Sick Baby :(

My Ashton has been sick since right around New Years. He started out throwing up and then got a crazy rash. My mom took him to the doctor and he said that Ashton had Eczema... NOT... a few days later he was even sicker and coughing with a crazy fever. We took him to the instacare where we were told he had bilateral otitis (double ear infection). They also heard him wheezing so they put him on a nebulizer. Poor little guy!! Last night I was dying my hair in the bathroom. Ashton loves to be in the bathroom with me, he just hangs out and pulls the vent cover off and crawls in the cupboards. Well I sat down on the edge of the tub and Ashton crawled over and put his head between my feet and fell asleep on the rug. I think he's pooped from all of this being sick business!! He seems to be on the mend today... cross your fingers!!

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful holiday season filled with family and friends. It's been so great I haven't had time to blog about it... Now that it's all over I can finally sit down and download my bazillion pictures!

This Christmas season it was so much fun to have my whole family here. We got Dan, Em (and baby bump!!), and Andersen from Erie, PA. , and Katie and Per from Pocatello, ID.!! We were able to visit with Mark's mom, brothers, and nieces on Christmas Eve and my whole family on Christmas. This was also Ashton's first Christmas so it was really fun to get him in on our families traditions. Children make Christmas morning amazing. It was so much fun to have Justin come in and tap on my shoulder to wake me up so I knew that Santa had come. He was bouncing up and down, but still trying to be so quiet. He told me he heard the reindeer on the roof! So cute!!

New Years was a blast at our friends Garth and Nikki's house who live just down the street. We feel so blessed to have so many incredible people in our lives! I think often we take for granted how lucky we really are. I'm so excited to see what 2009 brings!

In between Christmas and New Years Justin and I were able to sneak away for a FABULOUS day of skiing/snowboarding at Solitude. He's getting SO good!!

Christmas Eve~

Merry Christmas!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!

SKIING / SNOWBOARDING

Justin and I had SOOOO much fun!!

FUN VIDEOS!

Baby Talon

I don't know this family from Adam but I'm feeling compelled to ask for help, good thoughts, and prayers in their behalf. Recently some of you may have heard the story of Baby Talon being taken away from his family by a Minnesota Native American Tribe. This family is fighting to get their baby back. Please read their blog: http://talonsadoption.blogspot.com/.

Sleepy Ashton

My Ashton usually has a rough time sleeping. At daycare each day he usually takes two 20 minute naps and then he'll sleep all night long at home... as long as he's in bed next to ME. Bad bad bad habit, I know. If I try to have Ashton sleep in his crib, he wakes several times during the night. Any advice on this subject would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!! So I was quite taken aback last night when while sharing a pumpkin cheesecake with me from the Cheesecake Factory (YUMMY!!) all of a sudden Ashton is snoozing in his highchair. Then after being transported to his crib (which he usually doesn't sleep in) he ended up sleeping until FIVE this morning!! WAHOO!! Though it has me wondering... WHO DRUGGED MY BABY!!?? ha ha ha!

Twilight, Idaho, Halloween...etc...

I haven't blogged in a while... reason being that the cord that connects my camera to my PC got chomped on by my own little Edward Cullen. I went to download the Halloween pics of my boys only to find the metal part of the cord that goes into the camera was completely flat because Ashton bit it. For some reason he loves eating paper and cords (real safe, I know!!). So I'm at my moms getting the pics off the camera and hopefully will be able to get a replacement cord sometime soon. Here is a pic of my little guys on Halloween. Justin was the guy from 'Scream', complete with a pumping heart that pumped fake blood all over the face of his mask - SICK. And Ashton was a bumble bee. This was the same bumble bee costume that Justin wore when he was a baby. So cute!!


I saw Twilight today with my OH SO PREGNANT friend Kayci!! Kayci was due 4 days ago. We told Tyler (the baby) that he'd be in big trouble if he decided to come during the movie. He was a good little bean and obliged. I loved the movie. I have heard people say that they really hated it, but I thought it was great!

The boys and I went up to Pocatello Idaho this weekend to stay with my sister Katie and her husband Per. Katie is now the assistant coach of the volleyball team and Per plays for the football team We attended both of their games and ate at Chili's twice!! YUM!! It was a fun trip and we always love seeing them... and they both WON their games!! Go Bengals!


We've also been dealing with a crazy orthodontic device with Justin over this past month. We were referred to go to the orthodontist because Justin has a cross-bite. He was told that the roof of his mouth was to small so he had to get this totally mid evil device called a rapid palatal expander. I had to turn it with a little key twice each day and it very quickly widened the roof of his mouth. Within two weeks he had a gigantic space between his front teeth. CRAZY!!



Mark is finishing the family room in our basement for my Christmas present this year! I am SO SUPER EXCITED!! I think it's probably making him crazy having to come home from his construction job only to do construction on our own house. I love him for it though!!