Trip to Utah...Part One

We had so much fun the with Johnson's.

The time always goes by too fast.

Jeff was busy working the first 3 days but we did get some good days of play in there.Kamden had plenty of time to wrestle with his cousins.
And got plenty of rest to recharge his little batteries. McKay was such a momma's boy and wouldn't go to ANYONE for the first little while.
I knew it was going to be a challenge before we ever got here because he sometimes didn't even want Jeff.
Sharon somehow worked her magic and got him to warm up to her.
I think brownies were involved.

Mac would let me hold the babies as long as he was in on the action.

Sarah & Sophie

Mac has been pulling himself along for over 2 months now and just last week, he decided that he would get up on all fours and really crawl.

Kourtney, Chase, Abby, & Kam

The 2007 babies

to be continued...

Yikes

We are leaving for Utah TODAY!!!

I have too many cute pictures on my camera and I've been slacking on blogging.

This post is going to be an overload of adorable and silly pics of my ridiculously cute boys.

He likes his "aminals" just a bit.

If you can't tell.

Obsessive? Maybe.

I don't know much about this picture.

All I do know it that that's pink play dough in my sons ears and my husband took the picture.

Me: Kam, what are you doing?

Kam: Making a caterpillar song.

I'm thinking it's from a book.

He's been on a kick of tearing up little pieces of toilet paper and lining them up all over the place.

I can't remember what he was eating but it looks like he liked it.

He likes food but he LOVES his thumb. This last week was the RS (Relief Society-church group) birthday party. It was SO fun but a little stressful with all of the planning. We had a birthday theme with cupcakes.

I even took my camera that night to take more pictures but totally forgot. :(

We had all of the cupcakes on stands and everything was decorated hot pink, yellow and green.

We made birthday boards (sorry no pic, again, I forgot) and 3 different sisters talked about how RS has blessed their lives over the years.

Kamden has been asking for cupcakes everyday since.

Enjoying a banana

I got this changing table on Craigslist and painted it "Fabulous Red".

It adds so much cheery-ness (not a word??) to the boys room and is a "Fabulous" place for some toys.

headache...and a super invention

So on Tuesday and Wednesday, I was SO SICK!

I don't remember the last time I felt that crappy.

My head hurt so bad, I was considering labeling it as a migraine. It hurt on my temples and my neck.

The right side of my back hurt like none other. I had to lay on my side, propped up.

To top it off, I had this really sharp pain in the right side of my chest so deep breathes really hurt.

To sum it all up, I was falling apart.

Mac is still teething and wants to be held constantly so he was happy to just lay by me but Kamden...he was beside himself with boredom. I tried to explain to him that I was sick and that I had a really bad headache so I needed to lay down. However, he just wasn't getting it cause he kept saying, "Mom, get up!" I told him to go downstairs and get his bag of library books. When he couldn't get them up the stairs, he just stood at the bottom repeating over and over "heaby, heaby books". Slowly, I got up and helped him. He did pretty good to sit by me and read his books. But, with any boy who's almost 3, the boredom returns quickly.

I was getting desperate so I got my cell phone and we started looking through my pictures. I didn't realize just how many pics I have of my boys sleeping until we started looking through them. Every time one that had them asleep, Kam would say, "Oh, headache." Funny kid.

Mom's shouldn't EVER be allowed to be sick but Kam and Mac were pretty good company.

Not that great though cause I had to call Jeff to see if he could come home a little early.

Now, the super invention...rice packs. If you don't have one, make one. It's a square or rectangle bag made of simple fabric filled with rice. You can put them in a ziplock in the freezer for a cold pack or in the microwave for a heat pack. That was all that would help my back. Oh and Midol and IBUprofen.

Today, I feel like a NEW woman. My headache is gone, my back feels fine, I can take all the deep breathes I want. The cause of all this ridiculous pain? I think I pulled a muscle in my back. I guess that's my lesson learned, no working out.

Seriously though, I am so thankful for my health. I don't know how people who suffer from chronic pain handle it day to day. I have a friend with fibromyalgia and I just kept thinking about her and the pain she deals with daily.

Happier posts to come.

Bath Time Baby

This boy LOVES the bath.By leaning forward to grab letters, he's taken a few unexpected gulps of bathwater but he is quickly learning his lesson.
I think this picture is so funny. I looks like he's sucking in.

And of course...it always makes for a better nights rest.