Sweet, Sweet Kids

I can't help but be so grateful for my kids lately. My friend Jen posted a story on her blog, and I can't help but think about it constantly. I saved the blog, Stakerz Xposed, in my list so if you have time you have to read it. It will remind you of how lucky we are for every second we get with our kids. I'm grateful to Jen for showing it to me, even though it consumes so much of my thoughts! Well if you get a second you really should look at it.
Well, I don't have any pictures to post but I wanted to put this little story on my blog so I wouldn't forget it! tonight we were having family home evening. My dad gave the lesson and he was talking about the Holy Ghost. He asked Addi what she knew about the Holy Ghost and she said "I know that he loves me." Well I though that was a pretty good response. After he had given the whole lesson he asked Addi when do we get the Holy Ghost. Her response was "On Fridays!" It was so funny. She answered his question with such confidence. She knew she was right. It was so cute.
Well we blessed Elli yesterday. Jake did a beautiful job. I'm so proud of him. He's living in Spanish Fork during the week working at an accounting firm. It's only a temporary job, but I'm so grateful that he's getting some experience. Elli is changing so much everyday. Jet is still as sweet as ever. He is a really good little boy. Addi is still very funny. She's in dance and tumbling here and she loves it. She gets to come to my valentine party at school this week and she's so excited. School is going well. I love Mrs. Fowles. She's taught me a lot already! It's been hard to leave my kids everyday, but I know I'll be grateful when I'm all done. We are still doing good. Hopefully I'll be posting pictures soon.

New Baby and Christmas

Elli LaRae Abbott was born on Friday December 18th! She was 7 lbs 1 oz and 19 inches long. She was born 2 and a half weeks early, but still as healthy as can be. I went in for an appointment with Dr. Smith on Thursday and he found out that she was breech so he sent me up to a specialist the next day to see if he could turn her. We were already going up north for the wrestles and to go shopping so it wasn't a big deal to drive to Provo. Well the Doctor up there found out I had placenta previa so he said he couldn't turn her and he felt it would be best to do a C Section right then. By 2:30 that day little Elli was here! It was the weirdest day ever. One second I was planning on going to the wrestles and the next second I was having a baby! It's weird to think that she still shouldn't be here til the second of January! Because we weren't expecting to have her yet she had no clothes to wear, we had no camera, we weren't done Christmas shopping! We just weren't prepared! Next time I'll be already a month in advance just in case.
I'm definitely not a photographer but I thought this tutu was cute! Grandma Rae got it for her for Christmas. She is such a beautiful baby. I can't believe how hard it is to go anywhere with three kids, but other then that Elli hasn't added to much difficulty to our routine. It'll be a lot harder I'm sure when School starts for me on the 11th!
The kids both love her to death! Addi wants to hold her all the time and she's pretty curious about how Jesus gets milk into my body! :) She is such a funny little thing!
Jet loves her too and wants to give her kisses a lot. Jake thinks it's so funny that she sucks on everything so he tried it on Jet's finger and obviously Jet thought it was pretty amusing!
We had a really great Christmas! It's so fun to see how happy your kids are when they open their presents. We spent Christmas at Jake's house, but because we're both from Delta we are able to do pretty much everything with both families.
Addi couldn't get enough Christmas presents to open. She loved everything about it! I can't believe how much things change every year. Addi's already excited for next Christmas!

More Halloween

I just got these pictures from a friend of mine who was kind enough to take them for me! I think Jet is the cutest dragon I have ever seen! I love his face!
I just wanted to show you how cute he was on Halloween!

It's been awhile!

I know I haven't posted for awhile! I've been so busy with school and taking care of my family that I haven't had much time for anything else! Well I've probably had time I've just had too many pictures to put up! I hardly posted any of them, this is just a few of the cute ones. Addi and Jet are doing good. Addi really likes preschool and I'm pretty sure Jet thinks he has two mom's! He is at my sister Brittany's almost everyday all day. I think we'll all be really happy when I'm finally done with school! I have 8 weeks left til the baby gets here. This pregnancy has just flown by. I haven't minded being pregnant this time and I think it's just because I never have time to think about it! I'm moving to Delta after Christmas to do my student teaching so that my mom can help me with my kids. I'm so grateful that she's willing to help me. I have such a good family. We don't really know what Jake is going to do yet. He's done with his MACC in December, but he might keep going and get his MBA too. He hasn't decided. I hope he can be in Delta with me but that probably won't happen! Life is good and very stressful. I keep thinking that once school is over it'll get easier, but I'm not sure when it ever gets easier! Hopefully I'll be better at posting but don't count on it!

Too many pictures to post!

The other day I found Addi in her toy box! I've never seen her climb into it like this so I thought it was pretty funny!
Addi use to climb up onto the dishwasher when she was little too! What is so cool about the dishwasher that little kids think they always need to play on it! Every time I open the dishwasher Jet is right there with me pulling everything out as fast as I can get it in!
I love this picture, Jet has the prettiest eyes! He got his Dad's eyelashes. I know you can't see them that well in this picture but they are so stinking long!
I love Jet's face in this one! I use to always take pictures of Addi with a dirty face, so I thought I better have at least one of Jet! This is what Jet looks like about every night, I just never take a picture of it!
We had a good Halloween this year. I'm so mad I didn't take better pictures. I completely forgot about taking any pictures. This was taken at the end of the night when she was being cranky. I told her to smile and this is what I got. She wanted to be Rapunzel for Halloween, and because I procrastinated and tried to buy a costume a few days before Halloween this is what she had to be! Jet was a dragon. I didn't get any pictures of him but my friend did and when she emails them to me I will post them. He looked way cute! We had our family Halloween party, but I didn't have my camera so I didn't get any pictures from that either. It was way fun again and some of the costumes were so funny! I will try to get a picture to put up because it was so funny!
I know this picture is dark but I think it's soo cute!
Jet fell asleep like this on the couch awhile ago. I know it doesn't seem that weird, but Jet never sleeps in weird places! He really always falls asleep in his crib. He did look pretty sweet all cuddled up on the couch!
I love this face! He is the happiest boy ever!
Seriously, How long ago was mini cheer! Addi loved mini cheer, and even though she didn't know any of the cheers she sure tried to do them. I really thought she'd get down there and just be embarrassed and not want to do it but she did so good!
I love this one of Addi and Janie!
I try to make breakfast for Addi every morning before we go to school. Well this particular morning Jet thought that he would help with the waffles. I know they look a little nasty, but Addi likes her waffles with blue food coloring in them, even though they actually end up looking pretty green!
Addi's first day of school. She had much cuter outfits for school, but for some reason this is what she wanted to wear.

Summer's almost over! :(

Well I don't have any pictures to post. We have actually been doing stuff I just never take any pictures. I have got to be better! We went to fish lake with Jake's family and my mom took all the grandkids to the the zoo, Chuckee Cheese, and the Lehi swimming pool and I didn't take one picture! I still hate to think we did all those things and I didn't take one picture! Well it's been Addi's summer goal to go to Chuckee Cheese and Grandma promised her forever to take her we just couldn't find the time. We've had coupons hanging on our fridge all summer long to Chuckee Cheese and we finally went. The kids had a blast but I think trips with all the grandkids are more work then fun for the moms! We had a good time though and it was fun to spend time with my mom and sisters. Another exciting thing that has happened is that we found out we are having a girl! I still can't believe I'm even pregnant but ready or not I guess! Jake and I start school on Monday and Addi starts preschool the following Monday. This is going to be a busy couple of months for us with school, kids, and new babies so I hope we survive (well I hope I survive!) Well I'm going to bed. I hope everyone is more prepared for the summer to end then me!

Seriously, can I even remember how to post!!

Holy smokes it has been a long time since I've blogged! I can't really even explain why I haven't put any pictures up either. I've been busy with school, but that's not a very good excuse. Well life is still good for us and it still seems like something is always going on. My kids are growing like crazy. I still can't believe that Jet is 7 and a half months old. He is such a sweetie and is changing daily. He still doesn't crawl, but somehow he gets around the room I just can't really explain how. I guess it's an army crawl or something! Addi is still the most adorable thing one second, and the meanest thing the next. She defiantly has her dads temperament, because you all know me, I'm sweet all the time :) (Yeah right)! So Addi would rather ride in the stroller even if she is cramped. The other day we went to the Shakespearean festival Greenshow and on the way home her head was bobbing. I scooted Jet over so they could both fit and it actually worked! They were both asleep for awhile but Jet woke up and was of course smiling at us. He really smiles all the time!!

Addi's hut that Jake made even though she didn't want to be in her room by herself so when we wouldn't stay in there with her we had to make a new hut in the front room. You'd think all those babies would keep her company but they don't!

So Jake was wanting to have this movie night where we'd all pick out a movie, our own kind of ice cream and pop popcorn. (I love popcorn popped with a real popper. I think it's a Johnson thing cuz I know Uncle Elwin's family and Uncle Dan's does it too!) Anyways it was a real hit! Of course Addi wasn't way into watching our movies, but she did ok. She loved the popcorn though.

When we were popping the pop corn she said "I have the best parents in the whole world!" First of all I wasn't kidding when I said she was the sweetest thing and second of all how does she know the word parents? I know it seems like a stupid question but seriously I doubt I used that word til I was 12! She thinks she's so grown up. It's pretty sad that when we do something so simple she thinks were so great. We have got to do more!! And yes we had TONS of popcorn, and yes it almost all got eaten! So depressing!

How cute is this little guy!

My 2 favorite boys!

Happy fourth! We of course went to Delta for the 4th of July. It was so much fun. I couldn't remember why I loved the fourth so much while I was looking for Addi at the park, but when I found her and a lot of the people had left I was reminded. I love the 4th just like everyone else from Delta. I had so much fun seeing all my friends. I wish I could've talked to each of them longer, and Lisa I wish I could've even seen you!! I miss my friends A LOT!

Poor Jet his feet were probably on fire, but he wasn't acting like it!

I love the parade in Delta. The best part about the fourth was getting to hang out with Jake and our families. Jake works all the time I swear so it was nice to just chill! And just so everyone knows I wasn't the Ashley Abbott driving in the derby. I can't believe how many people really thought that was me! I doubt you'll ever see me driving in the derby, but I'm sure proud of my in-laws for always doing so well!

Just another cute picture!

Oh yeah we went to Mexico with our friends Brittney and Warren. We had so much fun hanging out with them! Thanks again for letting us come with you! I'm ready to go back!

For those of you have read all of this and didn't already know that I was pregnant again, I am. I know that it seems like I was just pregnant and that's because I was! Jet and this new baby will be 13 months apart. At first we weren't way excited about it because we just didn't' think we were ready, but now we're really excited about it. Well anyways that's what we've been up too. Sorry I haven't posted much, hopefully I'll get better at it again, but don't count on it!