tagged again :)

This time Tyler and Jesse got tagged. I thought it was cute though. Apparently I scrapbook a little too much (funny I thought I didn't do it enough)

1. What is something mom always says to me?
Tyler-I can’t understand you when you whine
Jesse-feed the baby

2. What makes mom happy?
Tyler-hugs and kisses
Jesse-when I give you stuff

3. What makes mom sad?
Ty-when I don’t clean up
Jesse-when we don’t do what you say

4. How does mom make me laugh?
Tyler-by tickling me
Jesse- you tell me jokes

5. What was mom like as a child?
Tyler-uh, I don’t know
Jesse- I have no idea

6. How old is mommy?
Ty-28
Jesse- 28

7. How tall is mommy?
Ty- 5’3
Jesse-28 feet

8. What is mommy's favorite thing to do?
Ty-scrapbook, read, play with me, Jesse, Tracen and Dad
Jesse-watch me play

9. What does mom do when I'm not around?
Ty-work
Jesse-go scrapbooking

10. If mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Ty-scrapbooking
Jesse-play in a band

11. What is mom really good at?
Ty-reading and scrapbooking
Jesse-you’re really good at scrapbooking

12. What is mom not really good at?
Ty-spanking our butts
Jesse-xbox

13. What does mom do for her job?
Ty-Work at the ER and scrapbook
Jesse-a nurse

14. What is moms favorite food?
Ty-strawberries
Jesse-vegetables

15. What makes me proud of my mom?
Ty-for being a good mom and not getting divorced with dad (where did that come from?)
Jesse-Watching me race bmx

16. If mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Ty-Pippi longstocking
Jesse-Zach and Cody’s mom

17. What do mommy and I do together?
Ty-Read
Jesse-I pretty much play xbox

18. How are mommy and I the same?
Ty-We both have blonde hair
Jesse-we both have blonde hair and we’re both in the Neilson family

19. How are mommy and I different?
Ty-you’re a girl and I’m a boy
Jesse-you’re a girl

20. How do I know mommy loves me?
Ty-You hug me and kiss me and tuck me in every night
Jesse-you say it when I’m going to sleep

We tag:
Brinkley and Ady (don't worry Alisha it's not you that got tagged!)
Wyatt and Aubree
and Kole---but your mom will have to start a blog first :)

Quote of the day x2 again

Last night when we left my moms she told the boys she'd see them tomorrow at the reunion.
Ty-"What reunion?"
Grandma-"The Long reunion."
Ty-"Well how long is it?"
It took him a minute of me reminding him that grandma's last name used to be Long...not that it was going to be a long reunion

After that we were at Grandma Neilson's and she went and found some *good* fireworks and we'd lit off like 3 of them while grandpa was in the house (because he usually says no lol). He came outside and would have been none the wiser but Jerry bursts out "I told them not to do it!" followed quickly by Ty defending himself with "It wasn't me, I didn't do it!" Those Neilson boys can't keep a secret! A few minutes later (while Josh was getting ready to do another one) Jesse came over and told grandpa "I did it, grandpa" At least someone's honest :)

Boys say the darndest things.

After much swinging had been had, Jakey announces that swinging makes him feel like he's going to puke, Tyler states that he feels like he's going to puke...you can see where this conversation is headed. In an effort to curb this grandma suggests a change of subject, which works for about 3 and a half seconds and Jesse starts talking about throwing up. David announces "lets not talk about puke, let's talk asbout shrek the third. Remember when shrek's baby threw up?" I just started to laugh. We left the park shortly thereafter.

24th

So we had decided that we weren't going to the Cedar 24th parade this year when Ty came home from church and said that he was going to walk with the primary kids in the parade. So after trying to talk him out of it I finally call our neighbor down the street to get the details. She even offered to let Ty walk with them so I wouldn't have to (because I wasn't going to!). So the boys spend the night at my moms, we all get up early (well early for me), and get ready. My mom shows up with the boys and I tell Ty that he needs to get ready so he can walk in the parade and he looks at me like I'm crazy and says "I'm not walking in the parade!" What??? In the end we did not go to the parade. We did however spend the morning up at Park Discovery playing with Grandma, David and Jacob.

swimming lessons

The boys just finished two rounds of swimming lessons. They had a lot of fun and I'm totally impressed with their teachers. Jesse started only being able to swim a few feet to swimmimg the whole length of the pool. Tyler (who swam the length of the pool last year) made huge improvements in his stroke and swimming with his face in the water and not plugging his nose. By yesterday afternoon they had both passed level 3.

They had fun at the end of each lessons jumping off the diving boards.

He melts my heart

Tracen is two months old today! I can't believe it. In some ways I want him to stay a baby forever, but then all the new things he does are so fun. He has started giving me the best smiles and they really do just melt my heart. Over the past week and a half or so he's started talking a whole bunch too. Pretty much every morning he wakes up happy, smiles at me and talks my ear off for an hour or so. I LOVE it! Then he'll sometimes have another talkative spurt in the afternoon. The boys and their dad think it's great as well. With all this smiling and talking has come quite a little bit of drool as well as you can see from his pictures (the shiny chin).



I took Tracen to the Dr. today. He weighs 14 lbs 2 oz and is 25 inches long. He's really tall and weighs a lot but he has a normal sized head :) He also got some shots, which I had to prepare Ty and Jesse for as they are a little overly attentive at times. This was the first time I'd taken them with me to the dr office and they talked the doctors ear off telling him all about Tracen. I guess taking good care of your brother can bring you right out of your shell since neither of them usually talk. I had to keep telling them to sit down and I tried to keep their willingness to share all of Tracen's acheivements to a minimum. They just love him I guess!

I went to St. George last week and had lunch with Nikki and Kari. They loved on Tracen for a while and we had lots of fun. He likes to stare at lights as you can tell.

Diaper cakes

Josh's cousin's wives (did you catch that?) are due really close together so we have a baby shower for them tonight. Me and my SIL's and MIL went in togetherand did these diaper cakes. I think they turned out pretty cute!

I made my own background!

Ok so after WAY too many hours messing around with this, I think I figured out how to make my own background (way too many hours...not kidding, I wasted a lot of time!). But, I noticed that it looks a little different on Josh's computer than mine, probably because the screen size is different. So if it looks funky to you, like there's a white border on the bottom or edges or something leave me a comment so I'll know and I can spend more time figuring it out....or just go back to one of those free templates.

Now I just got to change the header.......

4th of July photos

I don't know why the pictures uploaded this way. Anyway, here are some pictures from the 4th! This is Tracen and one of Blake and Danielle's twins Makelle.
Tracen
Tyler, Jesse and Brock

Tyler and Jesse doing sparklers
Pictures Josh took of the fireworks.

Tagged

I got tagged by Jade.
The rules are: list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obessions, and 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their name.

3 Joys
1. My family
2. A good book
3. Riding my bike...even though I'm fat and out of shape and sometimes I think I hate it when I'm on it, but I always feel good afterward :)

3 Fears
1.Losing Josh or one of the boys
2. SNAKES
3. Heights

3 goals
1. Get a masters degree
2. Get out of debt
3. Get all 300 pictures I ordered in the past two months scrapbooked...then start on everything before and after that....I'm way behind!

3 current obsessions
1. Blogging
2.Scrapbooking
3. Holding my baby.

3 random suprising facts
1. I broke both my arms when I was little jumping out of my grandma's fig tree.
2. I'm afraid of needles when they're pointed my direction...yes I know I'm a nurse.
3. I think it's funny that it's suprising to most people but I'm really shy.

SO....I think pretty much everyone I know has done this already, so if you're reading this and you haven't been tagged, well, you're it!

Blessing Day

We blessed Tracen today. We are grateful for all the family that was able to make it to the blessing and the dinner afterward. Josh did a great job. The weather was cool and really nice as well so the dinner under the porch was great. It's raining and thundering while I type this and I love it.

Grandpa and Grandma Neilson wit Tracen

Me and Josh and Tracen
My Grandparents came up for the blessing as well. We were so happy to see them and grateful they could come. Tracen is their 46th great grandchild.

He looks so sweet!

Quote of the day

Larry (looking at my toenails) Are those gel or acrylic?

Me-That's really screwed up that you know the difference.

Then later...
Larry-Do you have any toothpicks.

Tyler-No, we just have q-tips.

Tyler

Tyler has had quite a few highlights to his little life in the past 2 weeks. So here's a little bit on him :)



He went from Shaggy:



To Short:
Around the first of the year Ty decides he wants to grow his hair out. So we go with it. However, the longer it gets the more irritated Josh gets with it. Actually he just doesn't want to do it everyday. I mean he doesn't have to do his own hair why would he want to do someone elses. So finally a few weeks ago Ty decides he wants to cut it again. You'd think Josh would be ecstatic right? wrong...he told him, nope, you're going to finish growing it out. What? So it took Ty a week or so to talk Josh into letting him get his hair cut.

And now so we don't make Josh look like the only mean parent around here, there's the other story. A few weeks ago we were out at Grandma Neilson's house and the boys were jumping on the trampoline. Ty hurts his foot and is crying. I didn't doubt that it hurt but sometimes he over reacts a little. So I told him he was ok and to walk it off. It would be ok. Every few days he'd do something and it would hurt again. So finally about three weeks later I take him to the doctor because it's still swollen. Uh, ya, it's broken. Not bad, in fact, the ER doc didn't see it. You have to read the radiologists report to find the little shadow that denotes a crack in his ankle, but still, it's broken. So Dr. North suggested a walking boot (I was quick to mention he HAD been walking on it for 3 weeks) so that it can heal and not get hurt again. He's actually quite proud of himself and likes his walking boot.....most of the time.

Happy 4th of July!

I realized I never posted Tracen's birth announcement(s). There are two but one was vetoed by Josh because he thought Tracen "has too much cleavage" in one. They are both cute but I was leaning toward the one he picked anyway :)

This is the one we used:

This is the one with too much cleavage. Hey the kid can't help it if he's getting chubby!

And don't worry, I only took 152 pictures to get these two good ones :)

Also I realized that this blogging thing is ingenious. Not only is it fun but it's kinda like scrapbooking and keeping a family journal all in one! In fact I think I may print it all off and put it in a binder and call it a journal. :)

Donate a kidney

Josh's friend Mark donated his kidney to his sister earlier this summer. His sister has lupus and has been on dialysis for quite awhile. When they were looking at him being a possible donor he said it was pretty much impossible to find information from people on what donating/recieving a kidney was like for them. There's lots of medical information out there, but no personal information. So they decided to do a blog about it so that other people giving/getting organs would be able to read a personal account of what it's like. So here's their blog www.organsoup.com

Twins?

These boys could almost be twins! They look almost identical from the side especially. This is Mark and Tracen. Mark is my cousin Dustin and Laurens new little boy. He's 6 weeks older than Tracen. We didn't realize they looked that much alike until we got them together at the reunion. My dad even thought Mark was Tracen.

Funny thing is that Logan and Jesse look a lot alike too but I'm not sure if anyone got a picture of them together.

Mr Photogenic

Jesse is my photogenic child. I get the best pictures of him without either one of us trying. It's just not fair to the rest of us I guess, but I'm happy when I get cute pictures of him! When I was taking these pictures I was telling him "Jesse, don't smile!" I love the progression from him trying hard not to smile to giving up and giving me that cute grin!

Dang he's cute.

Family reunion

I'm sitting here with the boys at swimming lessons and Tracen is sleeping in his carseat so I thought it'd be a great time to update the blog.

We had our Whitney Family reunion this past weekend up on Cedar mountain. It was lots of fun. I thought I'd post some pictures.

Here's the main draw for us cousins....the mountain biking! I actually didn't go this year. I figured that since I had a 6 week old baby mountain biking might be a little over the top for now. I did have lots of volunteering babysitters though! Aunt Susan and I did the shuttling and we stopped in Panguitch lake and got us a yummy raspberry with chocolate chips ice cream.

Grandpa Whitney, Uncle Darrell and my dad

Family Bingo: a very cute game with pictures of all the second cousins to play that Aunt Donna came up with.

And of course a favorite is paper rockets. The kids love Corey's set up that blasts homemade paper rockets into the air or in pieces depending on the rocket!

This is what happens when you try to catch rockets that are hurtling back to earth from their trip into the sky

The spectators: We were so glad that Brian and Isaac stayed in our trailer with us. Isaac is so cute and says the funniest stuff. The boys loved making him laugh.