The week in Review

So, Monday, I got totally, miserably sick with the stomach flu. As I was getting better, Brett got it. The good news? Weston did NOT get sick! I have to say THANK YOU to Brett who took the first day off to help take care of the baby because I just wasn't able to and he took me to the InstaCare. The second day, I was still too sick, so my wonderful mom watched Weston. She was a total life saver for me and Weston because she took him the whole day, so I could get better, and he could have fun at Grandma's. But I feel so bad, because even though Weston didn't ever get sick and my mom didn't touch me, she ended up getting sick too, and gave it to my dad! I AM SO SORRY!!!
Isn't that great though that Weston has such a great immune system? This has been a terrible winter with lots of things going around and even when we've gotten sick a few times, he only got a little sick one of the times.
By Wednesday, I was SOOOOOOO happy to be feeling better and to be able to take care of my little boy again! I just held him and spoiled him with attention all day. I had missed my little buddy so much those 2 days! Wow, I love being a mom.

Oh ya, the weekend before, WE HAD OUR FINAL VISIT FROM THE ADOPTION AGENCY!!! We've hired an attorney and are now waiting our court date so we can legally finalize the adoption (normal procedure) and we can get his birth certificate and social security number and all that stuff. After that happens, we can go to the temple to be sealed as a family for eternity, and he'll get blessed at church. When he gets blessed, we're also going to have his cousin (my sister's soon to be born baby) blessed at the same time! We are shooting for all of this to happen by the end of March, but we still are waiting for our court date so can't solidify anything for sure. We are getting so excited, and life could not be better.
A big CONGRATS to Elizabeth and Melanie, who both welcomed NEW little girls into the world! All of us had major struggles leading up to these happy moments- so the joy is sweet, I know! I wish you all the best!
AND to my expecting friends Katie and sis Natalee as well as sis-in-law Shannon-
we anxiously await their arrival!
Wow, it's baby mania! I really have to apologize to those who read my blog that are still waiting and really hope you can feel the 'hiding' hope, and know that your day will come at the time it was always meant to come. You'll know that then. I know it hurts when it's not now and you want it to be.

Friday, Aunt Sarah watched our kids and we went to La Karumba (sp?) for a big Ecuadorian party, that of course, included dancing until 2AM. Audrey and Andres and some of their friends and Randy and his girl were there. We weren't going to go because we didn't feel like leaving the baby, but after watching "Yes Man," we just had to say yes. Yes is the new no. Just kidding. But we were glad we did because we love to dance and it was such a blast! Plus, somebody brought hula hoops so I got to show off my one and only hidden talent: hula hooping. Lol.

Saturday, we went to Brett's high school friend Brad and Amy's house to their pampered chef party that wasn't, and hung out. Weston liked looking at their awesome fish tank, and the other cute little girl that was there. We went out to the Dragon diner, then the girls sat around and talked and ate lots of chocolate while the boys played ANTI-MONOPOLY, which afterwards made Brett come to the conclusion he doesn't like anti-monopoly, or monopoly anymore.

Sunday, I just went to church. I definately had a hard time keeping my concentration for the 3 hours. Not having a job, or going to school, and I having stayed home with the baby the 2 weeks before that, it's was the most structured thing I'd done for a month. And it was wierd to be with adults all day. =) Kind of like when I got released from being a nursery leader and had to get used to NOT playing for 2 of the 3 hours of church with a snack in between.

Valentine's Day

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Well, we had a great Valentine's Day. I have the two cute Valentines- Brett and Weston. I LOVE MY BOYS!!!
We had a chocolate fountain with strawbetties, bananas, grapes, and toppings. MmmmmMmmm! Except Weston could only look at it longingly. One day Weston, one day.
Hope you all had a good one!

Weston's 5 months old

Weston and his cousin a few weeks ago.
New pics to come since my computer/camera aren't being very compatible right now.

We love our little Weston and he's just so much fun! He makes us laugh all the time! He's got a big personality. He's such a handsome little boy, too! Like I said in the last post, he adds, triples, and multiplies our happiness! I hope his birth family knows how much we appreciate and love him and how greatful we will always be to them. He feels like a bag of rocks when you pick him up- he's about 18 lbs and is strong and solid. He sleeps well and eats well and is a happy baby. (Except when teething) He likes to put everything in his mouth and chew on it, drool and growl. Ha,ha. He's so cute!

WE LOVE YOU, WESTON!

5 Year Wedding Anniversary!

My computer isn't recognizing my camera so new pictures from our anniversary are to come.

Jan 31st was our 5 year Anniversary! It's been a great adventure and I'm so so so greatful for Brett for being such a wonderful husband and now Father! Life is truly so great for us! Especially since little Weston has added, tripled, and multiplied our happiness!
We had a great weekend. Friday night, we stayed at the Springhill Suites at Thanksgiving Point. We had Weston with us and we went swimming in the indoor pool, went on a walk around Thanksgiving Point at the Dinosaur museum and saw some of the animals. Then we went to Cabellas and looked at the fish. (Weston loves to stare at the big fish!) Then, on Saturday night mom watched Weston so Brett and I could go out to eat and we saw a laser show at the Clark Planetarium, which was both fun and wierd. Not like the laser shows I remember at the old Hansen Planetarium. It was kind of nice to go somewhere without lugging our adorable, but very heavy little boy around!

We also watched this movie called "Fireproof" on DVD which was really great and inspirational movie. Very appropriate for our anniversary because it's about this couple's marriage. It wasn't what I was expecting at all, it ended up being a Christian made movie, but is really cool and I'd recommend it to any married/wanting to be married one day-ers.

Sunday, I hung out at Sarah and Laura's house for the Superbowl, although I didn't really end up watching the superbowl. As a person who hasn't been interested in video games since the first Nintendo with the Mario game, I've BECOME a fan of Guitar Hero Rock Band. It's pretty cool to just be a mom and feel like you're rockin' out. Ha,ha. Oh, ya and Wii fit (which I tried at my brother's cabin on this birthday. Unfortunately, it said my fitness age is 45! I've gotta work on my center of gravity/posture and balance apparently!)

Weston's 4 month old appointment!

Weston is 17 lbs (92% for weight)
He is 26" tall (93% for height! He's going to need a new car seat at 28". Which would actually be nice because lugging him around in his car seat is SOOOOO HEAVY!)
His head circumfrence is 45%.
He's just so darling and wonderful, we love him so much and can't believe how he's growing every minute of the day!
We started to feed him baby rice cereal. He likes it!

My, how he's grown! I thought it would be fun to show the pic I took at his first Dr. apt and see the difference!

Quick Review

Grandpa should know better than to fall asleep while we're at his house by now! (I'll look for the silly one we took in the summer too and post it.)

We had a sleepover at Grandma's house.


Weston sitting up like a big boy in his bumbo seat!



Weston found his thumb, and loves to suck on this fingers and anything else he can get a hold of.
Ski free after 3 at Alta. I went with Brett once, and with my friend, Kelsy. Can't beat free skiing for an hour and a half. Weston sat up on his own for Grandma! Weston laughs now! Especially for Daddy! I try to make him laugh, but he either just smiles for me. It's pretty funny! Nobody's as funny as Daddy! =) We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. We love our families! Christmas Eve we did our annual shindig at Brett's parents where we got our matching jammies and take a picture, eat a spread of different cheeses and breads for dinner, then sing our 'Happy Birthday, Jesus' song. And this year, since we have kids we got to sing the 3rd verse: "Christmas is for children, and now I have my own. Their eyes are full of wonder when all the gifts are shown. But I'll give them something better than anything that's on TV, something very special, something made forever- this melody. Church bells ringaling, angels singaling, Happy Birthday Jesus! Sleighbells jingaling, snowflakes tingaling, happy birthday Jesus! All year long we wait, just to celebrate this Christmas morn' 'cause we want you to know, we're SO GLAD YOU WERE BORN! So have a merry, verry, happy birthday, Jesus." We went up to Park City for one last time with my Marriott discount and stayed at the Summit Watch Resort. It was so much fun! Weston went swimming for the frist time and loved it! We also stayed at the SLC City Center Marriott and Brett and I went ice skating at Gallivan Plaza while my parents played with Weston. It was so much fun and it was snowing big snow flakes- it was all magical. So, I had my last day at work at Marriott. It's been really niec to stay at home with Weston. Although, we hardly ever actually "stay home" too much. We like to go visit grand parents and cousins and go on walks outside when it's nice, or inside at the mall when it's not, because we get bored at home. We even went to see Body Worlds when it was in Salt Lake. It was really cool! The thing I'm missing the most about work now, is my co workers! I have no one to talk about the Bachelor to! No one else I know watches it!
Last Play with our Season Tickets at Desert Star

Kiddie Kandids pics taken by my friend Debbie

We saw this cute outfit while shopping at Babies R US on sale, but it was in size 3/6months. We tried it on thinking maybe he could wear it for his blessing/sealing at the end of March. We think he'll grow out of it by then because he's such a big kid, but he ended up spitting up on it, so we kind of had to buy it. Ha,ha. But, we got good use out of it because we saw Debbie at Kiddie Kandids and she offered to take some pictures of Weston which were SOOO cute! Plus, he can wear it till he grows out of it. Thanks for catching those smile pics, Deb! It is SO HARD to actually catch those on camera!

Merry Christmas!!! 2008

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3 Months Old

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