Two Kids and the Zoo...

Last Friday I took Jovin and Mayer to the zoo. Oh, boy was that fun. :) Jovin does really well staying near me and I never have to chase after him anymore. So I put Mayer in the stroller, it was almost nap time anyway so I figured he'd sleep in the stroller. Boy was I wrong. He wanted to walk around like Jovin. So I figured if I let Mayer walk around for a while he'll get really tired and want to ride in the stroller. Wrong again! He walked the whole time we were at the zoo. :) He stayed near me and held hands with Jovin too. It was really cute.


They went and played on the little playground they had there. It was cute, I think they did that longer than the time we spend looking at animals. :)


We got to ride on the carousel too. It was pretty windy there and they closed it after our ride. I'm glad they waited until we rode, cause I promised the boys we'd ride it before we left the zoo. :)
It was fun, we missed Cor and Pierce they were spending some time at home. :) We'll take them with us next time. :)

On the way home we got stuck in traffic. It was really upsetting to Jovin. He kept telling me to go faster and move into another lane so we could go faster. I'm a little concerned about when he gets to the age to drive. I think he'll have some road rage problems. :) This is a pic of him yelling at the drivers around us to "Get out of my Momma's way!" (Isn't he sweet!)

Then the last 20 minutes home they both crashed. :) Ah, the quiet part of the trip. :)

Sunday Best

It's not that often that I can get a picture of the boys, all dressed up and cute, before we rush out the door to get to church on time. Actually, Cor took these pictures while I was trying to finish getting ready. Aren't they handsome!?! I'm not sure why Pierce is fully dressed and in the baby tub, you'll have to ask Cor about that. :)

Look Who's 2!?!

Yesterday was Mayer's 2nd birthday! Yea! It started out with opening some presents that Jovin picked to give Mayer... hence they were things that Jovin wanted to play with. He also got a digital camera. So most of the day was spent breaking up fights between Jovin and Mayer. :) Last Friday we took Mayer to Build-a-Bear to make his own friend since he keeps taking Jovin's Monkey that he made at Build-a-Bear. He picked a teddy bear and enjoyed watching it be stuffed. He picked overalls for it to wear, they are the same ones as Jovin's Monkey, so their friends match. He calls it "Eee Bear" or sometimes it sounds like "Eet Bear".


As soon as Cor got home we opened some more presents from the Grandparents and played with them. Oh what fun!
He got books, a truck, and a Care Bear from his Grandparents and Aunt. He loves the Care Bear cause Jovin has one and now he does too. :)

He got a tent with a tunnel to play in from his Grandma and he loves it!! Going in and out of the tunnel and then he likes to stand in the middle of the tent and spin around.



Mayer was excited to blow out his candle and he even tasted the frosting right after he blew the candle out.

I can't believe he is 2 already. He's talking a bunch. Loves to read books, watch Phineas and Ferb, along with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Little Einsteins. He enjoys drawing and coloring. He LOVES to snuggle still. I think that is my favorite thing. :) In the mornings, and after nap, he will come to me with both his blankets and come cuddle with me for a while. Also if we are watching one of his favorite shows he likes to sit with me. He's VERY helpful too, he likes to help clean up toys, and get things for me and help cook. He's a wonderful, happy spirit that we are glad is in our home.
Happy Birthday Smushy! We Love YOU! :)

New Things Happening

Jovin has really been into playing Mario Kart on the wii. He used to only do the battles cause you don't have to stay on a set course. He can now do the races too. He's gotten really good at it. He begs me daily and multiple times a day to play.


Pierce is doing GREAT sitting on his own. I would always start him out with the boppy around him cause he's so chunky that if he just started to lean a direction he'd fall right over. Well now he immediately rolls off the boppy and goes and sits himself up somewhere else and plays with toys. I took the hint today and not once used the boppy. He did great. Caught him self twice and once really smacked his head, but Jovin was jumping to make him laugh so he didn't cry too much. :)

Mayer got a new hair cut the other day. I miss his curls, but it was getting SO long that it was time for a trim. He looks older to me, but that could also be because he turns 2 tomorrow. :)


Pierce is pretty much crawling. More still scooting around backwards but he has made it forward a couple of times. He is all over the place and getting suck places now too. Oh the joys. It was funny the first day he figured that he could move around I had him in the boppy on the floor and I went in the kitchen to start lunch when I came back in the living room I couldn't find him. I started to panic, I know he couldn't walk out the door but how do you loose a kid in a house!?! Jovin then started laughing at me cause I was walking from room to room calling out "Chunkers where are you?" and Jovin laughed and said, "Momma he's stuck by the couch" while pointing to the spot where Pierce had wedged himself between the wall and the couch. He just BARELY fit. :) I walked past him like 3 times and didn't hear him or see him.


This really isn't a "new" thing but it was cute. I tried to get a picture of him asleep at the end of his nap but I woke him up. Oops!

Simpsonized Killpack's '09

Just thought I'd update what we'd look like in Simpson form. :)

Boys Getting Their Groove On

Oh, this is Clap Your Hands, by They Might Be Giants. :)

My Little Guys

So I'm tired of having my little gripe session about my birthday be the thing that pulls up on our blog so time for something new... so here are some pictures of the boys that I took today. Enjoy! :)

Jovin, Pierce, and Mayer actually all looking at the camera and smiling.
Mayer (hands in mouth), Pierce (hands on legs), Jovin (finger in nose)
JOVIN
MAYER
PIERCE

What's in a Birthday?

So what's the big deal with birthday's? I mean it's just the day you were born. Big deal. So you're one year older. Whatever... I still feel like I'm 18 sometimes. It's not like you look older on this day automatically. You age over the many days that pass. To some people I look 24, to others I'm apparently in my mid thirties with my blond hair. Whatever. It's just a day like any other day. Right?

I keep telling myself this cause I spent my birthday in a lot of pain, sick as a dog, and unconscious. Not exactly the way I wanted to spend my birthday. Oh, was perfectly fine the day after and since. You wouldn't know that I was on my death bed Monday, cause the rest of the week I've been fine, but that is not when my birthday is. Monday was. I didn't get to do anything I wanted to do. I wanted to go to Disneyland and get in free. Didn't happen. Instead I daydreamed while in fetal position that I was there. I wanted to get food from my favorite fast food place and eat it and enjoy it. Didn't happen. Instead I puked my guts out in the toilet. Blah! I HATE throwing up. I wanted to play with my kids. Didn't happen. Instead I was asleep for more than half the day! I wanted to eat the cake my husband and kids made for me. Didn't happen. Instead I laid in bed with a migraine unable to move.

I for some reason make a HUGE deal about birthday's. I feel like I totally got ripped off!! To me a birthday is your day. You get to do what you want. Celebrate it the way you want. Eat what you want. It's your day and you get it your way. Yesterday I was totally proven WRONG! I also learned yet again... Life is not fair! :P I mean come ON! 365 days of the year and I have to be sick on MY DAY!!!

However, I did realized how blessed I really am. Besides Monday, I have my health. I have the best husband who came home half way through the day to take care of me and the boys, and loves me even when I irritate him. :) I have the cutest little boys who make everyday interesting and fun, and love me even though I'm flawed. I have wonderful friends and family who remembered my birthday and wish that I had a great day, even though it was one of the worst. Oh well that's what is nice about birthday's... they come around every year. So I guess there's always next year. :)

The Chunk

I took Pierce in for his 6 month check up and well... they pretty much confirmed that he is a big baby. So his nick name we have for him is totally appropriate. "Chunk" or "Chunkers" or we just tell him to do the truffle shuffle. :) (I know we are a bunch of nerds.)

He weighs 24 pounds, and he is 29 1/4" long, which puts him in the 99th percentile for his age. It's not surprising to me though he is in 18 month clothing and people at stores think he is 9 months to a year old. :)

While I'm being the bragging mother... he's doing well on eating solids, he rolls over and scoots everywhere. OH, and best of all, (and I know I'm jinxing myself by putting this out there in the universe) he is sleeping through the night. :) Yea!

Rub-A-Dub-Dub....

Three boys in a tub! :)

Oops!

I really shouldn't be laughing about this still, but it's funny to me.
The other day I as vacuuming the living room. Now Jovin runs out of the room with his hands over his ears when I bring the vacuum out. He's never liked it. Mayer is okay with it he thinks it kind of neat. Pierce really doesn't know what to think right now. I'm just glad he doesn't cry like Jovin did at that age.

Well Pierce was in the exersaucer and Jovin was in his room sitting on his bed with his hands over his ears waiting for it to all be over. Well I THOUGHT Mayer was in the kitchen playing with toys. So I'm vacuuming the rug and I bring my hand back and SMACK! I hit Mayer in the head with the handle on the vacuum. I didn't know he was behind me. I hit him hard too. You know you throw your weight around to push and pull the vacuum. I knocked him flat on his butt and he just looked at me all wide eyed and didn't know what to do. So I turned off the vacuum and picked him up. He hadn't started to cry yet cause I was laughing my head off. Now Cor says I always laugh when someone gets hurt. I don't believe it, but the main reason I was laughing so hard about this was that in my head I kept saying, "I hit my kid with a vacuum! I bet no one has ever done that. What kind of mother am I?" After I laughed for a while Mayer did too until the pain sunk in then the laughing turned to crying. So if Mayer grows up and has memory problems or walks funny we'll know that it was the combination of me and the vacuum cleaner when he was 1 1/2 years old. :)

Our Favorite Jovinisms

Here are a couple of things that Jovin has done or said that put a smile on our face and made our day, so we wanted to share them so that they may put a smile on your face too. :)

This was one morning where Jovin was the first one up and he came to Cory's side of the bed and had the following conversation.
Jovin: "Are you awake Daddy?"
Cory: "What do you think?"
Jovin: "I THINK you're awake..." :)

There was a Fast Sunday a couple of months ago where Jovin was really restless. He really wanted out of Sacrament meeting and to go to nursery and play with the toys. Well since it was Sacrament meeting on a Fast Sunday people were getting up to bear their testimonies. We were about half way through the meeting and one of the Brothers ends his testimony like everyone else "Amen" and Jovin thought it was the end of a prayer so he says "Amen, okay let's go!" and gets up to leave. We had to sit him back down and explain to him that is how people close their testimonies during Sacrament meeting on Fast Sunday and it wasn't the end of a prayer. We told him that he would have to sit down for a while longer. Jovin's response was "AWW CRAP!" really loud, and sat down hard on the bench, right during another testimony. The people that were sitting around us got a kick out of it. (btw, he learned "aww crap" from me.) :)

The following is a conversation between Cory and Jovin at Halloween.
Cory: "What does candy corn smell like?"
Jovin then takes a big sniff of the candy corn and says, "tasty!":)

One night while I was at mutual Cory was putting the boys down for bed and the lights were out. Jovin proceeds to freak out. Cory asks him what is wrong and he keeps saying that his seat belt isn't on. Cory is really confused and tells him that he doesn't have a seat belt for his bed and doesn't need one cause seat belts are only in cars. This only makes Jovin freak out more. So in the dark Cory feels around to see what Jovin could possibly be having a problem with. He notices that Jovin has his hands on his pajamas. Now these are the kind that are a one piece that have feet and you zip them up in. Jovin had his hands on the clasp that goes over the zipper at the top of his pajamas on his chest. The clasp was not fastened so Cory clasped it and Jovin immediately calmed right down. To this day he still calls it his seat belt. :)

The other day I was in the bathroom doing my hair and I could hear Mayer and Jovin doing something in the kitchen. It sounded pretty noisy so I asked Jovin what they were doing. Jovin's reply was, "something we shouldn't be doing". He was right they were both climbing on the kitchen table to stand and jump on it. At least he was honest right? Although he hasn't given me that reply since. I think he caught on that lets me know he should be in trouble for what he is doing. :)

One day Jovin was having a rough time. Mayer and Pierce were down for a nap and he was BORED! He had also been in time out a lot that day. Which means he was not a very good boy. So I was trying to get some housework done and I made some suggestions of things he could do. This was his reply...
"I don't want to play with toys, I don't want to read a book, I don't want to watch TV... I want to be naughty." :)

Utah Trip (part 4)

Jovin laying on the couch sick. He did this for 2 days. Sad looking isn't he?
The last couple of days we hung out with Cory's family and relaxed. That was nice. Although Jovin was a little sick a couple of the last days. We got to spend more time with Cory's family before everyone went home or left to visit other family. We also got to hang out with some friends we haven't seen in a long time. I'm still kicking myself for forgetting my camera for that one. :)

Cory, Mum and the boys
Family pic before we left
Another family pic before we left Jovin just had to pick his nose for it, so I'm posting it to embarrass him with it some day :)

The ride home was interesting. We went to leave and out car wouldn't start. Great omen huh? We got it jump started thanks to Mum and we were on our way around 1:30pm. We made a quick stop in Cedar City and then in St. George to pick up a hitch hiker, just kidding it was our friend Ray. After dinner we were off to Las Vegas. I was driving and I missed the sign that told us the exit to go to Phoenix (stupid huge semi driver blocking the sign!) so I was still on I-15 going to Los Angeles. Crap! So we get off and Ray calls some family that lives in Vegas for some help on how to get back to the freeway and in the right direction of Phoenix. Once we got that figured out we were on our way. Then we started to see signs saying that Hoover had bad holiday traffic and we should go through Laughlin, Nevada for a detour to Phoenix. I was NOT about to get stuck at Hoover Dam again, so I took the detour. Well I or Ray, it was late and we are still arguing about this, missed the sign or something that told us to turn to Kingman, Arizona. Crap! So I (or Ray) ended up taking us to Bullhead City, Nevada. (That's almost to the California border.) I turned around and got on the I-40 to Kingman then we finally got home around 2:30am! Whew! Even with my long detour it didn't take as long as I thought it would. We did make it safely and that is all that mattered. I'm really glad to be home now where it is warm and dry. :) We really enjoyed seeing everyone that we could on our trip. We miss you all already! :)

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.