Where did the time go??

Lots has been happening lately, stresses, kids growing up, buying a new(used) van, and moving into a bigger/better place!

Now to back up... Lots has happened since I posted last...

1- We got hit on Father's day on our way to family dinner, no one was hurt! Squirt had fun telling Grandma Rosie that "The car just got broke, the wheels they just got broke" He had fun running around with Grandpa Rosie while we filled out the police report and called our insurance company. In the end the other guys insurance deemed our car "Totaled" (hence the above mention of getting a new(used) van.

2 - our kids our growing up. Squirt turns 4 tomorrow and Peanut turns 1 next month. Squirt is so excited, so last night we made pink (yes I said pink) cupcakes with Blue frosting (yes that took lots of convincing from me) He has a birthday party with friends at Grandma's tomorrow and E & B are making him a Spiderman cake(thanks E for doing this before your carpel tunnel surgery) Peanut now has 8 teeth and come next week he will be on the toddler side at daycare not the baby side. Peanut loves to eat things that he can feed himself - Cheerios, Fruit Loops, Graham Crackers, Crackers, Puffs. And Guess who can walk now!! Yep Peanut can walk not perfectly yet but he can take many unassisted steps. At Grandma Rosie's he walked from her couch to her TV while eating a Graham Cracker!

3 - we bought a used van - if you need a good used vehicle let me know and I can give you the name of the place we went. They are awesome and when we had battery problems a few days after we bought it they got us a new battery. Thanks E for the referral.

4 - yes we are moving to a huge 3 bedroom apt and it is under $1000.00 a month. We are really blessed right now and are looking forward to moving (it is happening fast but we will make it.) We will miss our current ward and they will miss us as we are leaving them with 2 big holes (my wonderful husband is the executive secretary and I am the 2nd counselor in the primary) but we will be back for Squirt to do the program with his friends in the ward.


5-we got to see my sister-in-law and nieces yesterday for about an hour and Squirt and the Princess had so much fun playing. It was hard leaving for daycare/work.

Pictures of this weekend to come soon.

Lots going on lately...

I know, I know many of you are saying "Finally she is updating her blog" so here it goes.

The last month and a half has been crazy, hard, stressful and fun. Many things have happened...

Peanut has 2 teeth fully in and 4 more trying to come in. He can pull him self to standing on anything and is starting to walk along the furniture and anything else he can hold on to. He is jabbering more and loves to be near his brother when ever he can (Squirt doesn't usually like that) Peanut is also following in his brothers footsteps he has fought about 6 ear infections so far. Here is to hopeing they just go away and he doesn't need tubes too.

Squirt is having lots of fun at Daycare, he loves going to the swings (the playground by our apartment), the Park (the elementary playground that is just down the street) or the Big Park (the city park). We did spend a few hours in the ER on Mothers Day. Squirt climbed up my aunts pool slide and when he was told to climb down, something happened and I was inside when Grandma Rosie told me to go out side because Squirt was flat on his back and my husband was running for him. Luckily he just has a torus fracture near his left wrist. The ER splinted it with an ace bandage and by Tuesday he was trying to pull it off. On Wednesday we went to an Ortho Doctor and he put a cast on it. Squirt got to choose the color and he chose red because that is just like Lightning McQueen. He only has to have it on for 8 more days (2 weeks total)

My Husband woke up almost 4 weeks ago in some serious pain at 2am one morning and little did we know he had a kidney stone. He was in so much pain that we called the Grandma Rosie to come over and we went to the ER. We laugh a lot about that night because I tried to tell him that the pain he was having could be solved with some Ibuprofen and a heating pad. Pain subsided by the next day. Lucky for him that was one of his days off of work.

Life is hard lately, I don't like it when it is hard but I know I am going through this for a reason and I need to learn from it.

Thing that I am grateful for:

1 - My Husband

2 - My Boys

3 - My Family

The much anticipated pictures!!

So the last 3 months have been crazy Peanut has slept for longer times in his own bed. He learned how to sit up on his own in January and was really crawling by the beginning of March. Squirt loves swings and doesn't understand why Grandma and Grandpa Rosie's swings are dirty and he can't go swing on them. As most of you know Squirt has Dairy "Issues" they have tested him for all of the allergy areas that could be involved in and those test all came back as no allergy. So I was worried with Peanut that he would have some issues...he hasn't let me down. Peanut can not have Rice Cereal and we are pretty sure he can't have carrots either. His poor little bum suffers so much, I feel bad, but we live and learn.

Squirt loves the movies "Ariel"(it's not The Little Mermaid it's Ariel) and the movie UP. He has watched them so much lately that he is starting to recite many parts of them. The funniest is in Up when Russell knocks on Mr. Fredricksen's door He can recite both parts until Russell goes to look for the Snipe!

"Russell: Good Afternoon. My name is Russell… and I am a wilderness explorer in Tribe 54, with large 12.Are you in need of any assistance today, sir?
Mr. Fredricksen: No
Russell: I could help you cross the street..
Mr. Fredricksen: No
Russell: I could help you cross your yard?
Mr. Fredricksen: No
Russell: I could help you cross.. your.. porch?
Mr. Fredricksen: No
Russell: Well, I got to help you cross something..
Mr. Fredricksen: No, I am doing fine..
Mr.Fredricksen slams the door and then opens again
Russell: Good Afternoon. My name is Russell… and I am a wilderness explorer in Tribe 54, with large 12. Are you in need of any assistance today, sir?
Mr. Fredricksen: Thank you but I don't need any help
Mr.Fredricksen slams the door and then opens since Russell sticks his leg to prevent him from closing the door
Mr. Fredricksen: Proceed
Russell: Good Afternoon..
Mr.Fredricksen: Well, skip to the end
Russell points to his badges: "See these? These are my wilderness explorer badges. You may notice one is missing. It’s my 'Assisting The Elderly Badge.' If I get it, I’ll become a senior wilderness explorer!" He then makes the letter W with his fingers and says "The wilderness must be explored! KAAARRGGHHH KAHHHH RAARRR!!!!!"


Squirt knows this whole thing! It is hilarious!

Ok so these are some of the recent pictures.

Peanut learned to do this by himself in January - with out anything supporting him.

and when ever I take a picture of Peanut I have to take one of Squirt with him.

They love bath time together they splash lots and play lots - Peanut is always in his seat unless I want a cute picture like this.

He likes to give me weird looks. (like mom seriously you just took my picture lots. do you have to take one more?)

Squirt was giving dad a "Bear Hug"and it was just before bath time note Peanut is not in clothes, when I decided to put Peanut on Squirt. Right after I put him on and was looking for the camera Squirt started throwing a fit!

Peanut loves to eat the toys. That is what he does every bath time. And Squirt loves to fill them up with water and see how close he can squirt them to Peanut before I tell him no.

I always manage to get some of Squirt but if your camera isn't fast (like mine isn't at times) then when you tell him to say cheese you just get weird pictures like this.

"I don't know what happened to the turtle mom! I promise I didn't do it"

More pictures to come soon!!!

New pictures and stories coming soon.

Sorry I haven't updated things in a while life has been crazy, sickness has gone through our house multiple times and sleep deprevation from a 6mth old that doesn't sleep through the night doesn't help.
Look for new pictures by this weekend, at the latest

2009

I have to be honest here – I’ve totally stolen these questions from my Sister-in-laws blog.

1.What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Had a baby without an epidural - Just one word can describe that - "PAIN"

2.What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? 2 things - 1 a bigger car (so I won't have to ram my knees into the dash board) and 2 - a home.

3.What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory? the 7's Feb. 7th, July 17th, and August 7th

4.What was your biggest achievement of the year? Keeping my job!

5.What was your biggest failure? Not spending enough time with my own family - (Man if I had only gone to college and gotten a degree we could be in a house have a nice car and a good income)

6.Did you suffer illness or injury? Yes some colds.(and a pregnancy)

7. What was the best thing you bought? a toys for my boys for christmas, and my husband and my tickets to Lion King.

8. What behavior merited celebration? Labor!!!

9. What behavior made you appalled and depressed? The stupid person that took my 3yr olds carseat.

10. Where did most of your money go? rent and daycare and hospital bills.

11. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? depends on the time and what is going on. b) thinner or fatter? Thinner than this time last year, but not as thin as after I had Peanut. c) richer or poorer? Richer, but not by much.

12. What do you wish you’d done more of? spend time with my little family.

13. What do you wish you’d done less of? argueing

14. How did you spend Christmas? With family, and just a few presents.

15. Did you fall in love in 2009? yes with my boys and husband everyday.

16. What was your favorite TV program? Biggest Loser!! and CSI Miami and FlashPoint until they randomly took it off the air.

17.Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? No I try to give people the benefit of the doubt

18. What was the best book you read? Brianna, My Brother and the Blog. By Jack Weyland.

19. What was your greatest musical discovery? Curtains - a broadway musical - its music is amazing.

20. What did you want and get? Lion King tickets

21. What did you want and not get? a new car and a home.

22. What was your favorite film of this year? I liked Twilight I wish I could go see Blind Side though. I hear it is good.

23. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Not too much. Spent time with my husband and boys, enjoyed my snuggie that they gave me. I am now 26.

24. What one thing would have made your year better? a car or a home.

25. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? the same as years past no really new clothes

26. What kept you sane? My husband and boys

27. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most: I don't know.

28. What political issue stirred you the most? Healthcare.

29. Who did you miss? My Brother and his family.

30. Who was the best new person you met? Ashley G.

31. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009: Live each day as if it is your last. Life is to short not to.

Why ME?????

Why me??? I hate it when they choose me!!!

Now to explain, last night I drove my moms car to my part time job and my husband met me there and we swapped cars and he left me our little car and took my moms home to her. Sometime between when he dropped it off and when I actually went out to my car someone had somehow gotten into my car, moved the front seats, undid both of the boys seats and tried to get into the trunk. The only things that I know that they took so far are 2 empty toner cartridges (that you can turn in for a little bit of money at the local office supply store), and Squirt(my 3 year olds) car seat. WHO STEALS A CAR SEAT???? I was somewhat of an emotional wreck last night, many thanks to the co-workers that stayed with me till the police came and made light of the situation so that I would laugh and not burst out into tears. Why me??? This makes twice in 5 years that my car has been broken into at my part time job.

Dear family that gave us money this Christmas thank you for helping us buy a new car seat.(we will have to buy one for peanut soon too.) Why me???

Dear stupid people that stole things from my car, I really wish that money could have been saved to go towards buying a newer car that you wouldn't be able to break into as easily!

Things I am grateful for:
1 - My Husband
2 - Peanut
3 - Squirt
4 - the fact that I still have a car that doesn't have any body damage to it.

I hate stupid criminals!!!!

Christmas Eve!!

I just finished all of our Christmas shopping today. Thank you to the extra money we receive this month from family, and work. We really appreciate it and I was able to get Peanut an extra present that he really needs. I hope to post some pictures and videos tomorrow or Saturday of our Christmas fun. I love this time of year It reminds me of the many things that I am grateful for and I also take time to remember those who have touched my life, especially those that have passed away. (I miss you Scott, Christmas Carol and the month of December just aren't the same without you. I miss the Christmas Smells that you had in your office and your bell.)

I will try to figure out how to post our Christmas Card on here so you all can see it.

Have a great night hope I am not up to late Wrapping presents and making Carmel apple cheesecake!

Merry Christmas, and God bless us Everyone!