Saturday, January 10, 2009

Short and Sweet

This week was a crazy one. We took Max and Michaella to the eye Doc. to get their eyes examined. All is ok there but, the appointment toook 2 hours MAN that was hard. At least it was at Primary's so they had all different kinds of toys and movies so that made it a lot esier. Then on Wednesday I took Abbey and Rusty for their 4 month well child appointments.

Abbey weighs 12 lb. 12.5 oz
Rusty wieghs 12lb. 7.5 oz.
The babies are getting so big. We all have a cold right now and resulting nobody is getting any sleep.

Mike starts school again on Monday. IT'S THE LAST SEMESTER !!!!!! Mike still has to take Chemestry, Physics and their labs, but he has to graduate first or he'll excede the credits for graduation and get smacked with HUGE fines and he won't be able to graduate. So we will deal with those later. He wan't to take those just before the MCAT exam so they will be fresh in his mind.

My parents are leaving for Hawaii for 2 weeks again this comming saturday for the 3rd time. They deserve it.

There is something I'd like to say that I am very excited about....
Just about 10 minutes ago I regestered my brother for INSTITUTE !!! I am very excited about this. If any of you kow my brother he isn't very strong in the church at this time in his life. He's gone through a very hard time the last few years. He has started to go to church again. He went to the student ward and a member of the bishop bric ( whp happened to be in my parents ward) told him that he couldn't go because that wasn't the right ward for his boundries. I COULD HAVE KILLED HIM!!! It was the 3rd time Mark has gone to church in about 2 years. I was SO mad. I'm really excited for him. He needs to make friends who are LDS and who re his same age.

I'll keep ya posted on how everything goes.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Welcome 2009

Well it is already January 4, 2009. And I haven't blogged nearly as much as I would like. I am trying to blog more... really I am.
Christmas was wonderful for us. For the first time we had Christmas with just our little family. Christmas Eve we went to Mike's parents for dinner and gift exchange. Christmas morning we stayed home and opened our gifts and stockings from Santa and each other. It went by WAY to fast. This is the first year Max REALLY understood Santa. It was completely amazing to see the true beauty of the innocence of a child not only a child, but your own. Michaella didn't really understand, but we did see Santa on the 22nd and We said that santa will be comming to our house while we are asleep, and I think she may have caught on. We tried to teach the kids the true meaning of Christmas, but as young as they are we did our best. The main points we tried to enforce were: That we are celebrating the birth of Jesus that Santa represents the 3 kigs that brought gifts to Jesus and it is more important to give than recieve. Try to get an 3 and almost 2 year old to understant that one. Although Max was more excited to help Michaella, Abbey and Rusty open their gifts and play with them. I couldn't say enough about how wonderful our Christmas REALLY was. That afternoon we went to my parents house and had brunch and opened gifts there as well. Max asked if Santa had come there too because they got spoiled ROTTEN by my brother.

For New Years we went to some friends house and had a party. It was HUGE the kids actually made it until midnight ... in fact they made it until 3 am not by any choice unto their parents. They had so much fun playing that it took until 3 to get them settled down enough to where they would stay asleep. We had a blast, it was really nice to enjoy some adult company.

For our New Years Resolutions:
Every year Mike and bring in the new year together, kiss (of course) and make a tost to each other when we are home and everyone is settled in. This year just as all the previous we tost to Health, Wealth ( in our family and friends) and I think in the past we said posterity instead of prosperity. This year we made that correction and we are hoping to wait until at least next june (2010 ) to get pregnant. But we aren't crossing our fingers so don't you either. We also tosted for the first time to change. This year we are expecting a lot of new change. In the years before we haven't had much change except for the kids of course. But this year we are expecting a lot more. Mike will be graduating in May with his BS in Health Promotion and Educationn. Max Will turn 4, Michaella will be 2 in March, Abbey and Rusty will be 1. Wow I can't even believe i am saying that.

Another First for us happened today... MY BABY BOY MAX WENT TO PRIMARY FOR THE 1ST TIME!!!!!!! And i am home sick with sick babies and missed it. He did really well, we have been talking about this day for 2 weeks and really pumped up the energy yesterday. He was very concerned about what would happen to Michaella. We assured him that she would be in nursery playing with her friends and he can pick her up after primary was over.

We are wishing everyone a Health, Wealthy and Wise new year!!!