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?