Brother of Jared for lesson

I am SOOO behind!! I shall attempt some catch up shortly, but for now will just mention the 3 BIG things that have happened this week.

1-We sold our home here in Omaha and will be closing on June 13.

2-We got a new home to lease for Wes's fellowship year in Scottsdale, AZ (we move in June 25th),

3-The BEST news is the WES PASSED HIS FINAL BOARDS and is now a board certified radiologist!!! Yeah!!! Way to go Wesley!!!!!!!!!

More soon-including many updated pictures! (There are quite a few on my FB page is you are wanting to see how much the kids have grown!!) :)

Everest the squirmy baby has earned himself a free pack of diapers!

This post is from my Deals blog, but I thought you all might want to see this CUTE video of  Everest that we submitted to Huggies...

Did you all see the post yesterday about how you can get a FREE package of Huggies Slip On diapers? Well, I just wanted to let you all know it worked!! I just submitted this video:

They said my diapers should be here in 4-6 weeks. THis literally took me like 5 minutes to do. I used my phones camcorder and uploaded it. Pretty easy and quick for a free package of diapers!! So, moms of diaper age babies, if you haven't done it yet, go do it now! (See info on how to do so here.

Happy birthday mom!

Today is my moms birthday! For those of you avid readers of my blog you probably know it is a kinda big birthday. I hope you are having a fun day and are able to celebrate.

Thanks for being a great mom and raising 4 awesome kids (well partly raising one...he's not done yet...) We all love and appreciate all the things you do for us. Just like your dad, you too have taught us to love reading, learning and to always develop and share our talents. You have gone out of your way to help each of us find what we love doing and always encourage us to do those things.

Thanks for being the best mom ever!

Happy 90th Birthday Papou!

Dear Papou,

Happy 90th Birthday today! I know you did not make it to this milestone birthday here on this earth, but it is still worth it to me to honor this day! Ninety years ago today you were born in this world, 35 years (and 1 day) later, you welcomed your first child into this world, my mom. Just a day shy of 24 years after that, we welcomed my mom's second child, my little sister Andrea. The triumvirate of birthdays January 8, 9, and 10th had always been a fun family celebration. Three generations celebrated in one week!

So today I say happy birthday and I remember that 90 years ago you were both. Today I thank you for influencing my life for the good. Thanks for taking me grocery shopping and to the library every Saturday morning. It taught me to value books and to spend wisely. (It also taught me that the best grocery samples are at Dans on Saturdays, and that everyone in SLC that is about my mom's age knows and thanks you for teaching them French in elementary school on TV.)

Thanks for picking me up from school when my parents couldn't. Thanks for letting my family live with you so my siblings and I got the benefit of getting to know you and Xia Xia well!

And thanks for your fun personality! I will never forget you dressing up as woman for Halloween! Your funny antics taught me that I can goofy and have fun.

Thanks also for sharing your talents always. For playing at the Red Flame, singing in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and for always playing the piano at home. I learned to develop and share my talents.

We love and miss you Papou, but we know we will see you again after this life. And today we celebrate the life you began on this earth 90 years ago today!

Happy 90th birthday!

Something I adore (picture of the day)

Today I am supposed to take a picture of something I adore. I have at least 6 things I wanted to catch for this picture today (Wes, Solace, Ender, Armour, Kindle, Everest). But today was pretty crazy and they are all sleeping except this one cute little Everest that I adore:

Christmas lights

A few nights before Christmas, we took the kids all over Omaha to see some of the houses with awesome lights. One of the houses is near our old apartment (from med school..where Jessica and Bret live now). We haber fine to that house every year since it started during med school. I guess it is our only real Omaha Christmas tradition...

We also went and saw the downtown lights for the first time ever...very disappointing having grown up with the Temple Square lights...even the kids noticed and mentioned how crappy the lights were in comparison. We had to promise to take them to Temple Square again sometime in the next few years...

The crazy thing is that we thought three kids would liver the lights and really they just wanted to get past the lights so we could move on to getting hit chocolate and donuts at Krispy Kreme.

Below are some pictures of or night out as a family.

Photo a day...2012

I have a lot to catch up on still and my goal is to keep up this blog better through the year. But I am starting slow (and most blogging will be from my phone since Wes is deep in study mode for his LAST boards of residency!! That's means he had the laptop and I have my phone...thank goodness for my smart phone).
Anyway. I saw this photo a day challenge on facebook yesterday and thought it would be fun. Here is the challenge:

So yesterday I was supposed to take a picture of me... I will do that now.

I am adorable obviously...Todays challenge is breakfast...oh my...

What can I say, I am not a breakfast eater.