Yeah, He wants me for a Sunbeam...

...And Oliver's pretty happy to be one.

Congratulations for making the transition, my handsome little man. 

Moments

Sometimes it's these little moments that I take for granted.

It's these little moments like clipping Oliver's nails that I realize that I love most.

I am lucky to be a mom.

Confessions of a Nightstand

My friend Brooke did this post a while back and just the other day I noticed that my night stand has a bunch of random stuff all over it and I was reminded of her post.

Mine is not nearly as cute as hers and that's why I thought it was so funny.

It was also not staged. If it were, You'd think I'd at least put scriptures somewhere on here...

A: Water. I have always woken up in the middle of the night for water...interestingly enough, I never wake up to use the bathroom.
B: Books. I am currently reading a couple, but oddly not the ones on my nightstand.
C: Carrot Cream from The Body Shop for my hands.
D: An expired can of Coke. I was cleaning out my running bag (that I keep in my closet) and found it, but I guess I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.
E: Headphones. I sometimes watch shows on my laptop in bed...when Luke's sleeping.
F: My cute little jewelry holder.
G: Chap stick. A must.
H: Hair ties. Imagine having hair as long as mine and not braiding it or tying it back while sleeping. I have woken up with my hair wrapped around my neck multiple amounts of times.
I: Rings and necklaces. Can't sleep with them on.
J: Tags from new clothes. These in particular are from Hurley leggings that I bought in stg.
K: A pamphlet on infertility and a referral card. Yep, I am one of those.
L: A reading light. Another stg purchase that was much needed.
M: More books stacked under my ghetto nightstand. All Harry Potters to be exact.
N: A first aid kit we got for Christmas from Holly. I was figuring out everything that came in that nifty little thing.

And there you have it. I think I need a night stand makeover. Desperately.

Snow? Really?

We woke up yesterday morning to all this snow. Finally! Oliver and Luke were so excited to go play in it.

 Oliver played in it for a while and made this awesome snowman with his Dad. Seriously, how cool is Luke.

We even noticed throughout the day that cars were stopping to look at it and even take pictures. Ha! Luke said to me "Is it really that cool?"

Yep, and so are you.

But after about an hour and a half, Oliver was frozen and came in to snuggle with me. I was going to take the Christmas tree and decorations down, but how could I with all this snow? So we didn't and watched Christmas movies instead.

Welcome snow. So glad you could finally arrive.

Date night...just us 3

  We had an awesome date night last night. We have been wanting to take Oliver to go see Puss in Boots. We even tried on Monday, but we were too late and tickets were sold out. So we went to Chick-fil-A and saw the movie. I LOVED IT. Luke and I were laughing the whole time...even the parts that no one else seemed to pick up on. And Oliver liked it just fine. Again, he was wanting to go play on the video games more than anything. Oh how I love a good date night with my boys.



Farewell, Our Magical Monte.

Monte became a part of our family on December 3rd of this year and now it's time for him to go back to live with Santa to help him get ready for next year. Is it weird that I'm the one that's sad and maybe even a little teary eyed about him leaving us? Yes, okay I realize that it is.

Monte was a really good guest. We loved waking up every morning to see where he would be for the day.

Every time after Oliver would find him, he would say "Silly Monte!"

I loved that.

 On the last day, Oliver found him with a little surprise.

A note.

And Oliver was so excited about it...as you can see.

 We opened up the letter to find that this was Montes last day with us until the next holiday season and he was saying goodbye.

And he wanted to leave a small gift for his favorite little boy.

 When Oliver saw that is was a superhero blanket, he was beyond excited. We opened it up and he flew down the hallway hollering that this was his new superhero cape.

Thank you Monte.

 We will miss you too and we already can't wait to have you stay with us again.

Bring in the new year...FAST!

We love the last week of the year. Why? Because we go down to St. George for a whole week and do whatever we want.

And since we do whatever we want, Amy and I decided to leave everyone behind and go to Vegas.

So we shopped which I have zero pictures of.

And we went to Raising Cane's which is the best fast food place ever. Yes, I mean EVER and of course we had pictures of this...

After stuffing our faces we did some more shopping. Amy was mad because while taking pictures at Raising Cane's, she dropped her camera and it wouldn't turn on.

She was beating up her camera when I snapped this lovely picture of her in all her frustration. And we were laughing so hard at her weird chin and grandma mouth that we were in tears (forgive me Amy for posting this, but I never want to forget it). 

Another favorite is going to Pioneer Park in Stg. It is a park full of huge boulders and caves, climbing and the crack. Oliver went through the crack with his cousins last time we were here and this time he was stuck with a bunch of adults that couldn't fit. I couldn't let him go through alone, so I attempted it and guess what? My chest is small so I was able to fit and we went together. Woo hoo!

 We didn't take pictures of anything else, but we did the usual. Rock band, Running, Finding golf balls, Eating out, Sleeping in, Movies and this year we added putting a puzzle together with the in laws. I even stayed up with just my mother and Father in law (no Luke...he went to bed), until 1:30AM working on it. Sad we don't have a picture of that.

New Years eve was uneventful. We had dinner and hung out playing the ipads on the couch while the kids played wii. The 3 Jensens girls had a sleep over with me and we watched a movie. Luke and I tried to stay up until midnight by watching Breakfast at Tiffinys, but it was too weird and we missed the new years mark by a whole 30 minutes. We're lame.

We are so happy around here to be finished with this year. It was a rough one. But here's to new goals, new memories and a happy new year!