AJ's 2!

I can not believe that AJ is 2! It has been the best 2 years of my life. He has grown so much. Everyday when I look at Erik and then AJ or vice versa I get tears in my eyes. Knowing that in what seemed like a blink of an eye he went from newborn to two years old. There are little things he seems to be doing everyday that make seem older because he is doing them for the first time and it reminds me of things my brother did at like 3 or 4yrs old. He has gone twice this week to the store and picked out and paid for his new toy, he now pushes big trucks around on his knees, turns anything into a race track, he loves to pretend play now. The things he bought with his birthday money were a doctors kit and Mc Donalds food. He has not put the food down in 3days. Today when I dropped him off at nursery he just looked back said "bye" and waved. Which he does to everyone we see at the store along with hi. His vocabulary has grown so much in the last 6mo it is crazy. He went from saying 3 words(ow, daddy and cheese) to saying over 25 and is saying new ones daily.

His birthday went awesome. He had a lot of friends who love and care about him show up. He did not get all of the presents or games. But that was ok. He did do pin the nose on elmo. He received a ton of gifts including 2 bikes. My sister her kids, aunts and cousins all got him a bicycle with training wheels. He can not reach the pedals yet. But loves to ride it. My mom got him a little quad that only goes a maximum of 2mph and only goes forward when a button is pushed. He loves them both so much. Both him and Erik are having a great time with his new toys.

I love you so much AJ. You are growing up so quickly I sometimes want time to stand still so I have more time with you as a toddler. You are such a wonderful boy and big brother. I love you baby boy.

Mommy

AJ and Mommy

Yummy cake!
AJ pining the nose on Elmo!

Our finished Elmo
Pinata time!
Trying out his new bike!


All of his presents!

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Today I had to give a talk in church about Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and my decision to get baptized. I was super nervous because the reason for me getting baptized was because of Joslynn's passing. Which of course is a hard subject for me to talk about especially in front of a room full of people. But I did great and actually got through it with few tears. I left AJ at home since I would have to sit up with the Bishop and he would just try to run to me or throw a huge fit for whoever was watching him for me.

Well when I got home AJ and Arli we gone. Then my computer screen showed listings for urgent cares. I panicked. My mom called and said that she came and took Arli & AJ to urgent care because AJ fell and hit his head. After talking with Arli he said that AJ had been jumping on our bed and fell of and bonked his head on the night stand. And that he thinks he will need stitches. Well AJ had to have 2 staples! I feel so bad for him. But he is going to be the death of me as soon as he got home he was running around climbing over his little chair and hitting his head! I kept having to tell him to stop. He had 3 close calls almost hitting the hutch in the same spot he just got staples. I have no clue what I am going to do with him.

Meeting Farrah the ferret

My friend who I go walking with every Wednesday has a ferret. She is usually shy but came out to eat while we were there this week. The boys loved her. AJ just kept chasing her around and Erik kept trying to get her food. She is so good with kids she never even nipped when Erik grabbed her.

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

That should have been AJ's middle name. I have mentioned before how he is super duper quiet when he wakes up. Well a few weeks ago I woke up to him coloring himself with markers.

Look mom I am so pretty

I am in trouble now

Erik has now learned how to pull himself up! I am so proud of him. But I am also in for it. In no time at all I will have 2 walking and getting into everything. Erik is also crawling. Which I am going to get a video of soon. He learned how to crawl before he learned how to sit. Which is so odd to me. But oh well he is good at both now. He is actually getting into everything that AJ isn't. Which just keeps me on my toes.

So Big!

Summer Fun

Since it is Summer. We have been doing a lot of swimming. AJ does not like it if we are by ourselves at the pool. But when his cousins were here he absolutely loved it. I did not even have to put him in a floatie. Erik also loves the water. But he gets horrible red eyes everytime we go. I love the summer time and I love to go swimming.

All ready to go swimming

Erik loves swimming. But his poor little eyes.

Alanna & AJ swimming

The whole gang...Mom, Nicole, Kenton, AJ & Erik in the floaties, Kaci and Ashton in the pool.

AJ is by his self here. But this is a kiddie pool at my friends house.

The strip take 3

So the day after Arli and I took the boys to the strip my Mom and I decided to take my cousins and the boys down to the strip. We went to the secret garden which has dolphins, lions, tigers, and a couple other wild animals. It was fun. But after 2days in a row at the strip I was done. for at least a month. But we will see.

Catching up

So I have slacked a lot the last couple weeks. But I finally have a little bit of time to catch up on things.

The strip take 2.

Only a week and a half after my mom, sister, cousin, neices, myself and the boys went to the strip. Arli and I decided we would do a day on the strip. We had a blast going to the coke store, m&m store and to shark reef again. This time AJ had a full blown fit at shark reef. He is really hitting the terrible two's. He loved the 3d movie they have at m&m world. We do not make to many trips down to the strip even though we live here. But I think we will have to take another one soon.

Daddy and Erik getting their candy coating

Mommy and AJ getting their candy coating

in front of the m&m factory

Erik, Daddy and jelly fish

AJ's Birthday

I have made the invites for AJ's birthday and wanted to share it with everyone back home.

Tiffany I will give you that invite when you get back in town.

And here is o college my friend did for me of the same invite just with pics.

Memorial Weekend

I know this is late. But we have had company out the wazoo lately and I have just not had time to blog.

Memorial Weekend we took the boys to Aliante Discovery Park. It is such a cool park. There is ducks, water park, a dinosaur dig area, 2 play grounds that are huge. AJ had a blast just running around. He did not want to share his bread with the ducks though. We would give him a piece and show him how to do it and he would just run off with his bread. He could not get enough of the water. Erik did not like it to much.

The rest of the weekend we just lounged around here at the house.

Feeding the ducks

AJ loved running through this.

Playing in the water

I love this picture

I found a fossil

Erik getting wet

Shark Reef

While my sister was here we decided to take the kids to Shark Reef. It was a lot of fun. But was also very hard with two 2yr olds and 2 infants and a 5yr old who had to be 4 at shark reef and 6 if we got pulled over. She just barley turned 5 but 4 and under were free at shark reef and 5 and up was like $11. I did not have her booster seat in my car and law here is 6yrs or 60lbs and she is no where near 60lbs. It was so funny when we got to Burger King she said "I don't want to be this many anymore" and held up 4 fingers. But anyways about Shark Reef. We started the day off with breakfast and slushies...yummy. Then headed off to shark reef. The kids loved looking at all of the fish and sharks. They had lots of other things there too they had a crocodile, komodo dragon, another type of huge lizard, piranhas, an octopus and jellyfish. They even have a cool touch pool where you can touch sting rays and horse shoe crabs. Everyone but the little babies, AJ and my mom touched them.There is also these tunnels that are surrounded by water. It is crazy the sharks are swimming right above and all around you. The kids loved looking at all of the fish. We had a great day and I can not wait to go back this summer with my friend Tawnie and her little girl.

Cousin Fun!

Last week my sister came down from Utah with 3 of her kids and my cousin. We love it when they come. We always have such a good time. I love that we have some kids the same age. AJ and Nalani always have a blast together. This time the loved playing in the pool as long as AJ was not actually in the pool. I can already tell that Erik and Oaklie are going to be best friends. They played so great together. Alanna played well with all of the kids like always, well when she is down here anyways. And even though AJ threw fits a lot when they were down here I know he had a blast. He has also learned a couple of things from them which I am not too happy about. He has learned to pick his nose! So gross. He also will not eat anything without dippy (ketchup or ranch) anymore. Which I guess is not so bad. I was able to hold off on it for almost 2yrs. We can not wait until they come down again. Love you guys!

Crazy sleepers

Since Erik has been in his crib he has slept pretty crazy! I mean every time we go into get him he always has his legs or arms in between the crib rails. AJ has also been sleeping crazy. He wakes up in the middle of the night and goes where ever he wants. We have found him in the living room, in front of his bed room door and in the middle of his floor. He also likes to take things to bed with him. Like toys, books, my shoes!! Yes my shoes. They are just my crazy little sleepers.

He was so stuck this day that I thought I was going to break his leg getting it out.

Craft it forward

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slam dunk!

So have I mentioned that AJ has been getting into EVERYTHING and that I can not leave him alone for a second? The other day after swimming we were all asleep. Well AJ has this lovely way of waking up. He is as quiet as ever and will not make a sound. Even with the monitor on in the room I still can not hear him get out of bed. He decided he would play some basketball in his own little way and used his head as the ball. I could not get the hoop off for anything. I tried everything but cutting because I could not keep him still enough and thought I would cut him.

I mean he has just started getting into everything. So far I have caught him with the baby powder, he fell on his head (which he has not learned from that mistake, Arli caught him yesterday trying again to climb over our porch again.), has tried to put keys in the sockets after taking the little tabs out, has tried using one of my kitchen aid knives, colored on himself with a sharpie and then put it back in the same spot he grabbed it from and now has tried to used his head as a basket ball. What on Earth am I going to do with this child?

He is just all boy

So today has been very eventful. AJ decided that he would try to jump our balcony, and did not succeed. He fell right onto all of the rocks. I took him to urgent care and they told me he was fine and the cuts would heal on there own. I was so upset with them. They were not even going to clean it! But I mentioned how it was still bleeding so they cleaned it. But still did not put a band-aid on. There are 2 cuts that are still bleeding and it has been over 5hrs since it happened. I would not call them cuts but punctures. I am going to go buy some butterfly bandages and see if he will keep them on. What a way to end the month.

These were taken at 6pm. 4hrs after he fell.

Onto something funny....well mean. This evening when Erik woke up from his nap, AJ was of course still crying. Erik was laughing everytime AJ made a crying face and started to cry. I was laughing so hard.

Doing what toddlers do best!

So yesterday I was in a hurry to go to activity days and then go pick up Arli. Well while getting ready AJ decided to be a typical toddler and get into the baby powder! I had just gotten both boys ready for bed. (that way they could go straight to bed when we got home from picking up Arli.) I was seriously gone for 2min! I wish I would have walked into the room with my camera because AJ's face was priceless. I was not even upset with him after I saw his face.

How could you be upset with this cute little man?

Congratulations Grandma and Monty

I just wanted to send out a quick congratulations to my Grandma. She got married on Saturday the 35th to what I am sure is a wonderfull man, Monty. I have yet to meet him but he is so nice from what I have heard and can not wait until I am able to meet him. I was not able to go to their wedding as it was short notice and they live in Indiana. So I do not have a picture yet of the two of them together. But I do have one of each of them which will have to do for now.



Congratulations Grandma and Monty! Sorry we were unable to make it down there. But we will soon.

We love it when Aunt Rosie comes!

So I have posted before about my Aunt Rosie, well she came into Vegas again on Thursday from Arizona. We always enjoy getting together and her telling us stories about my Grandma and how she would get into trouble growing up and what ever else we have time to talk about. I actually learned that there are online nursing schools that I can go to as soon as I get my GED. Which is going good just studyig away all the time. But anyways everytime she comes we have dinner together so this time we had pizza. Well her and my mom went to get it and get the largest one they had. Well they did not realize just how large this pizza would be lol. It was a 36in pizza!! I mean this thing was HUGE! It was even bigger than my mom's stove. But it was good, and the best part....leftovers!! My brother even had some this morning for breakfast. I know what a wonderful breakfast. I did not get a chance to get pictures with her this time. But did get some of her and the boys.

Our Pizza...this thing was HUGE!!!!

Erik and Rosie

Erik, Rosie, Mom and AJ

We love you Aunt Rosie can't wait to see you again.