11 Months

So today my baby boy turned 11 months old!!! Holy smokes we are 1 month away from him being a year old, and a toddler... Wait what its been 11 months since this amazing little guy blessed our home? It so does not feel like it was that long ago!

In these 11 months he has learned to talk (a little), he now says momma, dadda, & bubba but thats about it. He has learned to eat lots of different foods, pretty much anything he can get his hands on! His favorite food is french fries,  if he even smells them he freaks out. He is now drinking out of sippys and only has until his birthday with a bottle. He started drinking milk this month and is doing awesome with it, loves it actually! He now weighs about 18 lbs and is out growing his clothes faster than this mommy can blink. He waves to Hi, Bye, Hola, & Adios. He raises his hands high in the air when mommy says "so big", daddy taught him to sign "Thank You", he claps and when we sing patty cake he claps his hands and does the rolling of his hands. He stands along furniture and is learing to stand on his own and is walking with support of his toys or furniture. So im sure walking is right around the corner.

He is def a daddys boy and it is the cutest thing in the world. When he sees daddy his face lights up and he gets so so excited! He also adores his big brother loves being in the kids room with them in his saucer watching them while they play!!! Im sure he is just dying to get out in the room with them and play!

So excited for the next year with him to watch him grow!

Grocery Ads

So as a mom of 3 and a complete family of 5 I try hard to save money every day. Well I needed to go grocery shopping today, so I thought I would try out ad matching. I spent my time going through grocery ads circling what I wanted and then making a list of items I thought were a good deal. I put my information in my purse And off to the store I went. Now I am a Walmart shopper, I love the prices, I love that the store is so easy to get through fairly quickly because it is easy to memorize the layout and where everything is (most walmarts are the same so that helps). I load my cart up discovering that most of the stuff on my list were cheaper at my store already so I didn't even need the ad match. For the hour I spent going through ads and making my list I think all in all I saved maybe $2.00 but I also bought things I don't normally buy either so did I really save many in the long run? In my conclusion I don't think it works very well and in all honesty was a waste of my time. Not saying its a waste of time for everyone, just my own personal time was wasted. Now if you know of how to make ad matching work better than this newbie was doing l gladly open my ears and my mind to it to learn something new! Also on top of it all, I was in the check out line right at midnight and of course when it came time to pay the debit machines decided to take a vacation... Lol, so my groceries are patiently waiting in the cooler at Walmart waiting for me to go back and get it.... Wow what a shopping trip.

10 Months Old

Its official our 10 month old little boy now waves "Hi" "Bye" & "Hola". We are also working on "Adios"!

He does it just to get praised and thinks its funny when we say Yay!!! but it is definitely so much fun to watch him grow!!!

2012 In Review

Wow I cant believe that 2012 is now in the rear view mirror and we are now driving down the 2013 road.

Lets take a look back!

We started out 2012 with my baby shower for our Maxymus! That was a fun party teasing everyone about the name since no one knew what it was, ha ha ha!

Then there was Fayth-Lynn's 3rd birthday! Holy cow she is getting so big 3 was huge!!!

 waiting for our Maxymus to get here! Then on February 28th that day arrived. I was visiting a friend in the hospital the day before when of course my water broke (I'm pretty sure all the laughing and giggling helped to bust my water open) They rushed me down stairs to the er and then to the maternity ward where my amazing hubby meet me to help me welcome our little guy into the world! at 8:55am after about 20 mins of pushing our little Maxymus made his way into the world and he was absolutely perfect! and I got to say that little baby had some fans waiting for him, he had one excited momma and a proud daddy, brother, and sister, and grandmas and grandpas too.

We then attended the Renaissance festival on St. Patricks Day which mommy and daddy and the kids all had a blast at! We got us a yummy turkey leg, and the kids got a shield and sword to play with! Joseph bought me a green metal rose with a clover charm attached to it which i Cherish so much! We checked out some shows and looked through some shops took a mid-evil photo and watched some jousting! Best family outing for Maxymus' first time!!!!

Right after the Renaissance festival I gained some amazing friends! I started going to a lot of moms events and made some of the best friends a girl could ask for, not only mommy friends for me but lots of friends for my kiddos as well!

(These mommies are 3 of my best friends)

Fayth-Lynn and her friend Alex (another little boy named Alex) had a fun fun zoo day!!!

Next was Easter we took the kids to the Easter pageant and the kids loved it!

 We also attended a church egg hunt and went to grandmas for Easter dinner and some more egg hunting!

 After leaving grandmas on Easter we arrived home to find that someone whom loved our kiddos so much played our Easter Bunny (since hubby was out of work and we could not afford to get them baskets this year) Finding those buckets waiting at the front door when we got home not only made my kids day but also made mine to know that we had friends out there that cared so much for our family to make that day so special for my babies! I later found out who our mystery Easter bunny was and come to find out it was my sons 6 year old friend! This little boy spent HIS OWN money on all the stuff gotten for my kids! How Awesome is that boy! He will forever be in my heart for making that day so awesome for my babies!!!

Now its time for Alexanders 6th birthday. He wanted spongebob cupcakes so this momma went on a mission and made him spongebob cupcakes and delivered them to his kindergarten class!

Then when he got home he got homemade pizza and the neighborhood kids came over to eat pizza and spongebob cupcakes! He then opened his presents and his favorite thing he got was his PlayStation 2, with guitar hero! Can you say spoiled!

 Mothers Day! What a great day hubby bought me a locket and had it hand delivered to the front door while he was at work! How awesome is that!!!

Maxymus turns 3 months old! Holy cow already??

Then on June 17^th our baby boy was blessed in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! He was blessed by his Daddy which was amazing to witness!

We now reach the year’s half way point the 4th of July! We started our morning having breakfast with our ward and letting the kids play with all their friends from church!

We came home decorated some cookies and headed to grandmas to hang out until it was time to go watch fireworks! When it was getting close to time we all piled into grandmas truck and headed to Schnepf farms, we found us a good spot set up our chairs and had some laughs while we waited for nightfall. When night came the fireworks show started and of course our kids loved it and Maxymus slept right through it... lol!

During the summer the kids and I spent a lot of time out of the house doing activities! We tried going to the weekly movie at the theater, we went to Lowe's and did some building, lots and lots of chick-fil-a mommy dates, swimming with friends, rained on at the mall, a Lego store trip, and Alexander had his first 2 teeth pulled by the dentist, and received a whole $5 bucks from the tooth fairy!

A couple mommies and I attended cow appreciation day at chick-fil-a and I gotta say we were the hottest cows there!!!

At the end of summer we had a wild and crazy dust storm that felt like it was going to swallow us up!

Joseph and I moved up in the world (just a little bit) and we received our New and very Beautiful mini van!

My bestie of 12 years came for a visit and stayed her entire 8 days here with me (made my week, i miss her bunches) we had a mini jr. high reunion with a couple other girls and lots of hanging out and relaxing!

Maxymus is now a whole 6 months old... holy cow 6 months!!!

The beginning of September and our ward had an overnight camping trip! We left after hubby got off work and ended up getting lost (just a little bit) which got us to the camp site after dark, we heated up some food and chowed down, then the ward brought soda floats so we enjoyed some of those and then some smores! When it was time for bed we decided not to set up our tent but just make some beds in the car and sleep in there for the night! It wasn't the most comfy but it def beat spending most of our time putting up and taking down a tent for only like 6 hours of use!!! So the next morning we woke up got some breakfast and headed down to the water for some fishing!!! Our kids absolutely love fishing!!! This was Maxymus' first camping trip and he had so much fun too!!!

We finished the summer off right with a fun family day at Papago park to do some fishing and a little bit of hiking! Mommy, daddy, and the kids had so much fun this day!

Halloween this year was so much fun! Alexanders best friend moved back to AZ and so he spent Halloween with us and Alex couldn't have been happier! We started the Halloween season out at a block party that Joseph dj'ed the kids had so much fun playing the games, getting candy, dancing, checking out the firetruck and being FREE!!!

The next fun thing we did was went to a homeschool Halloween party. The kids had a blast playing the games, eating lots of yummy food, baking some yummy Halloween cookies, and getting their face painted (thanks to their daddy, lol) They love their homeschool group activities!

Then finally Halloween day! The kids waited so patiently until daddy got home so he could paint Fayth-Lynn's face and to get ready to go out and get some candy! While we were out they had a blast knocking on doors, watching the movies that the people handing out candy were watching outside, and running around like crazy!!!

Maymus celebrated 9 month!

Doesn't feel like 9 months has gone by at all!

Thanksgiving consisted of an early dinner at hubby's moms house before his brother left for his mission! Then thanksgiving day came! We had grandma come over and join us (since she was not only alone on the holiday but also because she was moving across country and the kids wanted to spend as much time as possible with her before she left) While this momma cleaned house during the morning daddy took the kids outside and played soccer, then when they were done out there they came in and the boys played some video games together. When dinner was ready we gathered around the table to eat some yummy yummy food, our little/big boy Alex blessed our food and did such an amazing job at it! we stuffed our face with all the tastiness. After dinner I cleaned off the table and we got out a game that we could play as a family, headbandz! We ate banana pudding played the games and had so many laughs! (we are pretty sure Alex was cheating though... lol and we know Fayth-Lynn was...) after the game grandma went home and the kids went to bed hubby and I relaxed and watched a movie!

For hubby and mines birthday we went to the zoo just the 2 of us and baby! We had so much fun looking at the animals and spending lots of quality time together!

So we hadn't had family photos all year, not including maternity photos that were taken. We were waiting until our little Maxymus was able to sit up on his own! Well 9 months old and we are finally able to take our photos! So we set up an apt with our favorite photographer in the whole wide world, added grandma to the mix and took some amazing family photos! At this time we also took our Christmas photo which was an amazing photo! Cant wait to get them printed and put up in the house!!!

Last holiday of the year and the one the kids wait for all year long!

 They talk about what Santa is going to bring them all the time! Our first get together was with the Schellenbergs side of the family! Great people lots of laughs and some amazing yummy Mexican food! Then our apt complex held a little get together where they had Santa visit and the kids were able to sit on his lap and take a photo! Alex and Fayth-Lynn couldn't be more excited to see Santa! Maxymus was in aw of the beard (I think). The next get together was with the Babbitt's side of the family we enjoyed more yummy food, and great conversations! We then rode on the hay ride through the neighborhood and then when we got back to the house we had a very special visitor!!! SANTA came and brought a little pre Christmas gift for all the little ones! Then the adults fought over gifts during the white elephant game which we always have so much fun doing every year! We then rushed home so the kids could get to bed so Santa could come to visit! Christmas morning the kids came down stairs and were so excited to see the Santa visited them and they were so eager to open it all up and see what they got! Grandma came to spend Christmas with us and was just as eager as the rest of us to get into all the gifts. Maxymus got a couple new toys and a new walker and a couple books, Fayth-Lynn got lots of play kitchen stuff, tea set play kitchen and play food, Alexander got bayblades, hot wheels, and his favorite a new DS with a couple games. They also got a couple gifts for the whole family, spongebob ice cream bowls, movies, and some kinect games for us to play together! After opening up gifts we made sure to talk to the kids about the true meaning of Christmas and it made this mommy so proud for the kids to pay attention and to wish Jesus a happy birthday!!! after we cleaned up a little bit I got up and cooked Christmas lunch while grandma, daddy and the kids enjoyed playing. We ate the yummy food and then the Joseph and the kids played games on the kinect! Grandma left and took Fayth-Lynn with her to go visit granddaddy and grammy, so the boys continued to play games and this mommy took a nap. Gotta say it was an awesome Christmas turn out!!!!

New Years Eve, crazy to think its already another year gone! Hubby and I went dancing for the new year and brought in 2013 with an amazing kiss! Happy New Year to all!!!!