Jake is Home!

Yes it has been two years! It is hard to believe! I have not been the most faithful letter writer. But i did miss him a ton and am sooooo happy that he is home! I'm glad he was able to serve and hope that he did all the Lord had for him. Anyway, here are a ton of pictures from the airport!!!

The Kids were so excited to show him the sign and look for him through the window!

All of us waiting at the airport!! We are soooo excited!Even Pearson knew something was up he was extra hyper and i had to chase him everywhere. (To be fair my sister-in-law Kim did more chasing of her son than than i did of my son and she is pregnant!)First hug always goes to MOM!!!Then of course DAD!!!Everyone was sooo happy!!

WE are so happy to have him home!!!

Our (long) Weekend!!!

We had alot go on, on Saturday but nothing compared to the rest of our weekend. We had Church on Sunday, and then a scout meeting right after. Then we finished loading up and headed to Salt Lake!! T.J. had an appointment at Shriner's Monday morning and since the kids didn't have school we figured we could take a little family trip! It wasn't to bad of a drive down other than the fact that Pearson had a really hard time sleeping and he was beyond exhausted. Once we got there we found a hotel. Let the kids get some wiggles out and then decided to walk around temple square for awhile. The kids love the visitor centers, but they run from thing to thing and me and Tyler would have loved to look at the replica of the temple longer. We would actually love to go inside and check out everything in person but we are never there with just the two of us we always have atleast t.j. with us. Monday morning we went swimming for a little while, and then Tyler ran some errands for work while i got everybody ready for the day and all of our stuff packed up. When he got back we all went up to Shriner's. T.j. loves "his Eric" , a.k.a. as the guy who makes and fixes his prosthetic. It didn't take long to determine that T.j. had completley worn out the leg and that it was to small. Thus we would need a new one. This always works out differnetly once we know we are getting a new one. This time they gave us the option of coming back in a week or so, or staying over night and he would get us the new one by the next day. It was kind of hard to decide since the kids had school the next day, Tyler had work, and i was suppose to teach dance. But in the end it made more sense to stay. I would have to drive back down next week and start messing up the schedule for then. Anyway since we were staying we decided to drive to Spanish Fork and visit Nate, Kim, Boston, Rachel, and Sean. That is after playing upstairs at Shriner's and outside on the toys there. By the way Pearson went down a slide and was dripping wet by the time we left!!!All of us at dinnerThe Kids just Looooove Aunt Rachel!Me Trying to keep Pearson from terrorizing the whole restaurant!!!!!

Rachel and Sean were ssooooooo very nice and let us spend the night at their place Monday night. I just want to tell her thanks like a million times. The kids Loved the House. It had all sorts of cool toys, and even little tiny doors that went from one room into the next, perfect size for them to crawl thru. T.j. loved the fact that he got to sleep in his own room. He has always had to share since he has been born!!!

The next morning Rachel offered to feed us but i knew she had to be to work and so did Sean so we packed up the kids and went to McDonald's! They had a great time there!

Then we were headed back to Salt Lake to wait from the call from Shriner's to come get T.j.'s new foot! First off we stopped to go on a tour of the confrence center. The kids love to hold Pearson's hand when he is walking! I'm not sure he likes it though!!They even let us go up on the roof. Tyler had fun telling the kids all about when he proposed to me ten years ago up there. I can't believe we haven't been able to go out on the roof again since then. It was really nice!!We also went to the church art mueseum, but all the pictures of that ended up on Tyler's camera. After we were headed back to Shriner's of course all of the pictures of T.j.'s new foot aren't on my camera either. The trip home was long, with fun parts and way to much screaming.

It was nice to send the kids off to school this morning, but Toph is already home 'sick'. Oh the life of a mom!!

Saturday!!

Everyone is suppose to love Saturdays! Right! Well at our house they don't usually turn out how we plan them. Our plans were suppose to go like this: Me and Tyler were going to work on the basement all day, and Toph has a basketball game at noon. Hoping we would get alot Done!!

As you all know that is not how it turned out!!! My friend aske last night if Tyler might be able to help them move for like an hour in the morning. Tyler loves to help people so we were o.k. with this. But the hour he was suppose to be helping turned into three since the guy with the other truck never showed up!!! And if Tyler doesn't start early on a project we normally don't get to it!

Anyway while Tyler is gone I get the kids up and ready! Creedance has wanted one of the hats a crochet with a ball on the top and ear flaps and i started working on it yesterday. And since i knew Tyler was going to be gone for a bit i finished the hat. And ended up having time to make me one too!!!Well all of this would be great if it didn't come with our everyday trauma!! Pearson takes two naps everyday and becomes really grumpy if he doesn't get them. So i put him down about 10! Then asked the kids to play quitelly in the basement while i mad the hats. It lasted ten minutes before T.j. was crying. Fix that then they all come to sit by me while i am making hats. I let them get out yarn and work on their own little projects. Of course after a little while they start bickering! I stop it quickly so they won't wake up the baby!!! Then i decided i wanted to take a shower since they were being sooo good! MISTAKE!!! By the time i am out T.J. is trying to cut Topher with scissors Creedance is screaming because Toph is trying to get something from her. Well i figured out it was Topher making everyone crazy and tried to stop it. He started crying screaming kicking throwing things. Needless to say i sent him to his room for starting everything, the fit, and waking up the baby!!! He got really mad when he got to his room and did this to his brand new robot!He did not make it to his basketball game!! Eventually Tyler made it home!! We all relaxed a bit! And eventually made it down to the basement to kind of start working on it!! oh well! It is a good thing i love them all soooooooooooo Much!!!!

Hectic Day!!!

So the kids had a week off for school and i decided to have fun with them and help Tyler on the basement! So i didn't do a ton of cleaning. When they went back to school i decided i would catch up. Well i caught up on laundry and decided i wasn't ready to do all of it one day on the first Monday back. I did pick up a little but then T.j. had preschool, and i help in Cree's class on Mondays. Then after school Cree has Ballet. Anyway lots of stuff and i have never really caught up on the major stuff!( I have been doing dishes, laundry, and basic pickup!!!)
Anyway, Today i decided I was going to clean. I got Toph and Cree out the door to school. Put T.J. and Pearson in the tub to get them clean. Then I started on MAJOR pick up upstairs(so i could still be close to the boys). Ten minutes into starting, T.J. starts screaming i rush quickly into the bathroom to find that Pearson has Pooped!!!! So i have to pull out both boys, wash the tub, wash all of the toys in the tub, make sure it is rinsed out really well since my kids sometimes have reactions to certain cleaners, then rerun tub to clean both boys. Of course after they get out i feel like i need to clean the tub again.
So I haven't gotten far on my cleaning, i decide to have T.j. watch a movie and i will put Pearson down for a nap. Then i decide since i am already cleaning in the bathroom i might as well just clean all three and be done with them. Of course i ran out of cleaning supplies by the time i had two done. So the third will have to wait until after a trip to the store. I start picking up again, and 1 hour later i feel like it is time to start vacuuming!!!!! This last all of 5 minutes before the vaccum stops sucking. Alas, at this point i decide to completly give up for the day. T.j. has to make it to preschool and i'm sure all the mess will be there tomorrow!!!
I do have a somewhat uncluttered house(the kids, and Tyler came home and have left a lot of things around), and Two sparkly clean bathrooms!!!!