2009 rewind, a little late posting you could say.

I have been so awful at updating my blog. So here it is extremely late ...

I recently started working full time again temporarily until April. I have been blessed to be able to work from home and only have to go into the office two hours a day. Thanks to our families for all the help. My mom helped the first week and since then Josh's Mom has come everyday for the past month! My kids have adjusted pretty well and it is so nice to know they will be happy when I'm gone. It's pretty much two hours of play time with Grandma :) It has been pretty difficult to fit everything in with this transition, part of why I am so late updating.

Here are my two sweet boys. Oh my goodness I cannot even express how blessed I feel to be there Mom. They are constantly making me laugh and smile. For example as I am posting right now Lleyton keeps throwing a ball at my head and saying sorry. For some reason he thinks it's okay to do these types of things to people as long as you say sorry. It's hard to get mad when your laughing. Rhyder is so noisy. He is constantly babbling and he and Lleyton get in yelling wars. They absolutely adore each other and rarely is Lleyton mean to Rhyder. Rhyder is so chubby and snuggly, he is a tank, currently the kid wears 12 months at the smallest and easily wears 18 month clothes. He comes up to Lleyton's shoulder when Lleyton is standing, he is a big boy. Rhyder has his first two teeth on the bottom. This has been a challenge he bit me so hard while nursing I started bleeding everywhere. You would've thought I would stop nursing but I can't get him to take formula. I could go on and on about these two sweet funny kids but I will have to do individual posts another day.

Here they are, so stinkin cute.

Here is our annual Thanksgiving pic. This year we stayed at home. Going down to Arizona seemed so daunting with a baby who nurses constantly. I usually get masstitis when I travel because I get engorged. Fun stuff. We decided to avoid it and made tons of good food and had Josh's Mom over. Thanks to my sister Jess who invited us down to Arizona with the rest of the fam. She is always opening her house to everyone. She is so much better at these kinds of things than I am. We will have to come down soon.


Here are my two boys again. You would think Rhyder would look much smaller next to Lleyton considering they are two years apart.


Rhyder- I can't get enough of him or his cheeks. It is so hard for me not to cave into him. You would think the second child would be less spoiled but he's not.


Lleyton loves to pretend he is flying. He runs across the house yelling, "look at me Mom I'm flying. "

So this is Lleyton's christmas shirt that says Naughty is the new Nice. He had another shirt that said, Dear Santa, is it too late to be good. When he was wearing his Dear Santa shirt I walked in and he had colored all over his arms. I was so bummed I didn't get a picture. Leave it to kids huh.


Christmas Eve pic at my G-ma and G-pa Jasper's house. Rhyder's shirt says, Mommy's cute cookie.


Another pic w/ my parents.


Christmas Eve in their P.J.s before Santa came.


Christmas morning. Lleyton in his car. I was scared Santa was going to wake the kid up with all his banging, but he didn't.


Christmas Tree in the morning. Before all the chaos.


Ry, ry Christmas morning.


Playing with Grandma Becky amongst all the toys.


I love this picture. This totally has Rhyder written all over it. He is like this most the time. Just goofy and happy. He has been such a fun baby.


My sis Jess and her family came up this Holiday. We were able to do a lot of fun stuff in the snow. We went to my sis Brooke's house with a big group also. She and her husband live up in Woodland Hills , so we sledded and did four-wheelers there. In this pic we were at my parents house where my Dad took everyone around on the four-wheeler. This is one of the times when your happy the roads are covered in snow.


As you can tell Lleyton was not happy in this pic, but oh well. Here is Josh and his brother Sam. Everyone thinks they look so much a like. I don't see it, you can maybe tell they're brothers. Sam was able to come up and spend time with us during the Holidays also. He is so great with the kids.


So I am still way behind posting but that brings us to New Years Eve. I forgot my camera that night darnet. We went to dinner with my whole family and went and played a dancing game on x-box after. That was entertaining I'll tell you that. I must say our kids probably have no hope to be dancers. Hopefully we have all boys :)

Family Picture Time

So we just took our family pics. Lleyton did really well, which was nice, you never know how a two year old is going to act. The family pics though ... I think I should've waited to lose more weight. Oh well.

October Memories!

Josh and I love taking late night walks. It gives a chance to talk and if the kids are tired enough they fall asleep. It makes me melt when I look at my kids, especially when they are asleep. There is something about a sleeping child that is so precious and innocent.

Like I said above so precious!



This shows Lleyton's little personality to a tee. He is always turning on the charm and being a goof. I just love him!

So I know the pic above is blurry, but I can't stand how cute it is. Josh and Lleyton have such an amazing relationship, they adore each other and I hope they're always really close.


Typical two year old moment. Lleyton decided to dump all of his toys out and dump all of his animal crackers in.


Josh had to go out of town again this month and Lleyton struggles when he does. I tried keeping his mind off of it but its a little difficult with a newborn so I let him take all of his sticker stuff and put it on my face while I nursed the baby. Yea I know I look like a moron, but look how happy it made the kid :)


Talk about regression. Sometimes Lleyton likes to get out his old binkies and pretend he's a baby.


I adore this baby. He is always so happy and cuddly. He babbles all the time and loves it when people talk to him.

Nicknames for Rhyder: Our little bulldog, Turtle, Tank, Budha, Ry, Ry ry, buddy, chunky monkey, and Josh sometimes calls him an oompa loompa, which I HATE, they are freaky and my son is way too cute to be called that. Look at those cheeks they are so yummy!


Lleyton with his pumpkin we let him color on.


Rhyder's pumpkin, not that he has any idea look at his face.


Cruel and unusual punishment. Lleyton wanted to put these on, and I wouldn't let him take them off until I got a pic cause he looked so funny. Dude if he had a helmet it would've been so much better.


Lleyton loves getting in my closet and putting on my shoes. He doesn't always get the right matches though. They are so big on him, it looks like he has skis on.

Rhyder and I at the Trunk or Treat on the 30th.

Josh and Lleyton at the Trunk or Treat. Lleyton did really well. It was so fun and cute.


Ry that night after. He was so cute I had to take one more picture.

Lleyton on the way to Josh's Mom's Trunk or Treat. Josh called him our Cheeto Tiger because of the sunglasses.

Grandma Becky and Lleyton!

Our little family!


I love this picture of Rhyder. Becky was talking to him. He totally lights up when people talk to him.

Nana and Papa are holding Lleyton and Ry.
After the Trunk or Treat we went over to my parents for Chili and Scones and more Trunk or Treating. It was so funny when Josh and I were out with him going to houses. One of the houses had these things that popped out on there porch and it totally scared Lleyton. When the lady answered the door he was crying and she felt so bad. She opened the lid to try and show them they weren't real. When he told him to say thank you, he said thank you through heaves of sobs it was so funny and sad at the same time. Good times though! Thanks to everyone making it such a fun Halloween.

My boys goofing off

What the!? Is what I say to the picture above. I was switching out Lleyton and Ry's clothes to their fall/winter stuff and Lleyton found this in one of the boxes. My sister gave me a few girl things in case I ever have a girl. Lleyton absolutely had to put it on. He was acting so goofy so I decided to take a pic. When I told him to say cheese for some reason he decided he would lift his shirt too. What a funny kid.
Lleyton found a marker can you tell?
He kept saying "pretty"! Thank goodness for washable markers and that it was in a place concealable instead of his face :)

How can you not love that face. As long as he has his chapstick he's usually pretty happy.

Yes those are potty training underwear on his head. I decided he might be ready for potty training but I'm not quite yet. I don't want him to regress and honestly I don't have the time with a newborn who wants to eat constantly. He likes to play with all the stuff though.

He is always putting on any sunglasses he can find even if he has to hold them on his face.


This little guy is the happiest, sweetest, chubby baby. He is only two months but looks and is quite a bit bigger. He brings so much happiness. I just love him.

This is Lleyton at Pirate Island. Pretty cool place I thought. I like it a lot better than chuck e cheese.


Lleyton and I, again at Pirate Island.

This is what I found when I came to get Lleyton after nap. He had knocked his lamp over somehow and broken it and thrown all of his bedding out and was trying to escape. I am scared to switch him to a big boy bed.


Man, I love it when they fall asleep on your chest.

This is pretty funny below of Josh and Lleyton, at least the beginning. Don't mind the crazy camera girl.