Christmas

Thanksgiving!

It has been so long since I've posted on this and so much has happened..... Halloween was a blast and I will try to make it a priority to put some of those pictures on here. I made a turkey this year- and it was pretty good! I am not a big turkey person, but Justin and the kids are and they're still eating it so that's good I suppose. It was nice to have just us this year so we could do without all the extra foods we don't like anyway such as cranberries, yams, and gravy. Justin and I have very bland tastebuds- we don't even buy ketchup or mayo and the only reason our kids know about is from going to grandma simmons house. They all get it on their burgers now! lol Mashed potatos and warm rolls are the best for me on Thanksgiving! We have a tradition of always having sparkling cidar and then before going to bed instead of having reading time we sit down with the kids and help them to write letters to santa. Anthony thought of fifteen things and said that santa will have a "selection to choose from". ha ha Alex loves dinosaurs now and Lexie gets excited over anything pink or girly. Not sure she is mine! Alyssa now sits up and still refuses a bottle. The other day I took a hour long walk knowing she was hungry when I left and Justin was determined to give her a bottle. Well, she cried for about ten minutes and then fell a sleep in his arms and then as soon as I walked in the door she woke up and if she smelt me. She ate a lot and then was back to her perky self- brat! She will eat rice chex, cheerios, baby veggies, and loves macaroni and cheese. I gave her a few bites of pumpkin pie with some cool whip and she loved it! I think bread makes her gums feel good cause she doesn't have any teeth yet. One tooth has flirted with coming in a few times but then doesn't- which I am ok with as I am still feeding her. Even Lexie had a couple of teeth at her age. Lexie is struggling with potty training right now unless she is in a mood to care to use the toilet so I'm starting to get tougher on her. We have a sticker sheet up and when she goes she gets to pick out a sticker and put it on and I think I'll think of something to do when she has two accidents in a row. Potty training sucks! ha ha Well, off to go clean the house, but will write more when Anthony gets home cause he asked me yesterday when he could write about himself.

Transformers, Snow White, & Power Rangers!

We are now a family of superheroes and Princesses! We took the boys to get their costumes and they both wanted to be the black Power Rangers. Alex saw it first and then Anthony dug through to find one his size- and he found the last one! This is the third year that they've been the same thing, but they seem to enjoy doing that- for now! Alexis is Snow White this year and Alyssa will be a bundled up bunny in the stroller as we push her through the cold next week. Last night we watched Transformers and the kids loved it! Anthony has heard a lot about it at school so we finally got it to watch and it was good. It's not normally my type of movie, but I really enjoyed it. There was a couple of not so good words at the beginning so we just talked over them and said "this is a cool movie" lol. We want to go get a few movies edited to get rid of all the cuss words that I know the kids will eventually hear in school or where ever, but they don't have to hear them in our home!
Every since I was 12 weeks pregnant with Alex I've been in the same sandals even in the winter so this year I decided I needed to get some real shoes and I got to say I had forgotten how nice new shoes are! I'm a size 8 so needless to say I don't have Hancock feet! ha ha Don't worry I do have the Hancock early grey hair thing so I didn't miss out there. That's about all that's going on with us other than full force potty training Alexis. She's been taught a little bit, but I wanted to focus on Alex getting all trained before moving on to her and now he's done which has been saving us a lot of money. To think of having just one in diapers - can't wait! From April- August I had three!
This week Anthony is learning about the letter "K " and his new favorite thing to do is to say what word starts with what letter. The whole way down to St. George he would be like "cat starts with a c" or "stop starts with a s" ha ha - I know it's cute it's just there are so many words and he is a talker....... ALex and Lexie napped and Lysie Brits just kept smiling at him as he would talk. Anthony pointed out that there arn't words on a license plate just a bunch of weird letters with numbers. Have a good day! xo The jewels

Here ya go ,Julie!

Weekend is over!!!!

I know it's Wednesday, but I'm still celebrating that the weekend is over! Company just left yesterday. We had a fun time at Jacob and Jenny's on Sunday and it was fun to see everyone celebrate their little baby after blessing her earlier at church. Having said that we had company for four nights so it does wear me out! I'm just not a people person when they're in my space! ha ha Today I plan to do my typical house work and play with the kids cause even they miss their routines! Alex said he was getting tired of sharing his toys and Anthony asked when he could sleep on his bed again! They had a blast with their cousins I just think they missed our quiet house- believe it or not I do keep a pretty quiet house most of the time. This morning Anthony had a rough start cause he took on of his Ben Ten toys and was stabbing at one of our big bouncy balls and it popped. He said he didn't mean to do it and I asked him what he thought would happen! lol Lesson learned. Off to go start my day! Love, Julie- Oh, hey did anyone watch Ellen yesterday?

Update!

Hi! So let's see I suppose I should start with Anthony who is a perfect little guy! I know I'm bias and all, but really he is just so good unless he is tired then he's quite the opposite! ha ha Yesterday he told Alex "be nice to me and give it to me cause I'm too tired to be nice". ALex said "ok" and gave him his toy to use. Funny. Times like that I try to sit back and observe while they work things out. He had a fun doctor's visit yesterday and got a coin to put in the gum ball dispenser so he picked out a big eye gum ball. He is now 50 pounds and is a perfectly healthy! He has over productive ears so he makes more wax, but that just means I have to wash his ears out everyday- sometimes twice. Doctor said most kids out grow that so that would be nice......Anthony now takes a shower and washes his own hair in the morning- so big! Alex is still a rough boy with a huge heart. He loves to hold ALyssa on the couch while we read books. I am teaching him a lot these days, but he prefers Anthony to teach him! When Antnee comes home Alex will ask him what he learned and then if Anthony tells him a letter he'll say "write it for me". I never thought Alex would be the kind to care to learn as he is as playful as they come. He is now 35 pounds just got some new Spiderman shoes! Lexie is our "doll" atleast that's what we call her. She has gotten easier on me the past couple of weeks and yesterday she went potty twice so that's exciting! Oh, also we went to get her a costume and she picked out a SNow WHite! That was so exciting for me! I didn't try to sway her either way she just loved it and it fit so that means for the next three weeks she'll be SNow White... Can you blame her for wanting to wear it? lol She loves her sister and her and Ant are close, but Alex and her are competitors on many levels. She knows all of her colors- finally! I think she's known them for a while, but is now not being stubborn cause all of a sudden last week she said what every color was whenever she saw something. It was cute, but then she went too far....... "Look mom that is green grass" lol No, it's cute I just don't do well with people repeating things over and over. Alyssa is a sweetie! She is now 14.1 pounds and 26.5 inches long. She is 25% for weight and 60% for height and Dr. Dowse said her heart sounded perfect! They check for murmurs at every well check. Oh! Anthony got his blood pressure checked yesterday and it was perfect! ALyssa still doesn't have any teeth, but I'm OK with that! Can you believe I'm still breastfeeding her! I can't...... Something worth sharing is yesterday ALex was looking at my Book Of Mormon and he said "I miss Jesus Christ" then he asked what cloud Heavenly Father lived on. How cute! I've been showing them church cartoons and they love the story about Moroni. It is nice having a church book store here. We want to get the Noah's Arc story for them and then one about Daniel and the Lions Den. ALright! That's about all that's going on with us! xo