HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Look what Santa brought for Madi!! She was so excited she rode it inside our house that day and still likes to try to get on it and ride it in our house. Its cute though she cannot push the pedals backwards due to brakes on the bike and for some reason she pushes backwards first then starts pedaling forward, so she will come and tell me and Brett that her bike is broken because she cant get the pedals to move backward like she wants!

Weston loves my brother Rob! They sat and played with this toy forever! I am not sure who had more fun though Weston or Rob!

Brett was taking pictures of Wes the other morning and this is the face he kept giving Brett! Nice courtesy smile! lol!

She loves putting the piano books on the piano and flipping the pages and acting like she can play! Its way cute and as you can see her little brother likes to try to play too. He gets so mad when he can't see on top of things!

We actually went and got our Christmas tree more then a week before Christmas this year! This guy was way cool and let Landen help him pull the tree through the mesh stuff!

Look at my little man!!! He is just planning the best way on how to undecorate this tree! lol!!

These two love each other they play so good together its amazing! They have their days but for the most part they love to hang out and play games together. Now that Weston is getting older he will go and play with them too and chase them around the house to wherever they go its cute to watch the 3 of them interact.

This is what happened one day when Madi didn't get a nap! What's funny is that I had gone visiting teaching earlier that day and I had just gotten done telling the ladies how Madison NEVER EVER will go to sleep anywhere unless she is in a bed and even then she puts up a fight! Well we left her with Renee for like 20 minutes and when we got back Renee met us at the door telling us to be quite and look inside the front door and this is what we found! She was playing in there at first and then Renee said she stopped moving so she lifted up the cushion to make sure Madi was okay and found her completely passed out! Poor little thing! But at least she took a short snoozer!!

We let Weston eat this Tootsie Pop thinking that he couldn't fit it in his mouth and that he would have a hard time eating it! Well we were completely wrong! The kid fit the whole thing in his mouth with ease and ate it all the way down to the Tootsie Roll and then chucked it across the room because it wasn't the good stuff anymore! And to our surprise and I'm sure to everyone else out there there was no mess on his white shirt or anything!! The kid stayed completely clean it was crazy!!

This is our Santa picture! The kids REFUSED to go close to him by themselves so we sat in. This guy was way cool and looked the part. Minus some yellow in his hair and beard from obvious smoking... So sad but hey at least he was a way nice guy and was there making kids' and parent's happy.

This is what happens when your 2 1/2 year old figures out that chairs make awesome step stools and grabs a bag of cheese puffs and then goes to share with her little brother! My floor was orange my kids were orange and mom was laughing so hard because seriously how could you ever get mad at these little faces in this situation!?



The look on Weston's face is priceless in this picture! I can't help but burst into laughter every time I look at this picture! I'm so going to show his girlfriends this picture!!









Look how cute his little face is!!! Santa brought Wes this awesome toy that the 2 big kids like to play with! lol! The poor thing has to fight them to play with it now! But he loves it! He loves pushing all the buttons and pushing it around our house and everything its way cute!



 We had an awesome Christmas this year! Brett got me a new laptop which is going to be nice to have especially because our desktop is unreliable and he has a really nice laptop we just bought him at the beginning of the year but its for him to bring to school and do all that fun stuff with so I was always without a computer! It was just a little annoying! I didn't get him that much because I figured if I spent a ton of money on him he may not like it but now I know that next year I am going to set a price limit! He did get some nice new shoes from me though and a new hat and stuff. He just turned 26 too! Crazy! He is starting school again this week which I am not excited about. But hey if it helps us in the end then it will be worth it. Life is crazy right now with both he and I working Renee working 3 kids to find babysitters for and all that fun stuff. Thankfully I have amazing family that helps out. Rachelle and my mom are my go to people right now when I need a babysitter for a few hours until Renee, Brett, or I get off work and one of us can watch them. I am going nuts right now because my dad is finishing our basement and so everything that was down there is now upstairs in the kids rooms in our front room and in the kitchen. My house is not that big so it is just overly cluttered and everything and it is especially hard with 3 kids wanting to run around and go crazy and they are constantly tripping over crap! Oh Weston is officially walking everywhere! It makes me so sad to see him getting bigger. Madi is getting tall! Okay for me she is getting tall! She looks like a little girl now! Seriously when people say time flies when you have kids and in a blink of an eye they are all grown up they aren't kidding! It just seems like my kids get bigger older wiser every day and there is nothing I can do to slow down the process and enjoy it more! I love my kids and I'm so thankful for them. Even though they can be crazy demanding some days and they can drive me crazy I would never ever change a single moment that I get to have with them. It is seriously such a blessing and a privilege to have been able to have the two of them come into our family. Oh and next week Wes gets to go have surgery and I'm not excited. I believe the surgery will take about 2 to 3 hours just depending because he is getting 2 procedures done. I'm nervous only for the anesthesia part. My Uncle is doing the surgery so I know he is in the most qualified hands and I wouldn't trust him with any other doctor. It is not a big surgery or anything that is life threatening or anything like that but just the fact that my baby is going in for surgery and going under anesthesia it makes me nervous. But I know that he will be okay and I am glad to have the priesthood in our lives and have a husband and family worthy to give him a blessing so that they can give him a blessing to help him through this also. *sigh* It is late I am exhausted. Lack of sleep is really getting to me mentally emotionally every way! lol! Seriously I feel like a walking zombee! I hope I can catch up a little before next week because I have a feeling I'll be up a lot next week with Wes....

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I hope everyone will have an amazing year! I can't wait to see what this year brings for our little family!! Love to all!!

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GO UNLV!!!! (ya we totally got our butts kicked!!!) Brett was a good sport and wore red for Desi and I but Jeff.... well..... He is a through and through Utard! hehehe!! We will never corrupt him into wearing red! He was just a little happy though that BYU was killing us! We have a rivalry every year with him and every year we lose! Des and I decided we should have suited up and went and played then maybe we could have at least moved the ball! lol!! 

Here's me and my bestie!!! We were sitting in the middle of all blue!! We stuck out like a sore thumb!! At half time we decided to call it a day since there was no hope of our Running Rebels coming back! It was suck a sad game. Des and I left a little angry!! It was fun though to go to a football game finally though!

We needed to go somewhere the other day and didn't feel like switching car seats from one car to the next so I decided to try him out in his old car seat!! Ya no wonder why we switched him at 6 months to a convertible one! He is so tall! He is almost as tall as Madison!

Happy 1st birthday bubba!! This is how dinner started so civil and clean!

This is like 5 minutes later!!!!! He had a great time making a mess and eating his spaghetti as fast as possible!!!



My mom baked Wes a round cake and then I decorated it like a basketball!! He loved it can you tell!?!?!?



After his bath in the kitchen sink to get all of the cake and all of the other food off of him!! He loved taking a bath in the sink! Who knew it could be so much fun! lol!! He is about to open a present here! I can't wait until Christmas! Madi had to help him open the first couple but he started to get the hang of it after a minute! Seriously though Christmas is going to be so much fun this year with both our kids and Landen too!!



These are Weston's 1 year old stats!!

Length 31 1/4"   97%

Weight 22 pounds  50% (he is like 23 or 24 now though!)

Head circ: 47.4cm   75%

We had an awesome Thanksgiving this year! I ate way too much food! I'm totally not joking! The next day I was still so full that I could barely eat anything!!!

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This is Weston's first taste of a pickle!! We love the funny faces that he makes!!! He kept wanting more too! He also likes lemons too! He seriously makes crazy faces everytime he takes a bite but the funny little boy just keeps wanting more!!

This was our oh so exciting trip to the E.R. with Madi a couple months ago. She wasn't feeling very well at all in this picture but by the end of the hospital visit she looked completely different! She had color to her face and actually was smiling by the time we left! Thank heavens she started to feel better we didn't like the fact that she was so sick.

Our little tiger! He is suck a funny kid! As long as he has a drink and food he is the happiest little guy around!

So Brett was attempting to get his homework done but Madi kept bugging him. All of a sudden it went quite in the kitchen so I went in to see what she was up to and this is what I found! She went and got her computer and was "doing homework" with her daddy! She loves spending time with him and doing the things that he is doing! And he loves it too!

Aunt Rachelle went trick-or-treating with us! This is the two cheese balls!

My beautiful babies!!!





This is Weston's signature move!! It gets all the ladies! lol!!!

Brett was at work while we got these done but he no doubt would have made this picture perfect.......

Madi is attempting a funny face and Weston is doing some kind of Karate Kid move!

I love how sweet this picture looks. They really do love each other.

My daughter is so gorgeous!!!

Typical boy!



What a model!

 So we know this guy that is kinda cool depending on the day....... JUST KIDDING KIRBY!!! My little brothers old mission companion took these amazing pictures of us! It was so nice to be able to finally get a few pictures of my kids. I just wish Brett had time during the day sometime to take pictures with us. I feel bad he is either at work at school or studying. The rest of the time he is trying to catch up on sleep, and trying to catch up with me and the kids. I wish I could just snap my fingers and have him done with school in an amazing really good paying job so that he could spend time with us! Hopefully he will be done within the next 2 1/2 years!! My kids did okay with these pictures though. Weston just wanted to move and Madi didn't want to smile. So Kirby just snapped pictures as fast as possible and they turned out as you can tell amazing!! So anyone that wants to get pictures done click on Kirby Bolick Photography and just leave a message on his blog if you want pictures! Trick or Treating was so much fun this year! We had my nephew Landen with us and Madi just followed him from door to door! We also went with my brother Corry and my sister in law Meg and there two boys so between the 3 older kids they brought home a lot of candy for their parents!! I mean for themselves! hehe!!  They had so much fun though running from door to door! It was misting rain up here so we were glad the kids were going fast! They even ran into a couple "haunted garages" and didn't get scared at all! I wouldn't go in them though I am a total party pooper and refuse to go into any haunted houses! I did however let Brett pick out a couple scary movies for us to watch so I thought that that was fair! I am getting so excited for the holidays! Thanksgiving and Christmas are some of my favorite holidays! It is getting even more exciting watching Madi and Landen look through all the magazines that are coming in with all the toy adds and they walk around saying I want this I want this! And then they make phone calls on their fake phones to Santa and order toys! It seriously cracks me up they are so funny! Madi and Weston have been playing so much more lately. Madi runs and tackles Weston and then he laughs so hard so she rolls around with him and over him and he just sits there and laughs! He is seriously almost as big as her! Its crazy! She was so tiny and petite and he is just a growing monster! Maybe he is average though!? He turns 1 this Sunday! I can't believe that he is going to be 1!!! Where did that past year go!? I mean seriously sleepless nights busy days running after kids makes time go by so fast! And I feel horrible that I have not taken half as many pictures of him as I did her! I guess that's the way it goes though! I am loving our house and our neighborhood still! (even though it is not decorated as much as I or someone else I know would like it to be cough cough Desi cough cough!! ;})We have so many young couples and young kids around here its awesome!! What is even nicer is, is that my cousin and my brother both live within walking distance from us! Its just sad we don't play as much as we should! I am getting excited for Thanksgiving though because my grandma and uncle and aunt are coming up from Arizona and we don't get to see them too often so it is going to be so much fun and there is going to be so much food! Lets just hope that I don't gain the weight back that I have been trying so hard to lose!!! Enjoy the pictures of my beautiful kids!!!Kirby Bolick Photography

Goodbye summer hello Fall!!!

Weston loves to feed himself Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches! As you can tell he makes a pretty good size mess but whatever right! Its nice to be able to have him feed himself sometimes so I can get something done! I love his cheesy smile!!

Weston has now had to have breathing treatments twice! (as in he has gotten a really really bad chest cold twice and both times had to have breathing treatments) The first few treatments were horrible. This child is so strong! It was so hard to have to hold him down while doing this. It was really funny though because it turns into a huge family event when Weston gets these treatments. Mostly everyone tries to entertain him so he will stay still and someone has to stay by Madi so she doesn't flip out! She has gotten so much better now though and just keeps her distance and doesn't really look at him while he has the mask on!

He LOVES to climb on things. This is the new favorite. He climbs on it and just giggles and screams until someone acknowledges the fact that he has climbed up on the chair!

Yes this is a very proud man of his whole family wearing our Michigan shirts! I love Weston's hat! And this was the end of the day so just excuse Madison's hair she played hard and napped hard!

Look what a happy daddy he is! Weston is just as happy. I love these two boys!

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So I decided to strip Weston down and give him a bowl of Mac N Cheese. Well he took one handful and put it in his mouth then decided that wasn't fun so he grabbed the whole bowl and shoved it in his face and started to suck the noodles out of the bowl!!! After a little he got tired of holding the bowl up so he put it down on his tray and put his face in it eating it! We were laughing so hard we were crying! He actually ate quite a bit!!

Another view of the action! haha!



So I decided Madison's princess couch is not diaper friendly! This same thing happened to Madi when she was little! They go to crawl off of the little couch and their diaper catches on the couch and it unstraps it! So here is Weston happy as can be that his diaper is halfway off. In the mornings now he gives me enough time to take his diaper off wipe him and then off he goes crawling away from me as fast as he can smiling from ear to ear!!



I made Madi and Landen some popcorn and turned on a movie for them the other day. Madi had her legs crossed before I took this picture it was so cute! She is turning into such a little princess! She is getting to independent too! Its crazy all the things that she says and does now. It kinda makes me sad that she is getting big so fast! She has to do things by herself and if I try to help..... well lets just say its not a pretty sight when I try to help!! 

Since we don't have a horse Brett is the next best thing! These kids love when he is around. They rough house like crazy and even Weston will start tackling Brett now its so funny! It is so nice for Renee and I when Brett comes home cause he gets the kids all riled up and gets all their energy out. I seriously wonder how Brett still has all the energy to run and play with the kids after working and going to school all the time.

My cousin Amber and her husband Chad and Brett and I went to my aunts cabin for an overnighter! Can you see the excitement in their faces to get away from our toddlers and just relax with our husbands!!!

This is the first decent picture Brett and I have taken in a long time! The trees were beautiful all the colors up the canyon on the drive up there were amazing too! It was so relaxing and so fun! We need to go again guys!!!

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So along with Weston having bad chest colds we all got the flu. BAD!!! Madi started it and it landed us in the hospital for a few hours to get some fluids back in her. The poor thing was so dehydrated and weak she could hardly talk or move. Every time we would move her or she would move she would throw up. The poor thing is too much like her mommy when it comes to the flu. I wish she would have gotten her daddy's tummy. So she got the flu Wednesday and was still pretty bad Thursday but she slept a lot and relaxed which was good especially cause we were at the hospital until about 2 am! Then Friday evening Weston got the flu. Friday night I was so lucky and got it really bad too..... thankfully Weston only threw up a few times and then slept through the night and was fine the next day! Me on the other hand. Well lets just say I am lucky that Brett was home to take care of the kids cause I slept all day Saturday and could hardly do anything. Then lucky Brett got the flu Monday!! He and Weston recovered pretty fast minus having Brett's tummy a little sensitive to some foods but other then that they are doing so much better. Oh ya not to mention my nephew got the flu Saturday!! So yes my house is off limits until next week and then we can merge out into public and play with friends again! For some very sad news my parents dog Sam (the big Golden Retriever) died on Wednesday. He got really sick and wouldn't move and eat so my parents brought him to the vet and they told my parents that he had a tumor on him spleen that was cancerous and it had ruptured and he was bleeding out internally and he didn't have much longer. So my parents made the decision to put him down and not drag Sammy through more pain. It was so sad. We have had Sam for at least ten years! He was our little buddy. Anyone who knew my family knows how much we love our dogs and everyone knows Sam and what a good dog he was. The kids would flop all over him pull his hair smack him and he just laid there and would give them kisses and never growl or anything! I'm going to miss the big puppy!!! Other then that Brett is busy working, going to school, doing homework and trying to sleep. Madi is so cute she will hold a little picture of Jesus and stand in front of us no matter where we are and sing church songs! Sometimes we can figure out which one she is singing and sometimes we can't! But really it doesn't matter cause its just so cute to have her holding the picture and singing to us! Her and Landen love it when Renee turns on music for them to dance to. They clear the front room floor of everything and then just dance like crazy! Weston will even get into it bouncing on his bum and he will stand up holding on to something and bounce up and down. Its so cute! We are trying to enjoy the cooler weather but its kind of hard when all the kids are sick! The weather is beautiful and the colors changing on the trees and everywhere are awesome! Hope everyone is enjoying the weather!!! 

This is Madison's cute little smile that she does just for the camera!!! I can never get a real smile from her!

hhhmmmm.... I wonder where he got this from!?!?

This is another cute little face that I get to see every morning now!!

As you can tell not all of my family could make it to the temple with my grandma and aunt but it was still so fun to be able to go to the temple with my grandma. We don't see her very often so times like this mean a lot to me.



Look how cute my grandma is!! She makes my kids look so pasty white!! She is still my cute little hyper grandma that stands all of maybe 5 feet tall! She may even be shorter then that! (and may I add she is a "giant" in her family!)

So we have been busy for the past month with lots of family in town. Bretts 2 sisters and nephew moved here this last month! We had 10 people in my house for a little while! It was crazy!! We live in a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath town home! It is really nice though that we have a basement so we stuck most of them down in there!!! The kids had a complete blast with everyone thats for sure!! Brett's sister and nephew live with us now! Madi just follows Landen around everywhere! She wants to be just like her big cousin! Weston just crawls after the 2 of them trying to keep up and do what they are doin! It surprises me that he isn't walking yet trying to keep up with them!!! Its okay though he causes enough trouble crawling around making brakes for the stairs when no one is looking! He is a little trouble maker though but he is so cute doing it! If he gets in trouble he will turn and look at you with this cute little innocent look in his eyes like "what I didn't do anything"! It is so cute and funny!!! He crawls after me saying "mamamamama" I love it! When he sees Brett he is scream DADA sometimes! He has to eat everything you are eating. He is protesting against baby food! He only wants big people food. So that is what he gets! He is a big eater! He got sick for a little bit though and we had to do breathing treatments on him which were not fun to do at all. Not only was he upset but Madi would get upset and say "brother get off brother scary. brothers nose hurt noooo!!!" She would totally flip out though unless someone was holding her cause she for one didn't like it on his face and two he would cry sometimes and she didn't like him crying she thought that we were hurting him or something. We would explain what we werew doing and bring her over to him but she still didn't like it. He even had cute masks! One was a dinosaur the other a fish! But she still didn't like them at all. She is protective of her little brother. She is a little boss and knows what she wants and will try most anything to get it! The other day she climbed on top of our trash can to get ontop of the counter to get her daddy's IPOD touch! Renee and I both thought Landen had gotten it for her at first and then I told her to put it away and there she goes climbing like a billy goat! She is so funny! Her little personality is coming out more and more and it cracks us up! She has a little attitude some moments and then is so sweet the next! She has recently gotten some new fears which are not fun at all but we are slowly working on breaking those fears and helping her through it. Brett is in school now..... Not so much fun..... He works, goes to school, and does homework so we really only spend time together maybe one day a week if we are lucky. It is definatly nice to have his sister here with me though so I am not so lonely all day and night!!! I am finally almost back to normal though! Everything is finally calming down which is so nice!!!! Hopefully I'll be able to get more pictures on here soon! Our other computer is not working anymore and it has all my pictures on it so I somehow have to get it off and put them on our new laptop!!