Marriage?

So, this is my name tag. We are doing a loan thing at work and we all have these tag-ons to wear. I just picked on without looking at it and put it on. Well, my sister saw it and said, "Megan, no wonder you want to get married so bad. You are advertising it at work". Then, I looked at my name tag and figured out what she meant. Haha.  I am ready to get married. Dating is stupid though. The guys you like don't like you back and the guys you don't like want you. In fact, there is one guy. He is cool. We probably text once in a while. I haven't seen him in months. Well, the other night he text me "I love you". I mean, what am I supposed to do with that? So, I just ignored it.

Then, there is my 'open engagement'. This guy Joe always calls me when he is intoxicated. I haven't seen him in months and we really only talk on the weekends...if my phone is not on silent. He calls me when he is drunk and when I told him I might move to St. George, he asked me to marry him. Well, the next weekend he asked me again. Then, last weekend he asked me if he needs to "buy a wedding ring and plan a marriage". ha ha...that one made me laugh for hours! Then, this weekend, he asked me to go ring shopping with him. My response is always, "ask me when you are sober". Then, his friends call me and ask if we are engaged. Then Joe says he wants to know if we are. Ugh.

I don't need a relationship with someone when they are drunk. I need someone to take care of me. I need someone with a similar lifestyle. I just need a good man in my life. I sure hope he comes around soon:) Maybe one day someone will see my 'advertisement' and ask me:)

Where is Memphis?

So, Memphis is kinda like my shadow right now. It is cute. The kids are my favorite at a certain age and Memphis is at that age right now. In fact, she will tell people that "Megan is my best friend". It cute. So, she keeps asking me to take her on the 'choo choo train' (Trax). We rode trax a little bit ago, and every day since, she asks me about it. So, the other day she asked me if we could ride it, I said we couldn't because I had to go to work. Well, somewhere she got confused and thought she was going to work with me. So, I came upstairs and my mom asked me if Memphis was in the car with me, and I told her she wasn't. My mom said that we needed to find her. (Don't worry, she was only 'missing' for a minute). So, I went out to my car and there she was. She was ready to go to work with her best friend. Haha. (I usually keep a car seat in my car since I often take a kid with me somewhere)

Cute

I love all of my brother's and sister's kids, but this is probably one of my favorite pictures. Chad has had an ear ache for a while now. He found out about those wax candles that suck the ear wax out of your ear. So, he tried it the other day. Cody just stared at his dad. I thought it was cute. This picture wasn't even posed for:)

Grave Digger vs Traxxas

Every year when we go to monster jam in Vegas, Grayson and Chad love to watch the Traxxas cars. Chad really wants one, but due to his stinginess, he probably wont ever buy one. Grayson is obsessed. He talks about them all the time. He even got a Traxxas magazine and just sits and looks at it. He is nuts. Anyway, this weekend, my sister bought a hot wheels Grave Digger. I guess we will see what wins out: Grave Digger or Traxxas.

Bad News Comes in Threes

Well, my last post talked about our new baby girl. She is cute and SUPER little. Then, my dad broke his elbow. Now, even though a baby is NOT bad news, a hospital visit still takes place, So, we thought that the baby and my dad's broken arm would be our TWO things and then we would just have one more accident. Well, we were wrong. The baby doesn't count for a hospital visit. A week after my dad broke his elbow, Boston broke his wrist. He is in a cast now. So, there are our three hospital visits...wrong again. My mom was in the hospital last night with kidney stones. So, we have a broken arm, a broken wrist, and a mom laid up in bed waiting for the last two kidney stones to pass.  So, we have met our quota in hospital visits.

Baxter Update

Well, there is never a dull moment at the Baxter's house. This week has be especially exciting. First, my dad fell at work and brok his elbow. Poor guy. Because workmans comp is involved, he cant get it fixed yet....so maybe next week.

 

 

 

The BEST news is that we welcomed a new baby in our home. Precott Michelle Baxter-Maynard was born April 19th. She is 18 inches long and 6 pounds 6 ounces. She sure is cute.

 

Monster Jam 2013

In March Chad, Cody, Grayson, and I went to Las Vegas for monster jam. It was a fun trip, but we had some hiccups as well:/  Our hotel room didn't work out so we had some tired boys and grown-ups walking around Vegas. Luckily I had a friend that let us go sleep at he house. Ugh, what an ordeal! Then we drove to St. George after monster jam and didn't get there until 3 AM. Not the best vacation for sleep. Oh, and I had a paper to work on every time we sat down. But, it was fun.

We have to get our faces painted. Grayson was a zombie. He was SO cute. He even pretended to be a zombie. Since there were not any people there, they had me get my face done. Cody got spider man and he LOVED it! Cody is really in to super heroes.

The very first thing we do when we go to monster trucks is RIDE THE MONSTER TRUCKS. It is SO fun! This year was probably the funnest ride we went on. There is one truck called 'Sargent Smash'. Last year he was fun..this year he was awesome. If I didn't have my seat belt...I would have died. It was awesome.

 Michelle loves this picture of Gray. 

 This year Robosaurus was there again. He is pretty fun to watch. We saw him two years ago too. Chad was excited to have Cody see Robosaurus for the first time.

 If you look closely, you can see "the Baxter Family' on the back of the truck. You sign your name on the  truck and then the truck gets run over by a monster truck.

 Out of everything that monster jam has to offer, Traaxes is probably the coolest thing for Grayson and Chad. They could watch Traaxes forever! Grayson got this magazine and just wanted to look at it. He kept calling it his 'book'.  He would sit in the stroller and look at it. He still talks about it almost every day...so we now call it 'the T word' at our house. He is not allowed to talk about it.

There is a new truck this year....the Zombie Monster Truck. The set-up they had was AWESOME.  They had all these fake zombies that were super creepy and then zombie girls would take pictures with you. It was neat.

 They have guys walking around in suites. This one is just a dog for the monster mutts. They also have ones with giant heads. So, we took pictures.

 Grayson wanted to do this zip-line. So, I said if he paid for it, he could. He loved it! Cody wanted try it too, but he was too small. He was so sad. It broke my heart. So...we went and got ice cream.

I just thought the little El Torro Loco was funny. Haha.

This shows our seats. They were pretty good. Then, this picture shows that dad raced son...and son won.