Birthday Boy, Kaleb!

We celebrated Kaleb's 3rd Birthday on Thursday night. I can't believe how 3 years has literally flown by. What a cute little guy Kaleb is, a stinker at times, but really adorable. I remember when he was a baby, people always commented on how smiley he was. He really does have a contagious little grin and I just want to squeeze him to pieces some times. Though he's not always smiling these days and throws his share of temper tantrums, we love him so much and feel blessed to have him in our home. My photography leaves something to be desired but I did get a great shot of Kaleb watching T.V. in his underwear with his beloved cowboy boots from G&G Rose. He promptly puts his boots on every morning and wears them most of the day. I love that I don't have to tie his shoes.

What a party!

Our ward had an Adult Christmas party (Hawaiian theme) last night! It was great other than we showed up 15 minutes late with some of our neighbors that are not active. I'm such a dingaling, I could have sworn the invite said 6:30; not a very good example to have the Bishop late to an activity. Oh well, DJ and I are still hoping we can blame our "blond moments" on lack of sleep. Anyway, it's always fun being around our great ward members and might I add, the food and entertainment were great. A Polynesian group from BYU- I come to perform and they were really impressive, a little wild, but impressive. DJ, along with a few other men in the ward were "invited" to do a little Hawaiian dance up on the stage and were decked out in grass skirts, and coconut bras, (no, not a typo) They were taught a few tricks moving their hips and then performed a little number. I thought I would die laughing and was surprised at how compliant the men were to showing off their stuff! These pictures are keepers, I love DJ's facial expressions, love that guy!

Mom and dad agreed to watch all 6 kids....CRAZY! Aren't they amazing??? I dropped the kids off in Blackfoot late in the afternoon and then headed back up for the party. Mom and dad played with the kids for a while and then headed off to their ward party. They reported that all went well and the kids had a ball spending time with G& G Rose. Kaleb didn't even want to come home, apparently he wanted to go back to Grandma's house. Wow, do I feel loved?? Thanks again mom and dad for allowing DJ and I a night out together. LOVE YOU TONS!

Fun with babies!

Lately I've felt so overwhelmed with these two little babies. They are such sweet little things but require so much time and energy, I always used to wonder how parents of twins did it and found myself saying on more than one occasion to these people, "I don't know how you do it," in fact, I said it to one of my very best friends who has twins just a few short months before I got pregnant w/ the babies. (so sorry, Tisha) I now realize that sometimes you just "don't do it" it's sometimes more than I can handle and I just shift to survival mode. I have the hugest, ugliest bags under my eyes and I gain a new wrinkle every day. I feel like such a zombie most of the time even when I do get an occasional nights rest and my poor kids live with the grumpiest mother ever! I hope they know that their "former nice mommy" will return soon, hopefully. I'm thankful for the occasional good day where they both take naps, are content to play on the floor, and sleep peacefully.

I know the title of this post is very contradictory of what I said above but these pictures show how much fun we do have with them amongst all the craziness.

A great Thanksgiving!

Jordyn LOVED Christie and Scott's dog and spent a good portion of the day following it around, probably driving it crazy. Kaleb, on the other hand, was not feeling the love, he kept saying, "I don't dike dat dog" (I don't like that dog) what a little chicken. Porter pie loved being held by everyone, especially Grandpa Rose. He and Kamryn were so good the entire day!

Hunter holding Kamryn. Uncle Brad taking Morgan & Kaleb for a ride!

Tractor rides with Uncle Scott! Kaleb was bawling his head off when he first got in the tractor but Aunt Christie climbed up with him for the ride and pretty soon he was grinning from ear to ear.

Aunt Sheri holding Kamryn (hopefully Kamryn will get her Aunt Sheri's looks)

The kids having fun in the field and having a ball taking 4-wheeler rides

Kaleb & Jordyn begged for rides all day! Regan packing Lily on her back from down the field.

Aunt Janet holding Kamryn, Grandma Rose holding Porter

Jordyn devouring the shrimp (she inherited my LOVE for shrimp)

Chrystal, Lor & baby Cannon! Great G-Rose with Kaleb & Jordyn

Stacie, Kaleb, Hannah, Whitney, & Katelyn on the 4-wheeler. Kaleb thought he was pretty cool riding this 4-wheeler even though he could only make it go backwards.

Every other year for Thanksgiving we join my dad's family at my Uncle Scott's ranch in Utah. I have always loved going there and spending time with family. There is always GREAT food and tons of it, and lots of fun for the kids. This year was no exception, dinner was fabulous, the kids had fun riding 4-wheelers, riding on Uncle Scott's tractor, running around outside, crafting, visiting, watching football (DJ), playing the nintendo Wii (Regan's favorite) I have to admit that it was so nice to have some extra hands to hold babies. Not that I don't enjoy holding and loving on them but I just get extremely tired, fast, with two of them. Anyway, it was so great to see everyone, it was a packed house with lots of little kids running around (half of them being mine) j/k! Thanks Christie and Scott for inviting us.

Ouch!

I really haven't been in the mood to blog lately because I've got a stinking toothache that is consuming my every thought! I need to get a root canal done but would really like to hold off until the first of the year for insurance purposes. I have honestly never had a toothache in my life but now that I do, man, I understand when people say it hurts like CRAZY! I'm having a really hard time being nice to my kids and keep blaming my impatience on the sore tooth, should I feel guilty???? I guess I do, but it's nice to have an excuse, right?? Anyway, I've got an appointment to get it taken care of but until then, I'm in a little bit of a fog. Thanks, Stanton, for the antibiotic, you are my hero! Oh, and thanks, ibuprofen, I LOVE YOU!!

All right, enough about the sore tooth. Grandma and Grandpa Rose came to visit this evening to bring Kaleb his B-Day present early since Gpa- Rose can't come to his party on Thursday. Kaleb was pretty excited when he opened up his very own cowboy boots....just like Grandpa's. Every time Grandpa would visit, Kaleb would run to the garage for his "moon boots" (otherwise known as his Napoleon Dynamite boots) so you can imagine his excitement as he opened up his present. He must have told G&G thank you 20 times in the course of an hour and I'm equally as excited because it means 1 less person's shoes to tie.

First thing this morning, he flew out of bed and put on his boots and they haven't come off since. We had to run the babies to the Dr. this morning and it was heaven not having to fight him to find his shoes, put them on, tie them, SOOOOOOO nice. Thanks mom and dad. I get a good chuckle everytime I look at Grandpa and Kaleb standing there with their pants tucked in their boots. Just for the record, my dad really doesn't wear his boots like that but I just couldn't resist.