The New Year...

So far 2010 has been pretty uneventful which is a welcome relief for us. We are all healthy and we want it to stay that way. Bry and I have started weight watchers and are doing well on it. It's nice having support when you are achieving a goal. When I feel weak for a chocolate chocolate doughnut I just tell Bry and he helps me remember what our end goal is. Just a couple pics to make this post interesting...

Our usual picture taking session...





Logan is growing up too fast. He is so skinny and is starting to get taller. Bry and I hope this will continue because we were both not blessed with grand height-especially me. He loves dinosaurs and is obsessed with watching Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs. He loves playing with his daddy and gets so excited every time he comes home. We are trying to potty train right now and have been for a couple months- kind of a challenge and I have cleaned up way more than my share of messes. He also has quite a sense of humor and loves to make all of us laugh especially Shelby.



Shelby is one little flexible girl. I hope she got my genes and it stays that way becuase I find her stretching in the splits and in straddle all the time... I'm so proud :) This little angel never ceases to amaze me on how perfect she is. She has turned into a little mama's girl at the moment and cries whenever I leave the room, but no one can put her to bed like dad can. She is a little mover and can get from A to B way to fast.

Happy hol-i-daze???

Well this has been an interesting holiday season. We have spent it in and out of the doctor's office and hospital with Logan. He had one thing after another- croup, throwing up, headache, soar throat, eye infection. Just one thing after another and this whole time he was running a temperature usually of 103 every day. This temp lasted for 12 days. With all of these symptoms and especially the long and high fever they ran test after test on this poor kid and couldn't come up with a prognosis. They started looking at scary things like Kawasaki's disease (attacks the heart and can cause a heart attack in a child), and leukemia. Ahhgg!!! The past 3 days he hasn't had a fever and he has been acting pretty normal so we think we are in the clear and they said it was probably just a long stream of virus'. Wow!!!


So, we have been quarantined in our house for over 2 weeks now and just at the perfect time- during the holidays. And to top it all off Shelby got sick on Christmas eve with a stuffy nose, nasty cough, and sore throat! My poor children weren't able to be with any family the whole Christmas time, unless there were not children around. We still had a great holiday at our house. Santa came and brought dinosaur mountain and cars and Logan couldn't have been any happier. As he came down the stairs on Christmas morning he said, " are those for me."



New years was the same quarantine situation so we had pizza and a movie and did our own little celebration. Shelby LOVED the celebration poppers and laughed every time there was a loud bang.



Overall, it was an interesting holiday! Even though it was kind of crazy I am just so grateful to have my children healthy again. I feel so blessed to have them in my life.

Go Broncos!

I haven't blogged yet about our Anniversary! Bry and I switch off every year on who is in charge of our Anniversary and it was my year. So.... I flew him to Denver to watch a Broncos game because he has always wanted to go to an NFL game. We stayed at the Ritz (if you haven't stayed at one you need to put it on a list of things to do in your life.) We were able to get tickets by all the players families on the 8th row!!! (thanks amber.) After the game we got a family pass and went on to the field and took a couple pictures.Then we waited outside the locker room for the players to come out and was able to meet some of them. It was a fabulous and much needed getaway and I pretty much was on the nice list in my husband's book!





Here is another one of our traditional picture taking sessions!!!







We visited Santa this year at the festival of trees. This has been the greatest year because Logan understands everything now. He knows that he wants "Dinosaur Mountain" (had to do black Friday door buster for that one) and "the king" from CARS because he has pretty much every other car. Every time we even talk about Santa he says " and he bring me dinosaur mountain and cars the king." P.S. I love being a mom.




Shelby is getting ready to crawl now!!! Ahhgg!!! She is growing up tooooo fast! I seriously can't get enough of her excitement and energy!!!

"Breath of Heaven"

As most of you know I have been working on a tree for the festival of trees this past year. We have been doing this tree in honor of my daughter Alexa who was delivered on October 8, 2003. I also had a friend that had a daughter still born last March so I asked her if she wanted to do it with me. I can't even tell what this experience meant to me. The tree turned out perfect- I've had a vision in my head of what I wanted it to be and it turned out even better. The experience was surreal. The people we met and the feeling on decorating day was so amazing. Everyone has a story behind their tree and they all want to share it with others who have stories of loved ones they have lost. Thank you to all of you who helped make this so perfect! Especially to my amazing mom and sister, Steph. I really couldn't have done this without them! Go and see the tree- it is on row B entitled "Breath of Heaven." Our tree was on KSL last night too!!!

6 Years!!!

Wow... I guess time flies when you are having fun right? Today Bry and I are celebrating our 6th anniversary. It hasn't always been butterflies and fairytales, but I couldn't be happier with any other person. I truly found the perfect man for me. He helps me strive to be who I want to be. The other day I was listening to the radio and the new song by Martina McBride came on "I just call you mine." I literally started balling in the car because that's how I feel about my husband.

everyone that sees you always wants to know you
everyone that knows you always has a smile....
Everyone calls you amazing, I just call you mine

I know cheesy, right? But that's really how I feel. I love you honey and I am so grateful that you are mine forever!!!

3 years old...

How do you begin to talk about something you are so grateful for it makes you cry every time you think about it? Well… That’s how I feel about my little buddy. Logan turned 3 yesterday and I know mom’s always say they can’t believe how fast their children are growing up, but Logan seriously has grown up so much over the past year. He is such a little boy now and I love it. He loves playing sports with his daddy, especially baseball and golf. He is one picky eater but when he gets what he wants he is so excited. He loves his little sister- “Shelby Belles” and is concerned about her all the time. He gets excited about the smallest things and finds joy in being active and being with his friends. He is so smart and loves watching shows where he learns new things. He loves his nana. He is obsessed with Dinosaurs and Transformers. He loves pretending like he is a superhero (especially a transformer or spider man.) He brings so much joy into my life. Hearing “I Love You Mom” every night is seriously the greatest thing a mom could ask for. Logan is so loving and loves to be by mommy. He will come and sit by me and just lay his head on my shoulder or hold my hand. I love my angel boy so much and am so grateful to have him in my life.

For Logan's birthday this week he has had 3 days of fun. Wednesday night we went to the McDonald's play place for dinner with our little family and then to Walmart where he could pick and toy he wanted. He went straight to the transformers but decided to get a couple little cars instead. (P.S. I'm trying out being a brunette right now if you didn't notice. Thursday was his actual Birthday and he was with just mommy during the day. We went to the Little Gym, the Dinosaur Museum, and to lunch together. On Thursday night he was with just daddy and they went to Café Rio, worked in the garage, played some video games, and watched Transformers. Tonight (Friday) we had a Birthday part with his little friends at the Aquarium. He absolutely loved it and loved having all his friends come and play with him. Thank you for everyone that was able to come!
















Here are some of the other pictures we have taken lately… I got Shelby's hair in a tiny pony tail. Halloween was fabulous. Logan actually understood it this year and loved being spider man and trick-or-treating. Shelby had 2 outfits. Inside she was a ballerina and outside she was the cutest lady bug ever. We had my family over Halloween night which was really nice!










P.S. I looked in Shelby’s mouth today and found her 2 bottom teeth poking out. Who knew she was teething??? Not me, because she is seriously the best baby ever!