Run down

Yes that's right. I've been feeling run down. I don't know what the deal is, I just feel overwhelmed, busy busy busy and tired. Could it be the rigorous workout schedule I assign myself each week? Probably.

I think it's going to be an early spring this year. Last week it got up to around 50+ degrees already- that's absolutely not normal for the first week of February. So we went outside to play. Cabin fever can be a big problem this time of year for us. I still want to take a trip to see our family in California and go to Disneyland (hint hint Shawn :).

Last Friday morning I decided to do Maile's hair curly for school. She looked so cute. We just had to take some pictures.


I hosted a baby shower for my good friend Julie. It turned out great. We had a lot of fun and she got some very good loot! Can I just say that I make the best snickers salad around? :)

Hi Kira!!

We had Granite counters installed in our kitchen and bathrooms a few weeks ago. I am posting these for Jessica :)

This is more personal but I still want to write my feelings down. In a few weeks Shawn is having surgery to..... ahem.... take away our ability to be parents again. I have some mixed emotions. It's hard making things permanent. But he and I both agree that we are maxed out. We want to be able to give our attention, love and time to the 4 we have. I can't really imagine doing the pregnancy nausea- throw up thing one more time, or getting up all night long again either. Not to mention I am scared of the possibility of having postpartum depression/anxiety again. I think maybe those are some signals that I am done as well. However, I don't know that it makes me feel any less sad. Anyways, I"m finding it makes me look at my kids different. I am loving on Brooks way more than usual (which was a lot already). I know he's my 'Baby' and I don't want him to grow up. There is something so fun and cute about having a little one around. He is at such a cute age. He repeats a lot of what we say. He says and does funny things and he is super smart.

Gavin and Dallin had SEP's conferences at school a couple weeks ago. Both are doing great. Well, Dallin has some things to work on. He's a little slow with Math. He has some trouble with his attention span. I know that with faith and time hopefully things can get better for him. But Dallin has talents in other areas as well. He is super creative. He loves music. We bought him a recorder at school and he plays that. We also bought Dallin a guitar and he is currently taking private lessons. His teacher is amazing!


Gavin's school work is always over the top. He never has trouble with anything. Earlier this year, his teacher told me that he has surpassed the elementary reading comprehension scale. She gave him a really hard book about the civil war to read and then tested him. He and another boy in his class were the only two that passed the comprehension test on it. So proud of him.