HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINLEY!!!

Our year

If I kept a journal this is what it would say for 2010:

Dear Journal,

January: My baby turned one and started to walk, well not really he actually skipped the walking phase and went straight for running all over the house!

Febuary: We took a family trip to Disneyland.

Ryan and I celebrated out 4 year anniversery!

March: We found a model home we fell in love with and decided to build our first home!

April: I turned 26!

May: Gracie turned 3!! she had a "tea party" birthday party it was a blast!

June: Gracie took swimming lessons and did awesome!

We finished our house and moved in!! I got to decorate and paint the kids rooms it looks really good. I love my house!

July: We got a dog her name is Annie we must be crazy putting a dog in our new house, but we love her and she is great for our family!

Also Ryan started working on the Grantsville house this is going to be a huge project.

August: Gracie started school this month she is so big and loves school she loves her friends and is really talking advantage of being the big sister and taking care of Finley!

September: We stayed in Logan for the night. We learned that our kids do not sleep in hotels...at all!!

Finley got tubes in his ears!

October: For Halloween we had our neighbors over to our house for soup and cookies then trick or treating in the rain, I love my neighbors they really are a fun group of friends we have been really lucky!

Gracie started a dance class, she does tumbling, tap and ballet!

November: November always consists of 2 things for our family, 1- We get really busy, 2- Our kids get sick and stay sick. This year was no exception and once again November flew by as a blur family get togethers and doctors appointments.

December: Ryan turned 28.

Kids were sick most of the month we made it to most family get togethers and activities but had a wonderful christmas eve and christmas day not leaving our house, which started at 4:10 in the morning when Ryan and I heard the kids downstairs playing with their new toys from santa.

Ryan finishes Grantsville house...Finally!!!

This has been a really wonderful year we have had lots of ups and downs and I can honestly say life justs gets better every year and I am looking forward to new adventures in 2011!!

did we really just have this conversation

Scene -Gracie and Finley out playing in the garage, Lisa and Ryan doing dishes- Gracie comes running in... Gracie: "dad can I have the keys?" Ryan: "what keys?" Gracie: "the keys to the car" Ryan: "No. Why do you want the keys" Gracie: "Fin and I are going bye bye" Ryan: (now laughing) no, Gracie you can't have the keys?" Grace: "we'll come back" Ryan: (laughing too hard to talk) Gracie: "so Dad where are the keys" Ryan:" Gracie no" Gracie: "Mom we are going bye bye where are the keys" LIsa: "where are you going?" Gracie: "bye bye" Lisa: " I know you want to go bye bye but where to?" Gracie: "Grandmas house" Lisa: "you can't have the keys" Gracie: "but we'll come back" Lisa: "let's go later" then Gracie just took off to tell Fin we wouldn't give her the keys! I thought that theses conversations weren't suposed to happen for 13 more years!!!

Park City

We went to park city with my family we stayed in this huge beautiful home ate great food, played games, watched movies, read, it was amazing but my favorite was the really pretty pond and then a huge football field, volleyball court, basketball court and a family picnic hopefully we can do this again , because it was awesome!!

The perks to only 20 months

My kids are changing, some of the chaos is dying down and they are really started to both play like big kids! They love to play together I guess it's one of the perks to having them less then 2 years apart is they are already interested in the same things.

success!

We had our follow up appointment for Finley's ears yesterday and the tubes are a success!! He passed his hearing screening and we are so excited it's now been close to a year of him not hearing well and having constant infections and fluids. He was such a trooper for the actual surgery, he is so amazing and so tough they let him take Calvin (his puppy) with him which I thought was really sweet.

Tubes

After more then half a dozen ear infections and more then a dozen antibiotics, ear drops, chiropractic appointments, and lavender in the past 15 months we are giving up and my baby is getting tubes in his ears tomorrow!!! We've tried to avoid it but are giving up, even though it's a simple surgery it's still surgery and I am a little nervous but excited that he will finally be feeling better!