Work

Justin has been incredibly busy the last two and half weeks with work. He is working on helping launch a new product for his company and the entire logging industry. The first of this product was sold and delivered the Monday of Thanksgiving week. Unfortunately it was not quite ready to go and has had some major issues.

 

These problems have caused Justin to have to spend a lot of time away from home and on the road driving. The logging operation that bought the product is about four hours south of us. It hasn't been a fun two and a half weeks, but through it all, Justin has kept an amazing attitude.

 

His positive attitude about life and work is one of the characteristics I love most about my husband. He was recalling a story last night when he got home. The other person who has been going with him to work on the product was really frustrated on Monday this week. They have been working 12 -14 hour days for 10 days on this thing.

 

Justin said he told the guy, "Well we are like Lewis and Clark. They set out to find a passage way to the West and were not successful. However, they discoverd alot of great things and had good things to report when they got back. We were sent to fix this product, and haven't. But we have found out a lot of important things along the way and have much insight to share when we get back. I would say our work has still been successful, just in a different way."

 

Wow, what an incredible perspective. Grateful to have that type of person to be married to and to be the father of our children.

Justin and Ruth Blazzard

LEON

 

A couple of Christmas's ago, my older sister gave me these blocks.

When I pulled them out of the box to look at them I had a major blonde moment or myabe you would call it red neck moment, 

I exclaimed,

"They spell LEON."

Everyone laughed.

Then it hit me, they spell NOEL.

 

 

Justin left before five in the morning on Monday this week.

He made sure that I would remember him that day.

This is what I woke up to that morning.

Thanks babe for the laugh.

We LOVE Christmas time.

Justin and Ruth Blazzard

Thankful Jar

Each year Justin and I do a Thankful Jar during the month of November.

We use a mason jar with a lid and little slips of colorful paper.

Each day we are supposed to write down one thing we were thankful for that day. At the end of the month we take an evening and read them together.

It is always fun to see what the other has written. I usually have to do more than one a day.

Justin does it when he is home, but this November has been busy for him with traveling for work.

Here are the things we were grateful for this November.

 

Justin's Entries:

The Savior and His Atonement

The Holidays

Sunday Naps

Being Home With My Wife

Spending Time With Family

The Scriptures

I Am Thankful To Become A Dad

Clean Clothes

Cake

Cookies

Joseph Smith

For A Good Job

A Wonderful Wife Who Is Capable And Willing

To Do Alot of Things

Our Baby

Prayer

When I Can Feel Our Baby Move

 

Ruth's Entries:

Indoor Heating

Justin x4

(I put his name in there four times)

Justin's Foot Rubs

The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ

Finding a Maternity Dress

Sunshine In The Fall Timex2

Our Baby Girlx2

All That We Have Accomplished In 2012

Buttons

Lazy Saturdays

Little Baby Kicks

Time

Our Apartment

Cell Phones x2

Good Night Sleep

Crispt Cold Air

A Strong Body

My Heavenly Father

Movies

Sleeping In

Basketball

Good Books To Read

My Immune System

Love

The Scripturesx2

Christmas

My Friends

My Callings

Prophets & Apostles

My Right to Vote

Sewing Machinex2

My Mother- In-Law

A Car

My Mom & Dad

Colors

Having A Body That Can Carry A Baby

Our Warm Home

Waking Up With Justin In The Morning

My Grandparents

My Mom

Stake Conference

Garrett & Nicole

 

 



Justin and Ruth Blazzard

Check Out My Niece and Nephew's School

Greenhouse effect: Willowcreek students smooth transition to new lunch program by growing own produce - www.kivitv.com

My niece and nephew are the ones with the red hair. This is pretty cool and had to share.

Justin and Ruth Blazzard

Thanksgiving Weekend

I have no pictures from Thanksgiving weekend this year, but it was wonderful. The week started off on not such a great note. Justin went to install the first sale of the new product he has been working on and the product did not work correctly. He was four hours away from the shop he works out of, so it made fixing the problem very difficult. He was supposed to be home Tuesday evening, but didn't make it home until Wednesday. This bumped our traveling plans to Thursday morning. I was grateful to have him home Wednesday, and he was glad to be home but was not happy about how the week had gone thus far.

We set out Thursday morning to Ontario. The sun was out and the roads were beautiful as we drove the six hours. Thanksgiving dinner was yummy as always and there were 31 people in attendance at my parents home. This made for a tight squeeze at the tables, but we all survived. Friday and Saturday were filled with shopping, games, movies, conversations and relaxation.

Highlight of the weekend was just getting to be with my parents and siblings and see my nieces and nephes, and of course the pie. My family always goes a little overboard on making pies for Thanksgiving. Then we eat it the rest of the weekend for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not healthy, I know, but it is yummy! Justin went black Friday shopping and we actually got most of our Christmas shopping done.

Things that frustrated me about the weekend- We both got colds and are still fighting them off, BOO!

It was a wonderful weekend that went by quickly. As Justin put it though when we arrived home on Sunday, "It is so hard to leave, but always great to get home."

We are now looking forward to our first Christmas season in the Portland area.

Justin and Ruth Blazzard

Trail Blazer Game

The weekend of November 10th and 11th my parents came into town. My mom actually was here a couple of days before that for a school board conference the state hosts each year. She was able to get discounted tickets to a Trail Blazer game and decided to get them for Justin for his birthday. My dad drover over Saturday to go to the game with us and then my mom rode home with him on Monday. It was a wonderful weekend.

This was the first time that my parents and Justin and I have spent and extended period of time together just the four of us. The game was a lot of fun.  It was pretty close the first half but the Blazers were ahead at half time. The second half the Spurs came back and won by 3 points. We had pretty good seats and ate lots of popcorn (my dad had bought a bottomless popcorn tub). We ate dinner before the game at Qdoba, a yummy Mexican chain restaurant.

My parents Bruce and Renae- Love them!

 My mom would not love me posting this picture, but it cracks me up. The two previous pics we took her eyes were closed so I told her to keep them open, she did. She doesn't really look like this.

 

 Better pic, but blurry.

 

 

The Blazers!

Sunday we went to church and spent the day talking, playing games, eating and listening to the pouring rain. I am so grateful for my parents. They are such good examples of loving your spouse, and how to treat other people. I really enjoyed the one on one time with them and look forward to maybe seeing them at the same time again next year.

Justin and Ruth Blazzard

Justin's 27th Birthday

Happy 27th birthday to my dear sweet husband!  We both can't believe that he is this old. To celebrate we went to a really neat home town pizza parlor. They have the biggest sausage you have ever seen on a pizza. Then we went and watched 'Wreck It Ralph.' Super cute and fun movie, we even saw it 3D! Lastly was the birthday cake.

Justin always requests a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I decided to spice it up a bit this year and do a two layer cake. This is the best cake I have ever frosted, meaning it was the first I didn't have crumbs in the frosting.

We are headed to a Trail Blazer game this week as well for his birthday with my parents.

Great day and a wonderful man. Glad we got to celebrate it together.

Justin and Ruth Blazzard