We may not have it all together, but together we have it all!

Legoland!!

2010-05-26T09:43:00.000-07:00

We went to Legoland this year as our after tax season vacation. It was perfect for the boys and for a very preggo mom because most the rides are very mild and the park wasn't open super late so the days weren't too long for me! :) Jaxon is still asking when we are going again. The boys both loved everything in Legoland, but neither one really liked the Sea Life Aquarium. (Spencer is a bit of a chicken which is why we have never taken him to Shark Reef!) Spencer's favorite rides were the races cars and the roller coaster. He is sooo my kid - he rides the whole time with his hands up! I was sad I couldn't go on any of them with him! Both boys were also fascinated with the mini cities. I thought they would think it was boring, but they LOVED it.

These are from the aquarium. The lego sand castle was their favorite part. :)

And of course Spencer and David on the roller coasters!

Alright, that's all you get for now. Blogger is being really slow and this is taking forever! :) BUT, you are now caught up with our April! On to May...

A little bit of Easter

2010-05-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

Alright, time to do some major updating. We moved into our new house over Easter weekend. He are a few photos of the kids on the way to my mom's house and doing their egg hunt in her back yard. We did do an egg hunt at home among the boxes, but I only video taped it. The good news is, I haven't taken too many photos in the last few months because we have been so busy, so it shouldn't take too much to update! :)

By the way this is Spencer's new favorite pose. You will be seeing it a lot in the upcoming pics!

boys will be boys!

2010-03-04T08:46:00.000-08:00

Spencer had a friend over and, of course, ALL the boys had to get dressed up and pose! I think that costume is about 3 sizes to big for Jaxon, but he couldn't be left out!

I give up! I am going current!

2010-03-01T11:41:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I thought I was going to try to play catch up, but it is not really going to happen. It is just too far back, AND I really want to post some current stuff. For example, I just completed two bumper pads for my baby bedding so now I can take some pics! Here they are! I absolutely LOVE the way it is turning out. I can't wait to set it up for real. Right now Jaxon thinks the crib mattress makes a great new bed. He even brought down all his blankets from his bed and put them on! Silly boy!

Spencer's Birthday-the final chapter

2010-02-07T20:38:00.000-08:00

Spencer pretty much had the most awesome birthday weekend ever! Birthday party with friends, then Disneyland, then presents from Mom and Dad and another party with David's family! For his birthday we gave Spencer a violin. It is the cutest thing ever. He loves it. I really should get him some lessons. At his party with the Wilcock's, LoraLeigh made him a giant cupcake. It didn't get eaten that night because everyone just ate the small ones and since we had so made parties and so much cake (we still had train cake), one day that next week after lunch I just let Spencer go to town! He is not much of a sugar kid, so he did really eat that much, it just made for some great pics!

Apparently our party was not very exciting for Bob! J/k! Actually my father in law just works way too hard!

Spencer's birthday part 2!

2010-02-07T20:13:00.000-08:00

Since Spencer and my stepdad, Dave share a birthday and Disneyland let you get in free on your birthday, we figured what better way to spend the day! The kids had a blast with Grandma, Grandpa and Unlce Trent. Then just to top the day off, we met up with my brother and his family half way through the day who just happened to plan a trip that overlaped with ours! Needless to say, everyone had a blast!

(It is amazing how much your kids grow up in 9 months!)

Spencer & Grandpa Dave Jaxon & Dad

Spencer and his cousins, Keegan & Kalea

(Spencer was so much braver with his older cousins around!)

^Uncle Trent - he left on his mission just two months later!

Grandma & Jaxon sharing some love!

Spencer's birthday

2010-02-06T15:22:00.000-08:00

Yes, I really have to go back THAT far! So he is a quick post about Spencer's birthday party. Forst, just pretend we are back to the end of April. His birthday is May 2nd, but we had the party ahead of time because we took him to Disneyland on his actual birthday(more to come on that). Spencer wanted a train party, so thanks to some great party websites, we had an awesome party! We had train tracks on the floor, a train cake, all the kids "became" trains and made matching train carts, a homemade train pinata and pin the face on Thomas. Spencer loved every minute and LOVED that all his friends were there. On a side note he has already picked his party themes for the next 2 years! Nothing like planning ahead!

Okay, okay....

2010-02-06T15:20:00.000-08:00

Alright, My blog has been dead for a REALLY long time, but I have decided it is time to get back to blogging. I do plan on going way back to when I stopped, but I will try to make the catch up as quick and as painless as possible. :) For those of you who are only interested in the current, give me a few weeks! :)

Great giveaway!

2009-07-22T22:28:00.000-07:00

My friend Justina is hosting a giveaway for some great Redkin products. Go check it out on her blog! http://onmyperch.blogspot.com/

I'm in love!

2009-06-23T22:24:00.000-07:00

So I am not quite sure how I came across this website, but I love it. It is called handbagheaven.com. I have always really liked purses, but not over the top loved them or anything. Normally I just stick with shoes. :) HOWEVER, I am in LOVE with these bags right now. Now, I just have to convince David...

Is this not the cutest wallet you have ever seen. It is hard covered and lots of room inside!
These yellow one just says, "Hello, it's summer!"

I love this one too. So cute for a girls night out! Or date night!!

Ahhh...it is fun to druel! Hmm..now to find some matching shoes!

T-Ball!

2009-05-31T16:21:00.000-07:00

So, thanks to my good friend Hailey, I was able to find a place for Spencer to start T-ball! He is actually almost done now, but we all know what a slacker I am on my blog! For as long as he has been old enough to answer, whenever I asked Spencer what he wanted to play, he would always say baseball. I didn't think there were any places where he could play before he turned 5, but NYS has t-ball for 3-4 year olds! Yea! Here are some cute pics from practice and his first game. They are so funny to watch!

This is right before his first practice. He seems to have forgotten how to smile normal lately! Can't wait for the professional one to come back! lol!

His first practice.

His first game! I have shorten his pants since then so you can see his cute socks! :)

Give Away Today

2009-05-29T08:31:00.000-07:00

So my sister sent me a link to this blog awhile ago, and I am addicted. There are having a BUNCH of give aways from now to June 2nd, so go check it out! (Father's day is coming up!)

http://www.giveawaytoday.blogspot.com/

A sneak peek of our weekend

2009-04-24T15:21:00.001-07:00

Some good old family fun! (those are my parents rockin' the bottom pic!)

My tax season survival guide

2009-04-24T15:21:00.000-07:00

Finally my computer is behaving again, so here is a really long post!!!

Step 1 - take a trip right before tax season starts. See previous Disneyland post.

Step 2 - have a crappy economy, so your husband won't have to work as many hours. (Not a necessity, but it definately helped!)

Step 3 - take a girls trip sometime during tax season. In this case it happened to be to Disneyland again! It was a very happy birthday to Heather and Amy and just plain fun for Chelsea and I!!!

Step 4 - Take a long trip to visit a relative during one of those last few crunch weeks. We went to visit my sister in Utah and the kids had a blast! I am not sure who had more fun! I was worried about traveling alone, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

Step 5 - Celebrate the end of tax season with some much needed family time! We went to the lake, Lied's children museum and played some t-ball (those pics will be saved for their own post!)

That my friends is how I survived and survive I did!

I tried!

2009-04-19T20:21:00.000-07:00

So I have a post with pictures have finsihed, but for some reason I can't get the second group of pics to post! It waits for forever and then gives an error, so I guess we will try again tomorrow...

Valentine's day - finally!!

2009-04-19T19:46:00.000-07:00

Yes, it has really been that long! I would like to make my blog into a book one of these days, which is the only reason I am going back soooo far! So if you are looking for something more recent, you will just have to wait! As for us, for Valentine's day we just go out to a nice dinner somtime around Valentine's day and call it good. This year we went to Brio at Town Square. It was really yummy. We also decided to watch a movie while we had a babysitter. As for Valentine's day it was all about the boys. We started our day with some pink doughnuts for the boys and some cute homemade mini quiche for David and I. (I have a pic of this, but I am trying to make these old post short and sweet.) Then we headed out and to feed the ducks at Rhodes Ranch. My boys love this activity, even if my husband thinks we are going to get hit by a stray ball one of these days!

Okay, so the next part of our day was just plain funny. We bought Spencer a kite for Valentine's day and David was determined to fly it that day because Spencer was so excited about it. I tried and tried to tell him there was no way no how enough wind, but he knew best so off to the park we went. Well, as we all know, women know best and that kite went nowhere despite a very valiant effort from David! The kids still had fun running and rolling down the hill.

{Pictures were supposed to go here of attempted kite flying, but my computer sucks and I can't seem to get them uploaded! Luckily my new computer is coming soon!}

Pictures coming soon!

2009-04-19T13:38:00.000-07:00

I have been very neglectful of my blog. It is just one of those things I want to do, but never get around to! BUT today I am finally taking the pictures of my camera, all 407 of them! Yes, I take a lot of pictures and yes it has been a while! So this week should finally be filled with some new posts! As for what's going on with us, not too much. I only have 5 more weeks of school left to teach and while I am not teaching again next year, I must say I am glad I did this year. It made me really appreciate staying home. I didn't realized how MUCH I missed it until Spring Break last week. Apparently working stresses me out. I was so relaxed while visiting my sister and yes I was on vacation, but it was more than that. I didn't HAVE to be out of the house at a certain time in the mornings, so I wasn't getting frustrated with the boys first thing in the morning and I was able to start my days out on a much better note. Anyway, it will be nice to stay home again. I am VERY grateful I get to. As for David, he just finsihed tax season, so it is nice to have him back. He didn't have to work as much as usual this year, which made things a lot easier, but he still gets stressed from work. I love that he only had to work 1 Saturday this year. It was great! Spencer just started tee ball, very cute pictures to come. And Jaxon, well, he's as cute and as troublesome as ever. He has finally started talking more, which is marvelous! And that's it. I have much to post, so as soon as these pictures finished downloading I will get started!

Silly Boys

2009-02-20T16:12:00.000-08:00

Gotta love this bathtime fun! Both boys were cracking up!

Disneyland!

2009-02-17T18:26:00.000-08:00

So I am finally to our Disneyland pictures. We decided to take a quick weekend trip before tax season really started. We had a blast! We were both pleasantly surprised with how much Jaxon liked it! He is all about being a big boy, so he thought it was great when he got to go on some rides. He also loved Minnie Mouse. Spencer said he wanted to see Minnie and Mickey and then freaked out when when it was our turn! Good thing Disneyland wasn't busy so we didn't wait very long at either one. Spencer proved yet again that he is my son by riding Big Thunder Mountain at night! He is so little and was definately scared, but he did it and was okay afterwards. It definately helped that it was a train. :) I also just kept telling him how his cousins love that ride. :) In the end he said he liked it, but did not want to ride it again! lol!

This was a little backwards from what I expected.^

Jaxon having the time of his life!

Well, I did tell him to put shoes on....

2009-02-17T18:24:00.000-08:00

This was funny. It was not so funny when a few minutes later I found out he gave my heels to Cora to use as a shovel in the sandbox!

Thank you!

2009-02-17T18:23:00.001-08:00

Thanks to everyone for the dentist suggestions! Now I just have to go through and find out which one is on my plan!

Good dentist anyone?

2009-02-16T12:17:00.000-08:00

Does anyone know a good dentist on this side of town? I am tired of driving so far to all my doctors. Anyone know any good ones that are close?

I leave the room for 2 seconds...

2009-02-16T07:21:00.000-08:00

Hints

2009-02-16T07:18:00.000-08:00

So do you think he is trying to tell me something? Actually he was pretending to be Santa Claus, but I thought it looked pretty funny!

Giddy up!

2009-02-14T10:36:00.000-08:00

We bought Spencer this cowboy hat the other day and he has been loving it! He walks around the house singing the Backyardigans song, I Love being a Princess except he says Cowboy. It is really funny and I am definately glad he is not singing Princess. :) He also has to put my boots on before he is really a "cowboy" or sheriff. The other pictures are his new favorite activity for while Jaxon is napping. He has some preschool activity book and he really enjoys them. I figure why not start early! He also likes the one on one time it gives him. :)

GHWT

2009-02-14T10:25:00.000-08:00

So I finally got the pics off my camera. My printer, which has my card reader in it, has been giving me troubles lately, so here's a little catch up (more posts to come in the next few days). We recently purchased Guitar Hero World Tour and ALL the boys are in love. Sadly, I don't have any pics of Jaxon, he was asleep when I got the camera out. It has been really fun, if anyone wants to come play, just let me know!

Potty Training Update

2009-01-26T14:28:00.000-08:00

Okay, so saldy I had pretty much tried all suggestions I received, though I was very thankful to all for offering help. As an update as to where we are now...back in underwear, but still peeing just a little bit. About a quarter size. This I can handle, though we continue to tell him he needs to go potty before he starts peeing. He also only gets his toys back by having no pee in his underwear. How did we get back to this stage, you ask? Well, thankfully it only took 1 day. It started in the morning when he peed in his underwear about 1/2 hour after he woke up. So I put him in a pull-up because I had to go to work and I was terrified that he would pee at my friend's house. When I got home, he had peed a little in his pull-up, so I took that away. Yup, he had to go commando! I also told him if he was going to pee in his underwear like a baby, I was going to treat him like a baby. That meant he was going to have to take a nap. Well, at first he though he would play along and wanted to sleep in Jaxon's crib. Well, Jaxon was in Jaxon's crib so I said fine and set up the pack n' play! All this time I was throughly annoyed, however I knew once he got in the pack n' play he would hate it. So I laid him down for a nap. Every 30 mins or so he would start crying for something which I occassionally went in and told him no he had to take a nap before he could come out. Other times I just ignored him. I let him stay in there for about 2 1/2 hours before I decided I should probably get him out before he peed in the pack n' play. Keep in mind he was still naked from the waist down. No, he never did take a nap, but he decided mabye the pack n' play wasn't so fun and maybe he did want to be a big boy. Just for good measure I left him naked for the rest of the afternoon. He never pees anywhere when he is just naked, only if he has underwear on. He went potty a few more times and has been much better ever since. We also have been working on him doing other big boy things like going potty by himself and getting dressed. Hopefully this will last! We'll see!

At a loss....

2009-01-21T22:16:00.000-08:00

So I have a problem and am in need of any help anyone can give. Let me start at the beginning. In March of 08 my son Spencer saw his friend Cora learning to go potty and decided he wated to. So for about a month and a half we worked on potty training. In that month and a half I became very well potty trained. Spencer would pee on the potty, but not poop and he wouldn't tell when he needed to go, I just had to take him every so often. Then we decided to give up for awhile because we weren't making any progress. We would comtinue to ask him and he would occasionally go. We started to make a little progress in Late July early August 08, but still no pooping. I really wanted him potty trained by school time so I could send him to preschool or some other classes. Finally I gave up and about a week later he finally said, "Mommy, I need to go potty." I was sooo excited. Over the next week and a half he finally became completely potty trained.

Then came October...it started with just a little spot of pee in his underwear every once in awhile, then it got bigger and bigger until it was going through to his pants! What? Huh? I thought we were done? So we tried taking toys away, time out, a reward chart for a toy he really wanted for everytime he was completely dry. Eventually the chart started to work, though it took weeks. So, I made the chart big because I wanted him to learn not to do this for good, not just long enough to get his toy. I learned from our early potty training days!

So here is his Mickey chart. He had the thing filled up except for one ear. I made the mistake of thinking, "Good, I think he is over this." The next week it started all over again!!!! Aaaarrrgggg!!! How long is he going to take to potty train!? Yet again I am continually bugging him all day long, we have taken away his beloved Handy Manny tools that he received for Christmas. He has sat in time out. He has had to take stickers off his Mickey chart. Tonight I came home from the store to find a sobbing son as my husband made him pick out toys to take away. It broke my heart! I am at a loss!!! What do I do?!? I can't possibly put him back in diapers he has been out of them since August, with the exception of night time. I really don't know what to do, but at the same time if I have to change my 3 1/2 year olds wet pants again I think I might scream! Any help, anyone?

Spencer and Cora

2009-01-11T20:18:00.000-08:00

Yea! I am all caught up with this post! Maybe my New Year's resolution should be to keep my blog current! lol! On Fridays, Spencer's friend Cora comes over to play in the afternoons while her mom goes to work. I don't think she believes me when I tell her that Cora is absolutely no problem, but she really is. Cora and Spencer always play really well together and do cute thing like this! How can you not love them! Don't they look like an old married couple in this picture? Haha!

This one was just too sweet. (Chelsea -I promise I told Cora to take her thumb out of her mouth right after I snapped this! Though I am not sure it actually was in her mouth. I couldn't decide!)

Love these two!

Snowboarding

2009-01-11T20:11:00.000-08:00

The Saturday after Christmas, David went snowboarding with my brother, Trevor and his wife Maria. We missed him, but he had fun and he doesn't get to go very often anymore.

Christmas day!

2009-01-11T16:17:00.001-08:00

I have finally made it to Christmas day! Woohoo! Christmas day was perfect. Really it started Christmas eve. Both of our parents live here in town and normally we have to rotate who to spend Christmas Eve with, but this year my mother-in-law decided to do Christmas Day dinner. It was so much better! We also didn't have to rush out Christmas morning for breakfast which was nice for the boys. So, Christmas Eve we had dinner with my family and the grandkids opened presents. It was necessary for my brothers kids, and once one has started, of course everyone wanted to! Then Christmas morning we spent at home. We were able to take our time and really enjoy watching the boys. Spencer was soooo much fun this year. He just had the perfect reactions to everything and was loving every minute. Jaxon was actually pretty good at opening as well. The only problem with Jax was we could get him off his brother's scooter! Check out our matching pjs! I know, I know, you are all jealous! lol!

Then it was off to the Murray's to exchange gifts. They live up the street and Spencer insisted he ride his new scooter despite the fact it was drizzling rain outside! Oh well, it was Christmas, right? Both boys loved their presents, of course! The pettiskirt was actually for both girls since they are so close to the same size! Too cute!

Next it was off to my parents house to give my parents their presents and my brother his. Spencer had fun with Uncle Trevor and Jaxon was all about Grandpa's cookies!

Then it was off to the Wilcock's! For dinner, family and more presents! I think Spencer got a little spoiled with this day full of presents. He is already looking forward to his birthday and next Christmas. Hmmm...we might have a problem. (His birthday isn't until May!)

For those of you thinking, wow what a day, that wasn't the end! We went straight from the Wilcock's to our friend's house to lay the kids down and play Rock Band! It was a very long, but very fun day!!! Good thing David decided to go snowboarding on Saturday instead of the next morning!

Christmas projects

2009-01-11T16:05:00.000-08:00

Just in case I wasn't busy enough in the month on December,with the new job, and everything in the previous posts, for some reason I ended up making a bunch of Christmas gifts this year. Below are a sampling. I made a total of about 20 pairs of pajamas (cute matching ones to be featured in later Christmas day post) including these for my neice and nephew. And then there was the hardest craft....Pettiskirts! I had a blast making them. Especially since I don't have a girl! BUT, the pink and brown one took me about 1 1/2 days to complete because I wanted to make it really full. The brown and blue one was much more reasonable, only about 5 hours. I didn't make it as full. Anyway, I had a lot of fun making all of them, but it is a good part of why my blog was so neglected in December!

Since my mom was helping me figure out how to make the pettiskirts, she made one for my neice as well. ^

Gingerbread Houses

2009-01-11T15:54:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is gingerbread houses with my husband's family. We all get together and bring candy and share and decorate together. It is really messy, but a lot of fun. This year I was in charge of making a few gingerbread houses too. Kinda fun actually, though they take awhile! I sadly don't have any pictures from the night we decorated together., (I forgot the camera!), but this is Spencer decorating the extra house later at home by himself and the house I made that night. Just in case you can't tell, they one on the right is mine! lol! I was very impressed with Spencer. All I did was put frosting where he told me to!

Little Pastry Chef's

2009-01-08T21:56:00.001-08:00

For Christmas, Spencer and his friends went to Little Pastry Chefs to decorate some cookies.

There was lots of this.....

Mixed with this......

And then this.....

In the end, they all had a great time and Spencer got to see Santa for the first time. I know I am a bad mom for never taking him before, I just didn't see the point of having him cling to me and scream while I tried to sit him on a strange man's lap. This was the first year he understood Santa and was excited to see him. The kids also got to go on a carriage ride. Sadly, I don't have a pic of this. I still need to get a copy from someone else...Could someone please e-mail a copy?

Disclaimer: I having a really hard time typing tonight, so please excuse any typos!

Snow Day #3

2009-01-08T21:42:00.001-08:00

So after the "big snow" we had that crazy snow day in Vegas! Which meant no work for me, and David got to go in late. They told him he could just stay home, but he ended up leaving around 9:30, but not until he had built another snowman in the front yard and had a snowball fight with the boys! I love that my rose bushes still had roses to use as arms! That's when you know snow is not normal in Vegas!

Snow Day #2

2009-01-08T21:36:00.001-08:00

This is the second day it snowed when we actually got enough to play in. Sadly, Jaxon was sick, so no playing for him. Spencer was so excited to make a snowman. The golf club arms were entirely his idea!

Snow Day #1

2009-01-08T21:22:00.000-08:00

The day I returned from Houston was the first day it snowed in Vegas. The funny thing was, the day I arrived in Houston it was snowing for the first time in years! Of course, we played in and tasted the snow. My question was and is, should I worry about my grapefruits? Will the continue to ripen if I pick them? I don't think they need much longer...Did I ruin them by not picking them this day? I have no idea!!!

2009-01-07T21:04:00.000-08:00

Okay, I know, I know I have a lot of posts to make up for. All I can say is they are coming. I am hoping to be all caught up by the end of Sunday. Now that we are back to the beautiful 9:00 time I have time after church! :) I had a really busy December. Forst I took a job teaching at American Heritage Academy just a few days before I left on a trip to Houston to visit my sister and all her wonderful boys! I had so much fun playing with all of them! How can you not smile at Benjamin's cute face? It was the first time I have ever left my boys, but all these boys kept me from getting too homesick!

Aaron Benjamin

Grandpa and the boys Duncan and Tavio

The reason for this trip! A sealing and a double blessing.!

You can't get much better than that!!

These are both boys the day of their blessings. They were being so cute together. I had a hard time choosing which pictures to put on here. Little Aaron was my buddy most the weekend. I had the "magic touch" for putting him to sleep for the majority of the time. There was a breif Grandma moment, but we won't talk about that. :) He was my sweet boy sleeping in my arms. Almost made me ready for another, but not quite. :)

Sealing day!

Belated Thanksgiving

2008-12-27T16:20:00.000-08:00

Food, Family and Fun!

I know this is late, but better late than never, right? This is Thanksgiving at my mom's. My sister, Karley, and her family were in town from Utah. The big picture above is her daughter Kiersten and Spencer. My stepdad had justed planted new grass and they weren't supposed to walk on it, so they walked around it! lol!

Christmas Tag

2008-12-07T19:46:00.000-08:00

1. wrapping paper or gift bags? both, depends on the gift. I really like to wrap the kids present since half the fun is watching them unwrap.
2. real tree or artificial? artificial. Kinda of sad, but definately cheaper and cleaner. I do like the pre-lit part too.
3. when do you put up your tree? Normally the day after Thanksgiving. It used to be a lot later when we had a real tree because we didn't want it to die.
4. when do you take it down? Sometime between the day after and new year's.
5. do you like eggnog? Yuck! No!
6. favorite gift received as a child? a bike my brother and dad built. I still remember coming around the corner and finding it in the kitchen!
7. worst christmas gift ever received? Hmm, I plead the 5th.
8. hardest person to buy for? My in-laws. My husband never has any ideas.
9. easiest person to buy for? Spencer! He loves everything!
10. do you have a nativity scene? yes, I bought one at a yard sale recently so I would finally have one, but I would really like a different one.
11. mail or email christmas cards? mail.
12. favorite christmas movie? Rudolph. I know it is kind of dumb, but it always brings back memories of watching it as a kid.
13. when do you start christmas shopping? depends on the year. Sometimes as early as June, most the time, Septemberish I start to get a few. I like to have a long time to think of the perfect gift. I hate to feel pressured.
14. have you ever recycled a christmas present? no.
15. favorite thing to eat at christmas? my mom's pecan pie. Yum!
16. lights on the tree? yes, mine is pre-lit. Who doesn't have lights?!?
17. favorite christmas song? O Holy Night - especially when sung by a really good male singer.
18. travel or stay home? stay at home, sort of. Both parents are in town, so we go to their houses, but it's not really traveling.
19. can you name all of santa's reindeer? Of course, but I have to sing the song.
20. angel or star? I have a hand made angel my mom made, but it looks a little small on my tree. I think I want to get a star.
21. open presents christmas morning or eve? christmas morning, but I did make everyone matching pajama pants this year, so we might have to open one...
22. favorite ornament theme or color? Red, green, white, some silver.
23. favorite place for christmas dinner? my parents or my in-laws, they are both yummy.
24. most annoying thing about this time of year? long lines and traffic.
25. what do you want for christmas this year? I have no idea!

I tag my girls and my family!

As Promised

2008-11-14T12:13:00.000-08:00

So, as some of you know, my husband went hunting for the first time back in October. I wasn't so sure about it, it kind of grosses me out, but David loved it! He did get a deer while he was there and made me promise to post the pics. They aren't really gruesome or anything, but if you don't want to see a dead deer, DON'T scroll down! While the deer part is gross, I do think my husband looks hot as a hunter! As for those of you wondering if we have eaten any meat yet, my husband has eaten a steak and I have tried the jerky. We have yet to try the ground meat. Sorry if the pics are not great, they were taken from a cell phone camera. David forgot to charge or check ours before he left!

Beautiful Day!

2008-11-04T22:32:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday was a beautiful day so we decided to take the boys to see the dolphins and secret garden at the Mirage. The boys had a blast! Thanks to this friend for the recommendation! Spencer could not get enough of the dolphins. They have a 2 month old baby dolphin and a bunch of 6 month old tiger cubs. They also give discounts to locals so make sure to ask!

Ahh, happiness!
Tiger cubs! They also had lions and alpacas. It was amazing how well groomed all the animals were.

I think almost all the pictures I have of Spencer are the back of his head! lol!

They don't do a show or anything, but the have trainers working with the dolphins throughout the day.

Jaxon wanted to climb in with the dolphins! Spencer thought he could ride them! Thank you Backyardigans! He is still convinced he can "another day."

Happy Halloween!

2008-11-03T15:28:00.001-08:00

We had a great Halloween this year. These are the only pics I have from before our trunk or treat. Our camera does not like the dark. I also still don't really know how to work it yet either. After Super Saturday, I hope to have some time to read the manual. Spencer was Clifford and Jaxon was a monkey. Spencer wanted his picture taken with Coby since he was a dog. Coby was not so cooperative. :)

Spencer and his "orange teeth"

We had a get together on Halloween morning with Spencer and his friends. I made cupcakes for the "cupcake walk." I had a little too much fun! I also sent some to David's work. :)

The kids doing their cupcake walk

Eating cupcakes! I love this picture of Brayden! (Taken by Chelsea not me!)

Cora as JoJo

The boys eating and playing cars. Such boys!

After our party with our friends we headed straight to David's work for their Halloween party. They always have a lot of fun. They ordered lunch, played some games and awarded prizes.

Jaxon had way too much candy that day!

The juniors had to wrap their seniors with t.p. David and his junior thought they were smart doing it this way. They did NOT win. :)

They also had a pumpkin carving contest and Spencer helped keep track of the vote. I think he might have added a few votes here or there. :)

They also had a relay race with pupkins. It started out they had to hold the pumpkin between their elbows, but then David and his junior tied so they moved the pumpkin to their knees. This was hillarious! Especially since Jason was wearing a toga! David started celebrating too early though, he lost this race!

Our happy family. David and I were Alice and the Mad Hatter. It was so fun dressing up this year. I would like to be more creative next year though. :)

On Halloween night, we headed over to Tina and Radford's so the boys could go trick or treating together. They were so cute in their costumes! At one of the houses their was a witch on the door that made noises and the boys were not too sure about it. The conversation went something like this, "You knock again. No you knock!" It was so funny! Finally the people heard the witch keep going off and answered the door! LOL! After they got their candy the man at the door set the witch off again and Spencer high tailed it out of there! It was SO funny! Overall it was a perfect ending to our very fun filled Halloween!

Happy Birthday to me!

2008-11-03T14:50:00.000-08:00

I know this post is past due. I just have not had the time to really blog in a while. Also, most of these pictures were taken later on my celebration with my parents. My birthday was back on the 13th. My husband bought me roses, which I love. :) Also we went to dinner on the Friday before to P.F. Chang's and then to see Jay Leno. We were hooked up with amazing seats thanks to some great friends of ours. I would post a link to their blog, but they are silly and have a private blog! J/K! Love you guys! Anyway, the show was great! We sat in the middle of the third row, I don't think it could have been any better. Sadly, I have no pictures of the evening because I forgot to tell my husband to take pictures. It is just not something he remembers. On my actual birthday, David had to work late and then help me with enrichment stuff all night, so it was good that we had already celebrated. About a week and a half later we had my parents over for some yummy ice cream cake. It was kind of fun because it made my birthday last all month!

My husband thought he was so funny. Just because he's old, doesn't mean I am yet!

My roses. I also received some pink ones the next day.

Tagged

2008-10-16T10:09:00.000-07:00

I am finally getting around to this tag. It's been a crazy few weeks!

What I can't live without:
My husband - he is my best friend
My adorable boys
My family - well most of them - j/k!
My girlfriends - they are my sanity
The Gospel
The scriptures
The computer
Trips to any store at least twice a week. I have to get out of the house sometimes!
Playdates at Burger King or the park even if Jaxon should be sleeping
Dinner group with the girls
My kitchenaid
The phone
Ice cream
My bed
My toothbrush
A hot shower - makes everything better

I tag Sally, Emily B., and Diana!!!

Free purse!!

2008-10-14T11:32:00.000-07:00

Go here for a chance to win a free purse. It's worth a shot!

Sad, but true!

2008-10-02T16:47:00.000-07:00

My husband sent me this e-mail. It was supposed to be funny,

but I just thought it was kind of sad!

It's Finally Done!!!

2008-09-28T18:21:00.000-07:00

Yeah! The massive construction is finally done! Or at least for the most part. There are a few things still left to be done, but it is actually put together now. Enough that I could have a baby shower here yesterday! It was crazy, but we worked really hard all week and got it done! Here are the beautiful pictures!

Our new kitchen table

the living room/dining room

I love how much bigger it feels without the break in the flooring!

The T.V. and stand - we also painted

The new living room colors/ decor

the entryway - new tile

the guest bathroom - no more sunshine bathroom. I am a little sad still, but I think the new bathroom is beautiful!

David did a GREAT job on all the flooring. I am so proud of him for figuring it all out. I might have taken a little longer, but it saved us a lot of money and it made us both proud!

The big 30!!!!

2008-09-23T19:58:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday to David! Amidst all the construction we did take some time out last week to celebrate David's birthday! He is the big 30! He's not so sure he like being 30, but what can you do. He said he felt really old that night when he was taking a political poll and they asked what age range he was in 18-29 or 30-48! He said he almost lied! Haha! Personally, I think he's aged great! Hehe. Really 30 is not as old as it once was...we are just getting started!

30 balloons for the 30 year old!

Somehow on David's birthday we went to RC Willey to spend some giftcards possibly on a bookcase or a DVD case and ended up coming out with this! No complaints here! I never thought David would spend the money on a camera, but apparently after 7 years my husband still surprises me. He says he's always thought it would be cool to learn photography! Anyway, needless to say, this is actually MY birthday present! Once we get done with al this construction, maybe I'll have time to sit down and really figure out how to use it!

David's birthday, however, did not end that night. On Friday night, I took him out to dinner at this restaurant. It was amazing! It is kind of a random place, but it had great reviews online. If you like Italian, I would highly recommend it! At dinner, I floored David by telling him we had a hotel room for the night. I think that is the first time we have ever left our kids overnight. It was great! Shout out to the Mann's and the Mathewson's for babysitting!

This is our room at the Southpoint. It was an amazing room for the money. We loved it and we loved that we could just go downstairs and watch a movie. We thought about bowling, but we were too tired! We did watch Ghost Town which was surprising funny. We both enjoyed it.

All in all, I think he had a great birthday. Love you, honey!

Home improvements

2008-09-23T19:37:00.000-07:00

For the last week and a half (longer if you count the time David spent on the tile int he entry way) we have been doing some remodeling. We have replaced all of the flooring downstairs and repainted most of the downstairs. My neck and back just ache thinking about painting, but when I am done here, I am headed to do touch-up in the bathroom (which I've painted twice in the last week). The following are pics of David laying the laminate in the living room/dining room. I am so proud of him! He has really done a great job. And I can't forget to give a shout out to his brother Richard for giving up his Saturday to come help! We still have work to do. David is putting on baseboards as I type, but it will all have to be done by Saturday. There is a baby shower at my house! It has been a lot of work, but I am very excited, and the sad part is...It is still cheaper than moving! I promise new pictures of the complete transformation next week!

Tagged

2008-09-23T10:56:00.000-07:00

I have been tagged with this twice in the last week, so I guess I better get cracking!

8 TV shows I love to watch:
So you Think you can Dance
Survivor
The Amazing Race
NCIS
How I met your Mother
The Office
Top Model
Criminal Minds

8 Favorite restaurants:
Cheesecake Factory
IHOP - yes I really do!
BJ's
Olive Garden
Casa Di Amore - a new found favorite
PF Chang's
Panera Bread
Red Robin

8 Things that happened yesterday:
I took Spencer to Tumbling Class
Sat with Spencer through art class
Went to Target
Painted baseboards
Took a quick 30 min. nap
Drove to Calico Basin
Tried explaining yet again to Spencer why he can't give "Special Blessings" to the dog
played chase with Jaxon

8 Things I am looking forward to:
Our home improvements being completely done!
Dinner Group this Thursday
Our next few enrichments
Going to Utah for Thanksgiving
my life calming down - I feel like I've been on overdrive for the last week!
My birthday - Oct. 13th!
Jaxon finally walking - we have been so close forever!
Visiting Houston in December? November? January?

8 Things on my wish list:
Getting in shape by Christmas
My husband working normal hours during tax season - it doesn't have to be possible, right?
An insanely organized home
that Jaxon will start walking tomorrow
that Spencer will stop knocking Jaxon down
that Spencer will suddenly decide he loves sharing his toys with his brother
that Jaxon will forget wherever he learned that new high-pitched scream
that I will suddenly become the most patient mom in the world :)

8 People I'm tagging:
Chelsea Mann
Amy Mathewson
Kimberly Fears
Karley Simmons
Brit Papa
Brit Dye
Stacey Utley
Stacie Gibson

Where's my baby?

2008-09-05T15:26:00.000-07:00

As we were leaving for vacation, David and I were talking about how we were not quite ready for another baby yet because we both still think of Jaxon as so much of a baby. At the same time we also both felt he grew up a lot this weekend. No, that does not mean we are suddenly ready to start trying. :) He just seems so much older... :( He is also starting to walk now. Last night he was pulling himself up on a wall ni his room and just taking off. It was really cute. Walking video coming soon!

He is a sneaky little boy. This is him sneaking through the blockade from the entry way. (We are re-doing the tile.) He we always pause from doing something naughty to flash a smile! It is hard to get mad when he does that...

This is his cheese grin. He loves to just pause a grin.

My little monkey...

My silly boy!

2008-09-05T15:21:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know. Spencer is obsessed with sleeping with socks on. One day after his nap we were going to run an errand and I told Spencer to get his sandals on. Next thing I know, this is what I find. I guess I didn't tell him to take his socks off! And yes, that is how we went to the store! Somedays its just not worth the fight...

Just for fun!

2008-09-05T15:12:00.000-07:00

I got a couple of really cute close ups of my boys while we were on vacation. I actually have even more of Jaxon. He is such a smiley boy. Spencer on the other hand was rather cranky during vacation, so this is one of the few. I think it is because he didn't get much sleep. He didn't take any naps and he shared a room with Jaxon and they kept playing!

I LOVE his big eyes! He is such a sweet baby!

Our outdoors filled weekend!

2008-09-03T18:57:00.000-07:00

This weekend we decided to get outside! I have come to the realization that I love the outdoors, BUT I really don't like to camp. I hate feeling dirty. So we booked a hotel room in Flagstaff, and visited 4 national parks!

1. Sunset Crater National Park - an old volcano

2. Wupatki National Park - old Native American ruins

The doors were really small! Perfect for Spencer!

They have a lot of trains in Flagstaff, ao we had to stop a visit. After the first one came barreling through, Spencer wasn't so sure he like the trains anymore. They were close, loud and fast!

I took this picture before I knew how fast the trains came through!

3. Walnut Canyon National Park - cave dwellings of Native Americans - see the middle of the picture below.

Sadly the trail that lead to the dwellings was closed due to a giant rock that fell into the trail!

They did have a fun sand box with paw prints of the different animals in the area.

Okay, small break from the family here. We kept driving past the building and it made me laugh ever time. Would you buy your furniture here?

There was also a county fair going on while we were there, so we stopped by one evening for some fun!

This was one of Spencer's favorite rides.

The was his abosolute favorite. It was a maze at the bottom( I watched more than one person run into a wall), with crazy mirrors up top and a twisty slide coming down. Not much of a "ride," but Spencer was not feeling so adventerous this weekend.

4. Grand Canyon National Park

The poor boys were strapped in the stroller the whole time, but I refused to have it any other way. Yes, I am paranoid! Jaxon loved it though and Spencer called it the "big hole."

On the way out, I told David I was going to see a deer. Turns out we saw an elk and two deer within the next 10 mins.!

Overall, it was a great weekend. I loved my hotel-camping weekend. :)

Utah!

2008-08-17T18:35:00.000-07:00

Two weekends ago we took a quick trip to Utah. It was a nice mini vacation. I went shopping with my sister, David went hiking and we went to a baby blessing. It was a great 3 day weekend. :) These first pictures are from David's hike. He is preparing to go hunting for the first time in October. The kids also had a blast playing with their cousins. Jake and Spencer may be a year apart, but they are two peas in a pod! In all fairness Spencer also thinks Alexa is the coolest person ever and he still talks about their dog A.J.

Spencer and the turkeys. Supposedly there were more animals, but this is the only one David took. :)

Just playing outside in the beautiful weather!

Jaxon was loving Jake's zebra. He quickly discovered his brother's rocking horse when we got home. :)

This was the real reason for our visit. Sweet Kara's baby blessing. Her dress was too cute!

The Family!

The way it always goes...

2008-08-17T18:27:00.000-07:00

So, of course, the day after my last post, Spencer finally started to get better. In fact , though I am not going to say this too loud, I think he's finally potty trained! We were with some friends at Burger King and I was just about at the end of my rope with him as he was yet again throwing tantrums and drving me crazy, and he up and tells me he needs to go potty. What?!? It had been weeks since I had heard those words out of his mouth! So I summoned up my last bit of patience and walked with him to the bathroom, because, of course, you can't NOT take him. Sure enough, he went! Not only that, but he hasn't had an accident since! He has even told me when he needs to poop, which was our biggest struggle before. We'll see if this streak continues. Of course, I missed preschool sign-ups on Saturday because I was beginning to think he was never going to potty train! Oh well. I think I am going to sign him up for some random fun little classes and we will worry about preschool next year! As for my long week....I THINK it is finally over, but again I am not going to hold my breath!

Frustrations!

2008-08-13T17:07:00.000-07:00

It's official, my boys are crazy! Okay, mostly just Spencer, but still. As I type he is in Jaxon's crib and jumping up and down despite my warnings to stop. The Jaxon thought he would help him out by closing the door so I can't see what's going on. As if I can't hear the jumping. Spencer has really been doing his best lately to grate on every opne of my nerves, which is probably why I haven't taken too many pictures lately. He has gone completely back to diapers and refuses to even pee on the potty anymore since I got frustrated and threw his school chart in the garbage the other day. That is probably my fault, but I was really sick and tired of begging him to poop on the potty so he could get a sticker, especially when he would do really well for a few days so I knew he knew how! Arrg! For the last few weeks he has just been ignoring me or being defiant. I thought they weren't suppose to learn that yet! Anyway, I just needed a minute to vent. Any help out there for my defiant, non-potty trained 3 year old, who says he would like to be a baby?
On a positive note, I do have some pictures I need to post that are pretty cute on those rare good moments! I also have to still get some from family since while we were in Utah, I kept forgeting to bring my camera!

Blogs

2008-08-11T19:20:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I love LeeLou Blogs. I had to change my background when I saw she had come out with some new ones. And, of course, I had to pick this one because it is called Emily. :) I have told some of my friedns about this, but I want to make sure you all know...If you go to LeeLou blogs, see link, you can get a button for your blog that will take people straight to mormon.org. She has a bunch if you just keep scrolling down. :) The only bad part is they don't stick when you change your background. :( Oh, well! She has really easy to follow instructions for her backgrounds and buttons. Enjoy!

I knew it was too quiet...

2008-07-21T22:43:00.000-07:00

Fun in the Sun!

2008-07-21T22:29:00.001-07:00

Last Week I bought the great blow-up pool from Target. So Spencer had his friend Cora over to go "swimming." They were having a blast!Jaxon thought is was a lot a fun to splash like crazy. This meant I got really wet though!
I am sad this picture is a little bright because he was giggling like crazy and it was just so cute!

Just for fun!

2008-07-21T22:03:00.000-07:00

So since I didn't blog for a long time, I had all these great photos sitting on my computer. So here they all are in one big post. :) This first one is my favorite. Definately some great blackmail material for when he's older. :) He was playing with Spencer's goggles from Lowe's.

Spencer and a carrot from my garden. It is pretty much the only thing that grew besides my sunflowers, but Spencer thought it was cool.
This is Jaxon and his buddy Colton. He was being so silly that day. I think I have a very similar picture of me as a kid like this. lol!

The boys have finally found something they can play on together. Yes!

So a couple weeks ago we to Spencer to the Excalibur. Everytime we drive on I-15 and he sees the castle, he thinks it is the Disneyland castle, so we finally took him to play. He loved it and was rally good and this game where you threw baseballs and had to get them in a row.

Spencer and his winnings!

Jaxon was apparently too tired to pick up his food, or he was just having trouble, so he kept putting his face on his tray and using his mouth! Silly boy!

Okay, that's all my randon pics. You are all caught up for the last month!

Jaxon's 1st Birthday

2008-07-19T22:04:00.001-07:00

This is Jaxon's first birthday. We had two celebrations. One with just us on his actual birthday. I made his favorite dinner, chicken broccoli and we had cake of course. Spencer had to help blow out the candle and then have one of his own. :) It was simple but nice. Then on Saturday we had the rest of the family over for a BBQ and cupcakes. It was so much fun. Jaxon got to play with Addison and of course Spencer played with Grisham. It is always great to just hang out and spend time with family. Sadly I don't have many pictures from Saturday. I remembered to charge the video camera but I forgot about my digital camera. Opps!
Thanks again to everyone for coming!

Wednesday's Strawberry cake. Spencer picked it out. He said that Jaxon wanted it.

I love this picture. I just think it is fun and he looks like he is about to attack the cake.

This was so funny. Jaxon wasn't into really tearing the paper. We would try to get him started by tearing a little hole, but then he just kept playing with the toy through the hole. It was cute.

This is Jaxon with his cupcake on Saturday. He was kinda tired by the time we got to cupcakes and was mostly content to just stare at everyone watching him. He did finally eat some cupcake. I am not sure why the color turned out so funny on this picture, but I like it. It reminds me of photos taken in the 80s. :)

This is how present opening went on Saturday. Spencer or Grisham helped open and then Spencer was as excited if not motre excited than Jaxon about whatever was inside. I think he has played with Jaxon's new toys all week. It is kind of funny, but it has made him a lot more willing to share. :)

4th of July

2008-07-13T19:35:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I know it has been a long time since I blogged, so to save you all from a million pics. I will just go back to the 4th of July. Here are the pics from our fun weekend with my sister, Kimberly, from Houston and her family.

We started our day by going to Rhodes Ranch to fed the ducks. It wasn't as fun as usual because they were trimming the trees and it was a mess. There also weren't as many ducks as usual, but a promise is a promise, so we only stayed for about 15 minutes. :)

Jaxon was pretty tired already and ready for his nap as you can tell by his thumb!

Look at the mess from the trees! The water was also a lot lower than normal.

This is one of the crafts the kids made. They got to color USA bandanas. I wish I would have gotten Spencer on film saying bandana. It was really cute!

Jaxon sporting his brother's bandana

Spencer was having a blast with his cousins and his uncle Brandon. He still asks for his cousins, he doesn't understand why we can't go see them everyday. :(

We started the evening with some poppers and then sparklers. I just really like this picture of my niece Kalea. I thought the smoke looked really cool.

This was the funniest moment of the whole evening! We went to start lighting fireworks and two of my brothers were out in the street forever while the kids waited patiently on the step. Well, they waited and waited and my brothers could not get the firework to light. Finally David went out to see if he could help and looked at the "firework." Turns out it was just a cone shaped Popper!

The kids were all really good for the fireworks. They would just cheer and cheer! Luckily Jaxon had gone to bed by this point. :)

Well that was our 4th. It was great to see my sister and I am so excited to go to Houston after she has her baby! We weren't going to take our kids, but Spencer loved his cousins so much, we might just have to! Well, this is all I have time to post now, but I promise to post pics from Jaxon birthday by the end of the week!

Time

2008-07-13T18:59:00.000-07:00

Where does the time go? Suddenly I turn around and my baby is one. I have a 3-year old who is becoming more and more of a little boy every day. I have been married for 7 years. We have lived in this house for 6 years (we never thought it would be more than 5). And It has been over a month since I really blogged! Okay, so the last one not so big, but really I don't feel like I should be this old. Not that I mind being this old, it just seems crazy to think of how I got here. When you are young you look forward to birthdays and getting older and dating and driving. Now I feel like I live more in the moment. So much that I fequently have to stop and think when people ask me how old I am. Some may just call that spacey or a bad memory, but really I think it is just a matter of importance. My age isn't as important as it was when I was 15 and 11 months. Now suddenly it is my kids age that are calculated by months. It just seems crazy how much faster it goes. As Jaxon turned one this last week, I couldn't help but think of how much faster this has flown by as compared to Spencer. Does it get faster with each kid? Am I going to blink and they will be teenagers? Oh, what a scary thought! Well, enough of my rambling. Here is what has been happening in our lives.

Tagged

2008-06-20T08:20:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I got tagged a long time ago, but I have been bad about blogging this whole month! So here it FINALLY is...
Four things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. Finishing my sophmore year of high school and wondering if my mom was going to make me return to my home school the next year.
2. Dancing all the time - I went to ALL the youth dances!
3. Dating - I was a very excited 16 year old!
4. Wondering when I was going to learn to drive
Four things I was doing 5 years ago:
1. Working Full time at Czarnowski
2. Going to college full time
3. Trying to have a baby - for those of you doing the math - It took us a year from this point!
4. Looking forward to being done with crazy school schedules and seeing my husband more often!
Four things i did yesterday:
1. Cleaned my house
2. Took my kids to Burger King for a play group
3. Watched my friend's daughter Cora
4. Had a jewelry party for Diana - sorry again for the lame turn out
Four shows I like to watch:
1. So you think you can dance - who doesn't like this show!
2. How I met your mother
3. Bachelorette - not normally, but I REALLY like this season. I know it's lame!
4. Ellen!!

Happy Anniversary!

2008-05-28T19:09:00.000-07:00

So on Memorial Day we were celebrating David being home and our 7th anniversary. We had a wonderful day all day on Monday. We started it off by taking the whole family out to breakfast and both kids were amazingly good. Then we came home and laid the boys down for a quick nap and then it was off to bowling. We had never even tried to take Spencer bowling before, but he had a blast! It definately helped having his friend Cora there. :) Then we came home and laid both boys down and got a little bit of housework done. Then we got ready to go out. It was kind of a weird feeling getting ready in the middle of the day with no kids underfoot, but it was nice.Then we dropped the kids off at Tina and Radford's and went to the most amazing dinner I have ever had! David surprised me by taking me to the Eiffel Tower Restaurant. It was so beautiful! The food was amazing and the view, well, you can see for yourself it was spectacular! We had a great relaxing evening and we were home by 10! You can't beat that on a Monday evening! It was a great anniversary and I can't believe it has been 7 years. Hopefully tthey will all be this good!

Jaxon at breakfast. I just thought this was funny. :)

My boys! Sorry about the window!

This is what kept Spencer entertained at the restaurant

Bowling with mom!

Spencer and Cora

The Eiffel Tower Restaurant!

David's food! It was so pretty and I don't even like fish!

Our view from our table. This is what I got to look at all evening when I wasn't looking at my husband or the amazing food! :)

It's been a while!

2008-05-22T15:17:00.000-07:00

I know it has been a while since I last posted anything. It was kind of crazy around here for a while. I was called as enrichment leader and we had our first big enrichment (a service auction) last week so I was going crazy planning that. Then I would of had time this last Sunday, but I could not find the camera. It was not a fun day. I could find my camera or my car keys! I hate losing stuff. I finally found the camera on Monday. My husband had put it his pants from the father and son's camp out and put them in the laudry basket, which when I was searching on Sunday, I had thought of and looked but didn't find it. Apparently it had fallen out so I found it when I did laundry on Monday. Then, I didn't find my keys until Tuesday evening. They were in my husband's car! I think when we went out to dinner on Tuesday I had them in my hand when I locked the front door and then for some reason dropped them on the back seat of the car when I buckled Jaxon in and forgot to pick them up. I really have no idea why I wouldn't have picked them up, but that's where they were! I was just glad I finally found them by that point! It is the only set we have for my car since David's keys were stollen back in September! Really I just hate losing things. I couldn't relax all Sunday because I was racking my brains trying to remember the last place I had my keys! Arrg! Anyway, that is my really long excuse on why I haven't posted, so sorry and enjoy!

Cowboy Up!

2008-05-22T15:11:00.001-07:00

These pictures just make me smile. Jaxon was being so cute with David's hat, I had to grab the camera! He is starting to interact more and it has been so much fun!

Father and Son

2008-05-22T15:00:00.000-07:00

David was brave enough to take Spencer to his first Father and Son's outing this last weekend. They weren't there long, but seemed to have a lot of fun. Spencer wanted nothing to do with me when he got home. Apparently I was not missed. :)

^Spencer kept talking about butterflies. Isn't this weird and cool?

^Spencer did not sleep well. No big surprise there!

Watch out Tiger Woods!

2008-05-22T14:42:00.000-07:00

David took Spencer to the putting green at Rhodes Ranch a couple week ago. He had so much fun! He cracks me up the way he carries his golf bag around on his shoulder. The other day he threw it in the back of his toy truck and was off to play golf. It was too funny!

Happy Birthday Spencer!

2008-05-04T16:07:00.000-07:00

Last Friday was Spencer's 3rd birthday. I can't believe he is 3 already! I know, I know, that is not very old, but still, he is becoming such a little boy these days. Friday David woke up early and made him Mickey Mouse pancakes and then later we went to visit David at lunch and that evening we went to Chuck E Cheese and Dippin' Dots. It was a lot of fun for Spencer. :) We also had a little party for him on Saturday. I have never seen him smile so much. I am sure his cheeks were sore by the end of Saturday. :)

Spencer's party

the kids played pin the bow tie on Pablo

Grammy and Jaxon - this was about the only time Jaxon was happy - he wasn't sure about all those people!

The kids in their Backyardigan's masks

Logan decapitating Pablo the pinata!

We decided to do the ribbons since it didn't open!

Candy!!!!

He loves to sing Happy Birthday to people, so he got a huge kick out of having everyone sing to him!

Make a wish!

Pool Party!

2008-05-04T15:37:00.001-07:00

I have a group of good friends who all had babies within a week of each other and then Jaxon's birthday is a few months later. Last week we got together to celebrate all the boys 1st birthdays. My friend, Chelsea, is the only one who didn't have a baby celebrating and is a great photographer, so she took pictures for all of us. It was great being able to just enjoy ourselves and not spending our time behind the camera. Thanks again Chelsea!

All the Birthday Babies!

I made these cupcakes for the boys. I thought they looked cute (and they were really good) but Chelsea's photography skills make them look really fancy. :)

As you can see by their faces, the boys all loved their cupcakes!

For a less bias group of pictures, check out Chelsea's Photo Blog! :)

Disneyland!

2008-04-20T16:55:00.001-07:00

This week we went to Disneyland and had an amazing time! David and I haven't been to Disneyland since we were little and weren't really sure what to expect or how much our kids would like it. After our trip we both agree it exceeded our expectations. We had so much fun at it was so fun to see Spencer have fun. It was also great to have David's sister Tina and their family come with us. I fair warn you now, there are a lot of pictures!

Our matching plaid family :)

Mommy and Spencer after riding the rolloer coaster for the 4th or 5th time in a row. We just rode it with our hands up. I was so impressed, he didn't put them down once. I think I laughed the entire ride. He just seamed so little to do that!

This is the little roller coaster!

Jaxon and Eeyore

Spencer has been doing great potty training, but he did have two accidents while we were there. Once of which involved the shutting down of the carousel for about 20 minutes! So embarassing! David and I were actually riding the roller coaster right next to this at the time and poor Tina had to clean him up. So sorry and thanks again!

Spencer and Grisham in the background. They both LOVED the carousel.

Jaxon got to ride too.

David was a bit of a sucker for some of the treats at Disneyland. I happened to notice he typically bought them when I was off nursing Jaxon. Hmm...

The Dumbo ride was also one of Spencer's favorites.

Here's Tina, Radford and Grisham with us on the tea cup ride. Spencer giggled the entire time we were on this ride. :)

The boys and their first cotton candy. Spencer wasn't sure what to think of it at first, but soon he was loving it!

This was the first ride Spencer went on and also one of his favorites. I think he rode it 4 times while we were there. :)

We randomly caught this little singing quartet and as you can see, Spencer was mesmerized.

Spencer and David after riding the Matterhorn! I can't believe he rode it. He thought it was a little scary, but he didn't cry until the end because he thought they were going to go again!!

Clark County Fair!!

2008-04-13T17:18:00.001-07:00

Spencer took this picture.^

Jaxon was SO good to keep this hat on all day and he looked so sweet!

On Friday we went to the fair with Tina and Grisham. I thought it was funny, Spencer kept calling it a circus. Until David asked him if he went to the circus and he said, "No Daddy, the fair!" The kids had a lot of fun and I thought of it as our test run for Disneyland. Spencer LOVED the pony rides and the carnival rides. He is so ready for Disneyland!!

My loves!!

2008-04-13T17:14:00.000-07:00

Spencer has recently decided he is big enough to "hold" Jaxon. It is really funny, but it also makes me nervous he is going to try it by himself one day. He used to try to pick him up as a newborn and would drag him across the floor. It is much better now that Jaxon can sit, but now Jaxon can also crawl away, so you can see Spencer has quite the grip on him. I thought the picture was cute because Jaxon looks like he is waving, but I think he was just trying to keep from falling over as his brother squeezed him!!

My summer color

2008-04-13T17:09:00.000-07:00

So I cut it again! I am actually growing it back to how I had it when I first cut it off and this is my transitional hair cut. I also got highlights for summer. You can't see them realy well, but this was the best picture of the cut. I had David take about 10, but for the first 5 the camera was set for picture at night so they weren't turnnig out well, then he took some from too far away and you couldn't see my hair well enough. Then the camera was being funny adn the flash was too bright, so when we got this one, I was done seeing flashes. :) I actually really like the cut. I love not having to do my hair everyday!!!

Touch a Truck!

2008-04-06T12:39:00.001-07:00

On Saturday we went to the Touch-a-Truck event at the Orleans with some friends. The boys were in heaven. :) They all had a lot of fun and could have stayed all day if we weren't tired and hungry. We were there for about 2 hours and didn't even see everything. The helicopter was definately the highlight, but the wait was a little much. Thanks for standing in line for us Amy! It really was a lot of fun! We will definately have to go again next year! Thanks for calling Jamie!

The training wheels on this motorcycle made me laugh!

They really wanted to get IN this racecar. :)

I really was impressed that they were all willing to take turns behind the wheel!

Our week in pictures

2008-03-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

Jumping on the trampoline with McKenna. They were cracking each other up. They were taking turns bouncing each other. It was really funny.

Babies turn on the trampoline! This is Jaxon and Madeline.

I jsut really liked this picture. They were both jumping and landing on their butts and then they would get up and do it again. They slept well that night. :)

This picture cracks me up evrytime I look at it. First of all he has crazy bed head so his hair is wild. Second he was wearing his batman cape and flying around the back yard. Third, is my favorite. If you look close at his lips you can see, he was runnig while making up his own theme song!!

This is an Awww moment. He was picking a flower for his friedn Cora who hadf just inspired him to finally start potty training. Yay!?! :)

Jaxon started eating chunkier foods. Here he is eating bananas. I love the kissy face he makes while chewing.

Arts and crafts day with mom. We found this train at the new Walmart for a whole 88 cents and it provided a great morning of entertainment.

This was actually still Easter. Sorry Spencer has no pants, it was late in the evening and I am not exactly sure what happened to them, but I thought this was a sweet picture. We had filled Jaxon's eggs with gerber puffs and Spencer was opening them and sharing with his brother. He would dump them out between them and they would go to town! I was surprised the dog didn't join in!! Spencer thought it was fun!

Easter Morning

2008-03-24T17:06:00.001-07:00

Spencer did a great job finding eggs this year. That is, once he decided to come downstairs. He was afraid to come downstairs at first. It took about 5 minutes of convincing. I think he thought the Easter Bunny was still here! Too funny! Anyway, Jaxon found one egg and was done, so Spencer helped him with his too. In the end Jaxon was much more interested in the grass!!

Easter at Mom's

2008-03-24T16:47:00.001-07:00

Jaxon and Uncle Trent!!

Easter Egg Hunt in Grandma's front yard.

The Last Egg. (Uncle Trent hid this one.)

Yummy!!!! Candy and hanging out with Grandpa, is there a better combination?

Finally!

2008-03-24T09:43:00.000-07:00

Jaxon is finally crawling. Actually he has been doing it for about two weeks now, I just haven't posted it. :) He can also sit up from a crawl which is such a nice day. He follows Spencer around all the time now and crawls to Coby all the time. He thinks Coby is funny for some reason. :)

A few cute pictures

2008-03-23T18:14:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated my blog in a while, so here are some cute pics of the boys and then I will post the Easter pics.

I love Jaxon's eyebrow in the picture. He looks like he is saying, "Ah, yes, I am going to eat that camera." :) He was actually watching Coby and Spencer outside just before this.

Spencer and his new golf set. His last cheap set from Walmart finally kicked the bucket, and I got tired of taping it. He plays golf almost everyday. It has been so nice outside, he plays ball with Coby and then golf almost every morning. Hmm, the next Tiger Woods?

A boy and his dog!

2008-03-15T08:47:00.000-07:00

We have a new addition to the family. Last week Coby joined our family and Spencer could not be more excited. Everyday runs downstairs and out the door they go to play ball. I had to start inforcing a no ball before breakfast rule. :) They are too cute together. Spencer says he is his, "Best Friend."

I've been tagged!

2008-03-05T10:24:00.000-08:00

1.-What is his name? David Andrew Wilcock
2-How long have you been married? 6 years (it will be 7 in May)
3-How long did you date? 11 months - Way too long for me! :)
4-Who eats more sweets? That is probably a tie. We both love them. When we do have them, David could definitely eat more, but I typically stop him. He is trying to lose some weight. HaHa.
5-Who said I love you first? David did. We had been dating for 4 months and had just returned from a vacation with my family where we had seen each other at our worsts. I figured if he could tell me after that, he must really mean it. He said it was at that moment he knew he was going to marry me. Awww...
6-Who is taller? David. I love to wear heels!!
7-Who can sing better? I can, but David isn't too bad. He would really like to learn how too.
8-Who is smarter? I would have to say it depends on the subject. He loves political and history stuff, but I love math and writing.
9-Who does the laundry? I could probably count on one hand the number of loads David has done. He is good to change the load from the washer to the dryer for me. :)
10-Who pays the bills? I do. We have tried it both ways, but it is much more likely to get payed on time if I do them, so it's me!
11-Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you are looking at the bed David sleeps on the right. I actually prefer to sleep on that side, but we switch when I was pregnant so I would be closer to the bathroom!! I actually sleep on that side so I can be next to the alarm too. Otherwise he would hit the snooze 5 times in the mornings. :)
12-Who cooks dinner? I do most of the time, but David really enjoys grilling and making up new recipes.
13-Who drives? David does most of the time, but occasionally I will when he is tired.
14-Who is more stubborn? Hmmm...It depends on the issue. :)
15-Who kissed who first? I kissed David first, which is very unlike me. We had only been dating a week, but we had seen each other everyday. I still tease him because it was the worst kiss ever. Why, you ask? He didn't kiss me back!! He did, however, make up for it the next day.
16-Who asked who out first? Again, against my norm, I asked him. He had been flirting with me for months and for some reason never got up the courage, so when me friends planned a big group date, I got up the courage. I never had to ask again. :)
17-Who proposed? David did. It was late on Valentine's Day and we had just returned from a college class we were taking together. He made me open my V-day's presents first which included some pans!! Not the most romantic, but it worked!
18-Who wears the pants? We both do. We actually have a great relationship and are really good at talking things out.

I tag Emily B. I think all my other friends have recently done this!!

Spring is coming!

2008-03-02T18:14:00.000-08:00

I am so glad that Spring is coming. I took this picture in my backyard this weekend and it just got me looking around. I was so excited to see all the tree blooming. Spring is my favorite time of year. I love watching everything turn green again. It also got me in the mood to start deep cleaning my house. I know its crazy, but I love it. I just thought I would share this picture, in case you have all been too busy to notice all the beautiful buds outside. Thank you for Spring!

Take me out to the ball game!

2008-03-02T15:36:00.000-08:00

On Saturday we were finally able to spend some time with our very missed Daddy. Tax season is hard on all of us! We both spent some time with Spencer out back while Jaxon took a nap. It was a lot of fun and at times very funny! Oh, and yes he did just throw that silver ball in the air. Sometimes when he is being silly he closes his eyes and gets turned all the way around when he throws. That way you know he threw it really hard. :)

Catch, mommy, catch!

This is my favorite picture of the day. I was laughing so hard after I took it. He tries so hard. :)

He loves his dad!

Now that I have shown you all of Spencer's hilarious blooper's of the day, I have to show you the video of him almost smacking David in the head with the ball! He really isn't too bad. :)

Spencer and Grisham

2008-03-02T15:30:00.001-08:00

On Friday Spencer's cousin, Grisham, came over to play. These boys just love each other. These two are going to be trouble when they're older! I must say though, Spencer is also quite fond of his Aunt Tina too. :)

Go, Jax, Go!

2008-03-02T15:01:00.000-08:00

I finally got it on film! Spencer and Jaxon "racing." It still cracks me up everytime!

Spencer and Cora

2008-03-02T14:41:00.000-08:00

Spencer had his friend Cora over earlier this week and the were so cute together. He is normally not always great about sharinf his toys, but he was super sweet the whole time and

they were being so cute as the danced to Backyardigans! It is so nice when they are good... the rest of this week has been rather long so it is so nice to look back at the good times. It seems Cora brings out the good in all of her little boy friends. They all seem to love her!

One step closer...

2008-02-24T15:51:00.000-08:00

Jaxon is getting closer and closer to crawling. He gets up on his knees and rocks and sometimes moves his knees. Now if only he could figure out the arms....

I am a little nervous about how Spencer will react once Jaxon figures out crawling. He likes to freak out if Jaxon gets or even comes close to his toys now. And Jaxon's whole motivation for crawling is that he is going to be able to reach his brother's toys! I think I might be in trouble. It was really funny the other day when Spencer decided to have a crawling "race" with Jaxon. He got on his hands and knees next to him and said, "ready, set, go!" Needless to say, Spencer won.

2008-02-24T15:46:00.000-08:00

We went to Macayo's on Friday and Spencer did a great job eating at dinner, so he got a sucker on his way out. As you can see, he was really enjoying it!

2008-02-24T15:37:00.000-08:00

Jaxon has finally decided he can sit up and play by himself. It is a very happy day! He also has decided he loves the camera. Everytime I get it out he is all smiles. I can't decide if he likes the camera more or the flash! :)

Before he sees the camera...

...and instant captivation!

You can also see his two new bottom teeth really well in this picture!

2008-02-24T15:22:00.000-08:00

He looks like he's ready for school! Too bad mom is not!

Say Cheese!!

Spencer with his two new loves.

1. that very bright Dr. Seuss backpack

2. Our old digital camera

2008-02-17T15:39:00.000-08:00

Jaxon has started to babble. If you listen carefully you can hear him say MaMa. Yeah! :) He can actually say it even better than this, but everytime I get the camera out, he just stares at it and stops talking!

2008-02-17T15:36:00.000-08:00

On Friday I watched my friend Amy's little boy for a little bit while she went to visit her sister in the hospital, the boys were being so cute together. The found each other facinating.

2008-02-17T15:28:00.000-08:00

On Valentine's Day we had a few of Spencer's friend's over to make pizza and decorate sugar cookies. The kids had a blast and Spencer got to play with Grisham for a while afterwards while Tina and Radford went out for a Valentine's day lunch. The boys had a blast, but after such a busy day Spencer crashed on the couch. :)

2008-02-17T15:25:00.000-08:00

I also cut my hair again this week, let me know what you think. It is kind of hard to get a good visual of it from this picture, but I couldn't seem to get a better one. Yes, it is really short, but you have to try to know if it will look good, right. And hair will always grow back. :) I think I like the way I had it better, but I have gotten a lot of complements on this too.

2008-02-17T15:18:00.000-08:00

Both boys were sick on Monday. Jaxon was getting a tooth and Spencer just had a cold. I took this picture Monday night because poor Jaxon just looked pathetic. He did have a new tooth break through about 2 hours before I took this. Poor kid.

Here's the tooth! As you can see, he is much happier now. :)

2008-02-17T15:15:00.000-08:00

I have been letting Spencer play with the camera lately. He loves to take pictures. This is the only one that turned out okay. Of course I had to do some moajor cropping, but not too bad for a 2 year old. :)