polar express

A month ago I was talking to my Aunt Kim and telling her what a train nut Weston has become like her son Sean. She suggested going on the Polar Express. After first I declined the offer due to the expense so close to Christmas. But my amazingly GENEROUS Aunt wouldn't take no for an answer and with a tiny bit of convincing we accepted the offer. I am so glad we did. It was amazing. We started out the evening by meeting my Aunt Kim, Uncle Colin and cousin Sean at the local dinner Dairy Keen which is not only good but they have tons of trains for the kids to play with. We got there a little early so the kids ended up having tons of time to play. When we were getting ready to leave Weston wasn't quite getting the idea that we were going to ride on a train but once we went over the tracks and he saw the train the whole idea came to life for him. We picked up our tickets and then took some pictures out in front of an ACTUAL steam engine. Weston was getting thrilled by this point. I had the boys wear their pajamas to go along with the story. I was worried they would get cold so my mom bought Cason a new thick pair of pj's and slippers, and she also put a pair of long johns on him too. She also bought Weston a nice thick robe. (Thanks mom) It was so fun because the train was all decorated for Christmas and the workers were wearing elf costums and chief costumes just like the movie. Once the train started to take off we were served hot chocolate too bad it didn't taste like melted chocolate bars, but still good, we also got good cookies. Cason kept trying to take my cookie and hot chocolate (yea that was great LOL). The train stopped a few times before it finally got underway. Weston was so thrilled when it stopped stopping and got going. He kept saying, "(insert anyones name because he had to tell each of us) its not stopping now, its not stopping...." We sang Christmas carols and then a lady read the story of the Polar Express while we all had copies to look at. We were also visited by Mrs. Claus and Santa Claus. It was so much fun and we had a blast. Weston didn't want to go home. Thank you so much for the fun night Auntie Kim you are the GREATEST!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving

I thought it would be fun to say all of the things that I am thankful for:

1. My Family: I have the best family ever. My husband makes me laugh daily and though he might not be a romantic he does do little things that make me smile. I have two of the sweetest, funnest boys around. I love them so much.

2. My house. With so many people facing the foreclosure of their houses and so many people that don't even have homes it makes me so thankful that Jon and I are able to provide a nice home for our family.

3. My Job. I really do love my job. If I have to be away from my family to work atleast I love my job and its a job that still allows me to be a good mommy and be at home with my kids as much as possible. Plus I have great colleges and a good class this year.

4. My mom. My mom and I may not always get along or see I to I but I am so thankful for the things that she does for my family and I. I am also thankful that she watches my children everyday so they don't have to go to daycare.

5. Food. As you can see by my weight I am very thankful for food. I love to eat and bake. Its the greatest.

6. My extended family. I have the best Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins around. I really wish I got to see them more but I really am thankful for their presence in my families lives.

7. Friends. Jon and I have some great friends and I am so thankful them and their presence in our families lives.
I am sure there is much more but that is all I could think of. Happy Thanksgiving and I hope your day is filled with love, thanks, and happiness.

cRaWleR

Cason has had a BIG developmental weekend. My mom text me on Friday to let me know that Cason had started crawling. Now he has been doing all the moves to be a crawler since he was 6 months old and I thought by the time he turns 7 months he will be cruising. Wel he just turned 8 months old and then the next day he took off. He didn't realize what he was doing so when my mom tried to show me when I got home he wouldn't crawl. But this weekend. He defiantely showed he that YUP he is a crawler. He only crawls enough to get what he wants and then over he turns. Or he crawls just a little and then reaches out to get what he wants. Its so funny. He usually wants Weston or one of Weston's trains. He just loves Weston and if Weston happens to give Cason the time of day then he just birghtens up. Anyway so now I can say he is officially a crawler. Here are so videos of him crawling. Sorry about the super cheesy mommy voice. But hey don't all mom have it?






First Tooth:
Cason also is cutting he first too. He has been a little more irratable but not much. He just gets the rosiest cheeks that are so cute. It hasn't completely cut through but I can feel it and if he lets me pry his mouth open I can also barely see white peeking out. I can't believe how big my baby is getting.

SiTteR

Its official.... Cason is a sitter. Well he has been since the beginning of October/ end of September. But with Halloween and Weston's birthday I haven't gotten a chance to post this. He is really funny he starts out doing great then that poor head of his just gets heavier and heavier and then wham.... He topples over. He doesn't cry if fact he is probably happy because then he can roll around and rock in the crawling position. Crawling is next and I full expect to happen soon. If fact he has been acting ready and doing the rock and everything since the beginning of September so I am a little surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Other news:

Cason turned 8 months on the 12. I can't believe just how old he is getting. Time certainly flies by when you have a job, a family and are just older. He is my sweet, little, giggling, smiler and I love him so much. He has been a great blessing and addition ot our sweet family.

OcTobeR

This month has been a fun, busy month. The only thing I have seemed to post was about Weston's birthday and being sick but we did a lot of other fun things.

Making Crafts

This is a craft I made for Halloween.

Pumpkin Patch

The first Saturday in October Jon, the boys and I went to the pumpkin patch in Layton. We got to go on a tractor ride to the field and then we picked out three pumpkins. Cason slept the whole time and Weston kept on picking up pumpkins and then putting them down when he would find a better, bigger pumpkin. It was so funny.

Weston trying to pick a pumpkin Weston with his pumpkinCason and DaddyWeston makes his pickWeston and IDaddy and the boys

AHHHH the tractor

Drive
After going to the pumpkin patch we went for a drive up Farmington canyon and over to Bountiful. It was so beautiful and seeing the fall colors was nice as well. Sorry no pictures I forgot the camera.

Pumpkin Walk

Two weekends ago we went to the Syracuse Pumpkin walk. It was a lot of fun and luckily it wasn't too cold. I dressed the boys up in their costumes and off we went. Weston loves pumpkins so he had to get out of his stroller immediately and check out the pumpkin's up close.

My Little ALLigator

Cutest Monkey ever

HaLLoweEn
Jon went to Las Vegas for a conference with his boss so he missed out on Halloween. Saturday the boys and I went to Toys R Us for trick or treating in the morning it was sort of lame. Then we went and picked up my mom and we drove to Bountiful to meet up with Cherie, Brandon, Whitney, Brookelynn, Carrie, Austin, and Avery. We went trick or treating up and down main street. It was so fun. Weston was too lazy to get out of the stroller or say trick or treat but he still got tons of candy. Cason slept the whole time. Then we went to my mom's and had pizza for dinner and went trick or treating in her apartment complex. Then we went home and went trick or treating around or neightborhood. Weston finally got into it and would say Trick or Treat and thank you once he had a handful of candy. LOL! At first he liked the decorated houses then he would get scared and say, "I don't want to go there!" We got home around 8 and by 8:15, I had to turn off the lights because I was out of my small bag of candy. Then the boys and I went up to bed and I stayed up and watched Carrie for awhile then off to sleep for me as well. It was a fun Halloween I just wish Jon would have been there to enjoy with us.

My little Monkey and Giraffe

So sweet

Whitney, Cherie, Brooklynn, and Brandon

Carrie, Austin and Avery

5 YEARS
Jon and I meet five years ago on Halloween. I can't believe how fast time has flown. In five years we have been married, lived in a townhouse, bought two houses, graduated from college, had two dogs, and had two kids. We have done a lot in 5 years. I love you BABE!

Our house has been kissed

We'll it looks like our household has been kissed with the swine flu. On Thursday I woke up with this mucus ball in my throat that was making me horse. I just figured I was getting a cold so I got some hot chocolate and went to work. By the end of the day I could barely talk, thank goodness for my school's microphone system. But I felt fine. Then that night I started to get achy muscles and a migraine. When I woke up Friday it was taking all my energy just get ready. I had this phlemy cough as well then, so off I went to get my hot chocolate at the gas station when as I was pulling into the spot a lady opened her car door into my bumper. Yeah! Luckily it didn't dent just scratched it. Anyway I went to work and as the day went on I felt worse and worse. By 11 I had a temp of 99.5 not too huge but I felt terrible. Called the doctor, who I have issues with anyway in Bountiful, because I thought I might have pneumonia. They said oh its not swine flu you don't have a high fever, hello did think that was what it was anyway duh! So they were no help. Luckily school gets out early on Friday, I talked with my principal and left with the kids. I ran a fever from Friday to Saturday. Had to keep on the Tylenol every 6 hours. Had this terrible mucusy cough (which hasn't left yet), no appetite at all and everything I did eat went through me. Jon took Weston with to a friends house Saturday night and Cason and I stayed home. I woke up with no fever but still the congested nose and cough. Jon and Weston came home around 8. Weston was sick with a fever. He just snuggled all day or cried if I didn't snuggle him. His fever never broke even with the tylenol. Cason was fine until 5 then ran a fever too, he also had a cough all day. Took both boys temp rectally because our stupid ear one is so unreliable. Cason's was 102 and Westons was 101.4. Called wee care about what to do at 5:45 after no one calling me back and both boys getting worse called again and got Cason an appointment at 10:20 due to his fever they said nothing they could do for Weston. I had already decided to take Monday off of work so I got subplans together while waiting to go to the doctors. They swabbed him and sure enough, SWINE FLU! The nurse then asked if I wanted to be swabbed just for the heck of it, "She said I won't tell if you don't." I have swine flu as well. So basically so does Weston. Because of Cason's age and weight they wanted him on Tamaflu. Walgreens is out until 10 this morning. So this has been our weekend. I am glad it waited until after Weston's birthday weekend to happen, LOL! Wish us a speedy recovery.

Weston's 3rd birthday

We had Weston's birthday party on Saturday. We had an a Seasame Street theme which the kids loved, and I loved creating the party. We had all the kids come wearing their Halloween costumes given they only get to wear them once we thought this would be a fun time to let them wear them again. Too bad it ended up being such a nice day so the kids ended up changing pretty quickly, they were roasting! Once everyone was there we played Trash It To Oscar. The kids had to throw balled up newspaper into an aluminum bucket I made. Dayton (5 years old), Weston (3 years old), Oakley (3 years old) all threw a ball and missed. Then Ashton (1 years old) threw the balled up newspaper in and made it. The kids all went for another round. Ashton made it again and so did Oakley, eventually they all made it in. I found these party favor medals at the dollar store that the kids got when they were done. We then played a Rubber Ducky game, I put dots on a few of hte bottoms of the ducks and they each got to pick a duck then turn it over and see if they picked on with a dot on it. We did quite a few rounds of this. Jon made hot dogs, deer meat, and pork loin for lunch. After lunch the dads hid the easter eggs so we could play Jounrey To Ernie. The kids all got to find 6 eggs then we came back together to look in their eggs to see if they had found 6 of the Ernies that were inside. The kids loved looking for the eggs so we hid them again and let them find them again. The kids all got bubbles even if they didn't get Ernie. After the game we came in and sang Happy Birthday to Weston. Probably his favorite part of the party. He made us sing to him 3 times of his birthday and let him blow out the candles. I made some elmo and cookie monster cupcakes all by myself I am quite proud of myself, if I so say so myself. We then went inside to open presents. Weston was spoiled and got a lot of great presents. Thank you everybody. Here is who made it to the party: Great Grandpa Layton, Vivian, my mom, Poppa, Grandma Dawn, Lance, Kourtney, Kenton, Sheena, Dayton, Ashton, Val, Bridgetta, Oakley, Cherie, Brookelyn, and Casey. We had a great day. There are a lot of pictures of his birthday and the party (sorry but we have family in another state who loves lots of pictures)