Long time

It has been a while hasn't it? Sad thing is, one of the things keeping me busy is working on family blogs. So mine can suffer in silence. Oh, well. Lots has happened. Christmas being the main thing. The kids loved visiting their grandparents. I hate making them leave when they are having such a good time.

Ender is army crawling all over the place. I can't tell if he just hasn't figured out the knees and hands approach, or if this works so well for him that he is going to stick with it.

But anywho, they had a great time and all were amazed at how much the boys have grown since they last saw them.

Raiden is patiently waiting for his birthday and Judge is struggling with potty-training. I hope within the next few weeks it wont be struggling anymore, but accomplished.

Other than that I am all work. I am in the process of deciding whether or not to separate the boys sleeping arrangements. We get so tired of the fighting. We think that maybe having separate places to go might help diffuse the situation...

7th Heaven

Not to toot my own horn, but we are celebrating our seventh anniversary. I can't believe we have been married for seven years. Of course if you take our three kids and divide those years by them, it is amazing. We have had a kid every 2.37 years if you figure it mathematically.

But it has been a wonderful, fun, stressful, crazy, irrational, emotional, and spiritually growing seven years. You think you know it all, then you get married and you find out otherwise, correct?

I am so glad to be married to Kale. I can't picture my life without him, and that includes his Peacock sense of humor that he has. I can't picture my life without our children either, but without him it would be insane. It is nice to know you have someone there to fall back on, when the kids have driven you to the point of pulling out hairs, or when you want to talk, or just to sit and watch TV with. Companionship is what they call it I do believe. It is so wonderful to have a companion. We might not always get along, but I do think that is part of the fun of being married. Finding out the similarities you have and the big deep differences. You can talk about both, but it is the differences that make things interesting.

But for our anniversary we went to a new restaurant in St. George. It is the Texas Roadhouse. Great food and good prices. Later, probably tomorrow on our "actual" anniversary, we will drink some sparkling cider and celebrate with the kids instead of leaving them with a sitter...they should enjoy that.

Catch up

Man you can get busy with other stuff. I have been keeping the family blog up to date, and I am sad to say have let my own personal blog slide. But what else do you think would happen with the holidays around the corner.

We had a successful Thanksgiving dinner. The first of our soon to be seven years together, that we ate alone as a family. No traveling this time. It was nice not having to travel, but I do miss family at these times. We did get our tree put up today. The kids were so excited. I let both Raiden and Judge help put on ornaments. They were proud of the job they did. And I will admit, for a three and five year old their tree decorating skills are pretty darn good.

Ender is growing like crazy. It seems like just yesterday we were proud of him rolling over. Now he rolls all around and sits up on his own. He loves sitting up, and I know he will love it even more when he figures out the crawling thing. Ender also learned that a bottle can be his friend. You show him one and boy what a happy camper he is. I hate to see the end of nursing him, but I think we will both be better off at this point. If that kid wasn't twenty pounds and approaching two and a half feet I think I would still try to manage..but it isn't meant to be. He has discovered you can have fun with your tongue. Now he constantly sticks it out and makes weird faces at you. I told kale it made me think of the band kiss, so we took one of his photos and doctored it just a tad, can you tell?

Kids, not what your expecting

When you were having kids, as you added each one to the family, did you ever get, not overwhelmed, but baffled by the love you feel growing in your heart and soul? It seems you are brimming to the top, and that your going to overflow at any second? It is a wonderful, but weird feeling.

I almost want to say it is like you love your first, but then you really love your second, and somehow impossibly you love your third even more. Not that you love that third child more, but it seems like you FEEL it, somewhere you didn't feel it before? Maybe it is because he is a baby right now, and likes to cuddle. But so does Judge. Or that they have been sick, and he still isn't feeling the best.

I don't know, but I seem to be feeling this a lot lately. It just makes me wonder what is in store for me here in the next few years. I am nervous about the ones we have. Are we raising them right? I think so. I am excited about the possibility of more, cause I can feel that they are there. But will we have them here on earth? Or will I be waiting for the eternities for them, especially for that little girl I would so like to have?

The latter concerns me the most, and I wish it didn't. I don't like the feeling it gives me when I think about it. You would think with three wonderful spirits, and I say wonderful because I know how special they are because of how the Lord made us wait and struggle with each, that I would be happy and unconcerned about more kids. But this feeling increases with each child. Not so much with Raiden, because we were so relieved to have him safe and sound. But Judge took so long to get here I was beginning to wonder. And then Ender, such a miracle, since we were wondering if there would even be anymore to come to us while here on earth.

I am nervous about more children. I feel like we should be having more, but is that just me? I get so sick and my body doesn't handle it well, but I am anxious for more already. Part of this I know is a phase I go through when my babies start to get independent. But it is a worry all the same.

I do have the boys, and for that I am eternally grateful. Hopefully there will be more to be grateful for.

I love them so much!

Da, Dum...Da, Dum.....Da, Dum...(Jaws)

This is it. Is everyone ready for it?....Are you holding your breath? This is the big week on CSI. What will happen to Jorja Fox? Go out quietly? With a big bang? Who knows with CSI. They brought her on by having a rookie murdered, so turnabout is fair play.

With the writers striking I am awfully glad that the few shows I do watch have some pre-filmed. I guess that way I can go through withdrawals later when I am more prepared. If not, I guess I can always rent the series through the library and watch them again. Not to mention that the last season will be coming out on DVD. I could always start there.

Also...newsflash...Don't forget Project Runway aires this Wednesday!

New Pictures

We did get our newest pictures. They are so cute, so says the mommy. Raiden got his at school. I was impressed at how well they turned out. Ever since he got his glasses it has been quite the accomplishment to get a photo without the glare showing up on his glasses.

Judge was a challenge and a half. Just getting him to smile this time around was like talking someone into cutting off a finger or something. Such a little drama person when he wants to be. But the picture wasn't bad, and I have to admit he is quite the cutie.

Ender was a delight. Just talk to the guy and he smiled all you wanted. The hardest task with him was keeping his hands out of his mouth.

I love having my boys, and it gets better cause they're three cute little boys!!

All around the town

I have been spread everywhere lately. It is run to the school, run to work, run to church, to the store, and a lot to the doctors.

Everyone of us but my husband has been to see some type of doctor this month. Ender got shots, Raiden got stitches, and Judge has a form of asthma. I get the luckiest of all though. The dentist. Two root canals on Monday. Isn't that just something you look forward too?