Brett, Rachael, Boston, Peyton

So so so behind!

2011-12-10T15:55:00.001-07:00

Wow, ok I am officially almost a year behind on my blog. Poor Peyt, with no record of her life. I have it all in me head I hope, I just need to dedicate myself to getting it on here before I forget it! I'm sure no one really even reads this anymore, but it is such a good journaling tool so here's to trying to get caught up during the holidays when I have some down time. :)

March

2011-09-13T12:55:00.000-06:00

This is a long one with lots of pictures and videos. :)

Peyt in the jumper. She didn't love this thing as much as Boston did, but we caught her on a good night in this video.

We drove down to Vegas for Mountain West tournament. Brett and my brother Jordan went to all the BYU games and the kids and I hung out around town with the crazies and in the hotel room a lot. We got a little cabin fever but it was a fun trip.

Bored in the Hotel room. We all sat in the bathroom and watched Peyt talk to herself in the mirror. She is so cute I can hardly stand it.

This was a slightly forced memory. It was still a little chilly but Boston was DYING to go to the pool. So, we did.

We went to see the Pirate ship at Treasure Island during the day. ;) Did not take my 3 yr old to the scandalous "sirens" show. He picked out this telescope at the gift shop and looooves it.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOSTON!!! I can not believe Boston turned 3 this year. Seriously , WHERE does the time go!? He is such a sweet boy and my best little buddy. He is so grown up. He potty trained himself a couple of months before his birthday (seriously, I did nothing, it was glorious), he loves his baby sister and is a big helper, still loves Buzz Light year, pirates, Lightning McQueen, and is starting to get into super heroes. He loves to watch movies, play outside on the tramp, learned how to ride his bike (video of that somewhere in this post), and is starting to "pretend". I love when I catch him doing this. Usually he is on his "cell phone" "talking to Nash or Gray". He helps clean up his own room and the baby toys in my room, and loves little responsibilities like putting his own bowl in the sink after cereal, putting his own stuff in the garbage, helping me dust, helping me vacuum, pushing his own small cart at the grocery store, taking care of Koda, basically anything he can do on his own. He is quite the independent little thing which at times is frustrating but you can't fault him for wanting to be big. :) He requests black eyed peas in the car, really thinks he can break dance, sleeps with his batting gloves on, I could go on and on. He makes me smile every day. His prayers before bed are so sweet and bedtime is often times my favorite time with him. He had a fun birthday and was way too spoiled.
He asked for a Pirate cake and I delivered. Love this cheesy grin.

Friends and family watching Boston open presents.
Hannah and Peyton.
Swimming at Grand-papas hotel. Recently I overheard this conversation between Boston and the neighbor boy that was over playing... Jumping on the tramp, Boston, " My grand papa has a Hotel, do you have a hotel? My grand papa has a hotel, but I don't have a hotel, but I will when I'm big. I'm big right now but I'll be bigger, watch this trick (lands on his bum and then to his feet, no hands)". LOL. That was one long run on sentence, that I had fun listening to. I always wondered what the heck little kids talk about and now I know.

He loves to go to Grand papa's hotel and swim

We took Boston skiing for his birthday. He had been waiting and waiting for this. He really wanted to go with my brothers and my dad and talked about it for months. He did really well and loved it so I think we will go again next year!

Dinner for my Mom's birthday.

February!

2011-05-22T21:38:00.004-06:00

I tried to feed Peyton some rice cereal, she is 6 months at this point. She did not appreciate it.

I had the bright idea to pierce Peyton's ears. I thought it would be cute. I made a big deal out of it and then that night when I got her all ready for bed, looked at her and saw a sassy teenager instead of an innocent baby so... I took them out and decided I would keep her a baby for as long as I could.
Boston, like every other kid that lives in Utah wants to be Jimmer.

Whenever we go to the mall, which is rare these days, Boston begs me to go on this little train. I made Jordan ride it with him this time. He was thrilled. haha.
These are Boston's favorite little friends. The triplets. I love them. First snowman we've ever built. When I say we, I mean Boston and Brett. I was warm inside. It was cute watching them work on this together though.

January

2011-01-13T22:35:00.012-07:00

Family time continued.....

Cutest little boys all in one bed. They were so excited to all sleep in the same bed. I thought for sure I would have to separate them at some point due to not sleeping, but NOPE, they were all out in like 10 minutes.

Peyt- almost 5 months- tried some food. hated it.
Boston is always grabbing my phone and wanting to pose for pictures. He picked this pose. Twins?
Family pictures taken by my friend Leah leahwatkinsphotography.com

Two of the handsomest boys I know!
Boy cousins

We went to the Aquarium A LOT in January. This year I decided I DESPISE winter.
Go Sox! Cutest little Red Sox fan I've ever seen. First time at the Discovery Gateway Museum. Loved it. 5 1/2 Months. Growing so fast! I feel like you can tell what she's going to look like at 16 in this picture. Scary.

Jazz game. Blue cotton candy = a mess. There was also a picture of me like this. WAY too scary to post. I deleted it right away.

December

2011-01-13T22:20:00.008-07:00

Ok, ok.. So I didn't end up doing a post every day but 3 so far this week is pretty good considering. I am trying here.

BYU game with Dad. He wasn't even afraid of Cosmo :)
Jordan keeping Peyton happy during church. This girl is seriously the happiest, smiliest baby I have ever seen!

I can't remember if this was a Jazz game or a BYU game. We went to a lot of games this year. :)
We went to Idaho this year for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, my family gets together, eats a lot and then Santa comes and brings all the kiddies Christmas Eve jammies. We made some progress this year with Boston, he actually went and sat on Santa's lap with some coaxing. It took a A LOT to get him to go up and tell Santa that he REALLY REALLY wanted a Buzz. Peyton was asleep during Santa. Maybe next year.

This pretty lady is my kid's GREAT Grandma! Can you believe it?! She looks amazing right??!! I am praying I inherited these same "non aging" genes.
Christmas morning. So excited about the remote control Buzz!
Peytey got a baby. I loved getting girly things for her.
After Christmas we came back to Utah to spend time with Brett's family. Boston was so excited to play with his cousins that had been living in Texas. We hadn't seen them since summer and loved spending time with them while they were here! We have this same picture from last year. Fun to see how they have all changed.

My parents got these Sexy feet jammies for Brett. Nice eh?
Love all these little cuties!

Cutest buddies in their matching Buzz pj's watching Toy Story

This is about the time Peyt was rolling over, sleeping in her own bed, and through the night. We love her! The holidays were so fun with 2 kids. It was so fun to see Boston's reaction to everything, Santa, Christmas lights, singing Christmas songs, presents, fun family stuff, etc. I love my kids, they teach me things daily and are such a blessing in my life. Being a mom is so tiring, but so rewarding. Wouldn't trade it for anything!

November

2011-01-13T22:06:00.007-07:00

Ok, this is good. This is two days in a row. I am making progress. Here is a quick overview of Novemeber. :)

Boston being a thug with Uncle Kyler again...

I was worried when Peyton was born that Boston wouldn't like her. Boy was I WRONG. He loves her! So much. He is so sweet with her. He tells her she is cute all the time and is always kissing and hugging her and wanting to play with her. I am usually trying to pull him off of her. I love it.

Isn't she a little doll? :)

Lol. This was up in Park City. We had a long day. Another day Boston didn't think he needed a nap. This was at dinner. He was being super whiny and I had had it but was trying to keep him up so he would go to bed. And then he fell asleep while eating dinner. I really almost killed him this day but then... how can you be mad at this sweet sleepy face?
Love love love her!
BYU basketball game with Boston and Sadie
Cousins Peyton and Hannah. Getting bigger! (Peyton 3 1/2, Hannah 1 1/2 mo.)
My Daddy cutting the Thanksgiving bird. The last few years we have been eating out for Thanksgiving. My family is still pretty small so it was a fun thing to do. Plus, no cooking or cleaning so that is nice. But this year, we went home to Boise and had dinner for the first time at my Mom's house. She decided she wants to start her Grandma traditions :)
Peace.
The family at the table (minus my kids that were sleeping)
Family pictures

Nah, nah, nah, nah... Nah, nah, nah, nah... Hey, hey, hey... GOOD-BYE!

Poor Poor Peytey!

2011-01-13T20:56:00.008-07:00

OCTOBER? Really? Has it been that long?! Poor Peyt, she has no record of her life. When Boston was tiny, before there were two, I swear I did like 2 posts a week! I guess that's the difference between one and two. I do take pictures though and I have a TON to post. Videos too! I am finding myself sick with regret though that I haven't been better about writing things down, with both kids, and of course it is a goal of mine to improve on this. I'm going to try and do one post a day this week, one for each month missed, until I have caught up to where we're at.

This is the day cousin Hannah (Brett's sister Krista's baby) was born. Her and Peyton are 2 months apart. We took Sadie and Boston to build a bear while Krista and new baby were in the hospital. Boston of course picked Buzz, his obsession at the time.
The two cheesiest smilers!

New baby Hannah made Peyton (2 months) look Gigantic!
This was at Brett's cousin Tommy and his wife Shantay's wedding reception. Boston and I danced the night away. He was the best date.

1st nap in her crib. :)
Boston and Sadie at the corn maze/pumpkin patch

1st bath together. Boston thought this was so sweet, and kept asking me where Peyton's pee pee was. haha. First lesson on the difference between boys and girls.
This was hilarious. They had this display at Albertsons for Halloween. The spider and the M&M guy had nothing to do with each other but Boston totally thought that when he stepped on this button he was making the spider move.

Trick-or treating at Papa Jay's work. Buzz light year to the rescue!
And little pumpkin Peyt
Before 'trick-or -treating'. This night was kind of lame. It rained and rained and rained. No trick or treating in our neighborhood, it was too wet with little kids. So I had the brilliant idea to drive all the way to Orem to the mall. Yeah right! That was EVERYONE'S idea. I have never seen the mall so packed. You couldn't even walk through. So, Boston got like 5 treats, which I was fine with. Maybe next year will be nicer weather.
I am saving this picture for his wedding video. I love it.

Trying to be a thug like his uncle Kyler

"Mom, I don't need to take a nap. I'm not tired. I wanna have quiet time on the couch." 10 minutes later...

Stay tuned for November. ;)

Peyton's newborn pictures

2010-10-02T08:54:00.010-06:00

My friend took these pictures of Peyton when she was two weeks old. So precious and sweet. There is nothing better than a tiny naked newborn :)
Check out Leah's website: leahwatkins.com

The circus :)

2010-10-01T22:48:00.003-06:00

We took Boston to the Circus last weekend. The whole time I kept thinking "Who grows up and wants to be in the circus?" What a different world that would be but they sure were entertaining and Boston loved it. I think my brother Jordan might have loved it more though. I wish I had some good pictures of his face.

Peyton slept through the whole thing

Grandma and Grandpa

Uncle Ky Ky
Uncle Jordan
Uncle Brady

A campfire, smores, friends, and some crazy little boys :)

2010-10-01T22:44:00.004-06:00

Love all these little guys!

cutest little face
caught Brett mid-bite
I love her little turned up nose :)
goofy boys

Park City

2010-10-01T22:40:00.003-06:00

We Heart Park City. :)

This is the bench we had our picture taken on when we got engaged. Back with our kids a few years later :)
Love these pictures of Jordan and Boston playing in the rain (and rain is an understatement, it was POURING)

Randoms since the baby... Also, I suck at updating my blog

2010-10-01T22:22:00.006-06:00

I have been horrible at updating my blog.. down right terrible. I'm going to attempt to do 4-5 posts in a row and hopefully get all caught up. Wish me luck!
We've been adjusting to having 2 at home, which actually hasn't been as scary as I thought it would be. :) It takes me much longer to get ready to go somewhere and I "go somewhere" much less but so far so good. We love having little Peyton around. She has definitely been our "bright" in what we can call a very "interesting" but good year. We feel very blessed to have her around. Boston continues to entertain us as well. He has the funniest little personality, talks my ears off every day and is always making us laugh. Right now he goes back and forth between being obsessed with Lightning McQueen and Buzz Light Year. He borrowed these wings from our friends boys and flies around the house in them.

To Infinity and Beyond!

The Aquarium with Grandma
fishy faces
Holding his little sis. So glad he likes her. Phew!.... so far. She looks super comfortable in this picture, haha.
I think this is at about 2-3 weeks? Who knows, poor thing really only has blurry phone pictures. I'm feeling a little guilty about that now after uploading my pictures tonight. Going to try and be better about that. She is pretty cute though in this blurry phone picture :)
Boston really thinks the horses at Thanksgiving Point are all "bullseye" from Toy Story and yells "Bye Bullseye!" after he rides one.
Correction, there is NOT a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but this was the prettiest rainbow I've ever seen.

cuddling with his little sis
Boston and Daddy at the BYU game
first grin I caught on camera ( I think this was about 5-6 weeks)

LOL. the only reason I put this picture on here is to point out the lady behind Boston and what she is wearing in August. haha. "Im going to the mall, I'll wear my striped tank top, my khaki shorts and my flip flops, no wait....my black high heel hooker boots, yes I look hot in those)
running through the fountains at Gateway

Looooove her!

Peyton's Blessing

2010-10-01T21:58:00.005-06:00

We blessed Peyton last weekend. It was perfectly sweet. Brett did a good job and she looked so cute. My oh so talented friend Jessica MADE her gorgeous dress. Thanks Jess. It fit perfect and I wish she could wear it more than once!

Let the drama begin... Stop taking my picture!! :)

"Baby Sister" Peyton Kate Sundberg

2010-08-09T23:58:00.005-06:00

She's here! She's here! And the sweetest baby ever! Little Peyton Kate came just when we wanted her to, on Friday, August 6th @ 5:22 pm. All of my family was in town for my cousins wedding last weekend so I was going to try really hard to have Peyton that weekend. What an obedient little girl. :) I went in and had my membranes stripped on Thursday and Friday morning I was in labor. We got to the hospital around 11:30, hung around for about an hour and a half before they told me I wasn't progressing enough and that they were going to send me home. I about died when I heard that. When I was in labor with Boston, as soon as my water broke it took about an hour and a half before he was ready to come. So I was nervous that if I went home I would be having a home birth... yikes. The nurse called my Dr. who told her to admit me (bless his heart) and he would come break my water. So, he came and did that at about 2:30, I got an epidural (sigh) and started pushing about an hour later. I pushed my epidural button right before pushing so I was too numb and had to take a break, only to start pushing again about 45 min later after the epidural had worn off COMPLETELY, so I felt everything and turns out I ended up having somewhat of a natural birth anyway. Ouch. I was so sick and low on oxygen so a little loopy too. Good thing something so good and beautiful comes from all of that!
Peyton weighed 7 lbs even and was 19 inches long. She has been such a sweet baby. From day one, she has almost slept through the night. She wakes up only once usually during the night and sleeps 4 hour stretches. We've hardly heard her cry. She is so tiny and sweet and Boston is in love with her too. Hopefully it will stay that way :)
meeting Mommy
meeting Boston

and Daddy

Great Grandma Brown, so glad she was in town
Great Grandma Clark
Grandma and Grandpa Fisher

Boston loves his baby sister!
First family picture. I was a little too out of it to do one of these in the delivery room ;)
It's not fair how fast time goes. She is already a week and 2 days old. I'm trying to soak it all in!

July Update...

2010-08-09T23:42:00.006-06:00

Tried to do a few fun things with Boston before "baby sister" arrived. :)

mowing the lawn with Daddy
Sparklers on the 4th. This was before he grabbed the end of it and got huge blisters on two fingers :(

Lagoon with cousins

White trash carnival "American Fork Steel days". Sadie and Boston looooved this car. I think they thought they were really driving it.

Owlz game

Boating. Wasn't sure how Boston would do on the tube. Thought he might be scared but Noooooo, he kept giving me the thumbs up to go faster and I was the one that was scared.

Another Orem Owlz game. We went on the 24th and Boston loved the fireworks

After the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point

FINALLY sitting myself down and MAKING myself do it!

2010-06-23T18:02:00.009-06:00

OK, holy cow, this is going to be a looooooong one. What do you expect though, I only have 3 months of catching up to do! Why do I put this off for so long?! We have had a busy, full of just "stuff" few months. And since I use my blog as my "journal" I can't not catch it up. :)

These two loooove each other! This was a day at the park in early Spring, sometime in March before it snowed like the next day.

The day we got home from Hawaii, Jason and Katie had their 4th baby, "Jude"... cutest fat little thing. That night after going to the hospital to see the new little one, we went to dinner with Brett's parents and Jason and Katie's kids.

Boston and Nash in their matching Thomas pj's. I promised myself I would NEVER buy character anything. Well, Boston has Thomas pj's, Buzz light year pj's and his grandma Jo Jo just informed me she bought he and Nashy matching Toy Story flip flops. I guess there are some promises you just can't keep.
This is Easter morning. I don't think he really knew what was going on but he still thought it was pretty cool to have treats for breakfast and get some new toys.
Easter egg hunt in the FREEZING cold at Brett's parents. Some memories just have to be forced. You can't not have an Easter egg hunt just because there is snow, right??
Easter Egg hunt with Aunt Teri and Uncle Kelly at their mortuary ( I know, that sounds creepy but having get togethers at the mortuary is normal in their family?) Brett's cousin Taylor dressed up as the Easter bunny. She looked adorable and the kids loved it.
The 3 pregnants
I realized the other day that I haven't really taken many pictures of my belly this time but I do have a few. This was at 21 weeks.
23 weeks
A few months ago, we found out that Brett's dad had a cancerous growth on his thyroid. He has since had it removed and had treatment and is doing very very well. It was a little scary but we are so glad he is ok! This is Boston when we went to see him at the hospital after his thyroid removal surgery.
At the end of April, Boston and I took a road trip to Boise to stay with my brothers while my parents went to Paris. He was an angel in the car the whole way, not without movies and treats the whole time of course :) This is what he picked out at the gas station...

playing at the park in Boise
In May my friend in our ward took some pictures of Boston and I. Here are just a couple...

These are at 26 weeks

We went up to Heber with Boston's cousins and did the whole "Day out with Thomas" adventure. It was cute and they loved it. They got to ride the train, play golf, get tattoos, and play with all the Thomas toys that were out. Boston went through quite the Thomas obsession phase so he thought this was pretty cool. It's so fun to see how excited your kids get about stuff. I love it.
getting his tattoo

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the farm at Thanksgiving Point with Boston's cousins. We picked a windy, chilly day but it was still fun. The obsession these days is Toy Story. When Boston got off this horse he kept saying "bye Bull-eye!" Oh and that face he's making, the not so attractive one is his "cheese" face. Whatever.

Boston's first real picture. One night we were sitting at the table and Boston wanted me to draw Spongebob, I don't know how to draw that! So I drew a square and then just kind of ignored him for a couple of minutes. When I looked over at him again, he had added all this stuff to it! I was floored since I've never shown him how to draw a "person" before. All I drew was the square and the hat and he did the rest. I thought this was pretty impressive. Maybe my little guy will be an artist?
Zoo Day! I'm so glad we got to do a few things with Boston's cousins before they left us and moved away :(

Doesn't Sadie look like she is loving this ride? haha
Boston loves loves loves his Uncle Brady and is his shadow whenever he comes to visit.

Summer haircut. Made me kind of sad to buzz his head, but his daddy really wanted to see what he would look like and I have to admit it's growing on me. He looks so old! I can not believe how fast time goes. It really isn't fair.
Phew! I think I'm done for now. We do have some other interesting and exciting changes going on at our house other than the new baby on the way, but I'll save that for another post ;) The way things have been going with my blog the next post will most likely be new baby pictures! Can't believe that is already that close . I'm 32 weeks this week! So excited to have a new little tiny person in our home. Oh and if anyone has any name suggestions, we are still stuck on that. I really don't want to have to call my baby "baby". haha. So I'm open to suggestions!

I miss Hawaii!

2010-04-27T14:57:00.007-06:00

This is a little late, but here are some pictures from our Hawaii trip which by the way was Heavenly! We had so much fun and mostly just really enjoyed relaxing for a week. :)

First Day!

Ruth's Chris... yum!
The boys "tried" surfing:)

Snorkel Cruise
Brett's cereal milk spill that just happened to look like the islands

view from our room, ahhhhh
I want to go back IMMEDIATELY :)

Happy Birthday Boston!!

2010-03-21T22:28:00.002-06:00

It's Boston's birthday today! Happy Birthday little buddy!

Happy Birthday Boston and more

2010-03-17T22:19:00.004-06:00

We celebrated Boston's birthday a weekend early this year because we won't be here for his real birthday :( I can not believe I almost have a 2 year old! (in 4 days) Where the heck did that time go?! I love every inch of him though, he's been so much fun to have around for the last 2 years.
We had a "Thomas" party for him since that is his OBSESSION right now. All he cares about really is his trains. So funny. We had some family and a few friends over and his party was complete with Thomas cake, and a choo-choo pinata. Then we took all of the kids to Kangaroo zoo to work out all the sugar!

Boston helping me make the cake...
Blowing out his candles

Kangaroo Zoo

This is what happens when we don't take a nap :) passed out on the living room floor
Oh and by the way... we are having a GIRL! :) so excited!

Sore Loser...

2010-03-17T22:05:00.002-06:00

Extremely LONG catch up post ahead...

2010-02-02T14:00:00.009-07:00

I wish I could say I haven't posted for a long while because I've been super super busy, but if we're being honest, I haven't been that busy at all. The reason for my laziness? This:
We are very excited to be expecting our second little someone. I'm about 12 weeks along and the last couple months I have been completely exhausted! I don't remember being this tired and just plain worn out with Boston but I can't complain too much. At least I haven't been sick. So this little person has been my reason for sometimes staying in my pajamas, and getting nothing done at all some days including not updating my blog for 3 months.
I'll attempt to update the last few months...

This is Boston's new favorite thing to do. He brings books to my hair people and wants to sit on their laps while they're getting their hair done. I do not have a shy child.

Yes, we took our SON to Disney Princess on Ice and he liked it :) If we're being honest, I was really the one that wanted to go and I liked it too.

My kid's two favorite OBSESSIONS: Bananas and Choo Choos.
Family Christmas pictures

Look at those handsome little future missionaries
First Presidency Christmas Devotional
Boston and Kyler having a dance off in Forever 21. This was way funny. I wish I had Kyler in the video more. Boston was attempting to copy everything he was doing.

Tried to take Boston to see Santa at the mall. He didn't cry but was totally creeped out by him and refused to sit on his lap. So we got this picture instead in front of Santa's tree.
Sundberg Christmas party... Again, refused to sit on Santa's lap but definitely wanted the present.

Christmas morning at Sundberg's. Boston got a remote control car that he loved.
Riding the Choo Choo at the mall. We've taken him to ride this a few times and I swear he thinks it is the best thing that's ever happened to him in his lifetime! Loves loves loves it!

I love this baby. Baby Ryne. Brett got him to sleep with his magic touch. My favorite thing though is he sucks on only one finger. So cute.
Cousins watching a movie. No idea what Halle is wearing. :) Silly girl
The kids love to get on top of the fridge at JoJo's house. They were being really funny that night.
Boston and Sadie at Cabelas

Lunch at The Blue Lemon. Boston and Nash thought they were pretty cool cause they could put their legs up on the table like Gray.
Well, That's what I've got for the last few months. Not a ton going on, but we are all healthy, happy, and excited about our little newcomer.

Happy Halloween!

2009-11-09T19:04:00.005-07:00

Boston loved Halloween!!! He had so much fun going door to door and getting "teats!" I didn't really think he would get it but he sure did! He knocked on every door and said "knock-knock!" and then "tick-er-teat" when the door would open and just grabbed as much as he wanted from whatever was offered. He got mad when I would stop and talk to people because we weren't moving fast enough. Such a funny boy.

My little Monkey :)

Me and my brother's girlfriend Lindsey and her little boy Maxton

Maxton and Boston "Knock-knock!"
Walked in on this one day... cute :)

"Monthly Update" past due

2009-10-22T15:03:00.006-06:00

OBVIOUSLY my blog has evolved into more of a monthly journal of some sort. Seems like the time goes by so fast lately I just can't seem to get a hold of it. October has already almost come and gone. Anyhow, here is what we've been up to... at least I still manage to take pictures once in a while :) Also, some of this post is meant for Katie so she can see all of the safe and some not so "safe" things we did with her kids while she was gone :)

BYU game at the end of September. We got Boston all outfitted. He loved it for about the first 20 minutes. Not quite ready for those yet but we still had fun.
We went through a small (thank goodness) phase where Elmo had to eat, sleep, and go everywhere with Boston. Now Elmo "sleeps" a lot. I had to start turning him off so I wouldn't throw him across the room after hearing his voice all day :)
Playing in the rain at Jo Jo's house. Didn't quite understand the umbrella thing...just wanted to drag it behind him so he was soaking wet.

Thug Gray
Pumpkin Patch with cousins

Boston's cousins came and stayed with us for a weekend. We had so much fun. It was go, go, go constantly. Even though they were complete angels, I was tired and have so much respect for people with more than one child.
Nash, Boston, Gray and Halle watching a movie on the big screen!
Cabellas
4 kids in a Costco shopping cart sitting on a box of diapers, not so safe, but fun
We also went to "Jump on it" ( couldn't get the video to load :( ) NOT SAFE, haha. I still can not figure out why this place is still there. I mean, the kids LOOOOVE it, and I think it's a great idea, but oh my gosh, seriously? 50 trampolines all tied together, and you just let the kids go? It's amazing someone hasn't died in there! I will keep going though even though it smells like sweat and dirty socks, it's asking for an injury or germy disease, and you don't have to sign a waiver at the door. It's cheap, fun and it wears them out like crazy. :)

Our ward did a Halloween party for the little kids that don't go to school. here's my little monkey :)
Sadie and Krista came too! We didn't get ANY cooperation for a picture :)

See you after Thanksgiving! haha. Or maybe if it's a good month I'll do a post shortly after Halloween.

Blog not abandoned after all!

2009-09-19T19:05:00.015-06:00

I have to admit the cooler weather is kind of nice but I am so sad to see summer coming to an end. I am not ready for the cold! We've had a good summer, done some fun things and have seen some fun and exciting changes in our little Boston boy. He is such a goofy little kid but I of course love him to pieces!

Fun at the park
Boston loves to bring me my camera, climb up on my lap and take a "cheese"
Lagoon day! Boston and Nash on the boats

We just got back last week from a trip to Boston and New York. Such a fun and needed vacation. The plan was to take Boston with us but we decided kind of last minute to leave him which was a good decision but hard for me. I survived :) I only cried like 12 times the first day and then I was fine but still missed him lots. Thanks to my sister in law Katie and everyone else that lives in that house for helping to take care of my little buddy.
We've been to Boston before but had never really "seen" it and all it's known for. We decided to take a tour of the city this time and I'm glad we did. It was fun except for the cold and rain.

Of course we went to a game!! Very disappointing though, we saw 3 at bats and then sat while it poured rain for 3 hours until they called the game :(. Poor Brett was so sad. I guess we'll just have to go again!

Times Square
My brother Kyler met up with us in New york and we went and saw Lion King. Very cool, very well done play. I reccomend it.

Wouldn't be Times Square without the Naked Cowboy! haha.
Some Random Elmo guy in Times Square. It's amazing what people come up with to make a living in that city. Buy and Elmo Costume, hold a Christmas stocking and make people pay you to get their picture taken with you. What?

Blog....Abandoned?

2009-09-19T00:28:00.000-06:00

Lake Powell

2009-08-09T22:16:00.005-06:00

Last weekend we went down to Lake Powell with some of Brett's family. My brothers were staying with us and Brett's aunt and uncle have some kids their age so we decided to do a road trip with them. They have an RV and we have a boat so we decided to head down to Powell. We had a lot of fun. It was really windy so we did a lot of tubing and jumping and had a blast. Lake Powell really is my idea of what heaven is like. :)

For fun

2009-07-29T00:28:00.005-06:00

Animal Sounds- It's very rare that I can get him to do all of the animals in a row so I was thrilled that I caught this. I'm so mad though that I forgot to have him do the fishy. It's my favorite, I don't know how I forgot that!

This was the other night at dinner. So funny.

Warning- Extremely long post with lots of pictures!

2009-07-28T12:51:00.009-06:00

So, "catching up" after a month has gone by is becoming something of a habit. Here's what we've been up to...

Check out that stance. Boston loves his bat and ball, well actually anything that resembles a bat, a golf club, stick, a pen,a fork, anything he can swing. Brett isn't proud of this at all.

4th of July. We went to something called the "culd-a-sac of fire". Brett's parents neighbors put on this production of sorts that is kind of a spoof on the stadium of fire. It was pretty good. They had dancers, singers, the "Bonus brothers" (these kids dressed up as the jonas brothers- funny), and fireworks.

Liberty Land=waste of some investor's money. haha. If you live in Utah County you've probably seen Liberty Land from the freeway. We went there on a Saturday night... no joke we were the only people there. Kinda sad because there is potential there. They actually have some cute little rides for kids, and it's bigger than it looks from the freeway, its just slightly ghetto. But whatever, we still had fun. Check it out sometime. It's good cheap entertainment for the kids.

Love how this picture makes it look like I tried to squeeze onto this ride all by myself. I didn't even come close to fitting but Boston wasn't big enough to go by himself, so I had to hang my leg out the side, haha.
Our friend Chanel had the cutest baby boy last week and we took her kids for a couple of days. We took them up to Park City with us. They had fun, went to see their baby brother, played a lot of Wii, went swimming, watched movies and laughed at Shane a lot. Love these boys. They do have a lot of energy and I was tired after chasing around 3 boys but it was worth it. They were good and I got lots of hugs and laughs.

I can't believe that Boston almost fits the entire length of his playpen already. How the heck did he get so big?! I swear it wasn't that long ago that he looked like he would get lost in there!
Daxon and Shane..."watch this cool trick!"
Kisses! This dog was a saint. Boston was pretty much making out with him, putting his hand in his mouth, his fingers up his nose.. maybe he was patient because he was also being fed bites of doughnut?
I love this, because I realize that I'll be watching tee ball, little league and maybe high school ball before I know it.
Its been a fun month. I love summer. Boston is getting so fun. He understands a lot more now and is getting a little better at communicating. He can say Daddy and Mama well now. He does lots of animal sounds (dinosaur, duck, cow, dog, elephant, horse, fishy, bear, snake, and anything with wheels says "vroom, vroom!")He says, ball of course, bat, shoes, wow, hi, ba-ba, koda, fishy, hot (a candle is a "hot" and any kind of food is always hot), what's that, who's that, uh-oh and I can't remember anything else right now. He loves the water which is fun and scary. He will jump right in with no hesitation. He loves taking a bath and asks to take one several times a day by turning the water on and trying to climb in. Loves his bat and ball, this is all he really wants to do. He wakes up and looks for his bat and can spend a long time in the family room just hitting the ball. He does have quite the swing for a one year old. He loves to watch Dora too. I don't. But he will bring me the remote and then try to climb up on my bed so he can watch. This is nice when I'm trying to get ready, he'll sit there the whole time . He loves his daddy! When Brett leaves in the morning Boston stands by the door and yells "Hey! Daddy! Daddy! (daddy sounds like da-yee, love it). He likes to watch ESPN with Brett. He knows his routine at night, get a ba-ba, go get on the couch and watch highlights with dad while drinking it. He goes over and turns on the TV and then crawls up on the couch and says "ball, ball" while pointing to the TV. This means he wants to see the highlights for that day. haha. Anyway, this super long paragraph is mostly for my personal journaling purposes. :) To sum it up we love him and can't imagine life with out him.

2009-06-24T19:58:00.004-06:00

On Monday we took Boston to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point for the first time. He really liked it. He's starting to get in to telling me what animals say. Most of them right now say "Roar!" but he is starting to catch on. He can tell me what a dog, elephant, fishy, bear, horse, and dinosaur say, and anything else says "roar". He liked the goats and sheep the most and just wanted to stand by the fence and wait for them to lick his fingers (kind of yucky, these are the things you shut your eyes for for the enjoyment and happiness of your child I guess). He was a little afraid at first to ride the horse but really liked it toward the end and did not want to get off.

waiting for the goats
I was trying to show Boston how a bunny moves it's nose around, this was his interpretation. This is also what a "shishy" does.
What does a fishy say?
Riding the pony

Swimming Lessons

2009-06-24T19:43:00.003-06:00

For the last couple of weeks we have been driving down to Orem to the Scera pool for Boston's swimming lessons, aka paying $35 to play in the water and not learn anything. Which is fine, and it's been fun. We signed up to take them with his cousin Sadie who is only one month younger than him and it's been fun to see them play together and they both LOVE the water! Last week we stayed a little longer after lessons were over to play. Brett came and took some pictures of the little water babies.

I heart Lake Powell

2009-06-09T21:38:00.004-06:00

We spent last week in Lake Powell with some friends. Houseboat, good company, good food, sooo relaxing. I love the feeling of not knowing or caring what time it is.

Some other randoms from the last few weeks...

NBA??

Memorial Day. Boston was making the cheesiest smiley faces in these pictures. (Sundberg cousins)This one is my favorite. CHEESE!

Halle and Rylee

Where's your belly!?
Not sure if that is dirt or chocolate on his face...
riding Dude

Yay!

2009-05-20T22:25:00.003-06:00

I am so happy about this. I think he will do great.

NEGLECTED

2009-05-16T09:05:00.007-06:00

My blog has been completely neglected for the past month and I really don't have a good reason. Since my last post we've been pretty busy I guess. 2 trips to Boise, one with my friend and our 2 little guys and one with Brett, the zoo, 2 birthdays, and some golf. Brett has also been super busy with work and with working on our yard trying to get it all done so we can play outside this summer. :) Lots of pictures ahead...

look at that cute bum!
My little brother Brady at his baseball game. He looks SOOO cute in his baseball stuff!

Boston making new friends at the game. NO idea who these kids are.

Riding the carousel at the zoo in Boise

Long day at the zoo. Plus we went during naptime :)
We went golfing for my birthday. (this WAS actually my choice :)) Boston loved it. One of these days we'll get him his own clubs so he doesn't have to use my pink ones.

UGH....REALLY?!!?

2009-04-15T13:41:00.001-06:00

Happy Easter and a day at the zoo!

2009-04-13T21:22:00.006-06:00

Yay! 2 gorgeous days in a row! Not looking forward to the yucky snow that is supposed to come this week. Spring is SUCH an emotional roller coaster!

Easter Morning
Easter Egg hunt at Papa and JoJo's with his cousins
Today we went to the zoo, it was a beautiful day!
Boston LOVED the carousel!!

Love this!

2009-04-07T11:15:00.002-06:00

Now that Boston is on whole milk and I realized I would be going to the store for milk a lot now instead of formula, we decided to sign up to have it delivered. I know, lazy right? But Winder Dairy does groceries now too and seriously, who wouldn't love real milk with no growth hormones, fresh bread with no preservatives, fresh squeezed OJ, and locally grown organic fruits and veggies delivered right to your door!? I'm all about saving a trip to the grocery store!

We are so mean...

2009-04-04T12:24:00.004-06:00

Last night in the car...Boston could see Kyler's reflection in the window and must have thought it was a monster? haha

COME ON SPRING!!!!!

2009-04-03T16:20:00.001-06:00

that's all

Project

2009-04-02T17:16:00.003-06:00

My sister in law got the Leap frog magnetic Alphabet game for Boston for his birthday. Our fridge is stainless steel and isn't magnetic so I made him this.... and he loves it :)

My baby is ONE!!!

2009-03-20T23:48:00.005-06:00

Happy Birthday Boston!
I can NOT believe a year has gone by already. Boston is big! I am so sad that the time has gone by so fast, I guess this is why we keep having babies? You start to crave that tiny cuddly little thing again I guess. Not that I am craving quite yet... :)

We had a fun little birthday party for him tonight. Thanks to all of our family and friends that were able to come and support our little guy. He got so many fun things, he didn't want to go to bed tonight because he wanted to keep playing with all of his new toys. :) Of course I was bad at taking pictures tonight (I always am), there was a lot going on though, lots of people and kids in our little house. We did get a few of him with his little baseball cake. He didn't dig into his cake like I thought he would but he was still fun to watch.
And this is for my blog "journal" :)

Things Boston does that I love:
-tries to put sunglasses on on top of his head, missing his eyes by a long shot
-calls anything round a "ball"
-points to any animal and says "woof"
-gets in to something he knows he not supposed to, looks at me and says "oooohh" with a big grin
-imitates Koda eating by getting down on all fours and pretending to pick food up off the ground with his mouth and then makes the eating sound
-throws a fit if I brush my teeth without him brushing his at the same time
-tries to imitate me brushing my teeth while brushing his own, so funny
-stands at the back door in the morning and yells for Koda to come in just like I do "Da!"
-gives me kisses over and over and over as many times as I ask
-When I have ice in my mouth or any treats, opens his mouth like a little bird and puts it to my mouth so I can pass it, haha, kind of gross but so cute and funny
-loves to play with Koda and laughs anytime she feels like he is cool enough to give him any attention (she did NOT like him for a long time but she's warming up)
-gets so excited when Brett comes home his body goes into a squirmy fit!
-when I do sit ups, or anytime I am laying down he thinks it is so funny to "come get me" and crawls super fast over to me to "tackle me"
-throws his food on the floor and then yells "Da!" for Koda to come get it, this is actually quite frustrating but still funny
-holds my phone to his ear and says "ho?" and then talks jibberish like he is talking on the phone
-knows what it means when I say "want a treat?" and gets really excited (woops :))
-sings himself to sleep
-sits with a ball between his legs and dribbles it

Things he can say...
first word: Ball
"da" Koda
"woof" Koda, the other dogs and anything on four legs
"das, das" followed by bouncing up and down- "dance, dance"
"wasat" what's that (always in a curious whisper)
"ba-ba" his bottle of course
"oooh" anything cool, or anything he is not supposed to be doing :)
"ho" hello, holding the phone to his ear

This has been such a fun and very rewarding year. I love this little guy so so much. I can't think of anything I would want more than to hang out with him every day. Kids really do soften your heart and teach you what pure love is all about. Happy Birthday Buddy!

The Latest...

2009-03-20T23:31:00.005-06:00

Here's the latest, a few pics, nothing too exciting but tomorrow is Boston's birthday.. he's one already! I can't believe it! So, I'm sure I'll do a new post either tomorrow or Sunday with pictures from his party :)

Cheese!!
Playing Mario Kart on the Wii with Daxon and Shane... well, pretending to play
Day at the park... loved the swings!! Boston and Sadie shared and fit perfectly. Sometimes I can prevent it, sometimes I am not fast enough

Don't leave your kid alone in the tub...

2009-03-02T20:32:00.006-07:00

Or you might find him like this...
I know you're not supposed to EVER leave your kids alone in the bathtub, but I did just for a minute so I could thrown in a load of laundry and I came back to this. I laughed but the scenario did not last long as I immediately became disgusted that the dog was in the tub with the baby. He didn't seem to mind though. :)

A BIG HIGHLIGHT! WALKING! YAY?

And some other randoms...

???
Riding in the Tractor with Daddy

I learned something today....

2009-02-24T20:13:00.004-07:00

I learned that I can clean up throw up and I am capable of doing it without throwing up myself. This is the one thing that seriously scared me about being a parent. I really really really did not think I could do it. That was NOT going to be my job. But what am I supposed to do when Brett is at work and Boston is throwing up all day? Clean it up, love my little guy, and do lots and lots of laundry. It's been a long day but I think we've made it through and we'll be good as long as Brett and I don't get whatever Boston has. Poor little guy.On a happier note, look at this cute picture of Boston and his cousin Nash is the tub. I wish I could say "What cute little fat babies" but Boston actually looks really skinny next to Nashy. We thought he was catching up, but we might've been wrong.

Playing catch up again

2009-02-16T12:51:00.013-07:00

I have been so bad at the blogging thing lately. Since Boston doesn't sleep all day long anymore and is pretty mobile now and in to everything I spend a lot less time on the computer and more time playing. Plus Brett is home a lot in the winter so we are hanging out with him alot of the time too, and we like that :) Anyway, here's what we've been up to the last month....

Awhile ago we went to Jump On It with our friends Brad and Chanel, their boys and Kyler. For those of you that aren't familiar with Jump On It, it's a huge warehouse with like 50 trampolines all linked together. Great place to take your kids to get their energy out but kind of a dangerous concept. I'd like to get the statistics on how many kids get hurt here per week. :) I guess with a boy I'm just going to have to learn to shut one eye or both and hope for the best.

Teamwork....Carter is steering, Boston is pushing

A couple of weeks ago we were babysitting Shane so we went down to Orem and grabbed our nephew Gray and took them to Kangaroo Zoo. They had fun and were extremely worn out.

Last weekend Brett and I met my parents in Vegas. We were hoping for warmer weather :( but it was still a nice little getaway.
In front of the volcano at the Mirage

Since it was rainy and cold pretty much the entire time, my mom and I did a lot of shopping. Brett and my dad were so good about it. haha. This is my dad while we were shopping. We came back and caught him like this. He had found a nice little bench to take a nap on in the middle of the mall.

We ate at ESPN Zone one night and Boston was playing the funniest game with Brett. This video cracks me up.

When Boston was born I had every intention of getting his pictures taken every couple of months. Well, I did newborn pictures and these....that's still good right? We do have a lot of unprofessional pictures.

cousins- Nash, Boston, and Sadie

How Sweet
Nashy

We had a good Valentine's Day. Neither of us are huge fans of Valentine's Day. It is a pretty pointless holiday. I'm not sure how it even came to be but my guess is that if it was a woman who came up with it it was for garaunteed flowers and if it was a man it was for garaunteed sex. So true right? haha. Brett did get me flowers and chocolate and the Wii Fit which I am so excited about! We went to breakfast instead of trying to fight the dinner crowds, and then we went to a movie that night. So all in all it was a great day.
Plus, I got a card that sings this song...if you're married, definitely listen to this, and if you're not, still listen to it because it's hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vi8q3bKA7k

I think I'm all caught up now. :) Hope everyone is doing well!

Boston, make your "funny face"!

2009-01-19T20:35:00.002-07:00

LOL. We're not really sure why Boston makes this face, but it cracks me up every time he does it. He does it when he is really proud of himself for something or when he is just being silly. So funny. We have him trained now to do it on command.

First Shiner

2009-01-14T16:13:00.006-07:00

Boston got his first "shiner" the other day, so sad but I am gearing up because I'm sure it won't be his last. Poor guy is just trying to figure out this whole moving around thing and has had so many bumps and bruises the last couple of weeks. He either falls flat on his face or falls backwards and hits the back of his head. The good thing for me is afterwards he always wants to cuddle me for a long time. The other day he was up on his knees by our bed and lost his balance. He fell and hit his eye right on the steel bedframe that sticks out under the mattress. Poor little dude. If you make the picture bigger you can see better, he got a little cut on his eye and a nice bruise to go with it.

I haven't been so good at blogging lately. I think I may have gotten a little burned out there for awhile. Now I've got to play catch up. So just for fun here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks....

Brett and my brothers rock climbing. Don't you love Brett's headband? haha

Boston rock climbing. He really was holding on here all by himself, just being spotted of course. My boy is pretty tough but don't be deceived by this picture. He was SCREAMING, the most scared cry I've ever heard, but we laughed cause we thought it was cool that he could hold on by himself. We are so mean.

Caught him giving himself kisses in the mirror. He would kiss himself then get all excited, bouncing up and down and then do it again. So cute.

Helping Mom and Dad pick out a treadmill

There is a sweet sledding hill by our house. We went the other day with Brett's family and some friends. I think we realized when we got there that we had too many babies and it was really cold but it was still fun.

Halle and Gray pretending to drive the snowmobile. This is all Gray really wanted to do.

Dave and Jenny and the twins, don't they look cute in their matching coats!

This picture cracks me up! How FAT does Boston look in this picture! LOL!! He looks like he weighs like 50 pounds! My sweet little marshmellow man. He didn't have a thick winter coat and this borderline ugly full snowsuit was all I could find at 10:30 at Walmart the night before. I think this rivals the kid from "The Christmas Story"

Happy Holidays!

2008-12-31T18:49:00.005-07:00

This year we spent Christmas time in Boise. We left on the 17th and came back on the 27th. We had lots of fun, spent Christmas Eve at my Grandma's house with my mom's side of the family, went and saw a couple of movies (Bedtime Stories= great!, 7 pounds= "renter"), went skiing, bowling, and even got in a little relax time in the middle of all the Holiday craziness. Here are a few pictures of what we've been doing the last couple of weeks...

Helping Daddy drive to Boise (at a gas station having a little stretch/break from the carseat)

Proud Dad moment...We all know Brett is crossing his fingers for a baseball star

Christmas Eve jammies and yummy candy cane :)

Christmas Morning

Boston's favorite Christmas present. We've discovered that Boston LOVES balls, Loves them!

Before we went skiing

Boston and his cousin Nash at Fat Cats with Brett's family

Another proud Dad moment....Boston is PALMING the ball here and actually seems to prefer to hold it this way. He does this with his little football too. So, maybe we'll have a basketball player? or maybe a Quarterback?

Where have we been?

2008-12-16T22:28:00.005-07:00

I haven't posted for a little while. Figured it was time I caught up a bit. We've been busy at our house. I've been chasing Boston aorund, yes he is "army crawling" and getting fast. (I have this on video and will upload it soon), been doing lots of hair trying to get everyone in before we leave town for the Holidays, and this last week we were in Park City for a few days for some relax time. Here are some random pics from the last couple of weeks.
Boston driving his Escalade...well, Costco's Escalade

Some family pictures we had taken over Thanksgiving

Our friends Brad and Chanel and their boys came up to Brett's parent's condo in Park City with us. These are their handsome little dudes. We got a picture of their kids up there but none of our own... maybe next time Boston

PRIVATE

2008-12-05T10:07:00.002-07:00

I know I said I was going to go private, and I still am. I just haven't taken the time to enter all of the email adresses yet. Call it laziness. I'm planning on doing it on Sunday so if you haven't left me your email address yet, do it before Sunday! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

2008-11-27T23:21:00.000-07:00

We had Thanksgiving at the Marriot in Salt Lake with my family and Brett's parents and sister. YUM!
I just want to take a minute and list a few things that I am so grateful for.

First, I'm grateful for a wonderful wonderful husband. I can't even express how lucky I am to have Brett. When I look back on my life and the challenges and experiences I've had, it strengthens my faith in the plan that our Heavenly Father has for us and assures me that he loves us and wants us to be happy. I am so thankful to have found someone that truly is my other half, my best friend, and my team mate. He is such a kind, sensitive, loving, understanding, and hard working man. He makes me laugh, he makes me want to be a better person and has a way of softening my heart when it needs it ;) He is such a good daddy, I love to see the way he adores Boston. I know I don't always give him enough credit but I do think he is amazing and I love him so much.

I'm grateful for a healthy, beautiful little boy. He melts my heart daily. I had no idea that one little child could have the ability to completely overflow my heart with love.

I'm thankful for my family. Now that I am grown and can see that my parents were actually right about some things, haha, I have come to admire and appreciate their strength, wisdom and love. I only hope I can be as good of a parent to Boston as they both were to me. And I've changed my mind about sisters I think. I love having 3 handsome, fun, and hilarious brothers!

I'm thankful for my other family (my in-laws). I don't know if they will ever really understand how much it means to me to have been totally welcomed by them from day one. They are so good to us and we love them so much.

I'm thankful for the gospel and the guidance, and direction it gives us in our lives.

I'm thankful for the Country we live in and the freedom we have here. Even though I am scared for some of the changes we may see over the next few years, I am holding on to the Faith and hope that I have that we will still live in a safe place where we have the freedom to choose who we are and what we believe in.

And lastly, I am thankful for our new tradition of Thanksgiving dinner at the Marriott, where no one has to cook all day or do dishes!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

8 months already?! Why am I not skinnier!?

2008-11-22T10:27:00.003-07:00

I can't believe Boston is already 8 months old. I also can't believe that people have been asking me already when I'm going to start trying again! I love love love my little boy but am in NO hurry to have another one yet, crazy people. The last couple of months have been really fun with him. It's so fun to watch every new little thing he learns. He totally consumes my attention and I love it.
He is eating really well now. He'll for sure eat anything from my plate, loves his fruit but NOT veggies. He'll eat sweet potatoes and regular mashed potatoes but nothing else really. Tried to give him green beans last night, that did not go over well. I don't blame him though. Seriously, some of the baby food flavors they make... YUCKY! He just started waving bye-bye last night. We've been working on that with him and last night was the first time he did it all by himself and boy was he proud of himself. He got so excited. He can pull himself up with the bottom dresser drawers and almost the couch. He's getting really close to crawling, rocking back and forth but not moving yet. That doesn't mean he isn't mobile though, he gets around just fine by steam rolling from one end of the room to the other. He likes dog food, haha. The other day I found dog food in his mouth (Koda takes mouthfuls from her bowl to the carpet to eat, she's weird). Yum yum. And boy did he throw a fit when I took it out. I'm going to have to figure out somewhere else to keep Koda's bowls when he can crawl. He loves his daddy! He gets so excited when Brett walks in the room. He officially sleeps ALL NIGHT LONG now. Before he was sleeping from about 9 to 3 or 4. A couple of weeks ago he started sleeping from 9 to 8. Heavenly for me, especially since Brett and I have been up till at least 1 am, sometimes 3 watching the seasons of Prison Break. :) Anyway, we are having so much fun with him, he has such a cute and fun personality and we love him so much!

Going Private

2008-11-14T21:47:00.002-07:00

I used to think going private was stupid. Only because when people went private I wasn't able to stalk their blogs anymore. But tonight I had my first comment left by an unknown person telling me they thought my baby was darling and it kind of creeped me out. So, I've made a decision. Chances are if you look at our blog we look at yours too so leave me your email if you'd like to keep in touch! Thanks! :)

Happy Halloween

2008-11-06T23:17:00.003-07:00

We went to Boise for Halloween to hang out with my family. It's always good to be home. We came for the weekend and then Brett went back to Utah and Boston and I stayed in Boise all week so he could play with his Grandma and Grandpa and his uncles. We're headed back home tomorrow and are both excited to see Brett! We missed him. Here are a few pics from Halloween and our little trip...

We didn't "actually" dress up for Halloween. Well, Boston did but not Brett and I. We did play around in the costume box at my Aunt's house though and this is what we came up with. Doesn't Brett look SUPER sexy in his Skeleton/girl pirate costume? haha. I'd still jump those bones.

(I promise my brother Kyler is not Gay... I think)

Me and my cuddly little bear

Grandma and Boston

Taking a bath in Grandma's giant tub... FUN!

Procrastination is a bad habit

2008-10-28T17:44:00.011-06:00

So I've been putting this blog entry off for a little while because there are a lot of pictures involved and that takes a long time and sometimes I am lazy :) Sorry for the large amount of pictures I am about to put on here. I'm not good at keeping a journal and so I use our blog as my "journal". I want to print out all of the pages and make a book out of it so I like to have all the pictures. Anyway here they are...

These ones are actually from August but I just barely got them from my Mother-in-law's camera. We were in Park City and took Boston to the pool with all of his cousins. He loved it. He is such a little water baby. No joke, he cries sometimes when I take him out of the bath.

Boston and his cousin Nash at Grandma JoJo's house

Bathtime, the love of Boston's life. For those of you that saw Boston when he was brand new with those skinny skinny bird legs, you'll appreciate these fat fat rolls!

Not this last weekend but the weekend before that we were up in Park City for the weekend at Brett's parent's condo. On Friday JoDee, Boston and I went and met up with Katie, Krista and Karlee and the kids at the zoo while Jay and Brett went golfing. It was Boston's first time at the zoo! He had absolutely no idea what was going on but I think he had fun. :)

We came home on Saturday night but then went back up again on Sunday for dinner. We drove through American Fork Canyon for a nice scenic Sunday drive and stopped to have a mini photo shoot on the way...

And here is a sneak peak at our family pictures we had taken last week. I hope they turn out good! We haven't seen them yet.

Brett's eyes are only sort of closing in this picture. Hopefully we'll have one where they are good and open. :)
OK... just one last thing. Those of you that like treats will like this. Like 6 months ago we bought one of these glorious things

A vita-mix. One of the many things I've been sucked in to at Costco. I got it because I wanted to be able to make some if not all of my own baby food with fresh fruits and veggies. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this thing! I've used it to make lots of different stuff like fresh Oj, fresh fruit syrup (it heats it up for you), fresh salsa, etc. And tonight a yummy yummy treat. This treat is a great alternative to the Chocolate Reese's milkshake I crave too often. I think it tastes just like it but with WAAAAY less calories of course. A much much much healthier option. And although I do love the vitamix, a regular blender will do for this one of course. ;) Here is the recipe:

1 1/2 cups Lite Vanilla Soy Milk
1/4 cup dry hot cocoa mix (I use the Swiss Miss no sugar added kind)
2 Tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
1 bananna
2 cups of ice
Yum Yum!

Phew that was a long one! Promise to break it up next time!

And the mullet is gone....

2008-10-16T20:59:00.003-06:00

I've been putting off cutting Boston's hair for some time now. Mostly because in my head cutting his hair meant that he would be a big boy and I wasn't ready for that. However his "shark fin" as we called it (the 2 maybe pushing 3 inch mohawk) and the mullet that hung over his collar and the hair that was an inch, maybe more over his ears was getting a little out of hand. So, I finally gave in and cut his hair last night. Phew.... he is still cute :)

Accidental Bangs! Dedicated to Leanne Mueller :)

2008-10-14T21:44:00.003-06:00

What happened to me today was totally and completely by accident. I was scheduled for a haircut today and it got moved to tomorrow. Being the impatient person that I am, I decided I would take matters in to my own hands and give myself a "pre-haircut" haircut. I was just going to take my thinning shears and thin out a few places, no harm done. Well then I decided I would cut a few pieces around my face so I had to get the regular scissors out. I then took a chunk in the front with the intention of thinning it out but grabbed the wrong scissors and cut it OFF instead. I wish I had a picture of my face. I felt like I was going to throw up. HAHA. Anyway, now I have these super short accidental bangs. WOOPS. I don't want bangs but there just isn't much I can do about it now except get used to them for a little while and hope they grow fast.
The reason I dedicate this to Leanne is because of the HILARIOUS message she left on my phone a few years ago that still makes me laugh when I think about it. She cut her own bangs and called me for help after. LOL. I wish I still had that message so I could add it on here. Anyway, Leanne, I now share your panic from that moment. :)
P.S.
Those of you who come to me to get your hair done... do so at your own risk. Haha, just kidding, This will never happen again to me or anyone, totally learned my lesson today. :)

Where have we been?

2008-10-13T21:26:00.005-06:00

Nowhere. Just here and there and home hanging out. I'm not sure why I haven't blogged in so long. Maybe because nothing really "blog worthy" has happened in the last few weeks. Plus I've been bad at taking pictures lately, so anything we have done isn't exactly documented. But for an update, Boston is still huge and getting bigger all the time. He is really fun right now. His little personality is coming out more and more. His new trick he started today is leaning forward from a sitting position and getting on to his tummy. So you know what that means, next step is crawling. Great. I'm hoping it takes just a little longer for him to figure that one out. He watched Jungle Book today while I cleaned out our closet and loved it, so funny, I was singing the song that King Louie sings and he thought it was hilarious. I'm sure if he could talk he would've told me how ridiculous I looked dancing around and singing trying to make him laugh. The things we do just to get a good giggle out of a baby. Totally worth it. We also found out today that the people that were buying the house we are living in backed out so now it is going to forclose and we will either have to buy it or move in the next month or so. Yay! I love moving! NOT. For those of you that don't know, we have been renting the house that we're in so that we could have some more time to find a house we'd like to buy. Well, the guy who owns the house defaulted like 4 months ago so we knew forclosure was a possibility but then we were hopeful when someone made an offer to buy, meaning we would have until May to find something. But plans change I guess, so wish us luck! :) Anyway, I think that's about it. I do have some pictures though, I know that's what everyone really likes to see.... they are random ones that I took on my phone
Boston in his big boy chair. The Bumbo was getting a little scary on the counter since he can pretty much get out of it.

Boston loves this little book. He isn't so much in to reading it but likes the noises it makes and gets frustrated that he can't pull the animal heads off to put them in his mouth. Oh and he loves loves loves Koda. She doesn't even have to do anything and he thinks she's funny. I'm sure she is excited for a lifetime of getting her tail pulled.

Show off

Checking out the Lobsters in the tank at McGrath's

Trying to eat the tank

Twilight

2008-09-23T13:22:00.002-06:00

I'm not usually what you would call a "reader". However, I know now why people are OBSESSED with these books. So, so good. I started it Friday and finished it this morning. I know there are some that have been faster but that is amazingly fast for me. There is only one other book I've ever done that with, "The Gable Faces East" by Anita Stansfield, I finished that one in 2 days, literally locking myself in my room. Thanks for letting me borrow it Mom! I don't think I can wait till I see you again to get the second one. I might just run to Costco this afternoon and get it, I don't think I can even wait until tomorrow. I now feel like I am again part of society, like I can have a conversation with other girls about Edward and actually know what they're talking about. haha.

Lake Powell

2008-09-22T09:25:00.007-06:00

We spent this last weekend at Lake Powell. I'm pretty sure that place is what heaven is like. It's so beautiful there. For sure the way to go to Lake Powell is renting a houseboat but we camped and that was really fun too. We went with my brother Kyler and his friend Heather. The water wasn't great, it was pretty windy on Saturday. We had good water in the morning but it was choppy the rest of the day so we spent the day exploring the canyons, jumping and swimming. We were all very sad to leave. We took like a thousand pictures; here are a little more than a few....

On the way there and only about 20 miles or less away, we almost ran out of gas :) Woops. This is at the gas station that saved our lives by popping up just over the hill we didn't think we would make it over. There was a lot of praying happening in the car.

Kyler

Heather and Kyler

Boston loved playing in the water

He loves his Uncle Kyler

And his Momma

Kyler and Heather got up behind the boat at the same time. This was so fun to watch. I know it looks like Kyler is going to hit her in the head with his board but he's not. His rope was quite a bit longer than hers so it wasn't quite as dangerous as it looks. :)

If you're one of the moms or dads or grandmas or anyone that wants to see all of the pictures, they are on the Mac Gallery ;)

Also, HAPPY 6 MONTHS to my baby yesterday!! I can't believe he is already half a year old! He has been such a fun addition to our little family. We love him so so much!

One last thing... I took the first Twilight book with me this weekend. I really was starting to feel left out because every female I know has read that book, well all of the books so I still have some catching up to do. Anyway, I am hooked and in love with Edward. I'm about half way through and probably would've finished the whole thing this weekend if Brett hadn't said "Don't read all weekend, that's boring" every time I picked it up. He tried to hide it from me in the boat so I couldn't read it on the way home, he failed. :)

Mom and me swim lessons

2008-09-18T18:32:00.003-06:00

So I totally want to start mom and me swim lessons with Boston. Even though it kind of scares me that they just push your baby underwater and somehow they survive....If anyone has done them already (or wants to join me) and knows of a really good place with good/nice teachers let me know! :)

2 of my favorite things... food and pedicures!

2008-09-15T19:23:00.005-06:00

Last week was my sister-in-law Krista's birthday and that day marks the start of a new tradition for birthdays. We all went to lunch and got pedicures. It was so fun that we decided we NEEDED to do it for every birthday! Yay! I'm so glad that I am guaranteed a pedicure and good company of course almost every month of the year! P.s. Glitter toes are awesome, if you haven't tried them yet you should
Karlee, Katie and Krista

Sadie zonked out during her "pedicure"

Grandma JoJo with Boston and Nash

Me and JoDee

I've been meaning to post these pictures for awhile. They have nothing to do with food or pedicures but they are fun pictures. Not last week but the week before we put Boston in the lake for the first time. I was a little hesitant to do this, not because it was cold, not because I thought he would drown or cry but because we were at Utah lake where you can't see through the water AT ALL, where your spray is often times BRIGHT GREEN, and you have to shut your eyes and close your mouth when you jump in. You might be wondering why we even go there... it's just because it is close and warm. :) Anyway, he LOVED it. He was a little shocked at first but seconds later was sqealing and kicking. It's almost time for me to start mom and me swim lessons. I think I have a water baby.
I love his life jacket. I think he looks like Spongebob. haha

Broken Promises....woops! :)

2008-09-08T00:08:00.005-06:00

SO, awhile ago I told a lie (on accident) and said that I added a bunch of pictures to our Mac Gallery so that our families could download them. Then I figured out that I couldn't do it with my computer; I had to do it with Brett's because his has our account on it. ANYWAY... I finally did actually put them on there. There are a lot of good family pictures and cute pictures of all the babies Boston, Sadie and Nash. The folders I added are titled "Weekend in Boise" and "New pictures- added 9/7", and the link is on the right side of this page. So you should be able to download any that you please to your own computers. :) Loves.

New Stuff

2008-09-01T10:12:00.007-06:00

Last Thursday we went up to Olympic park to watch my brother go off ski jumps into a pool. I didn't even know this existed. It was pretty cool. I don't know if I could ever do it because I'm a wuss but it was really fun to watch.

Friday we had a Sundberg family reunion up at Heber Valley Camp. We camped in style in bunkhouse/cabins but didn't sleep a wink. For once I think Boston slept more than we did. Do they make king size air mattresses? We played games, made smores, and ate way too much food. It was a short but fun getaway.

Saturday we went to the BYU game. I was so tired from not sleeping the night before that I barely remember the game, in fact I actually fell asleep during it a couple of times, but I do know they won. :) It was fun to take Boston, and of course we outfitted him in BYU gear.

5 Months Already!!??

2008-08-21T22:41:00.005-06:00

Boston is 5 months today! I can't believe how fast that time has gone. He is getting so so big and it's been so fun to watch him grow and learn new things!

I used to look like this....

And now I look like this...

I can do this...

And this...

And this...

Boston is getting more and more fun every day! I love the new things he does and figures out every day. As you can see in the pictures he is now eating rice cereal which he LOVES (little piggy, and he always gets to play with the spoon after, he might like that more), sitting up, and doing Dad's favorite trick, balancing on his hands. He is also entertaining himself a lot with toys and by making lots of noise. He makes all kinds of weird noises that make me laugh all day. He is very inquisitive, always watching everything around him and grabbing anything he can reach and of course putting it right in his mouth. He has been much better in the car meaning he doesn't scream the entire time we are in the car anymore, only when he is really tired. He giggles a lot (I never knew I was so funny), and he's starting to figure out what being ticklish is, although I still sometimes get an uncomfortable "what are you doing" grunt. He tries to get out of his car seat every time I put him in it, meaning he holds on to the sides of the seat while strapped in, grunting and trying to sit forward as far as he can. It's really funny, this is something I need to get on video because it makes me laugh every time! One of my favorites is he likes to grab his toes a lot and doing this rarely fails to make him "pass gas" especially in the morning but it's never just a normal little toot, no it's always so powerful that Brett often asks "Was that you or Boston?". I'm sure there is more but it's late and I can't think when it's late plus this is getting long already. I do have to mention though the very best thing.. for all of you that I have complained to lately... Boston has slept 8 hours the last 2 nights! YAY!!!! After Boise his sleep or lack thereof has been a nightmare. I think he has finally, and hopefully figured it out though. I discovered letting him cry is the key. My first lesson in "tough love". Luckily though, he only had to cry for a little over an hour and we didn't have to listen to him cry for 2 or 3 or 5 as I've heard some people have had to do. I do love this little guy so much! He makes my heart melt every day. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has trusted me to take care of him, teach him and love him!

Boise....

2008-08-07T14:17:00.005-06:00

This post is probably going to be a long one :) We were in Boise for 2 weeks and a few very fun and important things happened. The first one being my brother returning home from his mission! Most of our family made it to the airport to welcome him home. It was so fun to see him again! He looked different to me and even sounded a little different, I think it's just an "older" look and sound. Anyway it's good to have him back and it was fun to be able to spend a little time with him while we were there.

We decided to wait on a couple of things until Kyler got home so that he could be a part of them. We decided he had missed enough since he had never met Brett or his nephew. We dated, got married, and had a baby all in the 2 short years he was gone! So last week we finally blessed our HUGE 4 month old baby. :) We blessed him at my parents house. I really liked doing it this way, it made it seem that much more personal. Brett did a really good job and so did Boston who slept through the whole thing.

And Finally, the most important thing we did while we were in Boise is get sealed in the temple. We are finally official. :) Those of you that know us well know what the situation was last year when we got married. For those of you that don't... long story short, I was married before ( I try to pretend that never happened) and had to file for a cancellation of sealing. 2 weeks before we were supposed to get married we got the letter back from the First Presidency saying they had cancelled the sealing but wanted us to wait a year. That was a shock and an emotional time for me especially but we put our trust in the Lord and his leaders and improvised. Everything went really well and now we are officially an eternal family. Obviously we would have done it differently if we could have but it was so neat to have Boston there with us. He did so good and it was such a sweet experience that I'm sure we will never forget.

Here are some other pictures from while we were home.....

Boston and Sadie

Swimming

Grandma showing Boston the way...yum yum

**I put all of these pictures on the Mac Web Gallery too so that Krista, Katie, and the Grandma's can download any of them if you'd like :)

In Boise...

2008-07-29T22:53:00.002-06:00

We headed up to Boise last week to welcome my brother Kyler home from his mission. It's been fun to have him back around. It's been so good to be able to spend so much time at home too. Brett had to go back to Utah for a little while to work and we miss him :) but he'll be back on Thursday. We have fun stuff coming up this weekend so I'll have pictures later! :)

Lagoon

2008-07-29T22:07:00.006-06:00

This post is a little late but I thought I would put these pictures on here anyway since I know my brother Jordan wanted some PROOF that he went on the Skycoaster while we were at Lagoon. We had my brothers staying with us for most of the summer and it was fun having them. We did lots of fun things; Jordan worked hard in the dirt as one of Brett's "crew members", we spent lots of time at the lake and both Brady and Jordan got pretty good on the wakeboard. Lagoon was the one of the last fun things we did before we headed back home to Boise to welcome our other brother Kyler home from his mission.

This is the boys on the Skycoaster as they were being dropped. They are the tiny white dot in the sky. I was standing on the ground all by myself screaming at this point. :)

This is them after... thankfully still alive.

3 sleepy babies

The girls and Jay

For our Mommy...

2008-07-18T13:27:00.003-06:00

Mom, I posted a couple of videos on the Mac Gallery page for you. One is of Brady wakeboarding his first time. He's gotten a lot better since and is going in and out of the wake now. We'll have to take some more video so you can see. The other one is of Boston rolling over and talking. It's kind of long but I figured if anyone would enjoy watching a long video of the grandson she doesn't see very often it would be you :) We're excited to see you guys in a few days!! Love you!
(it takes a few minutes for the videos to download, not sure why, probably because I am a computer genius and did it wrong or something but whatever, it works) :)

Memories...

2008-07-15T13:24:00.001-06:00

One of my girlfriends had this on her blog and It brought back so many memories! I thought it would be fun to do...

Here's how it works:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember, good or bad but be nice please! ;) (this could be about Brett or I or both)

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.Come on all my blog followers... I want to post something about you, let's see this on your blog!!!

I love this boy!

2008-07-11T20:58:00.003-06:00

I have to say that I love being a mom. I can't think of anything that could be more fulfilling than loving a little child with all your heart. I know parenting is going to have it's challenges, and I can't say that I am prepared for that the slightest bit. But for now nothing makes me happier than to wake up to my little guy and watch him stretch and smile, see him develop and learn new things and see his little personality start to come out. He is starting to "talk" to me a lot and giggle. He loves his bath time and is always really happy when his diaper gets taken off. He is such a good baby, even though he screams every time we are in the car and at naptime :). He is so cute and so sweet, I just love this little guy!!!

Owlz Game

2008-07-11T10:19:00.003-06:00

Wednesday night we went to an Orem Owlz game with Brett's family. It was fun, the game was kind of a boring one but I just love the atmosphere of a baseball game. It was Boston's first baseball game and as you can see, he loved it...

Rolling over: Cool trick or not?

2008-07-09T15:34:00.006-06:00

Last week I had put Boston down for a nap on his tummy and when I came in to check on him he was on his back with his head on the opposite end of the crib. To my knowledge that was the first time he had rolled over. YAY! right? WRONG! At first I thought this was a very cool trick he had just pulled. I have since changed my mind. If there is one thing Boston is adamantly stubborn about it is taking naps. I have to let him scream and scream until he is just too tired to cry anymore and just goes to sleep. He was actually starting to get good at naps just recently and was going to sleep on his belly within like 5 minutes of laying down which was heavenly for me. You should know that he WILL NOT go to sleep on his back. Anyway, ever since the rolling over trick it has been impossible to get him to take a good nap. I lay him down on his belly and within 5 seconds he is on his back and screaming. Needless to say, we have had a few frustrating days of tired baby. :) Today when I layed him down, he screamed for about 45 min and then I found him like this...

This only lasted for about half an hour but I had to smile at the fact that he actually did FINALLY fall asleep and he looked so peaceful and cute.

Yesterday was Boston's first time at Seven Peaks. He did so good! I have a season pass and I don't know what has taken me so long to use it! I think I was worried about how he would do, but he loved it. He even sat in the water with me and let the waves come up to his belly. And then he took a good nap in his stroller. We will be going more often now :) Here's a picture of him in the water. Don't mind me in this...

And some other random pictures from this last week...

More boating

2008-07-02T18:03:00.002-06:00

Last night we went boating with our friends Paul and Misti and their two little girls Kylee and Aubrey. We decided to go on a whim and I'm so glad we did. The weather and the water were so perfect! We got some really good wakeboarding in. My little brothers are doing sooo good on the wakeboard. I have a video of Brady and he looks like such a little stud, I just need to figure out how to put it on here so his mommy can see. :)
Boston did really good on the boat again. He just hung out and then slept and then hung out some more. What a good boy. I just love him! It was fun to see he and Aubrey together last night. Aubrey is 2 weeks older than he is and I don't think I realized how much he's grown until I saw them together. He is younger than her and bigger! I can't believe how long he is. He's growing so fast!

2008-07-02T17:08:00.004-06:00

I have been tagged by Karlee

5 things on my "to-do" list this week:
1. Change diapers
2. Feed my child
3. Get my sister in law a birthday present
4. Go see my friend Jessica's new baby girl
5. Change more diapers

5 snacks i enjoy:
1. Ice cream
2. trail mix
3. dried mangos or any dried fruit
4. fresh fruit
5. anything chocolate

5 things i would do if i suddenly became a billionaire:
1. buy a house
2. travel the world
3. pay off our cars, maybe get new ones
4. go shopping and buy whatever I want and then get a bigger closet :)
5. build a sweet cabin somewhere really cool, maybe at Mammoth in California

5 places i've lived:
1. Boise, Idaho
2. Provo, UT
3. Orem, UT
4. American Fork, UT
5. Lehi, UT

5 jobs i've had:
1. Preschool teacher
2. Server at a restaurant
3. Stylist in a Salon
4. Customer service rep ( that job was not fun)
5. Staffing Specialist in the HR dept at MyFamily.com

I tag Misti, Jessica, Leanne, and Amy

Boston and Sadie

2008-06-26T20:58:00.004-06:00

Boston's cousin Sadie is exactly one month younger than he is. Last weekend they met for the first time. They look so cute together. Krista and Eric are moving back here from California next week and we're excited for them to live close so Boston and Sadie can be buddies. Hopefully Boston won't bully her around too much ;)

I love this picture. It looks like Boston is all embarrassed and hiding from the camera but really he was sucking on Sadie's head and we were laughing and it made him smile.

Finally it's warm enough!!!

2008-06-19T12:27:00.003-06:00

Normally we wouldn't expect to have to wait until the middle of JUNE for it to be warm enough to take the boat out, but this year the weather has been so weird and DUMB. I'm sure all of you that live here can agree that it is ridiculous to still be getting snow at the end of May. Anyway, I'm so happy that it has finally warmed up! We took the boat out on Tuesday night and it was soooo nice! I didn't dare get in the water, it's still too cold or even put on a swim suit (still shy of the post baby body, yikes) but my little brothers tubed and wakeboarded and Brett did some skiing. Brett's sister Karlee came with us too. I posted some pics of my little stud in his lifejacket that is WAY too big but cute none the less and the best part is he doesn't seem to mind it much. He layed in my lap and slept the whole time.

Most amazing blowout EVER!

2008-06-16T17:42:00.004-06:00

Sorry for the kind of gross post but this is something I just had to share. The other day I was nursing and while holding Boston felt this amazing force move up his back. At first I thought "that had to be just gas, please be just gas". Then I turned him over and this is what I found. I thought for sure it just all leaked out of the diaper somehow, maybe just came out at a weird angle and there wouldn't be much actually in his diaper but that was full too! I was amazed that that much stuff could come out of someone so little! I wasn't really sure what to do! I didn't want to pull his shirt up over his head and get poop all over his head but there was no other way. Then he took a really good long bath.

And after...haha, anyone would be this happy after a poop like that!

Just hanging out with my dad...

2008-06-16T17:36:00.002-06:00

I walked in the room the other day, Brett was asleep and Boston was like this. It made me laugh, he was just happy to chill while his dad slept.

Vegas

2008-06-09T08:11:00.003-06:00

Last weekend we went to Vegas. It was a great little break and so nice to be able to see my husband for 3 whole days in a row! He's been so busy lately that we don't see him much. Boston did great in the car ride down. He pretty much slept the entire way. We went to Phantom of the Opera on Saturday night at the Venetian and it was so good! I loved it! It's a little different that the original play, just slightly but still really good. Brett's cousin Holly watched Boston for us while we went and as far as I know he did good. It was the first time I've really left him for more than an hour with anyone other than either of our parents and I'm so glad we were able to leave him with Holly because I didn't worry at all. Thanks Holly! :) Of course I was bad at taking pictures but I did get a few from when we took Boston down to the pool and afterwards when he and his dad were taking a nap. I can't say that he loved he pool, it was a little cold and shocking but he did pretty good. Anyway, it was a good trip, I love going out of town but I'm always excited to come home too.

Go Sox!

2008-05-23T16:15:00.004-06:00

So Brett's always loved baseball and liked the Red Sox, but we kind of became "fans" together after going to Fenway a couple of years ago and discovering just how cool Fenway and Boston as a whole are. The first time we went, we had known each other for about ummm 2 weeks, kinda crazy and scary and potentially disastrous but it ended up being so much fun and then Boston kind of became our thing. If anyone has wondered where we got our little guy's name, that is kind of how. Plus we've both just always thought it was a cool name. Anyway, I got this hat for Boston a long time ago. It's an XXXS and still WAY too big. Brett really wants it to fit Boston's teeny head so he tries it on him periodically to see if there has been any head growth progress....

I'm thinking it might fit when he's 1 maybe??? We'll see...

Smiles

2008-05-22T17:45:00.005-06:00

Boston has been smiling lots lately and this is the first time I've been able to capture his goofy little grin. I always grab the camera way too late after he has smiled and smiled and then once I think to grab the camera to take a picture, he's done smiling and starts crying or something. The picture quality is not great because I took it with my phone but like I said this is the first one I've been able to capture so I'll take what I can get. One of these days I'll catch one of his big big smiles.

Also, he had his 2 month check up this week. Doctor says everything looks great. He weighs 10lbs 14 oz. now and is 23.2 in long. He was in the 71%tile for height and the 32%tile for weight. So, he is long and skinny, a little string bean just like his Daddy! Watching him get his shots was one of the saddest things I have ever seen, I don't want to think about it or talk about it. :(

Newborn Pics

2008-05-13T13:53:00.003-06:00

Apparently I have a lot to say this week... this is the third post I've done today. I keep remembering that I have more to add. We got Boston's newborn pictures back last week. They turned out sooo good! I love them! We did them when he was 3 weeks old and have been so excited to get them back. The girl that did them did such a great job! I would totally reccomend her. I have the link to her blog in my friends list. It's Brittany photography. I have posted a couple of the pictures but if you want to see all of them, and trust me you do :), they are on our mac gallery. The link is on the right side of the page...
Oh these pictures are just so sweet, they melt my little heart!

My new best friend

2008-05-13T13:22:00.005-06:00

When we got home from our weekend trip, this was waiting for me on the front porch. I ordered it last week because I am tired of feeling fat and not just "feeling" fat but feeling reality by not being able to pull my "skinny jeans" up over my butt! This is not fun. Sometimes I wake up and think maybe today they will fit... haha WRONG! I realize that there needs to be some patience involved but, I have put it off long enough and decided it is time to take some serious action! And since it is near impossible to get to the gym very often with a baby and a husband that works from 8am to 8pm most days in the summer, I decided this is how I'll have to do things. My dad and I have made a bet with each other to lose all of the weight we want to lose by the time my brother Kyler gets home from his mission which is at the end of July. So, we have 10 weeks to reach our goal and cheer each other on! If you're reading this Dad, remember that you don't want to have to owe me any money!! :) Anyway, I took it out for the first time today and loved it! Our neighborhood is pretty much on a mountain so everything is uphill, this should be good for my butt. I was worried that Boston wouldn't do well today because he was a little cranky this morning and he was crying when I went to put him in the stroller but no worries, this is him literally 2 seconds after laying him down! Check out his cute Red Sox beanie!