Counting my blessings..

As the horrific news of the elementary school shooting is everywhere today I am reminded how precious my children are to me. So tonight we followed through with one of our family Christmas traditions. Making reindeer dust so they find our house and reindeer popsicles for them to much on while the Jolly man is visiting. I enjoyed it more tonight more than ever before. We are going to watch Home Alone now as I snuggle my babies a little longer tonight.

Happy Birthday

This kid is officially 6... and in case anyone was wondering he says he feels like he looks 6 and can run as fast as a 6 year old now. We tested what theroy out in Walmart. are didn't feel the best on his birthday but we still celebrated with cafe Rio and shopping with his birthday money! Love you bug!

6 years ago...

we were celebrating Jonny's birthday by trying to have a baby... I was in labor but he had his own time table and iI guess wanted his own day. Happy almost birthday to this little!

33yrs ago today...

I was not even a twinkle in my parents eyes but a still a day that changed mine for forever! Happy Birthday to the most fabulous, loving, honest, most generous, fabulous, terrific, wonderful, patient, hard working, sexy, talented and dreamy man I can think of! He is the most wonderful husband and daddy ever. He is my best friend and my person! I love you babe and consider myself the luckiest girl in the world to have you as mine!! (even though he NEVER reads this!!)

Tonsils, Turning Two, Tree's, and Turkey...

I put the pictures in from my phone and need to remember in the future that they will go in backwards if I put them in chronological order on my phone. I tried but am too lazy to fix it now on my computer! So here is an update of our recent happenings.

Tonsils:

Kael got to experience what surgery is like yesterday and I think we are safe to say he is not a fan. Although he was so BRAVE and COURAGEOUS. I thought he would freak out more than he did. He was nervous but was so brave when they told him it was time to leave us. He is in pain but being such a trooper about it all! He is drinking and taking his meds which is all I care about right now and today has even asked to eat several times. I hope this is the worst of it but we shall see.

 

Waiting for them to take us to pre-op there was a huge train that was a fabulous distraction.

 He thought the jammies they gave him were pretty cool and they had lots of fun games to play. His masks smelled like Cotton Candy per his request! And took him back to surgery in style!

 Adley and I waiting to get permission to go back and see how he was doing.

She wanted the phone so bad, and makes the best faces ever!

Charmed everyone with that smile even the Dr!

Post-Op nap

                                                               Headed home little tykes style

This beautiful girl turned 2 the day after Thanksgiving! We celebrated with cupcakes and presents!

                                 

                                 

                                   

The Saturday before Thanksgiving we decided to go cut our Christmas tree! If you know me I LOVE Christmas more than any other time of the year so I was MORE than willing when Jon suggested it. Cutting our tree is always so much fun and gets more so every year as the kids get bigger.

Jonny is quite the dreamy fella!



Waiting for Dad to load up the tree

 

                                           

Decorating it together



Over the river and through the woods to Grammy and Grandad's house we go...

We got a little bored towards the end of the drive so Kael and I kept ourselves occupied as usual!

                              

Brady and Kael were given the task to make place cards!

Their hard work ( I adore when they are learning to write)

Ready to feast and declare our Thanks!

                            

                            

NOM NOM NOM!

                            

All Dolled up for Grammy to show off at church!

This is what hanging out at Grammy's looks like

                              





                              

See any resemblance?



baby names...

somehow on our way to thanksgiving supper baby names came up and these are a few kael suggested for our next child...

Nephi because he would be so courageous
Hot Dog because then we could call him hot diggty dog
Abby Cadaby
Jackson so we could call him Percy Jackson.

for the record I am not having a baby again for a while... still adjusting to the one we just had!

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