Tuckered out!

As I mentioned in the previous(next) post, Colby and I went out of town with no kids for a weekend. It was the Jimmy John's convention, this year in Vegas, and we left the kids with Colby's sister Kristen. Well, lucky for us (or them, or maybe the kids) it snowed like the day, and the whole week before so there was plenty of white stuff to entertain the boys!! And they took full advantage of it. The kids all had a blast sledding, building a snowman, playing in the bounce house, and who knows what else they got in over the weekend. Noah loved having 'big kid' time, Cutler loves Rob, so I'm sure wherever Rob went...so did Cutler. And I'm pretty sure Lexie was the 'baby' for all to play with take care of. Well, I'm not sure how good the kids were the whole time, or how well they slept for them, but I know they played hard.

Here's the proof.
10 minutes out of Cedar I turned around to see why it was so quiet in the back seat

So pretty

You know, ever since I found out I was having a girl I had been so worried about her poor hair. I mean, I do hair, I have my license, but that doesn't mean that I know how to make cute little hairstyles for cute little girls.

My sister's girls always have the most darling hair do's and I've always told her that when Lexie finally gets enough hair to do something with I would need her to teach me a few things.

So Colby and I went on our first no-kid (since Lexie) overnighter back in January and when I got home Makayla had pulled Lexie's hair up...and it was so cute. (of course, no picture) But it made her look so big so I didn't want to try it again. Then a couple of weeks later we went on another no-kid 2-night-overnighter and left them with Kristen and she pulled her hair up too. So now I've decided it's not so bad, and she looks adorable with something actually done to it.

On Sunday we actually took some time and curled it and made her 'Oh so pretty' as we say when we're in the process...she loves it. And she's not too bad to sit there and let me.

Oh how I love playing dress up with this little girl!!

Happy Valentine's Day

From our littlest {LOVE}

She's walking!!

*the video is from my phone so it's horrible*

Maybe we better say she can walk. She still doesn't quite prefer it over crawling. We've been trying since about the first of the year and she wouldn't really have anything to do with it. Here and there she would take one or two steps, but that's it. On Sunday, Feb. 7th, we were at my parents watching the superbowl and she just started walking over to my mom. So now we try to get her to walk everywhere, and she will as long as we stay by her, or have her walk to us. The minute we leave her she sits down and crawls.

Maybe my stain remover bill will be a little cheaper now that I won't be spraying the heck out of all the knees on her pants!!

Yeah baby girl!! We're so proud of you!!

Unwanted photos

Have you ever gone in to download your pictures to the computer, and after it's all done find pictures like these...

That's how I know Cutler has had some fun with my camera!!

The toy box

For the first year of a childs life I don't believe they really need a lot of toys, but with Lexie's birthday and Christmas being just 2 days apart, I knew that would quickly change. So for the past month and a half, one section of her room looked like this...

While we waited patiently for this to be built...

Her room is still very crowded, but at least now we have someplace to put all the toys. I asked my dad to build it for her birthday. He's so talented when it comes to building and creating something, but along with that talent comes pickyness. (nice word, I know) It's true. He's the pickiest man I know when it comes to certain things. And especially things he makes for other people. Which is why we just barely got it.

Thanks Dad!! I love it! And so does Lexie.

Meet Blake

Blake Charles Heath

was born January 20, 2010

at 7:43 in the morning

Weighing in at 7 pounds 1 ounce

and measuring 19 inches

We of course have been sick and with the hospital rules haven't even been able to hold him yet. Aaaggh! I'm dying. There's something about a brand new baby...I just love it. He's adorable, and like I said, I cannot wait to hold him, smell him, and love on him.

Congrats Dave & Mel 

What a way to spend a Saturday!

If I was smart, I would have started a book 3 years ago when Cutler was born. By now I could probably be on Volume 3 because of all the crazy, unbelievable things he does. One minute the boy has my blood just boiling and in a split second he can have me laughing. I guess at least he has a personality. It might not be a good thing it's the same as my dad's though.

*If you want the extremely short version...scroll to the bottom.*

Here's the scoop. We have an R.V. cleanout on the side of our house. I'm thinking that one time either when Colby moved the trailer, or just parking there he drove over the cleanout cap and broke it. Well, that opened up this great opportunity for Cutler to 'explore' as my neighbors like to call it. You can see in the back of the picture a big pile of rocks. They're the neighbors, but Cutler loves to play with them. He took the cap off the cleanout and dropped some rocks down. I'm not sure how many. At one point I know they were to the top. Colby got as many as he could out, and we hoped it was good enough that it wouldn't make our sewer back up into our house...WRONG!!

On Saturday morning I was in the shower and noticed the water draining slowly and bubbling. I knew it wasn't suppose to do that, so when I got out I told Colby. I kind of thought maybe it was just clogged from my hair (too much information? maybe.) Gross, I know. A little bit later Cutler came in to potty and when we flushed it didn't flush. That got me thinking to when Colby made the comment..."I hope that doesn't back up into our house one day." So being the curious one that I am, I went and flushed the other toilet. TaDa...the same thing. I immediately went outside to let Colby know that all the water was staying in the house.

Ok, long story. We made a few phone calls, the one I like was to my dad who immediately came to our rescue. They had to dig this hole, which ended up being bigger than they thought, to get to the bottom of the pipe so they could get to all the rocks. What a mess!

4 Jimmy John's sandwiches, $40 in supplies, 6 hours, and a wet/dry vac full of poop later...We have pipes that drain!!! Yeah!

Thanks to my dad who seriously is the best handyman ever, and Colby who is learning...not really by choice, but I think he knows he's going to have to fix a lot of things with Cutler around.

Happy Birthday...

to my mom!

We hope you had a very. happy. birthday!

Christmas 2009

WoW! I was really bad at taking pictures this year. I think I was just so crazy scatter brained that I didn't really think about it. Sad. Now I'm kicking myself in the butt.

We started off our holiday with our annual Christmas Eve lunch at Pizza Factory with the Danjanovich's. Yummy as ever, and boy did we get full. About 3 hours later we went to my parents' for a super yummy prime rib dinner, games, a movie, and the kids all got to open their Christmas jammies.

Then it was off to our house to set out the cookies and milk, and the key to the front door. We don't have a chimney you know, so he has to have some way to get inside.

*Christmas morning*

Noah driving his r/c truck

Cutler wanted a rhino, but Santa didn't have any left. I don't think it really matters because he loves this jeep.

Between Christmas & a birthday this girl doesn't need anything. I think she pretty much got it all.

Noah made this calendar for me at school.

Lexie got to play the baby Jesus in the Labrum nativity. She was sick, which is why she looks so cute. I guess at least she kind of looks like a boy.

We actually did things a little different this year, and let me just say we loved it. I'm going to be brutally honest here, so if you don't think you can handle this, then skip it. We (Colby & I) very much dislike Christmas day. It's alwasy so 'wake up...Santa came...hurry up...open your presents...it's time to go...no time to play with your brand new toys...maybe later'...ugh! Our kids are getting old enough that we want them to really enjoy Christmas and actually get to see what they got that morning. And not have to wait until the day after to really get to check things out and play with their stuff. With 3 families to see in one day, it doesn't leave much time to enjoy what is actually going on. So this year, we let the boys come in to us, we opened presents, played as we opened, talked about the presents, and actually enjoyed ourselves. After we were done at our house we went to my parents, on the way over there, Noah said something that meant more to me than anything else the entire day, he said "that was the first year ever that we got to play with our toys before we had to leave." The simple fact that he realized that every year we hurry up and rush out the door just to get to the next person's house made me sad. So after this year, we like Christmas again!