Happy Birthday to Michael!

I am about a month late in posting this, but things have been super busy and so much stuff has happened since my last post!
Anyways, on 4 years ago on January 1st, Michael Keith Roman was born! This year to celebrate his life, we took him and Joseph to Amazing Jake's pizza! The boys had so much fun riding the go-carts, the train, the carousel, and all of the other way cool rides! We had the buffet for dinner, and then played for about 2 hours! Michael had so much fun and was so excited to get to do so much!
After Amazing Jake's the boys went to their dad's to celebrate with his family. When we got the boys back, we went over to our friend's house for cake and presents! We let Mikey pick out his cake, so on top of it, he had DINOSAURS! LOL! Of course, anyone who knows Mike knows that dinosaurs are his thing right now! Then he opened his present and it was a dinosaur with a button on his back that walks and growls! Mike loved it so much! He is so easy to please, just takes one dinosaur!
A couple weeks later, while the boys were with their dad, Tony and I wanted to get Mikey something else for his birthday since we had a little extra money. While at Wal-Mart we saw this huge dinosaur named Spike that had a remote control. He usually cost about 200 dollars, however, my hubby wanted to scan him. So we found a scanner and Spike was ONLY 60 dollars!!!! So, we figured that was an awesome deal and got him. The next night when Mike got home from his dad's, we pulled out Spike! Michael was ecstatic! He loves Spike and constantly plays with him! He has even tried taking a bath with him!
In Michael's eyes, he had the best birthday EVER! We are so grateful for this little boy that we have to spend time with and love and take care of! He has such a sweet spirit and brings so much Joy to our lives, especially mine! He is truly special to me and I am so grateful to be his mommy!!!

Time to re-decorate!

I have this fetish with constantly changing rooms and moving furniture around! I just can't seem to stand things being boring or feeling boring! Anyways, when we were preparing for Ande, we moved my office out into the living room and turned the garage into a game room! Well, now that I will be working from home AGAIN, I have decided that I need my own space again AWAY from everyone and everything! So I told Tony that I want my office moved out into the garage as well but on the opposite side of the game area! Then we will put the living back the way we originally had it. It was more open than it is now! Also, I asked him if he would make a book shelf to put in the living room for all of the our books and the kids books! He said yes! YAY! Totally excited, can't wait to start this project!

Then, for the kids rooms, lol, I am going through ALL of their toys and getting rid of the ones they don't play with. I am also buying bins that will be labeled for all of their different toys! For instance, Michael has about a million dinosaurs so we will have a dinosaur bin! Same with Joseph and Channing!

I guess it's just my new thing! I am trying to get organized like I used to be before I had 4 kids! Anyways, that's it! I will try to update after the New Year and Michael's 4th birthday!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

This year for Christmas, all the kids were gone except for Ande! The boys were with their daddy and Channing went to California to see her mom for the first time in over a year! So the house was very quite! Also, due to the economy, Christmas was alot smaller than usual!
On Christmas Eve, my brother and his little family came over, and one of Tony's buddy's from work came over! We had lots of YUMMY snacks and hung out! We watched Star Trek, the boys played X-Box 360, and after my brother's kids went to bed, Santa came and put out all the gifts!
On Christmas morning, I woke everyone up to open presents! YAY! Everyone loved what they got and around 11, we had our BIG Christmas breakfast! After that, we went and picked up the boys, came back home and opened presents AGAIN!!!
After all of that, we were all extremely tired so we took a little nap while Joseph and Michael played with all of their new toys and Madagascar video games! Later that evening, we drove around to look at all of the beautiful Christmas lights!!!
We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!!

Ande at 2 months!!!

2 months old!!!

This is Ande at 1 month!

I can't believe how quickly time has gone by! My little Chubsy Wubsy turned 2 months on December 22nd! So here are some things that he is doing now!

* He holds his head up very well now!

* He smiles when I talk to him or smile at him, and if I say, "Ande, where's mommy's smiles?" He smiles really big! LOVE IT!

* He coos and makes sounds when we talk to him.

* He is staying awake more and so car rides are getting to be a little bit harder.

* He goes to bed at 9:30, and doesn't wake up until about 2 AM! YAY!!!

* Every night he falls asleep in his swing while I relax in the bath.

Ande is such a sweet little boy and we all love him so much! His older siblings love to help mommy, but sometimes they help TOO much! LOL! Poor Ande doesn't get any rest when they are around!

1 month old and a Blessing

My sweet little boy turned 1 month on November 22nd, which is when he was blessed. Since Antonio is a convert to the church and does not yet hold the Melchezidek priesthood, my dad is the one who blessed him. My family, my best friend Tarah and her hubby, Antonio's friend from work and his wife, and our friends the Christensen's all came for his big event.
I can't believe my baby is already one month. He wasn't due until December 4th, but well he is here. He has been so much fun and is such a good baby. His nickname from my dad is little billygoat, because he makes so many noises and really sounds like a goat. It is so cute. I just wish he could stay small forever!

Happy Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving my mom, dad, Aleah, Caleb, and Kaprial came and stayed at our house, which meant for my little family that we were going to get an AWESOME Thanksgiving meal! Mom made tons of cakes and pies, ham and turkey, my favorite rice, green bean casserole, gravy, and mashed potatoes. It was absolutley delish! We had the missionaries over for dinner and played board games. Then mom and I took a nap. Later that evening, we all went to see New Moon. It was so much fun and I loved hanging with my family. This was by far the BEST Thanksgiving I have had in about 6 years!