well we went to salt lake city for steven’s work christmas party. we took baby ash and left lily and jack at home with steven’s family. it was a lot of fun. we stayed with his sister lani for two nights and stayed at the hotel the night of the party. the pic of ash was on the plane (his first plane flight). the picture of steven and i was at the party. we left asher at his sisters for the night so we could hang out with our friends after the party was over. we stayed up until 2am and in the morning, i wondered why i hadn’t gone to bed early and took advantage of not having to get up with a baby in the middle of the night. i tried to sleep in but 8:30 was as late as i could. oh-well i guess that 6 1/2 hours of uninterrupted sleep is better than normal.
steven’s sister also took us to dogwood and sent us home with a ton of clothes for jack and ash. it was the most amazing thing to just pick out anything i wanted and just take it home. they look so cute in their dogwood duds. dogwood really makes the cutest boy clothes ever!
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this is definitely late but i thought it was necessary. these are pictures from when we were decorating our christmas tree. lily and jack had the best time. they couldn’t give the ornaments to steven quick enough. jack would yell more ‘ments, more ‘ments! well anyways the pictures are self explanatory. enjoy!
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baby ash is well loved by jack and lily. lily has decided that she likes dressing him up, thus the minney mouse ears. they both love taking pictures with him and just being around him. if he is near either one of them, they are always holding one of his hands. he is growing like a weed and is loving eating more than just milk now. he will eat anything you feed him (except mashed potatoes) and who knows why he wouldn’t eat those. he is the happiest baby i know and i am grateful that he is my baby.
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lily and jack like to get in bed with baby ash
jackson loving his brother
jackson’s first ice cream cone
yes he has had ice cream before just not on a cone
lily enjoying hers as well
i have truly failed in my attempt to write something everyday that i am grateful for. well i am writing now and there are so many things to be grateful for. it is three days before christmas and my children are excited and i have to say that even though it has been kind of hectic getting everything ready, i am pretty excited too. i am grateful for the birth of our Savior. i am grateful that we have all been given the atonement because i need it desperately. i am grateful for loving parents and friends who are constantly helping me in some way or another. i am grateful for my loving husband who has learned to be mellow when i am not. i am grateful for a loving heavenly father who has entrusted 3 beautiful children into my care. i only hope that i can be the mother that he would have me be and boy do i have a long way to go. i love everyone who reads this and thank you for your friendships, i don’t know what i would do without you girls to talk to throughout the week.
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11:32pm
we carved pumpkins at steven’s sisters house tonight and here are a few pictures we took on our walk to her house. it is starting to get cold so we broke out the hats for our walk. i am so grateful that we have the opportunity to take so many pictures now that we have digital cameras. maybe if we had them when i was growing up, it wouldn’t be so hard to find a baby picture of myself. since my children have been born, i haven’t really seen a newborn one of myself. i am grateful to be able to look back at every moment since my children have been born. i want to be able to share this with them when they are older. i want them to be able to look back at their baby pictures and see if their children look anything like they did as babies. thank you Heavenly Father for the digital age.
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8:25pm
hey i am actually writing at a normal time of night. i had a quick thought so i thought i would get it done early. i am grateful for health. we have been dealing with a sick jackson for a week now and i am so ready for my healthy rambunctious boy to be back. he was actually a lot better today so i am expecting a ball full of energy tomorrow. here are a few pictures from his birthday party that i wasn’t able to add before
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here are my big kids just being their funny selves. jack likes to get into boxes and such and pretend that he is in a boat. this was a mighty small boat but he managed to fit a toy in there with him. this hat that lily has on is a pumpkin hat that she made at school. she was very proud of it!
our friends dena and brady brought their kids over to visit a couple weekends ago and here was my attempt at taking a picture of jack, lily and maddie with some pumpkins. surprisingly jack was the only one who would cooperate.
steven’s sister lisa made these dracula cupcakes and i thought they were the cutest things ever. it’s a good thing that someone in our family is creative because i am not. i told her that i was going to buy some halloween cupcakes and she said why don’t i just make them. i am glad that she did!
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2:00 am
well i am still having prob;ems getting my photos into i photo so i promise they will come soon. but yesterday we had jackson’s birthday party. he was very cute! unfortunately he got crazy overwhelmed like he did last year and he didn’t even want to finish opening presents. so lily and i open the last couple. he was really happy about his presents. he will never show as much enthusiasum as lily for presents and parties, he really doesn’t care about them as much as she does. it seems like he doesn’t like being the center of attention when opening gifts. it’s like he doesn’t know quite what to do with himself.
so my mom and mike are in town and tonight they decided to take steven’t parents and us out to dinner. we wanted to go to the spaghetti factory but there was an hour and a half wait so we went to red robin instead. well right when we got our food, jack looked at his chicken and started crying. i thought great, he really doesn’t want chicken! then the next thing i know, he makes a weird sound and in a split second i realize what is happening. i push his head slightly away from my body and he throws up everywhere. he got my jacket and purse as well as my whole left arm and somehow all over my bottom and thighs. if i hadn’t have moved his head, i would have been completely covered. i couldn’t even start my food. they brought us stuff to clean off but that was the end of dinner for me. i waited for everyone to finish then boxed my food up and came home to take a shower. i can appreciate that when he doesn’t feel good he wants me but this is the third time he has done this and the second time in public. i hate throw up!!!!!!!!
lastly, steven and i saw the movie “across the universe” last night. i think that most of you who read this, especially kimmie braithwaite, would enjoy it. it is a musical based on only beatles songs. there are a few parts that were completely strange and could be taken out but for the most part it was really cool. kindof moulin rougeish.
i am grateful for good times and bad times. i would much rather have all good times but i know that with the bad, heavenly father is mostly trying to teach me patience. i guess i really have a lot to learn. i am grateful for my childrens birthdays and can not even believe how old they are getting. it is amazing how fast life is going.
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11:00pm
i have tried on two seperate occations today to post a blog with pictures but i can’t get my camera to sinc with iphoto, sooo you are once again stuck with my writing. i was just feeding asher and he spit up all over me. i had to completely change my clothes, don’t you love that! well i had a day filled with yelling and screaming. when jackson doen’t get the proper amount of sleep, he can’t deal very well. i guess we are similar in that respect because i didn’t get enough sleep last night either and i had a hard time dealing as well. so with that said, i am grateful for sleep. i am grateful for children who sleep. up until asher, i have always had amazing sleepers. i am not ruling him out yet but the last month hasn’t been so great. i do believe that things are going to be getting better. it might just be wishful thinking but i can feel it in the air.
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1:07am
today was a mellow day. we were able to get to church on time, our children weren’t too crazy during sacrament meeting, we took a nap after church and steven’s mom made a delicious cake after dinner. i am grateful for mellow days. it is nice to be able to just hang out as a family and not to have too much chaos. it helps me to see what it might be like when our children are older and less energetic. having a preschooler a toddler and a baby doesn’t lend itself to mellow. it is nice to have a glimpse into the future.
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