our family of 4

Big Surprise it's been a while.

2009-09-04T14:09:00.000-07:00

I can't remember the last time I was on here. There have been a ton of things going on in our lives. To start, Chad has had two surgeries. One on his shoulder and the other on his knee. He is doing much better now, but still will be on light duty for a while. Tyson played t-ball this summer and loved every minute of it. I had fun with him. He had great parents and kids on his team. He started preschool again this week. It is so nice for him to be back at school. He loves it. Dillon is so big now. He has 7 teeth with 3 or 4 coming in. He has been walking for almost 2 months. This is trouble. He is into everything. It doesn't matter where it is or how high, he tries to get it all. He says 9 words. It's really cute when he talks. He say hi, bye, dad, mom, tyson, out, dogs, more, and some. They are not perfect but we understand him. He loves his brother. They play and wrestle and fight all the time. I am so greatful for my boys. They make me crazy, but that's why they are mine.

The boys!

2009-05-06T22:19:00.000-07:00

(The pics- They love bath time. Tyson playing baseball in the backyard broke a branch from "his best hit" and was very proud of what he did. Dillon loves to climb on things or in things. He was very happy to be in the box.)

I have the craziest boys on earth. If they are not beating on each other or driving me crazy they are doing funny things. Tyson loves sports. He is playing soccer right now. My brother and I coach the team and it is so much fun. He loves. I don't have pics yet. I am waiting for my dad to give them to me. When he is not playing soccer or picking on Dillon he wants to play baseball. He is so good. I can't wait for him to be in coach pitch. Dillon is all over the place. He is naughty as ever and loves to get into everything. He crawls great in his own goofy way. He is trying to walk, but is not quite there yet. We are hoping by his birthday. He has a month tomorrow so he better get on it. I love being a mom. Whenever I have a bad day I think about the crazy things these two have done throughout the day and it always makes me smile.

It has been a while.

2009-04-08T00:05:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a few months since I have shared any exciting things in are family. We have been pretty busy. A lot of our free time was spent going to UNLV basketball games. Unfortunately the season didn't end how we had hoped. I started selling jewelry through lia sophia. I am having a lot of fun and making some good money. Chad is working on getting back into shape from his surgery. This is a big deal for him. He is much happier when he can workout. Tyson is big and naughty like always. We love him to death but man he is a handful. We we driving down the street one day and he said mom that sign says S-t-o-p. I said yep your right. Then he said that spells stop. I was so impressed. We are going to start the reading process soon, because he wants to spell everything. Dillon is doing really good. He has 3 teeth and eats like he has 10. The child eats more than Tyson. He learned to crawl a while ago and is now walking while pushing his toys. I can't believe it. He is a little naughty. He likes to make lots of messes and get into everything. He likes to say hi and wave to anyone that smiles at him. He is a lot of fun.

My life

2009-02-20T23:43:00.001-08:00

Chad's injured shoulder.

He loves the camera

So you would think with two kids you would have a lot to talk about, but for some reason I haven't had much over the last few weeks. Chad had surgery again last Monday. This was on his right shoulder. He got hurt at work. This is the 5th surgery for him. The second in the last year. He has had both shoulders, ankle, knee, and hand since we have been married. It has been almost 7 years. He is a mess. Last week I told him I felt like I had 3 children. I am not a fan of 3, so I am sure that we will not be adding to our family at anytime. He is good with that too. I have decided that I am going to try and make some money without having to really work. I am starting to sell Lia Sophia jewelry. I hope that I can make a good chunk of money each month.

The boys are doing good. Tyson is learning as fast as can be. We were driving today, and he said Mom that sign says stop that spells stop. I was shocked. He then told me that N-O spells no and Y-E-S spells yes. Mind you he turned 3 in January. I can't believe how smart he is. He is a great boy. Dillon is doing well. He finally got a tooth. It only took 5 months. I love it. He is still not crawling. He prefers to roll everywhere or be in his walker. One day hopefully he will crawl. He just learned how to clap when he is excited and blow kisses. I love it. I love being a mom. I am definitely grateful for the end of each night when the house is quiet, but I do love most of the days.

I can see!!!

2009-01-14T12:39:00.000-08:00

So every year around this time I have to go to the eye doctor to order new glasses and contacts. For the last 5 years or so I have been wanting to get Lasik done, but we just didn't have the money. Well a few weeks ago Chad said just go get your eyes fixed. I figured I better do it now so I didn't need to spend money on the other stuff again. On Thursday I went into Dr. Siems office for my consultation and on Friday I went back and got my eyes done. It is such a great thing to be able to see first thing in the morning. My eyes are really dry, but other than that and no makeup I can't complain. I am still getting use to not taking out my contacts each night and looking for my glasses in the morning. They said I was the top candidate that day getting surgery. That meant that nobody has worse vision than me. That is really sad. I am so glad that I did this. It really has made a difference all ready, and it will be another week or so before I am fully healed. Anybody who is thinking about it should definitely do it.

Peanut

2009-01-14T12:29:00.001-08:00

Peanut is Dillon's nickname. We started calling him that when he was born because he was so small. Now the kids is 7 months, 18 lbs and a beast. He is growing so fast. He loves to eat. He will eat anything but baby food. We have been giving him regular food and he loves it. Peas, corn, green beans, mac and cheese, and gram crackers are just a few of his favorites. I don't mind that he is not eating baby food. He seems to be doing better with his spitting up with all the good stuff he eats. He has learned so much over the last 3 weeks. He is trying to crawl, but has not figured it out quite yet so he rolls everywhere. When he is sitting he scoots forward on his butt with his hands. He feeds himself most of the time (yea). He says Dada and on Sunday he said Mama for the first time. He doesn't have teeth yet, but I think that it is just a matter of time before they come in. He is a ball of energy. He loves to smile at everyone, even if he doesn't know you. And just like Tyson he is very loud. I love to watch him play. He is so much fun. I can't wait till he is crawling. Tyson and him are going to have so much fun. I am in trouble.

Tyson is 3

2009-01-14T12:10:00.000-08:00

His Batman cake.

Having fun with his friends.

The big slide.

This is how he shows that he is 3. I am a little behind as usually, but my Tyson turned 3 on the 4th. We had his birthday party at Bounce U. It was a great place for the kids. (The adults had fun too.) We had this huge room for just our party. The kids had and hour and 15 minutes to play. There was a boxing ring, a big slide, an obstacle course, and a basketball house. All the stuff was inflatable so no one could really get hurt. After play time we went into another room for pizza, cake, ice cream, and presents. Tyson had so much fun. Every morning for the entire week he would get up and say "is it my birthday today?" When I would tell him no he would cry. I had to explain to him that his party was the day before his birthday and then on his birthday he was going to be a Sunbeam. He was really excited about that. Time has gone by so fast. I can not believe that he is 3. I look at Dillon and remember Tyson at this age. They are so much a like. I love my little boys.

Merry Christmas

2009-01-03T17:00:00.000-08:00

Dillon watching his brother open presents.

Santa brought his favorite M&M's in his stocking

Christmas was so much fun this year. Tyson was awake until 1:30 the night before so he slept in until 9:00 that morning. Dillon was up at 8:30 so we were ok with that. My dad and step-mom were coming over for breakfast. That was nice, because it was one less house we had to go to this year. Tyson woke up and the first thing he said was, "did the reindeer eat their food?" He put food on the grass for them. We went out and checked and the he was ready to see what Santa brought him. He was very excited for this. He got his video game that he wanted. After he checked out his santa stuff he went straight for the tree. He was such a good boy. He kept telling us thank you and asking were Dillon's presents were. After breakfast we went to Chad's parent's house. Hung out over there, ate a little, and the kids opened preasents. Tyson was just as excited and polite as he was earlier. The very last stop of the day was my mom's house. We ate again, kids opened presents and played a game. It was a good but very long day. The next morning Tyson woke up and was looking at all his presents. I walked in his room and asked him why he was smiling. He said Mom thats a lot of toys. I said I know. He then said, That was a good Christmas. I laughed. He is almost three and these are the things he says.

before christmas

2009-01-03T16:51:00.000-08:00

It has been a while since I have been able to get on here. We have had a crazy few weeks. Chad's birthday was on the 13th. We were suppose to go to his work Christmas party however we spent the night in the emergency room with Tyson. He had been sick for 3 days and that afternoon he was having a really hard time breathing and we could not get his fever to break. When he started wheezing we knew it was time to go. He was given medicine, put on an IV and got a chest xray. The said that he had a viral infection, he was dehydrated, and low on potassium. We finally got home about 2:30am. It took him about a week to get over everything. I was glad though, because it was just in time for Christmas. We were really lucky to, because the baby never got sick.

Disneyland

2008-12-12T20:35:00.000-08:00

loving Minnie Mouse Mickey is for boys

Buzz Lightyear

Loves TIGGER

Not to happy with Pooh today

Well, we took our first trip as a family of 4 this week. I started planning and packing like 3 days before we left, and still was up until 12:30 the night before. It takes so much longer to pack with just one more person. We got up at 3:30 and was on the road by 4:10. We thought since it was still dark outside the boys would sleep most of the way. We hoped I should say. Dillon hates the car so we had our fingers crossed. Tyson woke up about 10 mins after we left and took about a 45min nap. He was so excited. We arrived at the park at about 10:30. We went to our hotel first that's why we were a little later than expected. I was so tired, I don't remember what we even did first. I think we went on Buzz Lightyear. Tyson loved it. We then ate lunch and hit the Nemo ride. Another favorite of Tysons. He drove the cars and then we moved on to Adventure land. While we were over by the Winnie the Pooh ride, we got to take pictures with Pooh and Tigger. You can see who Tyson likes better in the pictures. We met up with some friends for the rest of the day. We also went over to California Adventure. Didn't do much there because we were so tired. After taking and hour to get out of the park we went to eat, went back to our hotel and crashed. The boys were pretty good even on little sleep.

The second day I thought would be better since we all had more sleep. I was wrong. We were going to a character breakfast at 9:30. This was a pain. They lost our reservation, then confused us with another family, gave us some serious attitude, but finally got things figured out. This was all in the first 30 minutes of being there. Dillon also pooped 3 times and had to be changed into his second and only extra outfit. Once things were settled we ate and Tyson got to meet the characters. He did not want to talk to Minne. ( she is for girls dad) Dillon however felt different. We finally got done and hit the rides. It was a lot of fun, but Tyson was not having the waiting in line thing. He was very impatient. We went back to California Adventure and say playhouse Disney. That was a fav for Tys. We then went on more rides and went shopping. Dillon spit up all over his clothes. He was soaked so I went to buy him more clothes. He fell asleep in line and did not wake up until 10 min before we left. Needless to say the $40 outfit was worn when we got home. We met up with some friends for a little while, watched the fireworks, and left.

We had a good time. Tyson loved it and the next morning asked, can we go to Disneyland today again. We said no and he said I want to go home now.

Tyson's funny story

2008-11-21T18:04:00.000-08:00

Today I was out shopping with the boys and Tyson was talking my ear off like normal. He asked me if he could go play at his friends house today. I said not today maybe tomorrow. He didn't like that answer, and said I don't want you to be my mom. I want Anna to be my new mom. (That is his friend's mom). I said ok then you are going to have 3 brothers and 1 sister. He said ok that's fun mom. Then I told him that he was going to have to share toys, his room, and a bed. He said mom, I don't want to share my bed you can still be my mom, ok. So I guess he only wants me for his mom, because he gets his own bed.

Halloween

2008-11-17T16:29:00.000-08:00

So I know that it has been like three weeks since Halloween, but I just now got a few pictures. Our camera was stolen from our stroller that night so I did not have any pictures. My sister and mom came over and took some of the boys for me. They were very cute. Tyson was very excited to be batman, and made the same face and stance in every picture. Dillon was not very happy with his giraffe. He hated the hood. I was lucky to get a few pictures of him.

The last week

2008-11-13T23:46:00.000-08:00

It seems like time just flies by now a days. I was recording the boys today, and Tyson wanted to see. He is always curious of what is on the video camera or what the picture looks like after it is taken. So I told him when I was done we would watch the entire video on tv. I was not really sure what was on or camera so I was a little excited to see. The first thing that we saw was Tyson's 2nd birthday. He was so excited to see this. It made me a little sad, because he has grown up so much in the last 10 months. He went from being my baby to my big boy. Chad was filming the party and Tyson could hear him talking, but couldn't figure out why he couldn't see him. I thought that was so funny. As we sat there and watched Tyson got such a kick out of himself. Every sport he saw himself play on TV he wanted to put on those type of clothes. He loves sports and when he plays he has to wear the specific outfit for each sport. We also saw the day that Dillon was born. He was so tiny. Tyson asked me why he was so dirty when he came out of my belly. There were a lot of questions during this part.

I was reminded how little he was when he was born. He has grown so much over the last five months. He is still our little peanut. He is about 13lbs now. He is still wearing 0-3 month clothes. So are just 3 months, but definitely not any bigger. He learned how to roll over this week. He gets stuck sometimes and screams for help. He loves to scream and blow bubbles. He has got quite the personality all ready. There is definitely a temper inside of him. All though Chad says he is a mama's boy, his favorite person is Tyson. He loves his brother. I am so glad that I have these two sweet boys. They make me tired, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

What's been going on.

2008-11-06T10:15:00.000-08:00

So, I am trying this blog thing out. I am not sure what I am doing, but I hope it won't be to hard.
Things have been a little crazy for us. We have, or I should say, Chad has been doing lots of work around our house. His newest project has been our master bath. He has been working hard for the last month on it, and I am sure by Thanksgiving it will be done. Chad is a man of many talents, and he is learning the talent of laying tile, and plumbing. This is why it is taking so long. I can't wait till it is complete. It will be beautiful when it is all done.
Tyson is 2 and going to preschool. He goes around the block to a lady in the ward. He loves it. I love it to. He is such a little smarty. He comes to the car after school, and says to me, "Mom that is a good school." He has learned so much all ready, but my favorite thing is when he says the pledge. He doesn't have all the correct words, but he makes up his own. It is so cute.
Dillon is growing. He is still tiny for his age. He will be 5 months tomorrow. We call him peanut, because he is. He is trying to roll over and is getting pretty sturdy on sitting. He loves his brother. Tyson is the one who can make him smile and laugh more than anyone.
Life is challenging with two little boys, but I wouldn't have it any other way.