we have winners... or should I say cheaters....

Well well well you ladies are nuts! SERIOUSLY! WOW! I beat ZB out on comments, seriously I rock! If you need to know who won, its obvious. Just look at my 250 comments... the gals with the most comments I let them win, HAHA! So congrats, they will either get some vinyl lettering or a Discovery toy, both are pretty cool prizes if I say so myself!
SO YAY, that is OVER! But I welcome the comments still. Glad that my blog isnt a ghost town anymore! We leave for Denver on Sunday morning, WAHOOOOOO it will be so nice to help my little Jackson get some relief for his skin. It makes me literally ache to watch him suffer. As a mom, you would rip your own skin off and give it to your child if you thought it would help...... where is my scalpel? Wish us luck. I think our hotel has wireless internet, so I will up date the blog daily or bi-daily with reports! toodles for now!!
jennie

WOW, I am so popular!!

OK! Well now since I have SO many new friends out there in the blogging world... I will give out 4 PRIZES! 2 uppercase living vinyl expressions (well gift certs for $10 each) and 2 Discovery toys, you tell me how old your kids are, and I will make sure to make it work! I guess I am a home business junky..... I just like discounts, call me cheap, CHEAP!! Anyways, I am so happy people are FINALLY looking at my blog! You guys ROCK! If ZB doesnt mind, my cuz asked to see your page, and since I dont know how to list my "friends" on my blog, Beebs.... her blog page is www.inthemeantime-zb.blogspot.com. She makes the cutest flower hair flare (not sure W, A, and B would look all that cute in flowers!)
TO the gal who said Porter picture was the cutest, bless your heart, and that picture was taken at Kiddie kandids. The picture of my family, was taken at Inkley's, yes they take pictures, I found that out when I was getting some pictures printed! No offense to Kiddie kandids (kam hates the word Kiddie Kandids, she explained in her blog once, pretty funny) We love kiddie Kandids, but I think the photogs there dont like us. It once took us 2 hours to get 6 DECENT poses with all 3 kids. By the end of that day, I wanted to sleep for 3 days straight.
We are really excited about going to Denver next week, WAHOOOOOO I know I will wish I was home when I am dealing with Jackson and Porter in the hotel!! Jackson likes HIS bed, with HIS blankets and HIS bed. This will be interesting! I know the people in the rooms next to us will really enjoy their vacations! SORRY! All in all, everything is fine here. I just had my first Discovery Toys party today, sold about $450 in toys, made $90, and also made $150 in FREE TOYS! Completed my start up goal, signed my friend up yadda yadda..... I love free toys. I have 3 kids, I love anything free! Heck I will hang out at Costco for 2 hours to feed my kids samples! hahaha I am SO cheap! Well keep up the comments, there are no cheaters in life, just really determined people! Zoie had what, 160 comments...... yea I am cooler, I can beat her! haha kidding Z, you know I love you!
Crazy mama of 6...... weight loss is going good... my scale is teasing me and it seriously wont let me lose 100 pounds. I have been inching my way there for months, and seriously my scale is out to get me... maybe it likes showing high numbers makes it work harder, I dont know.... I cant really blame my scale.... its winter, and comfort food isnt always the best food, but it sure is good! Thanks for the comments...... I will pick a winner (hahaha sorry, mom of 3....of course thinks of boogers) next week! WAHOOOOOO
Jennie

Pay it forward....

Well I won a contest on my friend Zoie's blog. I never win anything, and she made the cutest hair flowers for Lily. Well now its my turn to pay it forward. Since I have hmmm 4-5 hits to my blog on average. I can only have ONE winner, to be fair. You will WIN either a discovery toy item, or a $10 gift cert to uppercase living (creative vinyl expressions) but you have to buy it from me. So next week, I will randomly select the winner. Basically the name in the hat method. So pass this on to your friends, make them check my lame blog out and maybe they will win a well! And if YOU win, you have to pay it forward somehow as well! Here we go..... the more comments the better, means your name will be entered in MORE time. I may have to get the random picker thing from Zoie.... let the games begin!!! GO!
Jennie

We're off to see the doctors...... in denver!

We are heading out on Feb 10th to take Jackson to Denver to the National Jewish Medical center for skin treatment. Yes, I am bothered that I need to leave the state to get treatment for my son, but if they can help him, heck, we would MOVE THERE! This medical center is the best in the Nation for eczema and immune defficiency treatment. Jackson will be treated for 2 weeks. I am taking Porter with, Lily will stay home with Jake. We will keep you posted while we are there! Wish us luck!
Jennie

Family Picture!

Here is our 2007 Family Picture! Man I have cute kids!

Christmas Pictures!

All aboard the choo choo train!! Oh he was so excited!

Who needs toys when you have a movie and Popcorn at papa's and mama's house!

Oh Little miss Rachael Ray!

"I am so not into this... give me the wrapping paper, and I will be fine!"
Oh one tired daddy aka santa, up all night making sure his babes had their gifts!
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Read the post below the pictures!

And to all a GOOD NIGHT, and a GREAT DAY!

Wow, Christmas was rather fun this year! The kids had SO much fun opening their presents. It was so cute watching Lily and Jackson hug after each present. Lily's favorite toy this year was from "santa". It was a kitchen. She said "mommy, now I really am Rachael Ray!" Jackson, oh Jackson.... he got 2 wishes granted... the first and best wish (according to ME, mommy) was his acceptance to the Natl' Jewish medical centers eczema treatment program. We will go sometimes in February. Jackson's favortie gift was his TRAIN TABLE! Oh my goodness.. I was nearly in tears when I saw his face as he ran to his table! We gave him a train engineers hat, bandana and a whistle. he was excited about that... but oh boy..... did he scream with excitement when he saw that train! Jackson LOVES trains. "I want my choo choo" is his favorite sentence.... followed by "get back Lily, thats MY choo choo" he points to her kitchen and says "Lily"s.....yours... choo choo is MEEEEEEEEEEE!"Smart little stinker! Right now as I type this blog I am listening to Lily ask ever so nicely to play with the train.... Jackson says "no, chichen (kitchen) is yours! Guess we need to work on sharing?!?!?! Porter had a simple Christmas. he got a few little tinkers to play around with. Lots of clothes from family, and his favorite present was the paper the gifts came in! So easy to please! hanks to Jake for literally staying up ALL night setting up Jackson train table and Lily's kitchen. I guess now he is officially Santa! Merry Christmas~ Maybe I will get my cards out this week!!!

Fun times....

These are some pictures taken with Jake's Mac computer... photo booth application

Lily is such a goof, she LOVES to play with the photo booth tool! Fun times!! Couldnt get much of jack jack, he was rather disturbed by it all, hahaha!

Why did I open my big mouth!

Well yesterday at church the relief society president pulled me aside and said "Hey Jennie, I just wanted to tell you how much I loved your food you made at the recipe club the other night, I also love your fall decor in your home..... can you..." This is where it gets interesting...."Can you RUN our relief society Christmas dinner, and decor?" AHHH what a honor, but what a stress! So now I have to plan dinner for 100 ladies, decorate a cultural hall, food tables, nativity scene display table, decorate trees etc etc. Can I do it? LETS HOPE! This event is in 3 weeks.. ahhhh better get planning! Any ideas for yummy food? Our ward is SOOOO big... we have a HUGE budget because we dont have many activities! MONEY TO SPEND... food to cook.. stuff to do! AHH so fun, yet so much work!
Kids are great, Jake and I are great. Porter is CRAWLING, eats EVERYTHING we give him, or dont give him. Lily is doing awesome in school. She is learning how to READ, and loves it! She identifies the letters in the ABC, s counts to 25, and is learning SPANISH! Jackson is AWESOME. He LOVES school, and is talking better! It has been so fun watching him learn and seeing him grow over the past few months! I (jennie) amd doing great.... almost to the 100 pound mark! WAHOOOO I hit a weight loss block over the past month, but uh.... well I have no excuse. I have been lazy! Jake is in school, and I think he will be in school for the next 50 years. This kid (34 year old kid) loves to learn, and just loves soaking in as much as he can! lets just hope he will be done SOON! Anyways, thats all for us now... we are heading up to a time share with Jakes family for "Turkey day" on wednesday, it should be fun! Then we will take the outlet stores down and do some christmas shopping!!
Ta ta for now!!

Life's little wonders....

Well October has been.... COLD.. Where did fall go? So far this month has had its dramatic issues like every month in my life. To start the month off.... our house flooded... yea.. FLOODED. We were out and about visiting neighbor friends, and we came home to a water fall pouring out of our ceiling and the smoke alarm. SO again, the smoke alarm is going off (not my favorite sound, especially when you have dogs and babies!) The water was EVERYWHERE. The kids rooms were a mess with water (toilet water YUCK) My room was a soppy mess, and MY CLOSET WAS WET. All my clothes in hampers (yes hampers... I hate folding laundry) We soaked. Long story, already long..... the "fake wood" laminate floors were destroyed, the carpet was also destroyed. So for the past 2 weeks, we have had floor, drywall, plumbers, etc etc over at the house to look at and fix the damage. $13,000 of damage. Luckily...... we are still under warranty! Everything will be fixed, for free! They even upgraded our toilets.... bad toilets were installed I guess?
Towards the middle of the month I had some time (a few minutes) to remember my sweet aunt janet. She passed away from a rough battle with Colon Cancer 4 years ago. She was my dads only sister, and was and is a huge part of my life. I so miss her!
Lily has been in pre school down here in South Jordan for a few months now, and she LOVES it. it is so cute and fun hearing her babble on and about what she learned. $50 a month WELL SPENT! A lady in our stake primary presidency has the pre school in her home. there are only 6 kids in the class, so its really nice! Lily gets the attention she wants and needs! Jackson starts his pre school on friday. I am really excited to have him go to school and work on his behavior issues. He has progressed so much the past few months with his speech, but still needs to work no how he behaves with others. I know I know I know, he is 2.. he is SUPPOSED to be a bully, screamer etc etc... but, and I mean BUT...... something is not quite right, but we are dealing with finding out what is wrong, in order to make it right. All in all, Jackson is a great little guy..... and I love him even when he screams!
Porter has gotten a TOOTH, and he loves to roll all over the place. he gets on his knees and tries oh so hard to MOVE... and ends up doing a face plant and cries... again, we learn how to do things teh RIGHT way, but doing them wrong first hahaha! I was shocked when i saw the tooth popping through! he is only 5 months old! Lily and Jackson were 8 months when they got teeth! I guess Porter is ahead of the game...... he does weigh 18 1/2 pounds!! TOTAL CHUNK! Sorry i dont have pictures right now, my computer has been undergoing a full clean out by Jake, and I cant find anything, and our camera isnt installed to the commputer.... wow, I am rambling! We are all doing great.... the kids re great, life is great!! It will be even greater when our floors are put back!!