Late post...

Sorry, the pictures are out of order. We gave Landon a hair cut this week, the two on top are after pictures, and then the before. He had kind of a weird thing going on in the front but the back was way cute with curls, but we just needed to cut it for the fronts sake. Anyway, he looks like a little man, like a toddler now. He's growing up so fast!

Ok, last week was crazy and fun, sorry I haven't got any pictures to post... Chase and I are very low-key about our birthdays now, so we didn't really take any pictures. But our birthday's and our annversity were fun and we had lots of good food (some we couldn't even take advanage of cause we had too many free meal coupons!).

Happy birthday Landon!

Landon is 1!! Its crazy, he's so big.

He thought he was going to be excited about the cake, but then once it go on his hands he wasn't too thrilled. Oh well.

I made one cake and then cut the center from it and gave that to Landon as his own little cake.


We went and rode a carousel for his birthday. He wasn't too excited about that either... it sounds like he didn't like his birthday, but he did :)

He got a Busy Ball Popper, a bead toy, a bunch of books, a bat with a ball, and several cards from family (thank you!!).

Collin had a kind of a hard time today since he understands birthdays. He was sure that it was his birthday, so he has claimed all of Landon's presents as his own. I asked him what kind of cake he wanted on his birthday and he said a Collin cake. I told him that was a little self-centered. So he thought about it and said "A Lighten McQueen cake. That's not se.. sef... centered." But he did good and has been excited to make a list of stuff he wants for his birthday.

Sunday pictures

We took a bunch of pictures today of the kids-

Collin: I LOVE LANDON!!

Landon: Yeeeaaahhh....

Collin set this picture up- he grabbed the blue chair and set it up where he wanted and then said- "Ok mom, I'm ready."

Landon climbed off the slide where I had been taken pictures and climbed up on the ledge and sat down like this. He's such a poser.

Jacob. Such a stud.

We also sang happy birthday and had treats for our birthdays tonight as a family, but I'll wait to post any pictures of that until our actual birthday.

Pictures in the rain

My sister Kim got this rain coat for Jacob and let me borrow it to take some pictures of Landon. This was the "practice shoot". I'm hoping I can make it down by the lake while its still raining this week since that's the background I really want.

I think its funny when I look back on older posts and see pictures I put up of the boys and there are like 5 that look just like each other. I tried not to do that on this post, but I probably still did. Sorry.

Chase had some Harry Potter glasses that we found on Sunday so we took some pictures of the boys. They look like the glow worm on Toy Story 3.

Stadium of Fire

Yea!! I'm so excited. I got tickets to the Stadium of Fire this morning. I told Chase he could use them as a birthday/anniversary present. :) We're going with my mom. Love both of these guys, plus its been years since I've been and its such a fun thing.

Sorry its been so long since I've blogged, I just haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately and I think that makes a blog more fun.

We went to Phoenix last weekend for lots of family stuff with Chase's family. We had a nephew get baptized and then 3 nephews had their baby blessings. It was lots of fun and nice to be in Phoenix when its not super hot or as cold as it was over Thanksgiving.

Its been SO warm here lately, which has been so nice. We went and played in the backyard yesterday and Landon loves going down the little blue slide we have all by himself. I'll be sure to take a picture or video and post it.

Landon's birthday is in about 3 weeks so we're getting ready for that. I'm keeping my eyes open for a Guitar Hero or Rock Band drum for Collin's birthday set since he LOVES them. We want to encourage this natural beat he has but not the noise of a real drum set :) We'll see what I can find.

Grinch = witch

Random post:

We are watching the cartoon How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Collin kept asking me if he could watch the witch. Finally I told him to bring me the DVD. Got it. The Grinch...

I love making sweet rolls (with potatoes. Deal with it Kim.) and did so this morning. I put a piece of one in Landon's mouth and he started to cry. 10 minutes later I tried again and he love it. Go figure.

Collin has been having these INSANE tantrums lately and Chase and I have to try really really hard not to laugh cause it just makes him more mad. That may sound mean, but its totally random things that he has a breakdown about, like me sitting on the couch. He told me I had to sit on the couch and I sneaked over to the table. When he finally saw me like 5 minutes later he just freaked out- sprawled on the floor, real tears pouring down his face, wailing MOOOOOM!!!! It was so funny. Finally to get him to calm down I told him I would play trains with him. He calmed down real fast.

Landon's favorite place to play. I try to get all the glass stuff out before he gets to it...

This picture of Landon and the train track was taken by Collin. He LOVES to take pictures, especially close ups.

Collins trains

Yesterday I got a phone call from a family in our ward who just found out that they are having their 4th girl in a row and they decided that they didn't need their train set anymore. So they were calling to ask if they could drop it off for Collin. Collin came to the door with me when I answered it and when he saw the bag full of train stuff I'm pretty sure he thought the guy was Santa Clause.

This box is full of the extra pieces that we are not using in the pictures below
The set had an airplane and a helicopter pad along with about 12 or so extra cars and signs and trees

It had this cool circle "mountain" as Collin calls it

Collin woke up at 4:00 this morning asking if he could play with his trains. He is in heaven. We are so grateful!

Star Wars Valentines

So Chase's work is having a Valentines day box competition today. Chase waited until Tuesday night to tell me about this so we got to work right away.

We started looking at pictures on the Internet, and I randomly came across a picture of r2d2, not as a box but just a picture of him. I threw out the idea and started to move on but Chase really liked it so we went with it.

He was supposed to bring treats as well so I made some puff pastry's for him to take. My mom helped a ton, the idea and the decorating was all her. They turned out great.

They are heart shaped if you can't tell...

Here is r2d2. There is a little slot in the back for the cards to go in. The hardest part was the dome top and we just took a ball we had and painted it white. We better win...

Update

I know, I know. You don't want to hear anymore about us being sick.

Here is a list of what we have dealt with over the last 2 weeks:

Landon:
RSV (cough, stuffy nose, fever)
3-day Stomach flu
Chicken Pox
Double ear infection
4 new teeth on top

Collin:
RSV (same stuff)
2-day Stomach flu
Cough

Jenny:
5-day Stomach flu
Ear infection

Chase:
Still sick
Bad ear infection
Starting to feel flu-ish

We are super super ready to not be sick anymore. Out of all the yucky-ness I have felt being soooo tired has been the hardest part. I feel so bad for the boys cause I can't do too much yet and so they just wonder around and try to get me to play with them.

I have never been so ready for our lives to just be back to normal.

Sick sick kids

So I took Landon into the doctor this morning and found out he has RSV plus an ear infection in both ears, and he can't keep hardly anything down. We started him on breathing treatments and will start the meds for the infection this afternoon. Poor kid. He's been a real trooper.

Collin had his doctors appointment this afternoon. They were worried he might have pneumonia so I had to take him to get an x-ray, but it came back neg thank goodnes. Yesterday Landon slept pretty much all day and today Collin slept pretty much all day.

I'm 100% sure that I am getting what the boys have. My mom (and Chase when he is home) has been super helpful. But its still been kind of hard for everyone since both boys want to me to hold them. I've set up an air mattress in the boys room and sleep in there since Collin has been climbing in our bed and there isn't enough room. Plus Chase has to get some sleep so he can go to work. So I hang out in the boys room during the night, and when Landon wakes up at 5 then Chase gets up with him and Collin and I get up about 7.

Sorry I'm so boring. I've been thinking lately that I haven't been taking enough pictures lately. So I'm going to do better with that.

Poor kids

Both boys have fevers and running noses today so we decided to stay home from church and just hang out. Collin has a bad cough as well, and Landon just doesn't feel well and so he's pretty fussy. I'm going to be happy when this passes...

I just realized an old post of Collin singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star never actually got posted, so if you go down two post's you can watch it :)

Good day :)

So yesterday went much better. Collin didn't have any accidents, went his whole nap plus all night completely dry. He tells us when he needs to go.
After he went to the bathroom yesterday he started cheering for himself- "Go Collin! Go Collin! Go Collin!" it was really cute.
Then when I was putting his coat on I tighten the sleves and he said, thats great mommy. Not too loose and not to owie.

We thought Landon might be getting sick cause he seemed a little hot and not sleeping real great, but he's been doing really good today.

Its going to be a good day!

Deep breaths...

I know that I am the adult and Collin is the 2-year-old, but I have been having to remind myself of that a lot lately. Potty training Collin again has been awful. I know that he can do it since he was potty trained for like 3 months over the summer. But then we put diapers on him at Thanksgiving for our trip and ever since then he just doesn't want to do it. I don't want to force him, but we just can't buy diapers for him anymore.
So, I tend to yell at Collin a lot lately, which just makes him scared of me and then he won't tell me when he needs to go and then its just worse...

deep breaths.

Also, I have really tried to teach Landon not to play with the computer, which doesn't do any good :) and now our keyboard is broken. It missed letters and spaces and backspaces and caps all the time. It takes 4 times as long to type anything, which is the main reason I haven't blogged lately. Super annoying. And unless our computer completely dies there's no way we're getting a new computer for like another year or more...

deep breaths.

Video of Collin

OK, here is a video of Collin singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Landon 9 months

Over New Years Landon started taking steps by himself. Its been fun but also a little scary since he falls a lot. Collin tends to feel a little ignored when we are working with Landon on walking, so he always jumps in the video or pretends to walk like Landon.