Luis was on the news!

This is random... Back in November Luis went to do early voting. He was interviewed by a news crew and it was kinda cool... but we don't have tv so we never saw anything. We were just talking about it and Alan did a search and found Luis on the news! I can't make the link work... of course! But copy and paste! Ahhh, Luis is so cute on TV! http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/345002/3/Early-voting-leads-to-long-lines-across-Illinois

A little vacation update

We arrived in Charlotte on Saturday morning around 7:30am. We left IL at 7 Friday night. Luis and I stayed up until about midnight together and then switched off driving for about 2 hours each. Jake was out of it the whole car ride, slept wonderfully, and only woke up when we got gas and fell right back to sleep. Jackson was uncomfortable... his car seat doesn't recline like Jake's. He was awake until almost 11. Both boys were so well behaved. No complaining. Thankful for portable dvd players! Since we got here it's been non-stop fun for our kiddos! Lots of people to entertain them! There was a lot of excitement for Christmas... especially Jackson. I think this is the first year it has actually made sense to him. On Christmas eve we opened some board games and the boys opened brand new quillows (quilt/pillow) from Grandma Weger so they could og to bed with them. We read the Christmas story from the book of mormon and then on Christmas day we read the story from the bible. It was great. Liz and Alan had a couple come over with their baby girl to play games with us on Christmas eve. The boys were so excited to see what Santa brought them! We had to keep them distracted in our room until everyone got downstairs to see the boys come down. So they just tackled daddy while they waited! I have a lot of video of Christmas morning... those will come at some point. Not too many pics, because I wanted the video. Here are some pics of Christmas eve and a few random ones!

Jackson finally found a comfortable spot in the car!

Pecan logs are a Weger tradition. I don't like them. They are cherry nougat covered with pecans. :P For the past few years no one has been able to find them... a dying tradition! So we ordered some online and surprised everyone.

The spoils... Luis and my piles!!! Jax and Jake got spoiled too! And we are going to have a mini Christmas once we get to Mom and Dave's!!!

And this is my lighter... getting slowly closer to blonde hair! I always like blonde highlights on other people but it scares me on my own hair!

Merry Christmas in Advance

Just a quick post to say I might not be blogging for a while! Tomorrow we leave for Charlotte for 10 days. Then Luis flies home and I drive up to DC area for 10 days. I don't know how much time I will have to blog, but I wanted to make sure I hopped on and said Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We are planning on driving straight through the night so I am frantically packing and finishing quilts! I am exhausted so say a little prayer that we will be wide awake tomorrow night... and that we can avoid this winter storm everyone is talking about! Can't wait to see everyone!

Jackson Funny

I was working at some health events this month and had a babysitter from the ward watching the boys during the day. I came home one day last week and she was in the living room with Jake and told me Jax was in the bathroom. It was really quite in there so I asked if he had been in there long. I went in there and Jackson was in front of the mirror using my MASCARA! It was hilarious but obviously dangerous so I tried to keep a straight face. I don't know how long he had been there, but this is what he looked like after...

Not too bad! He has such beautiful eyelashes anyways, he has no need for mascara ;)

Dentist Disaster!

So many disasters! :) Last week I noticed a black spot in between Jackson's molars. Not cool! I got him a dentist appt with my dentist. It is a great office. Jackson is terrified of doctors though. When I got him to the appt, he was screaming and crying so bad that the dentist said he couldn't see him. So they referred us to a pediatric dentist. We had our appt yesterday. Equal amount of freaking out, but they got the job done... with a wonderful and patient staff... and me holding him in my lap with all 4 limbs wrapped around him... as tightly as possible! He is one strong 5 year old! The result? A cavity. UGH! I feel so guilty! No more sugar for him! Poor thing. Now he has to endure another dentist appt. The good news is that Luis will be going with him. Luis controls him a lot better. They will be able to give him laughing gas so he will hold still enough for the filling. It was crazy and exhausting but we made it through it. So far Luis has only heard me tell of how scared and crazy Jackson get's at the doctors... now he will experience it for himself! Poor Jackson has just had some really rough experiences at the doctor... I would be scared too... but enough is enough! That's where daddy comes in. I will be chilling at home with Jake! :)

Choir Disaster

I really like to sing. If I am by myself. I used to want to be a singer, when I was younger... and then I realized that I have extreme, and I mean EXTREME stage fright. I don't even have to be on stage... just having someone around me freaks me out. Even Luis hasn't heard me REALLY sing. Only my children who ride in the car with me! I can sing at church, because there are tons of voices. I sang in church choir in San Antonio with Mom... and realized it is a very frustrating experience. Here is the thing... I have an alto range but I don't know how to read music and I can't sing alto if I am around supranos singing the melody! I just can't make my voice NOT sing what the supranos are singing! So since then I have avoided choirs. Our ward choir director is a little old lady and she called me up on Saturday night and guilt-tripped me into agreeing to sing in the choir for the Christmas song next sunday. UGH! I couldn't say no! Sure enough, it was a disaster. I started out with the supranos, because I knew even though I can't hit all the high notes at least I would know the part. Fail! So I moved down to the altos... Disaster again. I tried my best to listen to Lisa, who has a beautiful alto voice, and follow her. But I couldn't! How embarrassing! I just hummed and fake sang my way through 30 minutes of practice! Luis was kind enough to help me practice at home last night, and I think I will have to practice every night... but I still can't do it very well, because he is there! Isn't it sad that I can't sing in front of my own husband? The frustrating part is that if I am by myself I have a decent voice! As one of my young women in excellence projects I am trying to relearn piano and I think I am going to throw in there learning to sing in front of others. Wish me luck!

Random

Well, Luis was released as Assistant Scout Master and called as Scout Master and 1st Counselor in YMs. So he is going to be pretty busy. It's... interesting... having him in YM and me in YW... it makes Wed night activities very crazy, with the boys being handed off. We were just asked if Jacob would be Angel Gabriel in the ward Christmas party program. Not a speaking part, but I think it will be very cute. Mom and Dave gave Jackson a gift card for his birthday and he had a lot of fun picking out... MORE hotwheels cars! He got two and let Jacob get one. Then we went and he picked out some new shoes! He really wanted a hot wheels track, but we have so many already! So of course his second choice to get the cars. Luis put up Christmas lights last week. It looks so nice! We even have a remote control so we don't have to go outside to turn them on/off! Amazing! It hasn't snowed yet :( I am going to be working about 6 health events this month, so our boys are going to be spending a lot of time with their awesome babysitter, Kailey! We are excited to be going back east for Christmas! We will be in Charlotte for about 10 days and then Luis flies home and I will drive up to DC with the boys and will stay there for about 10 more days. I can't wait. We decided to drive my car, which has bad gas mileage but my heater actually works, unlike Luis', and I have all wheel drive... in case I end up driving through snow. So we chose the safer, more exensive route :) Ugh! Oh well, if Luis' math is right it is only $90 more expensive. I can handle that to avoid flipping my SUV in the snow :) Happy December!