No more monkeys jumping on the chairs!

08/12/2010

08/11/2010

08/10/2010

So my little stinker Xonian (I'll explain the nickname another time) almost broke his little nose. Those of you with boys, know how rambunctious they can be. Our two just love to climb and jump off things. We've got a couple of chairs upstairs that no matter how many times we tell them not to climb and jump from them, they always do. Finally, Jaxon paid the price for not listening to his parents. He leaped from one chair to the other and fell short slamming his nose into the wooden arm of the other chair. I took a picture of his nose for the last 3 days because he seems to wake up worse everyday. The pictures don't do a whole lot of justice to the damage but it swelled up pretty well. And by yesterday, the swelling moved up right into his right eye. Brian calls him Avatar. Ha ha! He does sort of look like one. I do hate it though. I feel like a totally different kid is living with us. I miss his cute little face and profile.

Lots of pix

Okay, someone messed with my computer and I can't see the pictures I'm uploading so I'll need to do catch up another day. Here are some church pictures I took this last Sunday. We were ready early enough for once to take some. :)

New goal

I have decided I want to be a better blogger. And like a lot of my friends, turn it into my journal. I do a "decent" job keeping journals for my kids but I've really slacked at doing something for myself. And lets face it, my blog has been nothing but a photo album (and a sad one at that). With my new blogging goal, it will also force me to be a better photographer. I have been terrible at taking pictures and I don't want that regret when my children outgrow me (which I'm certain will never happen-but just in case). Whether anyone reads this or not doesn't matter. I'm sure someday my kids will and that is what matters. So let's get started!

I am one who is a big fan of even numbers and I despise odd ones. The volume, microwave, number of M & M's I eat, all must be an even number. Now, I don't go ballistic if it's not even which I why I don't consider it a sickness. We've all got our quirks. As 2010 approached, I of course was feeling very optimistic. I just KNEW it was going to be an amazing year. Now, I don't know if it's because it's an even year or because of my optimism, but so far that thought has lived true. It has been a great year! 1. We're expecting our 3rd child and 1st girl. Come on, now that's pretty darn exciting. 2. We moved into a new house. The reason that is so exciting is because we've felt every negative feeling about our situation in our other house. It was meant to be a starter home and an investment and it looked like it was turning into neither. We were out money on our home and it looked more like a 10 year plan than a 5 year one. BUT, we knew we couldn't leave it. We were both grateful to have our jobs and grateful to have a home we could afford. As sickening as the home prices had become, especially in Queen Creek, we wondered if there was a way we could honestly take advantage. So we mused the idea of possibly purchasing a new home and renting our old one for the same cost. Hmmmmm. Brilliant idea if I do say so myself, but was it possible even a little bit? The risk of finding renters, fixing up a fore-closed home-it was all a little much. We toyed with the idea for about a year and decided it was time to see if we could. We didn't want to someday regret not even trying. So Brian got it started and it just happened. We were blessed to find renters right away and blessed to find a home we love. I feel very much grown up after this experience and like many times in my life, felt the rewards of doing the right thing.

Basically, those two life changing events are what have made this year so memorable. Along with our health and other reasons not as dramatic, things have been great. Although, this has also been a sad year for death and sickness. Brian's Great Grandma Grace passed away earlier this year. She lived in Utah so I was as close as one could be to an out of town relative but I loved her dearly. She was in her 90's when she passed and she was one of the sweetest people I've met. I find myself remembering that I need to write to her and it hits me that I can't. Another one is Brian's grandfather. His passing was a shock to everyone. A heart attack took him very quickly from us. It was hard to see my husband grieve for his loss. We found out about a month ago that my grandpa has cancer. I was blessed with the opportunity to visit him in Arkansas with my mom last week. It was my first trip away from the kids. I had a great time with my mom and I was happy to see my grandpa. We found out today another one of Brian's great grandma's is very ill. I hope we don't lose anymore relatives this year and that everyone can keep their health.

Well, that is a VERY brief synopsis of my year so far. I am going to post over due pictures in the next post and I am going to work very hard at posting more often and recording my life. I just want to say I love my family and grateful for the blessings of this year!

Cute singing little angels!

Fo Sho

It was confirmed yesterday- a girl it is! So weird saying "daughter". A lot of change to get used to this year but all of it is good!

Big News!

So I realized I have some blogger friends who do not have FB so some of you don't know our big news. Yep, you guessed it...Pregnant!! Woo hoo. And even bigger news...Girl!! I'm 15 weeks and had an U/S yesterday and though she had her hand in an inconvenient spot, the doctor was pretty certain baby was a she. We'll confirm next month but remembering my boys U/S's and how obviously boy they were, this one is definitely girl. It was so fun to see her for the first time and now our family will be complete! We're not closing the door on a possible 4th but we are for sure happy and grateful for what we have. Due 10/19/2010. Hoping for 10/10/10 (wouldn't that be so cool!!).

2010-so far...

Time to catch up a bit. We've had a few very funny moments this year and I so need to post the proof. I had a good feeling about 2010 and it's already going by too quickly but we're loving it! This is definitely going to be an awesome year-I know it! So the picture above is quite obvious. Ryker found the marker's.

This was tonight. I'm still trying to get these rugrats to put all the books back.

I'm doing the dishes and all of a sudden I hear Ryker-"mess. I spilled." No clue how he got yogurt on his head/face like that.

This was hysterical! The Lincoln Logs tube was literally stuck to his perfectly huge head. He was crying and I was laughing my butt off and snapping pictures. I'm not a very nice mother. Poor baby. I almost had to break out the Crisco but somehow we managed it off.

At the park-weather has been perfect!

Dr. Doolittle caught a couple pigeons. Gross huh? We brought bread for the ducks and all the pigeons on the planet heard about it and flew over to us. The kids loved it.

Me want more cake!

Ding dong the goats are gone! But really, they asked for it. We came home from church one day to find them in the house. For those who don't know, they are not indoor animals. If I had had a gun, they would be dead. Although, it makes me sad to see this picture. The boys just loved them.

We got a Wii for Christmas and the boys even love it. Here's Jaxon skiing. And yes, he's wearing the smallest size underwear they make. :)

Hope everyone else is having a great year as well!