We're back ...

Talk about a long hiatus. Life at our house is craziness these days. Sooo a quick update. We closed Little Cheeks. I was working remotely from Little Cheeks. This was a good set-up knowing it would take a little while to build a customer base. Unfortunately the person I was working for faced big Health issues and had to stop working. Therefore I had to stop working as well.

This was truly a blessing in disguise. I was offered a promotion within the same company but it required me to be in the office. We wanted to keep the store open but it would've been impossible. Josh watches the kids during the day, so there was no way he could do the store and them at the same time.

I looovvee my new job. It is really intense at times, but I feel so grateful to be in a position that allows me to provide for our family while Josh goes to school.

Josh is continuing going to school. He is working on his bachelors in Nursing and getting some other certifications along the way. He will be certified as a Radiology Tech, Phlebotomist, EKG tech, and some others by March. He will also receive one of his degrees. From there we still have a ways to go. He would like to go on after he gets his RN to be a nurse anesthetist, nurse practitioner, or Pediatrician. So we have a way to go. We'll see what happens once he has his RN.

Currently it has been a nice set-up. I work 8-5, he watches the kids, I come home, he goes to school from 6-9, and then studies until 4 am. It is quite the crazy schedule. Thank goodness are kids aren't in school yet and can sleep in.

The kids are doing great! Oh my goodness I cannot get enough of them. Lleyton is adorable. If I ask him for a kiss he kisses my hand. He loves playing school and riding on his four wheeler. He always says the cutest sweetest things. He is obsessed with the Wii and the Toy Story game we got him. He is really good at it too. When he asks me for help, I can't do anything, he is much better than I am.

Rhyder is a crazy little boy. Always jumping, attacking, throwing, biting. He loves to snuggle and is not a good sleeper. He has the cutest little voice and is saying lots of words. His favorites are, pease (Please), Dant tu (Thank You), welcome, yay yen (Lleyton), babas (we need to get rid of that thing), stinky, gross. He keeps us on our toes, and is also the reason for locks on the outside of every door in our house. Currently he is coloring all over my mirror and his shirt. It's a white board marker, so, oh well.

Here's a bit of what we've been up to:

Josh and his Mom took the boys to Thomas, they loved it.

Bustin' a move. He sure didn't get that from me:)

Lleyton started hanging from this ladder, so of course Rhyder had to try ...

He is a little monkey:)

Feeding the ducks. I guess Rhyder started chasing one of the geese that was trying to attack him. I don't think that Goose was prepared for Rhyder. It ran pretty quick once it saw Rhyder come right back at it:) That boy has no fear.

Lleyton has been going to the Home Depot once or twice a month. They have activities for kids for free. They get cute little aprons and get to build things. His Grandma Becky takes him and he has a lot of fun. Lleyton has always been extremely smart. He can count to 20, knows his abc's (most the time), and has not been to preschool yet. He is left handed and still builds, and color's well. He is also picking up golf. Josh and Lleyton go all the time to the driving range.

EASTER!!

My mom did a really cute egg hunt, and they got to turn the eggs in for prizes they loved it. Thanks Mom and Dad.

Sunday Easter outfits:)

What the Easter bunny left, the Easter bunny must have known they needed spring clothes;)

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter, sorry for the long drawn out post. Hopefully I can keep more on top of it. I hate the fact that the kids grow so fast and I feel I can't keep up! At least if I record it I can always look back.

Wrap of 2010 ...

This year my sister Jess and her family came up from Arizona. It was my Mom's 50th Birthday this year so they came up for that and Christmas. Happy 50th mama! Here is Lleyton and his cousin Codan, aren't they adorable. Lleyton loves his cousins! We are so glad they were able to come up, we had so much fun. This was our bowling venture, we were glad they switched the time so Josh could go to. This was Lleyton's first time bowling.



Jadyn and Lleyton.

Josh bowled with Rhyder every single time and Rhyder loved every second. Josh's arm however not so much ...
Rhyder at my parents wanting to get in on the action of ginger bread house building.


Lleyton and Josh's ginger bread house.


Brody and Lleyton the snitch.


Annual Christmas Eve pic at my parents house. What the heck is up with my bangs??


The gang at my parent's Christmas Eve party. My parent's have the biggest sectional I've ever seen in my life. I think in this pic there is 12 people sitting on it. Good times with the Martinelli's and family:)


Christmas Eve Jammies. I was so excited when I found these. Lleyton is OBSESSED with superman and he always calls Rhyder Batman so it was perfect. He loved it. My only problem now is getting him out of the Superman pj's. He always begs to wear them when we run errands. Sadly sometimes i let him if we're just running to the grocery store or what not.



Christmas Morning. Sooo fun when you have kids.



Did I mention my kids hate clothes?


Lleyton and Rhyder both got four wheelers but Rhyder hasn't quite figured out how to keep the button down. He stops, goes, stops, goes. In the end it was easier to put him on the back of Lleyton's and he still had a blast.


A random one of my cutie!

New Years! Hope your a good one 2011.


Josh's Mom has a tradition of doing Chinese on New Year's we went down and had the yummiest chinese. I have been craving it ever since. It was fun listening to his Grandma give us her life story while the kids stole food off her plate haha. She's partly blind she can only see straight ahead so Rhyder took advantage by throwing shoes at her and stealing food off her plate. She never saw it coming. It was pretty funny, she was a good sport about it.


My greatest joy in life is being a Mom to these two boys. Oh how I love them.

My superman.

Tight Wad Utah Giveaway ... see family post below this one

K so, I thought I'd mention that we are doing a giveaway on Tight Wad Utah. This obviously is for Little Cheeks, you can get the Diaper Bag or a $40 Gift Certificate to our Boutique Little Cheeks. If you want to enter go to www.tightwadinutah.com the details will be there! The last day is tomorrow to enter. If you miss this one we will be doing a giveaway in January with Wabisabimama.com.

Also, if you haven't been able to get your family pics done, I have minimal sessions left. A session is $100 and you get all the images. See my photography blog www.choleyphotography.blogspot.com

Hopefully, I can start shutting up about the business stuff on my family blog. I'm finding that a lot of people aren't aware of any of this stuff we have going on so I thought I'd share. In the future if you don't want to miss out on deals follow us on facebook and our store blog www.littlecheeksboutique.blogspot.com

Thanks everybody, have a Happy Holiday!

I love the Holidays:)

K so this is a bit late but oh well:) This was rainy Halloween. It was an interesting night. My Dad ended up in the Hospital with Kidney stones and Josh's Mom was recovering from surgery for a hernia. We went to Josh's Mom's Trunk or Treat and called it a night. Our wards Trunk or Treat was inside but I didn't realize it was soo early.



Thanksgiving time! We decorated the tree I think a day after, sorry these are out of order.


Playing the Wii with Grandma Becky while we waited for the Turkey to finish cooking. We do Thanksgiving Dinner at our house with Josh's side, and lunch with my side.

The cute little turkey's Josh's Mom made. Love these! Used to make them in school for Thanksgiving parties, brought back all sorts of memories ... aw childhood, I miss it.


At my grandparents house. Our annual Thanksgiving pic.

Don't know if you can see this but Josh and Lleyton colored this great Thanksgiving picture. Lleyton was quite proud:)


Christmas Time! Rhyder and Santa. Isn't this picture priceless, I love it.



Lleyton and Santa! He was soooo excited. He kept saying "mom I'm so excited" even after. It was really cute. He kept asking all sorts of questions about the North Pole and Santa. Can't wait for Christmas this year!

Pirates, ice, gum, jeeps, and sleep:)

This is what I need to do, sleep. Oh sweet sleep, I am at least glad someone is getting some sleep around here. It has been quite crazy, fun, scary, and stressful. Oh but oh how we enjoy the ride called life. Here are some updates, I cannot find our old crappy camera so I haven't posted Halloween pics ... soon though hopefully.


Soooo, here is our jeep that we love. We however are going to sell it. We don't really need two cars right now and it will help with the funding of our new business venture, the boutique:) With that being said, if you no anyone who wants a commander, we've got one. We are asking 17,900, which is 1,000 under what Kelley Blue Book says we should ask. It is an 08' and only has 28,000 miles. We seriously love it and will be sad to see it go.


So we went to Disney on ice and the kids loved it! My parents were going to take us to dinner for helping them move, instead we decided to take the money and spend it on Disney on ice. So thanks! Lleyton's eyes seriously lit up like it was Christmas morning, he loved it!! Rhyder was so cute too, he was clapping and singing along. So funny.


Right before the show started.


Here is Lleyton's bald spot. He got it from this ...


Gum stuck in his hair:) So, after we cut it out I found out from Josh's Mom that you can use peanut butter to get gum out of hair. Oh well, hair grows and at least he's not a girl.


My little pirate! So this will have to suffice until I find my camera. Josh's mom went to Walmart after Halloween and spent like 6.00 for 5 different costumes! So smart, the kids totally love to play dress up and we'll be ready for Halloween next year!

Also, I've been updating the Little Cheeks Blog so check it out www.littlecheeksboutique.blogspot.com, we will be having a Black Friday sale next week Fri 12 am to 2 am, so you can still get to the lines in time for the 3 am sales. We will have Baby Leg warmers for $4.00, which normally retail for $12.00, and our Kufi Hats and Binkies will all be under $5.00. Mostly everything will be on sale Friday at 12 am continuing into the next day. However the Door Busters I mentioned will only be that price from 12 am to 2 am. You can see other updates on our Facebook page:)

Blog updates!

Lleyton is obsessed with Toy Story so I made him some Buzz wings out of card board we had laying around. He thought that was pretty cool:)



Lleyton before we cut his hair.





I just updated Little Cheeks blog, so go check out some of the things we have at www.littlecheeksboutique.blogspot.com

Please come. We have some great deals and grand opening pricing will be changing soon. If you come next week you can still get the great deals.

Here are some cute pics of the boys as of late:)