Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great! We had some very yummy food and some great company. I was going to do the Turkey trot this year, but when it's 10 degrees outside I would rather stay in my bed. Clint didn't even go do his annual football with the ward. Too cold for us. We thought about taking the kids sledding, but when we went to find boots no one had any in Conner's size or Kaily's. We all went to my parents house and ate yummy food though and enjoyed the company of family in a warm house. Kaily got to go outside with cousins after dinner and she had a great time. I wish I had some pictures, but my camera hasn't been taking the best pics lately. Some of the things we found ourselves being grateful for this year were/are:

• Family
• Friends
• Finding a good school for Kaily
• Finding a new van
• Corbin
• Good health
• Good insurance
• Having doctors that listen
• The gospel

and there are many, many others! We hope you all had a plentiful Thanksgiving!

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My Birthday

This is a little late, but I wanted to write about it.

The morning of my birthday was a BIG dud. Other than getting a call from my parents to wish me Happy Birthday I thought everyone had forgotten. Clint is really good about remembering these things up until the day of, so I really wasn't surprised. I reminded him he was supposed to call someone that day and he asked if it was the 9th. When I said yes he felt so bad and apologised over and over again. Later that day I had an appointment, I left Clint with kids. When I came home I found a beautiful bouquet of flowers waiting for me and a balloon with an itunes gift card attached. I about cried. I can count on one hand how many times Clint has bought me flowers. He and the kids also made a cute little card out of some of my scrapbook stuff. It TOTALLY made my day.

My cousin marries her terminally ill boyfirend

This is my cousin and her now husband. She is amazing and I love her so much!

1 Month

He is 1 month old. It has gone by really fast! In one month he has already changed so much.

He can roll to one side, usually the left.

He smiles and coos, mostly for Mom and sometimes Dad or Kaily.

He eats every 2-4 hrs.

Stays awake and alert for 1-2 hrs at a time now.

Loves to look around, mostly at contrasting colors.

When he hears voices he recognizes he will look around for them.

He likes Kaily to hold him and not sure about Conner.

He doesn't like it when I eat Mexican food.

I caught him starting to smile so I quickly took some pics. Here they are in order.

This is how he looks 90% of the time

Super Why and growing pains

Conner is almost 3 and he has become obsessed with playing games on the computer. I had to put him in the bath just so he would let me on here....Now that it's Friday, I started writing this yesterday morning, and he's in bed I will try to finish this. As I was writing the above he got out of the tub and told me it was now his turn to be on the computer again. We disagree about the amount of time he gets to spend on here. He thinks the computer is his and he gets to dictate when anyone can be on it. He knows how to use the mouse and can find some letters on the key board to type out what he wants, like letters for Super Why games from PBSkids.com. It is the first question I get from him in the morning, "Mom, can I play PBSkids?" Not, "what's for breakfast," or "Good morning, Mom." The question then gets asked 3-4 times a day depending on how many times I have already kicked him off. He really only plays Super Why, which means now I hear the songs in the car, during dinner, when he's outside playing and when Kaily is home and won't let him get on the computer he asks her to pretend Super Why. He does this with a lot of things though so I shouldn't be surprised. He gets obsessive, it lasts for a few weeks and then he's done with it. The computer is just the latest in a long line of obsessions for him. The last few weeks since the baby was born it was Beauty and the Beast. He would watch it nonstop all day. It was a fight to turn it off. Now, he's over it and we have moved on.

With Conner tuning 3 it has also reminded me why I hate 3's so much. Dealing with Conner by himself can be challenging enough, but you add a newborn on top of that who doesn't like to hear his brother scream and you have a recipe for disaster. Conner doesn't like it when Corbin cries and one will almost always make the other cry, mostly when Conner is tired. Kaily can be either a HUGE help or the biggest problem, depending on her mood. She does try to be a good big sis and most of the time does a great job, but siblings will be siblings, which means fights are inevitable.