF GRANDMA FALLING OUT OF THE BOAT!”  Poor Ruth laughed and said she didn’t know if she had any of those but she did buy the CD so we opened it up and there is a great picture of Grandma falling out of the boat and getting rescued.

 

Father's Day - Sam is the "Only Daddy"

I just wanted to comment that Sam is one of the best dads there is.  He changes poopy diapers and never complains (well most of the time).  He pushes his kids on the swings for hours, jumps on the trampoline (or shall I say he gets up there and gets jumped on).  He also takes terrific care of Dakota which is Jaydee’s dog (thanks to my dad).  Jaydee informed us the other day that we had three kids, “Jaydee, Hyrum & Kota”.  My kids LOVE their dad.  Jaydee got Sam a card with 3 guys on the front with the following shirts: #1 dad, #18 dad & #32 dad.  I explained that the shirt meant that her dad was #1, the best, well she began saying where is the card that says my dad is the only one.  See it has a one on his shirt. 

 

Busby Reunion

I love the Busby reunion. Jaydee rode the zipline a million times. She wanted to be just like Grandma Flake & Diego. (Grandma Flake rode a zip line in Costa Rica, I need to get some pictures of that.) There is unlimited ice cream, snow cones and delicious food. Plus it is fun to see all of my cousins.

Here are a few pictures of the reunion:
















































The kids were "taking a nap" when I went to check on them they had found baby powder and were making "snow" in the trailer. They got in big trouble!

May

May has passed in a blur...we definitely had our fill of graduations!
Jaydee met with the ENT and he agreed that we could take her tubes
out. So I had two choices of dates May 14th or the 21st. The 13th we
were going to be in Mesa for Vicki's graduation and the 21st was my
brother's graduation from High School. We opted for the 21st so Sam
got to stay home with kids instead of sit through a graduation.
Jaydee has not had problems with her tubes the last year so they are
out and we will know in a month if they healed properly. We are
praying they do because we do not want to deal with another surgery to
get her ear drum repaired.

Sam & I were able to take off work and go to Vicki's graduation from
ASU. It was fun to hang out with everyone, we definitely had nose
bleed seats but it was fun to be there to support Vicki and to see
President Obama speak. When we left we ran into the road block for
the motorcade and thought we would be sneaky and walk around, but we
walked all the way around aaannnnnd (Jaydee was helping me type)
anyway we got under the police tape and they told us to go back so Sam
& I had front row seats as the motorcade went by. It was a fun night
and a once in a lifetime experience. Plus it was a nice trip without
kiddos. It is amazing how little luggage we need for only the two of
us.

Jaydee's surgery went well. She had a rough day the first day, but
has bounced back well. Vandee's youngest brother Tyler graduated from
high school that night. So Sam stayed home with the kiddos.

Van's wife Marcia and son Joseph were able to get their visas in order
and come up from Chile. It was wonderful to meet them and have Van
home on leave for a few days before he is off. We will miss him, but
we are proud of his service.

Sam is very excited for summer and spent the last week of May on
projects on our house. By the time summer is over, we will have our
addition done, new windows, a new paint job, a new patio and a new
counter top. We hate being in the middle of construction, but we are
excited to have all the projects completed.

Jaydee-isms

Jaydee says the funniest things:
She fell down on the cement and scraped her knees, Sam was cleaning her up and explained to her that she needed to start walking. (The scrapes from running into the fence, the wood, etc. still haven’t healed.) She said “I tell my feet to walk but they just Run!” and began to kick her feet to show us. She runs everywhere and hence usually runs into things.

My sister Deedra is looking at houses, we stopped to walk around one that Deedra is considering. The next day Jaydee asked if Deedra wanted a new house because she didn’t like her old house. I confirmed this and then Jaydee said “We are going to buy it for her and then she (Deedra) will say Thank you and we will say You are Welcome.” I wish I did have the money…

President Obama

My sister in law, Vicki graduated from ASU last week. Sam & I had the awesome opportunity to go down and support her and listen to President Obama speak. We were sitting in the nosebleed seats, but at least we were in the shade. We watched Air Force One fly over and then the motorcade come in. The President's speech was awesome. I don't care if you agree with him or not, I would highly recommend going to one of his speeches if you ever get the chance. Some of my favorite lines were when he spoke about the controversy of receiving an honorary degree, then he turned that into the subject of his speech. It doesn't matter what our title is, how much money we make, what car we drive; our character is more important. He challenged the graduates to make this world a better place and to serve others around them. It is an awesome speech. It was neat to see the swat teams and snipers on the roof, they were in black and full gear out in the sun in the 100+ degree heat.
On the way out, we had to walk around to try to get around the barricades for the motorcade, we were crossing under the police tape when the police offers chased us back, so we were right on the corner when the motorcade and the Presidential limo went by. The guards were with him and the police escort. That was cool.

It was also neat to see Vicki graduate! And we are proud of her.

Jaydee isms

Jaydee says the funniest things:
She fell down on the cement and scraped her knees, Sam was cleaning her up and explained to her that she needed to start walking.  (The scrapes from running into the fence, the wood, etc. still haven't healed.)   She said "I tell my feet to walk but they just Run!" and began to kick her feet to show us.  She runs everywhere and hence usually runs into things. 
My sister Deedra is looking at houses, we stopped to walk around one that Deedra is considering.  The next day Jaydee asked if Deedra wanted a new house because she didn't like her old house.  I confirmed this and then Jaydee said "We are going to buy it for her and then she (Deedra) will say Thank you and we will say You are Welcome." 
I wish I did have the money...