We mAy NoT hAvE It All TogEthEr, bUT TogeThEr We hAvE It All!!

BEYONCE`... To the Left To the Left :-)

2009-06-20T10:40:00.000-07:00

I am so stoked!!! My sisters, Mom, friend Deidre, my Mom's friend and daughter are ALL going to LA to see BEYONCE!!!
My sisters and I have always promised each other, if Beyonce comes to concert WE GO.. NOT MATTER WHAT!! and WE ARE!! I am soooooo ExCiTeD! I can't wait! We found AMAZING tickets, amazing air fare and amazing hotel deals! 4 Days in LA.. AHHHhhhhhh CAN'T WAIT :-) As soon as we go I will be posting some pics for sure!!

Wyoming... I'm lovin it!

2009-06-08T13:38:00.001-07:00

We are in Wyoming now, have been for about 3 weeks.

We LOVE it! I am so happy that we decided to move.
It was deffinately the right thing for us to do.

Everything that we have decided to do has just worked out. It seems like we are absolutely destined to be here. Kyler and his Preschool, Korbin and his Day Care, me and my working, Bryon and his job, Our home, the vehicle situation for my husband & most of all our DWINDLING debt!! It is so nice being here. There are no stop lights! If its supposed to take you 5 minutes to get there, it does!

I would also like to tell my husband how freakin amazing he is! I absolutely can't wait to spend all of lives little moments with you!! I love you with all of my heart! You and I both know that we were destined to be together. We have truely found our other half! It feels so good to know that we have found True Love!
❤ YOU COMPLETE ME! ❤

WOW am I exhausted!

2009-05-13T18:54:00.001-07:00

Well here we are one week until we move! I am so anxious, excited, overwhelmed, fussy, nervous, and so sick of moving already!
Bry has been working up there since the beginning of April. He works 10 days on... then has 5 days off! Those 10 days feel like 10 years, especially when I am home with the kids 24/7 AND not to mention I am doing ALL of the packing!
I am about ready to pull out ALL of my hair. Not just a little of it- ALL of it!
I am so sick of Kyler and his 3 year old ways that I could scream!
He is so rude to Korbin and he deliberately disobeys me ALL of the time! I am so tired. I have tried to stay strong and pretend like I can do it all..... but I am starting to think that I CAN'T!

I hate calling friends and family to say.... I AM GOING OUT OF MY MIND.. CAN YOU TAKE MY KIDS!! Cause I feel like I am pauning them off onto them... and I HATE that! ( sorry about the venting)
I would love it if someone would come and get them for me for like a WEEK..ahhhhh that would be sooo nice! No kids for a week! Must be nice! There is no way that a mom could go and work for 10 days and the hubby stay home with the kids day in and day out! They would call us like 3 hours into out first day and say the famous last words....WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME??

Ok can you tell that I am a little stressed. Sorry about the venting.. thanks for listening!!! :-)

Wyoming here we come....AGAIN!!!

2009-04-07T14:36:00.000-07:00

The EAGLE BAR

My husband got an amazing job offer back up in Wyoming. He is going to be working in the Oil Field as a pumper. We are so thrilled, cause the money that he will be making he would NEVER be able to make down here at his job. We are so thankful for the opportunity to make more money when there are so many out there that are loosing their jobs. Don't know what we are doing right to be so blessed, but I won't argue!
We can't believe that we have been down here for the last 3 years already and that we are going back to Wyoming. We are going to be moving to Big Piney instead of Evanston this time. Big Piney is this little, tiny tiny, itty bitty town-- population 600 (give or take a couple of people) It is considered to be the Ice Box of the nation........................ A.K.A FREAKING FREEZING!!

It is 3 hours from Ogden, so it isn't that bad of a drive.

WE are so excited. For us CHANGE IS GOOD!!

I am really sad to leave everything that I have down here... I was the Director for Miss Roy and I had to give it up to someone else so that we could make our venture to WYO. I am going to miss all of my Hair & Nail clients from down here. I have built such amazing relationships and friendships with each and every one of them!!! You all will be missed.
When we get up there I will be working in a Salon up there though. I love to do hair & nails way too much. I wouldn't be able to NOT do it anymore!
Ok its not like I am moving to TIM BUCK TO... but pretty close. hahaha
I will still be coming down to visit and I will still have my BLOG and FACEBOOK to keep in touch with everyone. So don't get too excited.. you can't get rid of me that easily :)
I am excited for the Boys to grow up in a SMALL town. There will be so much more for them to so up there... better hunting, fishing, loads of land to bike and 4 wheel.. you know all of the MANLY things that guys do! ALso we are going to buy ALOT of land and build our own house here in the next year or 2. ALSO.. our goal is to be absolutely DEBT FREE~~~

WE CAN'T WAIT! Big Piney here we come!

2009-03-20T18:21:00.000-07:00

If any of you are interested please let me know. I love Hosting Party's and we do a new thing called a Basket Party.... its where you take a Basket of all of the Scents and you don't have to have a party. You can take em to work, friends houses, neighbors..etc!! It is a really nice way to get Free items without having a Party.

Please leave a comment with your email address if you are interested and I will get in touch with you and figure which Party works out best for you!!! :)

I'm getting too OLD for this

2009-03-15T08:18:00.000-07:00

I had the opportunity to go to a DANCE WORKSHOP where some of the Dancers from So You Think You Can Dance where the teachers!! It was so awesome......
The day started out with the introductions of the professionals.. TWITCH, GEV & KATEE!!!!
We split into GROUPS there were 3 groups young, not too young, and FrEaKiN OLD!! hahaha
Ok not really but there were 3 Groups and I was in the Advanced Pro ( I think that I was thinking that I used to be) It totally kicked my butt!
Gev was our groups first teacher.. His dance was a really fun slow Hip Hop Dance. That was a really fun dance!
Then we split for lunch. By that time I was ready for a NAP!! :)
As I was there and we had only been dancing for about 2 hours I realized
I'm getting way too OLD for this!!
When Lunch was done we came back to our room and KATEE taught us her dance! For those of you who know me I am a DANCE- A -HOLIC!!! So to be in the same room as KATEE was FaBuLoUsLy AMAZING! Her dance was amazing. I love her Contemporary Style. I just stared at her for the first little while thinking.. is this for real?!?!
So after Katee's class the last one in was TWITCH! He is the freakin Bomb Diggity!! He has the cutest personality and not to mention he is adorable! His class was this fun Thrashy hard core HIP HOP. I LOVE Hip Hop. It was such a great Dance~
So now the day is over and I am ready to fall down and DIE!!
What an amazing experience. I miss Dance sooooo much. I am so HAPPY that they offer these types of classes for us OLD folk to be able to feed out DANCE addictions!!!

What a BeaUtiFul DaY!!!!

2009-03-03T16:43:00.001-08:00

I am loving the weather! We took full advantage of it! Played for hours in the sun. I am sooo sick of keeping the kids cooped up in the House! I am going crazy for some space and I know that they were too. We had so much fun. Korbin was loving ll of the room that he had with his walker and Kyler had fun riding his bike and playing with his monster truck!!
I am so ready for the SpRinG!

2009-03-02T07:45:00.000-08:00

Wowsers.... finally a new entry!

This year is already passing with flying colors! I can't believe that it is already March. There are soooo Many things that have gone on since the begining of the year. Let me catch you up!

January..... KORBIN turned 1 !!!

February....
Celine Dion concert was finally here!! She is sooo freakin amazing I can't stand it!

The Concert was amazing! Her voice is UNREAL.. i could listen to her sing live everyday.. for the rest of my life. ok I know that's a bit much but she sure can SING!!
I can't believe how fast the last couple of months have past! I hope that you all have had a great start to 2009.

Watch Bands..

2009-02-10T12:29:00.000-08:00

Love these ones.. they are my favorite!!

Ones For Valentines Day

Ok... so I took on a little HobBy

I m having so much fun making them for myself, that I decided to start making more of them to sell if any of you want some!

If there is a certain color that you want let me know and I can make one for ya :)
e mail me your e mail or cell phone # and I will give you more details on the price and the colors that you want... mandygaston@yahoo.com

2009-01-18T17:25:00.000-08:00

We went to Walking With the Dinosaurs... It was soooo COOL!!! Kyler absolutely loved it!

Time flies way too fast

2009-01-18T08:10:00.000-08:00

Ok so I am like the WORST blogger ever! I really love this whole bloggin thing but I feel like you guys really don't care when I sit here and make long posts. I love going through and reading everyone else, but I feel like mine are a so boring!
So I can't believe that it is already mid January and I haven't posted anything in a long time. I have been so busy working my 2 jobs that I haven't even had time to breath!! I am trying to figure out how these weeks keep going by faster and faster every single week.
Korbin my baby will be one on Friday Jan 23rd and I am FReaKinG OUT!!!!!! I swear that I was just pregnant with him! ahhhhhhh He is growing up so fast. All of the little milestones are being reached and it is so crazy. He has 8 teeth and is crawling and getting into everything.... I have a really cute story about milestones...
I was in my bedroom upstairs and Kyler came up and said, " MOM have you ever seen baby Korbin go up the stairs?" and I looked at him like.. uhhhh NO. and he said "MOM come look"!! So i came out of my room and sure enough he had already come up 10 stairs and a plank!!! I about died. I haven't ever seen him crawl up the stairs and he surpassed all of them with like 2 more stairs left. CRazy LITtle BOy!!!!

2009-01-10T11:57:00.000-08:00

Ok so i know its a little late for adding our New Years party pics. We had so much fun with Nicole and her cute family. We all went over to my parents house and played Guitar Hero and drank and ate and had Lots of fun!!!
We for sure brought 2009 in with a bang!!

2008-12-16T12:23:00.000-08:00

So here we are 8 days away from Christmas and I am sooooo thankful for everything that we have! I see so many people loosing their jobs and families being torn apart from financial burdens & people loosing their homes (left & right)... and what I am the most fortunate and thankful for is my WONDERFUL HUSBAND!! I can always count on him for anything! Over the last month, I have had to get another part time job. So, on mon.. wed.. fri.. sat I work at Tanning Oasis in roy... & on tues.. thurs I do hair and nails. I have been so exhausted and soooo busy but.. I am thankful that my husband when I am working he always has the boys fed, bathed, books read and in bed before i get home... NOW THAT IS AMAZING, if I might say so myself!! We are so fortunate that we at least have jobs!!! Without mine or without his income it would be just devistating for our family!
So now with Christmas just around the corner... we are trying to help another family out! We can't do much but I would rather teach my kids that GIVING is so much more important than RECEIVING!! So hopefully with what we are able to do and with help from a couple other families.... we will help them to at least HAVE a CHRISTMAS!!! Cause as of right now... they aren't! But to me the the price of having to get your kids just about everything that they are asking for is.... OVERRATED!! We need to go back to when just a few presents under the Tree was wonderful and just being together as a FAMILY is all you need. So this year we are just getting the bare essencials and we are together... THATS ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Don't take your Family and Loved ones for granted this year.... cause thats all that most of us have!!

My BoYz Gettin jiggy wit it!!

2008-12-07T12:22:00.001-08:00

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Christmas Edition of getting to know your friends :)

2008-11-19T11:41:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this entire post and paste into a new post that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you......'Tis the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper for sure!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Fake... the only way to go! Especially the pre lit ones
3. When do you put up the tree? It's already up!!! ( ya i know.. way too early) But we just love this time of the year!!
4. When do you take the tree down? After New Years
5. Do you like eggnog? Yah I love it.. We make this Eggnog Shake (mmmmm)
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A pair of dance sneaker dance shoes, I wanted them sooo bad! I was so stinkin excited to open that gift!
7. Do you have a nativity scene? NO, Never Have
8. Hardest person to buy for? Bryon's Parents!!
9. Easiest person to buy for? Bryon and the kids
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail!! ( do people really e mail them...? LAME!!)
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? When Bryon went to Gartsports and thought that I

would like this sweater. As you can tell I hated it! We took it back!
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The GRINCH who stole Christmas ( The Jim Carrey version)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? When I get the time to.. usually after Thanksgiving
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Ummm... no ;)

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Anything wit the Family.. we don't really have an eating tradition
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree ? Clear
17. Favorite Christmas song? I Love them all!
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We normally go visit my in laws. We have been going to Bear lake to one of their condos. So much fun!
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Who can't
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Open jammies on Christmas Eve with my Family ( we draw names and then do jammies for them) and then the rest of them on Christmas morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? The fact that Christmas has become so commercialized and people have forgotten what it is really about… amen Katie
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? our colors are Red and White
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? We don't have a fav. Its whatever is the easiest!

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Clothes and a HUGE money tree 9 do they make these anywhere?)
26. Who are you going to tag for this Christmas questionaire??

Sarah (johnson) Quilter, Cheloni ,Becky Wilberg,Becky Jorgensen, Tara Payne, Melanie (jolley), Tiffany Brian, Tara Weaver, Alisha (Vandenberg) Wickern & Denise (Embley)

CELINE DION...

2008-11-17T07:46:00.000-08:00

I am OBSESSED with CELINE DION!! Last October 2007 we heard that she was going to be coming to the Energy Solutions Arena, they said that the tickets were going on SALE In November 2007 (yes last year). SO the day that they went on sale, no the minute that they went on sale... we bought tickets!!! ( we were sitting @ the computer just waiting and counting down the mintes that we were able to buy the tickets)

So now here it is a whole year later when the concert is.. NOVEMBER 22 2008 and we just heard that the CONCERT IS POSTPONED.... POSTPONED?? Are you kidding me!!!??

I have waited a whole year and now we have to wait until Feb 22 2009!! I am so angry! We have 8 people going and we were all not too excited about the news!!! But there isn't anything that we can do about it! So anyways... we have to wait till Feb to hear that

AMAZING VOICE.

I went when she was in VEGAS!! She is UNREAL! My cute Hubby suprised me with tickets back in 2004! When she came out on stage I cried.. yes I said cried. I just love her!

So I was so excited to go and see her again! So when we finally are able to go to the Concert I will for sure be Bloggin!!

Need your Hair or Nails Done??

2008-11-13T00:00:00.000-08:00

I do hair and nails and I have done them now for 3 years! I love it!!

So if any of you want your hair and nails done

Let Me Know!! I am gonna have some deals for the holidays!!!

Here is a little Nail Salon Humor!!! :)

Going Private

2008-11-07T08:01:00.000-08:00

There are so many people who have seen the Ksl Investigation if you haven't i have posted the link. I am all for posting my children and all of the fun things that we do and like to do as a family. If you would still like to view my family and all of our fun times please let me know!!!

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Our Little Monkey

2008-11-02T08:52:00.000-08:00

Kyler as a Monkey.. he was a pretty cute little monkey!!

Ok so Halloween was really fun this year with Kyler!! He was so excited to go Tirck or Treating!! He got his own costume on and got his bag and he was ready to roll. Korbin stayed behind and Grandma and Pa Pa's house while we took Kyler out.

Bryon is still recovering from a Hernia operation.. so my dad and I took Kyler around my parents neighborhood. He walked really slow from house to house and wanted my dad or I to walk him to the doors. He didn't want to walk to the doors by himself.. which was really cute. There were a couple of houses that let him pick his own candy out of the bowl so he thought that he was pretty cool. Then there was one house that they let him choose from the bowl and he grabbed like 4 candies.... they lady goes " oh oh oh just one!" So Kyler pit the others back and it was really funny! We had gone to about 13 houses and then he said "mom I want you to hold me, my feet hurt!!" So then I carried him to about 6 other houses and I was over it by then so we went home cause it had started to rain. So I gave hin a piggy back all the way home!!

When we got back to my parents house my mom had made some homemade chilli!! It was really good! It our tradition for Halloween.

Normally Kyle is here for Halloween but he decided to stay in Orem for his own Halloween fun with Mesa Vista!! So after about an hour of handing out candy we were really missing Kyle, cause he is the one that normally hands out the candy!! Everyone was asking where he was.. He is doing FABULOUS down in Orem! He just loves it and we are so happy that he does!

I can't believe that Halloween is over and Thanksgiving and Christmas are just right around the corner!!! CRAZY

Well I hope that you all had a Happy and safe Halloween! :)

and here is Korbin... I decided this year not to get him a costume.

here he is playing in his Jumperoo before going over to Grandma and PaPa's

Pumpkin Decorating... yeah!!

2008-10-12T15:20:00.000-07:00

We had such a fun time today decorating PUMPKINS!!!

Bryon's is the Cat and mine is the Witch ( his is much better than mine. I hate to admit it!) We have so much fun together! We went bowling this morning with my family cause Kyle was home for the weekend and then came home and decorated the Pumpkins. We also had Kyler do one his is a Spider that is made from pegs ( like the Light Brite pegs.. from when we were younger) Its cool but we don't have a picture of it because we didn't have any batteries for the flash light that goes in it.
Last year our, ok well my pumkin decorating was a disaster!!!! I was carving my pumpkin and... 3 hours later i finished I was sooo proud of my Frankenstein. So I walked into my room and put the tea lights in it and came in to show my hubby and I tripped over one of Kylers toys..... NOOOOooooOOOOoooo!!!!
The pumpkin flew out of my hands, flew through the air and S P L A T!!! All over my kitchen floor! It was a pumpkin decorating day that I will never forget!!!

Here is Kyler displaying them for us

Here is Bryon's

Here is mine