The Countdown has Begun

As most of you know, Chris has been in school since before we were married. He has completed his Bachelors from UVU, and will be graduating this April with his Masters in Social Work. I am so proud of him. It will be so nice to have him out of school. We are all looking forward to the upcoming months. He has worked so hard, and deserves nothing but the best.

Links for Digital Scrapbooking

For, those of you interested. These are some of the cool websites that you can get free digital scrapbooking stuff. There are a whole bunch out there, but these are my favorites.

http://summertimedesigns.blogspot.com
http://trishhdesigns.blogspot.com
http://digifree.blogspot.com
http://www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com/

I Finally Figured it Out!

I have spent a huge portion of the day trying to figure out how to create my own blog background and header. I finally figured it out. I'm not very creative. This background and header may be a little busy, but I made it all by myself.

Chris and I are attempting digital scrapbooking. I made this scrapbook page using the Memory Mixer software that Chris got for Christmas (Yes, that is what he asked for). There are lots of websites that have free downloadable digital scrapbooking stuff. There are some really creative people out there. I will post some websites when I get a chance.


I'm not very good at this yet, but I'm hoping to get better.

Flashback of Dallin's Past

So Tanner and I were talking the other day, and he reminded me of a very funny thing that Dallin had done a couple years back and he thought that I should "put it on the blog". When Dallin was about four or five, he was obsessed with superheros. In fact, there were days when he really thought he was a super hero, and would not answer unless we called him by his super hero name (i.e. Batman, Spiderman, Wolverine, Superman, etc.), which would change on a daily basis. He would wake up and say, "I am _____ today."

One evening while we were playing games with friends, I sent Dallin to brush his teeth and get ready for bed. After a while, I went in to check on him and he was on the counter with a can of hairspray and a comb trying to get the superman curl. He used practically an entire can of hair spray that I had just bought (the good kind from the beauty supply store). We had just gotten him out of the bath, but his hair was so sticky and hard that we had to give him another bath. We were all laughing so hard. I wish I would have taken a picture of the mess he made, but I forgot.

The reason I write this post is because it seems that time goes by so fast and I don't want to forget the funny little things that they do.

Colter and His Very Miserable Cold

So our little baby has come down with this horrific cold, and he is one miserable little baby. We have taken him to the doctor twice because I thought he may have had an ear infection or something of that nature. Just a cold and a sore throat, and a miserable cough. I'm still trying to get used to trying to read the symptoms in a baby who can't tell me what's bothering him. I'm used to having big kids who can tell me how they are feeling. He won't sleep or eat very much. The good news is that he is getting really good at holding his own bottle. Yay for me!

On a happier note, Colter picked out his very own high chair. I wanted to get one that cost less and with a more sophisticated pattern, but Colter and Daddy wouldn't have it. We let him try the high chair out at the store, and when we took him out he practically jumped out of our arms to get back in. He liked the toy that you can put on the tray. In fact, he wouldn't let go of it and lifted the whole tray up by himself. Yep, that's my tough little boy. He had his first "biter biscuit" in it today, and made a huge mess.

Christmas Slide Show

CHRISTMAS

Wow! What a busy month December was for us, Chris finished up another semester and much to his surprise, he actually passed all of his classes. Andrea, kept her sanity between watching a demanding 6 month old little boy, 2 more who were out of school, baking lots and lots of treats, and shopping for gifts.

We had a Christmas party on every Saturday of the month. It started with the Stubbs family party on the sixth (also Dallin's birthday). This was a very long party, but we had a great time. The highlight of the noght(other than being together with the entire family), was the white elephant gift exchange. Someone created a photoshop version of my Grandma Stubbs with her face and the body of a model. Really funny. It really threw Colter for a loop. He's usually scared of my grandma for some reason but I think the fact that this time he saw her in a bathing suit, which made him think it was dinner time. Suddenly, his opinion of grandma changed.

Next came our ward party.

...then the Jakeman family party. Which for some reason we didn't take alot of pictures. I think it was because we were in charge of the craft time for the children so we got side tracked. We had a great time here as well and there was tons of good food and really just a good opportunity to visit and catch up with everyone.

Dallin also had his Christmas program where the entire first grade sang Christmas songs for about 30 minutes.

Christmas was great!!!!

Everybody got everything they wanted and then some, and we really enjoyed having Colter around for his first Christmas. We truly are a blessed family, and it was great to be around all of our family and spend time with them, this only helps to reinforce how truly lucky we are to have each other and to understand the gospel and the joy and comfort it brings into our lives. Andrea and I feel very fortunate to have three beautiful healthy children and means to provide for them.

On a sad note my Grandma Stubbs was having heart problems and was taken to the hospital early on the morning of the 27th. This gave a bad scare, apparently some of her arteries were blocked upto 90% and because of her being nearly 80 years-old they did not know if they could operate or not. Luckily, she has enough good arteries that with watching her diet and proper exercise they think she'll be o.k. This was great news for her favorite Grandson Chris because he can't imagine a world without her in it. She is truly one of the most wonderful women the world has ever seen. Hopefully, she'll be around and in good health for many more Christmas'. This only helped to further drive home how fortunate and blessed we are. We felt that our Heavenly Father was watching over her and our family at this time and it helped make for a humbling holiday season.

On a happier note, on the 30th my sister Amber was propsed to...and she accepted. She is now engaged to Han and they are planning to marry in May when school is out. Congratulations Amber!

Hopefully 2009 will be as good a year as 2008 was (maybe even better).