A Christmas Miracle

Our toilet is flushable again!!!

So....remember how I mentioned months ago that some little 2 year olds flushed toys down the toilet.  After struggling with the problem and being told a couple times that it had been fixed only to find it clogged the next day.....it has truly be fixed.  The culprit....

Poor guy has been trapped upside down under the toilet for months.
He has literally been crapped on most his life.
I'm sure he wishes he was still in the box, sitting on the shelf.

Free at last!  Headed to the dump.
Much better home than the Evers.

Thanks to the wonderful Stephen for saving the day again!  We have officially taken off the tape (I taped the seat down after all the problems) and the kids are back at it again.  I'm still a little scared it will happen again, but I have faith in my children. 

I hope faith is enough.

Good Kids

Here are a few comments made the last few days from my kids that remind me..... I have good kids, and smart too.  Gosh I love them.

Mom:  Jackson, did some kids in your class get sent to the principal office today? (after hearing about that happening)
Jackson:  I don't think so.  Why would they go there?
Mom:  Because they did something naughty.
Jackson:  Why would anyone do something naughty?

Jackson:  Mom, do bad guys believe in Christmas since it's all about Jesus?
Mom:  I don't know.
Jackson:  They probably do, just so they can get presents.

Creighton receives a present from one of his friends on the porch.
He opens it to find two little different gifts inside.
Jackson exclaims, "You got two!"
Creighton:  I got two!  Jackson, you can have one!  Which one do you want?

A friend:  Jackson, how many presents do you have under your tree?
Jackson:  two, the ones I'm giving my mom and dad
So sad.  So true.  Project wrapping begins this week....it has to, right?

You may wonder why I have no "Eastonisms."  Yes.  That's all I will say.  But he sure is cute.

The E-Monster Turns 3

My baby doll turned 3 on the 13th. 

Do you think that he is getting too old for me to call him "Baby Doll?"

Well, he promises me every night that he will stay my baby doll.  He better. :)

Even still, I did allow him to turn three and we had fun.

I was feeling a little guilty because I kind of forgot that his birthday was coming up.  Since I felt guilty, I threw together a little party for my little e-monster.  It was last minute, but when you have such a great place to have a party, I figured, why not. (Thanks dad!)

 THE COOKIE MONSTER:

 Brothers:

I love that cheesy smile.

 The hit of the party: 25 cent gumball machine mustaches. Who needs a jungle gym and blow ups when you have sticky mustaches.

 Here are a few more pictures from the birthday boy's special week.

Easton & Haley celebrating their birthdays at the Evers Family dinner.
Although the birthday girl doesn't seem excited (she's the one lying on the table), the
birthday boy sure is!

We couldn't find matches anywhere (and weren't smart enough to think of the stove until afterwards),
but E was a good sport and blew out the candles for a good minute or two.

Dinner at Spaghetti Factory to Celebrate

What I love about my Easton:

1.  He loves to be held.

2.  He loves his brothers.

3.  He wants to be big and be little at the same time.

4.  He potty trained at 2 1/2 which makes this bday not so horrible for me. :)

5.  He has the cutest little face.

6.  He has the most beautiful blonde hair and the tannest skin.

7.  He says, "What the heck" twenty times a day.  I shouldn't love this.

It's terrible, but his little voice saying it make me laugh inside.

Yes, I am a bad parent.

8.  He is my baby doll and he lets me call him that.

9.  His blue eyes.

10.  His cheesy smile.

You know what I am talking about, but here are a few more to remind you.



And here is his sensitive side.

Happy Birthday Baby E.  Mommy loves you.

Let them be little

Let me start this post by saying, I am not pregnant.  I say this, because I am about to admit a lot of crying that I did in a 2 day time.

About 3 weeks ago, my aunt passed away.  Very suddenly.  55 years old.  It was shocking.

I think everyone felt at peace with it all.  We knew she was happy now.  We can picture her dancing in fields and picking flowers and laughing.  I am a little jealous she is probably with Quebert. 

On the way to her viewing, the song, "Let them be little" came on.  Do you know that song?  It hit me.  PLEASE, let them be little.  STOP growing.  I tell my boys this every day, but I don't think they are listening to me because they just keep growing.  It's so, so, sad. 

Then I arrived at the viewing.  It was at the same place as Que's.  It was hard.  I wanted to see him in the coffin.  I wanted to see him again.  Hugging, mingling, saying I'm sorry, it was all the same.  Again, I thought of my kids and kept thinking....just let them stay little.  I know it seems like these points don't relate, but they do to me.  When you grow up, life gets hard.  Life can be sad.  Life isn't always easy. 

The next day, while at the luncheon after the funeral, we found out that my cousin's little boy (same age as Easton) had cancer again.  He was starting Chemo again that week.  Devastating.  My heart aches for them.  As I read their blog and find out that he needs a bone marrow transplant and that his chances this time around are 45%, my heart aches even more.  Again, I just think, let them be little.  Let them play with no cares in the world.  Let them laugh and giggle.  Let them sleep in the middle.  Just let them be little.

So boys....the moral of this post.  Stay little.  Since you are going to grow up, don't forget about being little.  And remember, I'm your mom and you will ALWAYS be my little boys.  Even if you are destined to be taller than me.  Love always, mom.

Random Pictures

Every month I usually do my random picture post.  This includes photos that I really don't want to make a themed post so I just do one big one.  This month, it's a small one.  Just a few for the boys to remember.

E is now THOR.

Jackson wants us to check out his itty bitty bum

 Yes, he is the cutest Thor you have ever seen.  And yes, that costume is just a little small.  (Just saying what you were thinking.)

A family party isn't a family party without a dog pile on Uncle Mitch.

Pre-School Pals

Have we talked about Creighton's little buddy?  Yes, he has a little buddy.  The type of little buddy that when anyone says her name his face lights up and he gets super shy. 

Can you tell he might like his buddy?

If you want to see Creigh smile, just say Callie.

One day after pre-school I took them out to see my Grandpa's chickens. 

 We also got a fun photo of the kids in front of my grandpa's awesome yard art.

They have so much fun and they also are always so nice to let the E&B tag along. 

Orlando Part 2

Day 4:  Tuesday, November 15th:  Universal Studios

Another fun day at the theme parks.  We had so much fun at Harry Potter World last year, we had to do it again.  I think I go there just to get the butterbeer and these awesome Chocolate Chunk cookies.  So sad that my excitement seems to always revolve around food. 

Picture of Hogwarts.
Melyn....here is the picture of you guys that I forgot to send to you.
BTW...these aren't random people.
That's my cute sister-in-law Melyn and her studly husband, my brother, Jordan

                                                

We also love SuessLand for the kids.

                                   

Auntie Melyn & Uncle Jordan

Beck & Uncle Micah

Then we were off to SuperHero World.  One of the big goals of hitting 40 inches for E was to go on the SpiderMan ride.  He loved it!



 

That night, we took the kids swimming at the hotel pool.  Got to love when it's 85 degrees in November.  Yeah, we did. 

Day 5:  The Darth Vader Duel & Magic Kingdom

We woke up bright and early, again, to make it to Hollywood Studios before it opened to wait in line for the boys to sign up to become Jedi Warriors and get the chance to defeat Darth Vader.  We stood in line and finally got our time for 1:00 that afternoon.  Sadly, E wasn't old enough, but surprisingly he didn't complain.  We went on Star Tours enough times that I think he got enough of his Star Wars feel. 

It was so fun to watch them.  I think Creighton was the youngest one there and the Jedi Master kept making fun of him.  This was quite humorous, especially because Creighton laughed along with them. 

I will try and remember to upload the video we took of this for all those people that have kids that are Star Wars fans.  I think we watched other people's home videos on YouTube dozens of times before they got to do this themselves.  So fun.

We rode more rides:

Saw more characters:

And then headed over to Magic Kingdom for the rest of the day and rode all our favorite rides again. 

I love these pictures Melyn took:

 Such a fun day!

Day 5:  Thursday, November 16th

We had nothing planned!  It was needed too because our kids were worn out.  We went over to downtown disney and looked at legos, ate my favorite pretzals, and went to a few of the disney stores.

Jack and Creigh impersonating pirates at the Disney Store.

Since it was a very warm 85 degrees that day (gosh that sounds so good right now), we spent the rest of the afternoon at the hotel pool.  It was a nice way to end the trip.

The following day we boarded the plane (after Easton throwing up a few times...while on the plane too) and headed home.  Thankfully, it was Friday and I had Mitch home the next two days while we all recovered from such a fun trip.

Yes, we are spoiled.  So much fun.