BABY BREA

Bethany had her beautiful baby girl on Dec 8! They named her Brea Rose Shaver. I was able to be in the room while she was born and it was amazing! Having a baby truly is a miracle! It doesnt matter how they get here, how long you wait, if it is your 1st, 2nd or 10th, it is just as precious and sweet every time! I love her! My other sister Brooke is due in June and I cant wait to meet that sweet little thang.

I can't believe it is December already! I have been so busy lately I haven't had time to update this thing. We have been up to so much and I have way to many pics to post! Here are a few of the highlights.

HALLOWEEN 2009

I thought it would be funny for our whole family to dress up as characters from Nacho Libre. The boys didn't like that idea. Since Boston was the only one who couldn't tell me no, he was Nacho! He was the most adorable nacho ever! Jaxson wanted to be Jack Sparrow, so I put together his costume. I found these awesome boots at Goodwill that he loved, I think I did a pretty good job! Max wanted to be Darth Vader and luckily my friend Julie had the costume already. The day before Jaxson's joy school Halloween party, I busted out the costume box looking for something. Jax found a spider man costume and then insisted on being that. I guess I should have got that out before I made his costume.... I let him be spider man for the party but Jack for trick or treating. Luckily they don't LOVE the trick or treating part yet and are not all about the candy. They were happy filling up a third of their bucket. They ate a few pieces of candy and that was it!

max with his little buddies at school

John dressed up as Nacho too!

Gilbert Days Parade

Our boys look forward to going to this parade every year! This year Bethany and Eden came with us.

I didn't remember to take pictures until we got back to the car and all I had was my camera phone. Nice.

PHX ZOO

I was able to go with Max's class for their field trip this year to the Phoenix Zoo. I had so much fun going with him. I was glad I was able to to leave the little kids at home with John so I could just go. It was fun and he called it our "date". I love going on dates with this guy. He is so sweet and was so eager to re-introduce me to all of his friends at school. Every time I go into his classroom to help, he always has to make sure everyone knows I am his mom. I love it, I hope it lasts through high school :)

Thanksgiving was great. We had it this year at our house for John's side of the family. We managed to pull it off and had so much fun. We are just so lucky to have such an awesome family!

I love this time of year and have so much to be thankful for. I am so thankful for my family. I am grateful for all the support we have had the last 8 months. I am grateful that my husband was able to find a great job after 6 long months of searching. We were truly blessed because he was humble enough to take a not so glamorous job in between. He is a wonderful man and I love him so much!

Where is that smell coming from?

This is the game I have been playing for the last week. I have a sensitive nose and can smell just about anything, especially a poopy diaper from a mile away! So I started smelling this musty smell early last week. It is just really a faint smell but it bugs the crap out of me. It is somewhere downstairs, I have figured that out. Last week I completely gutted the laundry room, thinking it was from an old wet towel that was shoved in the corner. I washed all the clothes in there on the sanitize cycle, so I knew it wasn't those... I pulled the washer and dryer out to find nothing ( I had already cleaned behind there a month ago) I scrubbed down that entire room with bleach. I thought I had got rid of that smell for good. Obviously I just burned the inside of my nose with all of the beach I used because I couldn't smell anything for a few days. Good one. This morning I woke up and almost threw up from ANOTHER nasty smell. I went downstairs to investigate. Someone had tried to clean up spilled milk yesterday with a towel and just left it under the table. Rancid. Here goes another sanitize cycle that takes 2 hours....I got rid of that smell this morning, but still that musty smell is lurking in the KITCHEN, I think. My goal today is to pull out every single thing from the cupboards and the pantry. Actually the entire kitchen. I feel like it needs to be redecorated as long as I am at it. I have a few extra kids this morning that's why I am only blogging about it right now. But I will let you know how it goes.

I am not afraid to admit it :) Am I the only one this happens to?

Wound #2 and #3

At the end of September John was walking down the stairs with Bos in his arms and stepped on a body pillow and down he went....all the way down. While he was falling he was just trying not to hurt Boston. He succeeded, but hurt himself in the process. I was at the store and when I came home he was sitting on the couch holding Bos asleep in his arms. He told me that he had fallen down the stairs like it was no big deal. He didn't seem in pain at all so I gave a little chuckle and asked if he was ok. He said no. Oops, sorry for laughing. (I thought it was funny because I fall down the stairs at least once a week!) He was in a lot of pain, and he seemed to be getting worse, so we took him a few days later to the hospital. They did a CT scan and told us that he has broken a few ribs and he also had kidney stones on top of that. Oh man. There was nothing they could do for him and sent us home with some pain pills and said to rest. It took a while for him to be able to go back to work but he is doing pretty good now still sore and cannot sleep comfortably at all. Hopefully it wont take much longer to heal so he can get some good sleep.

Wound # 3

A few days later John, Craig and I were talking and we hear this loud scream come from Boston and Max say, "OH NO, OH NO" I ran around the corner to find Boston standing there holding his left had up and it looked like his pointer finger was hanging off. I scooped him up and sat him on the table so I could get a better look. I was freaking out at all the blood and all I remember seeing was this huge gash in his finger with all of this white stuff coming out. EWW. Luckily EMT Craig was there to stay calm and not freak out! His finger was not hanging off once we cleaned it off and took a closer look. We went back to the hospital where they did some X-rays witch turned out fine and gave him stitches. He sat so good for them. All they had to do was put some numbing gel on and let it sit for an hour and then they stitched him up, no shots or anything. My dad surprised us and came in while we were waiting for the X-ray results. Boston was so excited to see Papa! He gave him and big hug and a squeeze and would not let go until he fell asleep on him. It was a sweet moment, Boston was scared and just needed that love and comfort from his grandpa. Two weeks later it is completely healed with just a small scar.

I guess max was playing on the elliptical machine and Boston stuck his little finger where the pedals rotate. Max felt really bad and drew Boston a cute picture while we were gone. It was a picture of them holding hands together with hearts all over the place.

This is Boston sporting his new wrapped up hand and matching Popsicle (with my new favorite way to keep it from making a mess!)



These were taken with the camera phone so you cant see very well but the cut wrapped almost all the way around his finger.

September went by too fast!

Max isn't in to many of these pictures because he looks like this in them all! Stinker

I cant move the pictures around for some reason so this post is all crazy.

I have been putting off blogging for over a month now but I am sick of looking at my last post every time I log on......I am not so sure where to start, except I feel like this last month has been full of wounds, wounds and more wounds. That sounded weird.

Wound #1

At the beginning of Sept we went to our annual Goodman family reunion. We love camping and look forward to this trip all summer. We camp in Vernon which is just about a half hour past Show Low. The weather was perfect this year, we wore jackets the whole time! Good food, good company, it was just plain fun. However, the day we were packing up camp, the boys were standing around the campfire with the DS...fighting. NOT A GOOD COMBINATION. Someone pushed someone and that someone pushed back. I hear Jaxson crying and look over to see everyone running to him and Max trying to pull him out of the fire. While I was running to him I saw that his bum was smoking. Craig had grabbed a jug of water and he and John were pouring it on Jaxsons pants. When I got up to him I pulled his pants and his underwear down. All I saw was a cute bum, no burns. He had holes in his pants and undies but his booty was ok. By this time there were quite a few people around and Jaxson was facing everyone with his pants around his ankles. Poor boy was embarrassed and said he just wanted his pants pulled up! Sorry buddy. I took him to the tailgate of the truck when he said his arms hurt. Ahhh ha. That's where the burns were. He had tried to catch himself when he fell back. He was so tough and hardly cried. Max was the one that was freaking out. He felt really bad. I am so thankful because I know it could have been very serious. Jeriann luckily had some burn cream and gauze. We wrapped his arm up and headed out. Until next year....

I Had a Good Laugh

I picked Jaxson up from preschool and this was our conversation:

Me: JAXSON! How was school today?

Jax: It was good. We played a game called doggy doggy wheres the bone. First it was Casen's turn, then it was mine. Then it was the boy that farts a lots turn.

Maximus

First day of 1st grade Brigham, Max and Jax

What a stud!

6 years ago today, was one of the best days of my life! I became a MOM! Max was born about 3 in the afternoon and was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen. He weighed 8lbs 7 oz and was 21 1/2 inches. He kind of looked like a monkey because he was so dark and had hair in places I never knew babies had! He had dark hair on his ears, ankles, his eyebrows and hairline connected, and my favorite was that he had a hairy bumm crack! I am so glad he choose to come to our family, and that he was the first. He is the best brother to his little buddies. I love him more than words can even express. He has such a fun personality. He loves people and to be the center of attention. (I don't know where that came from, certainly not from John and I!) He makes friends every where we go and has the sweetest heart. He is very smart and loves to learn. When he was just barely two, I walked in to find him on the computer in my e-mail inbox. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "just checkin my email!" Also, he has owned me in Mario Kart since he was three years old! On the day he turned two he knew all of his ABC's, shapes colors and numbers. He also knew every make of every car, all he had to see was the symbol and he knew if it was Chevy, Ford, Lincoln, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, and all the rest. He cracks me up! He catches onto things easily. These last 6 years have been a blast, I just wish he could stay small forever! He has recently grown three inches!

I took him in for his 6 year check up(the last time he was at the doc was for his 5 year) I guess he didn't ever remember peeing in a cup because when I told him what he had to do he busted out laughing. He is so funny. He weighs 5o lbs and is 4 feet tall.

He started 1st grade a few weeks ago and has Mrs. Melton. She is an awesome teacher he really loves her. This is his first year of full day and he is doing great. He has never complained about school being to long, he said on the first day of school that he wanted everyday to be like that. He was a little nervous the night before his first day, he just couldn't sleep. He was afraid he wasn't going to know anybody in his class. I could tell he was super nervous because that ext morning he couldn't decide what to wear. He never cares about this. I usually hand him his clothes and I don't even think he looks at what he puts on. But that day he was getting frustrated over what shoes to wear. I reminded him that his dad gave him a blessing the night before to comfort him and protect him. He remembered and his mood changed!

We sure love this kid!

I love being followed by my ever so sweet one year old, with his arms stretched as far as he can get them, waiting for me to turn around and give that hug he is wanting.

oops! That was a sneak peak!

So around here I can't sit for long periods of time. I start a post, save it as a draft come back later, do some more, etc. You get the point. I guess I clicked on publish instead of save. We had such a fun weekend and that was just the first day!

We met up with the rest of the Crew and then took off to the cabin. This was seriously the nicest cabin I had ever stayed in. Amber's family had just built it with all the upgrades and everything. That night as a camping tradish, we made tin foil dinners! They were so good. The boys made a campfire and we made smores and sat around the fire. I tried to put Bos in his pack n play to sleep because he was so tired but he refused to sleep in there. Both him and Eden just wanted to sleep in their own crib. I could hear Eden crying and saying Tai-Tai. She is so cute. That is her new word and she follows me around and says it. I love it. After a few hours of sleep we all got up the next morning made some breakfast, cleaned up (Amber mostly cleaned) and went to the lake. We caught some crawdads, got dirty and Trey took the boys on a canoe ride. We stayed a few hours then headed home. It was a quick trip but fun nonetheless! We will definitely be doing it again. On they way home I wrote down some words we all thought reminded us of this trip.

fun

family

crying

dirt

campfire

hiking

crying

crawdads

cabin

chips n salsa

smores

laughing

lake

raft

boys

tin foil dinner

showers!!

Annie

Fun

boulders

did I say crying?

laughing

jammin to music

naps

Walmart x3

driving

sunburn

dippy-do-way

Taco Bell x2