Twins?

I was just curious, so I went back to look at some old pictures of Nick when he was 2 months, and look how much Brock and Nick look alike...wow.

2 months old!

Brock is such a good baby. Well besides the fact that he still is eating every 3 hours, through the night. Definitely ready for that one to be over with. But other than that, he just eats and sleeps. It's so fun to watch them grow, and to start cooing and making noises. It's things like this you forget when you have 2 older ones. I'm definitely enjoying all the little things more with Brock than I did with Andee and Nick. I was always too anxious to see them grow up.

Mattress disaster...

So we were blessed and surprised with some money that was left over from the account when we bought our house, we got the check 2 days ago. So James and I had a whole wish list put together of all things we wanted to get with this extra money. Well my main thing was to go and stock up on more food storage at Cosco. So James had to work for 3 hours last night, so he watched the kids while I ran into Cosco then while he was at work, I ran down to our bank, in Lehi to deposit this check. Well, on my way back to get James, at the point of the mountain by Ikea I noticed this truck next to me who had 2 king size mattresses in the bed of his truck. I was in the fast lane, and he was next to me, speeding up to pass me. Well, at the point of the mountain its super windy... so right as we hit the turn of the road, all of a sudden, well I saw it in slow mo, but the mattresses flew out and hit my car!! Keep in mind it's 6p.m, so right at rush hour, so I can't really go anywhere. So complete disaster. So the mattress hit the door then flug and hit the back window. We were so lucky that the auto shop was actually able to fix it today all in one day! I'm just glad it wasn't as bad as it could've been. If I was going any slower, it would've flown out and landed right on me. So for those of you that ever need to haul any type of mattress in your truck, please tie the dang thing down!

This will have to be for another day, when more money falls from the sky

Before: Just picture the window shattered with a huge hole in the middle
After: Good as new!

Christmas Day! Merry Christmas!!

The kids woke up at their normal time and acted like it was just any other day, asked for "hot cereal" (oatmeal). So we had to remind them that Santa came to our house last night. So they had fun opening their presents and then playing with everything. We woke up to a blizzard and since we go to the Losee's for the Grandparent presents, we had to leave early enough so we arrived on time. So we had a nice relaxing day over at Floyd and Barbara's visiting with everyone. And as usual, Barbara went crazy with everyone's presents, she got all the kids (James and siblings) food storage stuff, so I was so excited to come home and get it organized into my storage room. So I hope everyone had a good Christmas!

Christmas Eve!

For Christmas Eve this year we went over to Liz's to have the kids cut out cookies and frost them for Santa. They of course had a blast. I found this yummy recipe for a ham, it ended up being a very time consuming ordeal but the ham was so good. James had to work until 5p.m so we waited to do the gingerbread house for him, but by the time dinner was done, and clean up it was too late. Then we opened up p.j's and then all snuggled on the couch and watched Polar Express. I was so shocked that this year Andee could've cared less about the movie, but Nick watched he whole thing without saying a word.

Daddy Daughter Day

I'm a little slow at updating, but this was clear back on the 15th. Andee's preschool invited a parent to come help with gingerbread houses. It happened to be James day off so he went to go help. Andee was so excited to go with her Dad, James said he was the only Dad there. After they were done at the school, they went out to eat, so that was really fun for Andee to spend some time with just Daddy.

Parents in Town

My parents and Joseph came into town last week for Aubree's baptism and Brock's blessing. It was such a good visit, Liz and I put my Dad to work since we didn't marry Mr. Handymans. He put shelves up, fixed my toilet by getting me a new one, finished a wall in my laundry room, fixed doors... pretty much you name it, he did it. Thanks Dad so much for all that you did, words can't express enough for how much that meant to me. My parents were nice enough to watch all 6 kids so that Liz and I could go see TWILIGHT again!! yay!! And make a Cosco trip, and do a little clothes shopping, so that was really fun. So it was sad to see them go, but this time it won't be an entire year till we see them again.
1 month old

Little Brock in his blessing outfit

All the cousins

TWILIGHT MOVIE!!

Oh my heck so the week before the big day I went and bought the soundtrack and seriously listened to it 24/7, well minus me sleeping. And then I had the hardest week probably because I was looking forward to my girls day so much. So when the big day actually got here I couldn't wait, we got there an hour before the show started, and we had reserved seating. But we were all just ready to get away and see EDWARD!! So oh my heck, absolutely LOVED the movie. The scene where it was Edwards first time being shown, I got teary eyed...wow, can we say obsessed!! The audience was hilarious, everyone squealed and screamed when they first showed him and when the movie started so that made it so much funner. So yes, going to see it again tomorrow with James, but I'll have to be carefull not to squeal out when I see Edward...oh dear. The part where he plays Bella's lullaby...ahhh..so good! Anyway, all of you girls who haven't seen it yet, GO SEE IT!

Family Photo Shoot

Let's just say Liz is amazing! She endured doing all of our photo shoots and lets just say my kids aren't the greatest with sitting still and listening to directions. So thanks so much Liz!! They turned out fantastic.

Andee Turns 4!!

Ok, so things have been crazy around here trying to get used to having 3 kids so this update is really over due. Her birthday was on the 13th and was so much fun. At school all the kids in her class colored pictures and put it into a card for her. Then that night we had Liz's kids and Grandpa and Grandma Losee and then a surprise visit from Brynn and Casey. So it ended up being a really fun night, nice to see everyone. Thanks Dad and Modena for the book! She loves it.

Just in case you can't tell, it's a crown cake and it was the biggest pain to make. I had to trace each crown part one by one with a template I got off the internet, then cut out each one with a knife. But it was fun once the day was over.

Nick Turns 3!!

This year was sort of different since Nick and Andee were over at my in-laws house. But Floyd and Barbara brought Nick over so we could celebrate his birthday with him which was so nice of them. The first thing they both said when they came in was "where's baby?". I've never seen Nick so excited before. He loved blowing out his candles and opening all his presents. Andee was almost as excited, she was trying to help him open his presents and she even took her turn blowing out his candles. Thank you Dad and Modena for the book! I've been wanting to get something like that so I can bring it to church. And thanks Barbara and Floyd for all the Cars things, he's going to have so much fun.

Brock Lewis Losee

He arrived Thursday night at 11:26p.m. My doctor broke my water at 7p.m. and I was dialated to a 7, and 30 minutes later we found out that my platlet count was too low for an epidural. So of course I go into panic mode because I don't do pain. The anastysiologist decided just to do a spinal block but it only lasts for 2 hours, so they gave it to me hoping I would go really fast. But of course it never goes that way so at 11p.m. it wore off. Let me just say for you girls that volunteer to go all natural..what are you thinking. But it ended up being a really neat experience, my doctor pretty much had me deliver him by myself. Once his head was out, and while I pushed, I was pulling his body out. Then I cut the cord, so I'm glad in a way that for my last baby I experienced this. And it was such a relief to see that he was healthy and perfect in every way, considering he was born 3 weeks early, same as Nicholas. So we are absolutely in love with our little Brock and feel so blessed to have him join our family.

Pumpkin Patch

Today Liz found out about this pumpkin patch so we took the kids over to check it out. It was really fun, they had a hay ride, a hay maze, and all kinds of different fun booths. So the kids had fun.


Aubree and Andee on the hay ride

Update with the Doctor

I had my 36th week appointment yesterday and I'm dilated to a 4 and his head is clear down at my cervix. So Dad and Modena you might be hearing from me soon!

Tagged by Liz

8 Things I’m passionate about:
My family, keeping everyone in line
Keeping my house clean/organizing
Scrapbooking
Getting me time
Trying new recipes
My dogs
Anti computer games
Spending quality time with James

8 Things I want to do before I die:
Travel the world
Do volunteer work in Africa with orphans
Write a biography on my mom's life
Take an interior design class
See my kids make achievements through life
Pay off our house
Read all the books that are on my list
Go through all the temples in the U.S

8 Things I do now:
Laundry
Blog
Scrapbook
Take my dogs out for pee breaks 3 times a day...ugh
Clean
Split up fights between my kids
Make dinner, starting to be one of my favorite things to do
Take hot bubble baths

Things I can not do:
Play the piano
Apologize
Pray in public (sacrament meeting, extended family)
Just relax and let my kids make messes
Stop yelling at my kids
Math
Stop nagging
Make bread

8 Things I often say:
"Seriously!"
"You have got to be kidding me!"
"Not in the mood!"
"I love you."
"Are you serious?!"
"Go potty"
"Worthless animal!" (that's when I find a huge pile of turd in my living room)
"You piece of s***" (again when I find a huge pile of turd)

8 Favorite foods:
Chocolate anything
Steak
Steamed broccoli
Bean burrito from Taco Amigo (only in Pleasant Grove)
Shrimp
Lemon merang(no clue with sp) pie
Lettuce wraps
Gourmet hamburgers..hehe

8 Things you may not have know about me:
I cook and do my hair standing on one foot
I love to sleep in
I love TV
I love watching the Animal Planet
Never been back east
I hate needles so I hate shots
I love being in control, with finances and bills
I absolutely hate bad breath, I refuse to kiss James if either one of us has bad breath

8 People I think should do Crazy 8s
Julia, Jillyn, Brynn, Kim, Elyse, Ashley M., and Holly

Canyon Fun!