Biggs Family

Its about TIME

2011-08-05T08:06:00.000-07:00

I feel like I really did fall off the face of the earth!! So many many things have happened the last few months it has been CRAZY! So I will try to keep it short!! We started our summer off by going to visit some friends in San Diego, which is always a favorite for me! The weather was GORGEOUS, and we had such a fun time!! I havent laughed so hard in a really LONG time!! We were able to go to Sea World which was also a blast and the kids LOVED it! Then when we came home it was time for my birthday! Not just any birthday, my 30th!! Yes old haha but it was so fun! Willey and my friend Jessie put together a birthday dinner for me and it was just what I needed to start my 30's! Then off to a family reunion up in Pinetop at my Brothers and the fun could only last so long! After a few fun days with family I hurt my back, how? Stretching haha I bent forward to stretch it out and it locked up on me and I got stuck that way! So there began my long month to recovery. I couldn't move without lots of pain so to bed I went and thankfully I have amazing friends and family who helped me by taking the boys and bringing in dinner and keeping my house clean while I layed in bed trying to recover. During those few weeks I had a trip to the OB to calm down contractions and where I found I was severely dehydrated, but was able to get amazing sleep haha, then I had a reaction to the potassium they put in my IV so I had a nice swollen vein which ultimately resulted in another trip to the ER, and during all this time we found out that our home loan modification, which was supposed to be days away from being final, was declined and so we made a really hard decision to move. I LOVE our house but its just a house, what I was really sad about was leaving all of my amazing friends and neighbors so with lots of prayers and LOTS of tears on my part haha we actually were able to find a house to rent still in our neighborhood and we can get in before the baby comes!!So I have now been busy packing and getting ready to start a whole new chapter of our lives and we are excited! I am just so thankful for the gospel and for the temple we have here, its amazing how life can look so different after being in the house of the Lord. It has been seriously the craziest couple of months but I know everything happens for a reason and as long as I stay positive and keep my head up everything will be alright!!

Zack and Brooklyn in SD

My Amazing friend Jessie made this cake for me! She knows me so well!

Ok, had to throw this in, me at 33 weeks HUGE haha

We got to see the NEW Shamu show that opened the day we were at Sea World!

Its What We Call Life..........

2011-05-11T07:38:00.000-07:00

I seem to be going about once every few months posting haha, and its not like I don't have plenty to write but finding the time seems to be my issue. So I will make this one full and short (as I can)!! Our Easter was fun, we decorated eggs, and the Easter Bunny came and the Boys were SO excited for him to come, but we were also able to remind the boys the true meaning of Easter and what it really means to us, and Christ great example as our older brother just like they are going to ALL be examples of what it means to be an older brother!! Then shortly after Easter when things were nice and quiet which is strange in our house so I should've known something was about to happen! I got a phone call from Willey and it started with, Its really not a big deal but....., (the last time I got a call like that from him two hours later his boss had called me telling me I better get to the hospital, willey was going into surgery) so I was VERY suspicious of what was going on. Willey had been having some chest pains since he had left the house that morning for work about 5am, and finally at 9 he couldn't take it anymore. He ended up being taken by ambulance to the Morenci clinic and then sent home to see the cardiologist because the only thing that eased the pain was Nitro! So off to the cardiologist we went and they made him run on the treadmill and monitor everything, and it was fine, until he was resting from the run they picked something abnormal up. So more testing needed to be done. He was not able to go back to work because they hadn't finished all his testing!! So today we will get the results from that, but in between today and when it last happened we have loved having him home! We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary and also went to Mesa to get away for a night and had a blast! We shopped (my favorite) ate at the Melting Pot, so YUMMY but so not wallet friendly! Then watched Thor (willey's favorite) then Saturday we were able to go get a 3d ultrasound done and I was on pins and needles!! When the lady first looked at the baby she was like OH its a GIRL!!! I was WAY overly excited and asked her to thouroughly check, and when she did, she quickly said oh Im sorry its a boy! Not that I am not grateful for the chance to raise another child and have this baby come into our lives, but being told its a girl was a little much for me! I cried for a while in the car but have recovered and its onto what I know: BOYS!!

Easter morning, the easter bunny was VERY generous!

My cute Willey at the Melting pot

Me at the melting pot!

Time Flies when your in Bed

2011-03-23T17:56:00.000-07:00

Im FINALLY feeling so much better. I really, really am hoping this is a girl because I don't remember feeling this way with the boys, or the fact that I really really want a girl!! I have the best friends and family who have helped me out and taken care of me and the boys while my body adjusted to the hormones!! The last month and a half has been a whirlwind and has just flown by, but I couldn't let it go by without blogging about some of our fun things that have gone on!! Our friends the Littles gave Willey and I some of their time-share points for Christmas, yes they are AWESOME, so we had it planned to just do a long weekend get-away long before I knew I was going to be pregnant, to Sedona. We would go on the pink Jeep tours, and hiking and rent quads, and it was going to be a blast!! Well plans changed and with me being dizzy and nauseous we changed our plans. We stopped at Walmart in Cottonwood and bought like 8 movies and a bunch of junk food, and some good for you food, and headed up to Sedona. Our room was gorgeous and it had been snowing so it was just beautiful up there. We stayed in pretty much the whole weekend and watched movies, played cards, talked and just had such a nice time re-connecting and spending some much needed quality time together. It was also this trip that I learned that me and Seafood this pregnancy do not mix, not even the smell of it haha! We got back and it was work and school and life as usual, but that trip seemed to be a turning point for me, I started having less and less dizzy days, and more energy!! I am happy that I am now in the second trimester, I made Willey take a picture of my because I felt HUGE, but was pleasantly surprised that I am not there quite yet haha.

13 weeks

Wishing this was real haha

Yes, Ive been working out, haha

Joys

2011-02-14T13:54:00.000-08:00

Lots of changes for us in the Biggs house! Willey started a new job with FMI, which was a really scary thing for all of us cause he has worked for Empire almost the whole time we have been married, but it was the right choice for us. Then as you all know we have been trying for a while to have another baby, and no luck, so I had decided in December that I just was going to do the hcg diet one more time and lose the last 15 pounds, and it was coming of SO SLOW and I was always hungry and just couldnt figure out what the heck was going on! Well I started to have chest pains one night really severly, and it totally freaked me out, so off the the ER I went and they did an EKG and lots of blood work and they were getting ready to do an xray, and then the DR came in and said they couldn't do the xray because I was pregnant, well the hcg shot can show up in blood, so I didn't think anything about it. Well no period, and no period and lots of positive pregnancy tests, so I stopped the shots and waited about a week and went to have my blood work done again, and after a LONG 5 day wait they called and said "Congratulations your pregnant"! WHAT?? YAY!!! So we are having baby number 4 in September, and this will be all new for me going through a summer big pregnant, but we are SO excited and Really hoping for a girl!! But will still be so happy with another boy!

Ryans Birthday and Monster Truck Jam

2011-02-05T08:59:00.000-08:00

Ryan celebrated his 5th birthday and it was SO much fun!! He wanted an airplane birthday and I was full of great ideas, but my grandfather passed away and I got sick, so a lot of my ideas had to just stay ideas haha. Now Im sure all of you know Ryan and the special kid he is. He is one of those that people say his spirit is just SO big that it has such a hard time being contained in that little body!! haha, He is my son that keeps me always on my toes and can make me fuming red mad to in the next instant laughing my head off. He just brings our family so much joy and I am forever grateful to heavenly father for sending that sweet big spirited boy to our home!

Jessie made this cake, she is AMAZING!

getting ready to fly thier airplanes

This kid loves bikes!

MONSTER TRUCK JAM

Willey has ALWAYS wanted to take the boys to the monster truck

jam, and this year I thought, why not! So he loaded them up in the

car and off they went. I hadn't been feeling well so I got a nice

quiet day at home. They came home Sunday morning with so

many exciting stories!! Zack even re-enacted how one of the

monster trucks did a flip and landed on its back, so cute! This

may just have to be a yearly tradition, but I am definitely going

next time!!

Trying out New Presents

2011-01-25T13:02:00.000-08:00

Willey got a pistol for Christmas and has been DYING to try it out, so we went out last week with the boy's and the Littles and tried it out. Im not that into shooting but of course someone had to take pictures right? haha. He had the boy's try to shoot his shotgun first and it kicked back on Josh's shoulder but not too bad, Ryan's was worse haha I felt bad he started to cry, so when it came to Zack's turn, he was already rubbing his shoulder and almost crying and he finally told Willey no he didn't want to shoot, his shoulder hurt, it was just so funny!! He must have been channeling josh and ryan's pain!! haha. Willey got out his pistol next and I did shoot that, we were aiming at bottles filled with water, and it was kind of fun but mostly scary for me!haha! Willey was just enjoying every minute! Jessi surprised me, she shot the pistol a few times and even hit the bottle!! Brandon brought his dirt bike and that was what the boy's loved the most!! I love living in a place where we can just drive 10 minutes, and be able to enjoy the beautiful desert!!

Ryan getting ready to shoot

Joshua

Willey concentrating haha

Jessie's got a gun :)!

Zack took this picture! Love this gal!!!

Christmas and New Years Eve

2011-01-25T12:49:00.000-08:00

We had such a fun Christmas and New Years Eve! We got to have our friends The Littles spend the night Christmas Eve and share Christmas morning with us and it was just SO much fun getting everything ready for Santa to come. Zack walked into our room Christmas morning and we asked him if Santa came and he looked at us very confused and said um, NO,. haha then we walked him into the living room and he ran to go wake up his brothers, so cute! The boys' got just what they wanted from Santa, and Willey had been working in Kayenta coal mine the week before, so he brought home HUGE chunks of coal. Ryan had been being so very naughty the couple weeks before and we kept telling him that Santa was going to bring him coal. So guess who got a couple of presents full of coal? haha. his face was priceless. Hopefully he will try to do better next year! For New Years Eve we decided to have a sleep over at my parents. We always do mexican food for New Years eve and it was SO good this year!!! We made homemade taquitos, tacos and it was just really delicious!! We watched movies and talked and laughed and just had such a great time! the kids made it until about 10:30, and were out. This is the first year in a really long time that I made it to midnight haha!! It was a fun way to bring in the New Year!! I am excited for what this new year is going to bring!! We are already off to a great start and new changes in our lives!!

The boy's Christmas Eve in their new pjs

Santa was very nice this year!!

Ryan and one of his lumps of coal

Chilling with grandma new yeas eve

My Christmas Crafts

2010-12-25T14:12:00.000-08:00

Im late also in posting my crafts that I got done for my home for the Holiday season! I think they turned out pretty cute!

My snowman is not quite done yet, but still adorable

My christmas tree made out of 2x4's and scrapbook paper

I wish I used different colors maybe I will re-paint this

These are also unfinished but a trip to Hobby Lobby will fix that!

A little late AGAIN

2010-12-24T15:11:00.000-08:00

Again I apologize for the long windedness of my posts, I have to stop waiting So long to post things!!
I have been waiting for this day, Willey FINALLY graduated from his EMT class YAY!!! It has been a hard and long road and only 1 semester long! haha! Im a wimp I know but I didn't like the whole single parenting thing!! We also FINALLY had our family pictures taken after like 2 years!! haha I know Im a total slacker so here is just a peek at some of them:

My sister Marcie did these pictures and she did a GREAT job!! It was hard Zack wouldn't smile in ANY pics haha he just had a funny grin!! I will post more pics later. I love my cute little family and all their personalities that make my life so full and never dull!!

Turkey day and Zacks Birthday

2010-12-04T15:41:00.000-08:00

SO behind!! We had such a GREAT thanksgiving. We started out with the Turkey Trot (LOVED IT), this was Willey's first year doing it and he did awesome!! I came in at 31:34 but can take 32 seconds off that cause I didn't get out the gate til it said 32 haha, Willey came in 36 minutes, which was great considering he only ran it once before the turkey trot. Then it was off to my parents for some turkey and great family time!! Willey had to leave early to do his clinicals at the ER for his EMT class (whole different blog haha). My sister-in-law and I decided to head to walmart (CRAZY) for just a few things, my mom and Jessie decided to join in on the fun also! So we stayed up until midnight and headed over there. Pure chaos, but we got in got what we went for and got out all within an hour!! It was so much fun and SO tiring!! But we had to get up and get ready for my baby to have his third birthday!! Zack is totally shy and clams up so we decided against having a house full of people, but still making it a great day for him. Jessie of course made his cake which turned out AMAZING!! Zack is this totally quiet and reserved kid, but when he opens up watch out!! He is SO funny and loving and just darn CUTE!! He hardly fusses over things kids would normally make into a big deal like doing his breathing treatments everyday, he just puts on his little mask turns it on himself and sits there. He also has started preschool already at Brighter day to help with his speech, and that has been weird having all three of my boys in school, but he loves it and is always saying now "my teacher says ..." its really funny. I am just so blessed to have Zachary in my life, he makes me stay sane with his adorable dimples and big smile! Love ya Zack!!

First day of preschool

Isn't this cake AWESOME!!

CHEESE

we told him we wanted him to take a picture with his train tracks, so he laid down haha

Party Time!!

2010-11-21T14:20:00.000-08:00

WOW has it almost been another month since Ive posted? I seriously don't know how the days are going by SO fast!! Ok so we had Halloween, which was SO fun, we had some friends over from San Carlos and did the trunk or treating. Then we Celebrated Willey's 30th, YES I said 30th, birthday!! Love that Man!! He didn't want a party, just a pistol (such a guy). And then we celebrated Josh's 6th birthday!! We let him has his first friends only party and he invited I think about every boy from his class!! We had it at the Firestation and the boys were SO excited to hear all about what they do and to see all the firetrucks. It was such a fun night with 16 boys total!! Jessica Little made an AMAZING motorbike track cake which was awwed and ohhhed over all night! And it was delicious!! I just can't believe Josh is 6 already, he is just the most caring, sweet and fun loving kid ever!!

Willey telling them all about the oxygen tanks

Look how they are all looking up at willey, then think Josh's dad has the best job ever! haha

Isn't this awesome??

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Im feeling Crafty

2010-10-25T13:53:00.000-07:00

I am totally not the "crafty" type of person, but have been seeing all these adorable crafts all over so I figured why not? These pumpkins are my first crafts of the season (I know all you crafty gals are thinking um these are SO easy haha and yes they were), and it made me VERY excited to do more!

OCTOBER

2010-10-25T13:45:00.000-07:00

Ok, Im a slacker yet again! We have had so many fun things and I am just BARELY blogging about them!
We got a book called "Amelia Bedelias first Apple Pie", and at the end there was a recipe on how to make apple pies. Josh asked if we could please please please make some, I thought What the heck why not. It took SO long (I don't have an apple peeler) I made my own crust and everything, and of course I can't just follow the recipe exactly, but FINALLY we finished around 8:30 that night!! The boys had a blast and really loved making the pies but especially loved EATING the pies!

My first try at homemade apple pies!!

The boys were such good helpers with the crust

Say "Apple PIE"

This was prebaked-They turned out SO great and tasted pretty good I thought :)!

Giveaway!!

2010-10-12T08:42:00.000-07:00

There is a great giveaway for a countdown to Halloween, it is so cute!! It is from Craes creations. Check it out and Hurry, it ends tonight!!
http://craescreations.blogspot.com/

Zack has WHAT?

2010-10-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

This cute, adorable and HUGE kid was born 4 weeks early, and still a whoppin 9 lbs 1 ounce, with his lungs not quite developed all the way. We knew that there would be a chance that he may have problems later but I never thought it would entail all that has happened. When Zack gets sick, it turns bad really fast and lasts REALLY long! We fought it last year from October until almost March and had to get a nebulizer and start on breathing treatments, and still he ended up getting pneumonia. So I knew that we would have to watch him closely this year but wasn't ready for it yet!! He got sick on Wednesday and by Thursday night he was really struggling to breathe. Willey is taking the EMT course and they had just happened to learn about respiratory system and could tell he was not doing good, so off to the ER they went. His oxygen levels were right on the border of being really bad, so they gave him steroids to help clear his lungs and after a few hours he came home. I had to take him into the DR Friday morning to have him tested for asthma and sure enough he's got asthma. So we have to head over to Tucson to the Pulimnary DR to see if we can't get it all under control. It is really miserable but he is such a trooper and sits through all of his breathing treatments as long as he gets to watch Caillou no matter what time of day or night it is.

Josh's first field trip

2010-10-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

Josh had his first field trip this last Friday, and he was SO excited!! He kept asking me everyday how many days he had left. I had volunteered to help out and I was so glad I did! I got to have 6 kids in our group and they were all so cute and excited! I only got to take a few pics before Josh took over the camera. He took lots and lots of pics, I will just post a few. We got to pick apples at Angle Orhcard, I have never been there before and it was awesome! We will definitely be going back!!

Willits

2010-10-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

We had an unexpected last minute visit to Willits last week. Willey's step-brother passed away, so we got on the first flight we could and headed out there to be with his parents. We were only able to take Zack with us on such short notice, but he had his cousins from Alaska there to keep him entertained. It was a sad time but was so good to be able to see everyone. We haven't seen Willey's brother and sis-in-law for 6 years so that was great to get to know them!! I love that the coast is so close to Willey's home town, it was such a peaceful place to be reminded of the great beauty Heavenly Father made for us.

Really Fast but Really Fun!

2010-09-13T14:01:00.001-07:00

This last week Willey had Fire-Fighter School (he is a volunteer fireman for Pima). They left Wednesday and would be home Sunday. My friend Jessica and I had been planning to go and surprise our husbands for a night. So we headed out Friday and made it to Mesa in a really fast time, (we don't have cruise control in the car, yes I am blaming that haha), so we went to the Visitors center for a bit, and then it was time to go and meet the boys at the hotel. We almost got caught when we were sneaking into the hotel, They were driving up right at the same moment! Jessi hid behind a Pillar and I ran and ducked behind a wall, then we booked it up to the 9th floor and waited on the balcony until we knew they were in their room. We knocked and boy were they surprised!! It was so awesome and fun!! We went to dinner and then a block party they put on for the families. We got to sleep in the next morning and then did some shopping. We were tired but had such a fun time. Can't wait until next year :)!

Miss Graham County Pageant

2010-09-13T13:32:00.000-07:00

My baby sister was in the Miss Graham County Pageant this year, not wanting to win just to get a scholarship was her goal. This was the first pageant I have ever been to and it was LONG haha I was a nervous wreck watching her up on stage but she did so AWESOME!! Callie played the piano and sang, and she has one of the most beautiful voices ever!! She ended up getting 4th runner up and a year long scholarship to EA, goal accomplished. It was a fun night out with family and friends.

School Time

2010-09-13T12:47:00.000-07:00

I couldn't find my camera cord, so these are a little late getting posted!! Josh and Ryan started school this year, Josh kindergarten and Ryan pre-school. Ryan was a little hesitant about going but his cousin is in class with him and that helped him warm up a bit. These were the only pics I could get of this silly boy!!

Josh started kindergarten this year and he was SO excited, until he met his teacher the night before the first day. He hid behind me the WHOLE time and wouldn't say anything. Then when we got in the car he said "Mom I changed my mind, I don't want to go to school anymore". haha SORRY?? But he was up at 5, yes 5 AM the next morning already dressed and ready to go asking if he could go out and wait for the bus. HAHA I love that kid!! He has been doing so great and is really loving it, especially eating in the cafeteria!! He came home the second day of school and excitedly told me that all you have to do is go in the cafeteria and they will give you breakfast!! I told him he already had eaten breakfast haha and he said "oh I was hungry still".

Im excited to see what this year will hold for the Biggs Boys!!

2010-07-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

Our summer has been so much fun and I cannot believe how fast it has been going. We have been camping, and family reunions, t-ball and swim and just so much fun with cousins and friends. So I thought I would just post pictures of it all:

Warning Graphic material below

2010-07-05T19:01:00.000-07:00

We have been so busy this summer I can't even believe how fast it is going! We have had lots of fun things going on and Im finally taking a few seconds to update my blog! I have to start with my Zachary. This kid is so shy except when he is in the comfort of his own home! We were packing and getting things ready to go on a family reunion and Josh and Ryan would not leave Zack alone, so he disappeared, and this is where I found him, in between the snack box and the water bottles on the counter, yes he is naked and yes that is a Book of Mormon (one of his obsessions). It was too cute I had to run and get the camera. The last picture he said he was trying to be like Josh haha.

2010-06-01T08:44:00.000-07:00

Im such a slacker, I know!! We have had so many wonderful and spiritually uplifting things happen to us in our family and in our valley and I have totally not written it down!! We had our temple dedication last week and it was AMAZING to be able to be apart of it!! On Saturday was the temple cultural celebration, and you had to have tickets to go which meant you either had to have a child in the program or "know" someone ha ha. Well thankfully I have awesome friends who just happen to be going to help watch a girl whose siblings were in the program and whose parents were ushers. And they just happen to have an extra ticket. So I was more than excited when Jessie called me and asked what I was doing that night. YAY!! So we were about 40 yards or less from the prophet and I was struggling so bad not to let the water works go. The spirit was definitely strong just in his presence!! The celebration that the youth did was amazing and you could tell they worked so hard on it!! I will be forever grateful to have been there. Then Sunday was the dedication. My mom watched the boys for me to be able to go to the 12 o'clock session, and it was just awesome to be able to have them dedicate our temple, our very own here like 5 minutes away!! My testimony was so strengthed by being able to sit there and be a witness to the dedication and I know the blessings of going to the temple will strengthen my family and especially me in these not so steady times!!

Happy Anniversary/Mothers day!

2010-05-13T13:14:00.000-07:00

So this year I got to share Willey and my 7th Anniversary with mothers day. I hate to admit but it wasn't what I had hoped, but none the less doesn't change the fact that I love willey more today than ever and I am so grateful for all he does to provide for me and the boys. He has an unconditional love that he gives me and he is my biggest supporter and my biggest fan! I am also so grateful to be a mom and that we have a special day just for us to let us know how we are loved just for being a mom :)!! I hope you all had a fantastic mothers day!! :)!

2010-05-13T12:46:00.000-07:00

Things seem to always be hectic don't they? I have been really trying to slow down, with everything from my driving to my temper. When I went in to see the Dr last week my blood pressure was super high, and thats weird for me, and she said I need to start learning to relax and not get so stressed out about every little thing. Those dishes will be there tomorrow as well as the laundry. So deep breathe and I have to admit I have been feeling better with trying to relax. I also had to get some blood work done, I have been feeling pretty tired and just not quite right and it turns out that my thyroid is out of whack. This also maybe the reason for all the hard working out and eating right and no weightloss. So hopefully that will get fixed. Also my vitamin D was low, and I have a hard time drinking milk. I tried almond milk and really just couldnt see myself pouring a glass of that everyday. I like soy milk (flavored) but so does everyone else in this house and its too expensive to just drink a gallon a day. So I will have to work on that one. I am not a good pill taker, and between the thyroid meds and my prenatal vitamin I don't know if I can add a vitamin D to it. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated :)! And Willey is FINALLY off of work today for 7 WHOLE days!! And its the Father and Sons outing tomorrow which makes me glad to have all boys for now :)!! I am looking forward to some serious me time tomorrow and saturday!!

2010-05-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

So its back to life, which isn't slow by any means, but I feel like ok, now what ha ha. I stopped doing the HCG diet, I was not feeling well on it at all and did lose about 9lbs, but I would rather lose weight the natural and healthier way than feel like I am starving ha ha. It worked well for others but just too much for my body. I also went to the dr and she was just so pleased at the amount of weight I had lost since having Zack and that is always a boost to your confidence when the dr thinks you are doing good right?
We got to go to the temple open house on Friday with my parents and Grandma Ullery and it also happened to be her 81st birthday, so I thought it was pretty special (she is not a member of the church), and I just couldn't believe how peaceful it was there and just how beautiful it all was inside. Willey and I haven't been to the temple in such a long time that I am just so EXCITED for it to finally be open. Pre-kids we were able to go to the Mesa temple at least once a week and we looked forward to that time so much and our lives just seemed to be simpler then and I really think that had a lot to do with it. When you are living our life the way our heavenly father has asked and are there at the temple feeling his love and spirit all around you its hard not to want to live the best we can so that we can be in that celestial glory with him, and meet all those that we have done work for. I just feel blessed to be able to live in a community that now has a temple and plan on once again making it our weekly goal to attend!

More of Utah Trip

2010-04-25T17:55:00.001-07:00

I haven't gotten to see Laura in like 4 years, WAY to long, but I was so glad we were able to see them and we had just such a great time with them, it was the relaxation that I needed after my run, and the kids had a blast! We ended our trip with them at the Salt Lake City zoo, which the boys loved. Here are some of the memories we made while there.

Here we are at Becca's, the boys were all wanting to hold precious little Jolie, even though ryan doesn't look to thrilled, he held her the most :)! We had such a great time getting to see Becca and Derek and there cute kids.

Below are some of our pics of Temple square, we spent a good time in the childrens section in the history museum, it was obviously not just fun for the kids ha ha. They also were OBSESSED with the escalators, they just loved going up and down. We just had such a good time visiting Family and friends and Utah is so gorgeous if we had a good paying job I would so be any of the places we visited ;) (hint hint ha ha) and we will definitely be coming back hopefully this year :)!!

New Diet

2010-04-22T18:12:00.000-07:00

So you would have thought with all that running I would have lost some kind of weight right? Well maybe about 5 pounds but I was hoping for a bit more, so I have succombed to the diet that all my neighbors have been doing and succesfully losing weight, the HCG diet. I started my "loading" days yesterday and today and I feel SICK!!! Its where you eat lots of high fat foods, and that sounds like a no biggie right? NO!! ha ha, I am sitting here after eating my 5th donut for the day and I am ready to gag!! Willey doesn't think I ate enough but I think I ate WAY too much! We will see the next few days. I plan on doing it for the 26 days maybe 30, and I am hoping for a good 20lbs. I really really would like to start trying for another baby but I also would really REALLY love to start a pregnancy at a "normal" weight :), so hopefully this will work where other things have totally not! So good luck to me and my weighty journey.

2010-04-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

I know its taken for ever to get this blog updated, like 6 weeks!! SOOO much has happened so I am so sorry its most likely going to be a long one but so many amazing things have gone on!! Ok, so my half marathon is OVER!! Totally done, relieved but left feeling like NOW WHAT? anyways so after all my hard training-12 miles took me 2 hrs and 15 mins so I was feeling on top of things! I had heard that you usually will run faster because your adrenaline is pumping so I thought for sure I could probably do 13 miles in about my 12 mile time, but I had set the goal to finish 2 hrs and 30 mins, and I finished in 2 hrs and 34 mins!! We headed up to Utah Wednesday and got there Thursday to my sister Crystals house in Spanish Fork (gorgeous btw) and play with their cousins and had a relaxing time, then it was off to Salt Lake City to our hotel-The Little America-which was so nice very comfy beds!! And we headed straight over to Temple Square and crammed as much as we could into about 5 hours. It was fun to walk around the city and see all the excitement of living in an actual city. We headed over to Smiths and got milk for my cereal in the morning, got everything laid out for the next morning, set my alarm for 4:50 and we got off to bed about 9. My phone started vibrating in the morning and all I could think was oh, I am SO tired, but then I looked at my phone and it said 6:36, wait, WHAT? that couldn't be right!! I looked at the hotel clock and it also said 6:36!! I was supposed to be there by 6:30!! I FLEW outta bed and got ready, feeling very panicky and ready to fall apart, and ran out the door to the trax following other people that had their bib numbers on. They were all very helpful and THANKFULLY I was not the only one that was late!! I met a lady on the trax who ended up running with me until mile 10, but can I just say that not having ANY thing to eat or drink before this race just about killed me! I had drunk my 5 hr energy which is equal to 2 cups of coffee, but I was dragging by mile 2 and my stomach was growling so bad by mile 3, but I am made out of a lot of determination let me tell ya! I didn't walk at all until mile 8 and then it was on, I had to keep going or it wasn't happening!! So I just kept going one foot in front of the other, and mile 11 was there and ALL up hill it was CRAZY! But then it was mile 12 and ALL down hill! I was exhausted but then there were all these people the last mile just cheering and it was so amazing!! So i did it, I ran a half marathon, and I am afraid its not the end of running for me :)! I will be taking a break for now, my fibula head on my knee keeps popping out, so for now its just 5-6 miles for me.

2010-03-05T12:10:00.000-08:00

I just have to blog about running AGAIN but yes I was able to do 8 miles in 89 minutes!! I am just so proud of myself, and this was not easy, I was afraid that I my legs would give out and I almost did! The last 2 miles were hard because my tennis shoe was rubbing on the back of one side of my ankle-gross-I know and it hurt SO bad, so I thought to myself, "Mary you have 2 options, wait until Willey realizes its been a few hours and you still aren't home, or option to just keep running even if its like a turtle pace just keep going suck up the pain". So I choose option 2 and I was so happy to be home and then a little ecstatic to see the clock, 89 minutes! YES! And my dear sweet hubby went out right when I left and placed a water bottle half way for me, it was the best drink of water I have had in a while :)! I appreciate his support, he let me know today before I left how amazed and proud he was of me and that just made me want to do my best!!

2010-02-28T17:51:00.000-08:00

This week went good, for the most part. I have been trying to be a better mom, and when my kids ask me to read to them or play with them I have tried really hard to stop what i am doing, even house work, ha ha, and do it with them. I also started at least twice a week helping Ryan do activities to help him start to get ready for preschool. We do it when Josh is at school so Zack also feels he needs something, so I give him a piece of paper and scissors and he has a blast cutting away. I also discovered that my new scale that I have been weighing in on is actually a whole 4 pounds heavier than my old scale!! So I am debating going back to the old scale, ha ha!! I ran 7 miles on Saturday, and really didn't want to. I even called willey while he was still at work and told him that I could hear the wind outside and I didn't think I would be able to run, ha ha. He basically told me to get my stuff together and get out there If I didn't I would regret it, and he was right! I defintely had a hard time at it but was glad when it was done. It took me 83 minutes, and that is way longer than any of the other runs but I did it!! I am ready for a new week for sure.

2010-02-22T10:32:00.000-08:00

These last few weeks have just been so long, and Willey is FINALLY off for his four days, ha ha, its just not enough but I will take what I can for now. I have been in a change mood lately so I have been rearranging things in the house and getting things re-organized. I just have been admiring all my friends who seem to have it all together and they are such examples to me to do better. So it has been good and it helps me de-stress :)! I also was able to run 6 miles Saturday, in 67 minutes!! This half marathon is coming up so quickly, it is really a mental thing I am finding!! Three to four miles is nothing now. WEIRD. And my weightloss is not going anywhere. I really think my body is so comfy where it is (been at this weight a year) it is not wanting to let go. But my waist, hips thighs, etc are getting smaller, so again I will take what I can :)! Its hard at times to stay positive but I know I can do it!! I asked one of my friends how she was able to stay so consistant in losing weight and she said she just says a prayer and is able to do it through Heavenly Fathers help, so maybe with a bit more faith.........

Hair do's or don'ts

2010-02-17T11:50:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I am notorious for dying my own hair and most of the time messing it up, ha ha! I have been wanting a change so I started changing it back to blonde and instead of blonde it turned out more orange!! AHH! So my good friend Jennifer helped me out with the color and gave me a much needed cut. It is shorter but my hair was so damaged. SO... let me know what you think :)!

Is this my life with boys?

2010-02-14T17:21:00.000-08:00

Thursday was a day like any other, picked Josh up from preschool along with his buddy Bradley. Came home and made lunch. I was planning on trying to make some Yummy fish tacos for dinner, and the boys were playing knights and dragons in their room, so I thought perfect time to go look up a recipe for mango salsa. The minute I sat down I heard Zack screaming and the boys yelling for me. So I head into their room to see Zack crying and having a heck of a time standing up. So of course as the kind and patient mom I am I yell at him "what is the matter with you, stand up and tell me whats wrong"!! And as I finish his head sweeps across the closet door and there is blood, LOTS of blood!! And Josh tells me that Zack fell off the top of the bunk bed! So I Grab Zack, wake Willey up (he works night shift) and tell him to call 911, grab a towel and put it on Zacks head. The police, firemen and then the EMT's come. And Zack is totally calm not crying or making a sound just looking at the fireman that was checking him out! Totally not like him, he is not my friendly child, and definitley doesn't like strangers! Anyhow a trip in the Ambulance and a few hours in the ER, we got to go home, no concusion but 2 staples (weird) to hold everything together. So everythings good right? NO. Friday night his temp jumps up to 103.5 and I can't get it down. Called in for some priesthood help since hubby was not home, and I feel blessed to have such good friends with such good husbands!! But to no avail, I couldn't get his temp to get lower than 99.9. Saturday we laid low and just relaxed, but he was whiney and super clingy. His temp went back up to 103.1 so I gave the dr a call and she said to get him into the ER quickly. So again a few hours there with a few x-rays and the diagnosis: lower lung pnemonia. They gave him 2 shots, one in each leg of antibiotics (he had already been on 2 different kinds for his ears earlier) so it must be a strong one? And we were able to go home with the promise I would take him into the dr to get checked out on Monday. We got home and Ryan was crying that his ears were hurting and Josh was trying to sleep but kept waking up with a seal like cough!! AHH, so it will be off to the DR for all three boys. We figure we will have our deductible met sometime this month!! ha ha!! Oh and I did run my 5 miles Friday in only 52 minutes to end this on a good note!! It felt GREAT and running actually has been the one way I have been able to stay calm through this all :)!

Uplifted

2010-02-14T17:13:00.001-08:00

We have such a good stake here and I am really so truly grateful to be able to live here in Pima!! We had a Stake Relief Society night and it was all about the Temple that is going to be open before we know it!! It was such an amazingly uplifting night, just what I needed! I left there feeling that I have so much work to get done, but excited to get it done!! In my patriatical (totally mispelled) blessing it talks SO much about doing my geneology, and I always just thought when I got older and the kids were older that I would just dive into it!! It can wait right? Well that isn't how I feel now!! I am ready to get in there and help my family and Willey's family who have moved on get their work done!
It was just so uplifting and I really needed that!! I am just so excited for the Temple and the blessings that it will bring to us in our lives and the lives of those that weren't able to do their work while on this earth.

Last week

2010-02-08T14:06:00.000-08:00

Update on running, hurt my knee not really even sure how but I talked with a physical therapist and he said the place that its hurting is from weak hips, and showed me some stretches and strengthining moves, hopefully that will help!! In result of my knee hurting though I didn't finish my week as I should have, I was supposed to run 4 miles Friday and only made it 2 without having some serious pain, so I stopped and tried again today, and I did it!! 4 miles is the longest I have EVER gone without stopping!! GO ME!! Also no sickees this last week, thank you, and its about time!! We did have an incident on saturday where Zack decided it would be fun to head-butt me on my nose (didn't break it thank goodness) but I bit my lip as he did it and so they bruised up nicely, and it left me with some really really bad headaches!! Willey thought I was exagerrating, but just imagine hitting yourself in the head with a bowling ball the see how you feel :)!
Willey did start having to work 10 and 4's which has been an adjustment, and should only be for the next few months!! Yes this means he works 10 days straight for 12 hour shifts, in Morenci so we basically don't see him but for about an hour total! So my next few blogs maybe a little weird, but its only because I am probably going INSANE ha ha! And our last bit of excitement is that Josh rode his bike all by himself today, no training wheels!! He just got on and went!! Willey didn't even have to help him, not once!! I was like tearing up ha ha to just see our first born growing up, ha ha I know silly but man they do grow up fast!!

Just keep Going

2010-02-01T08:57:00.000-08:00

My first week of training is officially over, YES!! I ran all the days I was supposed to, even in the rain one day, and LOVED it!! I heard that after 3 miles it gets a little easier until about mile 7? I have no clue but am hoping that is the case because this Friday will be 4miles for me and the longest I have ran without stopping!! I know you will all get sick of me talking about running but please humor me and pretend your not annoyed ha ha and if you see me out there wave or yell something-encouraging preferably, ha ha. Im also still struggling with the weight, but whats new? Willey started just eating better and drinking less soda-and switched to diet, and is down 17 lbs in two weeks, so not fair. I eat healthy 90% of the time maybe once every few months sip a soda and I am down 2 pounds in like 3 weeks, ha ha. But I am feeling good, and still optimistic!!

Ryan's Fourth

2010-01-29T06:49:00.000-08:00

And so the last Birthday party of the "Biggs' Birthday" season is finally over, ha ha, but boy it was fun!! Ryan is our son that can make me boiling mad at times and in the next instant be rolling on the floor laughing together! He has such a personality and makes sure that everyone knows about it. My mom has reminded me that some children are placed on this earth to test us, well I was one of the lucky moms that got one of those "testy" children, ha ha. He was just the sweetest baby, I mean really sweet. I hate to admit it but when I found out I was pregnant with him I was in a bit of a panic!! Josh was only 4 and a half months old, I didn't think that could happen, but I knew I would be ok as long as it was a girl (or at least thats what I said, ha ha) so when we found out he was a boy, I cried. Yes cried, what a mean mom!!! But I quickly got over it because he was just so easy going and so adorable!!

I keep a book of the funny things that the boys' say and more than half of them are from Ryan, because the things that he thinks of and says are to funny to forget!! He has such an imagination and loves to tell BIG stories. I can't wait for him to get into school, and watch him continue to grow!! I am so thankful for you Ryan and love you so much!!

2010-01-25T12:20:00.000-08:00

Well recovering from so many things this last month has been a bit harder than I thought it would be!! We had all three of the boys get sick a few weeks ago, then we had Willey's parents come for a visit (which was really for Willey and his dad to get some hunting in) then the miscarriage thing happened while they were here, and before I had a moment to think about it Zack got terribly sick and was having a hard time breathing, he kept choking on his mucus and turning not normal shades of colors that he should have been!! So off to the DR's and she said he just may have athsma, and lots of mucus, so she put him on a steroid, an antibiotic and sent me home with a prescription for a breathing machine! WHEW, deep breath!! So when we finally made it home, like 3 hours after the appointment (I hate waiting for prescriptions!!) got the boys lunch, meds and to bed. I haven't ran, except one day on the treadmill, and ended up hurting my foot, ha ha I guess when it rains it pours and the last couple of weeks it has been FLOODING! ha ha but good thing I love to swim and know how to keep my head above that water no matter how high it gets. So a weekend of icing and babying my foot and I was back out there today, 2 miles and it strangely felt good and was surprisingly easy to do.
Today is my countdown with my training I only have 12 weeks until the half marathon, so its serious time, no excuses and that means only 12 weeks to get to my goal weight, I can totally do it. So if any of you see me with like ice cream or a donut in my hand hurry and grab it and throw it away!! :)!! That would be helpful :)!!

2010-01-17T17:49:00.000-08:00

So the new year has been full already!!I feel a bit silly even posting this, but its so just on my mind and it might be a little TMI for some, so I apologize!!! For those who didn't know we had been trying to have another baby the last few months and every month no luck. I have a friend who has signed up to do a half marathon in April, so I had decided if I hadn't gotten pregnant in December, I too was going to sign up and do the half marathon and start training in January. Well needless to say I starting doing my training in January. I am totally not a runner and so as I have been able to run a mile without stopping, then two I have gotten so proud of myself. Well this last week on Monday, we had Willey's dad and step mom visiting, and she said she would watch the boys so I could do my three miles. So I was determined to do it, no stopping!! And I did!! 3 whole miles without stopping!! I was on top of the world that day!! Going to bed that night I was exhausted!! I woke up in the middle of the night not feeling so well, and found that I was bleeding, WHAT?? I had already had my monthly visitor, so what was going on? Well I took a pg test and it was positive! again WHAT?? I had been so focused on training and times the last couple of weeks I felt almost guilty that I didn't know!! Almost 4 weeks along and I didn't know? Anyways long story a bit shorter, a couple of visits to the Dr, and I found out on Friday that I had miscarried. I was so devastated, and just not knowing how to feel!! I still don't know how to feel about it!! But life goes as it goes and Willey had to go to work that night, but we have been so blessed to have good friends that came and had dinner with me and the boys, and they took the boys all Saturday so I could rest, and even took Josh and Ryan to church on Sunday! I am ok just a bit bummed and just sometimes I wish I could see a glimpse of the future ya know?? I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for me and this was his way of letting me know that this isn't the time for me to have another one. It seems to help to talk about it, and I am hoping that writing it out will help also. I love the children that I have now and am trying to be positive and look to the future and trust in my Heavenly Father. One of my dearest friends said "don't you just wish that in these times we could talk to our Heavenly mother?" and I so feel that way now, to feel that comfort!!
So tomorrow I will keep running. It will take me this week to get back where I was last Monday, and I will get myself in a really good place physically and mentally, so when we do start trying again I will be ready!!

New Year

2010-01-04T18:30:00.001-08:00

Ok, so I love that with a New Year, you can just throw everything bad that happened last year out the window, hold onto the good and begin a new journey!! This year is full of exciting things!! My plans haven't gone the way I thought they would be going by now but its funny how when your so focused on something, you don't see the things that are going on in the right here and now!! So this year has started off with our Relief Society giving us the challenge to read the Book of Mormon by May 1st, off to a good start on that! I am also training to run my first half marathon in April in Salt Lake City!! Anythings possible with hard work and determination right?? Ha ha! I am hoping with the running and good nutrition to drop 40 pounds by the run, lofty goal but I can do it!!! I want to get to the temple in Mesa at least once a month, and just can't wait until our Temple is done here and then my goal is to attend at least once a week (totally do-able with Willey's schedule). The in the fall Josh will start Kindergarten and Ryan preschool. I plan on spending a lot of good one on one time with Zack. I think I am ALWAYS striving to be a better, kinder mom and trying to be the fun loving girl that willey first married :)!! Gotta keep the romance alive :)!! I am sure so many things will happen that we won't expect but I say bring it on!! Positivity is my main goal for the year! I plan on making it the best I can!!

Christmas

2010-01-03T08:40:00.001-08:00

So this is past Christmas I know, but I had to wait to get our disposable camera developed, but this will not happen any more because we finally got a replacement camera!!

We had my sister Marcie and her girls sleep over Christmas eve, and had a very busy night getting things ready for Santa. There were cookies to be frosted and reindeer food to set out and stories to be read, and the kids were all just so excited!! They all went straight to bed and it was the first night in a really long time that all of my children slept in their beds all night!! Santa's elf had already gotten most of the wrapping done the previous week, so there were just a few things left. Willey and I were so excited for them to get up in the morning!! So of course Josh was the first one of all the kids awake and he was so excited he was shaking. "Santa came, he really came", was all he kept saying and then he kept trying to wake up his brothers. Once they all were awake they came running out into the living room and they just had the look of pure joy and excitement on thier faces. I wish I could capture just that moment. Ryan saw that Santa had not eaten ALL the cookies and said "ugh, mom it didn't work, he didn't eat all the cookies", it was funny. We let them open their gifts from Santa and then we had to wait for Grandma and Grandpa and Callie to get there. Once they did it was pure chaos!! The kids had so much fun and really enjoyed their presents that they got. Then I made a big breakfast, cinnamon rolls, eggs bacon potatoes, it was to say the least delicious!! It was such a wonderful Christmas!! I really cannot wait until next year to do it all again.

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-12-01T08:46:00.000-08:00

We had a great Thanksgiving. I had not been feeling well the few days before, but I knew if I could just hold on, Willey would be off of work Thanksgiving morning and I would get a bit of a break. My friend Jessie had signed us up for the Pima Turkey Trot, which was a 5k and I was nervous, ha ha I don't really know why, but I was. So Thanksgiving morning came and my stomach was really not wanting me to run anywhere that morning, but I am pretty determined when it comes to working out, and finishing what I started, so I got dressed, ate some oatmeal and we were off. We had decided to walk at the start, but there were so many people that were running we kind of had to run. Any ways I don't really know what came over me but I was able to just keep running, (I am sorry to Jessie for leaving her), but I just felt like running. I ended up getting 34 mins, which I thought wasn't too bad for not being a runner. It felt so good to get that finish line and it was a great way to start Thanksgiving day!! My family had traveled to Utah for Thanksgiving, so it was just the five of us. We decided to grill up some steaks, and Josh wanted salmon, and it was just so relaxing and fun. We went around the room and said what we were thankful for: Ryan is thankful for food, especially hot dogs, Josh is thankful it was Thanksgiving and we could all share, Zack is also thankful for hot dogs, Willey was thankful for his boys and for me, for his good job and our home, and that heavenly father has blessed us so much. I am thankful for my loving husband and the hard work he does to provide for us, for my rowdy and fun boys, and to have a warm home and food to fill out tummies. We ended the night curled up watching a movie on our bed with the boys. Then willey let me take a nice long hot bath, and that has made me want to start 2 new traditions for me on Thanksgiving, to start with the Turkey Trot and end with a relaxing bath!!

Zacks 2

2009-12-01T08:04:00.000-08:00

So November is a busy birthday month for us in our family, so I am a little late in posting about Zacks Birthday. It was november 28th. I can't believe that my baby is already two!! Maybe time for another one, but that will be another post in later-no announcements!! Zack has always just had his own personality and done his own thing. His due date was supposed to be December 27th, but of course he couldn't wait to get here. I can remember going into the Doctors office, they wanted to do an amnioscentisis (mis-spelled), so I had to be hooked up to the monitor for a while so make sure everything was fine, and low and behold I was having steady contractions. I was still four weeks from deliverying so they wanted to go ahead and make sure his lungs were developed enough and they had said that they would know those results within 2-3 days. Well thankfully I have good doctors, and they decided to take me over to the hospital and go ahead and do the c-section. I was not ready for this and was sad because I hadn't told Josh or Ryan that I wouldn't see them for a few days. My mom was with me though and that helped. We got Willey called and off to the hospital we went. So a few hours later (they were busy that day) they wheeled me into the surgery room. Now with this pregnancy I was HUGE not only from the baby being big, but also from lots of extra fluid. So when they cute me open it was kind of funny because everyone had these splash shield things, but they were smart because I got soaked!! Gross I know!! Then my doctor told Willey how thin my uterus was she could have cut it with a needle, and that freaked me out. She said things could have been a lot worse if we had even waited one more day. So out came Zack and all we heard was this teeny tiny cry from this big baby! His lungs were not developed yet, so he had to be under the oxygen tent and the funny thing was the nurse told willey that most babies fit all the way in the tent, Zack only fit from his chest up, ha ha. He weighed in at 9.1 and only 18 and a half inches, and has been growing fast and big ever since!! He loves to laugh and eat, and dance around, and he really loves playing with his older brothers and trying so hard to be just like them!! I have been so blessed to have him as my son!!

Five Years Old

2009-11-16T20:53:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that Josh is Five!! Where does the time go? I can still remember Willey's mom wanting me to go for a walk and I totally didn't want to and we went about a mile and the contractions started coming pretty steadily, so we went home and I sat and rested, but the contractions didn't rest. Willey was on night shift so we had to wake him up, and his first reaction was, "Oh, well I need to change the oil in the car first". Ha ha. So I took a shower thinking they would slow down, but nope, it was time to go. We lived in Morenci and had to drive to Mesa. We got there and I had only dialated to a 2 and a half. But they were coming so they got me started on meds to help it along, well long story short 29 hours later the doctor came in and said you can either try for another hour or we can do the c-section now. And needless to say I was exhausted and opted for the c-section. A few minutes later, we had our first baby boy. Joshua Roy Biggs!! We were so excited. 8 lbs 5 ounces and 21 inches long, with a head of 15 inches!!! That was the #1 reason I had a 29 hour labor!!! He was always a good baby and has always had such a sweet love for his brothers. He loves to laugh and have a good time!! He loves playing with friends and spending time outside with his brothers! I have been blessed to be his mom and want to say Happy Birthday Josh!! Love you much!!

VENTING

2009-11-11T18:16:00.001-08:00

So I have been struggling a lot lately with so many, many things and all I can do to make it through is to just laugh and basically fake it until I make it ha ha! I hate that the future is so full of the unknown. I am just feeling so not in control of anything. Has anyone ever felt this way?? Advice?? I don't usual deal with stress very well, and everything is growing and I can't see the end of the light in this tunnel!! I know that H.F. is here for me and I know that sometimes our heads are so full of "life" that it is hard for us to hear his answers for us. But how can I calm things down to be able to hear the answers? I really feel like I am going a mile a minute trying to be a good mom and wife, trying to workout to have that great body, trying to keep my house clean. AHH! ok, I am done venting. I do have a lot to be thankful for, just could use some friend advice. :)!

2009-10-27T13:48:00.001-07:00

Something so sad happened this week, Zack spilled water all over our camera. It only takes VERY distorted pictures. Now our dilema is do we buy a new one now, or wait to see if there will be any good deals the day after Thanksgiving? I am just so bummed! And the last pictures on their were of the very UGLY diamondback snake that Willey killed on our front porch!! Yuck! We were babysitting for date night and the last parents had come to pick up their kids and we were talking on the fronch porch and the kids were like look, a frog, and started running to the end of the porch, And all the sudden the other dad was like WAIT!! and grabbed the kids. It was this little visitor all curled up and waiting to strike!! So scary, I totally can deal with spiders and scorpions, even the darned little mice that come around and get stuck in our window wells in the basement, I can handle. But I have to draw a line at snakes!! Anyways Willey had to try 3 times to get it, but He eventualy did, and the boys thought he was just the coolest dad ever, and so did his wife!!

Where is Josh?

2009-10-21T19:56:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I thought getting a computer at home that I would be updating this thing all the time, but I am finding it wasn't the computer that was the problem, its not having the time to sit here and hear myself think for longer than ten minutes :)!! So we had something happen to us last week that made me soooo much more paranoid. We had company coming over for dinner, and I was planning a very nice chinese menu. I had gotten the egg roll mix all made, the rice cooked and cooling for the fried rice, the chicken prepped for cooking and I had time to take a little break. So I decided to watch some tv. Willey was on the computer, Ryan and Zack were both sleeping and Josh had just woken up. He came in and asked me if he could go play at the neighbors across the street, and I told him that was fine. I went to the door and watched him walk across the street (we live out in RURAL Pima), he knocked on the door and no one answered. So I figured he would come home. Well there were kids playing across the street from our nieghbors and I peeked out the window to see him watching the kids play and walking toward them. I just assumed that he would go play and I would have Willey go get him in 30 mins. So that time passed, and I started cooking again and asked Willey to get Josh. He took Ryan with him and went to the neighbors, but he wasn't there, and the kids said he never came there to play. They all saw him standing on the corner, but he never walked over there. No biggie, we live in a neighborhood FULL of kids, so I put in the call to ALL the neighbors around us, and with each phone call my heart sank as they said, no we haven't seen him, try so and so. Willey got into the Suburban and started to drive around, while I still tried to see if anyone had seen him. By this time some of (well most of) our neighbors had come out of their houses and had began searching with us. The kids were riding around on thier bikes yelling his name and the dads were driving around looking by the pond down the street and in the empty houses that aren't done being built. They had checked one of our neighbors back yard about 4 times, because they have a lot of fun play equipment, but they weren't home and no one saw him playing back there. Now it had been about 40 minutes since we started looking, so almost and hour and a half since I had seen him, and I was sobbing!! I kept trying to keep it together but I had my little 3 year old Ryan saying,"Well I guess now you only have 2 boys", "only two kids now!!" And I would just burst into tears. Willey finally came home and said we need to pray. We got on our knees and with his voice choking back the tears through the whole prayer, we pleaded with our Heavenly Father to help guide us to Josh, and to please make him be safe. As soon as the prayer was finished, I told Willey that we needed to check the neighbor with all the backyard toys again, I knew that it had been checked over and over, but that was what the spirit was telling me. We walked outside and Willey started down there when we saw him walking toward the house. He had been in that neighbors back yard in a tower thing that they have and he had seen everyone around and yelling his name, but he said he didnt want to get into trouble for not having permission to be there. I was so happy and so angry at the same time, I didn't know whether to send him to his room or just hold him tightly. Luckily the good overcame me and I just held onto him and thanked my heavenly father for answering our prayers so quickly, and that josh was safe and home. He is now experiencing what it means to be grounded for a week, and we are working with all the boys to teach them how to be safe and not give their parents a heart attack like josh almost did!!

Your Baby Can Read

2009-10-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

Ok, so Josh has been going to Preschool since August, and he has learned so much and its just so cute when he sings a song about colors or tells the stories about the things he has brought home. Well today, they made Monsters and little books to read to their monsters. And over the last little while they have been working on a book kind of like the bood "Brown bear brown bear what do you see"? But his is Joshua, Joshua, what do you see? And they have little reading sticks to help them with each word. Now he mostly has this book memorized, but it was just too cute when I found him reading to Ryan and Zack. Love these little boys!!

Wheres your bed?

2009-10-05T16:31:00.000-07:00

Ok, so my little man is still getting up at 5 EVERY morning, except Sunday I fell asleep around 9 and got woken up by a loud MAAAA (which is what Zack yells when he wants to make sure I hear him) and my first thought was, no way it cannot be 5 yet!! A quick look at the clock and only 10:48. So back to bed for him. Well we actually got to sleep in until 6:30!! And when we got up we discovered Zack asleep outside our bedroom door. It was really funny and way too cute!!

Baby no more

2009-10-03T06:51:00.000-07:00

So for the last week I have been getting woken up about 5 in the morning at the same time every morning, and not by my alarm clock, but by Zack!! He has learned to climb out of his crib! I knew the day would come, but had hoped for a little more time. But when they get out of their crib while you are sleeping and eat half the tube of toothpaste you know its time! So Willey took apart the crib and put in the toddler bed, and it just made me sad, I don't have a baby anymore! For now I am ok with that but who knows what the future holds? Hopefully something in pink ha ha.

Vacation to see Nana and Papa

2009-09-29T12:41:00.000-07:00

We were sitting eating dinner a few weeks ago, when Willey realized the next day was his dads 50th birthday, he asked me to get online to see about getting tickets so we could surprise him, and it would have been like 2000 dollars, so we decided to wait 2 weeks, and then fly out and surprise them, the boys were sooo excited to go on an airplane and see their nana and papa!! Willey and I were looking forward to some cooler weather!! So off we went and everything went surprisingly well. The boys loved being at the airport and riding on the moving walking lane and watching all the planes land and take off. We didn't get to Willits until late Thursday night, but the boys were troopers and still really excited to get there. Well our secret that we were coming had gotten blown the night before (unknown to us) but it was still good to be there. The boys had so much fun with Nana and Papas dog "bubblegum" but I am not sure that he felt the same way. They basically tormented the poor dog until he would run and hide!! Probably the best thing that happened while we were there was the food fight that Papa decided to start with Ryan. We had finished eating dinner outside, and Papa was still feeding Zack (of course!!) and Ryan said he wanted more mashed potatoes, so papa got a spoon full, and turned to Ryan and splat, threw it right on his face!!! Ryan just had this look like, Oh now its on!! And that was it, potatoes began flying for about the next 15 minutes. It was so funny and such a good memory for the boys!!

Then on Monday, we decided to go up to the coast, its only about 30 mins away, but its all switchbacks, and neither me or Josh handle those very well, but we made it without any throw up!! The boys love being at the ocean, and this coast is really rocky and they loved going exploring and looking at all the tide pools that were around. It was just a beautiful day and so relaxing!!

So glad we were able to go and relax and have so much fun and make so many good memories for the boys!!

Labor Day

2009-09-29T12:38:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I know these are late, but it was just too fun not to write about. We went up to Frye Mesa and went to some natural water slides and just had such a good time! My parents went with us, and our friends the Littles, and their parents. The "big boys" had no problem climbing up the rocks and across the steep rock sides to get to the slides. I however was very uncertain of it all. You go down one slide and plung into this pool of water that is about 5 feet deep and not very big, then when you recover from the shock of the freezing water, you go down the second slide into the pool of water at the bottome. Easy enough right?? hahaha. So I let Brandons mom go first, common courtesy of course, and watched in HORROR as she went down the first slide and all you could see was her feet up in the air, which meant her head was in the 5 ft pool of water somewhere!! Was I crazy?? I was totally willing to just climb the steep rock sides to get back to safety!! But I couldn't chicken out. So I sit down and the water was so cold and I just pushed myself off, and tried to remember, keep my hands up feet down and I would be fine! I wasn't expecting the rush of water into my ears, (later had swimmers ear) but I did it!! I made it to the first water hole!! YES! The second one didn't look nearly as bad, so no problem right?? Well Willey had been down a few times and had always hit the same rock either on his thigh or padded part of his bum, so I knew there was a rock I wanted to avoid, and with all my luck in trying to miss the rock, I hit it straight on the end of my tailbone!! I thought I would die, I couldn't get up I just kept falling forward. So I put on a brave face and tried to walk it off, and gosh darn it like 3 weeks later and it still hurts to bend over, but I did it, I concered that water slide, probably won't be doing it again, but at least I can say I did it! So here are some pics from Labor day:

Josh's scripture

2009-08-06T14:49:00.000-07:00

Josh was asked to give the scripture in Primary on Sunday and it was on temples, so Willey helped him find one in 1 Corinthians 3:17. And so he was practicing reading it, and the last sentence is "which temple ye are", and he just sounded so darn cute reading it, and said, "which temple EE RR." He could not say ye, it just kept coming out EEE. And the more we tried to emphasize the YE part he just would say EEE louder. So when he read it I had to try so hard not to crack up laughing at his EE RR while sticking his head out to say it like Willey and I were. Gotta love those little guys!!!

JULY

2009-08-06T14:10:00.000-07:00

So July started out really well. We had a great Fourth of July weekend. We had a BBQ then went to the Fairgrounds to watch the fireworks. We acutally were so close that we had actual pieces of the firworks falling on us, and I think I probably blackened one of my lungs with all the smoke I inhaled. Josh and Ryan thought they were really cool, but I wish everyone could have seen Zacks face, he was very serious lying by me on the blanket and if I looked at him he would just clap his hands and say "WEEE" and maybe crack a slight smile and then he would point up and it was back to business!!

We then had a little spell of strep throat go through Josh and Ryan. Ryan woke up one morning saying that his mouth hurt, but he wouldn't let me look inside, and both him and Josh were being so crabby all morning and kept falling asleep, and I realized they both were burning up. So after some medicine and naps, Josh was feeling better but Ryan said that now his neck was hurting. I looked at his neck right below his ear and he had like a golf ball sized bulge! I like freaked out and called my mom and she right away said uh oh its gotta be the mumps. MUMPS??? What the heck was that, didn't we go through the torture of having our kids vaccinated against that? So I called and made him a dr's appt, and decided I better take Josh with us just in case it was contagious, and it turned out they both had strep, and Ryan's glands had just really swelled up on the one side as a side affect. So they both had to get shots in their buns, and they were so mad at me, I felt so bad for them. But they both felt better the next morning and thats a good thing for the whole house hold. It still took at least another two weeks for Ryan's gland to go totally down, so weird!!
I was glad that we found out early enough about the boys having strep because a few days later, we had my brother Andy and sister-in-law Shantelle and their twins Drew and Megan down for the Pioneer day celebration. It was a lot of fun. We went and watched the rodeo and the kids had a blast trying to chase down the little pig. Then enjoyed the parade on Saturday and had just a really relaxing time at the football field eating dinner and listening to all the entertainment they had. And then came the fireworks, once again I found Josh and Ryan really loving them, and Zack ran and sat up on my lap. Some of the fireworks were loud, so I covered one of his ears and held the other ear against my chest, and when the loud ones had stopped I moved my hand off his ears, and he very quickly moved it back on his ear. He gave me a quick smile and snuggled back close to my chest. He is just such a character, love him much!
Then came Callie's 18th birthday!! I can't believe how fast time fly's by!!! We had made plans to head down to Mesa the next week because my brother Gary was moving to Flagstaff. So we decided to go along and hang out with Marcie and her girls for a few days and get out of the heat! So Willey headed out early with a load of stuff, and Callie, my boys and myself were going up later in the morning following my parents and 2 of my neices. This is where the story gets good, and scary (for me) I had put the boys's dvd players on and they kept saying they weren't working, and Callie was trying to figure out why my ipod player wasn't working and I was trying to help her find the remote to the dv player, all this time following behind my dad. He got into the turn lane, and turned left and all I saw was that he turned and the light was green. I was so distracted with everything that was going on, I didn't even pay attention that it wasn't an arrow just a light, and I turned and looked up in time to see a white truck coming straight for me. I had no reaction and the next thing I knew, we were facing the wrong way and the air bags had deployed. There was smoke everywhere and the boys were crying. And in a flash people were there to help. They got the kids out of the car, and Callie got out. I was totally frozen, my dad was there and just asking if I was ok, I asked if the boys were hurt, he said he didn't think so, and that was my release! I just broke down, and started to say that Willey was going to kill me, I had just wrecked the car that he drove every week to work!! I finally was able to get out, and let me tell you, we definitely had heavenly father looking down on us. Our car was totalled. The truck hit on the front of my side and smashed in the whole front. The truck had part of the bumber attached to its back bumper. The boys didn't have not one scratch on them, and Zack was the only one in a 5 point harness car seat. Ryan and Josh were in booster seats and they ALWAYS put the strap that goes across the chest behind them!! Callie was bending forward, so the airbag hit her face, but no serious damage, and I was just shooken up. The air bag hit my arm, so it has a pretty good size bruise, but again no serious damage. It has taken me a good week to feel back to normal physically, but mentally it will probably take me a while!! The boys haven't had any affects from it, they just like to say we don't get to go to Flagstaff because mommy crashed daddy's car. This accident really shook me up to the point that it is really hard for me to drive, without getting sick to my stomach, but it also really made me think. Think about life and my spiritual preparedness. Am I letting all of these distractions in life stop me from hearing the spirit, or from realizing the things in life that are really important? My dad told me later the day of the accident that he heard the spirit tell him not to turn, and I think the spirit was trying to tell him because I had to much going on to be able to hear the spirit talking to me!! That is not something I want to happen again! I hope that I will be able to live everyday so that I will be able to clearly hear the spirit and his promptings that he gives to me. I am grateful for my husband, he had a really hard time with all the thoughts of what could have happened, and he was so overwhelmed with gratitude that we were all ok. I am so grateful that he is a worthy preisthood holder and was able to give me the comfort I needed. I love my little boys so much and thank my heavenly father for those angels he sent down on the day of the accident to hold each of them so they wouldn't be harmed!! I am overjoyed to be alive, and think that i have been complaining WAY to much about the everyday stuff life has for us to do. I am glad to be able to wash the dishes and cook for my family and wash laundry.
I also wanted to say thank you to my friends who really helped me out by just being here. I just feel very blessed and if it took a car accident to make me realize it I guess I am grateful for that too!!

JUNE

2009-08-06T13:55:00.000-07:00

I hope Laura doesn't mind, I read her blog and thought this is a good way to play catch up with my blog entries. So here is what happened in June:

I had my birthday, and the following weekend we headed off to San Diego to visit our friends Nick and Candi. They boys were so excited when we told them we were going to see Nick and Candi that I think they were a little disappointed when we got there and they found out that Candi was a person, and not actual candy. We had such a good time there, and the weather was SOO nice! We got to go to Nicks work (he is a navy rescue swimmer) and see the helicopter that he flies in. The boys went just about nuts over it. They loved getting up there and they just had a blast pretending to fly (pictures will be coming, I can't find my camera right now, but I will get it all together!!!). We also got to go sailing, which is one of Willey's favorite parts of going to San Diego, and I love it as well. The "big" boys were excited to jump out and swim in the water, but none of the kids really wanted to until Willey jumped in, then I had to hold on to Zack for dear life because he kept trying to jump overboard. He finally did get in with Willey but the water was a bit cold, so he didn't stay in for long. It was just a really good relaxing time! Then we got to have a cookout at the beach and it was just so much fun!! The only down part to it was on the day we were getting ready to leave, Josh came out with blue hands, and when Willey went to find what was going on, he found Ryan, Josh and Courtney (nick and candi's middle girl) had decided that the girls pink wall was too pink I guess, because they had taken an ink pad and put their hands in it and put their hand prints all over one of the walls. I could have just died!!! I used the Mr. Clean magic erase marker until it was little crumbs!!! I hope that it looks alright now? Sorry!!! I wished I would have taken pictures of it, after a while it was kind of funny. We headed home and back to the real world!!
Marcie moved up to Flagstaff with her girls in June and that was sad. I really enjoyed having her here and having the girls here to play. But I am really proud of her and know that she will do all she can to get through school. She is a good motivater for me to get those books open and finish my education!!

Getting Older

2009-06-07T07:38:00.000-07:00

So I am finding it hard to get on my blog everyday or even at least once a week with all craziness that goes on in everyday life. My friends with school aged children keep asking me if we are having a good summer so far, and while yes we are I don't really notice any difference, except the kids get up a little earlier, and throw a major fit that it is still light outside and why do they have to go to bed when the sun hasn't even gone to bed. But we are at the beginning of June and so far so good. I just had my birthday yesterday and had a great day. The boys and I went to town with my parents, Callie and Marcie and did a little shopping and went to lunch and just had a nice time. Then Willey ( who was supposed to be working) decided to take a sick day and stay home. He grilled us a very nice dinner and we put the boys to bed and watched a movie. So two years closer now to 30 and I really don't know what to think about getting older. I know that it is coming whether I am ready for it or not but right now I am definitely NOT ready. But I guess with age comes wisdom right? ha ha. I just wish we could freeze time in certain times of our lives. I wish this could be one of those times. With the boys being so funny and so innocent of worldly things and always (well mostly) listening to the things that Willey and I tell them to do. But I guess this is life right? All I can do is just cherish the little moments and try to remember to write them down so they are not forgotten, and not worry so much about getting older, it may cause wrinkles.

Graduation

2009-05-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

Callie graduated on Wednesday night and I just wanted to tell her how proud of her I am. She is the baby of eight children, and there is a ten year gap between us, so I have been able to watch her grow into the person that she has become. I could have only hoped to be as talented and spiritual as she is when I was her age. She has been one of my best friends for almost all my life and I am excited for all she will accomplish in the future!! I know that she will go far musically, she had a solo during graduation and was by far the best one there, I am not being bias, she really just becomes someone else when she is performing and it is almost magical to watch! I love ya sis and just wanted you to know how much ya mean to me!! ( the last picture is of Callie on prom night, where she won prom queen.)

Hectic week

2009-05-23T11:05:00.000-07:00

So Zack has been cutting his eyepoint teeth this week, and I mean the whole week. It has been MISERABLE!! Willey had to work overtime monday night and Tuesday night, so I was in it alone. He started with the throwing up and all that comes with that and a super high fever. It was a long couple of nights!! And I was determined that by Monday he would be totally off the bottle, which made things probably ten times worse!! And then Wednesday was my sister Callies graduation from high school and we were having her dinner at our house. So of course things couldn't run smoothly, Zack had to end up getting a temperature of 104.0!! So I had to take him into the Dr.s to make sure it really was just teeth, and after two and a half hours of sitting in there, they told me he was fine, no flu or strep, just a little bit of a red ear. I was so upset, why didn't I listen to my motherly instincts and just keep him home? Whatever. The night ended up going ok. Everyone got fed and had a good time and my dear sweet Willey stayed home with all the boys so I could see Callie graduate. Now it is Saturday and Zack is just finally getting back to his normal self which I am so thankful for. And I am glad this week is OVER!!!

Fathers and sons

2009-05-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

So the Fathers and sons outing was this last friday, and ALL of my boys were super excited (especially Willey). So they got everything together early Friday morning and they left about 1:30 in the afternoon. Now it only takes about 45 mins to an hour to get where they were camping but Willey insisted that they get an early start! He left Zachary here because 2 mischevious boys was about all he can handle. So Zack woke up from his nap and went from room to room looking for Josh and Ryan and when he didn't see them he would get a sad look on his face, it was so sad and I knew right then that no matter how much his older brothers torture him, he really loves them. So Zack and I went and did our nightly walk with my sister Callie and then hung out at home, just a low key relaxing kind of night. Saturday I got an early wake up call from my mom at 6 am (thanks mom ha ha) and she invited Zack and I to breakfast, which was so good. Then I cleaned house, anticipating the arrival of my campers. They did not get back until almost 2! And they were FILTHY. I just had to laugh when I saw them walk through the door. The first thing out of Josh and Ryan's mouth was, "Daddy let us shoot his gun at a captus, (cactus) and then we told him we wanted him to shoot the captus for us, and he did ha ha ha". So it must have been really funny seeing daddy shoot the cactus because they just laughed and laughed. And then Ryan went straight to bed. He was so tired I just let him. Josh then proceeded to tell me about his first real camping trip. He loved playing with all the kids, and especially the fire. His dad told him not to put sticks in the fire, but he didn't listen and ended up burning his lip. He told me he was just trying to taste the stick to see if it was still hot. Ha ha. So I guess overall it was a really good time for all of them. I will be looking forward to next year when all three of the boys get to go.

Never a dull moment

2009-05-13T19:48:00.000-07:00

So I decided that I have some of the funniest kids ever, and I have the pictures to prove it. Ryan does some of the funniest things like his faces that he does. He is usually pretending to be Iron Man, one of his favorite "heroes". The one morning I couldn't find him anywhere, and I noticed that the back door was unlocked, and found him outside with his dog Rocky, it was almost just too cute! Then last but not least he walked upstairs one day with his face covered in marker and said " see I have a beard just like daddy"!! I laughed so hard, and RAN to grab my camera.

Now as you can probably tell Zack is a little obsessed with hats! Willey is not happy that I #1: Took a picture of Zack with his cousins pink hat, and #2: That I am posting it on my blog. But he is just so dang cute. He love to pull the hats way down on his eyes and the he has to look way up high so he can see. Its so much fun watching the joy that he gets out of something as simple as a hat!!

And then theres Josh, who is just a crack up, he loves dress up ( another thing that Willey would rather me not mention, ha ha), and he found this old wig that my mom had and was just walking around the house with it, just like it was the most normal thing to be doing. Now Willey gets bloody noses very easily, so he has a wad of toilet paper in his nose a lot, and its kind of hard to see in the picture but see the white thing hanging out of his nose? Yep he walked out and announced that he had a bloody nose, but he had taken care of it and he had shoved toilet paper up his nose, they really look up to their dad and want to be just like him. And lastly, this is the face that Josh makes usually when I am taking pictures, lovely smile son, you will get all the girls with that one!!!

I love my kids!!

2009-05-12T12:37:00.000-07:00

Saturday was our Brimhall Family reunion in Mesa, and it will most likely be the last time I see my grandpa. He is in his 90's and has lived an AMAZING life, and it has been an honor to be his granddaughter. The boys all enjoyed seeing thier Great-Grandparents but Ryan had a particular interest in him. My Grandpa is an old cowboy, so naturally he wore his boots and cowboy hat and Ryan just wanted to be right next to him, the whole time! My grandma later told me that Ryan walked up to Grandpa and wanted him to pick Ryan up on his lap, well my grandpa had to tell Ryan that he couldn't pick ryan up he was too heavy. So Ryan thought for a moment and said, "thats alright, I can climb", and proceeded to climb up and sit himself right next to grandpa. I am so grateful my children have been able to know their Great-Grandparents.

Our Anniversary

2009-05-12T11:37:00.000-07:00

On Saturday was Willey and my 6th Wedding Anniversary! I just can't believe that it has been six years already! It seems like yesterday that Willey was calling me and we were making plans for our first date. And How I knew it was crazy for him to tell me two weeks after we knew each other that he loved me, and how even crazier it was that I felt the same way. I won't ever forget when we first started talking about getting married and I was so nervous about the thought. All it took was a quick prayer, and this incredible warmth grow throughout my body for me to know this was the real thing. That Willey was going to love me and cherish me for the rest of eternity!. And we faced some really hard things right off in our marriage, and willey was my rock and let me hold onto his faith that everything would be alright. I just love that man of mine so much and want him to know it. We have three adorable boys, who I hope grow up to be as great of a man as their dad. Love you much Willey...forever and ever

2009-05-05T20:24:00.000-07:00

So I am glad that its almost summer but I am really annoyed at how early the sun is coming up!! My boys got up at 4:30 this morning and were ready for the day to begin, well I should say that Ryan (3) is the instigator of almost anything naughty that goes on in our house. He has been getting up after I am asleep and getting into the freezer and eating ice cream! Willey came home Monday night to find one carton of ice cream (which was almost new) half gone, and then last night, willey came home to find another carton of ice cream outside of the boys's bedroom door almost gone, and Ryan in bed sleeping with chocolate all over his face. I just have to laugh to keep from going insane. So this morning I was totally not ready at all to get out of bed, but I didn't want them getting into something else, so I got up with them and they ate an early breakfast and around 8 my dear husband let me go back to bed, so I would be a bit more patient with everyone! So I just want to say thanks to him for being a great husband and seeing when I have reached my boiling point and Dr. Jekyll is disappearing and Mrs. Hyde is about to show herself. haha. So now I am off to bed and have hopefully outsmarted my children by sticking a plastic spoon in between the doors on the refrigerator. We will see in the morning, but hopefully not until at least 6:30!!

2009-05-02T12:18:00.000-07:00

So My sister Marcie has helped me with 90% of the decorating in my house and I am just so grateful to have a sister who is so creative in that area, because I am not so much. These are our latest projects that we have done and it was so much fun watching my house totally transform with just a few little things into a home.

Marcie is moving at the end of June and I just wanted to tell her thanks for all her hard work and great ideas. I am going to miss her being just a minute away. Thanks marcie, love ya tons.

2009-05-01T19:56:00.000-07:00

Ok, so my friend Jessica helped me figure everything out about blogging so now I have no excuses. (Thanks Jessi!!)

So alot has gone on since I tried to start my blog and its all been just everyday things nothing really major so I will just start with the things that are going on in our lives now.

The boys have been growing like crazy!! I don't know if this is normal how fast they seem to be sprouting up? Josh has grown almost 3 inches since February and I can't keep up and he is totally ready for school, he is a little obsessed with numbers. He has to count EVERYTHING and how many girls and how many boys and how many chairs, I mean everthing. He is just getting so big. Ryan has FINALLY gotten potty trained!! 2 down 1 to go YESSS!!! And Zack, well what to say about Zack, he is so full of personality and he is our free entertainment. He loves food and loves to eat all the time. He has also grown 2 inches since February and is 32 pounds and only 17 months! He is also tall so he doesn't just look fat ha ha. The above pictures are Zack telling us he is done with his dinner. Its really funny until you have to clean him up. ha ha

So I have been having a hard time getting into the routine of balancing life. I am finding that being the mom, chef, personal trainer for myself, wife, housekeeper/maid, chauffer, any character from Star wars Clone wars that I am assigned by the boys, financer, dog trainer, disciplinarian...(etc)... it all gets to be a bit much so I could defintely use some good advice on this.