Life is good.... We have been busy, busy, busy. June just FLEW by and yes I realize it isn't quite over yet, but it will be soon and I swear it was just May. Things we've been up toAllen

Allen had his birthday and is getting OLD, he he. No, really he is getting old, but acting young. He kinda got a low key birthday, I took him out for lunch and then Brody had his preschool program so we did pizza and went to that. After I took him to his favorite ice cream place, FROGURTS. He loves that place! Besides working on getting old this month, Allen ran the Wasatch Back RAGNAR Relay Race. He said he loved it and it was a lot of fun. I think running is crazy, but glad he has found something he really enjoys that he can do at his old age. We are really proud of him and I love the dedication and hard work he shows our boys. We enjoyed Fathers Day at Park City after the RAGNAR, that was a ton of fun. We are so grateful to have such an Amazing father and husband in our house and I hope he always remembers, WE ARE THE LUCKY ONES:) (to bad he never reads this blog though....)

Me

Busy, Busy, Busy, I have enjoyed have friends in town this month and visiting with others. The Real Estate Business was crazy hectic and I have been tying down all the loose ends for the, Road Home Christmas in July event that I am chairing in July. Life has been crazy and busy and lovin every minute of it!

Colby

Almost done with school, almost, almost..... Colby loves school so he isn't to heartbroken, but I can't wait till he is done so we can get our summer going!! Colby has loved helping coach Brody's soccer team this year. He is an awesome big brother. He is really into drawing and making projects lately. He loves to play with his friends and play outside. He is really excited to swim and loved it when we were down in St. George where he could swim everyday. He thinks he is one of the adults and informed me the other day that since we have 6 seats in the back of our car that means we need to have 3 more kids, YEAH RIGHT! He is our reader, he is very good at it and will read anything he can and really enjoys chapter books. I am excited that he loves school and learning it really makes it easier to send a kid to school. The other day Colby was telling me something and I wasn't really believing him, so he goes, "If you don't believe me just ask Jesus, he will tell you I am telling the truth" I'll have to remember some of his other Colbyisms and put them on here.

Brody

Our big preschool graduate (He has another year of preschool, but they call that pre-k now) Brody loves being a big brother and does have to remind everyone that he is "big" now. He is big into wanting to play with friends and I wish we had more kids in our neighborhood his age. He loves to color and draw things and of course play, play, play. He is very concerned about Cops right now and whomever is driving him around will be informed whenever he sees one and told to SLOW down. The other day I go, "you are just watching our for me, huh Brody?" He goes, "NO mom the cops are watching for you" LOL, he is so funny. He is starting to recognize the letters and whenever he sees a capital B, he goes, "Look mom it's my name" We were at Colby's school the other day and one of the teachers names started with a B, Brody goes, "Mom, they have my name on there that means they are going to let me in" Very funny. Brody is big on his Why's right now, but he doesn't' just ask why, he makes it more complicated such as, "Why does Jesue let people be bad" , "Why did Jesus put Tigers here" anything you can imagine he will add it in a why. The other day, I was laughing at something he was saying and I said, "Brody who made you so funny?" immediately says, "from Jesus" I of course laugh, but he immediately goes, "no Mom, I'm serious" How did I get a funny, self-aware child. By the way if you want a chuckle you need to have Brody say, serious, think of a drunk guy, the way he slurs it, I love it.

Porter

Porter is really doing awesome, he is up with all his milestones and such a GOOD baby. He sleeps through the night most cases, as long as a schedule doesn't get to hectic. He is starting to roll over back to front, not yet the other way though. He loves people and being held. He is spoiled, spoiled. His favorite position is standing (with help of course) and facing you to "talk". I love the sound of him talking to himself in the morning and his laughter when we are taking his shirt off and it tickles. He has had his heart checked out and received a relatively clean bill on it. They did mention he has a loose valve on the left side that allows the blood to regurgitate for a second, but they weren't concerned at all on the effect and said there were probably tons of people walking around with the same thing and would never know it. We will get him checked out again at 6 months to see if it has healed. He has had slight torticolus and we have had a "teacher" coming twice a month since his 3 months working on it. Because of his diagnosis he is automatically qualified in the state program. When they first came out at 3 months and was tested, he didn't qualify for the program based on the test because he has so far reached all the milestones, but because we have a diagnosis of Mosaic Downs, he is allowed in the program so we can work on not having any possible delays. He is doing awesome (yeah I know using that word a bit) the service coordinator that came out today said she was amazed with his strength and thought we was doing awesome (her words not mine, he he) He really is doing great and we LOVE having him our family. He is such a cute baby and everyone is absolutely smitten by him!

Life is good, I hope everyone else is starting out with a great summer!

I'm Back and updating...

LOL, I'm back. This last year has been hectic, and I was even debating on dropping the blog altogether, but after going through the blog and reading it, I realized how much I enjoyed it and sooo I will be blogging again. I will be updating since I left off with all sorts of news, so I can keep it as journaling also!! Here is a cute picture of my boys until then....

Update- Merry Christmas

We had a very Merry Christmas, I was blessed to be feeling full of energy for the two weeks prior to christmas, WOW it quickly disappeared after, but it got us through the holiday which was very nice!

The boys doing the "nativity story" that is always an entertaining event in our household, I hope they learn from it also!

Santa again came to visit the boys at home (which was a good thing because I don't think we made it to the mall one) All our shopping was done online, I was not going to deal with the stores this year. Thank goodness the boys were good enough for a personal visit!

Boys all excited for the Christmas party at Grandpa and Grandma's House!

First Christmas present is as always PJ's, don't they look adorable in them? We had a great Christmas with way to many presents as usual. We didn't do as many "service" related items as I like, but we fit in a couple, hoping the boys enjoy the giving as much as the receiving!

Summer Fun ..... Kind of

We had a wonderful summer, kinda.... I feel like my poor boys didn't have much of a summer, but they didn't notice. Their mom was sick all summer, but they probably enjoyed wrecking the house while mom laid on the couch. When Dad came home one day he asked the boys, "What Happened to the house?" Colby answers, "Mom lets us do whatever we want" Ooooh what can I do. Here is a quick snapshot of the stuff we did get out and did this summer...

We had two babies born, Scout Jacobson and Carson Halligan

Fun with cousins

We went many parties

Had a great trip to the fire station with cousin Lexi and Hunter

A couple Rodeo's

No summer is complete without a trip to the Zoo and friends just make it better!

The Gorilla came up to the window to stare back at the boys.

We also enjoyed our annual trip to St. George and enjoyed the Tuacahn plays. The summer went by way to fast and before we know it, it was time for school to start...... I might be able to find the other photo's, but a lot of my pictures are corrupted on one of the laptops!!!

Halloween Fun

The boys love Halloween. Brody has a horrible sweet tooth so you can all figure why he loves it, and Colby loves all the scary things in the stores, front yards etc.. We took them to a kid friendly Haunted House, they decorated pumpkins and a witch festival. Colby wanted to be a Ninja and Brody wanted to be a green monster. I couldn't find a green monster one, but I found this skeleton. He loved it! He wouldn't wear his mask (could you blame him) nor would he let me paint his face, but that's okay, he was cute and Colby was a tough ninja!

Colby, super tough Ninja

Brody, woooo scary

After Bathtime

Exciting Day!

What a day today! I was leaving to go meet Allen and pick out carpet for our basement when I noticed this in our neighbors yard.

When I came back a couple hours later and after I picked up Colby they were still there. They went to our backyard so I opened the window and the deer and Brody had a face off.

They started eating all the roses off of my bushes so I decided it was time to scare them off, but they were hanging around for quite a few hours. They boys loved it and I am glad they waited around till Colby got out of school.

PJ Time

Love the boys in their Pj's. Colby was on a campout with Allen and his cousin Cooper. When it was time to get Pj's on Cooper pulled on "footsie" Pj's. Colby immediately tells Cooper those are Baby Pj's (which unfortuantely I believe I told him that once when he wanted to buy some) Allen came to Coopers rescue and told Colby they weren't. Well guess what!! Of course Colby wanted to buy Footsie Pj's. So this is their matching pair, Colby loves them, but Brody HATES them and will not sleep through the night if he wears them, Go Figure!

It's a Bleeder

Hmmm... what child would I be talking about? Oh I should offer a prize for whomever guesses, but we all know that the answer would be Brody. Colby and Brody were playing downstairs, Allen and I were trying to pack when all of a sudden we hear Colby yell, "Brody got hurt" We run downstairs as Brody is fussing coming up with his forehead GUSHING! Thank Goodness Daddy was there because Mommy was a little shocked. Daddy grabbed Brody and mommy grabbed a washcloth, and put it against Brody's head. Mommy was worried that we were going to have to take him to the hospital and get stiches and on and on...... Thank Goodness it just hit a vein and clotted very quickly and wasn't as bad as it looked. Ohhhh and this is just the beginning.

Rainy Day

It was a rainy day, so we made a tent in Colby's room and read books and played cars and trains!!

Brotherly Love

Halloween Fun

We had our first Halloween party last Sunday. Colby decided he wanted to be black Spiderman and he wanted Brody to be red Spiderman. I think the boys look adorable! Ooops I ment tough!

Happy Summer

Hope Everyone is Having a GOOD Summer, we are having a crazy one, full of everything and doing a lot! Plan on updating later, but wanted to shout out a HI!

Picture -Hanging out with cousin, Jordan

My brother wants one of these for his house. Talk about Stage Fright for my Boys!!! (or they will try and hit the fish, which would just be more mess for me)

Like Father, Like Son

Colby followed daddy around the whole time mowing the lawn. Brody was also behind following, which was VERY cute, but he was following holding my hand, so I never could pull back far to get a picture of all three :(

Loving the Sunny Weather, some more pictures, Don't they both look so Happy, ha ha

PS - Olsons, you left your lawn mower ....

Funny - Look at Colby's arm, he's pretending to dump the grass just like daddy!!

Enjoying the Nice Weather (What happened to Spring??)

Picnic and Riding the Bikes!!