Four Christmas's

We had a busy holiday! We started off with our traditional Christmas Eve. We have breakfast for dinner and open a present, which is Jammie's. I was so excited to find matching Jammie's for all four of my kids. I love them so much! We played "left, right, center" everyone has a stack of money, we usually play with dimes, then you roll dice and your money goes with the dice. So at the end whoever has the last coin gets to keep all the money in the center. This year dad surprised us and we played with dimes, then quarters, then dollars! We had so much fun. We finished the night watching a Christmas story in our new pjs. I think Noah has a new favorite. :)

Christmas morning we woke up and did presents at our home. I love seeing the excitement in the kids faces. Benjamin and Emma got skates, Benjamin a fuseball table, Emma lots of crafts, and Noah got all the trolls. Navy loved playing with the paper and watching everyone.

Next we headed to grandma DeeDee's for breakfast of scones and yummy sauce we get every year. All of Jakes siblings were there and we had a great time chatting and all the cousins playing. The kids each got a special pillow/character from grandma and grandpa. It was great having all the cousins together.

Our next stop was grandpa Jeffs and Grammy Vickis. We had a yummy dinner and all sat and talked. The kids played with their presents and had so much fun! I love sitting around and laughing together.

Off to nana and papas house next! We had another amazing dinner with mom's best rolls! We did our sister and brother gift exchange. Madi had me and got me a Gilmore girls cookbook! Amazing! Haha. The kids got to open more presents. They got spoiled and each got their own supplies for their own fort.

We ended the night at our house all exhausted, but feeling so blessed and grateful. We had a long day full of love, laughter, memories, presents, food, joy and blessings. Thank you to everyone that made our families Christmas special. We love you!

Benjamin's birthday

I can never say it enough, but this is so crazy to me. My boy is 8! He is tall, handsome, smart, kind, and so much more. We are truly blessed to have him in our lives. He is doing so great with school and has great friends. He loves to read and play basketball. He is so full of energy, it's rare we see him sitting down very often. I love this boy more then words can express.
For his birthday we had a basketball camp with some of his friends. Aunt Kylee was such a great coach. The kids had so much fun. Uncle Chad made them shirts and they looked great. We came back to the house and had pizza, treats, and presents! Benjamin is so spoiled and I love seeing everyone show how much love they have for him. Thank you to you all. Happy birthday Benjamin. You will always be my little prince!

Snow play

We needed some white since Christmas was coming so we went up to Mt. Charleston to play in the snow. The kids had so much fun! We had a hill all to ourselves. We built a snow men and went sledding.  It snowed the entire time and made for a beautiful mountain day. That trek up the hill to sled was a work out. The little kids and I were out of breath, going down was absolutely worth it! The kids started to get cold and so we didn't make it too long, but we sure had a blast while we were there. I love spending time with my kids and all my sisters!

Winter fun

This month has been so crazy and so fun. Benjamin had a singing program and he has his own part to start the show. He memorized it and did great! They sang the cutest songs and he smiled and looked so handsome. Emma's class did the gingerbread man play and she was a gingerbread. She did so great. She had her parts memorized. She gets shy sometimes so I was so proud to watch her! Benjamin and Emma had a singing program together too. Their school does great with making the holidays special!

Four months for miss Navy

We have had so much fun this month. Navy had her first car ride all the way to Idaho and did amazing both ways! Navy met Santa and Mrs. Claus and smiled so big for her pictures. We went to her first movie Moana. Navy got her ears pierced! Emma was exactly two months old when we got hers. We went straight from the Drs to the piercing. I waited a tiny bit longer for Navy, but she has them done now and we love them! So dang precious. She is having a little bit of stomach problem that we are working on, but nothing too extreme. She is loving to look at mirrors and has been grabbing at her toys all month long. She does really well at turning and playing on her sides and will just stay there. She is rolling from her back to stomach all the time and just started to roll from stomach to back. She absolutely loves to talk. Navy is so dang cute just talks and talks and talks, if you aren't talking back she just squawks louder till you do. Her neck is getting so strong and she is doing great with her stretches. She holds her bottle by herself if you will let her. Her siblings all love her and she just is in awe of them. It is her favorite thing to watch them.

My Parents are old.... Haha JK JK JK

Mom and Dad turned 50! Mom's birthday is the 16 and dad's is the 19. So yep mom married a young one. ;) Us kids made a little dinner for mom and set up Christmas for her. They left to Idaho before we got to celebrate dad's birthday. We have had this surprise party for while we were in Idaho in the works for awhile and they had no clue. Dad talked to his brother and said that his birthday wasn't exciting and then Rob called grandma and was so mad at us for not doing something special. eeekkk we all felt so bad, but at the same time so excited that he still had no clue. We thought for sure somehow it would get spoiled. The day came down and Grandpa was very adamant about getting mom and dad out of the house for a break. He wanted to take them out, they were a bit reluctant thinking they would have a pedicure then be running errands. Our friends pretended to start the drive home, people showed up and we hid cars in the neighbors driveways. All of us kids got to work. We had help from our cousins and aunt too. We had lots of balloons, quotes, lists from things in 1966, candy gram, a 50 sign made from their pictures throughout their whole life, cakes, candy, and lots of love! We all got ready with our noisemakers and gave grandpa the sign! When they showed up they were COMPLETELY SHOCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did it!!!! Dad kept saying where are the cars. Mom was so surprised she couldn't even walk into the room. It took three people to light all 50 of their candles. We love you mom and dad so unbelievably much. We are all so blessed and thankful for you in our lives. You are seriously the best. I am in awe of how much love and life you have had for your first 50 years or half a century and can't wait to make more memories with you for the next!

Idahome

        We were lucky enough to be able to celebrate thanksgiving in Idaho. All of my family made it up to grandma and grandpa's. They sure had a full house. We all love being there so much. Seeing all of my grandparents and my kids loving them as much as we do. They sure spoil us so much! We had so much fun with cousins and family celebrating the day.

       Taliah and I went black friday shopping and got matching outfits. We all went and cheered on my cousin Casdon at CSI basketball. Benjamin was in absolute awe. He sat both nights and watched every second of the games. After the last nights game he went on the court and got the teams signatures. He is very proud and so are we. GO Eagles!! All of us girls helped grandma set up her Christmas tree. I sure love these girls! I got to catch up and have a girls night with some friends from high school, It was so great seeing them! I love our hometown. The views are amazing and we were so blessed to grow up where we did.

     

       We had a day out at Papa Buzz's and had so much fun riding four wheelers. We saw some of our cousins that we have not seen in years and I don't even remember the last time we were all together. It was so great catching up and having our kids play together. Kylee took all the kids on so many rides and they all had a blast as they froze in the wind. Papa Buzz and Grandma were doing great and we loved all being out there together.

We got so spoiled with all of our amazing family time with so many amazing people. Thank you and we love you all. I hope everyone else had as good of a Thanksgiving as we did.

Jordan turned one!

Jordan had a birthday! One year has gone by so fast! This little man is so handsome and smart! He is so good at walking, playing with Roxy, anything to do with balls. He is the sweetest and loves to give hugs and high fives. Jordan is loved so much by his momma and she is such a great mom! He loves to play basketball or rather try to throw the ball at the hoop and stand right under it while others play. Its the cutest and he will be a baller for sure. He loves his Uncle Jake, I hate to admit it, but Jake is definitely his favorite. Jake is a baby whisperer and the best uncle. Jordan has the cutest faces and such crazy expressions. 

For Jordan's birthday we celebrated in Idaho at our favorite pizza place then we went to grandma and grandpas and he got spoiled with balloons and presents. When we got back from Idaho we celebrated again. He is so loved by so many. Kylee worked so hard on his party and we made airplane sugar cookies. Jordan is obsessed with planes right now. We all loved celebrating this little guy and our so thankful for him and Kylee in our lives! Happy birthday Jordan!

Doctors, Doctors, and more Doctors

We have had quite the last few months.

Navy--- in Physical Therapy three times a week along with her well checks. She is doing so well and her neck gets better and stronger every week.

Emma-- had a lot of work done on her teeth, she is my best brusher and always does it, never complains and had cavaties. Benjamin fakes it and had none. Dang brothers haha

Benjamin-- had both sides of his nose cauterized back in May. He has had bloody noses since he was 2. Well that did not work so we had to go back in and have work done on both sides again. He is doing good now though, hopefully they don't start back up. (Noah just started having them randomly so it looks like he might have to when he is older too.)

I had about 1 good week after healing from my csection with Navy and then had Gall bladder surgery. I was not prepared and neither was my body. It knocked me out for a good week. No fun at all. I am doing much better just get a little sore sometimes, didn't help that we got in a car accident and that started the pain all over again.

Noah-- this little guy had to have surgery today. His pee hole was too small. The doctor went in and made the hole bigger. We went in really early this morning. He did really well. The surgery took a lot longer then it was supposed to, but the Drs all said that he did really good. I went back when they were done so I would be the first thing he saw when he woke up. It broke my heart seeing him sleeping with all the cords and mask. He took a bit to wake up, but finally opened his eyes when I told the nurse he likes apple juice. This kid and his juice haha. He was so brave. He had his Arlo (good dinosaur), Branch (trolls) and his blanket. We went on a special date yesterday to get Branch so he could have a friend with him. Then we went to a family, aunts, uncle, cousin date last night to the movie Moana.  We got hot chocolate on the way home from the hospital today and he has done pretty good since just goes from tired to super awake back and forth. This was a pretty easy procedure for the Drs. I definitely had a hard time with everything knowing he would go under anesthesia. He is so little. I am so grateful that everything went well.  Now we have recovery.

So we have a few follow up appts left for us, and Navy has her physical therapy. I sure am blessed that everything has gone as well as it has. Jake and I sure love these kids!