John is 33!

Dec 31st is a great day to have a birthday! We started the day off by sleeping in which is something john never gets to do. He goes to work early every day and then gets up with the kids and lets me sleep in on Saturdays. We had 8am Church on Sundays but John had to be at 6:30 Bishopric meeting. Needless to say he was excited to sleep in. The boys and I planned on getting up early and making him breakfast in bed. That didn't happen. I don't think he cared to much since breakfast isn't his favorite meal anyway. We got up, got ready and headed to the San Tan Mall. We grabbed some lunch at Johnny Rockets and took the boys to see Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel! After the movie we did some B-day shopping for John. We had plans later to go to some friends house to celebrate New Years but decided to stay at home with the kids. We did some festive fire crackers with the neighbor kids a little early. We had the kids tucked in bed and sleeping by 10pm! We put a movie in and snuggled on the couch until midnight. It was a good day!

There are soooo many things I love about him, here are just a few:

John is an amazing man
He is a wonderful father, our boys really look up to him
He is the best listener
He is so calm, it takes a lot for him to get mad
He would do anything for our family
He works so hard and is good at anything he does
He teaches our children so much
He loves me

We are lucky he is ours!

I {heart} Motrin

Last Monday night was the worst night I have ever had with Bos. He woke up with a fever and really bad stomach pain. He would finally fall asleep and then twenty minutes later wake up screaming in pain again. The only thing that made him happy was to take a bath with me. Almost two hours in the bath he was all wrinkled up! He wouldn't let me put him down for 3 days straight. He had the worst sore throat ever. He would chew up his cereal or whatever he was eating and just spit it out. I ended up taking him in to Urgent care and it was just a virus but he was dehydrated. They decided they needed to hook him up to an IV for some fluids. They tried twice, once in his hand and the other in the bend of his arm. Nothing worked, they couldn't find any other veins that would work. We ended up making him eat five Popsicles and they said that was good enough. Poor baby. Max and Jaxson also had fevers and bad sore throats. I have never had 3 sick kids at one time and hope to never again! In our bedroom under our bed we have a "sick boy bed." There have been MANY nights when one of the boys throw up or have a fever and want to sleep in our room. We pull out the sick bed and they can sleep right next to me, and I can take care of them throughout the night. But this time we had three sick boys and one bed! We drug in another mattress for John's side and Bos slept with us. They all sleep much better in our room :) We went through one entire bottle of Motrin and one of Tylenol, but everyone is healthy and happy now!

Christmas 2009

Christmas this year was so fun! Having kids makes it even better. I love all of the parties and hanging out with family. I love that as my kids get older they get more excited about it and remind us of our family traditions. I am obsessed with traditions! Growing up we had some that we looked forward to every year. The one I remember the most was Rudolf would always come in our room while we were sleeping and rub noses with us leaving our noses red! When I finally realized it was my mom putting lipstick on our nose I knew that someday when I had kids I would do the same.

Every year we make cookies for Santa and leave a snack for his reindeer. This year I totally spaced it, so before we put the kids to bed they were sad we didn't have anything. Luckily all of my awesome friends and neighbors brought by goodies all MONTH so we used some cookies from that stash. We had to improvise for the reindeer! We had some leftover cheesy corn yuminess from our Christmas Eve bash that night so we plopped some on the plate and called it good! Oh and we couldn't forget the hot cocoa. Santa and his reindeer (DAD) loved it. My favorite part is staying up late on Christmas Eve wrapping presents with John and filling stockings with the usual: an orange, candy, a toothbrush and a few small toys.

As a kid, we all use to sleep in the same room and freak out for hours waiting for Santa to come. We would wake up super early and run out and play with all of our presents before my parents would wake up. They would get mad because they wanted us to wait until 6am for them to be there. My dad devised a plan. He started setting up noise making booby traps in the hall so he could hear when we got up. Every year since then he has gotten bigger and better with his traps. He still did it this year for my little sis. My kids haven't gotten to the point where they sneak out early. But when they do, we will be ready!!



Christmas morning







Christmas Eve at my parents

His favorite uncle, Teebs

The grandkids act out the Nativity.

Bos was a shepherd

after we put up the Christmas tree