Kinda Random Stuff From the Phone

Our Family with Mema about a year and a half ago?

Clark and I at The Forgotten Carols. My 29th birthday.

Nick and I chilling before bedtime.

Clark's new building, new desk setup. Pretty amazing.

Ha ha, Clark loves this. It's my picture when I call him.

Random Christmas and Winter I'm Finally Getting Around To

Waiting for the bus.

Nick looking at the SLC Temple. Visiting Temple Square 2011.

AND Nick got sick and puked on my heating blanket. So this is me trying to stay warm. Ha ha.

Christmas Eve, Ray side of the family. Dennys in Pajamas!!!!

Family picture at Shara's House I believe.

St. Patty's Day, Fun With Cousins

We just love watching these cute boys! It's so fun to have cousins close. Nick and Easton are 5, and Nixon is 2. Such fun. Boys are a blast.

I love this expression on Easton. So cute. He looks so grown up.

Cute Nixon peeking through.

We had so much fun making a hut and watching Bolt.

Clark's Remote Tech Support Web Site

My Husband loves what he does. I love that!! I am so proud of him :) He has been working for weeks and has finally finished a working tech site for people who need computer assistance, or just has simple questions. We are really excited about this and hope it can become successful. So please, please, please spread the word, and if you hear of anyone who needs help send them to this site. We have added the icon to the side of the blog which will link straight to it. Keep in mind he will use remote log in for most things. So it really doesn't matter where you live, he will be able to assist. Feel free to have a look, and thanks for all your support!!

"Following the Leader!"

My boy cracks me up. We are looking at all sorts of cars/trains/trucks, anything. And Nick saw the picture and got a big grin and said "Oh boy, following the leader!!" It made me laugh.

Encouraging Our Boy

I love Nick with all of my heart. However... He is the hardest person to motivate and encourage to obey. For 3 years, we have been working with the same 3 preschool teachers. And for 3 years we have been discussing new, different ways to catch Nicks eye and help his behavior. It has been a challenge for sure. But I sit and think of all the things our little boy has gone through in his little life, and you know what? I would probably be tired of being told what to do too. Ha ha. I have been talking to family a lot about this. My Mom said something the other day that made me stop and think. We are getting really good at telling Nick his bad consequences, but not really hyping up the GOOD consequences. Clark and I talked a bit about what we could do. And I like to think we don't spoil Nick too much, but we thought it was the right time and the right way to use it to hopefully encourage him to be a little better each day.

Nick doing great on his patching!

Today we all went to Walmart and picked out a blue basket and a green basket. We picked out things such as, stickers, sketch book, dollar cars/tractors, balls, candy. And a few bigger things like, stars for his roof, etch sketch, army guys, paint set and stuff like that. And this is how it will work... We will keep a daily chart with stickers. Each day he is trying really hard to be good and obey, he will get to put a sticker on the calendar and pick a small toy out of the blue basket. And at the end of the week if he has been trying hard at school and at home, if he has stickers on every day he gets to pick a toy out of the green basket.

He seemed really excited about it and had a lot of fun picking out his toys. So hopefully this will help a bit. Wish us luck!

Nick's Official First Crush

This has been so cute. Our first sign of a crush was when we got Nick's class pictures back. And Clark and I would go over each classmate in the class, and the only one he would tell us about was a girl named Carly. It's been so fun. Almost every time he plays, Carly is involved. He will pick her up on the bus, or go to Walmart with her. It is so fun to see Nick grow in this different way.

First Family Pictures of 2012

Now that my hair is growing out a bit, I can start posting pictures of me again. Ha ha ha. Nick wasn't a fan of smiling today, but here's the best one we got of all 3 of us.

Then Nick wanted to take a few...

And a few more...

And a few more...

Some Fun Things We've Been Up To

We celebrated Nick's 5th Birthday!

I made my first Thanksgiving dinner. Clark was so proud, he wanted to document it :) Ha ha.

Well, I am rededicating myself to patching Nick. It has been a struggle for sure. But I had this fun idea to make some fun ones with patterns that Nick picked out himself. Thanks to my Mom for spending lots of time working on these as well!! It was a fun project. And Nick's favorite is Mater for sure :)

Eagle Mountain Holloween 2011

Can I just say, I love Eagle Mountain! It is a perfect place for our little family. So many kids, great neighbors, and loads of activities all the time. This year for Halloween Clark worked so hard on Nick's costume, so we decided we needed to show it off a bit... They had a little carnival at Nolan Park, and Nick was a hit! I think almost everyone we walked by made some cute comments about Nick. And as his mother, I'm a sucker for anyone who adores my boy :)