Bean bags

 Josh's cool puzzle that he put together!

The beanbags are well used at our house!

Miss Eden so pretty in pink

New year

With the new year comes some adjustments in church. Josh moved up into a new class in Primary and Eric is now a Sunbeam in the primary which is the youngest age group in the primary program and Eden moved into Nursery. All are soooooo excited! It's so exciting for me to watch them. Here's to a new year

Christmas Morning

Christmas Morning was so much fun everyone was up at 7:00am and so excited. The funny thing was that it ended up taking us five hours to open all the gifts. With a half hour breakfast break in the middle. but it was so much fun seeing everyone's face while they opened gifts. I hoped everyone's Christmas was as fun and special as ours was.

 Eden loving on her baby doll that Santa brought for her while she was asleep.

 Eric and his pirate ship that Santa brought for him.

 Josh and his much desired blades.

 Opening the Christmas gifts

 Doesn't Eden look so cute 

Eden put on one of the bows that had adorned a gift. I could just love on her. 

She is so cute!!!!

 I just adore her.

I tried to capture the moment when they first came in and saw what Santa had brought them. 

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was full of family traditions and Santa Clause visiting us. It started out with a surprise visit from Santa bring int the kids their Christmas PJ's, then our family reading of Christ's birth and singing Christmas carols. Then it was off to bed for the little ones while the adults stayed up playing games and talking.

 Santa surprised the kids by coming while they were awake and visiting them. You can't see Eden's face but when Santa walked through the door she lit up like a Christmas tree and was just as happy as her brothers.,

 Josh and Eric quickly through their arms around Santa and told him how much they loved him. I wish everyone could love as easily.

 This may be one of the last years that Josh will believe so whole heartily  in Santa, but he is sooooo happy. I really believe it is important that children believe in Christ for all that he has done for us and those fictional figures who bring hope love and peace to all. It's not the person but the lessons that go along with his character.

 Eric having his turn on Santa's knee.

 Eden was more interested in the bear he brought than sitting on his knee but she was more than happy to take her turn. No scared Santa picks for any of my kids. They have always loved sitting on this Santa's knee.

 Eric, Josh and Dilyn cuddled up with Santa

 Wait a second that boy is to big to sit on Santa's knee.

Parker sitting on Santa's knee or rather trying not to fall off of it.

 Hey Santa is just a little to happy that Grandma is sitting on his lap. I'm going to tell Grandpa! Hee Hee

 Eric posing in front of the tree

 Eric and Dilyn our super cute three year olds.

Eric, Eden, Dilyn and Josh all ready for Christmas in their new Christmas PJ's.

I think they are a pretty cute bunch

I took a video of Eric and Josh doing their version of Jingle bells.

Josh giving his solo for the family. He had practiced this for a couple of weeks before his performance. 

Wacky Tacky

For Christmas this year we went to Folsom to be with the family, let me tell you that when we all get together it is sooooooo much fun! On Christmas eve day we took the kids to Wacky Tacky in Roseville. I so wish we had something like that here. It is literally a play place that is padded from top to bottom. With slides and ball pits, tunnels and climbing things. It was soooo much fun for the adults to as we had to follow miss Eden every where. I felt Like I was five again.

 Josh up above the ball pit shooting his victims with soft foam balls.

 Eric after he had gone down the tunnel slide for the millionth time

 Eden in the ball pit as you can see from her expression she loved every minute.

 Eden playing in the jungle.

I spent most of the time climbing to the top of this slide and going down it with Eden. Every time we would get down to the bottom she would clap her hands and say, again again. 

Sunday Before Christmas

The Sunday before Christmas with the kids all dressed up in their fancy clothes.

Overview

Since my last post some things have happened, I turned 28, Jason turned 30, the kids have grown even though I told them not to and Thanksgiving happened and the Christmas season is in full force.

The month of October

 My Birthday gift from Jason was a night of luxury at the Peppermill. All I can say is we had a ton of fun!!!!!!!

 Josh lost his two front teeth.

 We visited Nana and Papa in Fresno.

 Eden learned how to walk by herself.

 Halloween Josh dressed up as Anacan Skywalker and Eric was a cowboy

 Eden went as a tiger

The Month of November

 Jason hit the big 30! 

and we went to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving but I forgot my camera

Month of December

 Eden's new favorite trick other than giving you real kisses is to hold her lips back.

It makes her and everyone around her laugh.

My funny kidos!

 A shot of Eden and our Christmas decorations oh and my never ending pile of laundry.

 Eden in her pretty Christmas dress

Eric all dressed up for church

Our family has been greatly blessed over these last few months and look forward to the next few.

Work Update

Well I just thought I'd update everyone on how I'm doing working. We've had a lot of changes come to our family that trying to get use to change is very hard but I think we are managing. I've been working for the Reno Print Store for the last two months and have had really great days and really hard days. Trying to get back into working out side of the home is  a lot harder than I could have imagined. I still wanted to be home with my children but at the same time loved being with a bunch of fun and great adults. I've learned a great deal in the last two months and have grown in so many ways. I guess most of my stress that I was going through was brought on by the fact that Jason's job was soooooo unstable that looking back I'm shocked we didn't rip out all our hair and run screaming for the hills from the stress we were under. That for now has changed with a new job for Jason, we have more stability than we had just a week ago. So what have I learned? Well lets see, I've learned how to talk to all kinds of people. How to take rejection, how to file properly, how to use excel, how to overcome my fears, how to manage stress, how to take orders and still be independent, how to sense what people are feeling, how to get ready everyday on a very tight time frame and get three kids ready too. I've learned how to lean on the Lord a great deal more. and so many other things. Our family has been blessed in many ways to. We have an amazing babysitter who loves our kids and takes care of them as if they were her's. We have been able to save for our future needs. Jason found a job that will provide insurance in a few months, that's the biggest blessing, we've reconnected with old friends that we ran into while working, received a new calling at church serving the 8- 11 year old girls. And so many other blessings. I love the people I work with, they are special people that bring a smile to my face every day. I've been challenged in so many ways but have come out of it a better person. That's not to say we have no challenges, we are still being challenged daily but we are trying to look at it in a better mindset so that we don't go running for the hills. Not everything has gone the way I planned but nothing ever does and that's probably better. Now to just get through the next six weeks.

One of my favorite says is,

 "You can do anything when you put your heart into it."

Another Tooth

Josh lost another tooth today. He ran into another little boy and it knocked his front tooth out. The unfortunate part was that Josh never found the tooth but that's okay because we'll draw a map for the tooth fairy so she can find the tooth.

 two missing teeth

oh and this was just to cute not to share. My mother in law gave Eden this outfit. She looks soooooooo cute!

Date Night

Jason surprised me Thursday night with a spa package from the Peppermill for Friday. Our Date began with dropping the kids off at the babysitters and heading off. It was soooooooooo nice to have a night with just the two of us kinda like a dream. It was so nice just us getting massages and eating dinner with out little voices interrupting and being able to just kick back and relax. This may be something we need to do more often. Of course it was nice to see the kids the next morning but I would do this more often if I could.

 This is what our room looked like, we also had a steam room in the bathroom. I want to put a steam room  in my bathroom someday. They are so nice and if the kids ever got sick I could just put them in there and they would be all cleared out.

 We had dinner at Bisccottis.

Jason was brave enough to let me pick out his clothes and I put him in black because there were no kids to get him all dirty. :)

After dinner we headed over to the spa to have our 50 minute Swedish massage. and let me tell you I could get use to that kind of pampering. We then hung out in the spa and relaxed in the hot tub and hung out on the balcony in our super soft robes and just well..... Relaxed.

 The next morning we woke up to a continental breakfast and headed over to the gym and gave our selves a really great workout. We then headed over to the pool area to have fun swimming and relaxing in the hot tub. 

The pool area is made up of three pools with one of them having a waterfall and three hot tubs. 

Jason in the elevator on our way down to check out.

Then came the time we had to go home and face reality. You know back to the loving and welcoming arms of our children and the mountain of laundry I needed to do. 

I look forward to another visit with just my husband ;)