"The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a handmade gift from me during this year. When and What will be a surprise. There's a small catch though....Post this same thing on your blog and then come back and leave a comment telling me you're in. Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift."
Savs tagged me, so I guess I'll do it :D
8 Favorite TV shows:
1: The Amazing Race
2: The Office
3: Ghost Hunters
4: Ghost Hunters International
5: Lie To Me
6: American Idol
7: Survivorman
8: most anything on HGTV or Food Network
8 Things I did Yesterday:
1: woke Up
2: Took A Shower
3: Went to Church
4: Got a New Calling at Church
5: Took a Nap
6: Went to MIL's for dinner
7: Had a sick and fevered child.
8: Watched Amazing Race
8 Things I look Forward to:
1: Having no kids in diapers!
2: Taking a trip to Hawaii, or a cruise, or someplace warm and tropical
3: Summer!
4: Losing 40 pounds! I can do this.....
5: Matt finding a good job that makes him happy.
6: Friday Night Movie Night - I love this time I spend with my family.
7: Going home from work tonight - I'm so tired and feeling icky today.
8: The rest of my life - I'm excited to see what the future holes. I feel like we're at the cusp of a new beginning for our family, and I can't wait to see what it holds.
8 of My Favorite Restaurants:
1: Windy's Sukiyaki
2: Kobe
3: Boston's
4: Chili's
5: Noodles & co.
6: The Spaghetti Factory
7: The really good Italian Restaurant in Park City that I can't remember the name of.
8: Cheesecake Factory (anything with cheesecake in its name you know has to be good!)
8 Things I wish For:
1: Matt to get an awesome job that makes him happy.
2: The ability to travel the world with my family.
3: To hopefully one day adopt a little child and give them a happy and amazing life that they might not otherwise have had - like my parents did for me!
4: To lose the weight and be an example to my kids of being healthy and changing my life for the better.
5: To spend a week, or two, lounging on a beach somewhere - unlimited (virgin) drinks with straws, massages every day, scuba every day, and lobster every night!
6: To do the renovations to our house that we're dreaming of - extend the back of the house out, put in a huge awesome rockin' deck, outdoor kitchen and patio, new kitchen cabinets, new flooring etc.
7: For my kids to be happy with the choices they've made in life - for them to do things because they WANT to and not because its the "right choice". I want them to be strong, independant, and most of all - happy.
8: right now, I really wish I could go home and crawl in my bed and sleep the rest of the day!
8 People I tag:
1: Liz
2: Vicki
3: Sally
4-8: I don't know anyone else who reads my blog, so I don't know anyone else to tag!
Corlin had surgery today. He had tubes put in (his THIRD set, by the way) and his adnoids taken out. The doctor said his adnoids were huge and that he had a hard time getting them out, which is what probably caused all the past tubes to come out so quickly. So, here's hoping that our cute little red head will keep this last set of tubes for a while and be healthy from here on out!
He's doing well so far with recovery. He had to have one breathing treatment while still in recovery (before I could see him). The nurse said "he did great with it, has he done that before?" Yup, alburterol treatments with a nebulizer are a common thing in our house, unfortunately. But after that he was great. He had a popcicle and three suckers for breakfast at the surgical center, and then requested McDonalds Nuggets for lunch. He didn't have any problems eating or anything.
He's such a trooper, takes everything in stride and keeps on going. With his easy-going personality he's a dream patient for the nurses. They all loved him, as does everyone who meets him.
You did great, my tiger, I love you!
The other day Matt was getting ready to cook himself some eggs for breakfast. He opened the pantry door and reached in for the vegetable oil when something caught his eye. He saw movement down in the bottom back corner of the pantry. So he stepped back to take a look.
{this is when we wished he had a camera in hand}
There he saw Maveri crouched down in the back corner of the pantry. She had the bag of cereal in one hand and a handful of cereal in the other. She just smiled at him and offered him some cereal!
Note: the pantry door was completely closed, she had shut herself in so as to not get caught by either daddy or her brothers!
That girl may be small, but she is too smart for her own good! It's a darn good thing she's cute!
Much thanks to Mary Oveson for taking some GREAT family pics! It was hard to choose just a "few" to post here.
Nope, it can't be. I refuse to believe it. If I refuse to believe it, does that make it not true? My Blaine Lewis CANNOT be SEVEN!!!
But he is! December 27th, Blainers turned 7 years old! Happy birthday to my handsome big boy! You're such a great boy - smart, funny, cute, happy, and a great helper to me and your daddy! We are so proud of you, and love you so much.
For his birthday we went to breakfast at Moore's with Nana and Bompa, where the waitress brought blaine a delicious cinnamon roll with a candle in it! From there we went home and hung out for a bit, and Brigham came over to play. Blaine wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese, so off we went. After that we ate dinner at McGrath's Fish House. Blaine (and I) LOVES fish, but we never eat there because Matt hates it! So he got a special fishy treat for his birthday. After that Brigham slept over and it was a fun night for all.
We had a little family party for him sunday night with pizza, cake and ice cream.
And here's some pics of my "Sunshine"
ALMOST two years old - at Disneyland with Nana and Bompa
The Flash
Love you bubba!
Once again we had an amazing Christmas this year. I think the kids were very pleased with what they got from Santa, us, and the rest of the family.
Christmas for us always starts off on Christmas Eve at "mamaw's" (Matt's mom). We eat junk food all night with no limits of what the kids can eat - I think that's their favorite part. We play a mean game of Bingo, in which Corlin dominated this year, winning both games of complete black-out! Way to go Tiger! I think he was just happy no one could steal his boats anymore! We play the "lefty" pass around game, which is always chaotically fun! And we exchange gifts with whomever it was whose name we drew. This year we did something a little different and decided to make our gifts. At first I was not excited about it, but in the end I really loved it. I made a pillow for Savannah that got me started on a pillow-making rampage and I ended up making five of them for various Christmas gifts. I found out I really enjoy making things!
After leaving Lynn's we go to "Nana and Bompa's" (my parents) where we read "Twas The Night Before Christmas" and open a present or two - generally speaking it's our Christmas PJ's! The kids all looked so snuggly and adorable! Then it's home to bed, with their new blankets that Aunt Erynn made them all, to wait for Santa.
Matt and I set the alarm for 7:30 thinking that we were pretty sure we wouldn't make it until then. At about 7:10 we hear a thunderous amount of RUNNING up the stairs. Now, we forgot to tell the boys to come get us before opening presents so we jumped up and made them come in our room while we woke up the younger two! And this is where the total present overload begins! Santa did good this year bringing Blaine scientist stuff, Corlin a Handy Manny Tool Truck, Quinten Martian Matters and Maveri a My Little Pony that crawls. They opened their gifts from each other - which were all huge hits, and then opened the rest of their gifts from us (and the air hockey table that had been sitting in the garage for two months! LOL). I think all in all everything was very much loved. I especially loved the aero garden matt got me, and I'm pretty sure he likes the HGTV design software I got for him!
From there we get dressed and head to Nana and Bompa's house again. Always a big hit. There was stuff everywhere - from huge Kota Dinosaurs, to personalized bean bags, to clothes, to race tracks etc. We eat sticky buns and open presents until it's time to go to the Taylor Family party at Wendi and Craig's house. It's always nice to see cousins that I only see once a year - if that.
Then it's off to Matt's mom's house for christmas with them. It's a lot more relaxed there, so much so that we were able to give miss grumpy pants a nice nap.
And finally, after leaving Matt's mom we head BACK to my parent's house for the Cox Family Party. It was hard having our first Christmas with out Grandpa, but it was a happy occasion still. I got to see my cousin Daryn's baby Kaelyn whome I haven't seen yet, and hang out with my cox cousins, which is always fun.
And then it's home - after a very tiring, but fun day of Christmas. The nearly foot of snow we got this year added a little extra excitement to our day. We ended up driving my parents suburban most of the day so that we made sure we made it up the hill to their house. So we loaded that puppy up - and with four beanbags and a kota it was FULL, and dad followed us home so we could unload all of our "goods".
Here's a few pics from Christmas morning at our house, and also movie night with the new bean bags and blankets!
not sure why i'm waking her up
waiting in our room for us to wake up the others
Santa Stuff
"you won't like me when i'm angry"
And the bean bags and blankets
