Resolutions

Well, it's been a while, so long Jake has had a second birthday since my last post and we have had our 4th child! It's time to be better at keeping up on our blog.

Morgan is now halfway through the 1st grade and so big he's as tall as my shoulder, Eva just turned 5 this past week, Liberty will be 2 in February and Charlotte will be 4 months old this week.

All in all we have truly been blessed and had a wonderful low key Christmas. We wanted to start off our new year with a post of gratitude and maybe a goal for ourselves and any others who want to tag a long.

We are so grateful for our Savior and the Atonement. We are so thankful for the knowledge that we can have eternal life with those we love. We are so thankful for the Gospel in our lives and the joy and happiness it brings us and for our children who bring humility and patience into our lives.

Anyway I decided that every month I would pray for something very specific, because i guess like everyone else over time my prayers become somewhat routine, so this month I'm praying for more faith. Join me if you want or come up with your own. And Jake I wish you all a very happy New Year to you and yours.

Graduation

It's amazing the way you feel when you start GRADUATING in life. When you have your first kid you think, "Man this will never, ever, ever,ever end" then slowly but surely not only is there light at the end of the tunnel, but you're at the end of the tunnel.

It's amazing that during this never ending battle of cheerios on the floor your precious children are growing slowly and graduating to a more joyous and helpful human being!

You know what else is amazing, during all of these ups and downs Jake and I have had child after child and we too have aged and graduated in many things we were child like in, and now the ever so amazing man in my life is graduating tomorrow in life....no he's not dead....but he's on his way. Jake turns 30!!!!

I'm so grateful for all the wonderful experiences in our life we have had. So thankful we were so young 7 years ago when we met and just as young when we married each other 6 years ago. We have truly molded together and finished growing up in a lot of ways together. Here's to Eternity Jake! Can't wait to learn more and more with you, maybe in 30 more years you'll look 40!?!

So Happy Birthday Jake and enjoy being KING of the Castle tomorrow!

Seriously

Because everyone who knows me thinks Music leader! Yep that's my new calling. I lead the music in Relief Society now. CRAZY! I know no nothing about music other than I can power Jam in my car, rockin' out to Justin Timberlake or lip sync my way through heaven with Boyz 2 Men.

Needless to say, today was a disaster. I have no clue what I am doing up there and everyone is staring at you and all I could think was yep that is spit up on my left shoulder and yep that's yogurt my lovely baby smeared on my skirt and yep you are right I didn't re-paint my toes before church today. The list goes on.

But I will continue to go to church.This will not deter me from my activity on Sunday's. EEK

On another note. The first week of school went great. Morgan loves his teacher as do I and Eva is finally warming up to the idea that Morgan does indeed get to leave the house everyday and that he does have fun without her.

I have so far survived my early risings, but am so exhausted by one. Speaking of one, I get up so early now that when one rolls around I think time is or should be closer to five and that bed time is just around the corner. It's not I remind myself that I have 5 more hours with the kids until Jake is home from work, then dinner then scriptures then prayer then BED!

Hopefully I survive this week. We will now be adding Preschool and Ballet this week to the mix of early morning drama. Hopefully it goes off without a hitch. All I keep thinking about is how there is no school tomorrow. No three kids down three flights of stairs and in to the van and then two kids back up the stairs. But starting Tuesday the routine will look something like this.  

730 Leave the house with 3 kids and down 3 flights of stairs home in ten minutes with 2 kids and back up we go. in an hour leave with 2 kids down the stairs and come back in 5 minutes with one kid. Hang out for an hour and a half and leave with 1 kid to get another kid, hang out for 15 minutes and pick up the 3rd kid and home we go.

It's tiring just thinking about it. Morgan however has been doing fantastic and is still so excited about school. Thus far his only complaint is that the 2 hours and 45 minutes at school are just to darn long. But I did manage to explain that church is 15 minutes longer than that and you don't get to play on the play ground half way through. He's decided that school is way cooler!

Big Changes

I don't know that I'm ready for them, but they are here and coming fast!
Morgan starts Kindergarten tomorrow! I can't believe my baby is old enough to be in school. The sad thing is, before I know it he will be in first grade and gone all day not just the 2 hours and 45 minutes this year.
He's so grown up, and I am definitely being paid back. I was NOT a bad kid, or even a teenager that caused a lot of problems. But I was REALLY good at rolling my eyes. That little twerp of mine, is rolling his eyes at me. He hates it when I tell him he can't do something, and just last week my ever so polite kid that I hardly have to get after about anything, called me "Lame" What!?!
I thought the Tude would be coming from my already to much of a personality Daughter! She may have her run for her money.
On top of that Eva is starting pre-school. We decided to bite the bullet and pay for her to be out of my hair. In between the days she has school she will be going to Ballet and they are all morning classes. School and ballet will both start at 9 all week long. I see my gas bill going up. At least the school and dance studio are within a few miles of our house.
So It's just me and Miss Liberty for a couple hours a day four days a week.
Exciting I guess but I don't know what I will do with myself. Did I mention Morgan got new glasses. oh boy! I guess we will see how all this goes.
I am for sure not looking forward to getting to school for 745 every morning and having to drag the other 2 with me since Jake will have already left for work. I am not a morning person, never really have been. I could always get up and get to early morning seminary and school, but now that I have spent 6 years just "chillin" getting up is gonna be HARD to do!

Something I like to call "Sundates"

Ever have a day where the entire day you are updating your status in your head.

I always seem to be doing this but never really remember to do it. That being said I'm always laughing to myself because of what I have said.

Like today...

I sit down and think proudly to myself...we made it to Sacrament, the kids aren't killing one another, Jake and I didn't yell at each other(hard to believe i know) there's time to breathe....laugh to self...I even shaved my legs then I look down to admire my handy work and notice I missed a whole strip in the middle of my leg!

so here's my update.... Made it to church on time, so proud of myself then i saw the strip of hair left on my leg and realized today was a big FAIL.

Catch up

I guess I should start with our little one.

Liberty Eliza Toronto was born President's day. (hence the name)

I went in early to have my water broken, I progressed great and went all the way to 9.5 cm before getting my epidural. I'm so happy I did. I did a rest and descend and it was really a good thing for the baby. she was born with the cord wrapped 3 times around her neck. Had I been pushing out of pain it would have strangled her.Definite blessing in disguise. But now I know I can make it at least that  far with the next baby.

Liberty is the most perfect baby. Really she is the champion of champions when it comes to perfection. She has been sleeping through the night for months, she eats like a horse and she literally never cries. LOVE her.

She just had her 5 month check up and she is in the 50th for weight and head and 80th for height. We have some biggins' around her. My favorite thing about she has absolutely NEVER been sick. After my first two I deserve a healthy one.

As for the rest of us, Jake changed jobs. We literally had Liberty and Jake put his 2 weeks notice in. We had to take advantage of our good insurance. In his new job he is the IT man. He is the only programmer so he is always busy busy busy.

Morgan is starting Kindergarten. Which I cannot believe I am old enough to have a kid in school. Eva is getting ready for gymnastics and well I just drive everyone around. We did just trade our suv in and are now proud owners of a Chrysler Town and Country. We can fit 2 more kids in there, before we will be on the hunt for another one. hahaha

Other than that I have been a crafting queen lately and am absolutely loving how everything is coming together in our living room. I have decided that am going to do a sunday post regularly and see how that goes with keeping up with journaling our life.

I guess that is all for now

--US

64 Days and the count is on

!Holy Cow, so obviously i haven't kept up like I said I would, but in my defense with 2 kids at home and one on the way, the Holiday season, living on the 3rd floor and adjusting to a new ward, I've been swamped. I will inform you all you have been anxiously awaiting on the edge of your seat, about whether or not I made my goal....... I did and I even Surpassed it. I didn't cave to being comfortable until almost 23 weeks. I could still button my pants, it just sucked when i had to sit, bend or generally move with any kind of speed. hahaha

So of course like anyone else, anything maternity was to big for quite awhile and I kind of looked stupid, but that's ok. So here I sit at McDonalds eating my Hot n Spicy and large fry, letting my kids run aimlessly through the play area while I catch you up.

I am starting my 31st week being pregnant! Did it go by as fast for you as it did me?! I have only gained, are you ready for this? Drum roll please.........2.5 pounds! I know I'm pretty much amazing. Big Score for me. The Dr still thinks I have lost a lot of weight and every thing I weigh is the baby gaining as fast as I'm losing. That's the second big score. SWEET!

One more happy thought on this pregnancy. I only have 9 weeks left! I have my official Inducement Date and it's 8 days short of the ticker. So in 64 days Baby GIRL will be here. Woo Hoo! I still don't know how I feel about another girl but I guess I'll get over it and have another baby later and fast A LOT to make sure it's a BOY. hahaha

So here's the countdown.....64 days until our 3rd is born, 7 days til we leave for Arizona, 9 days til Christmas and 11 days til my baby girl turns 3!

I feel really unprepared for all of the above even though I'm done with all shopping and I'm beyond ancy to leave for Arizona. I think it's just the 3rd trimester jitters.

Other than that, my babies are getting bigger everyday. Just today Morgan says "it's a beautiful day to play" haha it's only icy, with fresh snow on the ground, hence us playing at McDonalds. Still what 4 year old says that. Hahaha

Well we are anxiously awaiting our new bundle and can't wait for more chaos.

Love to all in this great season and we hope that EVERYONE is blessed their wants and needs this season.

Where to Start

I don't even know where to begin. Do I catch you up on Eva? Us?Monotony? I don't know......

I guess we'll just do a quick one and get it over with, right? Well here goes the band aid....


We moved about 3 weeks ago and now live in Saratoga Springs. I never thought we would be out here. I've been against living out here probably the whole time we have lived in Utah.But we are here and we love it! Our new ward is amazing and we have started looking forward to church instead of dreading its arrival every week.

Our last ward wasn't that bad, we were just bored. We'd lived there to long. So our new change has been great. In fact we have lots of change right now. New place to live, new Car, and a NEW BABY! That's right we are having baby number 3. are you as excited as we are? We are ecstatic until we start thinking about the fact we are starting all over!?!? We will be going from two talking children, two potty trained, two who sleep all night, two who bathe themselves, dress themselves, sit at the table and feed themselves, have all their teeth, no bottles or diapers. To all of the above......

A baby that can't tell us what's wrong, what it needs or wants, TEETHING and diapers! But we are so excited to have another spirit in our home and are so thankful our Father in Heaven has decided to bless us so much and entrust us with three of his children.

I want another Boy so very badly and pray everyday that I won't have another princess running around. Jake is mixed, and even though he wants a boy would really like to have another girl. I say to that "Traitor." We will know in a couple more weeks what we are having and the kids are so excited to see the baby. They also want a brother! So Im crossing my fingers.

I'm excited as well to say that I have NOT Gained a pound thus far. In fact I'm still wearing my normal clothes. This is extremely exciting to me, and I will be ecstatic if I can make it to 20 weeks in normal clothes. I don't have much longer to hit that goal and hopefully I do. I will say that I am extremely impressed since I eat like I'm a BYU football player! Knock on wood that I don't jinx myself.

Well I hope all is well with all of our friends and I promise I will keep on top of updating! haha

I Must Be Crazy, or I just live in Utah!

It's Happened! It's happened slowly, but's official. It's like the Sunday school lesson always says. IT is by small and simple things that will lead you away into Temptation, or the frog in the boiling pot of water who is slowly boiled to death.

I to have been bitten with the ETSY Fever! I know, I know I tried desperately, i fought tooth and nail against the "let's get together and craft while our kids play, PLAY DATES"

I will say it's nice to be able to make things you enjoy doing and not be out the money.

Jake and I better move soon before something more drastic happens, like we adopt 12 kids or worse I get the go to Cosmo School itch.......

Wish me luck and i'll post my shop as soon as I have posted items for sale. I'll be having a give a way as well. sometime this week.

Rian, Rian Go Away,Come again another day!

Yes this was done on purpose!

If I see another tweet, status update or any other day to day time waster, with a weather update I think I will scream! The cherry on top of it all is that people can't spell. It's not just the occasional oops. It's everyone spelling this way. Can I just tell you I spent a good minutes trying to figure out What the Crap these people were talking about.

Then it dawned on me.... It's RAIN not RIAN


AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

What has this world come to? What has the online Social World come to? Is it really so hard to finish a sentence spelled correctly instead of how it sounds or how your ITAP EN would auto complete for you in your text messages.

Oh where, oh where has everyones spell checks gone. More importantly your second grade Vocabulary.

I am so sick and tired of listening to the rantings of any individual especially our President who can't even read from a Freakin' Teleprompter! It's corpsman! Oh wait may we should start spelling everything how it sounds and forget teaching people Proper Phonetics!!!!! So next time maybe the Presidents speech writer should take the time to dumb himself down so the President doesn't sound like an Idiot. It's corpsman! oh wait CORE MAN or MEN. Our military personnel are not CORPSE MEN!

Im just sayin'.......

Pure Infuriation

Just when I think all incompetence has all but left the building. I have a day like today. LOUSY!

So I take Eva to the Dr today to have a normal checkup and get caught up on her shots. While there the Dr is taking a little longer than she normally would listening to Eva's Chest. quickly followed by Oh yeah you can really hear that Murmur.

"WHAT?!?!?!"

What Murmur are you talking about.
The Dr replying oh you know the one they found when she had all of her scopes done and stuff.
I don't know anything about what you are talking about
Well sure.....well you should the reports sent to me said that Eva is being treated with medicine and routine checks.
ME.........Well If I don't know about it she isn't being treated and I can say she isn't being treated.

Can you believe this nonsense

They have known since April that she has needed treatment and I had no idea. So the Dr says well you need to go right a way for an ECO and we will go from there.

Placing call...........................................................................................................................................

scheduler on the phone

oh....you mean your daughter is under 5!?!? Well we can't do that unless she SEES a cardiologist first.
What?!?! So needless to say of course you can't get in all the easily. So Eva will not be seen until January and then they will schedule the ECO.

Seriously WHAT THE CRAP!
If it is not one thing it soooooooo another. Especially with the health of the kids. They get over one thing or they are at least being treated for it and then you find another t hing.....
Am I just paranoid so I ask the DR about every little thing and that's why we know about all the health problems. I don't think so, my kids are genuinely under the weather. Nothing exaggerated there.

New Blog

Well ladies I just wanted to let you all know I have started a new blog!
www.nogreaterhonor.blogspot.com
It's all about trying to look past the monotony of the daily grind and finding joy in the small accomplishments. I'm making it private as to not have my mommy moments all over the internet, but I would love to have you all as readers. Leave me a comment with your email or facebook me a message.

Love to all my Bestie's

One Loooonggg Update!

Well, on my last post Morgan had just celebrated his 3rd birthday and I had just celebrated my 4th Mothers Day! Can you believe I have been a mother that long. Some don't know this but Morgan was born exactly 10 months to the day that Jake and I were married. The Lord had a higher calling for us and a much better plan than we did, and blessed us to get pregnant on Birth Control. Yes you read that one right. Morgan is .01% and I'm Fertile Myrtle. Anyway, Morgan was born 4 days before Mother's day, 13 days before his Papa's birthday, 22 days before my 21st birthday, and last but not least exactly 2 months before our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It's been a Wild Ride but it's been fantastic with every single twist, turn or bump in the road we wouldn't have it any other way. The Lord truly knows best and in this case better than we did.

Memorial Day weekend we took a day trip to Moab to Celebrate my Dad's birthday. Moab is a little more than half way for us all to meet and have fun in between our big trips to and from Arizona. It was a blast. Papa was not expecting a birthday surprise, but he got it. We went to a new Restaurant instead of our usual ZAK'S. It was absolutely amazing and they had the biggest variety of food. Then off to the park to play with the Dog(my parents caboose baby) and the surprise cake.

Morgan chose a hunter shooting a deer with the inscription " Happy Birthday Mr Po-Dunk
" It's kind of an inside joke. Every year we put something other than Dad. This past year we had been making fun of my dad saying he was po-dunk and a red neck. "Not that there's anything wrong with that" as to quote Seinfeld.

J Man of course went back to Arizona with my parents for his vacay and had a blast.

June found itself eventful! The Toronto Family was spontaneous. Jake called in and took a last minute PTO day and we drove to Evanston, Wyoming. The four us had an absolute blast. Unfortunately, Jake and I found ourselves teaching "life lessons" on the side of the road when some cows decided to get frisky. Jake and I haven't ever taken a day trip just cuz it would be fun, the whole time we have been together. We always use our vacation to see grandparents.
So if you want to know where to go we'll tell you. There is an awesome Ice Cream shop in down town that does gourmet pretzels and sandwiches. The pretzels are topped with meats,sauces anything you can think of, and the whole shop is decorated vintage. Best of all it wasn't over priced, especially for being in a po dunk little town. There is a gorgeous Oriental garden, Train museum, and drive through park where they keep elk and the like for you to see from the car. On the way home we drove the long way and came home through the Uintah Mountains. It was amazing! We are hoping to plan a group camp out for next summer. The campgrounds were almost completely empty and seconds from lakes and streams. BEAUTIFUL!

THEN........ DUN DUN DUN

Jake caught SWINE FLU at work. The Toronto's were put on QUARANTINE! The kids and I didn't get it, but we all had to take Tamiflu anyway. I think it's because the kids and I get a Flu shot every year,but 135 dollars later the only one to have it was Jake.

Thankfully Jake was all better in time for us to go Camping 4th of July weekend with My parents in Arizona. It was the kids' first camp out. Morgan was in Heaven. We hiked everyday and went fishing. We played baseball, gathered firewood, went four-wheeling and played with the dog. Unlike Utah, Arizona has poison oak. So we spent a great deal of time telling the kids to stay away. When we got home guess who had poison oak. Nope it wasn't me. EVA! She never went near the stuff. All I can figure is Eva was sleeping with the dog and she had been running in it, and so she got it.

So home we came with one itchy Eva.

When we got back Jake and I celebrated our 4th wedding Anniversary!
This is Jake and I July 9th, 2005 in front of the Snowflake, Arizona Temple.

Our sealing was standing room only and this is a picture of everyone in our sealing.

We were so happy to FINALLY be married. We were married 1 year and a day from when we started dating. Luckily Jake was out of the state, but our 7 month engagement was rough. I'm so happy we made it and were married in the Temple. I'm also so happy we took the time to know everything about each other. Jake and I spent 9 of our 12 months in different states I'm so thankful that the Lord was still able to make us come together and be close with free nights and weekends. Yes the spirit works long distance!

Our yummy Cake! It was 6 layers of chocolate cake and fresh strawberry filling. My Favorite, and not traditional white cake or trendy.That's why I liked it so much.

As for August, I got a Blackberry! Jake has truly come to spoil me! I love it, Jake love's it. Seriously you can do anything with this phone. The best way to break in a new phone is go on yet another road trip. Can you tell we don't fly anywhere. hahah
So Jake's family had a reunion as well this summer. Every year the family picks a place to go to together. This year was Estes Park Colorado. Needless to say the bottom of Wyoming is a GOD FORSAKEN LAND! But it has cell service so I was able to Facebook, youtube, googlemap....surf the web listen to Pandora. It was amazing and it kept the Kids busy.

So here's a little preview of our trip to Colorado, and ill post more later.
Just before leaving town Jake had checked the fluids, but was going to put washer fluid in and just lightly closed the hood. The gas station was out of fluid so we decided to leave, no one remembering the hood.So as we are leaving town to drive through Provo Canyon  we're driving down 800 North in Orem when all of a sudden..........



Our hood FLEW OPEN!!!!

I seriously just about peed my pants. I was laughing so hard! So we couldn't get it to close, and yours truly SAT on the hood. I still can't keep from laughing every time it comes up....haha no pun intended. Mind you this is all happening right in the middle of the road. We decide hey we should try to open it again to see if we can. Just in case we have an emergency. THE HOOD WON'T OPEN! That's right. Jake is just staring at the car and I'm bent over laughing hysterically trying not to pee myself, and Morgan yells from the car "Not good Dad.....(shaking his head) Nope, NO BUENO." So I start to laugh harder. Jake just looks at me and says well let's go.Then on our happy way we went with no functioning hood. It stayed closed though!


The only excitement in driving across Wyoming is the thrill you get in seeing just how far you can drive on EMPTY and... Windmills. There is nothing for miles and miles and just as your car starts to chug from the lack of life juice it so desperately craves an exit comes into view. A safe haven of truck stops, "showers", and the call of a super sized Dr. Pepper with a side of Hostess.



Our little rendezvous was at a YMCA Camp. Have you ever heard of such a thing. Well it exists. Jake's parents rented cabins for us all to stay in. We were lucky enough to be the only family with a private cabin. We had quite the adventure. NO BATHTUB! Good thing I'm innovative. I made a Bathtub, and the kids thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread! It was a pain to fill and dump out but it was worth every giggle that came from the bathroom.
As you can see in the bathroom the water heater is exposed. Morgan went on and on about this for days, he kept telling me that we needed to find Papa and build a door.Ill post that video later. Hopefully we are just about caught up. Check in again this week to see if I have posted another Looonnnggg upadate

Proud Momma

I guess I will start with Morgan....

Morgan has been going to school and absolutely loves it. He's only been going for a little over a month and he is graduating with his class next week and then he will start summer school. Last week they did evaluations, and Morgan did better than several kids in his class. One of whom has been in the same pre-school level for 2 years.

Morgan knows and recognizes all but 5 letters, he knows all of his shapes and colors. It makes me really happy because, that means he learned all of that from being home with Momma. Before graduating they are having a big field trip, which Morgan is so looking forward to.

My baby is now 3! Can you believe it?!? I certainly can't. He's a sunbeam. I feel like I just had him and now he's 3. Which means 2 things. My birthday is in 2 weeks and 2 months til Jake and I celebrate 5 years together and 4 that we have been married.

The second he woke up he ran to the kitchen grabbed his cake, candles and matches. He made me light the whole thing up.I mean the WHOLE thing. Morgan put 23 candles on his cake. I couldn't hardly get my hand in there to light them all. The best part was most of them were trick candles. You should have seen his face when they wouldn't blow out. It was definitely hilarious.

He also did his Momma proud, when he at 10 pm the night of his birthday quoted his very first movie line.

"Take my body back, Harry"

This has to be one of the most quoted Harry Potter lines in our house. I was BEAMING!

J-Man as we like to call him, woke the other day and was telling me all about a dream he had, had. When he's done he leans up on one hand, fake laughs and says " It was so Crazy Mom"

OH MY GOSH!

He is stinkin' hilarious.

The other day he told me I needed to take him to Grammy's house so that she could take him to see Rachel. Rachel is my sister and will be moving back to Utah next week. However, the best part is that he wanted me to drive him to AZ to my mom's house so she could take him the last 2 hours to see his Aunt. So I of course say no and informs me that it's just a ride. Another thing i've said coming back to haunt me.

Last but not least on J-Man..... Jake has been in Vegas for 3 days now. Friday night I moved our mattress off of our bed and moved it to the living room floor for us to camp out. He has had an absolute blast camping out with me. He keeps telling me every night before bed "Daddy'll be back soon" Anyway, he had so much fun helping hold up the back end of the mattress while we hauled to and from my room. We laughed so hard.

Miss Evita, has quite the vocabulary now.

Mamo = Momo for morgan
nuna = Luna for moon
dinoso = dinosaur
bye
hi and hello
baby
daddy
LET"S GO
what's this
NO
I didn't
baba = bottle
choo choo
wow
whoa
dog
woof
wee = slide

She ceases to amaze me with how dramatic she can be about EVERYTHING! All girl! She loves her babies, and loves to hug and kiss them and to have me do the same. She so loves her brother and has finally reached a stage where she can kind of keep up with him on the playground. They love climbing the stairs and going down the slide on their stomachs.

Eva has no fear when it comes to the slide. Neither does Morgan. HE has started climbing the poles and shimmying across the equipment. Thank goodness for helath insurance. Im afraid this summer may be the summer that Morgan finally breaks an arm or a leg. I'm surprised we have made it this far without a cast.

As for me well I'm surviving. Jake has been gone for 3 days now and won't be back until late Tuesday night. I hate sleeping without him. Morgan doesn't take up enough of the bed.haha

I really don't I wake up a lot and I'm tired the next day. It's just blah. He to is ready to come home. Unfortunately he has to go to work on Wednesday, but at least it's a 3 day weekend.

So that's it my babies are growing up so fast, and are more and more fun everyday.

Look Mommy: Moroni, Star Wars!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake and I have had a very busy month. Morgan spent two whole weeks in Arizona while Eva was busy with her tests. We've had some pretty rough spots since Morgan has been back. He has been very busy testing Mom's line of Defense. After three weeks he has found out the hard way that yes indeed the rules did not change while he was away, and he must behave.

He's also started back at school. Despite his age the teacher felt he should be in the older class. Morgan gets along great with everyone and his teacher Miss Whitney said "Mr. Popularity."

Morgan's been missing his Grandpa's, and asks everyday if we can "Go for a ride," that's what I tell him when we are going to be in the car for a while. He's also been obsessed with camping lately and is trying with all his might to get Jake to sleep in the Cabelas parking lot. The kids love Cabelas. It's one of Morgan's favorite places to have lunch with Daddy. Eva squeals every time we walk in the door. She loves the animals, and absolutely flips out when we walk through the fish tunnel.


Eva is definitely our Drama Queen. Half of the time you don't know how bad she is actually hurt, if at all. She just cries and cries and cries. But she is most definitely mine. She loves to shop. She loves clothes and shoes, the pretzel at the mall. Momma is in pure heaven with her little shopping baby.

We have been focusing a lot on Temples this month, just like last month. Eva for the first time this week said Temple as plain as day. We were so excited as we always are when she learns a new word. Morgan's been very concerned about not knowing what comes out of Moroni's trumpet.

OOOOPPPPSSS!!!!

I may have inadvertently started fake trumpeting the Star Wars theme song, and when he asked me the name of the song Moroni plays I said "Star Wars"

DUH!

So now Morgan tells people every chance he gets about Moroni and his Star wars playing trumpet. One day he will laugh about it I'm sure. Just goes to show how careful you have to be.

We have made progress with Eva. The Blessing of being stern with the Idiot Resident is that I get a personal phone call from the ENT every time a new result comes in.

Eva has Sleep Apnea. Which is good and bad. At least we have a starting point. When her scopes were done, structurally everything was fine. So it's odd that she has Apnea. However, this means that whatever is causing this is also causing the noise she makes during the day.

Right now we are waiting to discuss all of this with a pulmonologist where he will of course run more tests, but we will also decide whether or not surgery or an oxygen mask is the right treatment for the apnea. Unfortunately the ENT thinks that Surgery may be the way to go, since during her sleep study she had forced oxygen on her and her oxygen saturation was still really low.

SO the Toronot's are now LOST!!!!

I don't know who's crazy idea it was for us to start watching LOST, especially when we've never seen an episode. I'm sure it was mine,but Jake and I have seriously watched 2 SEASONS this week. No, you read that one right. We just started the 4th season last night at 11:30 and we have already seen 3 episodes.

Seriously, I think my obsession is getting to be sick. I can't stop with just one. I recommend it though. It never ceases to amaze me. So I guess it's official, we have broken the cycle and Jake and I now have an ABC show that we watch.

When we lived in Married housing we had all of these retarded stations between FOX and ABC that I would forget that anything decent was on past channel 13. Funny I know, but if you have ever experienced BYU cable you know exactly what it is I'm saying. We had something like 8 BYU TV stations. Two in English and the others were random languages. There was a station that played Japanese Soaps, which was funny cuz they aren't modern in any way, it's all very crouching Tiger. I think my favorite retarded stations were the LIVE FEED NASA channels, and a little thing I like to call the RAINBOW stations.

Yep more BYU TV in MORE LANGUAGES, except when there isn't anything they need to broadcast on ie. Conference then it becomes a Rainbow station, which is the beautifully colored striped screen playing BYU RADIO. Are we getting a theme here?

Anyway, the point is Jake and I are huge FOX people. I have watched Prison Break since the beginning I'm a diehard and I'm so sad it's ending in 4 more episodes. American Idol, HOUSE, Bones, Lie to Me, Hell's Kitchen, Prison Break. You name it and it's FOX we probably watch it, At least I do, well except that new retarded show DOLLHOUSE. BLAH, retarded, the commercials for that one from day one has said " I'm a guy show, skanky girls run around with no real purpose except for BOOBS to flop about"

Lucky for me Jake has no interest in watching other girls, run around. HAHAHAH I know Right!

Anyway, that's been our stress reliever around here, wish us luck on Finishing Season 4, I'm sure we will be watching Season 5 by the end of the weekend. Good thing Church isn't until 11.

The Positive Side

As many know, Eva had several procedures done today. We still won't know the results of her biopsies until at best the end of next week if not the end of April.

All day Eva has had a tube down her nose and into her tummy. They are limiting her eating which is also causing her to be both pissy and uncomfortable. Oh and on the way here our car broke down.

When it rains it POURS!

On the POSITIVE side. Eva has had her moments of chipperness, is sleeping fairly well for being checked every 30 minutes and was soothed to sleep tonight when we found a Grand Piano that you are allowed to play. Jake was rocking out Beauty and the Beast, and Jazzed up some hymns.

Eva will be having a Cystic Fibrosis test done in the morning and that's all we have for now.

Thanks to everyone who prayed for our Family

Love the Toronto's

I'm Not Touching You

Does anyone remember those Sunny D commercials where the brother and sister are picking on each other. The brother would hold his hand up or point his finger at his sister but be just far enough from not touching and he would say " Im not touching you"

Well Eva does this to Morgan. It's kind of funny. She holds her hand up in front of Morgan's face and he yells "don't" slaps her hand away. Eva starts laughing and just does it all over again. The whole time she's never actually touched him.

Another thing they've started doing is yelling at each other. Morgan we'll say "No it's mine" followed by Eva grabbing said item and yelling "NO" they'll go backandforth like that for one or two minutes before they both just burst out laughing.

These two seriously are out of control.

Surgery

A week from Thursday, Eva will be having surgery. I have no idea what I'm going to do. It seemed like April was forever away and now a week is going to just fly by.

Neither of our Moms is going to make it....so Jake is going to work from the Hospital, and Morgan will be playing with his Ipod touch.

I'm so nervous about the whole thing because, Eva is so little she has an extremely high chance of having her throat close off. All in all I just want to know what's going on. To finally have an answer,whatever it is will be so wonderful. It's so much worse not knowing.

All Grown Up

My baby is really not a baby anymore. Momma's Little Drama queen is getting bigger everyday. Eva Started saying Mama on Valentine's Day, which was a wonderful gift. She is now calling me "Mama" more and more.

Her conversations now consists of "ball," "Go," "NO," "Mo(morgan)"Ta-Da" and she also does this little attitude swagger with her head. I'll say to her,"Tell your Daddy" and she bobs her head back and forth (ie mmmmhhhmnnn) I'll post a video later if I ever catch her. The second you get the camera out she won't perform.

Her "Ta-Da" is Hilarious as well. That I know I can catch, because she gets so into it she doesn't even know your filming her.

Can we say Independent?!?!?!?!

Holy Cow she doesn't like with ANYTHING! If you pick her up. . .screaming and kicking. . . You tell her she can't do something. . . SCREAMING AND KICKING. . . then she BITES the closest person to her. Not just "ow she just bit me" NO we're talking the skin breaks and you bleed. She takes after her momma in that aspect. I was a huge Bitter.

My Baby Face is gone.....
The baby face is all gone. Just like Morgan she went to bed one night, and woke up looking like a toddler. She really is BEAUTIFUL. She is adorable on Sundays, she'll tilt her head to one side and give you this coy little smile. I don't know how we lucked out with suck cute kids.

Only two more months and both kiddos will be in Nursery. Can you believe it?!?! I can't! I think maybe part of my disbelief stems from the fact that when Morgan started Nursery I was a few months shy of having Eva. So, for the first time ever I'm not pregnant in the group of pregnant women. You know what I mean Right?!?! There's Always groups of pregnant people.

Also, we have friends and family that I seem to always be pregnant and due at the same time or shortly after, and everyone in the family and my friends have all just had babies. While two more have announced they are pregnant. Last but not least. I have now been NOT PREGNANT the longest amount of time since we have been married.

Funny, I know.