up dating the blog April activites

I haven't been actively blogging since about March; but we have been doing a lot of fun things, so I thought I would update you all on what we've been doing over the next few weeks : )

Here are some of our Easter pictures. My brother spent Saturday night and Sunday with us, so he got to join our Easter festivities We went to Temple Square on Easter Sunday

Dying Easter eggs

In April I participated in my first tri-athalon. It was a short one, but it was a good experience. It was a 400 meter swim, 5k (3 mile) run, and a 10 mile bike ride. Here are a few pictures of the event. The only bad part was the weather....it was very windy, and snowing

Ivan was a trooper and watched the kids during the event. Here they are cheering me on from the balcony.

Since the weather was aweful, Ivan and the kids couldn't stand outside in the blizzard the whole time, the pictures he took were all of me in the pool : ) I did the whole thing in about an hour 45 min. I hope to do another one soon : )

family pics

Here are a few of our new family pictures : )

Joshua's 1!

Ivan's mom came to visit for Joshua's birthday. I was amazed at home much more Spanish Jacob spoke after just a week of her visiting. Here are some pictures of her visit and the fun things we did for Joshua's birthday.

She was very excited to visit temple square

group hug Grandma Ines and the boys

Joshua opening presents with Jacob's help :)

Joshua's chocolate cup cake

We went to Old Spegetti Factory the night of Joshua's birthday and he LOVED the spegheti! Here he is being sung to with one candle in his dish of spamoni ice cream.

Jacob and mommy

Joshua and mommy

the after swimming picture with grandma Ines

We went swimming for Joshua's birthday. Swimming is Jacob and Joshua's favorite activty!

Happy Birthday Joshua we love you! You bring so much joy to our lives! We are so grateful that after a difficult year with surgery and many sicknesses that you are doing well and are enjoying being a happy healthy little boy!

Fun times

Our trip to Hogle Zoo - free day. We love our new double stroller. We had a double jogger and it has so big and kind of a hassle to put together that we rarely used it. This double stroller folds up so small and each of the seats recline individually. We've only had it a few weeks and its already gotten a lot of use.

This picture is in from of some rhinos. The other day we were eating breakfast and there was a noise outside and Jacob said: "The rinofurus are going to eat us!" It made me laugh.

Our two cute boys after church

Celebrating Grandpa's birthday

Jacob and Joshua playing trains

I love this one

Joshua crawls and crawls and crawls and he is now taking his first steps : )

Playing hide and seek

going fishing

Jacob's Birthday

Here are pictures from Jacob's birthday. I can't believe he is 3 years old already, I wouldn't trade the last three years with my two cute little boys (and wonderful husband) for anything in the world. These pictures were loaded in backward so here we go:

Ivan and Jacob playing with Jacob's new train
Jacob giving Joshua a big hug (we told him the train was from Joshua)

Happy Birthday to Jacob!

My twin nephews Jackson and Daxton at our house for the birthday party

The swimming part of the birthday party with 4 out of the 5 grandkids.

I took Jacob and Joshua to Discovery Gateway Children's Museum on Friday to celebrate Jacob's birthday. Joshua loved this little bee toy.


Jacob and Joshua playing at the mueum

Jacob playing in the water area

Jacob loved riding the trax down town.

Happy Birthday Jacob we love you so much!

Christmas 2010

Christmas was wonderful! Our greatest blessing is that we have two HEALTHY, HAPPY children. We are so grateful that everything went well with Joshua's second surgery, it was very minor but it is a relief to have it over with. What a miracle modern medicine is! Here's a few snap shots of us this Christmas season:

after church at Grandma and Grandpa C's.

Jacob sleeping with his new Buzz and Woody (he loves these guys!)

Joshua - having fun opening anything wrapped in paper

Jacob with his Mr. Potatoe Head from grandma C

Two cute boys in their Christmas snowman jammies on Christmas Eve (Aunt Cami is in the background she is due in less that two months yeah!)

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and were able to spend time with those you love!

grateful

I was reading a friend's blog today who lost her baby just a few months before our baby Joshua was born. She has been through a lot, and she is an amazingly strong person. It made me realize how very grateful I am for our little family. They each bring me so much joy. Yes, life has it's difficult moments and sometimes things are hard. But, there are so many more good times than hard times. There is so much to be grateful for. I love my children and I am SO grateful that they are healthy, and happy and so much fun to be with. I love it when Joshua opens his mouth really wide and gives me a big open mouth kiss on my cheek. I love it when out of the blue Jacob comes and gives me big bear hugs for no reason in particular and says "I love you mommy!" Then I say I love you too! and he always responds with I love you too! LIFE IS WONDERFUL!