Disneyland :)

The first time I went to Disneyland was in 2005. My friends Jenni and Jessica and I were on our way to our mission presidents house for their home coming. We made a big trip of it stopping in Vegas and Disneyland, surfing and all the stops one make on a road trip with friends. I was 24, but I felt like such a little kid. It was awesome!




The second time I went to Disneyland was 8 months after the first time :) How do you like that, I wait my whole life to go and then go twice in a year! My entire family went, it was so much fun to be there with everyone. We never really had taken a family vacation growing up. We always went camping and stuff, but this was the first time we went somewhere. We had so much fun and it is something that really brought us closer.

Needless to say Jeremy and I are getting really excited. I had a friend of mine loan me some books about Disneyland. One about how to find Hidden Mickey's and one is 101 little know facts about Disneyland. Jac is also so excited, I have been showing him some pictures and he Jumps up and down and claps his hands. I will defiantly be posting some pictures when we get back. So, see ya later!

I can take a deep breath and...

let it out now.
The last few weeks have been kind of stressful. Two Saturdays ago we were in Washington to celebrate my sister-in-law and my Mom's birthday. We had a a great time. We played that new dance game that is out for the Wii and it was hilarious! Jeremy won almost every song he did and I think it was driving some of my sisters nuts :) I wouldn't mind working out to that everyday. I'm so uncoordinated that I probably just looked like I was having a seizure. The next day I did some facials for some friends and family. It was a lot of fun and I am learning more and more every time I do them so it was great. That night my 10 yr old niece competed in Hurricane Idol (a fund raiser they do for Hurricane High Schools grad night). She has been competing for 3 years now and this was the first year I could make it. She sang "Suds in the Bucket", and I was able to do her hair and makeup. We had to tone down her lipstick though... she put on some pretty dark red and her mom said "no way"! She did awesome and made it on to the next round. Which was a week later (last Saturday) . When the competition was all over we got all packed to come home and realized that Jac's car seat was in my sister's car and she and her husband were on a date... they didn't get back till 12:30am and we thought that was a little late to be traveling so we stayed the night.
Sunday morning we received a phone call from my uncle in Randlett, his son had been killed that morning in a work accident. Cody was only 32 and such a fun, caring guy. I wanted to do something for my Aunt and Uncle and so I asked Jeremy if he would draw a picture of him and he jumped on the opportunity. My Dad said he would make a frame. I finally found a picture of him Tuesday night. His daughter had posted one of him and her on fb and so I printed it off and Jeremy used it. It happened to be the same picture his family used for the program. It was such a sad tragedy, but we are so thankful for the knowledge of eternal families. That there is life after death and that we will get to see Cody again someday.



This week we are packing and planning to go to Disneyland on Saturday. We are going to drive to Las Vegas on Saturday and stay with a friend of mine. Then Sunday we will drive the rest of the way and spend three days at Disneyland! We wanted to go before Jac turns 3 (he is free if he is still 2) and I am excited to see him when he sees Mickey Mouse. I will let you know how the trip goes!
Also some exciting news is that Jeremy's car is finally in the shop!!! I can't wait to have my car back!

Update: Eden competed in the finals for Hurricane Idol just this last Saturday and she won in her age division!!! She sang "Suds in the Bucket" again and "Black Horse and Cherry Tree". Congrates Edie, We love you!

2 Year Anniversary!!!

Today is the 2 year anniversary of all this. I think about that time in our lives and it seems like it was all just a really disturbing dream.
We are so thankful that Jac's heart problems were something that could be taken care of. He will never have to have another surgery or be on medications because of it. He is such a fun little boy. I hate how fast time is going and how big he is getting. He is so independent now and I know that in no time he will be a teenager. That will be okay as long as he still snuggles with me once in a while :)

Thinking About Starting Something New.

I am thinking about becoming a Mary Kay Consultant. I have thought about doing something for awhile now, but haven't really felt good about a certain direction. I have friends that sell Pampered Chef, Scentsy, and Lia Sophia and I love all of those products, but I use Mary Kay products everyday and feel like if I sold anything I could sell that. I'm really nervous about doing this though. I'm not a sells person. and I will be honest one of the biggest reasons I haven't done something like this is that I wouldn't know what to do come tax season. I don't want to end up owing a ton of money. It makes me nervous to be in front of people where I haven't been in such a long time. And what if I don't get any clients? I guess I won't know what will happen though unless I try right? Hmm...

Christmas and a New Year!

It seems like it has been a while since I have had the time to sit and write. I have been meaning to, but... life happens :)
Christmas has come and gone and do has the first half of January. Time seems to have sped up without notifying me. We had a great Christmas. We wanted to spend Christmas morning at our house and so we went to Washington and had Christmas Eve dinner with my family which was nice because my Dad got to be home and we hadn't seen him in a while. I made this Triple Chocolate Pumpkin Pie which I was SO looking forward to, but because of a little error in the type of salt I used it ended up being really salty... I just added more chocolate and some whip cream and that made it better. We handed out our gifts, which was homemade beanie hats and went and played tag down at the park with all the lights on. It was a lot of fun.
The next morning we all woke up around 8am which is really sleeping in for my kids. I thought that they would have had us up at 6:30 like they do every morning, but maybe that was their Christmas gift to me ;) We set up the video camera and got the kids as they came into the room. Jac was so excited for his fire truck, Toy Story 3 chair and the Spider Man punching bag. Reese just love the wrapping paper. After cleaning up we got ready and drove to West Jordan to see Jeremy's family. Almost the whole way up it was foggy and really fun to drive through. We had such a nice time visiting with everyone. We hadn't seen some of his siblings in a long time. It was the first time Reese had met some and Jac had a blast with his cousins Dominic, Porter and Lincoln. We all exchanged gifts and had a wonderful meal. It really was a great day.
Since then we have been battling a few illnesses. From Bronchitis to ear infections and sore throats to migraines. We are still on some meds, but are basically over it. I hope that we all stay healthy for a while now.
With the start of the new year, Jeremy has started back to school and it has been quite and change for us. We still only have one car and it makes for some long days in the house. So I have decided that I am going to start bundling the kids up and on nice days we are going to go for walks. I just might go crazy if I don't :)
Everyone is doing great though. Jac is starting to talk to much. His new word is "what". He says it usually after we have asked him to do something and he had this incredulous tone that it just makes me laugh. Reese is sitting up now and quite the little babbler. She also love to make airplane sounds when it's time to eat. Thus resulting in baby food everywhere. She's so cute when she does it though it's hard to stay upset. Well, I think this is long enough... I'll try not to let it be so long before my next post so that I don't have to write a novel. Thanks for reading!
Here are some pictures, enjoy!


This is a video of Jeremy feeding Reese.

Christmas Fun and Puppies!

We had gone to Tuacahn for my nieces birthday. We wanted to see Santa, but as we stood in line someone cam out and hung a sign that said: "Santa will not be able to be here tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience". So we took a picture as elves and headed over to the mall to try and catch the Santa there. We paid for the pictures there and when I get them out of the car ;) I will scan them in and post them.
We just walked around the mall and window shopped and ended up in Barnes and Noble and Jac loved the Thomas the Train set the had there. He even made and friend and she called him "Honey". It was really cute.



These are some pictures I was trying to take to send out. I didn't really get a great one of the two of them looking at the camera, but these are still great.

Below are pictures of my sisters puppies. They are so stinking cute and fun to play with! They are so tiny. Their mom is only 14 lbs and their dad is only 6 lbs.

The Fun Joys...

of being a parent. I love being a mom, I just don't necessarily like all the yucky stuff that comes with it. For instance, last week I was feeding Reese and I had to sit her down and go help Jac get something and I came back and it was like everything I had feed her was now out of her and on the pillow... and then last night Jac woke up around 2am and he threw up all over the bed... (I think that was my fault though... the olives that were on our Navajo tacos were probably to old... opps). There have just been lots of nasty little problems that I could honestly do without lately.
It's totally worth it though when Jac comes up and gives me a hug and tells me he loves me and when Reese gives me a big toothless grin, but I really could do without those nasty little surprises.



It's prunes

I need to buy stock in Spray and Wash :)