2012 Year in Review

Time for the Yearly Year in Review blog post.  Shall we take a look back at 2012?

January - New year, new year resolutions. Mike turns 31, then had Kidney Stones and had Surgery to blast it up to better pass it. Greyson is 9 Months Old.

February - This month is always so busy for us every year, I don't think anything happened except Valentines Day. We did find out that Greyson's Tonsils and Adenoids were enlarged.

March - Gavin turns 3, Birthday Party, Lots of Birthday Activities. Mike and I have been married for 7 years. Got a dog. Greyson starts crawling.

April - Greyson turns 1, Croup hits Greyson. Birthday Party, Birthday Activities. Doggie dies. Easter. Birthday Photo Shoot. Time to lose weight!

May - Another new dog. Sell the new doggie. Gavin starts really talking and saying the funniest things. Potty training? Zoo trip.

June - Jackson Hole. Big fire on the mountain behind us. Boring month.

July - 4th of July, Stopped nursing Greyson, Boys sleeping in the same room. I hit my weight loss goal of 125 lbs. SHeDaisy concert. Celebrated my 5th year at work. Gavin is finally POTTY TRAINED!

August - 6 Year anniversary at work for me, 4 Year anniversary in the Navy for Mike. Mike hits 1 year with Sinclair. Greyson is 15 months old. Gavin starts Music Class. Called as Mia Maid Advisor.

September - It is decided that Greyson will have his T&A surgery. Gavin starts Preschool. Gavin is 42 Months old. Family pictures. Mike starts a new job at K&S Automotive in Lehi.

October - I turn 30. Halloween, Parties, Trick or Treating and Trunk or Treating. Pumpkins, Flu. Greyson is 18 months old.

November - Thanksgiving. Greyson's Surgery. First Snow. Spending Thanksgiving with Family. Black Friday Shopping. Mike gets called as Secretary in Sunday School Presidency.

December - Christmas, Parties, Santa. Getting older. Figuring out New Year Resolutions. Crafts, Busy running around getting presents and food to celebrate Christmas!

I have no idea what next year will bring, we will have birthdays and get older. I am hoping to go back to school hopefully. We are looking forward to this year!

Christmas Trees

Gavin and Greyson have been big on Christmas Trees this year so I found this pin on pinterest that you can take an icecream cone, turn it upside down and decorate it like a gingerbread house as a Christmas Tree.  I had some icecream cones, bought some frosting and candy and we started our adventure.  Gavin had so much fun decorating his tree and then eating the frosting, Greyson liked eating all the candy off his tree as I was putting it on and Mike liked trying different things with his tree.

Christmas 2012

Our Christmas this year was so great.  It is so fun having kids.  We didn't get any pictures because we took video of all the opening of presents.  I am trying to open a youtube account and download all our videos for the special people in our lives.  If you would like a link to our youtube videos to see Christmas leave us me a comment and I will send you a link to your email we have on the blog.

Greyson's favorite gift was - Wrapping paper, and all the cars.

Gavin's favorite gift was - His LeapPad

My favorite gift was - My new Griddle!

Mike's favorite gift was - His new Tool Box, which is a totally different story.

We had a great morning sleeping to 8am, then opening stockings, then presents.  Then we cleaned up the wrapping paper and played with the gifts.  We then napped and I worked on dinner.  We then ate and made some m&m cookies and finished off the night watching some new movies we got for Christmas!  We already can't wait until Christmas 2013!

Santa 2012

We saw Santa twice again this year (and didn't have to pay for pictures - YAY.)  We saw him the first weekend in December at Walmart and again on Christmas Eve in our Neighborhood again. Gavin again this year was so in love with Santa. He kept telling us and Santa he wanted Presents with toys for Christmas. He loved getting a candy cane and stuffed animal from Santa.  Greyson on the other hand wanted NOTHING to do with Santa, thus we have our first crying Santa picture.

2012 Christmas Ornaments

This years 2012 Christmas Ornaments

 

Gavin's Ornament this year was Music sheet and drums because of Music Class.

Greyson's ornament this year is a needle, prescription and stethoscope because of all the Dr. Appts. and Surgery.

Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was pretty chill at our house...And I LOVED IT!  Mike had to work half a day and Gavin, Greyson and I hung out at home relaxing and watching movies.  I had to go to Walmart because we decided last minute to do Neighbor gifts, so I had to get stuff for that.  Later we delievered the Neighbor gifts, ate lots of candy and sweets that people had brought to us and watched more movies.  We then had the boys unwrap their Christmas Jammies and blanket (I decided this year to "make" a fleece blanket for the boys because they always want a blanket for the living room) gave the boys baths and then we were relaxing in our jammies with our blankets.  Stay tuned for the Santa post!

Wrapping Paper

This Year, Greyson was more interested in the wrapping paper (and ripping it all up) then the presents he was getting out of the wrapping paper!

When little guys get stuck

Here is Greyson, getting stuck inbetween the bed and wall and the TV and TV/Movie stand.  I don't know how or why he gets himself into these situations, but it always ends up with me running to get the camera to document it and him crying because I'm not helping him.

 

Time Out Chair

Way back when (in July) I decided that it was time we had a Time Out Chair. I don't know why I decided to "make" one but I found some that I really liked on Pinterest and though, "how hard could it be?" So I went to DI and couldn't find a chair that I liked so I checked Savers next. I found a couple that I liked that would work for the idea I had in my head, so I bought one and away we went. I sanded it, repainted it, found a timer on Everythingkitchens.com that I really liked and Velcroed it on the chair. Then the chair sat, and sat, and sat until November when I finally got all the vinyl that I wanted cut out and put on the Chair! It was now complete. I love the finished result and even though the boys don't like to be sent to time out, they still love the time out chair.

 



Grey's Surgery

As you know, Greyson had Surgery on November 7th.  He was such a trooper.  The surgery was literally only 29 minutes long.  Dr. Porter came out and told me everything went good.  When I finally got to see him, he was awake and freaking out!  He cried for a good 45 minutes before we could give him meds.  He finally calmed down and by the end of the day, before they released him, he was toddling all over the Children's unit playing with toys and pushing his IV roller around everywhere.  The next couple days after surgery were hard, but we got through them and for the most part we are all back to normal (with the exception of sleeping through the night)  He had his check up on the 26th of November and he was all healed up.  On day 10 he did get a fever, but that seemed to be the turning point of his recovery!  We are so thankful for our little Grey Bear!

All checked in

In his gown ready for surgery

After surgery and meds, being happy

No more IV ready to break out of the Hospital

Love

Since I got my iPhone, all the boys want to do is take pictures.  I have lots of Crazy, funny, cute pictures of me and the boys on my phone but I love this one because it is the 3 of us! Love these crazy cute boys!

Thanksgiving

I was MIA this year for Thanksgiving, but I have so much (again and every year) to be thankful for.  We made these cute little 2x4 Turkey's in YWs a couple weeks before Thanksgiving and I still have mine up, to remind me that I have a lot to be thankful for and that I need to remember that all year long, not just during Thanksgiving!

Church

It is time to start getting caught back up in the blogging world!  It was a nice month long break, but my Blog Book will soon need to be ordered, so I have to get caught up in order to order this years Blog Book...If you know what I mean.  Lets start with some easy posts...shall we?

This was taken a couple weeks ago (on the 16th I believe), my boys all ready for church.  Aren't they so cute?  Love them!