Thankful Thursday

Whoa nelly! It's been over a month since I blogged. I guess the loss of my now dead camera has stalled my blogging progress...

Sitting at home with a stomach bug has given me time to think, and I have a lot to be grateful for (just not this nasty bug that has brought me to my knees in front of the porcelain god).

From air conditioning, a comfy bed, food to eat, jobs to pay the bills to good neighbors & friends, the gospel of Jesus Christ and answered prayers, I look around and find I am blessed amongst my trials.

I often say silent prayers throughout my day and when I stop to think about it, Heavenly Father answers my prayers all the time. He doesn't always answer them the way I would like, but nonetheless, I know I am heard. How great is that?! I know that He completely understands where I am coming from, why I feel the way I do, what I'm trying to accomplish and the roadblocks ahead of me. It's truly comforting to know that while nobody else can truly understand what I'm going through, that HE can. For that, I am thankful.

Maddax turned 2

Ahhh, the day after. The little cake all to himself surrounded by toys, what more could a 2 yr old want?

Sunday breakfast

Sunday morning breakfast:

Maddax: (pointing to 3 yr old family picture on side table) "Daddyyyyyyyy!" "Mommmmmm!" "Naanaaaah!" (then looks around...)

Kolby: "That picture is old."

Tanya: "We really need a new one, poor Mad isn't even in that one & he looks at it at least twice a day."

Kolby: "Yeah, we do."

Tanya: " Your mom was headed to take pictures of your sister's family this morning."

Kolby: "We should go crash their photo shoot."

Tanya: "Ok. But we have to hurry because I have to teach Relief Society in two hours."

Bountiful Baskets

The reason I am up so early today (I got up at 6:45am, which is a first in over 3 months people!) is because I ordered a Bountiful Basket. I've heard of them before from other people but never really gave it much thought. Athina wanted to do it so we went in together on a basket. It was $15 and is run 100% by volunteers. This is what $15 bought us!

Potatoes, butternut squash, cauliflower, arugula (sp?), white asparagus, cherry tomatoes, grapes, spinach, mangos, bananas, pineapple, apricots, nectarines and limes! Seriously, $15!

Click Here to check it out!

Maddax's surgery

The last few months have been filled with various specialists between the two kids. It's been a long 3 months with everything that has been going on. However, after repeated ear infections and the antibiotics not really working, we thought it time Maddax got tubes in his ears.

He had the surgery this Tuesday and is doing just fine. He is such a momma's boy sometimes, but having all the strange doctors around and then taking him away from me just about put him over the edge! They gave him a new blanket, a new matchbox car and a doll in a surgery gown just like his in attempts to pacify him. They even let me pull him around in the wagon up and down the halls for a bit--He still cried like they were cutting off a limb.

In his defense, he couldn't eat and we had to wait 1.5 hours because they were behind schedule.

Although now he loves his blanket and car, but the doll kind of creeps him out. (me too!)

4th of July

Stadium of Fire-Grandma bought her cotton candy, she couldn't have been happier.

Maddax was deathly afraid of the fireworks this year. He closed his eyes, screamed, held on tight and screamed some more. (This was just when the jets flew overhead, hadn't even gotten to the fireworks yet. The kid seriously cut off my air supply he was grabbing my neck so tight-not. even. joking.)
After the stadium of fire (and Kerry Underwood who was amazing), the kids danced in the street at the after party. This girl has got some moves!

They can be so cute together sometimes!

Sacramento

I flew to Sacramento at the end of June for my friend Athina's wedding. She is so happy, and that makes me happy! I even got to stay with my cousin Whitney that Saturday night (she was nice enough to let me stay with a moments notice---thanks again!)

He does exist

On a rare Thursday we took the kids to see Toy Story 3. We got free tickets months ago when we upgraded from VHS to DVD on versions 1 and 2. We hit up the pizza place first and all in all we had a great time just the 4 of us. I just wanted to share pictures to show that Kolby does actually exist. We end up doing a lot without him because of his work schedule, but we get to see him every now and then ;)