Playing catch up: Easter

Of course I am behind what else is new. Things have been busy around here, were finishing up some renos, speaking up renos I still need to do a before and after of what we have done so far in this house. Besides that we have been busy trying to get our lawn in order and over the past 3 weeks chicken pox has plagued our house, first Elias and then the 2 boys, Yikes! More to come on that. I still have updates from some of our trips over the past few months coming soon but for now I will post some pics from Easter. This year I tried to focus on the Savior more and less on the treats, but of course we still had treats. We also met up with The Cooper family in Cardston for a picnic, easter egg hunt and rolled eggs down the hill, all in all lots of fun.

Easter Morning, loot from the Easter Bunny.

off to find more eggs..

Enjoying there eggs with cousins Holli and Tessa

Cash just chilling in his stroller, it was a little chilly outside.

And to finish off everyone threw eggs down the big hill, the seagulls were going crazy! 
The boys loved this, but it only took about 2 min for 16 eggs to be gone.

turning three

Nixon turned three this month, on March 4th. Nixon decided he wanted a Toy Story birthday party this year. We had over some cousins and close friends to celebrate his special day. Too bad he wasn't feeling his best, at the start of the party he was feeling really sick, just wanted me and didn't participate in the games at all. But the tylenol kicked in by the time he opened presents and blew out his candle so he was happy. He got some sweet gifts and has been enjoying them tons. He was especially excited about getting "Woody" from Nana and "Buzzlightyear" from us. He has been sleeping with them every night since.

Blowing out the candles!

Presents, Rainbow cupcakes and Games!

Me and my birthday boy.

20 questions,annual Birthday questionnaire

1. What is your favorite color? Blue and yellow

2. What is your favorite toy? Motorbikes, puzzles and balls

3. If you could go on a trip, where would you go? Fantasyland Hotel

4. What is your favorite tv show/movie? Kung fu panda 2

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Macaroni and cheese

6. What is your favorite outfit? Ninja mask

7. What is your favorite game? Bingo

8. What is your favorite sport? Baseball and hockey

9. What is your favorite snack? Granola bar

10. If you could have any superpower what would it be? Shoot lazers

11. What is your favorite animal? Giraffe

10. What is your favorite song? In the leafy treetops

11. What is your favorite book? Very hungry catepillar

12. Who is your best friend/friends? Elias

13. Who is the coolest person you know? Mommy

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Riding my bike

15. What is your favorite drink? Chocolate milk

16. What is your favorite holiday? Halloween

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Blue blanky & monkey

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Eggs in a basket

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Hotdogs

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Fireman

Nixon, you are truly a momma's boy still and secretly I love all your million snuggles and wanting to be with me all the time. You are the loudest little boy on the planet, but also the cutest! You make me smile everyday, you are very creative and so smart. You can also be very timid and have a sensitive heart, but you defiantly know what you want and tend to get it to with those big blue eyes. Happy Birthday my sweet boy, you are growing much too fast for me.

i love you most- Mom :)

six months

Cash is 6 months already. He is moving all over the place, rolling like crazy and pulling and shifting himself to get around, he is already into shelves and even popped right out of the bumbo chair that I had sitting on the island, I almost died, good thing I caught him in time! No doubt he is my most active and will be full out crawling this month. Both Elias and Nixon didn't move this much at 6 months so Cash is my earliest crawler. He also started eating solids, it took a good couple weeks for him to like much of anything he tasted but he now enjoying it and we love having him be a part of family dinner. He looks so darn cute and big sitting in his highchair. He's already starting to sleep better through the night and I am now down to feeding him right before I head to bed, but he still wakes up sometimes in the night for his soother. I was in the process of sleep training him so Pinterest was my best friend at 3 in the morning as I sat by his crib with my phone sshhing him back to sleep barley holding on due to lack of sleep. He's doing way better, at least I am not feeding 2 or 3 times a night and soon I hope he won't be waking up at all, even for his soother. Cash really had me wrapped around his finger at night, I just couldn't let him cry and he was sick for quite a while and being paranoid with what happened to Nixon I would always bring him into bed with me so Yes it was all my fault, but since I have been tackling the sleep training I am not quite as crazy due to lack of sleep.
Cash really is the light in our family, he is So happy all the time. People always ask if he is always so smiley and yes he is! His smile is contagious and the boys are always battling for his attention and constantly in his face trying to make his smile. Cash looks more like Elias, same perfectly round head, little nose and big blue eyes. He does have his own look, but is a good mix of both boys. He actually looks a bit like me when I was little too.

             Elias @3.5mths                              Cash @6mths                               Nixon @ 6mths
When I first pulled out this sleeper I remembered having pictures of both Elias and Nixon in it and so I decided to do a comparison. Elias was so big at 3.5months this sleeper was tight and Cash fits just right at 6 months and Nixon at 6 months was a little baggie. I love this comparison, they really each have there own look.                    
Cash at 6 months:
1st stages of Crawling, moving and pulling self all over.
Introduced solids, loves it.
Not quite sitting up on his own, still pretty wobbly.
No teeth yet either, both Elias and Nixon had teeth by now.
Sleeps through the night without eating, well 10:30 tell 7:30 (most nights)YEA!!

Here are some pics over the last few months of our sweet Cash.

sure loves getting around these days

loving those big dimples

can't get enough of his jolly jumper

tasting his 1st solids, haha

the last of 2011

Before I continue on into 2012 I just had to post a few pics from Christmas, really it's so long ago already, but it had to be posted. Here is our sweet Christmas card this year, I was lazy this year and didn't send that many out, plus I didn't care too much either since it was kinda ghetto. But I had to post for Jer's stache alone on our card is worth it, he refused to shave it off so here it is and actually its already fun looking back on it. This will be one of those Christmas cards for years to come that we will love, due to the sweet stache. So it had to be posted and had to be included in my blog book. Also these of the boys too, I will be forever grateful to Mike Kurtz for making a special Santa stop to our house. We missed Santa coming to the Library in Barnwell by mere minutes, because of missed communication between me and Jer and to say the boys were sad was an understatement, so we ended up having to take them to the mall after all. But when Mike Kurtz heard that we barely missed him he called me and said he would make a special stop at our house for the boys. I cannot tell you how excited their faces were as they saw Santa walk past our window and up our sidewalk. I mean what kids get a visit to their HOME from Santa? It was so special! I actually think they were more happy about the treat bags he brought than anything, ha.

Our home visit from Santa!

Park Place Mall Santa, love this Santa. This is actually the same Santa when Jeremy proposed at the mall to me almost 8 years ago. He remembered us and said, "oh I guess you've been busy!"

And had to include one of the boys on Christmas morning, Cash's 1st Christmas!

So done! Onto the New Year and to note, New Years Resolution: be on top of blog!

20 questions

I forgot to post these as well, these were the 20 questions I asked Elias on his birthday. I am going to start making this a tradition, once my kids turn 3 I will ask these every year on their birthdays, it will be really fun to look back on.

1. What is your favorite color? Red

2. What is your favorite toy? Lego (ninja)

3. If you could go on a trip, where would you go? The cabin

4. What is your favorite tv show/movie? Star wars & Kung Fu Panda

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? PB & nutella sandwich 

6. What is your favorite outfit? Star wars lego shirt

7. What is your favorite game? Hide & go seek in the dark with flashlights (FHE fave)

8. What is your favorite sport? Hockey & soccer

9. What is your favorite snack? pineapple 

10. If you could have any superpower what would it be? Blow fire!

11. What is your favorite animal? Snake

10. What is your favorite song? Follow the prophet 

11. What is your favorite book? Star wars lego 

12. Who is your best friend/friends? Lliam, Brigham, Benson and Tyson

13. Who is the coolest person you know? Daddy

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride my bike

15. What is your favorite drink? Smoothies

16. What is your favorite holiday? Halloween

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Spiderman blanket

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Egg McMuffin (homemade)

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Chicken nuggets

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Dentist or ninja

I see a trend here with the star wars and ninja.. my favorite answer was the "blow fire"..haha so cute! I love you Elias and YOU are the coolest person I Know!

luv mommy :)

Jedi Elias

Sooo a few months behind, but at the end of November we celebrated Elias' 5th birthday party. He wanted a Star Wars party and it was seriously sweet! We decided that we were going to do a boys only party and just invite the kids from his school class. It gets hard though trying to decide what to do and who or not to invite. I always tell myself it's not a big deal but than a week before there birthdays I feel like I want to make it special since its only 1 day of the year. So last minute I had my mom help me whip up some Jedi robes and ties for all the little boys, they turned out pretty cute I thought, could have been longer but we ran out of fabric, anyhow the boys all loved them! I had light saber swords for all of them and we had a sweet obstacle course set up at the school gym. Jeremy and my brother Chad made a course and the boys were in heaven! First Jer did Jedi Training with them, showing them all some sweet Jedi moves then it was onto the course once they got through the course they fought Jeremy at the end to prepare to fight Darth Vader. So after playing on the course for awhile my brother dressed up as Darth Vader at the end and they all got to fight him individually, man were they pumped!!! Then they all teamed up and fought him to the death, they loved every minute. Then we had a Darth Vader piñata,  once they all had turns and broke it open they collected their treats for their treat bags, we then headed back to our house for hotdogs, veggies and "Yoda Soda" ,(I forgot to take a picture) but it was green and frothy and the boys all loved it, they kept on asking for more "Yoda Soda" even Elias asks me to make it quite often.

Jedi Training

Jedi Obstacle Course

Jedi Fighter Training

Introducing Darth Vader

This was so fun to watch them all attack Darth Vader, they had a blast and didn't hold back anything!

Onto the cake..

I did ice-cream cake this year, so much easier and Elias loved it!

This is such a classic mother son photo, haha so typical of Elias. 

Happy 5th Birthday buddy! You are such a sweet happy boy and I love you so much! 

Mom