My 23rd birthday

Arli and I
So this is late but my 23rd birthday was on Monday. But the parting started on Saturday night. My mom always takes Arli and I out on our birthdays and on our anniversary. This year I chose to go to the Rainforest Cafe at the MGM. It was fun. AJ loved looking at everything. He really liked the talking tree. But I did not get a picture of that. On Sunday I had a lazy day and Arli made breakfast and dinner! Both by the way were great, he is such a great cook. Then on Monday I did not do much. My mom and I tried to take the kids to the park but her car broke down so we went to the shop. But I was once again free from cooking dinner, which meant no dishes for me YAY!!! Arli gave me 3 seasons of ER and a new USB. I am not one that usually buys seasons of shows but I have been a VERY big fan of ER from the begining and have seen each of the shows at least twice. Well about a month ago they had their series finally, which really bummed me out so that night I told Arli that I have to have the whole series. Which by the way there are 15 seasons. I have even been off track because of no ER on Thursday nights. My mom gave me a giant tea cup to use as a prop for taking pictures. Which I have yet to use but plan on taking the boys to the park sometime this week to use it.

Erik slept the whole time.
AJ staring at the storm. He was not to sure of it the first time but liked it later.

Funny picture...My brother, mom and niece Alanna

Video of AJ

I know the quality of the video is poor. But it is off of an older camcorder. Hope you all enjoy!

jealousy or just curious?

So since Erik has been born all AJ wants to do is be in the baby toys. He has even used the bouncy seat more than Erik has. He thinks it is hillarious when he does it too. Now my mom says that is his way of being jealous. But I think it is because he is just curious about everything new, well new to him.


Erik does not even use a paci but AJ found one somehow.

He loved jumping

trying out the bebe pod seat

These last 2 are a little old. But I have not taken any new pics of him in these toys.

Just loungin around watching a movie

Swinging away

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AJ is such a good big brother

The other night as I was getting AJ's pj's for bed, Arli told me to come look and AJ was feeding Erik! It was so cute. He is such a good brother. He always wants to tickle him or help him bounce in his jumper. He also never lets us get out the door with out him, like we ever would, but he will stand by him until we come get him. He has even tried to pick him up. I love that he is finally interacting with him and forming a life long brotherly bond. I can not wait to watch these 2 wonderful brothers grow up!

Can you tell this kid is a handful?

My nephew Malaki is such a stinker. I keep looking at these pictures like a story and always laugh because of how silly he is.

This is just another one I laugh at every time I see it

Red Rock

Me and the boys in the quarry

So I got the bright idea to take the boys along with my nephews to Red Rock with my mom. Big mistake. It was fun but Erik was super heavy in his sungli and AJ just did not want to walk with us or hold our hands. But we did have a good time. My oldest nephew Ashton wanted to stay home with my brother which was fine(he would have only wanted to go higher on everything). We took the kids trail and hiked up to see a waterfall, yes you heard right a water fall in the desert. But I could have lived without doing it because the waterfall had less water than my shower gives. But it is the desert. Best part of the day was AJ slept from 6pm to 7am!!!

Having a picnic before our hike

Me and Erik on a red rock

AJ hiking to go see the water fall.

The water fall do you see it? Remember to look closely

Happy Easter!

AJ loved the eggs

The only picture I have of him with his basket.

What on Earth did you put on my head?!?!

I like how he is sticking out his tounge out at his duck.

I love Easter. It is always so much fun. AJ did not really get it this year but I am sure he will next year. We started out with dying eggs with my nephews Ashton and Malaki. AJ absolutely LOVED it. He just did not know how to be gentle so he just threw them in the cups. So all of his eggs were cracked. But he got a kick out of it and our reaction every time he did it. He even had to have a little taste of the egg dying mixture and the egg shells. Neither of which he liked, but who would? We went to an Easter egg hunt in Mountain's Edge park and had a great time. But the hunt was over in like 30sec no joke. That did not bother AJ though he picked up one for each hand and was done. On Easter Sunday the Easter bunny came while we were at church and once again AJ just did not care. He picked his 2 things out of the basket that he wanted and then left me to do the rest which was fine with me. Erik had a blast though, he loved opening everything.

I do not know how to make a college yet so sorry about all of the pictures.

Birthday and a car show

The birthday girl!

I went with my mom to pick up my nephews last Saturday in Cedar City Utah. While up there we had a birthday celebration for my niece Alanna who turned 5! That is so crazy, it seems like just the other day she was a new born. We lucked out and was able to see a car show. There were not too many cars. But it was still fun.

Nannie snuck Erik some icing. But I think he looks so big in this picture.

The boys

Erik, Malaki, Ashton & AJ

My Boys

Handsome man

My favorite of Erik

Brotherly Love


My nephews Ashton and Malaki are in town from UT and my mom decided to get a picture done of just the boys. Well it was VERY hectic. But the pictures are cute. Although I think that we have decided that next time I will take the pictures because it was too expensive for what we got and I know I could do better with just a couple more props. Plus this lady was just crazy. She looked like she was on something and was not that great for supposedly having 4yrs of experience. Here are just a few of the pictures.

I will have more posts coming because this has and is going to continue to be a very eventful week with birthdays, egg dying, Red Rock Easter and just having soo much fun. But I am just way tired, and hardly have time to do things.

Erik is 6mo old!!!!

I can not believe that my baby boy is 6mo old! You are such a happy boy, and you are now 17lbs 14oz and 25 and 3/4in. You can roll over from back to belly. But oddly enough not belly to back. You get so mad when you have tummy time. You love to get all the attention you can get, you love to just sit and watch AJ play and love it when he comes to play with you, especially when he tickles you. When you play in your jumperoo, play mat or just play on the floor with a whole bunch of toys you get so excited. I love it when you laugh. It makes me so happy. You are such a happy boy, but you also are demanding. When you are hungry it is right now. You still have not started baby food or cereal, not because Mommy is lazy but because you always get a really really bad belly ache. You are still sleeping in your swing. You love that thing so much. When for some reason you sleep in your bed you are up all night. We all love you so much and are loving watching you grow and learn.

A couple of days ago Arli saw that I put Erik's is 6mo old today on the 19th. So he says, what is he getting? At least a cake right? So we decided I would make him a half year birthday cake. No presents though because that is taking it a little to far.

Erik and his 1/2 year cake.

Here are some pictures of Erik doing what he loves most.

His favorite place to sleep

Just being cute

He is a jumping champion

He is actually liking being on his belly. (this is a miracle)

Big Boy Bed!!!

AJ finally got a big boy bed yesterday. I have been wanting to switch him for a while now. But we also wanted to feel safe about him not using the baby monitor anymore. He did great for his first time. No getting out of bed before falling asleep anyways. I checked up on him like 10 times with in the first hour he was asleep. He did scare the crap out of Arli at midnight and me at 3am by just walking into our room. At 3 I finally put him in his crib. He did great for nap time today though, and I figured that we will put his gate up tonight so he won't scare us half to death. He is a wild sleeper as you can tell from the pictures.

The first time I checked on him.

The 2nd one like 10min later

obviously he does not wake up when falling out of bed.

Long night

So today was AJ's test. I am glad that it is over with. I am horribly tired. Yesterday he ended up not taking a nap at all. I have no clue why just did not want to. Plus he had to stay up so he finally went to bed at 12:30. But I guess the jealousy that he was able to stay up got Erik because guess what...yep he was up till 12:30 too! He just would not go to sleep. No matter what I tried. So here are both boys wide awake just before 12:30. Yes that is a mt. dew bottle by AJ and he is eating a cookie. I was trying at 12am to get him to stay up till 1am. But it did not work. The reason he is in just a diaper is when he had pj's on he was too comfy and kept almost falling asleep before 12.

Erik & AJ wide awake


10 min. later

Then as soon as I dressed him he was out, and with-in 5min of him being asleep Erik was out. Of course I fell asleep too. But then woke up and am glad because if I would not have had my alarm clock I would have slept in.


Mommy sleepin with her boys

Passed Out!!!

His test went good. When we got there the nurse actually asked me if he was tired. Ummm duhh he has only had 5hrs of sleep in under 24hrs. He hated the medicine but feel asleep within minutes of having it. He is actually still asleep and it is now 3:10. But they said that some kids either sleep or stay awake for the rest of the day so I am not worried. The test results should be back in a week. Lets just pray that he does not have a hearing problem. I would hate to have him get tubes.

AJ ended up sleeping until 4:30!! He has not taken a 6+hr nap since he was like 2-3mo old.

All hooked up and ready to go.

need some ideas

So I have mentioned before that AJ has to get his hearing checked. It was finally approved by our insurance and is scheduled for next Wednesday. But there is sort of a catch. In order for him to have this test he has to be asleep. Which is fine, but they want me to make sure he does not get anymore than 5hrs of sleep on Tuesday night. How on Earth am I supposed to keep him up all night?? I mean you saw the video I just posted he will fall asleep sitting in a chair if he has to. I thought of spending a lot of time in the bath tub, and to let him not take a nap on Tuesday so he will fall asleep around 6. then wake him up around 8-9. Then let him fall back asleep at midnight and wake him up at 5am and not fall asleep until the testing.

I will be so happy when this is done with. But if he is not sleepy for this test they will have to give him medicine, and I really would like to avoid that.

To give some info on the test, just if your wondering. It is an EEG-ABR. I have no idea of what ABR means. But from what they have explained it is similar to the newborn hearing tests babies get in the hospital.

This is old, but like a couple of my fellow bloggers I do think every post should have a picture.