Grateful for the silly things.....

I love my kids!!! They are so special in every way. Since i'm trying to be better at journaling about my life I thought I would start with my kids. These two crazies can be nightmares, but in the end I always go away thinking they are the sweetest, cutest little kiddies ever. They really are my life, I look forward to spending each day with them. Being a mom can be tough at times, but it is the ultimate gift to be able to watch over and take care of my kids. Alex is my teddy bear, she will always snuggle or "hold me" as she would put it. Jake is our silly man, if he's not on top of the couch pretending to be Superman then he is throwing stuff out of the cupboards to hide in them. We are constantly rolling on the ground laughing at the things he does. They are the best thing that has happened in my life (besides their dad) and I wouldn't trade the messy diapers, messy house, tantrums, or piles of dirty laundry for anything in this world!

Happy Birthday Cris!

I am a little late! My sisters birthday was yesterday and shes about the coolest girl I know so shout out to Cris!!!! She's the youngest of the five of us and spoiled rotten but we love her so much! Hope your 18th was a good one!!!

Cole Grant Hyer is finally here!!

My sister Niki had her baby yesterday, he is 7 lbs 8 oz and 20 1/2 in long!! I am so glad everything went well and can't wait to see this cute baby boy!

Mind vs Body

Don't we look well rested and ready to take on 13.1 miles? :)

This last Saturday was mine and Cam's half marathon. We started off the week with pasta dinners galore. We really wanted to do everything we could to make this race go as smooth as possible. We hydrated like crazy! From having two kids my bladder isn't like it used to be and I was constantly using the bathroom! Whenever we went anywhere instead of asking Alex if she needed to go potty, it was like "Mommy NEEDS to go potty lets go!" We left for St. George Friday morning and enjoyed spending time with my Grandma and some extended family. For dinner we made one last attempt to carb-up and had a light Olive Garden dinner. We set out our clothes and crashed early. Jake woke us up at the crack of dawn and it was really cold! It was around 28 degrees! Being the Arizonians that we are we packed on the clothing. We got to where everyone was gathering at the starting line and began to get a little nervous and antsy. With everyone making one last stop to the nasty porto pottys we hit the starting line. I ran with my good friend Emily and our husbands took off in front of us. We would occasionally see them turn a corner or at a switchback. The first six miles were crowded but went pretty fast. I wasn't quite prepared for all the inclines and hills, but they went pretty smoothly. At about mile 10 I started to really feel it, I had a bad side ache for about a half mile then it miraculously went away and I got a boost of energy and finished the race off with all I had left. Cam came in at 1:49:05 and I came in at 1:50:58. My goal was to finish before two hours and I was pretty excited with myself to keep a good pace at eight and half minute miles We also thought we did pretty well considering that we trained through the Holidays and procrastinated a little bit on vacations. All in all it was sooo much fun and I'm so glad that Cam decided to do it with me and that we walked away with our bodies still functioning. We definitely will be doing it again!

Silly boy!

For Christmas Jake and Alex got sticker books and Jake decided that it was funny to stick stickers all over Dad. He obviously thought it was even more funny to pull them back off. The things kids get a kick out of!

"Bob bob"

We hoped for the best as Jake went in to his two year checkup yesterday. He did awesome. He was absolutely mesmerized by all the tools they used to check his ears, and nose etc. It came time for him to get his shot and it just breaks my heart to have to hold little ones down like that and look into their eyes and see the questions like "what are you doing to me mommy," and "why did you bring me here." He didn't even cry. He just got a little red in the face and when he looked down and saw that he had a SpongeBob bandaid, he went crazy with delight! He couldn't stop talking about it on the way home. He kept saying "bob bob mom, where did bob bob go?" Then he would pull down his pants and say "Here it is mom! Here is bob bob!" It was hilarious! When Cam came home later "bob bob" was the first thing he showed him. When morning came we had a little saddness. Jake looked down when I went to give him a bath and his bandaid was hanging half off. He kept trying to stick it back on. I hurried and distracted him and pulled it the rest of the way off and threw him in the bath. When I pulled him out to get him dressed he immediately said, "Where bob bob mom?" He then saw the bandaid sitting on the counter and tried to put it back on. I tried to explain that it didn't have any stick left to it. Yeah right, try telling that to a two year old? So, we did the next best thing and taped that sucker right back on. Today he still pulled his pants down every once in a while and showed Alex or I and it just makes him so happy. So, I guess letting my kids watch a really dumb show, that I probably shouldn't, did somewhat of good.

California Christmas

This year we had Christmas in Fresno at Camerons parents. We had alot of fun with the kids this year. Alex is just the age where she really understands everything and Jake is just funny to watch and see how he takes everything in. We did lots of fun stuff, we made a trip down Christmas Tree Lane which is a street with all the houses decorated and lots and lots of lights, Jakes favorite! We made a gingerbread house, which I think its supposed to be for the kids but Cam and Curtis looked like they had more fun. We ate and ate and ate, which is MY favorite, and we shopped and hungout with family. Overall it was a great Christmas and we hope you all had one just as good and we are looking forward to a great new year!