I had the best weekend! Kyle and I just relaxed and lounged around most of the day Saturday, which I think we both needed. Then later that night we went to the Home and Garden Show! At first Kyle wasn't too thrilled about it, but as we got in there and started looking around he really started to enjoy it. Ashton has definitely reached the "Terrible Toddler" phase. He makes it very difficult to do things when he is such a little pill! He just wanted to grab everything from the booths and eat all the candy that they had out! Luckily, he hadn't really had a nap that day so he crashed pretty hard towards the end. But it was very fun! It made me and Kyle really want to get a house, so we are going to be working very hard so we can accomplish that goal of ours.

Sunday. Oh my gosh! The weather was just GORGEOUS!!! It really gave me Spring fever. Kyle and I just wanted to be outside. The breeze was still a little chilly, but for the most part it was warm and sunny! Kyle and I had a nice "Summer-ie" dinner, sloppy joes and potato wedges. It was so yummy! I had been up really late Saturday night and with the time change I didn't go to sleep till 3:00am. I couldn't help it though because I was watching an incredible movie! I watched Inception, and if you haven't seen it, you need to because it is really really incredible! But I had only gotten about 5 hours of sleep, and after dinner I fell asleep. When I woke up it was cloudy and cold. Definite change in an hour. But that's Utah for you.

So Kyle and I are really trying to get in shape for the Summer. Not so much Kyle. I still need to lose my "baby gut" I've lost the weight just not the gut. Plus I want to get my muscles back. I know I won;t ever look as good as I did in High School, but I can be in as good of shape as I was in High school. So my goal is to get into shape! I'm really trying to eat better, and that will definitely help.

Triston's Blessing

Triston's blessing was a great success! My dad did a wonderful job blessing him! I balled, of course, simply because I felt the Spirit so strongly. Most wards who have apartments in their boundaries don't really reach out to the families who live in apartments just because they come and go so quickly, but that is not the case with my ward. They have been so kind and so welcoming to us. And on the plus side, Kyle and I are thinking about signing another lease with our apartments, because we don't want to move again unless it's into our own house.

Anyway, back to the blessing! It was so fun! I had my family and Kyle's family there. I made a bunch of cupcakes and some pasta salad, plus some family brought some other food. But it was so nice to have everyone together for this special event! I love having family and friends together! Our good family friends came and it was so great to have them part of this experience, especially since I consider my girlfriend close enough to be my sister!

Triston with his Daddy and Papa Johns

The family!

Triston was so good during the blessing, he didn't whine or cry. And despite being passed around like a sack of potatoes, he was happy through the whole thing! Unfortunately, we had to make a trip to the ER last night. He had been throwing up more than he was eating and wasn't having any wet or poopy diapers. I took him into the ER just to see if he was dehydrated, which thank goodness, he wasn't they did keep him there to monitor him for about an hour after they gave him some nausea medicine. But he kept what I fed him down, and slept fairly well through the night. He woke up at his usual time, despite the fact he didn't go to bed till 2:00 am and he had a little bit of a wet diaper, first sign of urine in nearly 24 hours. I was hoping he would finally be over this little bug, but I think I spoke too soon, because he started to throw up just as bad as he had been last night. It has been a couple hours since he has thrown up but he is sleeping a lot, so I'm hoping he's getting whatever he has in his system out. Now I just need to wake up from my lack of sleep. I'm only going on about 4 hours of sleep, so I'm really tired. I don't like to drink coffee or energy drinks, but I think I'm going to go get a Dr. Pepper from the vending machine so I can get some kind of boost. I'm falling asleep right here typing!

Kids, Colds, Chaos

This past week has been insane!!! Ashton got another ear infection, plus when I took him back to the doctor, apparently he was also coming down off of pneumonia. So it was a hard weekend for us. Then on top of all that, I caught a cold. A very miserable cold. I have had nothing but, headaches, a stuffy nose and a sore throat. It has been so hard! All I want to do is sleep. So, besides the fact that I have a super busy week planning Triston's blessing, I'm sick.

So enough ranting. As I mentioned before, we are blessing Triston this Sunday! I am so excited! It's such an exciting, memorable time for him, even though he won't remember it, it's still exciting and memorable. I am really looking forward to having all the family together to celebrate little Triston!

I bought some fabric to make a car seat cover. I'm going to customize it to work for what I want it to do. When I make it I will take pictures of it and post them! I'm really excited to make it. I fixed Kyle's paint suit yesterday. It really made me feel like a mom and a wife. To feel needed, even just to fix a little tear in a paint suit. I know I'm needed by Ashton and Triston everyday. They rely on me to feed them, change them and clean them everyday, but it really hit me yesterday when Kyle needed me to fix his paint suit.

Yesterday, Ashton decided to throw a fit. What else is new, right? Well, yeah. I had Triston on one arm and was trying to prevent Ashton from climbing into his closet, when he made himself completely limp and slammed his mouth into the closet frame. He cut his lip really bad, and it was bleeding pretty bad. Now he has a big cut on his bottom lip. I feel bad for him.

So with how busy I am I really shouldn't be blogging right now, but anyway, I have to plan the food for the get together after the blessing and clean my house and get the food ready! Lots to do, so little time!

It has been a been a couple weeks since I've blogged. I'm disappointed in myself.

Unfortunately, the past couple weeks have been kinda crazy. Triston has had a fever. When I took him to the doctor, they said it was just a virus. Not much I can do to help that. It was just Tylenol every 4 hours. Then, as soon as I got him feeling better, Ashton caught it and was sick for a couple days and seemed to be feeling better, then the fever came back yesterday. I'm not sure if it's that virus still, or if it's him cutting some more teeth, but he has not been feeling well at all the past couple days and again all I can do is give him Tylenol.

But on a better note, I had a great Valentines Day. Kyle and I bought a nice, reliable car and that was our Valentines present for each other. I love it! It's a nice car. And what is great about it is that it is the car I get to use during the day while Kyle is at work.

We watched the Daytona 500 on Sunday and it was great! It was a great race. I hate to say it, but I was so glad when Jimmy Johnson, and Jeff Gordon were involved in the big wreck that took out half the field and they were down like 20 laps! I was even more happy to see that Jr. was running really well. Up to the very end and avoided one wreck only to over correct and hit the wall. He did really well though! But I thought it was even more cool to see the newest driver to the Sprint Series win the Daytona 500 when it was only his second time racing in the Cup Series! But it was a great race altogether.

I am in desperate need of a vacation though. I love being a stay at home mom, but I can only do so many loads of laundry and sweep and mop the floor so many times. I am in need of a vacation. But we need to take care of some other things first before we can do that. I just can't wait till we can go out of town.

All in all, life is good right now. I love my boys and my husband and hope they know how much I do!

I love Ashton. He is so sweet and so funny and he keeps me moving and busy. But sometimes I just want to post him on KSL saying "FREE to a good home."

Today we went over to my grandpas house to help him out since he had eye surgery. Ashton will always be into something he's not supposed to be into, and seriously no house is Ashton proof. But he gets into so many more things over at my grandpa's. Since my grandpa had surgery, he is not supposed to bend down or lift things. I was feeding Triston, and since I can't very well hold Ashton and feed Triston at the same time, Ashton was on the loose. I felt so bad that I couldn't go and stop Ashton from trashing my grandpa's room. But my grandpa being the trooper he is, went in. Well, when Ashton doesn't get what he wants he throws a fit, like every other toddler in the world. Since my grandpa really only has one working eye, and he couldn't bend over, Ashton threw his fit and fell, hitting his head on the wall. When I go back to make sure everything is okay, I see my grandpa kneeling on the floor and Ashton screaming bloody murder. I fell terrible. I thought my grandpa had fallen, he hadn't, that's a sigh of relief. Now I need to check Ashton for the three B's. Bumps, Bruises, and Blood. Saw none of those, another sigh of relief. One thing I've learned with my boys (husband included) is that when they are tired, they are ORNERY!!! So bad that I get to the point I just want them to go to bed. I know that it's easier said than done, but seriously, I would rather sit in silence by myself than deal with the dramatic, blow everything out of proportion attitude that they have.

I love Ashton, but I really can not wait till he has grown out of this phase. Then I will only have to deal with Triston.

Scary Movies

I have never been one to enjoy scary movies or Thrillers. I guess it's because my imagination gets going and I can't stop thinking about it. Which is why I choose not to watch movies like that because they affect me too much. I'm 22 years old. I should not have to sleep with a night light on just because I'm terrified. I think it's also because I don't like to feel scared or anxious. I like to be surrounded by happiness and love.

This post was inspired because Saturday night Kyle and I were at the store after going out to dinner. We stopped at the Red Box machine to see what movies they had that we may have wanted to see. Our original choice was Inception. But while looking through the selection of movies, Kyle came across Nightmare on Elm St., which is a movie on my "DO NOT WATCH" list. When I was in elementary school, I was enrolled in before and after school daycare. One afternoon, the teachers at the daycare made the decision to show the kids, one of the original Nightmare on Elm St. movies, and Child's Play, one of the original Chucky movies. Now, what possessed them to show those movies in a daycare, I will never know, but they did not force the younger kids, like myself, to leave the room. So, wanting to hang out with my big brother, I watched those movies. Let me tell you, I wouldn't play with my dolls for months, and had to sleep with the light on for years. So, now that you have an explanation for my fear of horror movies, we'll go back to Saturday night. So Kyle spotted the movie, and I also spotted Twilight Saga: Eclipse. I haven't seen it at all, so I have been wanting to rent it, only to be disappointed that it was gone before I could rent it. I asked Kyle if we could rent that along with Inception and I would watch it by myself, since he is not into movies like that. He said "I'll make you a deal. You can get your 'Twilight' movie AND I'll watch it with you, IF we can rent Nightmare on Elm St. and you watch it with me." Now, I'm one for compromises, but I've learned to watch my "chick flicks" alone because Kyle doesn't like them, so if I was to watch this movie with him, I was definitely going to hold him to watching Eclipse with me.

So I watched it. And I regret watching it because since I watched it, my nerves have been on edge. I am scared to go to the bathroom, to walk back to the bedrooms, and pretty much scared to be without Kyle. Luckily, I didn't have any nightmares that night, but I didn't sleep well at all. I woke yesterday from a restless sleep. Kyle and I came out to have breakfast and he was going to find some cartoons on Netflix to put on for Ashton. Well, he didn't really look very hard because he ended up putting on the Thriller "Frozen." Not a good movie to watch if your nerves are already on edge. This time I decided to leave the room, and was glad I did, because I don't think I could have handled it. Just hearing it added to my anxiety.

Now it came time to watch Eclipse. He sat with me but the whole time said "This is gay," or would just talk and distract me from the movie. I wasn't able to really get into it and enjoy the movie. I will definitely be either renting or buying it and watching it by myself while the boys are asleep.

So basically, I have decided to write off scary movies completely. I know Kyle enjoys them, and he can watch them any time he wants to. I will go to a haunted house with him, because the thing with that is it doesn't mess with my brain. From now on only movies that make me happy!

Mom Pride

I think that being a mom has to be one of the hardest jobs on the planet. I say planet because kids are kids where ever they are in the world. From tearing movies off the shelf, to throwing tantrums at bedtime, we moms go through a lot. Which is why I don't bother getting all cleaned up to just be thrown up on, pooped on and so much more. I was reading a friends blog and she made a comparison of moms to Bear Grylls ("Man Vs. Wild" & "Born Survivor") and I've got to say we endure some pretty difficult things. I hear quite often from Kyle that I couldn't do his job. My response, "You're right, I can't do your job. I don't know the first thing about your job. But could you handle a 2 year old and 4 month old by yourself for 12+ hours?" His response, "No, I would call you 15 minutes into it asking you to come home cause I couldn't handle it." I just nod my head and smile. In my opinion, women don't get the credit we deserve. Not only do we give birth to the child, but we change them, feed them, and nurture them. I will admit, I lose my temper. But what mom doesn't? But then I look at their sweet little faces, and smiles, and it washes away my anger frustration and stress. It makes all the mess and chaos around me disappear. I love my boys (big and small). They drive me crazy and make me want to pull out my hair, but at the end of the day, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I may not be very stylish, or have the body I did in High School, but I have something so much better than that. I have a family, and I'm a mom and proud of it!!!