18 months

My sweet baby boy is now 1 1/2!

This post will simply not do justice to how amazing you are but one day I will make it up to you!

You are growing up so fast and I hate and love it all at the same time.

You are talking so much and love to try and say every word that mommy or daddy does.

You love to make animal noises. Your favorites are cat "meow" Dog "woof" Cow "moo" Dinosaur, Lion, Bear "Roar!"

You are so polite and love to say Please and Thank you! You can also sign both of these.

You love to play with toys that you can push. Your favorite as of late is the rolling pin. You roll it along the floor and even try to stand on it (Not such a good idea)

You love your mommy and daddy, especially dad. You hear him coming in the door and mom is no longer alive. You follow him around whenever he is home and when he is not home you walk around the house looking for him and saying "dad?"

You love to be outside. We can't wait for consistent warm weather so we can spend every day out there. You love it when you get to play with the neighbors, and love when Nana takes you on walks.

You are sleeping so much better. You still have nights a couple times a month where you are awake more than you are asleep. You love your binky and silky and I dread the day when we have to take those away.

I hope you always know how much your Mommy and Daddy love you and how proud we are of you. We can't wait for you to be a big brother.

I love you my happy, loving, kissing, snuggling, crazy Monster!

You make my life happier than I could have ever imagined. I am so glad you are mine.

We Love you Maddix!

Eating yogurt all by yourself!

You and Cohen got your first big boy haircuts

Loved playing with your Uncle Jackson

1 down...2 more to go!

Well some of you already know but for those that have thought we have fallen off the face of the planet we haven't, I'm just pregnant!

I am 12 weeks and am looking forward to this first trimester to be over (wish the sickness would go away with it :)

I have so many people to thank and since being on the computer makes me sick I'm going to make this quick!

Thank you so much to all my amazing Family and wonderful Friends!

I seriously could not be doing this without any of you.

Not only for the breaks and relief for me but especially for Maddix. I don't think you know how much he loves spending time with each one of you and your kids.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I owe each and every one of you HUGE!!

And thank you for sending me pictures, they're the only ones I have for the last couple months!

Enjoying Popsicles with Camryn and Kate

Playing oh so nice with Carson and Carlee

First time at the Dinosaur museum

Doing what we do most days...lounging on the couch and occasionally falling asleep in mommy's arms

Nana coming to play with us or take us for a walk

Twenty Ten

So far in 2010 we have been having a ton of fun!

Last week we went to the Lehi Pool a couple times.

All the kids liked it but as Carson says its so "SCARY" when they turn on the dumping bucket!

It's Official!

I am a Utah Valley University Grad!

After almost 10 years of being out of high school…

3 years of being done with going to classes and leaving 1 left to take…

I finally finished my last online course!

I don’t know why I waited 3 years to finish this ONE CLASS! It was so easy and only took me a couple weeks.

So glad to be done!

Sledding

We went sledding for the first time with Maddix the day after Christmas and he actually really liked it. He would smile the whole time and kept saying “more!”

The girls all really like it too, but Cohen HATED IT!

We took them sledding again this last week and Cohen again was not having any of it.

Christmas 2009

This year for Christmas was our year to be with my family, we decided that we were going to stay home and celebrate and then the rest of the family would come down here for some after Christmas fun!

On Christmas Eve we all went up to my mom and Roger’s house and had hors d'oeuvres,. It was a different thing for us but we actually really liked it, we got a little bit of everything and it was plenty of food.

Then we came home and opened our traditional Christmas Eve present, PJ’s, then it was off to bed so Santa could come.

Christmas morning was great, except for the fact that Eric had been up all night, sicker than a dog and Christmas day was about the same. Poor Eric.

Maddix didn’t really care too much about opening presents but had a fun time playing with them after they were opened. Eric and I both had a great Christmas too. Eric got me a new Imac computer and he got a Wii. I am still trying to get use to a Mac.

We then had breakfast over at Dustin and Lisa’s with Cohen. Then came home and had a relaxing day.

That night the family came over for a Prime Rib dinner and some football games on TV.

We had a great Christmas and couldn’t wait for the rest of the family to get here the next day.

Christmas was a ton of fun but we missed Papa and Emily, luckily they came down earlier in the month to see us and even gave Maddix a really cool Harley!

Hawaii 2009

We had a great time in Maui.

We surfed, laid by the pool, played lots of volleyball, did some fake surfing on the Flow Rider, ate more steak than I care to remember, went to the spa a ton, went to the best magic/comedy show I have ever seen, and had tons of fun with friends.

Hopefully we’ll be back next year!

Well I made it through 8 days without seeing my baby.

I will have to admit the first couple days were extremely hard but after that it got a little easier. We talked to Maddix everyday on Skype, he would get so excited to see Eric and I.

Maddix had a great time with Oma, thank you so much for coming and taking care of him!

Weekend with Dhylan

At the beginning of December Dhylan came down and stayed with us for the weekend.

It was so much fun. Maddix and Dhylan had a great time playing together.

When one did something the other was right behind wanting to do the same. I had the tiniest taste of what it would be like to have twins...