Some days...

Ever have on of those days?
The kind of day where everything seems to go wrong & you feel like going to sleep for the night, but dinner still hasn't happened yet?
Today was one of those days. It's funny, cause it wasn't that bad for most of it, it just seemed to end that way. Even though when I got home, Sean had cleaned up (including mopping the floor) & the kids were semi-happy. Joey has had a fever the past 2 days & last night we didn't get to bed til 11:30ish. when he woke up with what seemed to be a hysterical nightmare at 3:30 & I didn't get back to bed til around 5 & had to wake up at 5:30 to get ready for work.. I had to understand by the end of the day that no-sleep was gonna catch up!! Poor Joey.. today his temperature was alot milder & it didn't require medication at all during the day. I've spent the last 2 days working & calling or texting home every spare minute about how my baby was doing.
Tonight Sean went to visit his family & saw the signs that I needed some alone time. I'm lucky to have such an amazing husband who looks out for me. I spent the night playing words with friends, watching tv, eating graham crackers with frosting, & taking a bath.
blessings counted.

In Case you didn't know...

I love to take pictures :) So much that I started a blog to make myself figure out new ways to use my camera. Take a peek... HERE :)

New Years

The boys got a big bucket of blocks from great grandma for Christmas & Sean has enjoyed playing with it probably as much as they have. There are blocks all over, all the time now!!!
New Years Eve we hung out at my sisters house a for awhile & then headed home. I ran to the store & then we watched the ball drop with the kids asleep on the couches. That night was pretty rough. Joe caught a nasty cold that kept him up several nights with a high temperature. That night was the beginning.
The next day we were all exhausted & pretty much sat around the house in & out of sleep.
Joe loves to pick at his brother as he sleeps...

and LOVES to "fix" things at the tool bench
and couldn't get enough of staring at himself in the mirror when we hadn't hung it yet.

Since our day had been lazy, we took a drive out into the dessert just to get out of the house a little. I started my New Years resolution of taking a picture every day and started posting them on a new BLOG.





when I met Sean I gained the appreciation of finding beauty in the desert that I never really had before.
We closed the night by hanging out with family. My sister who was visiting was leaving the next day & I wanted to see them one last time.
Here is Brig, who is the cutest, most chub baby ever that I want to squeeze!!!


jookies

Phily too

I desperately tried all night to get some pictures of Adam, Sam, Hyrum & Joe..not too successful!
I love this picture.. Sam being a troublemaker.. Adam looks like he is gonna lose it!
Joey tried all night to destroy Phil & Melissa's house, piece by piece.. ornament by ornament... have I ever mentioned how much they LOVE when we come over :)

Picture of the family together ( minus Tam & Wendi)

The holidays were fun... mostly. The past 2 nights with Sam have become repeats of Joe the week prior & I'm beginning to think our ward thinks we are inactive. Minus all the throw ups & colds that we've been dealing with- we had a good holiday season :)

Christmas

I had to put the cutest picture ever in here...
that little boy is a mini-Sean! This was Christmas Eve just as everyone was starting to get ready to settle down for the night.

We left cookies out for Santa because Sammy fell asleep before he could- but we couldn't forget since he spent the afternoon making them!
Mommy spent the night wrapping presents that should have been done a long time before that!

The next morning, Santa left the boys an awesome tool bench!!





It was complete with a measuring tape & a flashlight for each of the boys. They LOVED it :)

The boys also got a pretty absurd amount of guns for Christmas & I didn't realize it til the presents were opened & I was ambushed with lots of "bullets"
Only down side to Christmas... halfway through opening presents, while he was sitting in my lap, Joe started throwing up. Yuck!!! Not the best Christmas on record. Needless to say, church didn't happen that day.
Later on in the afternoon we went over to Sean's moms house to open presents. The boys got some great blocks & skates & cars & guns... everything boys love :)
that evening Sean's sister & brothers came & helped us eat an amazing prime rib that Sean smoked. It was sooo good! twice baked potatoes, rolls, sparkling cider.. perfect!!
We closed the day by seeing Sean's dad who gave the boys some little cars.
These boys made out like bandits!
It was a fun week. We got to spend lots of time with family & friends. Minus the sickness that then spread to Sam the very next day & the colds that are running their course now.. good times :)