Cute boys and my wits end....

My Wits End!

Do you ever feel like you're going crazy? Me too. This morning we piled in the car and headed to church. Tyler and Jesse are in the back arguing over the fact that Ty's in the middle and Jesse wanted to be in the middle (this is why Tracen is USUALLY in the middle). Meanwhile, Tracen isn't about to be outdone so he's over on the side in his car seat mimicking an indian call, yelling as loud as he can while he flaps his chubby hand and wrist over his mouth. Then we actually get to church. I don't think the sea of motion stopped the entire time. Tracen was all over the place smiling and flipping his body all over, babbling, "reading" books and doing baby things. Jesse trades places with Ty at least twice and really, really needs a drink because he's thirsty. Tyler somehow ties his shoes together....yes together. He tied one shoe to the other shoe......twice.....tight enough that he couldn't untie them himself. At one point Jesse took Ty to show him where the bathroom was and it was heaven for a moment or two. Then when we got home they whined and cried because we asked them to.......clean their rooms.....yes I know, it's asking a lot.

Cute Boys

I know what you're thinking....these two subjects don't belong in the same post....you're probably right. Yesterday was Grandma Bev's 80th birthday party. We were told NOT to be late for pictures at 4:00, so we weren't. We were actually a few minutes early because I had to go to the store (Parowan grocery store doesn't sell spinach or fresh lemons in case you are wanting to buy some there) We were the only ones there ;) So I decided to take the boys pictures since it'd been awhile and they looked especially cute. They turned out so cute! Oh but don't mind the perfect outline of the baseball, including the stitching, that hit Ty in the head earlier in the morning.

We just really love this boy! It can't be hard to see why! He's turned into such a silly kid with a funny personality. I think he might turn into an even bigger joker than Jesse.

Ty is my hardest kid to get good pictures of so I was really excited that I got a couple of great photos!

I love this photo in black and white. Jesse's always photogenic.

Yes, even these adorable kids can drive a mom nuts occasionally!

Grandma Bev's Birthday

I set up a blog for everyone (well the Neilson fam) to post their pics from Grandma Bev's birthday. This way we aren't sharing 100 different cd's. I know between me and my parents I have over 500 pics....don't worry I won't post them all :) Anyway, the blog is www.bevsbirthday.blogspot.com if you didn't get an invite in your email let me know what your email address is and I'll send you one so you can upload your photos.

Ready for some days off

I've entered the realm of full-time work for the time being. In all actuality I take on enough extra shifts I'm not really working that much more, but maybe it's the thought that it's mandatory and not optional. One of the girls I work with is on bed rest with her pregnancy so I'll be working for her until she comes back from maternity leave.

I'm (as we speak) working my 4th shift in a row, which really isn't bad....normally. But this weekend (I know you're all thinking, honey it's Wednesday) has just been one of those where I walk around occasionally chanting "I love my job". Saturday night I started out with a code, who we saved and then lost. We had a transfer and a admit or two and this continued most of the night. Sunday morning my car wouldn't start...ya. It's 7:30 in the morning and all I want to do is go home and go to bed. Josh and Vaughn were kind enough to rescue me and fix my car.
Sunday night was more of the same type of busyness. Last night wasn't too bad except for the situation that required my full change of clothes mid-shift. That made me a little onery. Besides that I lost my long sleeved shirt in that full clothes change and I froze my butt off all night (the ER is freezing at 3 a.m.) and the fact that I'm an idiot and didn't take a coat so I started my car early so that it'd be warm. I decided I'd rather have my car stolen than be cold.
Then Tuesday (which is still today to me by the way) I got to hang out with Tracen and sleep while Josh was at work. It was great fun, I slept on the floor, Tracen crawled all around, pulled my hair, poked my eyes and then called a few people on the phone and breathed in their ears for a while. It was really cute when he crawed up and curled up next to me and took a 3 hour nap. The best news of all, it has been a great night! I think we've seen like 5 patients, the ambulance just transported to Beaver instead of here, it's awesome! And it's my last night. After this I have 8 days of non workingness until I do it all over again.

Tracen is 10 months old

Tracen is 10 months old!! I love seeing all the new things he's doing and learning. At the same time I'm sad that he's growing up this fast. Can't it just slow down??? He's the cutest happiest baby ever though. He is so easy and he smiles and laughs all the time. He cries when he's hungry, tired, waking up or wants to be held (which can be quite often)

Here's what Tracen is doing these days:

• He dances. It's so funny! Any time he hears music he stops what he's doing and waves his arm in the air. Sometimes he bounces up and down too.
• He laughs. He just sits there and giggles, sometimes without cause. He knows its a good way to get some attention. If he laughs someone will give him attention.
• He shakes his head no and says "n, n, n"
• He loves suckers! Take it away and he'll be mad!
• He likes to be outside.
• He loves his tubby time. He lays down in the water and laps at it like a dog. His fried egg is his favorite tubby toy.
• He doesn't like grass he hold his feet, hands whatever he can that's bare up off the grass.
• He snuggles and gives big wet kisses.
• He loves food and isn't very picky. He's starting to eat more and more chunky foods.

Eating a sucker, he had to get into the bath right after!

Hanging out with Dad yesterday in Springdale, the weather was SOOO nice. Him and his dad are little buddies.

Lifting his feet off the grass :)

Tubby Time!!

Mmmm that tastes good.

One cute little boy!

Helping Ty with his piano lessons

A whole decade!

We did it, we've been married for 10 years :) As of yesterday. Josh always says he married me because he felt bad for me because he knew no one else would lol, well I'm grateful he did. I've had a lot of fun, learned a lot about myself and life in general, we have 3 awesome kids and I'm pretty much just a happy gal.

I didn't realize though that your 10 year anniversary required a big celebration. So far I've heard that people went on cruises, vacation etc for their decade of marriage. I guess we missed that boat. What did we do? We started the morning with a sick dog, who soon died. Our great dane twisted his gut and we weren't even able to get him to the vet before it was too late. So we spent the morning doing that. Then I took a nice 4 hour long nap. We picked up the house and had tacos and then I came to work. What's not romantic about that? I know, I guess I have some making up to do for that. Maybe next year we'll go on that cruise.....

I love them

Love what? Coupons....yes, I love them. I've done a few versions of couponing and just keep getting more and more into it. Yesterday I spent about $120 on groceries etc and I saved $140 (so worth the $12 I've spent on newspapers so far). I only bought one thing that wasn't on sale, a package of m&m's for Ty (Jesse's tictacs were even on sale) I haven't really saved any money, because I didn't lower my food budget, but I could. Instead I buy stuff I would have never bought before like cereal in a box and frozen pizza. Ya I know it's sad I'm that cheap but I have a personal issue with spending $4 on a box of cereal that will last a day and a half if we all eat it for breakfast. Now I NEVER spend more than $1.50 for a box, and that's stretching it. I only spend that much if I really need cereal.

The boys love it too. They love having the cereal with toys in it (the important stuff here guys) and fruit snacks, and granola bars. All that good stuff they always ask for and I used to say no. Ok well, now they ask for stuff that's not on sale and I say no :)

Yesterday I bought pizza, cereal, granola bars, chicken nuggets, frozen veggies, shampoo, carpet cleaner, and a bunch of other stuff but I wouldn't have bought any of the stuff I listed. Ok now I'm hungry so I'm going to go look for something to eat.

9 month addendum

I left a few things out, and found out a few new things about Tracen that were noteworthy so I thought I'd post a little addendum :) And of course a photo to go with.

I weighed Tracen at work the other day. Fully clothed he weighs 25 pounds 5 ounces. I love that he has not gained any more weight, I'm not superwoman here. The kid's either got to slow down or learn to walk.

Also Tracen has this annoying little habit. If you place him in his car seat he will remove his socks. I'm not big on shoes with him...not sure why, but I rarely place shoes on his poor little feet. This makes his socks readily available. He doesn't usually bother with them until he gets in his car seat. Today after I took the boys to school I cleaned out his car seat of socks...there were 5. I cleaned out his car seat like 2 days ago and I usually put the socks back on him! The boys think this is hilarious.

Tracen now has 4.5 teeth. I previously thought he had 3, but no. Here's a little side story. When Jesse was a baby he got his teeth in a weird order one bottom, then one top, then the other botton, then the other top then his canine teeth after that he finally go the other 4 front teeth. I thought it was odd, but then his cousin Kole got her teeth in the same order....must be a Neilson thing. So when Tracen got his two bottom teeth I figured we were going to do this in the normal order...nope, just different than everyone else who's abnormal. Tracen has his bottom two teeth and then the top tooth on the right and then the tooth next to that one. His other front tooth is starting to peek through too.

Tracen loves the dogs. He stands at the sliding door and stares at them and says "d" Its so cute.