Shopping Spree

Not really, just a little one. I spent $100 at Kohls on Monday! Dad had sent me a gift card and I got money from Santa as well :) So none of it was out of my pocket... I was so happy because I really need pants, but guilty for spending the money at the same time... I have issues! I only have 1 pair of jeans that I fit in, so I wear them almost everyday. I haven't lost ANY weight since Jake was born so I can't wear any of my 7 pairs of pre-pregnancy pants. UGH! Depressing. Anyway, I bought 1 pair of jeans, 1 blue trousers (so cute!), 1 black trousers, a yellow sweater, a skirt, and some nylons (I have about a hundred runs in the ones I had). The jeans are very long but they fit around the waist. Apparently people who wear my size are MUCH taller than I am. So I will have to hem them. Overall, it was a very successful shopping trip. I also had a $50 CVS gift card that Luis won on Quibids, so I went and bought some make-up and cute purple nail polish... and other boring stuff. I called Isabel for make-up advice. I got mineral make-up- against her advice, but did take her advice on tinted moisturizer. Haven't tried it yet, but I will let you know how I like it! I also got some new eye shadow. Sorry for all the details, but I haven't shopped for myself in a VERY long time, so it was so much fun. Oh, and that's the last time I shop the Monday after Christmas, it was crazy!

Christmas Eve and Christmas morning!

I love Christmas! I really wish I had more pictures. Liz and Becky both took pics, so if I get some of theirs later on I will do another post.

Christmas Eve we went to the annual Christmas Eve dinner and gift exchange at the Gutierrez home. There were about 30 people... a small crowd compared to what I remember last year. We each buy a $5 gift for the exchange. We bought gifts for kids, some jumping beans and some matchbox cars. Fernie Gutierrez picked the cars and opened it. When Jackson saw the cars, he ran up to Fernie and said "Wow!!!!!" He kept repeating that and following Fernie around. Fernie ended up giving Jackson the cars, it was so nice. guess I got my money's worth with that gift :)

During the party, I remembered that Silvia had assigned me to get the potatoes for funeral potatoes for CHristmas dinner. At 7:30 was when I remembered... and I immediately left and went down the street to Walmart, where they were already closing the store. The "Enter" doors were closed and the security gaurd told me I couldn't go inside... but I went in the "exit" doors anyways! I felt bad for not listening to him... but all I needed was the potatoes! Once I got to the grocery section, another worker stopped me and told me I had to leave. I begged her to let me get the potatoes... and she FINALLY let me. I ran back to the frozen section and got 5 bags of frozen potatoes! I had no cart so my hands were freezing! I felt so accomplished! I couldn't believe walmart closed that early.

After that we came home and waited for Danny to get home from work. He works at Kmart. Jake couldn't stay up any longer and I put him to bed at 11:45. Finally, Danny got home and we got started, about 12:30. We were opening presents and hanging out until 2:30-3ish. Jackson was up the whole time (I'm never doing that again!). Jax wasn't very interested in opening presents because he was so tired. But he enjoyed the toys.

Here are some of the gifts...
Jax got the Hooked on Phonics collection from Grandma and Papa Lew, a play desk from Alan and Liz, a cute chalk board Mom made, a bunch of toys, including singing bear-thingys from Mom and Dave, Chutes and Ladders, Thomas the train, a Veggie Tales DVD from me and Luis, Clothes from Becky and church shoes and lightening mcqueen shoes.

Jacob got a corn popper pusher from me and Luis, shoes from grandma and Papa Lew, a musical helicopter from Alan and Liz, a musical car from Grandma and Grandpa Gibson, clothes from Becky, tons of toys.

I got many gift cards, I can't wait to go on dates with Luis. I also got lots of jewelry. I got some makeup brushes from Luis' siblings, they are so soft! Love them. Candy, a cute family picture frame from mom.

Luis got... a KINDLE, biggest surprise of the night, from his parents. I got him a watch and watch box. Liz and Alan got him a shirt, and so did mom and Dave. He also got cufflinks, some scripture quotes post-ins, gift cards, Night at the Museum.

The most sentimental gift of the night was for Silvia and Lew. Alan and Liz had bought a slide scanner and scanned in all their HUNDREDS of slides from their entire marriage, including the kids' childhoods. They don't own hard copies of pictures, they only had their slides... until now! They have them all as digital copies and can print off any picture they want! It was such an awesome things for them to do!

Christmas morning was so wonderful. We all slept in, even the boys. We had a late breakfast of MOnkey bread. Jacob was more excited about his stocking than Jackson was! We had 8 missionaries over for Christmas dinner, and I ate way too much! It was so good, I love ham! What a wonderful day.

Here are some pictures. Sorry, I am too lazy to label them or even put them in order.

Dentist Appt

Jacob had his first dentist appt today. He is 11 months old, but he has a lot of teeth already. Jackson had an appt too. He was first and he was very good, but he was scared. He cried the whole time but opened his mouth fine and didn't fight the dentist. I was so proud of him. This is actually his second dentist appointment, but I don't think he remembered the last one. He is going back on Monday to get sealants put on his molars to prevent cavities. (He has none right now, of course!) Jake did great as well. He enjoyed the dentist brushing his teeth. He got xrays of his 2 front teeth because I told the dentist about how he smacked his mouth on they coffe table a few months ago and how his gums were bleeding. She said everything looks normal, so that relieved some worry. Yesterday both boys had check-ups at the doctor's office and Jackson got a flu shot and Jacob got caught up on all his shots. He never got his 6 month shots, that's what he got yesterday. In January he will go back for his 12 month shots. Jake slept for 5 1/2 hours after he got his shots :) Poor things was so traumatized! Jackson got a lollipop after his shot, so he was happy!

Tonight is our ward Christmas party! I don't think Jackson will be too thrilled about sitting on Santa's lap. He wasn't happy about it last year. Linda and Alan are coming on Monday, so we are all very excited! And then we will be up to 3am every night for the next 10 days... fun, fun, fun! That's what happens when Weger's get together! Merry Christmas everyone... in advance! I love Christmas! I mailed out Christmas cards on Wednesday, so hopefully everyone will get them before Christmas!

Can I?

Jackson is really good about asking for things. We worked on that for a long time. He says "Can I have jugo?" or "can I have candy?" However, he sometimes inserts the "can" when it is not necessary.

For example, the other day he ran up to me jumping up and down like he needed to go potty and said, "can I have poo poo?!?!?" and off to the potty he ran!

We are working on that...

Catching up!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. We are getting very excited about Christmas coming... now that the tree is decorated and the house is as well, thanks to Becky! I am surprised by how well the boys are staying away from the tree. I was so worried that Jake would be trying to touch it constantly, but he really isn't! I am getting the boys pictures taken tomorrow at JC Penney. I have a gift card which will pay for their portraits, so that means you all will get pictures in your Christmas card this year! I can't decide if I want to do a holiday portrait or just a normal dressed up portrait... any opinions?




Linda, Alan, Danny, and Luis and I all pitched in and bought Becky a hard guitar case for her Bday so she can take it to school with her in January. She LOVED it!


Lately, Jax has become unusually unphotogenic. Especially if I say "smile"... he closes his eyes when I say smile, it drives me crazy!


Silvia bought Jacob his first pair of shoes. I definitely didn't think he would be needing them this early. Poor Jackson was so sad when he realized there were no new shoes for him. So Silvia went out today to buy Jax a new pair of shoes too! He is so spoiled! (he kinda needs them, his shoes are pretty tight)


If you look closely you can see his third bottom tooth coming in on the right!


Did I mention how Jake has been getting himself stuck lately? He got in and couldn't get out!


Helping with Christmas decorations. Luis helped Jackson put the star on the tree... that was fun!



Jacob is walking like a pro. He pretty much wants to run already! He is 10 months old, going to be 11 months on Dec 13th. I can't believe how fast he has grown. Jackson as well! He just turned 3 but is wearing 4T. I am making him wear his same winter shirts as last year because they still fit, they are just a little short in the arms. But they are all 3T... I bought them big when he was 2 last year, hoping they would still fit this winter and I think they do for the most part.

This is Jackson lately!

The Remedy

I found the remedy to taking cold, hot-showers. (You know, when you take a hot shower in the winter and you are freezing the whole time!!?!??)

DRINK A CUP OF HOT CHOCOLATE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR SHOWER!!!

It is very cold tonight. I didn't plan this, but I drank the hot chocolate and immediately took my shower. I was so hot from the hot chocolate that I wasn't cold at all during the shower! It was a perfect shower! Try it! I know most of you who read this blog live in cold, snowy places!

Favorite pictures

Ok, Here are some of my favorite pictures from the last couple of weeks. Jacob as been getting himself stuck lately, as you can see in a few of the pictures. We were taking family pictures for Mom and Aubry's projects and Luis decided to make things fun :) The rest are jst pics I like!


Jake's first Quesadilla! He loved it. Unhealthy, I know.














Silvia made Jackson these fleece camo jammies for the cold weather, last week it was in the 40s. Now it is back in the 90s... crazy! Jackson today had a rash all over his body and the only thing I can think of to cause it is the fleece... I forgot to wash it before he wore it. ??? He is pretty itchy, but the benadryl helps.

Technical Difficulties

Sorry for no posts lately, I have tried for the past few days to post with some pictures and I keep getting an error. I am going to try it from a different computer tomorrow.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I felt like we cooked all day! We ended up with just the 6 adults and 2 kids plus 2 missionaries... and we had baked 9 pies :) I guess Lew was expecting a family to come to dinner, but they didn't. So, we had a lot of leftover dessert. The missionaries left with 2 whole pies and lots of leftovers for the week. We definitely have plenty of turkey leftoever. Half of this bird plus the leftovers from the La Joya ward Thanksgiving dinner! I ate way too many carbs, that's for sure! Tis the season to gain weight!!! Can't wait for Christmas...

School Time

Jackson and I have started "school time"!!! I am so excited. I bought Jackson a preschool workbook for his bday and have been very anxious to start the lessons. I love the book, it goes from tracing lines to alpabet to numbers to phonics... it is so awesome. Jackson loved it too! He was so sad when we had to stop. He wanted to color all over it, but I had to tell him that it was for school time only, and if he just wanted to color, he could use his regular coloring books... for playtime. HE WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT! He did so well! He goes a little too fast, so it's hard for him to stay in the lines... we will work on that. First we traced the lines with our fingers, then I held his hand while we did it together. Then, I let him do it on his own! On the page that has 5 lines, the blue and purple are all Jax. I am so proud of him... considering this is his first attempt ever!

A Mother's Worst Nightmare!

Almost...

I was in the living room with the boys and Jake crawled off into the hallway. Then Jax came running in yelling "poo poo, poo poo!" I said, "ok, let's go!" thinking he had to go potty! Well, on my way to the potty I passed Jake in the hallway with a handful of dog poo in each fist!!! I freaked out and ripped open his mouth! LUCKILY... there was nothing inside! Jax had come to warn me that Jake was playing with the dog's poo! I was so busy freaking out that I forgot to yell at Xela for pooing in the house! I was so disgusted! I sanitized Jake's little hands like CRAZY! It was so nasty! Parents with dogs... watch out! I got lucky this time that it didn't end up in his mouth... I probably would have passed out!

Jacob is walking!

Jacob is nine months and has been ready to walk for a while! Here is a clip of his adorable walking! He is so brave and pretty soon will be a pro. It is so early! Jackson didn't walk until he was 12 months. I really do think that having an older sibling to watch helps younger kids to hit their milestones sooner. Love that my little guy is walking!

Happy 3rd Birthday to Jackson!

Jackson turned 3 yesterday. He had a lot of fun! We had 3 of his friends over in the morning for a little party. The boys painted "cars" and only one of them put it on in the end. They were still cute and they had a lot of fun painting. They also played with balloons and we had lunch and cake. I decorated a Lightening McQueen cake, and Becky also pitched in. I put the cake in the fridge over night... didn't know that's a bad idea, so the icing cracked, but Jackson still yelled out "McQueen!!!" when he saw it! Silvia also decorated one for the family but we didn't end up eating it because Papa Lew took us to Dairy Queen for ice cream! (Jackson's favorite!) We will probably eat it tonight! Very fun day for Jackson!