Quote of the Day

Josh has this thing with driving by one or the other of two bars in town on our way home from his mom's at night. I guess he likes to see what his options for possible DUI's are or something, who knows. Josh said the other night on the way home they drove by one of the bars and Ty says to him...."I don't like AT&T" Josh asks him why and he says "Because they try to put more bars in more places" HA HA. I thought that was so funny. Maybe we should sell it to them for an ad then I'll be rich :)

Our Merry Christmas

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas!! We had a busy past few weeks around our house. The boys finished up school last week with parties. I got to go to Jesse's class and help him decorate his gingerbread house. It was so fun to be with him in his class he was so cute decorating his house up. Here is a picture of him being silly and showing it off:

Christmas Eve we had a delicious dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Neilson's house. We ate more than would fit into our stomachs and had fun visiting and playing with cousins. Jerry tried to talk us all into letting the kids open their presents but we withstood temptation. (Well I did, no one else in my family was very happy about that including Josh!) Thanks to Grandma for having dinner at her house every Christmas Eve!

The boys opened their Christmas jammies. They aren't nearly excited about it as they used to be. They said they wanted to open a present that they didn't know what it was....I told them too bad. I'm the scrooge I tell ya. Tracen was exhausted at this point and so happy to go to bed as soon as the picture was over.

Our tree after Santa paid us a visit.

My boys take after me in that they like to sleep in. I was totally counting on this. Even on Christmas they usually don't get up too early. Not this year...everyone, including Tracen was up at 6:30 a.m. ugh! They even stayed up late, I couldn't get them to go to sleep the night before. We made them wait while Tracen had a bottle. Then we went up to see what Santa left us.

Tracen really suprised me. I thought he wouldn't really care about his presents but he ripped some wrapping paper off and he smiled at all of his presents and pushed buttons and giggled. He really enjoyed all of his new toys.

The boys still adore Tracen and love to help him play with his new toys. They are so cute with him.
Merry Christmas!

7 months

Tyler informed me the other day that Tracen was seven months old. What? When did that happen. And if you ever need to know the date of anything, birthdays, random happenings etc, Ty's your man. So it's now 3 days later I guess and 5 a.m. in the morning and I decided I'm going to post what he's up to these days. I hope it all makes sense, I'm at work and woke up yesterday (Still today for me but for those of you that sleep at night, yesterday) at 9 a.m. Is that 20 hours? Can I tell you I'm excited to go to bed in 2.5 hours? OK, so I'll try to stay on subject and make sense all at the same time

Tracen at 7 Months

• He is still a happy boy. He always has a huge smile for us and a laugh or a squeal.
• Now to contradict myself, he's got this scream/cry that he uses when you aren't paying attention to him as much as he'd like and he wants to let you know he's not happy with you.
• The little stinker is going to crawl. He gets up on his hands and knees, or his hands and tippy toes (which is so cute!) and rocks back and forth.
• Although he can't crawl he gets around. He rolls, moves backwards and although I haven't seen it with my own two eyes, I believe he must have a little army crawl for going forward. He doesn't use this when I'm looking but if I look away a few minutes later he's across the room and I have no idea how he got there.
• He likes to talk to us and even started making what sounds like a "da da" sound.
• When the boys get in the car after school his whole face lights up and he gets excited. Same with when his dad comes home.
• He's Grandpa Neilson's little buddy. They like to hang out together.
• He loves food. He eats lots of rice cereal, squash and carrots. He'll also eat peaches and pears but he makes a funny face like it's sour.
• He's sprouted 2 teeth in the past week and a half, now when he chews on my finger it hurts.
• He's still big and chubby with beautiful eyes.

We absolutely love Tracen!

This post is totally subject to editing after a bit of sleep today (tomorrow for me) Time is all relative :) So if it makes no sense, check back later and I'll write in English.

Elf Yourself

Ty has been begging me to help him do this for days. When we got all done we found out we could post it on our blog. :) Don't mind the cereal on Tracen's face....I didn't know we'd be posting it when we started!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

A little family trip

Josh had a marijuana testing training in Provo last week. So on a whim we decide to take the boys out of school for a day and we'll take a little family trip. Josh had been planning on driving up Tuesday morning and not staying the night. We decided we'd drive up on Monday after he got done working the basketball game. We check the weather, there's nothing on the radar, I climb online and book us a hotel room for the night. I'm not even kidding it started snowing like 5 minutes later. I check the weather again and it looks pretty good just past Cedar.

Josh gets home and we load up his Blazer in the inch of snow and head off. It snowed until Fillmore! Like hard, I can't see where I'm going snow....don't trust the radar. We got to Provo at 2 a.m. where we proceeded to our motel (I wouldn't suggest staying there). The office was closed, which I knew it would be but I'd told them it would be 1 or 2 when we got there. So we rang the doorbell.....nothing. Rang it again....nothing. We went down to the road and checked into the La Quinta, which was much nicer than our original destination.

Josh went off to his training after about 4 hours of sleep and got back really fast (yay!). We had a fun day traipsing all over the place. Of course, our first stop was Cabellas. Always have to stop there. Josh spent his time in the gun section while the boys and I enjoyed the stuffed wildlife and the fish tanks. Tracen LOVED the fish. He jumped up and down on my lap and reached for the fish the entire time we were in there. Then we went to the Rodizio Grill for lunch...that was pretty dang close to heaven. There were lots of yummy different meats to try and as much as you wanted. The boys thought that was pretty cool, especially Jesse. We wandered around Trolley square for awhile and bought a bunch of homemade salt water taffy that was SO good.

Then we headed over to Temple Square. We took a little tour of the conference center. We'd never been inside. It was absolutely amazing. Tyler loved the pipe organ. We really enjoyed all the paintings and sculptures. The room they hold conference in is amazing and huge. Then we went over to temple square and walked through the visitors centers and the tabernacle. Tyler again LOVED the pipe organ. We waited around until they turned on the lights so that the boys could see them. They thought that was pretty cool. I remember going there when I was little. It seemed like temple square was like 4 times bigger then. It didn't take nearly as long to walk from one end to the other as it did back then.

We loaded up in the car, got some dinner and headed home, thankfully with no snow. The boys were tired! They slept the whole way home. It was a fun little trip, minus the snow that kept us on the edge of our seats on the way up. I'm glad the boys got to come and we had fun!

Isn't he cute?

The temple looked so pretty all lit up!

Ty wanted his picture with the organ. The missionaries are all eager to take pics for you :)

Passed out on the way home.

Piano Recital

The boys had their first piano recital on Sunday. They both did great! I know how nervous you can get at a recital so I'm proud of both of them. They have a great piano teacher and we absolutely love her!

Quote of the Day

Josh was patting his belly and told Jesse "there's a baby in here." (because it's kinda roundish)
Jesse looks at him with disgust and replies...."Dad only girls lay eggs"

HA HA