I sure wouldn't mind hearing this once in a while...

"Thank you mommy and daddy for getting up with me last night right as your head was about to hit the pillow. Thank you for taking me into your bed after I begged and cried for 15 minutes. Thank you for letting me kick you in the head and stomach as I slept. Thank you for waking up every hour or two to me talking about Max and Ruby. Thank you for letting me come back into your bed after you tried to put me back into my bed. Thank you for sleeping at the very edge of the bed so I had plenty of room to sprawl out. Finally, thank you for waking up with my baby brother at 6:30 a.m. You guys are the best! We really appreciate it."

hmmm...I'm not going to hold my breath.

"Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to go!"

In Travis' family, if you say or do something dumb, nobody will ever let you forget it. Years ago, Travis' mom was trying to him to go visit his grandparents and out of frustration yelled, "Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to go!" Well, nobody ever forgot and they have been quoting it ever since. On May 8, we participated in The Race for the Cure at the Gateway. We were "Trudee's Tribe" and felt like it was the perfect theme for Trudee's battle with breast cancer.

It was such a cool experience to be a part of such a huge event. It was amazing to see the sea of people filling the roadway. It broke my heart to see how many people have been affected by breast cancer. I think I cried pretty much the entire race! Everyone was running for someone who is a survivor or in memory of someone who lost the battle. I'm glad I got to be a part of such an awesome cause.

Trudee's Tribe

We just learned this week that Travis' mom, Trudee has breast cancer. Trudee is a person who is always serving and supporting everyone around her, rarely taking any time for herself. She is always so positive and finds the silver lining in every situation. I'm grateful to have such a great mother-in-law and grandmother to my boys. We plan on supporting her on May 8 by running the Race for The Cure. Anyone who would like to join our team in running or just donating money to the fight against breast cancer go to www.trudeestribe.blogspot.com. Thanks!!!

My babies...

Love them.

Hair, Hair and more HAIR!

I have been spending every spare second of my life for the past month learning all about hair! It has been so much fun. I am doing an apprenticeship with my talented hairstylist sister-in-law. She is a licensed instructor and is teaching me so I can get my Costmetology license. I have to get 2500 hours (it will take me about two years). I have been busy learning about color and hair cutting this past month. I need people to practice on!!! If anybody is interested in a free hair cut or color please make an appointment with me! (for colors you will just have to pay the price for supplies). Don't worry, I will not turn your hair orange or anything, Jenny will not let you leave looking ridiculous! In the middle of March I will be "on the floor" meaning, I will have 10 percent of my hours and will have to charge beauty school pricing for services, but until then it's free!

Go here to make an appointment:

www.jpsalon.squarespace.com

Thanks for helping me!

A Merry Mustache Christmas

Here's a little preview of what our Christmas looked like this year...

We did the nativity on Christmas Eve with Travis' family.

It turns out a little pirate showed up to see baby Jesus as well.

Somebodies mommy did not make the best shepard costume!

I think matching sleepers might be my favorite thing ever.

Lincoln versus the Christmas tree.

Lincoln won this battle.

This is what Santa brought Bennett.

I think he likes it.

Mr. incredible decided to grow a mustache for a special treat.

It was a Christmas miracle.

No more treats for me please!

It was so fun to see Lincoln open his presents Christmas morning.

He was so excited and it was so fun.

He did however, notice that Santa forgot to put bows on the gifts, silly Santa!

His favorite presents were the dollar store puzzles.

I think Santa should save himself a little money next year and do all his shopping at Dollar Tree!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, we sure did.

So much...

A lot has happened since I last posted I don't know where to begin! I will start in November...

*We blessed Bennett. It was such a nice day and we had all our family there. Thanks for all of your help!

*Thanksgiving was so LOVELY this year. I loved it. I had so much fun hanging out and playing games with my family. They make me laugh. We may or may not have started a roller blading gang called "we want to rock". Dale (my oldest brother) may or may not be the president. He is getting roller blades for Christmas :). Did I mention that he is 30 years old? Love it.

*So remember in my last post when I said "I'm going back"? Okay, so I'm not going back...to Weber State at least. I changed my mind. I am a woman, I'm entitled to do so! I am going to be an apprentice to my sister in law who is a hair stylist. So, it's just like beauty school. I have to get 2500 hours, but she is going to teach me instead of trying to go to an actual school. I am so excited! I've always wanted to do it, but never felt like I could once I had kids. You know what this means...I'm going to need lots of people to practice on! Oh and yes Jill, I do believe I will still need to get some new school clothes :).

*My grandma Virginia Wursten passed away last Thursday. Yesterday was her funeral. She had a lot of hard things in her life. I don't think I could have been as strong as her given the circumstances. My aunt read part of her life story at the funeral. I couldn't believe how much I didn't know about her! Why didn't I ever ask her how she and my grandpa met? She will be missed.

*Bennett refuses to take a bottle. I cannot leave him for more than 2 hours. Does anybody have any ideas? I think I might lose it. I don't want to nurse anymore, but have no other choice at the moment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!


And now...for your viewing pleasure...

Lincoln was very shy with Santa, he wouldn't look at him or say a word.


We took Lincoln to Layton park to see the animal lights...it was magical!

He's a puzzle maniac. We do them everyday!!

He's getting so big!

I hate the rivalry, but Travis loves it. He's starting Lincoln early.

Sweet baby