flying lessons

What's a morning without flying lessons (sound effects and all)
krrchee = wings coming up and out;
ggggrrrchhhhhhhshhhhhhhhhhhh = launch and take off
no princess crap at this house!! just planes, trains and automobiles

Holy SNOW!!

so the people in davis county woke up to 10+ inches of snow this morning and after 1/2 an hour of getting my kids ready they went out to enjoy the snow. E wanted to build a snowman so bad and tried to do one on his own ... luckily daddy came home for lunch and helped him build a leally leally big one. Some of us enjoyed the snow more than the others ...

Night time baby rental

alright, I am more than willing to check Mason out to anyone who might want him:) I'm trying to tell myself that he is preparing me for my newborn, but honestly!!! he slept better as a newborn!!
last night he woke up at 12:30 and I took a shift at 2:00 and at 4:30 Spencer came and ended my shift because I was yelling at Mason to just lay down and go to sleep. It doesn't feel like he's sick and he's not grumpy he is just wide awake and actually pretty darn happy. so ... if you like being up from 12:30 - 5:30 let me know and we can work out a schedule:)
sometimes life is just plain hard

ok, so this is not the best picture, but I thought I'd post the first page I've scrapbooked in like a year!! this is Mason's 3 month layout ... I've been thinking about this page for a long time so I'm really glad it's now done. I'm shooting to get both of my boy's first year done before I have yet another first year to do:)

Spencer's surgery

on the 5th of March Spencer had his ear remade:) he had what is called a cholestiatoma (totally not spelled correctly) well, anyway we went in at noon on Friday and he went into surgery at 1:00p.m.. The surgery was only supposed to last an hour and after 2 1/2 hours I was starting to get a little worried, but then the Dr. came out and told me that the growth was larger than they had anticipated so they had to go in through his skull to get to it and that when they got into his ear they realized that the ear bones had basically disintegrated and had to be replaced with new models. to replace these they took skin grafts from above and in front of his ear ... this is to trick the body into accepting the new "fake" bones. After his surgery he had some apnea problems (I've been telling him for years that he holds his breath in his sleep) so we were in recovery longer than we would normally have been, but everything went well and I'm happy to report that I made it through the 4 days of being a single parent :) pathetic I know, I was a little disappointed in my abilities to deal with my children on my own ... but in my defense I think they were acting differently than they normally do. lol!!
Things are going really well now except that Spencer only has about 5% of his taste (dr. said that will last 3-6 months) but on a brighter note, Spencer is getting some of his energy back and is now able to do a little more. It helped switching medications to one that didn't completely knock him out.
Thank you to all of you who brought dinners and watched my kids... I didn't realize how much I would this!!

TWO GOOD BOOKS - thanks Brooke

ok, so I just read two really good books!! the "Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire" ... now you shouldn't read these if you don't like cliff hangers because now I have to wait until August until the 3rd book comes out ... lets hope there's a conclusion:) that being said, these were some of the best books I've read in a LONG time!!
Thought I'd share