Copy Cat

Yes I am a copy cat, but as soon as I see something good and easy I can't help but want to use it too. I am talking about Bloggers new 'Hello' feature.

Yesterday I took Jaida to Canyon View Park and let her play in the ice cold water - she had a blast. That night we watched Monty's softball team win by two in overtime. I'm trying to get rested for a LONG weekend. Friday: Cedar Canyon; Saturday: Zion Canyon; Sunday and Monday: Moab.


Grandma Sitthichai and me at my graduation.

LOTR, New Baby

Yesterday we bought Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. We only had a two hours until 24 came on, so we just watched the special features while eating dinner. Then went and visited some neighbors that just had a baby. Alexis was about 6lbs. I was holding her, and then Jaida wanted to so we sat down on the coach and Jaida held her for a little while. She wanted to pat her head and touch her nose and hands. I said, "Let's give her back to her mom, okay?" Jaida wraps her arm around Alexis tighter and says, "No." So then I tell her to give her to her dad, so we get up and Jaida walks over to Monty, wanting me to give Alexis to him. It was pretty cute - I was glad to see her treating the baby nice. I'm sure she'd love a new baby as long as she still got all the attention. :)

I'm sorry, ant

Jaida loves ants. She loves to sit there and watch them; she loves to smash them and say, “Got ya.” One day she picked one up and said, “Look mom.” I didn’t know what she had so I looked and she had it smashed in-between her two little fingers. I said, “Oh Jaida you killed it, you smashed the ant. Go throw it away.” She looked at it and said, “I sowwy, I sowwy.” Then she put it up to her cheek and said I’m sorry again.

On Saturday my whole family got together – except Arie and Mike. We had a big dinner and had Eric’s parents and Monty’s parents come over. I was in charge of making cookies, but we didn’t have any brown sugar. So I went to the neighbor’s house, Bill and Irene Gray and chatted for almost 45minutes. I left when my mom called, however I didn’t mind the visit or the peace and quiet at their house.

Sunday my class was in charge of sharing time. The theme for the month was responsibilities in our families. We decided, well I decided that love/charity is a responsibility that family members have toward each other, so I got six hats to represent mom – straw sun hat, dad - baseball cap, brother - beanie, sister – a Jamaican knit cap I’d had for years, grandma – pioneer bonnet, and grandpa – a golf hat. The kids thought it was the funniest thing in the world. We sang Here We Are Together while we passed the hats around. After the song, whoever was wearing the hats came up and told something they could do to show love for that person. Then Kurtis would choose a child to come up, pick a service out of a bag, and have to act it out for everyone to guess. We just alternated activities and had a really great time.

Reunion Frustrations

Yesterday I got a call from Amber; she is on the 10 year high school reunion committee with me and Rachelle. Our reunion is June 19, so we asked everyone to have their money in by May 20 – tomorrow. Amber said that so far she’s only gotten money from 10 people! I think she was feeling bad about it, but it just made me mad. I feel like we have been putting a lot of time and effort into the reunion and would like more than 20 people to show up. My husband works with one of my classmates and he told Monty that his wife doesn’t want to go because she’s five years younger than us. First of all it’s his reunion, not hers, and why would we ask how old she was or care? Yes, there will be people that will not be persuaded, but I think for the most part if people were doubtful but still went they would be glad. Our class is not big, only 88 graduates, but if I need to, I will call each one of them.

I was also assigned to do our family reunion in August - hopefully that will be easier!

Bryce Canyon

I met my family in Bryce Canyon on Friday. I forgot how pretty it was, and was glad for all the lookouts. I made Jaida wear a kiddie leash because she loves to run off and she loved standing by the edge. After a few hours of wearing it she started crawling on her hands and knees and barking - so I took it off. Waiting for the horse ride to end I put ET, Nyah, and Jaida in my car. I fed them and let them play around inside. They were completely happy, and so was everyone else that didn't have to chase them around the lodge. Jeep thought Bryce Canyon was prettier than the Grand Canyon, and my grandma, who has been there a few times before still enjoyed it.

Graduation Night/Funny Words

About 6pm Fielding's and the Anderson's were the only one's left at my house. Monty, Shay and Emmett decided to go buy a big gas grill and food. When they got back they had a disassembled grill in a box, and no food. So while Monty and Shay put the grill together Julie and Emmett went to the store to get food. They said the guy at Wal-mart told them it would only take about 15 minutes to put the grill together. Well an hour later we decided to heat up hotdogs in the microwave for the kids, and an hour after that and after about 10 arguments between Monty and his dad, the grill was finally ready. Emmett did all the grilling - hotdogs, hamburgers, and fries. At 9pm or so that food was the best I'd tasted in a long time.

Misty stayed busy giving me a manicure, and Julie and Judy pedicures. At 10pm Monty said, "Okay, it's my turn for a pedicure." But, being the mean person I am I wouldn't let Misty give him one. They took about 45 minutes and everyone was tired and just wanted to go to sleep.

Jaida was asleep in about 45 seconds. The next day Julie and Emmett left about 11am and Jaida laid in the rocking chair with her milkit(chocolate milk) and fell asleep. It was a good but tiring weekend.

I need to write more funny words that Jaida says:
(Aunt)Misty.........teeties
chocolate milk......milk it
drink...............drink it
my spot.............my box
crap................frap
rabbit..............raddit
go outside..........go home

Graduation Day

Since I stayed up late cleaning the house I did not want to get up when my alarm started ringing at 6am. After getting myself ready I had to get Jaida ready. At about 8am we finally left the house and headed toward SUU's business building. Of the graduates standing around I didn't see any of my friends, so we took pictures and stood around for awhile. Ching found me, so we took more pictures. She still wasn't sure if she'd be able to graduate. Monty, Jaida, and Jeep left to find Tara and came back about 20 minutes later - just in time to see us walk off behind all the other colleges. The procession was headed by the SUU bagpip band followed by all the faculty members and then each college joining the procession. The faculty lined up on each side of the sidewalk, clapping as we filed down toward the Centrum's tunnel. The tunnel led us into the Centrum and we walked single file toward our seats. Luckily right before the ceremony began I saw my whole family walk in and sit down. I waved until they finally saw me.

We listened to President Bennion, a student speaker, and then Mike Leavitt gave the commencement address. Afterward, I found my family and we went outside to take pictures. We ate lunch at the Chinese Buffet - and luckily they gave us a room to ourselves. When lunch was over some people went to the park with the kids and others went back to my house. I had a headache so I went back to the house.

At 1:30pm I was back at the Centrum lined up in the tunnel. We filled out another form with our address, and then I phonetically spelled my name out so they would be able to pronounce it correctly. We lined up and marched in. We shook the faculty's hands and waved to our families in the crowd. We listened to two student speakers and then they started lining us up to get our diplomas. Besides writing it, I was able to tell them how to pronounce my name. "Tanya Sitthichai Fielding." I walked across the stage and could hear my family shouting and clapping for me - I think Emmett was mostly who I could hear. :) I stood by the Dean of the Business department with my diploma in hand and had my pictures taken. Then we stepped off the stage to have our picture taken again.

The whole awarding of diploma's only lasted about an hour and afterward I found my family again and we went outside to take pictures. The wind was blowing so hard I kept losing my hat.

We all went to my house and relaxed for a bit. My aunt and uncle gave me a small gas grill to take camping and a beautiful jewelry set. Then I got money from my mom and dad - which I went and bought Photoshop CS with, money from Shay and Judy, money from Jim and Belinda, and money from my Uncle Ray.

It was an awesome day for me!

Forgetting to feed Jeep and Jaida

Friday night was the President's Reception and Buffet. I got tickets for me and Monty and Jeep said that she would watch Jaida. Jeep also wanted me to wear her dress she had brought from Thailand. It was so beautiful - it was a chinese-style dress. If I wasn't 3.5 months pregnant it would have fit perfectly, but my tummy poked out a bit more than I was used to seeing.

The dinner was so good. It was almost like having a home-cooked meal. Plus, they had a dessert table with all kinds of pies. Monty went and got me banana cream that ended up being lemon so I went and got me a piece of pumpkin pie. It was so yummy!!

When we got home Jeep was heating up some leftover spaghetti. It was then that I'd realized that we didn't tell her what to feed Jaida or get her food or anything. I felt pretty bad. And at the dinner when I was cutting my turkey my knife slipped knocking some of the salad (and dressing) onto my dress - it missed the napkin by a centimeter.

Jaida calls Jeep "Suzie" - she must think that Jeep is Suzanne. But when Jeep says, "My name is Suzie" Jaida will say, "No, Jeep." So sometimes she'll call her SuzieJeep.

My Grandma and Cousin

Sunday night my grandma Somchai and cousin Jeep arrived in SLC from Thailand. Wednesday me, Monty and Jaida went up to my parents house to visit. It was so great to see them I haven't seen my grandma in two years, and I haven't seen Jeep for five years. My grandma is in her 80's, but you would never guess it. Jeep is 25 and a couple of months away from her master's degree is business. She goes to a beautiful university in Thailand, Assumption University. You can see campus pictures here: https://student.au.edu/Bang_Na/index.html.

They are very generous and had brought very beautiful gifts from everyone. After an awesome Thai dinner we had to leave, but Jeep decided to come with us and stay until Saturday. Thursday we drove up to Cedar Breaks - well the rode was closed so we kept driving to Duck Creek. We stopped at some snow and took pictures of Monty making a snow angel. Then we drove out to the Parowan Gap where we looked at all the Indian writings. The wind was blowing so hard that you couldn't see past the gap - it was just huge dust storm. So we stayed in the car. When we got home me and Jeep did a little grocery shopping and then she made us a wonderful spaghetti dinner. She was very worried that we wouldn't like it, but - gin aroy mak!

Backyard pool

I haven't posted forever, but have thought about it everyday. :) Last Saturday was so nice so I had Monty get Jaida a little pool. We took it to Misty's house and just put it in the driveway. The water was so cold that no one wanted to get in it. Sunday I filled up the pool in our backyard with hot water from inside and cold water from the hose. She was having fun and I would have stayed out there with her but the smell of dog pee was just too overpowering! The next time I looked out there she had the hose and was watering the dirt - where the dogs use the bathroom. Monty had just cleaned the backyard on Saturday, but it was still REALLY digusting for me to watch her walk on the dirt. I told her to get back on the sidewalk and when she wouldn't I turned off the water. That made her mad, so she got back in her pool and played for awhile. I looked outside again and she was back on the dirt. This time when I told her to come back she ran over to some poop and was yelling, "Go away" to the flies! Yuck! I didn't have my shoes on and refused to go get her so I just had to watch her yell at the flies to "go away." As soon as I got her onto the cement I picked her up and put her in the bathtub. I knew I shouldn't have gotten a pool.