What the heck? I am blogging again!

Well, I know I am a super slacker, but we have been getting settled into our new house. Not much has been going on but I feel like we have been really busy. First off, we do not have the Internet yet, so that is the major reason I have not updated in forever.This is our third house, and I think we will stay here longer that the others:) It has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. We actually have stairs in this house, and the twins are doing pretty good on them. There has only been a couple of falls, but nothing major. I haven't done a lot of decorating yet, but thanks to the help of one of my friends I put some decorations above my cupboards in the kitchen. The cupboards were just plain, boring, basic oak, so of course I wanted to give them a makeover before we moved in. With the help of Brad my awesome husband we added some bead board and black paint. I love them and am so happy we did that! I think it makes such a difference.

Here are a few more pictures throughout the house. This one below is just in the entryway.

This is the front room, like I said not much decorating yet. But hopefully it will be soon!

This is our upstairs bathroom, I guess the main bathroom.

I loved the picture border in our Eagle Mountain house, so I wanted to do it again!

I will give a quick update on everyone:

Brad is of course still working at Gunther's. He almost cut off his fingertip the other day at work, so that was an exciting day! He fractured the fingertip also, so it is still tender but doing good!

I am loving our new house, but of course miss all the help from my awesome parents! I tend my cute niece and nephew every Tuesday and Wednesday. On those days I think I might go crazy having 5 kids under 3!

Justice is on a break from Preschool because his teacher had a baby. Both him and I are counting down the days before he goes back:) He has been going through a cowboy phase lately. He would wear wranglers and boots everyday if I would let him. I know what a mean Mom huh! He gets mad if I change the radio off of a cowboy song and always wants to watch a cowboy movie! He was watching Silverado or something like that with his Papa Bob and thought he needed a mustache and beard like the cowboys on the movie, so I helped him out with that, and he thought it was so cool!

I put scotch tape on his face and colored away!

What a handsome cowboy!

Talon is so busy and loves to play with his big brother Justice! He thinks he is as big as him and can do whatever he is doing. Talon is a follower that is for sure. He is starting to talk a little and it is so cute! He can't stand it if either one of his brothers are sitting on my lap. he thinks that is his special spot! He can give a dirty look like no other, but it is so cute! And he loves to do things to make people laugh!

He wore his pj bottoms on his head for probably 20 minutes because Justice and I kept laughing!

This face doesn't quite do the dirty look justice. We missed it, darn it!

Cardon is also very busy! He is the leader of the pack that is for sure! He can find trouble anywhere! He climbs on anything and everything. He teaches his brothers places to climb that they would never think of! He loves to play with his brothers also. He is a great sleeper and will eat almost anything, except hot dogs! He is our little tender heart! He has learned a little sign language too.

Check out the mischief in his eyes!

In this picture he climbed up the couch and then climbed into the window! It is his favorite spot to sit! Now the other boys do it too!

All in all everything is going good for our family and we love all of you! Hope everything is going good for you all!

Christmas 2008

I guess this post is better late than never huh? We had a great holiday this year. I was a slacker and didn't take many pictures though. We had Christmas Eve at my parents house. My sister Jen and her family was there also. We ate some yummy food and tons of snacks. Of course all the kids opened their PJ's from Grandma and Papa. Justice was so excited because he got Handy Manny PJ's. The kids thought it would be fun to play Rockband, and it was for sure. We played that for a while, and all the kids kept checking where Santa was online with Papa Bob. He was getting closer so everyone thought that we better call it a night. It was a lot of fun and I love spending Christmas Eve with my family!

It was fun to be at my parents house for Christmas this year. We woke Justice up and told him that Santa came, and he stood up and started jumping on his bed, but he wasn't really awake. Cardon was fine with waking up, but Talon was a kind of mad about the whole idea. But as soon as we got downstairs everyone was happy. The twins were thrilled with the balls that were sitting by their stack of presents, and could have cared less about anything else. Justice was excited about everything, he even got excited when he opened up clothes! He was so cute, but he was most excited about his Handy Manny he got. That is just what he asked Santa for! We all got lots of fun stuff and are thankful for everything that we were given.

Later that morning, Jodie and Corey came down, as well as the Stafford's. We exchanged gifts with the adults and kids, and then ate yummy breakfast. We sure missed the Young's! After that we headed over to Brian and Bethanie's to do gifts with Brad's Mom and Layne. It was so snowy that Haleigh and Steve weren't able to make it, we wished they would have been there, but we still had a fun time. That evening we went to Brad's Dad house for sandwiches. It was fun being able to spend time with everyone!

Brad was able to take a week off after Christmas, and it was so much fun to have him home! The kids loved waking up to Dad in the mornings, not just mom. I really enjoyed being able to spend some extra time with Brad during the holidays! That was the best gift ever!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I love this time of year and I can't beleive it is already 2009!

*PlAyInG iN tHe SnOw*

So Justice was so extremely EXCITED when he woke up and saw the SNOW this morning! He has been wanting to play in the SNOW ever since we bought all of his SNOW gear. I felt like all I was doing this morning was getting after him and I decided that there was a better way to take out my aggressions than to yell at him. So I got him in his SNOW clothes, and boots and we headed outside. I shoveled the walks and driveway and that helped me calm down a bit. Brad thinks I am so weird because I enjoy shoveling the SNOW!

How can I even get mad at this face? He would be happy if he was outside all day long!

Grandma Cheryl got him a SNOW fling to throw SNOWballs with. He had so much fun with that. I remember having one when I was little, and I loved it too!

We couldn't stay out to long because we had to eat lunch before it was time for Preschool, but it was long enough that my hair was destroyed and I had to wash it again and redo it.

These last four pictures were requests by Justice. He wanted me to take some pictures of him running! He is so funny. I feel so bad. sometimes I feel like I am always getting mad at him and expect him to act older that he is. Poor boy, I love him so much, and thank goodness he loves me unconditionally. I have so much fun with him and hope I can get life figured out a little better so I can enjoy it a little more and not be a grumpy Mom all the time. I love being a Mom and think it is the best job in the world!

What we've been doing

My friend Megan invited me and Jen to go to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point with her last week. My mom was off of work, so I was able to spend some time with Justice, without his brothers. Justice had so much fun with Ryker and Ryder, and he loved talking to Emma.

Of course I made us all pose for a quick photo. Don't you love self timer?:)

Justice had only been here one other time and he was pretty little, so he didn't remember it. He loved be able to dig in the sand and not have Mom getting after him for doing it!

The boys had just as much fun, or maybe even more fun playing in the bushes in the parking lot! They were all so cute and really played cute together, and Justice can't wait to play with Ryker again and his new friend Ryder. Thanks Megan for calling we had a great time and are looking forward to getting together again soon.

Well I had another girls night. We went to Katie's new house, which was so cute! Katie you should have been an interior decorator. We did a fun little gift exchange and had some chips and dip and brownies. It is always fun to get together with these girls. Thanks to Heidi, she is so good to plan these every month and make sure we do not miss one.

We are posing with the gifts we got from the exchange. Morgan was a bit excited about the cookies!

Lets see, what else have we been up to? Um okay so we have all been sick for the last week! But Talon has been the worst. Poor kids, I hate when they are sick, it breaks my heart. Lets just say I cleaned up enough throw up, that you would have thought it was an amusement park! Hopefully we are about done with it, "knock on wood" , every time I even think that, it starts up again!

We have also been working on our house every chance we get. We are hoping to be done within the next few weeks. We will probably not move in until after Christmas to avoid anymore stress than necessary. I definitely have mixed emotions about moving out of my parents house. It will be nice to have our own place again, but I have enjoyed living with my parents. They are so good to us and the kids love it!

Twilight, am I a fan now?

Every month I have a girls night with my friends from my old Eagle Mountain ward. They invited me to go to dinner and to Twilight. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go, because I haven't read the books and I wasn't going to be one of those "nerdy" Twilight fans. But I decided I would go just for the girls night.

This is me, Heidi, Morgan, and Katie at the Training Table before our movie. Morgan hadn't read the books either, so that made me feel a little better.

Okay so you might think I am a vampire in this picture, check out my pale skin. LOL!

Well I am not going to lie, I really liked the movie. And I just might want to read the books now:) And I can't blame all the crazy women that are obsessed with the books for having a little crush on Edward. Thanks girls for a fun night out! And thanks Brad for being such a good husband and telling me to go and being more than willing to watch the kids to let me have a break! You are the best husband and my best friend, and my "Edward" LOL.

We had my sister Jen take some family pictures for us a couple of weeks ago. We love them and think she did a great a job! We actually went out two different times and she took a lot of time with us! I am sure you can imagine how crazy it was taking pictures with an out of control 3 year old and 1 year old twins. We turned out with some good pictures so I thought I would post them for you to see!

We had a fun Halloween holiday this year! We started off going to our wards Trunk or Treat which was on Wednesday! Justice thought that was so much fun. We did the trick or treating and then went in the church for dinner and games. Jodie and Grandma Cheryl came with us and we had a fun day. Justice was excited because he got to wear his Halloween costume 3 days in a row. Thursday he wore his costume to Pre School and he thought that was so cool. And then finally on Friday we went with Papa Bob to have lunch at Grandma Cheryl's work. We met Jen P. and Ryker there also because Jen's mom works with my Mom. The food was yummy, Justice loves to eat lunch at the hospital with Grandma. Then I headed over to Greenwood Elementary to see Bryson in his Halloween Parade. That is always something I look forward to because it reminds me of when I was in elementary school. After that Brad got home from work and we made the rounds and did all the visiting. And then came back to my parents, and Jodie had planned a fun little party. The Stafford's came over also! We had pulled pork sandwiches and she made mummy dogs for the kids and some cute Frankenstein pudding. She was a regular old Martha Stewart. We watched Thriller and it was funny to watch Justices face, he was totally scared but he just kept fake laughing to try and play it off. We had a great time, especially because we had the three cutest cowboys ever!