Little bit of and update and TWILIGHT!

Ok so life has been busy lately but finally calming down. Thursday swimming lessons ended until December first so I have a full week off and I am very excited I have a million things I would like to get done first one being cleaning and getting Christmas decor up I love this time of year and living with my mom is so fun cause she has the best house at Christmas we go all out. Kai is good he is still not walking but the doctor is not worried he just said he will do it on his own time (maybe he is a bit like his mom). JR is good work is not as busy as it was last year but that is nice cause we still see him so much, I am almost scared to see what December brings. Life really is good...Now to Twilight. I was bummed all week cause I didn't think I was going to be able to see it for a few weeks cause the movie theaters were all sold out. Then Lindsay called and said she had bought four tickets online for all of us... what a good friend. I liked it and loved Jacob wow he was cute I know he is young but I don't care I love him. I was a little disappointed that they did it "low budget" because really they could have done so much more. I do have to say I was laughing at a part and a girl behind me was crying oops...That is all I am going to say cause I want to know what other people thought that saw it as well...and here is a picture of us after. There were too many girls taking their pictures in front of the poster so we just took one next to it and called it good. Thanks Lindsay for the tickets and thanks Lindsay B. for the picture steal.

This is all for you Brady...

So JR was worried you might feel left out so he asked me to dedicate a whole post to you, here it is...

SLUSH...?!

How could I not counter this one..

So alot of you who look at my blog look at my sister Brooke's blog as well and for those of you who don't... you should :). So I log in today and as always check Brooke's blog first and to my surprise there are four sweet picture's of my son and a small "miss you" paragraph above them (that made me cry thanks Brooke). I guess all you parents out there will know what I am talking about when I say that, I as a mom, love it when someone else seems to love and adore my child as much as I do. My sister Brooke does this she has LOVED Kai since the day she met him and would have taken him with her to NY if I would have let her. I have never told her this but I always admired how she could love Kai so much and still love her son just as much times ten... I think it takes a special kind of person. You said so many nice things about Kai and I wish I could say those traits are because of me but they aren't. JR gets to take full credit for those but they are all true and I love that about him too. I remember the day of their blessings when we were taking pictures of them in the vibe chair and Kai just held Eli like he was protecting him and then all the picture's later of them where Kai just kinda looks like the "protector"...oh our little chancho. So thanks for the sweet "ode to Kai" I feel like an inadequate sister and auntie because I didn't think of it first. You know I love Eli and want to steal him and eat candy all day and snuggle (oh what a snuggle would feel like right now)....SO COME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS PLEEAASE we will help pay! P.S. Tell Brady I will be thinking of good "ode" to him for later so to keep posted :)

Halloween

Halloween was pretty fun this year we had the trunk or treat which I am not sure if I like or not then we went to Auntie Shelley's house aka The Jensen's and hung out way longer than we should have, because we had Shaun and Mauren's halloween party to get to and then by the time we got there Kai was spent so we didn't stay long. After we got home and got Kai in bed we asked maama aka Grandma D to listen for Kai and went bowling with Nick, Shantel, Brady, Jessica, Justin and their friends and family. It was pretty rockin and I will for sure have to post photos from that when I get them from Shantel but for now I just have this one that Mauren took at her Halloween party and the picture speaks for itself...(it's pretty sad when your dads costume out-shines your cute clown costume don't you think?)

People at work and their "policies"

Since I can't go into any details in case some blog stalker checks my blog and it gets back to work all I am going to say is green booger policy's don't make sense if you are judging it on kids under two cause guess what they all have green booger, snotty noses, and this doesn't mean they are sick or contagious! After what happened at work this week I felt alot like Andy...here it comes from left field you have no time to react..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHfbmjTAJbo

I'm just saying

So for some reason I have this thing in my head that I have to have some awesome photo, video, or vacation (as shown in a few posts down) to talk about in order to post. It is more fun to look at pics than read a full paragraph of someones views on politics, sports, reality tv, (my fav) or what happened to them at the park the other day, I mean seriously is life really that AWESOME!! Not mine! Now don't get me wrong I am very happy with life and my husband and little Kai but does anyone else out there struggle too? It sure doesn't seem like it, so this is the thought I had. All of you know I am a member of the LDS church and this past weekend we listened to general conference, I found it very inspiring, President Monson's talk on finding "joy in the journey" was specially inspiring for me. I just recently read a post on a blog I stalk that brought up the story of that cute couple in AZ that got in a plane crash and have severe burns all over their bodies. She linked the blog to her post and I was able to read all the compassionate things people were doing for their family while they are fighting for there lifes in the burn unit at a hospital in AZ. Her purpose for the post was to say life is hard but there are always others in more need and then simply said something like this, "and to all my friends who know me well, no I am not depressed I am just trying to find joy in the journey." How profound that statement is to me and ironic that just a few months later our Prophet said that same thing in his closing talk Sunday session. I figure I must need to hear this. So now I will try to not care as much and really the biggest thing I think I learned is to just be happy with your life where it is and everything else will work out. So to all of you who are already there I am happy for you and to all of you who are in the same grind as me lets find joy together... I need help! Love you all and hope nobody thinks I am crazy now I think this is as personal as I have got on my blog and of course I had to end with a rockin awesome picture...aren't they "special"

Somebody turned 1!!

WARNING LONG POST: Wow my little man is 1 how exciting! We had such a busy weekend Thursday the 21 was Kai's birthday, the 22 was mine and that same day our daddy got baptized!! It was the best birthday present ever, JR was very happy to finally get baptized and confirmed the missionaries did a great job and the meeting was very special. Then Saturday the 23 we celebrated Kai's big 1, we had a slip n slide, food, and snow cones it was fun to have everyone come and was a good "relaxer" for the crazy weekend. Kai is still crawling around and the therapist is teaching us how to help him stand up on his own. He loves books, and music and bobs his head like Stevie Wonder when he hears a song he likes, it is way funny. He has four teeth now, two of them are his upper fangs.. I have got to get a picture for everyone to see cause soon the two in the middle are going to be poppin through, I wish it were Halloween and he could be "Edward":)... Enjoy the pics I do have and the videos are mostly for Auntie Brooke who has not seen Kai crawl yet and didn't get to slip n slide, it might bore everyone else though so don't feel bad skipping it, and thanks for still checking me out even though I suck at updating this.