Utah Trip (part 3)

On the 29th we went to the Children's Museum. It was a lot of fun. The boys really didn't want to leave at all. I think Jovin's favorite part was the grocery store. He loves to go shopping with me and buy the food. So he thought it was so neat that he could do it on his own. Mayer really enjoyed the big building blocks he would pick up a shape and carry it around yelling what shape it was. Pierce really didn't care much for it, but I think that was more cause he is 5 1/2 months old and really just likes to be held and fed. :)

Mayer seeing Cor through a window
Jovin peaking through a door
Pierce really enjoying himself :)
Jovin with the big building blocks
Mayer playing with the balls
Jovin and Mayer shopping at the grocery store

Utah Trip (part 2)

Mayer and Jovin enjoying to finally be in the snow
On the 27th we were with my family and we decided to go down town and see the temple lights. I think we just wanted to make a better memory than the one of two years ago and Jovin puking all over trax. :) So we wanted to go a little bit early so it wouldn't be too cold. It didn't matter, we froze. Okay let me rephrase that. I totally froze! We did end up going about an hour and a half before they turn the lights on. So after Jovin went and played in the snow and threw snowballs at us we went to Burger King and got some dinner. Yum! :) Then we decided to drive by temple square and see the lights. I was NOT going to go walking around again in the cold.
Mayer all bundled up
Pierce all bundled up. Poor kid he really couldn't move. He reminds me of the kid in A Christmas Story.

Utah Trip (part 1)

Cor, Mayer and Jovin Christmas morning
We headed up to Utah for Christmas this year. We left Phoenix around 1pm on the 23rd. After being stuck at the Hoover Dam (again!) for about an hour and taking a dinner break in Vegas we finally made it to my families house around 1:30 am. It wasn't too bad driving with 3 kids. They napped and then fell asleep in their car seats around their usual bed time. Jovin did wake up and ask to go home. Apparently we built up how much fun it would be to drive to Utah. By 8:30pm Jovin wasn't buying it any more.
We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family. The boys got to open one present on Christmas Eve which is as always pajamas. They all ended up with Superman pajamas. Cor and I got wii pajamas. They are pretty cool.
Cor and the boys Killpack Christmas
On Christmas morning Jovin was really excited to see all the presents and was happy that Santa had found him in Utah. We then went and visited family in the afternoon.
Christmas night we stayed with Cory's family and woke up and did breakfast and Christmas with them. It was fun and kind of nuts with all of the gift exchanges, but it was nice to have the whole family together. Jovin and Mayer really enjoyed playing with all their cousins which they kept calling their "new friends".

Abby and Mayer enjoying Cocoa Puffs for breakfast.

"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me..."

1 embarrassing moment: Um, peeing my pants after a dance performance. I had been holding it since before the intermission. As soon as our last number was done me and my friend booked it to the bathroom back stage. Well she beat me to the one toilet. We were laughing SO hard about the situation that I ended up not being able to hold it. Someone had to go and get my Mom and my clothes. My whole family was wondering why it took me so long to get ready after my dance concert.

2 best friends: sorry this has to be 3, Jovin, Mayer and Pierce!

3 things you buy regularly:
1- Diapers (duh that's a dead given!)
2- Milk... 4 to 5 gallons a week.
3- Bread 2 loafs a week.

4 places you want to go(and might actually REALLY go):
1- Disneyland (AGAIN!!)
2- Italy
3- Florida
4- New York

5 goals for the upcoming year(that you might actually do):
1- Be more paitent
2- Actually put clothes away after they are washed.
3- Send birthday presents on time this year!
4- Learn something new, and stick with it.
5- Stand on the scale and see 130 again.

6 things most people don't know about you:
1- I can't let my food touch other food on my plate. (I'm really OCD about that.)
2- I have to eat my food in a certain order. (really I don't know what my problem is.)
3- I want to go tornado chasing someday.
4- I want to own a dance studio.
5- I hum in my sleep.
6- I hate talking on the phone.

7 things you would never say:
1- "I'm wrong."
2- “You're right.”
3- “Please pass the tofu.”
4- “I don't want to take a nap.”
5- “Can I have more liver and onions?”
6- “Steve Nash sucks."
7- “I don't like it when my husband surprises me.”

8 things you love about the Christmas season:
1- Christmas music
2- Decorating the house
3- Getting presents for everyone
4- Remembering our Savior
5- Temple lights
6- Snow (I sure miss that! So glad I'll get some this year!)
7- Family Christmas parties
8- Getting presents... honestly who doesn't?!?!

9 things you say to your kids:
1- I Love YOU!
2- Get off the table!
3- Please stop teasing him.
4- No, you can't have m&m's for lunch.
5- Can I have a squeeze?
6- Here I come!
7- Do you want to dance?
8- Go find... (fill in the blank...) :)
9- Momma needs a time out. :)

10 things you do a lot:
1- Play with my kids
2- Watch TV
3- Play on the computer
4- Watch movies
5- Play Guitar Hero
6- Dance
7- Dishes
8- Laundry
9- Daydream about sleeping.
10- Reread the Twilight series... (come on you knew that was coming!)

11 things you would rather not live without:
1- The Gospel
2- My Family
3- My car
4- Chocolate
5- Cell phone
6- Friends
7- Home
8- Electricity
9- Food
10- The computer and internet
11- Money

12 people to tag:
1- Holly 2- Kristi H. 3- Kristi T. 4- Becca 5- Jamie 6- Charlotte 7- Stacy 8- DeeAnn 9- Kristin 10- Angie K. 11- Mum 12- Kathie Meh, also anyone who wants to can! :)

Ward Christmas Party

I just got home a while ago from our ward's Christmas party. It was pretty fun. Unfortunately Cory has not been feeling well today and he stayed home and rested. :( I feel bad he missed out on good food and fun.
I still went so that they boys could see Santa. Both Jovin and Mayer were excited to go see him. And I was not in the mood to fix dinner. :) Luckily I have some wonderful friends in the ward that helped me out with the boys during the dinner.
Then it was time for Santa. Jovin waited in line patiently and went right up with no problems. I thought I'd be smart and sneak Mayer in with Jovin and get a cute picture... Well that didn't work to well. Mayer freaked out. (keep in mind he is getting over being sick himself and has been a BIG Momma's Boy lately. Not to mention he is like every other kid that age that likes Santa on the TV and movies but freaks out when they see him in person.) So my friend put Pierce in Santa's lap since Mayer wouldn't go there and she took the picture of all of us. Yeah it was an interesting experience needless to say.
I sure felt bad for Santa... He had Jovin squirming and Mayer screaming, and Pierce trying to pull his beard off.
Oh, and to make things even funnier all Jovin asked for was a candy cane cause he saw that is what Santa was giving out to the kids. :) At least I know he got what he asked for from Santa this year.

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I'm sure all of you are sick of pulling up our blog and seeing my ugly mug looking back at you. I sure am... so here are some pics of the boys until I get around to updating about our boring lives. :)

Lighter

I've been wanting a change for my look for a while now. I've always wanted to go blonde but have been too scared to try. Cory has been trying to tell me to try something a little bit different with my hair and maybe just add highlights to my color. Well I got adventurous the other day and when I went and got my hair done I asked for highlights. So the lady is washing the dye out of my hair and kind of gasps... which totally freaked me out! I of course start to thing the worst case possible... My hair fell out and I'm bald now. She reassured me that my hair was still on my head but it went a little bit lighter than I wanted.
I started to breathe again and thought, "okay so a little bit lighter would be okay. No big deal." She put the towel on my hair to dry it off and spun the chair around to face the mirror so I could see what it looked like. All I saw was blonde. I was totally speechless and those of you who know me... that's hard to do. She told me that the color would be even lighter as it dried. I almost started to panic, this was one of my fears, to be blonde and look really stupid. So she continued to dry and style my hair and the more I saw it I liked it.
I was a little bit worried about what Cory and the boys would think of it though. Cory really seems to like it, Jovin and Pierce didn't really have a problem, but Mayer wouldn't come to me at first. Cory says it was because he was groggy, but I think it was the hair.
I'm still not used to being so blonde. Whenever I go by a mirror and catch a glimpse of myself I have to do a double take cause it is so different. I LOVE it though. ;)

Halloween 2008

Well it has yet again taken me a LONG time to post something... At least something with pictures.

So for Halloween Jovin wanted to be Diego from Nickelodeon's Go, Diego Go. Mayer was Darth Vader (he wouldn't wear the hat), Pierce was a cow, Cory was a Ninjaneer, and I went as Major Margaret Houlihan. (Sorry no pic's of that I didn't look that good.)

Jovin as Diego
Mayer, Cory, Jovin and Parker


Pierce as a cow... he didn't like the costume.

Tag Time!

Tagged again! (note: these are not in any particular order...)

My 8 favorite TV shows...
1) The Office
2) Chuck
3) Hero's
4) My Own Worst Enemy
5) Pushing Daisies
6) Storm Chasers
7) Ace of Cakes
8) So You Think You Can Dance

My 8 favorite restaurants...
1) The Olive Garden
2) Chili's
3) Taco Bell
4) Texas Roadhouse
5) Bajio Mexican Grill
6) Outback Steak House
7) Wienerschnitzel
8) Subway

8 things I'm looking forward to...
1) Seeing family and friends at Christmas time
2) Seeing the mountains and snow at Christmas time
3) Paying off student loans
4) The temperatures in Arizona to go down a little
5) My boys to play sports
6) John Mayer to make another album
7) Twilight the movie to come out on dvd
8) Go to another Suns game

8 things that happened yesterday...
1) Fed Pierce a couple of times during the day
2) Broke up some wrestling fights between Jovin & Mayer
3) Dressed Jovin up as Go Diego Go
4) Dressed Mayer up as Darth Vader
5) Dressed Pierce up as a cow
6) Got dressed up as Major Margaret "Hotlips" Houlihan
7) Went to our ward Trunk-or-Treat
8) Ate candy...

Alright I did it. I'll tag anyone who hasn't done it yet and wants to. :)

Little Photographer

Every time I get the camera out to take pictures of the boys Jovin always asks to take a picture. Well I finally let him do it. We put the strap around his neck so if he dropped the camera it wouldn't hit the ground. With just the first few pictures that he took he did pretty good. He was really excited to see that if he pushed the button whatever he pointed the camera at it would stay on the screen. You gotta love the instant gratification from digital cameras. :) Here are some of the pictures that Jovin took. :)





This last one is on here cause Jovin wanted a picture of me and him together. :) (I took this one.)

Pierce's Blessing

Well I feel like I'm finally getting caught up on things happening in our lives... just you watch though, now that I've put that saying out there in the universe I'm gonna get way behind again.

Cory blessed Pierce two Sunday's ago. The outfit was a little tight on him so I took it off right after the blessing. I then kept forgetting to put it back on him for a picture. Well here we are two weeks later and I finally did it. I'm glad I did. It was even tighter this time, I can only imagine if I had waited longer I wouldn't have been able to get it on him. :)

Here he is in all his cuteness!

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Me & My Boys

Jovin
Mayer
Pierce

Go Fish...

So the other day I was playing around with a deck of cards and Jovin asked if he could play with me. So I decided to teach him how to play Go Fish. I remember playing Go Fish with my Mom and Grandparents. The antisipation of asking for the last card in a match up and getting if from them was so monumental... I was getting excited to teach
Jovin this game so he could experience this too.
So I started off explaining the game and how to ask for cards and if I don't have what he asked for I will tell him to "go fish" and he is to take the top card off the deck. Then it would be my turn to ask him and so on...
As we start playing the game Jovin is starting to understand how it works... but then he realized that being told to "go fish" meant that I did not have the card he was looking for and he needed to pull from the deck and get some random card that he really didn't want. So then it started to escalate to the point when I would tell him to "go fish" he would put his head in his hands or on the floor and cry and tell me to stop telling him to "go fish". The crying would go on for a few minutes and he didn't want to continue to play.
I had to keep persuading him to continue to play and next time ask me for a different card. When he did finally get a match of four cards he was thrilled and wanted the game to be over.
When it was my turn I asked him for his 6's and he started to cry again and said that he didn't want to give them to me cause he wanted to get all the 6's. I had to explain that if I asked for a type of card that he had he needed to give them to me so that the game would be fair. Obviously he didn't like that idea.
Needless to say I stayed with it and we did finish the game. Although it was the LONGEST game of Go Fish that I have EVER played.
Oh, and now if I suggest to play it he tells me, "okay Momma, but don't tell me to go fish anymore..."

The Many Faces of Pierce

Well I realized that it has been over a month sine I posted a picture of Pierce. He is SO cute! I know I'm totally biased and all, but he has the best facial expressions for a 2 month old. And these aren't even half of the expressions that I get all day long. Now the pictures are in chronological order so the top was about a month ago and the last was a couple of days ago... ENJOY!







I don't know if you noticed but most of these he seems to be scowling at the camera, or well me actually I get that look most of the day... I'm not quite sure what that is about.

Table Buddies

Well, we finally got Mayer out of his highchair. We got him a booster seat and he now can eat right next to Jovin. Mayer was really excited the first time they had lunch together. Then later that night they had a food fight with each other. Cory then asked me if we really want to have Mayer out of the highchair or not. It has been a couple of weeks now and they are doing a lot better. It keeps the mess to at least one side of the table.
This is Mayer feeding himself a yogurt. Boy doesn't he look proud of himself?? Yeah, he got a bath right after this picture was taken cause the yogurt was EVERYWHERE!!!

Saturday at the Zoo

So it has been a long time since I have posted anything... I know I'm terrible! We have done some exciting things.
We went to the zoo one Saturday and Jovin got to ride on the merry-go-round. He was so excited to finally go on it, and I took him up to pick an animal to ride on and he got scared. Why? Well it didn't help that every animal on the stupid merry-go-round looked as if it was ready to eat you. They all had their mouths open and teeth barred. When I would try and suggest and animal to sit on he told me they were "scary". I finally got around to the side with the giraffe. Luckily he didn't look ready to eat us and I got him on it. Unfortunately he didn't go up and down. He was the ONLY one that didn't move. Oh well, Jovin was so distracted by the other animals surrounding him he didn't notice that he wasn't going up and down. He finally really started to enjoy the ride by the time it was over... hopefully next time he will pick one that isn't too scary for him and he can go up and down while spinning around.


Then the boys (Cory, Jovin and Mayer) spent some time in a big play house with slides at he zoo while I fed Pierce.


We went pretty early to the zoo that day so by 10ish it was over 100 degrees so we went home to cool off.

Breaking Dawn Baby!!!

So yeah, if most of you don't know by now I'm a HUGE Twilight fan!! Okay so I'm a little OCD about it... :) Well I went to a Breaking Dawn Vampire Prom Midnight Party at our local Barnes & Noble. I took one of my young women with me cause she really wanted the book as bad as I did and we couldn't wait until Saturday morning to get the book. My good friends Angie and Becca came and joined in the fun too. (BTW - it was Angie's idea to go and get our arms painted with apples on them...) I just wanted the book... But, thanks Angie and Becca for coming along and making it fun.

I read it and had it finished by Sunday evening. It was the best of the series. I really enjoyed it and I HIGHLY recommend anyone who hasn't read it to do so...