Toby, Savy, Gaige & Briel

Monday, February 21, 2011

Feeling The Gs!

Over Christmas break we went to Hill Airforce Museum. It was awesome! So Here are pics from it...I know I always post a million pictures...I am just so bad at choosing which ones to use! As you can probably tell our family contains major fans of airplanes!

Astronaut Girl!

Toby in the G suit pilots wear.

Gaige in the pilot cock pit

We went to the train station in Ogden...awesome engines!

My mom helped me cut off 11 inches of my hair! I got to donate it to Locks Of Love. Such a great experience!!

Friday, February 4, 2011

What A Life!

I finally am updating on our family!! Sorry that this is a fairly long post.... :-) If you make it to the end I will be impressed!

We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years! We went to Orderville for 2 days, then to Arizona, then to Brian Head to Ski and then to our beloved Cedar City for New Years! We stayed with our friends, the Erickson's! Gaige got to ski for his first time! What a snow bunny! It was a blast!

Over the break Briel learned to crawl! (about 6 days before she turned 8 months). She now can stand up on holding on to any surface...and can walk around holding on to the hot chocolate table (since we dont drink coffee)! :-) She is so fun and really growing fast. She even says her (almost) first word...mamamamama....mainly when she is getting hurt or attacked from Gaige! She loves to smile and laugh...oh and also to be awake ALL the time! :-)

Gaige is also so much fun and boy does he have an imagination! I love how my hope chest has transformed into a cliff that he jumps off into a ravine of all the blankets in our house. How my bed is the world's funnest trampoline...he even does somersaults on it! He is always pretending..."you monster"...."you trwain"......"you ghost".... One of my favorite things he said to me lately "what are you talking bout?" (I wonder all the time what I am talking bout!)

But yes sometimes being a parent is a challenge that tests me greatly...like oh just a few seconds ago Gaige found a nice bright red button to click off...and turned off the computer when I was in the middle of burning a family home video and doing this post! I am FAR from being a perfect parent and they teach me each day to try to be better and to realize how imperfect I am....I am constantly saying sorry for when I lasps into acting worse than a two year old( like how I reacted when he turned off the computer). I am amazed at how instantly forgiving and loving a child is. When I get frustrated or upset, Gaige comes over to me and say "a need hugs." I hope to become more like my children and my husband....my family completes me.

This quote has really helped me lately when I have seen some "qualities" arise in Gaige that shocked me and that I didn't like. This was kind of an epiphany for me....

"If there is anything we wish to change in a child, we should first examine it and see it if is not something that could be better changed in ourselves." C.G. Jung

I looked at myself and started to see where he was learning this things and was surprised to see that I had fostered some of his bad behavior...so I have tried to change myself.....so who is doing the raising here? My children are truly helping and inspiring me to try harder to become the person they deserve to have in their lives. I love them so much. I am constantly making mistakes and praying that the Lord will help me with all my inadequacies.

I love this quote:

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent." Frank Pittman

So true!! I hope it just works for me! :-) Thanks for suffering with me through my long windedness! Love you all!

Here are pics from the last few months!