Entertainment...

This afternoon me and Jake were running some errands and the cashier at Trader Joes gave Jake some voting stickers. I didn't pay much attention to what he was doing for awhile while we were driving back home, and then I looked back and he was staring at the tv like this, like nothing was out of the ordinary. Cute stuff!

Silly times.....

Me and Jake get to hangout alone a couple of times a week when Alex is in pre-school. These are some of the funniest and silliest times with Jake. He is a character! The funniest thing about it is that he really thinks that he is the coolest dude ever. He LOVES to sing and dance. I will crank up the music in the house and he will go crazy. A song will end and he will yell "Moy mom moy!!" (moy meaning more). Another of his favorite things to do lately is to try to attempt summersaults. He is getting better at them, but sometimes he goes so fast and hard I think he is going to break his neck. We have such a great time with one another and I look forward to these moments. This video is Jake singing his new favorite song.

Fun filled weekend!

We had a fun time over the weekend. Alex got a new bike for Christmas and won't stop asking to ride it every night so we took a trip around the block a few times. She's a crazy girl on that thing! We thought it would take some time to get used to her "big girl" bike but she is already asking to take her training wheels off after seeing her friend Nate ride without them. We had to come back in the house after going around because believe it or not it was too cold to be out there when the sun went down.



The stadium where the Super Bowl was is about 15 min away from our house so we went over to where they were having a bunch of activites going on and watched the cool fountain shows and walked around the shops. There was a NFL Experience thing with a ferriswheel and autograph signings but the line was ridiculous and we didn't think the kids could last a 2 hour wait :) so we bypassed that one. We did see John Elway for about 5 seconds speaking at some gathering, Cam thought that was pretty cool. On Sunday we got the announcement that our ward would be splitting and that we would be moved to 8am church. Holy cow! That's pretty early but i'm way more excited about it then staying at 1:30. After church we headed over to our friends the Smiths for Mat's Super Bowl/30th Birthday party (sorry Mat, I had to throw in the age :)) and had a great time as always when we get together. I hope all of you had as good as a weekend as we did!!!

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!