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