We had such a great holiday week and are grateful for all the family and memories... Here are some of our favorite highlights on film. As a little family, I hope that 2009 fills us with as many sweet moments as 2008 and I hope we remember to take the time to appreciate them!
Okay, as promised, here are the top 10 reasons that I love my little Mace-face... (and because Macs and blogger are not friends, I am not able to add any pictures to this post, but just know we have many and they are cute... )
Okay, so at our house this month we are focusing on thankful hearts. Each night at dinner we think of something we are each thankful for and then write it on a slip of paper and add it to our "thankful" chain. By the end of the month it should be pretty long. Jaron is even getting into it! (although I am trying not to take offense that each night when he is asked what he is thankful for he quickly answers "father"... when did he start calling Ryan father anyway???) We are trying to give him some other ideas of answers... maybe like mother??? :)
Anyway, I would like to take time to tell Jaron and Maycee the top 10 reasons I love them, so today this is for Jaron:
10. I love that when I go to put on my shoes (doesn't matter which ones) I generally find a small toy figure or dinosaur sleeping inside of them that Jaron has lovingly put to bed in the coziness of my shoe (never Ryan's mind you... just mine).
Trick or Treat is Jaron's favorite phrase... What kid wouldn't like to only say those 3 words and then have everyone give them candy??? Seriously, best day ever for Jaron!
His holiday started with a parade and party at preschool... which he loves! It then ended with lots of visits to family and friends. In case you can't tell, Jaron was a buzzing bee and Maycee was a cat... (although her coat top was very hot and she didn't wear it most of the night.) I was also a bad mom and let her take her helmet off for like 3 hours so we could do her hair and see her cute little head. We are so happy at how well the helmet is working! Yeah...
Aren't sugar-hangovers great?
I've been tagged twice for this so here ya go!
8 Shows I love to Watch
-The Biggest Loser
-Boise State Football Games (ESPN)
-Paula's Party (Its a Southern thing)
-Prison Break
-Friends Re-Runs
-Glenn Beck
-CMT(Tim & Faith)
-American Idol
8 Things that Happened Yesterday
-Took Jaron to Pre-School
-Went to work
-Took my Mom to get her car at Les Schwab
-Went to the Post Office
-Ate Pizza and Played Games with friends
-Played the Wii with a buddy
-Watched Jay Leno
-Slep on the couch cuz Wendi touched me with her feet
8 Places I love to Eat
-Costa Vida (Cafe Rio)
-Texas Roadhouse
-O'Charley's
-Bardenay
-Sandbar
-Mona Lisa Fondue
-Chapala Mexican
-Olive Garden
8 Things I am Looking Forward to
-Wendi's Birthday
-My Sisters Wedding
-Thanksgiving Dinner
-Maycee getting her Helmet off
-Weekend in Sun Valley
-Christmas
-Election Day
-BSU Playing in a BCS Bowl
8 Things on my wish list
-taller
-a lot of money
-riding lawn mower
-the newest model of the Tacoma 4-Door
-to get more in shape
-minimize my candy cravings
-wheat grinder
-flatscreen tv
8 People I tag
-Jenny
-Ben
-Brooke
-Wendi
-Matt
-Nick
-Mitch
Spencer
Go BSU! Coach Pete, if you are looking for a little linebacker... here you go, she is already outfitted!
I just love it when they both smile at the same time... such an accomplishment!
So lots of family was in town this week, which meant shopping with them at all our favorite stores! Thanks for the fun!
Jaron enjoyed taking "his girl" on a ride to California in their imaginary little land!
If you are familiar with this little time-killer, you know how hard it can make you laugh... If you are not then you really should buy a mac just to play around on it. Parental Discretion Advised for the following bizarre photos below.
If Jaron ever cannot be found, you are certain to find him on the computer in the office taking pictures of himself and laughing uncontrollably... This kid is way too smart!
Are we sure daddy doesn't need a helmet of his own???
Here's our weekly update... Maycee received her new PARTY hat this week and we think she looks darling in it! Doctors recommended this to help her head shape correctly and we hope she will thank us someday in the future... because she is not right now. She has adjusted great and our only sadness is missing out on seeing her beautiful hair (we had to cut it near completely off for the helmet). Oh well... it's just hair and will grow back and her smile is still just as big as ever. Jaron has been using the big boy potty for several days and that has brought a smile to everybody... thanks again Mary!
Even with the helmet Maycee finds ways to have fun with her buddies! Plus we don't have to worry about her bumping her head.
Last week our family was hit by the 24 hour flu bug. Wendi purchased these cool fever reducer gel packs for kids and Jaron insisted that I wear one with him...it actually felt really good. Don't we look great chillin together...HaHa
I was looking through our blog this morning, and realized we sure don't have as many photos of Maycee as we do of Jaron. The only reason I can think of is that she is so sweet and so adaptable that she really doesn't have all the stories and crazy moments that we share about Jaron. All she really needs to do is smile (in between sucking her thumb) and it makes my day light up. So Maycee, this post is for you!
So...Here is a brief recap of last weekend in our home! We decided it was time to start potty training Jaron...so we laid out all of his "totally awesome" super hero underwear and Wendi started off the day putting him in a brand new crisp pair of "big boy undies"...which Jaron really thought was cool. Jaron sat on the toilet...did some tinkling...and then got off as Wendi set the timer for 20 minutes...all along asking Jaron if he needed to go potty. 2o minutes was up and Wendi grabbed Jaron to take him to the toilet when she felt a warm and damp sensation on her hand...Yep! You guessed it...Jaron had gone in his pants...thats #1! Wendi reprimanded him and put him in the shower to rinse him off...this went on pretty much all day...2,3,4,5,6, maybe 7 times. Saturday afternoon we were tired and Jaron was tired and we had decided to give up...but then I (Ryan) had a brilliant idea. Jaron LOVES playhouse disney so I got him all situated in the bathroom and put him on the toilet and said "As soon as you go in the toilet you can get off"...well that idea backfired as you will see from the picture below! Apparently Jaron is not ready for the toilet!
What a trooper!!!!!
I wanted to share a conversation Wendi had with Jaron this morning when she picked him up from pre-school...
Wendi: "Hi Jaron, did you have fun at pre-shcool today?"
Jaron: "Um Mommy, my teachers made us do something wierd today."
Wendi: "What did they make you do Jaron?"
Jaron: "They made us talk to a Flag."
Wendi: "What did you say?"
Jaron: "I don't know the words were really big'"
Wendi: "Did you say I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America...?"
Jaron: "Yes Mommy...do they make you talk to the flag too??"
I appreciate that Jaron was able to say the Pledge of Allegiance this morning... probably along with millions of other Americans as we all remember the events that took place on this date in 2001. I hope we can take a minute to remember those who sacrificed their lives for America during these events.
I also hope that each of us would extend a thought or prayer of support to those who are serving our country where ever they may be...
God Bless America!
On July 20, Jaron celebrated his 3rd Birthday! Much to our dismay...Wendi went walking with a friend who has a boy that Jaron likes to play with. Later that afternoon her friend informed us that her kids were sick with HFMD (hand, foot and mouth disease). Being the concerned mother that Wendi is, and not wanting to risk giving the virus to other kids at the party for fear that Jaron might also have the disease, she cancelled the birthday party. All in attendance were grandparents and and aunt and uncle. Though there was noone there Jaron's age, he had a great Pirate Party nonetheless! We will be having another party soon to make up for the one he had to miss!!!
After our family reunion concluded our immediate family decided to stay in Utah for a couple more days to celebrate my oldest sister Christen's birthday, and also go to Lagoon. Jaron had a blast being at Lagoon with all of his cousins. We had them all wear their matching shirts so it would be easy to find them if one of them became MIA!
Hi Everybody!!!
So I don't really have an excuse for not posting...and I won't attempt to make one up. I will just tell you what we have been up to. Earlier in July we were able to go to Eden Utah where we met up with the rest of the Mortensen clan for a Family Reunion. My dad has 10 brothers and sisters and each of them have between 4 and 7 kids...and some of the kids have between 2 and 4 kids themselves...so we had quite a gathering and had an awesome time getting to see everyone and even meeting new family members. Attached are just a few pictures of the reunion of the 500 or so that were taken! Don't worry all of you family members...I have not forgotten about the picture CD's I am going to mkae for everyone!!
I really love to help cook, especially making cookies!
So we took our kids to the park to spend some time playing and feeding the ducks. Jaron started to make some close friends while we were there
