Oliver loves the piano! out of everyone He and Dad are always the ones
playing. inicially we bought it for Triston thinking he would play it but it seems
Oliver is putting it to good use more so than Triston. I guess we will just have to
" play" it by ear to see who will be the lucky one to have the privilage of keeping the
piano.

I love baby smiles!!! They are always so contagious no matter
if you know the baby or not but especially if you know the baby
and especially if the baby is yours.

While we were at Dads shop visiting him Triston and I were playing
with the Jack Stand. We had a good time and I am always inpressed with
how smart Triston it. You would not think a four year old would know how to work
one of those bad boys but he did. He figured it out faster than me.

One quiet afternoon I let Triston give me a makeover. I really think
it helped. Where was this concept when I was a teenager with acne?

Winter Snow of 2010
It rained the whole day before so the wash was full
of water when it dumped the two feet of snow the next day

Going out into the snow for the first time the whole winter

Oliver cracked me up in this snow outfit.
He looked just like an umpa loompa to me.

Like father like son. Always having to see how and why things work.

January 20th 2010

Dear Journal,

I want to say a lot has happened sense the last time I logged anything in. Maybe there has been but at this present moment I can't seem to remember a whole lot. so for right now I will just write what I can remember.

This last weekend my mom and sister January went to my aunts funeral. The families spirits were high and for such a sad gathering there was a lot of smiles and laughter. All in all we had a good time even if we had to drive down a long dirt road to Young Arizona.

August cut his two bottom teeth this month. He is growing so fast I can't hardly stand it. I don't want to get pregnant for at least another year and I need him to stay a baby for as long as possible. He loves to watch the TV, a little scary I know, a TV aholic at such a young age? Another thing he enjoys is sitting on mommies lap while I play the piano. I am not very good but it does not take a concert pianist to impress a five month old. I love him so much and I am grateful his little spirit came to live with us. He is so soft and chubby and fun to snuggle with. What a joy he is to me.

Oliver is talking up a storm. His new favorite word is "NO" Andrew and I have so much fun teasing him by asking him questions like this, "Do you want to go to Disneyland?" "NO" "Do you want a million dollars?" "NO" Do you want a pony?" "NO" "Do you want a spankin?" "NO" "Do you want Ice Cream?" "NO" "Do you want anything at all?" "Whath?". He is too dang cute for is own good and is so hilarious. What a cutie patutie.

Triston! Well he is still Triston. Up to no good as usual but that is what we love about him. He keeps us on our toes. A while back he got out of bed at around 10:30p.m. to go potty. A few minutes latter I went to go and check up on him and as I was walking down the hallway there was water coming out from under the doorway. I went to open the door and sure enough it was locked, Shocker. I banged on the door and he precedes to tell me quote "Oh sorry HONEY I can't right now I am making dinner" I ran to our bedroom and told Andrew what was going on and he flew out of bed so fast and went tromping down the hall way I sware every time he took a step he knees would reach his ears. He as I did, banged on the door and Triston told him the same thing. Hence the screaming began. Andrew lost his voice in about 30seconds. when he finally opened the door that's when all H*** broke loose. Every drawer was full of water, Oliver was sitting in the sink blocking the over flow hole. I had no idea he was even in there. the entire cabinet was flooded with water. It's amazing to me how something so disastrous can happen so fast with little kids. The whole scene would not have been so bad if we did not have unfinished wood floors throughout the house. The mess took a while to clean up but on a positive note the floors were salvageable. Not to long after that incident he pulled another one on me. I was down in my room nursing the baby when I heard banging going on upstairs. My first thought was oh no the presents ( this was around Christmas) I ran upstairs hoping they had not ripped into every presents Andrew and I had just wrapped. When I got to the room which is to always be locked, it was just that, Locked. The problem was is that the kids are supposed to be on the other side of the door. Not me on the outside. I again knocked on the door and he precedes to say " Oh sorry "Honey" I can't right now i'm playing trains, have a Merry Christmas." I could not help but to laugh. Luckily the presents were not unwrapped just Triston's HoHO was pulled out and he was playing with it.

He is so mischievous and Busy! Being that said I love him. He is so sweet. I love the way he always calls me "Honey" I love that he at any time will tell me He loves me and that I am his BFF. One time we told him to eat his dinner and he told us we were not Jesus ( He says that when he does not like what we tell him to do) Andrew asked Triston if he knew that Jesus wants us all to be obedient to our parents. He said " Yes, Jesus is my friend, he is my BFF." We died laughing. It's those precious moments that always reminds me of how much I love him. I love how soft he can be. How he tells me to lay on his lap so he can pat my back and tell me it going to be okay. I love how smart he is. How he wants to fix everything like his daddy does. I love how he loves everyone and I mean EVERYONE! I love how forgiving he is. If he wasn't so forgiving he would probably hate me by now. I try to do better with him and every day I do a tiny bit better. He is my special sunshine and always will be.

January 14th 2010

Dear Journal,

The past two days have been a little better, I have taken up running on my Treadmill and listening to some good tunes on my i pod to help me keep sane. It seems to be helping a little bit. I have been playing with the boys more. we enjoy wrestling on Mommy and Daddy's bed until it became a hair pulling leg biting game. Today I was able to run some non kid friendly errands in town today with the help of Grandma Burgess. You know places, the Thrift stores, Book Barn, Post Office, Blossom's and so on. I was able to get everything finished in half the time and then for the rest of the day I sat and visited guilt fee with Grandma Burgess and really enjoyed myself. I love visiting with Mari! She always makes you feel welcome in her home and I never feel like an inconvenience.

After we got home Daddy and Triston cut up some firewood to take over to Aunt Jessy's house. When they got back I tried to play a Thomas the train game with Triston that I got at a thrift store but there were no rules to it, however all the peaces were there. Tomorrow I will have to get on line and look for some instructions so me and my little man can play a game together. As for the rest of the night I will now prepare to close my eyes and get the rest that I need to be emotionally strong enough to battle the man who insists on bringing me down. That's right the Devil himself. So tomorrow it's on! Him verses Me and my treadmill. Let the games begin!

January 12th 2010

Dear Journal,

If I am going to be making a daily log of my life I really need to start doing something beneficial with it. Today was a hard day. It was one of those days you want to slap yourself in the face and say " shape up, things could be worse ". I could not seem to get myself out of the rut I had put myself in. All these feelings I was struggling with kept circling through my head over and over again. Those thoughts consisted of the following, I am a horrible mother, I am a horrible wife, I can't make good decisions, Nobody cares about me, No one would seem to mind if I just fell off the face of the earth, Why would they care If I was gone if they don't care when I am around, I spend too much money, I can't keep my house up, I can't stop yelling at my kids, they are going to hate me if they don't already..... etc etc etc. I know these are not only harsh accusations but harsh things to say to yourself. I want out of my rut! I want to be lively and fun, easy going and joyful. I want to be normal!! is there such a thing as NORMAL? if so sign me up because at this present moment I can feel satan's negative powers wrapped around my wrist pulling me away from the reality of life. From the good things I have been blessed to have in my life. It's not enough that I have a wonderful hard working husband that at the end of his hard day still is more than willing to lighten my burden by hand washing the dishes in the sink and sweeping my floors while all the while brushing the hair away from my face and lightly kiss my lips and tell me he loves me and is sorry that I had a hard day, I have to go and let Satan get the best of me and take for grantit the wonderful life in which I am blessed to live? Fine way of showing gratitude eh. I will conquer this challenge! I will not let these precious years with my children slip in between my fingers! I WILL win. If once you don't succeed try try again.

The joy of a fresh start

I have decided to change my blog up a bit. There was a day that I shared pictures and stories more for my viewers (which are few) instead of for myself and my little family to reminisce in years to come. So to start a new year off with a Fresh start this blog has officially become my electronic Journal. Everyone is still welcome to few as they please but daily I will be journaling all that goes on in my little "Punkin Patch" I hope that I can keep up with my goal and not add it to another New Years Resolution dissapointment list. Well here goes.

January 11th 2010

Today I woke up as usual with a whole list of to do's in my head and failed miserably at about 85% of them. Easy to do when your chasing around three little boys.

Triston and I started off the morning by washing up some beautiful eggs that Grandma Burgess gave us out of her little collection she was accumulating on her kitchen counter. Then after being saranated by Oliver and Triston on our BEAUTIFUL new piano we purchased off of Craigs List we packed up and headed out to Aunt Jessica's house for some refuge while some workers finished the last minute touch ups on our hand railing. All in all we had a good time minus the fighting and the constant flow of questions coming from our growing boys about snacks. Jess and I hibernated in her room while watching "Dr. Quinn the Medicine Women" and with that we enjoyed a little bit of eye candy by gushing over Sully the most attractive white skinned Indian I have ever seen.

After I reached reality we began to pick up our messes and head out the door to run a few erands before the day came to an end. On our way into town we came across a car accident which consisted of Andrew's Sister and a few of her children. Her oldest Daughter was driving there trooper trying to get some practice in before the big day when she get's to get her licence. She over corrected the trooper and rolled the vehicle. Luckily everyone was okay, What a blessing!

After our errands we went home and had a very kid friendly dinner, Ham and tomato grilled cheese sandwiches and Raman noodles after which we cleaned up and sent the boys upstairs to watch balloons AKA "UP". I finished up the dishes, got baby August to bed and then rested on the couch while Andrew saranated me with the piano. Soon after, kids were sung to bed with lots of hugs and kisses and then it was a nice hot shower for me, just what the doctor ordered. Regardless if I was not able to accomplish all my tasks for the day I was still able to enjoy another day with kids as young precious innocent children which in a blink of an eye will be gone with out me even knowing it. I am learning not to take those precious moments for granite. Why would you when you know you only get to enjoy them once in a life time.

Family Photos

Our Little Fam

Me and Andrew

Triston

Oliver

August

Loved how they turned out!

Happy Birthday Triston!

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Triston's Birthday was the day before Halloween. So we decided to go down to the valley for the weekend and take Triston to Build a Bear and the kids trick or treating in the warmer weather. We had his party at the park. Triston's guests included Aunts, and Uncle, Cousins and his friend Addie. He had a great time and thank you for all the gifts he loves every last one of them like they are his favorite.

Characater Pictures

This is a character picture that was done of Triston when he was 15 months old, and I wanted one of oliver. So my good sister Jennifer was going to Disney Land and offered to take a picture of him to the character Artist and have one done. I am so excited to see how it will come out.

This was the picture I sent of Ollie Joker. He is doing really well and hopefully he will continue to do so.

Blue Moon

Today I took a look at myself in the mirror,and well to be perfectly honest I did not like what I saw. You know it may seem real trivial but it can be really hard to go about every day in a positive way while trying to endure your post pregnancy phase. Believe me I know there are way more important things in life than trying to get those pre pregnancy jeans past your thighs but I also believe it is healthy to take a pitty party day once in a blue moon. So today I declare it a "Blue Moon". First goal for today? I will try to get motivated to go and buy myself some jeans that actually fit. My other goal for Today is to try and endure being a mother of three, and enjoy the goodness that comes from that. I need to re-realize that in all actuality I look pretty good for having my third baby only 7? 8? weeks ago. Tomorrow will be better it is going to be a positive day! I know that because a "Blue Moon" only sticks around for "1" day;)

Periorbital Cellulitus

About a month ago Oliver took a fall down our deck stairs. In the process he knocked his front two teeth lose and broke one right down the middle. Luckily Dr. Badger was kind enough to take part of his Saturday to open up his office so we could get our little man in. He did a filling on the broken tooth and said that the teeth should harden up in just a couple days, he could not tell us for sure if the teeth would end up dying or not so we just decided to play it by ear. about a month later Without us knowing things took a turn for the worst and the right side of Oliver's face began to swell. We took him to our Doctor and he just told us he had an ear infection and he was not concerned about the swelling, but when his gums exploded old blood and he progressively began to get worse we went for a second opinion. So back to Badgers office we went. Needless to say Oliver got his tooth pulled, but just the one for now. So a day or two has passed sense he got his tooth pulled and the swelling did not get any better so we decided I would go ahead and switch doctors and start going to Dr. Barela, being as our old doctor really didn't seem to give a hoot about our kids so we moved on to a Pediatrician instead of a family practitioner. Dr. Barela was VERY concerned and diagnosed Oliver with Periorbital cellulitus, which was caused by the infected teeth. The Antibiotics we were giving him were not working so back to Dr. Barela. Again he was not happy about his face and decided that I needed to bring him in every day for a shot of strong Antibiotics and If that did not work we would be checking him in to the hospital. Today however we made progress, he seemed to think his eye got better over the last couple of days so he said I could just continue bringing him in to the office until it cleared up. Oliver is not out of the woods yet but, This infection is not to be taken lightly, it can cause brain damage or even death when not taken care of properly. Lucky for us things are looking up and we are hoping for the best. Regardless if he looks a tad like a hobo or slightly on the verge of becoming a jack-o-lantern we love him very much and could not possibly imagine him not being a part of this family. He has such a great personality and everyone in this family thrives on that.

Born: August 19th 2009
7lbs 7oz
20 inches long

Passing Time

This spoonful of cookie dough kept him content for quit awhile

Ollie Joe being the observer

ready to bake

Feeding the neighbors horses Watermelon rines

Oliver did not quit understand he just wanted to eat the rine, but Triston did pretty well and really enjoyed himself.

Now off to Grandma and Grandpa Burgess' house to feed the farm animals.
The cow was not interested but what do ya know the pig sure was.

Daddy and Oliver

The Chicken coupe! This is Triston's Favorite part, the chickens.

Finally we took a gander at Mary's Garden. It was beautiful . I wish I would have been able to plant a garden. There are very few things as gratifying as planting something and being able to witness the bounty of it.

Yeah!!!!

I Found the Camera!! I could not be more excited. This is the second time it has gone missing right before I have a baby. Now I can rest at ease and enjoy the anticipation of our soon to be little arrival. I am especially excited due to the inevitable news that our baby is due any day now. Her are Some Memos of my pregnancy. ( I guess I should say Our pregnancy seeing as in how the men always get to here quite and ear full from there wife's during the process. that pretty much intitles them to be part of the pregnancy.)

* Got Pregnant
* Due date- August 1st 2009
* Ultrasound
* New Due date- August 31st 2009
* Ultrasound- It's a Boy
* Surgery for Herniated Belly Button ( Due to the birth of Oliver)
* Recovery, Six Weeks ( Can't hold Oliver for Two Weeks)
* Bad Tooth; Filling ( Felt like a root canal)
* Several prenatal appts. And I am still continuing to measure 2-3 weeks further
* Went into Preterm Labor
* Preterm Labor Stopped
* Nesting syndrome Really takes Hold
* Finally Waitin and Anticipatin for our little man.

Alot!

So our camera has been missing for the second time, and we cannot find it anywhere. I have much to update, but unfortunately I don't have the time or energy to do it. I know that sounds lazy but for some reason I just don't. I WILL update soon, There is ALOT to post and I mean alot. So until then Keep well and I will catch you on the web soon.

Quick Update

So a FEW things have happened since my last entry, so I will be quick because as usual I do not have much time to blog due to a very needy family. So to start from the top, Andrew had a Birthday shortly after Oliver's, April 10th to be exact. It was his big 3 0. so we went to his parents for his favorite dinner which consisted of Mari's best fried chicken, green beans, and mashed potato's you have ever tasted. I surprised him with an ultrasound which he thought was a week later to find out what we were having ( Oh and if i didn't mention it is another boy for the Burgess fam.) So all in all he had a good Birthday, Quote, "the best birthday I have ever had so far!" Next came Easter, We celebrated it on Saturday and spent it at my parents, we had a great time, especially the boys. Last but not least I had myself a little surgery. My belly button hurt so bad to the touch I didn't even want my shirt touching it. So I went in to my fabulous midwife Wendy Hall who then sent me to the ER. Come to find out I had a Herniated belly button, I did not know there was such a thing but to my surprise there is. Which now it makes sence because after I had Oliver my belly button looked really weird but I just figured it was because of having children but that was not the case. My other clue was at 8 weeks my belly button was purtruding which is quit a bit early to be having an outie when your pregnant. So mystery solved I had a Hurnia ( I hate that word) I Had a little surgery,I had alot of help from friends and family and now on to a few more weeks of recovery. I could not lift anything 15-20 lbs for two weeks, and now I can't lift anything 25 lbs or more for a few more weeks. So in a nutshell Alot has happened but we are all happy and doing well.

Oliver's 1 !

Good thing Brother blew out the
candle before he dived in.

Yumm!!!

Thanks Everyone for all the
wonderful presents!

Scrub-a-dub-dub it's
Bath time in the tub!

The boys Swinging on our
fancy dirt playground

Oliver trying out his new swing

Triston, What a cheese ball!

He loved it! He would have stayed in it all day.( I should have
one installed inside.)

This is HIS Swing, and he loves it!