Jaimin

Jaimin is always happy. I don't think most people truely understand him or know him because of his limited vocabulary. It's a shame because he is the sweetest little boy. He has made a ton of progress in speaking over the past few months. He is now saying full sentences regularly and his teachers and speach therapist at his school have told us he is making great progress. He tells us that we are crazy, he says "come on" constantly, and he even went up to Jones the other day after Jones fell and asked "Are you alright?"
It has been great to see Jones and Jaimin start to play more lately. They both are starting to use their imagination, and they get pretty silly at times. Jones is very good with Jaimin. He is very patient and understanding. Sometimes when Jones has friends over we will ask him to please include Jaimin and he is usually pretty good. Jones is a sweet boy too. He has a new girl in his class at school. When we picked him up the other day he told us that nobody would play with her at recess, so he decided to go play with her. That obviously made us very happy. In his baby blessing he was blessed to love everybody including those that may not love him. I am glad he is so accepting of everyone.
This has always been my favorite time of year. I love Christmas. I think that my job is starting to change that. There is too much going on at work and I'm working longer hours. So I find myself enjoying the holidays, yet anxiously awaiting January when things will slow down.
I'm very frustrated right now because we were unable to go down to Tina, Robert's, and Henry's sealing. We have been planning on it for weeks, and the snow hit at the wrong time. I'm very happy and proud of them, but very frustrated and saddened that we cannot be there. I feel like we miss out on so much with my family.
Anyway Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

PLEASE PRAY FOR TRAVIS

So as everyone in my family already knows, my cousin has been battling esophageal cancer. Well a few months ago he had his esophagus removed and has been doing really well. Well on Wednesday they found more cancer. He will be going in for a very dangerous surgery sometime next week and has been told that there is only one shot at getting this right. There is a fast for him on Sunday so anyone who is willing to please do, even if you don't know him. He is in his early 30's and has young children so he needs as many prayers as we can give him. If you want to learn more about him go to www.wonderingsofawannabe.blogspot.com . Good Luck Travis!!!

So after the last post I realized that there were a few other people that we needed to thank for helping make California easier. So Thank You to the Nydeggar's and the Bulmer's, who made us feel welcome and gave us someone we could count on.

So I got looking through old Christmas pictures and found these two pictures that brought up a lot of memories. The first is of the boys on Christmas Eve in their new jammies. It was Jaimin's first Christmas, he was only 5 months old (man has time gone bye). This was a fun Christmas, Jones was finally at the age where they start to enjoy opening gifts. The one of Mark brings a lot of memories, but not very many fun ones. As you can tell by the picture we weren't very happy. We were in downtown Sacramento, California looking for a place to take a family picture for our Christmas card. The thought of being away from our family for the holidays was very depressing and it didn't help that we were already depressed. I actually think this is before we knew we were going to be transferred back. Anyway since Mark, as you can tell, and I were not very excited about taking a picture, we didn't take one that day. I think we waited until our neighbors dragged out of our house to take their picture, before we wanted to take one of us. Anyway thinking about California brought back a lot of bad memories. I know we were only there for 10 months, but it felt like 10 years. California definitely changed all of us. Luckily my family was very helpful in us getting through the whole experience. They called and talked at least once a day, and a few that were able to came out and visited. Without all of them I think we would have ended up in the Sacramento River. So Thank You Covieo's, Buehler's and Shivers' for keeping us alive through one of the hardest times in our lives. We love you all for it!!

Our first ever fake tree

I promised myself that never in my life would I not have a real tree for Christmas. The memories of going up into the mountains in Colorado to cut our own tree down are some of my most fond ones. However, I hate putting lights on trees and the lure of a prelite tree that didn't need to be watered was too great. Last year our tree was dried up and brown 3 weeks before Christmas. Anyway the boys were a huge help as you can see in getting the tree up and decorated.

Thanksgiving Day

As usual every time I try to get a good picture of Jaimin he tries to hide his face, so this is the best I could get for the day! Man what have I done to my kids? Jones refuses to smile in pictures anymore and Jaimin won't show his face unless I take it without him knowing. Maybe Mark told them to do this just to frustrate me.

I just thought i would put this picture on here to show how close in size the boys are even though they are 26 months apart.

Monday

Today was a long day.