Birthday Week

My Birthday week is officially over:( I'm now a quarter of a century old, and what a quarter it has been! My life is so blessed and it just keeps getting better. The past year has been a whirl of goodness and joy. I went from working 40 hour weeks for the state and just taking care of Jon and myself, to being a mom and caring for a very special boy. My work day now, never ends, but who can call this work? OK, really any care I'm giving between the hours of 11 pm and 7 am I consider work, but every other hour is just play.

Thanks to my sweet boys, my birthday was extra fun.

Jon rented out a room at the Ice Sheet and our families came to skate with us. Having a winter birthday, my mom took me and friends to do this a couple of times when I was young. I luv it!

This is what I woke up to on the day of my birthday, January 20th. I enjoyed my doughnut while watching the inauguration.

Dad and Tag decorating my ice cream cake.Hogle Zoo. We did this the Saturday before my birthday. Ya know how they advertise that the animals are more active during the winter? False, we didn't even get to see the elephants...boo. But, we still had a good ole' time!

Sleep Talking

Amongst the other awful sleeping issues I have with my cute husband, he also sleep talks. Ok, I kind of like this one. He often does it when I'm getting back into bed after being up with Tag. I can talk back to him and he will respond. I giggle like a mad person and then I can't fall back to sleep. Usually he will repeat numbers and say things like the account transaction is 3927382957832 blah blah blah, but here's a fun transcript from a couple of night ago.

Jon: Oh No!

Me: What?

Jon: I give up.

Me: What do you give up?

Jon: Melting.

Me: What are you melting?

Jon: A monkey.

Me: (giggling like crazy) You're melting a monkey?

Jon: I'm going to melt your mom in a second.

At this point I totally think he has waken, but nope, no more talking and he is fast asleep!

P.S. No offense to my mom. Jon is not really going to melt you.

I'm Baaaaack!!!!!

I fell head first out of the blogging world during the hustle and bustle of Christmas, and it is hard to get goin again, but here I am.

The holidays treated us well and proved to be extra fun with our little guy. Enjoy some pics.

Shootin some hoops. Gift from grandma and Grandpa Bush.

Riding the Radio Flyer Rocket from Grandma and Grandpa Abel.

Great Grandpa and Grandma Taggart on Christmas Eve.

This picture kills me. Abel grandkids on Christmas Eve. Tag's massive head bruise is in clear view.

Of course he loved the wrapping.

Again with the ugly head bruise, but adorable suit from Grandma Bush. Jayde is so fitting missing her 2 front teeth on Christmas!

Cute little man.

And finally, our homemade stockings.