Easter 2010

Easter in Seattle! We had great Easter this year with Ethan and Luke we wish we could have been with family and all the cousins but we still tried to make it special. Yes my kids were in the PJs all day after church. When the kids first woke up they got to see there Easter basket and open all there suff up. Ethan was so excited. The older he gets the more fun it is to see him get so excited. We went to church that morning and came home put the kids down for a nap and when they woke up they saw that the Easter Bunny had layed some eggs and Ethan was so excited to go out there and start picking up all the Easter eggs but when his basket was full he went over and helped his little brother pick some more up and put them in his basket. They are becoming best buds and I love to watch them play together but they are also starting to fight a little and I don't like that so much.

Happy Birthday Brett!!!

Okay so the quality of these pictures our horrible but my camera was dead so we used my husbands phone. But we went for lunch and then we went and looked at bikes because if anyone knows my husband he loves bikes. When we were dating and when we were first married he had a Harley but I made him sale it when I got pregnant. And he sold his dirt bike awhile ago so he really wants one again and really wants to bet Ethan one for his 4th Birthday and I said over my dead body. Now Ethan ask me everyday that he wants a blue dirt bike and I just role his eyes. Then we came back and ate some cake with the kids and then we got a babysitter and we went to one of my husbands favorite restaurants Benihana and then we went to a place in Seattle and played some games then went to a movie. It was a long date night but we had a lot of fun.

I have 3 handsome boys that I love! Happy Birthday Brett!!!

Benihanas

Almost 2 weeks after Lukes Birthday we went to childrens....My doctor a week before this told me he had Bronchitis and she gave us some medicine. We were hoping he would get better after the medicine but wasn't and he sounded really bad. His breathing was horrible it deep down in his chest. It was Sunday and Luke woke up in the middle of the night crying so I ran in there to check on him and I had Brett go down and get him a bottle. His breathing sounded different to me so I told Brett I was going to call the doctor tomorrow(which was Monday) and make apt. Brett thought he sounded the same and told me to wait for his year check up which was on Tuesday. I didn't listen of course and I called the doctor Monday morning. She squeezed us in and when she saw and heard him she new he didn't sound great either. And he had a fever and was super cranky. She had us go upstairs to get chest XRays to see if he had pneumonia and if anyone has done chest Xrays for little ones it is really sad. I had Ethan outside with a nurse crying and Luke in this tube crying. It wasn't fun at all. We go back down to see the doctor and she has me come out to see the Xrays. Well he didn't have pneumonia but he did have a coin lodge in his esophagus and it was blocking his his air way. She told us that she already called the surgeons at children and they were expecting us to come. She told us we needed to go over there right away. I called Brett told him to come and meet us at children's and then I call my friend to see if she would take Ethan for me and we headed over to childrens. Luke really struggled every time a nurse or doctor came in he would scream and scream then they would leave and he would lay back down on us. We got to the hospital around 2:00 in the afternoon and he didn't go into surgery until 8:45 p.m. It was really sad because they suited me up and let me come back there to hold him while they gave him his anesthesia and I layed in on the table and they told me to give him a kiss and pushed me right out. It was sad I really wanted to stay with him. It wasn't a big surgery at all obviously but I really don't like it when the kids have to go under it is always scary. We waited for so long outside the room watching the bachelor...About 10:30 we got to see him and we went back down to our room and lets just say it was a really long night he wouldn't sleep in the crib there so we held him all night nurses kept coming in and waking him to check everything. We finally got to leave and he has been so happy since then. Literally it was like he never even had Bronchitis. He had been sick now with this for about 6 weeks and we had stayed in the house I never took him anywhere. If I needed to go anywhere I always called a babysitter. I was really worried about him being sick for so long and him not getting better or even showing sign of improvement. So I really believe that it needed to linger because I don't know how we would have found the coin. I know that Heavenly Father is always watching over us with these little miracles everyday.

Lukes 1st birthday!!!!! Feb. 2nd

Happy Birthday Luke!!! It was Luke's birthday and he has been really sick for about a month now and it has been really hard for him to eat anything but he had no problem with his the cake. We had a small Little birthday party for him when Brett got home with just our little family. We wished we lived by family so we could have celebrated Luke's birthday with more family but we we still had so much fun. Ethan loved all of Luke's presents he wanted to take them to bed with him that night. I love my 2 boys they are a blast and the older Luke gets the more Ethan and Luke play together.

Our Trip to Utah

Last minute we decided to go to Utah and literally we bought our tickets at 4:30 and our flight was leaving at 6:30 and we got there at 6:30 and thank goodness the flight was delayed 20 mins so we made it. We had a blast with my family and it was really fun because my aunt and uncle came from FL and she has MS so she never travels that far. I know my dad was super happy because he got to be with both of his sisters. it was fun hangout with everyone and go skiing with my family and cousins. Ethan loves the snow and wanted to play in it the whole time. Luke was sick so we didn't take him out very much when we were there but it fun to get away for a short little trip it wasn't a vacation because our kids are with us but we had so much fun.

Ethan is Potty Trained!!!!

Ethan is Potty trained. YEAH!!!!!! One day after a bath he didn't want to put on a diaper and he said "mom I don't want to wear a diaper anymore I want to to be potty trained" I have no idea where he got that and I wasn't planning on potty training him for a few more months. I new he was ready but I just kept putting it off it was easy for me to change his diapers. But we went to Target got a seat for the potty bought some stickers for his potty chart and bought some M&Ms also we bought lots of juice boxes. The next morning we woke up and I had him teach his cookie monster how to go potty and he even washed the cookie monsters hands then he was ready to do it as well. All I have to say he was so easy to potty train. He still to this day hasn't had an accident in his bed during his nap or at nigh time. We have never put him in pull ups at night and he has been great. I could count how many accidents he has had since we potty trained him. Its been about 2 months now and he has been GREAT. It was to easy so I don't know what I am going to do when one of my children struggle with the whole potty training thing.

Ethans Accident

I forgot to write about what happen one Sunday morning. It was the Sunday after Christmas and we had church at 1:00 so I would put Ethan down early. Well Ethan woke up and I was getting ready in my bathroom and my husband was on the bed and Ethan was of course running around like a wild man. The next thing I new I heard a huge noise in my room. I new instantly what it was and I was afraid of what I was going to see. I ran in the room and saw both of my dressers and our big old TV flat on the floor and I saw my son Ethan on the floor. I new he wasn't dead because he was crying but I was afraid to get him off the floor I didn't know if every bone was broken. My husband picked him up and I was on the floor in shock and still shaking. I don't know how but he only got a bloody nose and black eye. He cried for about 3 hours on and off on me and falling asleep. He was so shaken up and so was his mother. I know that this could have been something horrible but we are so incredible blessed that it was nothing more than a bloody nose and blue eye.
FYI but house is completely earthquaked proof nothing is coming down.
This face of Ethan doesn't do him justice because his face was covered in blood.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!

Can you believe it I am posting another blog and I think it has been less than a month. That doesn't happen very often. We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. My dad came up to Seattle and spent the holidays with us. We loved having him here and the kids were really sad when he left. Especially Ethan he started crying but then I told him we were going to have a play date and he stopped but we do miss having family around. This is my 2nd time celebrating the holidays by our self. I am really starting to enjoy it and I love starting our own family tradition's.

We started Dec. 1st and read a Christmas story every night until Christmas. We did all sorts of fun things we went to Bellveue and we saw snowflake lane. That was really cute because fake snow feel and the were people dressed up as Nutcrackers and they were the band it was really cute. Then we went and saw some lights on Lake Washington, and went to Seattle to see the lights and the trains they had set up. We made lots of fun treats and cookies for Santa. We also made a ginger bread house and had a big dinner on Christmas Eve. I was done cooking for awhile after Christmas Eve. I made cinnamon rolls but you make them the night before and then put them in the oven the next day so I really didn't cook for a few days. I love the holidays but I really did get worn out of cooking. We all got to open up one gift and our PJ's on Christmas Eve. I love watching the kids open there gifts. Really just Ethan Luke is still a little to little to get it but Ethan gets it a little bit more now so it makes is a lot of fun. We really tried our hardest to help him now it is Jesus Birthday and all day he was saying it was Jesus Birthday. It was cute I still don't think he gets it but we are trying. Christmas day was great to watch Ethan come down the stairs and see want Santa brought him he was Super excited. I wish I had more pictures but we don't we have more video than pictures. Luke didn't last that long before he went back down for his 1st nap. The next day everyone went with me to the mall so I could get some Christmas decorations and then Brett and I took Ethan to see Alvin and the chipmunks. That was a lot of fun we had a huge thing of popcorn and drink. They were bigger than Ethan but he had to hold it in his lap and he sat there with the popcorn and ate the popcorn the whole movie and drank a ton. let me just tell you it was Diet Coke because my husband wanted it and Brett got Ethan a little water cup. I told him there is no way he is going to want his little water cup and not your huge drink and guess what mom was right. It was a lot of fun to take him to the movies that was the first time and we had a blast.

New Years Eve was great we ordered pizza and we celebrated New Years early with my kids and my Dad. The kids go down early and so does my dad so we left when they all went down and celebrated New Years with some people from Brett's work. It was fun but I can't stay up late anymore. I don't know how I did it in college.

Now my dad is gone and Christmas decorations are down and light are off its sad its back to real life and making and setting new goals for the year. Ethan still wants to see lights when we drive in the evening and I have to remind him that Christmas is over.... We are excited about 2010 my number 1 goal is to get back to Southern California to be around family. My husband doesn't seem to think its a goal we can accomplish. He seems to think we are going to be here for another few years. I guess we aren't on the same page huh?