Biggest slacker of all time... Sorry

Pierce and his new cousin Jordan! He LOVED him!

Cannot believe that I am another year older!

Papa and the kids out for a ride on the snowmobile! Pierce was in heaven.. no wonder he didn't want to go home!

He had a blast throwing snowballs at the window! He was laughing so hard!

All dressed to go play outside... Lumpy was so disappointed that we wouldn't let him outside!

Pierce couldn't get enough of his new cousin Jordan... Really he absolutely loved holding him! Isn't he so cute!

Christmas morning opening gifts.. don't I look hot there in the background. Lump was more interested in the candy!

Poor little munch can never keep his pants on he is so tiny!

Check out this one...Pierce and Brown papa reading the Christmas story. Pierce is putting on a "Brush" (mustache) like Papa Russ! Funny kid!

Brockie was not thrilled that we had to wake him up Christmas morning at 9:00 AM are you kidding me my kids never sleep that good! What are the chances?

Pierce all decked out in his new coat.. He insisted that it be orange! We compromised with this one! Who knew a 3 year old could be so demanding?

This is the end result of us forcing our kids to take a picture in the new jammies my mom made them for Christmas! Ahh sweet memories!

Lumpy looking spiffy in his new church duds!

Pierce my little GQ guy loves to pose!

The only cute one we could get! Why is it so hard to just stand there and smile?

I cannot believe that I really have been so behind on my blogging life? What is wrong with me? I want to assure you that we are doing alright!
As many of you already know.. Brock did FINALLY get his tubes put in on the 18th. It was a great day for us! He was seriously a perfect angel child that day! We took him in early in the morning and it went so fast. The surgery was done in like 15 minutes. The nurses and everyone had warned me that when he woke up he would be GROUCHY.... but to my and everyone elses surprise he was as happy as ever! The nurses could not believe it, they said that they hadn't ever seen a baby so happy. He was sitting up and when he saw me he said" Mama" and reached out towards me! Cute boy!
In all the rush of Christmas the next week was really a blur! I couldn't really pick out any defining moments to talk to you all about!Oh there is one funny thing to write about. So you know how you give out neighborhood presents. Well I thought this year I was going to be creative and come up with something new and improved to give out.. BACKFIRED! Trent and I spent a night hand dipping Strawberries in chocolate for our lovely neighbors to wish them a berry Merry Christmas. We went to deliver them the very next night and to our surprise ALL 12 pounds of strawberries had gone MOLDY. Luckily Trent thought to look at them as we were packing them into the car to deliver... or really you all would have thought I hated you or something! I tried! So if you didn't get a gift from us sorry! It is the thought that counts right? We had to just laugh at that point ... what do you do?
On Sunday the 21st we celebrated Christmas with my family at Guy and Cathy's house. Yummy food and good company! What could be better. This night as we are all gathered around the table chatting and eating, I hear my little Pierce's distinctive whistle from the top of the stairs. I run to see what he is trying to get my attention for and he yells down to me" Mama I have poop all over my hands!" I panic. My aunt and uncle house is new and I cannot believe my ears I scream for Trent's help and figure out that he had tried to go potty by himself. He was trying to be a big boy so I cannot punish him at this point. Luckily there was no poop anywhere else but his hands and toilet. HE simply forgot to use toilet paper!Needless to say we have had a discussion on the proper way to wipe!
IN a flash we were of to Boise, Idaho for Christmas. The roads were terrible. In fact as we are reaching Snowville we are informed that the roads are actually closed... Great ..just Great! Now what? We find a trucker to ask what to do. They know the roads better than anyone else right? We found the nicest, sweetest guy who offered to lead us out of the mess on a "secret back road". Turns out he was right and lead us straight though and was such a great person. we were a few hours late but made it there safely. Thank you! We really need more kind people in our world!How Thankful we were to that nice trucker. He gave us his card and said that anytime we were up that way to stop in and say hi!
We had a great trip there seeing so many family. Pierce was in absolute heaven. He loves his cousins.. in fact every night as they left to go home, he cried. He cried for all of them. It was cute. Brock had turned into the little show star and had every one in LOVE with him by the time we left. He really is so cute! We had a toy story Christmas filled with Buzz, Woody and Mr. Potato Head( Mrs. Matato head... that is how pierce says it.. funny!)They also got a tag reader, soccer goal( Brock loves to kick balls..he is very good at it, he also expects after each goal a little celebration from who ever is watching!), clothes, leapfrog toys... and games, movies and a whole lot more I am sure I am forgetting! needless to say we had a great Christmas!
While we were gone I also turned 26! I cannot believe that I am 26 what is going on! Trent tried really hard to make my day special I really have such a great husband. We had a cake and ice cream with all his family Saturday night and then polished it off with my favorite thing in Boise.. The Treat movie! I love that place!We drove home on my real birthday, which was fine.. Birthdays just aren't the same when you are getting older! When we were coming into town we stopped off at my cousins house who also celebrates the same day.. my grandparents were there. My cute Granny and Butch came and put a Happy Birthday Sign on my garage door! Everyone was so great! So funny that I also share my Birthday with 2 of my best friends Jamie and Tereasa. What are the chances of that? I hope they had as good as a day as me.Thanks for always being such great friends to me!
Sorry this is so long and no pictures.. I will have to do that later as it is late and I haven't figured out how to put them on yet with my new camera. I will I promise!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

As you can tell I am quite excited about this post... and just so you know this IS NOT a previous post. Sometimes my life feels like the movie Ground hog day! So You ready to hear the exciting news... it really isn't exciting, Brock is SICK yet again! Hence my title" Are you Kidding me!" This is a phrase that I have been saying a lot at my house lately! On Sunday night he started fussing again when it was time for bed, so I thought well I better take him in to the Dr. tomorrow. He has had a little bit of a cold. SO anyways I take him in and YES for sure he has yet another ear infection and the Doctor warned me to keep a watch on his cold. So the next day Tuesday he was happy as ever and we were having a good day. We went down to my parents house to hang out and as the day progressed he started sounding worse and worse. When I got home I asked Trent what he thought I should do. With our surgery for tubes still just a week away I have been trying to keep him healthy because I wanted nothing in the way of this day! We have waited so long for this appointment and now it seems like a glimmer of hope may make it happen. Are you kidding me? Anyways SO I take him to the Dr. and they tell me that he know has Bronchiolitis. Sweet! And has to have breathing treatments for the next few days until he is better. This will mark the second time he has had this. It is NO FUN! That just reminded me that I need to call the doctor and find out if they can even still do the surgery!
So on the other hand we have been doing well. Life is always rushed at this time of year and you feel like you are being pulled in 90 million different directions. We finally got our Christmas Tree , Pierce helped me decorate it! He was super excited for it!Brock has been afraid of it, I was excited for that. He just stares at it and says "tree" (more muffled sounding). I thought for sure he being the wild child that he is , that he would have torn every ornament off the first chance he got.. nope ... Good Boy!
Christmas has come early for me and Trent we couldn't be more excited.. we got a NEW COMPUTER... it was sure hard not having one. Also we got a new camera.. any one that saw my old one knows that it was like carrying a brick around. I feel so overwhelmed by all this new technology though. Also I finally got a new cell phone I have had the most Ghetto one for like 5 years. It is nice to have. Also my cute husband surprised me by having our lockers done in our mud room when I finish painting them I will put a picture. So exciting!
This year we have been so blessed. We have so much to be grateful for. I hope that you all take the time to reflect on the true meaning of the season. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

I am Thankful.....

Our boys in Idaho Falls. Before the Major meltdown in the church! They got some cute new matching sweaters. Man they are cute!

These hoodies were one of Trent's Black Friday steals of $4 at Walmart. He was so proud!

Sad Whitney and Kira's POOR Gingerbread house... hilarious I tell you!

Proud picture!

Lumpy Turkey... He loves wearing hats... he is so cute!

My Cute Granny wearing the hat too. What a good sport. She is the neatest lady. I just love her.

Lumpy and Papa

Gingerbread house making!

Me and my Sweet.. high maintenance boy! Seriously !

My dad and his Famous Turkey hat! He is the most amazing dad... I swear I am so Lucky!

Okay so this year we went to my parents for dinner. I was so relaxing and Yummy. Of course my AWESOME Dad fixed an AMAZING dinner. It was great. My brother Ian made some yummy Pumpkin pies. I made an apple pie and Whitney made some yummy frog eye salad and pumpkin cookies. Everything was so tasty and good. Although I am not sure why I didn't really pig out this year. Brock enjoyed Whitney's cookies and ate like 6! My Dad wore this really cute turkey hat and pranced around gobbling! It was sure funny. The kids thought it was great. Brock enjoyed wearing the hat too and by the end of the night he was gobbling and even saying Turkey. After dinner my mom had an idea to start a new tradition to make gingerbread houses. The boys loved it and were chowing away on the candy..unfortunately they lost interest after 5 min. Kira, my little cousin, was assigned Whitney as her partner.... POOR THING! Their house broke fell apart and pretty much was a disaster. She finally looked at Whitney and said can I please just go play with the other kids? HILARIOUS! We couldn't stop laughing. We had a great time together and ended the night playing marbles and I won, thanks to Lindsay!

Black Friday is a fun day for us.. this year we really didn't get up early and go. Trent stayed up and ordered our NEW COMPUTER and CAMERA online...... I am so excited I can hardly stand it! Then He got up around 8:30 AM and went to a few stores. Then I met him with the kids and we also did some more shopping. All in all we didn't see that great of sales but it was fun! We had Lunch at Pierce's favorite place... COSTCO! Anytime you ask him where he would like to go eat he usually picks Costco. He absolutely LOVES their Pizza and churros! Funny kid! Then I had to go to work!

This last Sunday Kayla and Brian blessed their adorable baby Jordan and we drove up Sunday morning. Our boys were terrible. I spent about 5 seconds total in the chapel. Our kids definitely won the award for the WORST BEHAVED CHILDREN! Are you kidding me. They had a yummy luncheon afterwards and before we knew it we were packing our kids back into the car. We had a great time and it was really good to see Trent's family. I miss them so much, I wish we could just live close! We made it home safe and sound!