A day in my life.

The winter months can seem very long, and not too long after the snow comes and stays I'm looking forward to spring. Being at home all day with three crazy kids can be very exhausting. After picking up after the kids and trying to clean the house all day to have it look like I did nothing that day can be very overwhelming at times. Here are some pictuces of things that are pretty common at are house.

First Words

Today Nixon said his first understandable words!!! I was sooo excited because he is 15 months old, and should be saying several words by now. I'm starting to be a little concerned but, not totally freaked out yet. I'm pretty sure he can hear because he responds when you talk with him. Such as, you ask him for a kiss and he will give you a big wet slobbery kiss. At his doctors appointment just recently I brought this speech delay issue up with the doctor. He didn't seem to worried yet either. However he gave me some information on a program I could contact that could help Nixon. Next week a speech therapist is coming to test or observe (I'm not sure what they do) him, and see if he qualifies for this program.

Anyway back to the story. Nixon LOVES his daddy. As soon as Jeff comes in the door Nixon squeals and gets so excited and runs to daddy. Most of the time Nixon wants his dad to hold him and play with him. This morning when Jeff was getting ready to leave for work he was telling all the kids he loved them and was giving them a kiss. Nixon was following Jeff around and he said,"I love you." Jeff and I looked at each other in shock. It was one of the cutest things I have ever seen.

Holiday parties

We had an awesome Christmas!!! This is how it went:




December 23rd Party with the Low Family.

The kids had so much fun playing with their cousins. Santa came and picked up the coats each family brought to donate to someone in need. Opened presents, gotta love that, and of course the food was excellent!!

December 24th party with the Barlow Family in the day.

Again, the kids loved playing with their cousins. Santa came and brought each of the kids a gift. We read the Christmas story from the Bible while the kids dressed up and played their part. Lexi was an angel who ended wearing purple because that material had sparkleys in it. Tanner was a wise man who wasn't really feeling like participating. Then again, was another great lunch. And of course PRESENTS!!!

December 24th evening back at our house to have our own family party.

For the last few years this is what we have done. The kids each get to open a present from us and of course they are new PJ's(I know very original), and then there is one present for the family, a new Christmas book. We read the new story have hot chocolate and watch a Christmas show. This year we just found a show to watch on T.V. In the past we have watched a DVD on the birth of Christ, but our DVD player is broken. Then it is off to bed. Usually I'm up forever this night wrapping presents, but this year I didn't procrastinate.

December 25th

YEAAAH Santa came!!!

The kids had a great day!! We opened presents first thing in the morning. Then we have cinnamon rolls and play with our new toys the rest of the day. That is our Christmas day. I feel lucky to be able to spend the whole day with my family at home. All the Christmas parties are over, and I love how it all works out to be able to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day at home.

But that's not all. Then comes NEW YEARS!!

December 31th The last of the parties.

We went to a party out at my parents house this year. We had a lot of fun, especially Jeff. My brother owns Motor Sports Unleashed so he brought a few of his big boy toys, and the guys and a few girls had lots of fun playing in the snow. We had pizza, eat lots of goodies, and played games until we rang in the new year. The kids had lots of fun playing in the hot tub. Thanks Grandpa and uncle Ken for always being so willing to get in with them. We all had a great time!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

Nixon

YEAH Nixon is finally walking! He started to walk several weeks ago, but I'm kind of slow on putting things like this on here. Nixon is almost 15 months, and we are so proud of him. I was starting to wonder if he was ever going to start to walk.

Nixon is also our little climber. You have to constantly be watching him because he will climb up and onto everything. I have to pull the chairs away from the kitchen table, and the computer if I don't want to constantly be pulling him of the table or playing on the computer. We have a gate that I put up so he can't get to the stairs, but he will climb up the gate too. He has learned how to do stairs now so I guess I can put the gate away now. He also LOVES to get into the pots and pans.

Nixon defiantly keeps me busy and on my toes. I'm looking forward to him growing out of this stage where he is into everything, but I better enjoy this cute little guy at this stage too. I am also looking forward to him being old enough to go to nursery. I don't think I can remember the last time I was able to sit through Sunday school class and relief society. Even though Nixon keeps me super busy I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Merry Christmas

This time of year is one of my favorite's. I love getting together and celebrating with family and friends. Having a 4 and 3 year old makes it even better. To see them get so excited over Christmas, and watch their reaction on Christmas morning is the best! However, need we not forget the true meaning of Christmas. The celebrating of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Let it snow!!!

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the soup mom made is so delightful, and since we no place to go let it snow let it snow let it snow.

Smilebox

I was playing around on this website, and I wanted to see what it looked like as a post. I'm not sure how this will look.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Nixon gets butched

Well it is that time, time for Nixon to get his first haircut. His hair was not too long, but he had this patch of hair in the back that would just stick out, and it always looked so messy.

I would of preferred to just cut the back, but I don't dare try to even the top with scissors yet so all I know how to do is just buzz it off. Oh well that works. Here are a few pictures of the process thanks to Tanner's lovely photography.

Here are just a few more of the many pictures Tanner took.

Now it is time to show you a cute picture of Nixon with his hair cut, except Lexi got a hold of the camera when Tanner was done with it, and I don't know want is wrong with my camera now. Here is a picture that Tanner caught of Nixon after his haircut.

Kind of hard to see how cute his new haircut is, but oh well. (The little girl is my niece)

So unless I can figure out what is wrong with my camera I might just have to wake up super early the day after Thanksgiving and try to get a deal on a camera. A camera was defiantly not on the Christmas list, but you gotta have one. Does anyone have any suggestions on good cameras? I would love love love a really nice camera, but I just don't know if I can justify that right now, so any suggestions would be great.

Happy Halloween

The kids had a very fun Halloween this year. The day before Halloween I had my photoshop class so Jeff watched the kids, and they painted pumpkins. He took some really cute pictures of them here are just a few.

Jeff is an excellent babysitter. On the occasions that he does babysit, and I might add that those times a pretty rare, when I come home the kids are usually bathed and in bed.

On Halloween this year the kids were in their costumes all day. We started the day out by going to see Jeff at school during lunch time.

The school kids loved seeing the kids dressed up in their costumes. All the girls came in his classroom and oohed and aahed almost the whole time. It is so funny to watch middle school kids and the way they act. That is such an awkward age anyway.

After lunch with Jeff we met my friend Amanda and her girls at Lee's, and did their little trick-or-treating around the store. Then we came home and had several hours of down time. I really wished I could of got Lexi to take a nap, but she had all ready had to much candy and was on a sugar high.

I wanted to take some pictures of the kids in their costumes before we went out trick-or-treating, and this is where a nap would of been really nice for Lexi to have had because she wouldn't cooperate at all.

Tanner was pirate again this year. This was mostly because of me he wanted to be batman, but I didn't want to spend what I thought was a lot of money on a batman costume. When I saw this pirate costume I thought it was so cute, and it was half the price of the batman man costume. He was happy with the pirate costume.

Lexi was a princess butterfly. She looked soooo cute. The picture at Jeff's school is the best picture I have that shows her costume. I need to put her in her costume one morning and actually get a cute one of her. Anyway, this is the kind of picture I could get.

Nixon was our cuddly little chicken. I got several cute pictures of him.

As you can see Nixon didn't like it to much when I would put the hood on.

Yes, it is time to go trick-or-treating now!

I can't remember a Halloween when it has been warm. The weather was so nice. We went out around 6:30 and didn't get home until around 8:00, and the whole time I was in long sleeved shirt and never even had to put on my jacket. Last year I remember the kids wanting go home after about 20 minutes because it was so cold. It was a fun Halloween and we got a TON of CANDY.

Pumpkin Walk

We went to the pumpkin walk last weekend. It was a fun little family outing, and the good news is that it was free. The whole concept of the pumpkin walk is to walk around and look at the neat little pumpkin displays that people have put together. Here is a picture of Tanner and Lexi in front of the Noah's Ark display. There was a lot of people there so I wasn't able to get a very good picture because people were waiting behind us, waiting for us to keep moving.

I didn't get a picture of it, but my favorite display was a hospital doctor scene. A pumpkin was having surgery and it's guts were hanging out. Another person was bent over with its pants down getting a shot in its little pumpkin bum. The kids talked about that the rest of the night, they thought that was pretty funny. Here are a few pictures of us strolling through the pumpkin walk.



After we were done seeing all the pumpkin displays the kids wanted to have their picture taken in these Disney character cut outs. Here are a few of those pictures.

Jeff makes a beautiful Cinderella, don't you think.

I don't know star wars at all so I have no idea who this is, but this was my favorite picture of Tanner.

Don't I make the perfect mermaid.

Nope I was wrong, Lexi definitely makes a perfect mermaid.

There's my little pooh bear. Isn't he the cutest little boy ever!!



Finally we got the kids away from all those things ( I don't really know what to call them) and went home. The kids and I had a great time at the pumpkin walk, and Jeff....well at least he came.

Trip to St. George

We went to St. George last weekend. It was UEA weekend so Jeff was out of school, and we had planned to go there with the Barlow family, and stay in the condo. We just recently bought a rhino so I was really looking forward to go down there and ride in the nice weather.

The kids loved playing in the pool, and going on rhino rides. Right by the condo was a bunch of trails. So on Friday we rode those trails and played at the pool. On Saturday we went to Sand Hollow sand dunes. This was a blast! The kids loved playing in the sand, climbing on the rocks, and looking for lizards. Jeff had a lot of fun playing around on the rocks with the rhino.

Tanner said his favorite part of the trip was playing on the rocks.

Lexi has got a mind of her own. She wanted to be in the rhino and then she didn't. She wanted to ride with grandma on the 4-wheeler, and then she would want to be in the rhino. She ended up having a lot of fun though. She said her favorite part of the trip was swimming in the pool.

I love this picture of Jeff and Lexi.

Nixon loved being outside. He never made a peep while he was in the rhino. I can't say that though for the first night we stayed in the condo. We ended up getting to St. George late Thursday night around 11:30 P.M. and Nixon had been asleep in the car for about 3 hours. So when he got woken up he wasn't tired or ready to back to bed. To make it even harder to get him to go to sleep I didn't have any milk to give him (he normally still goes to sleep with a bottle of milk). Anyway, he didn't go to sleep until 1: 30 a.m. Yea, that was fun. Oh well that happens when you go vacations with kids. On Sunday we drove home. I wish we would of had a few more days to stay and play. I would of loved to go to the sand dunes another day, and had more time to play in the pool. The ride home was okay. We dropped the rhino off in SLC to its new owner. Yep that's right its new owner. A few days before we left for St. George Jeff listed it on the KSL classifieds at like 10:00 at night, and 20 minutes later. We got an offer. We thought it would take a while before it would sell. I was sad because I was so excited to go riding down in St. George. So Jeff just told the guys who were buying it that we had a trip planned with it, and he was cool with us just dropping it off on our way home. The rhino was really fun to have. I'm sad to see it go, but maybe we'll get another one someday.