one day down, five to go

Jared is currently in Utah looking for a job. We have never been apart this long before and it isn't really very fun. I don't know why it is that when your with someone you love you always take them for granted and you don't realize how much you depend on them until you're all alone :(

It really isn't as bad as I expected, thanks to American Idol for filling up most of my evenings (go little Archuleta) and the boys are actually keeping me good company.

So I've made it through day 1. Wish us luck and I hope to be seeing a lot of you (permanently) in a couple of months.

"Terrific" Twos

So I have been trying for what has it been..2 1/2 weeks to put Tanners birthday pictures up but for some reason my computer doesn't want to upload those pictures. Of course I can upload any other ones, but not the ones I want.

But it was a fun birthday for him, he actually had two. On the 7th (on his actual birthday) we went to Chucky Cheese for dinner. It was the first time to experience all the cheesey fun for all of us and we had a GREAT time. On the Saturday following, Tanner had a big party with all of his friends which involved a lot of cars, pinatas, and lots of sticky two year olds. It was probably the first time Tanner had so much attention and the first time Jackson did not have any attention. So all in all it was a fun week full of "firsts" and birthday fun.

I also have to add that for some reason a lady at church described it as the "terrific twos." Apparently my children are the only ones that seem to enjoy terrorizing the house and find it amuzing to watch me clean up five pounds of rice strewn across the house while dumping brand new cds out all over the computer room just to slide across them like a roller skating rink. People like that just make me feel so good.

Valentine Tag

My one and only...



What is his name? Jared Maughan Weaver aka weav

How long have you been married? 5 years this May

How old is he? Almost 30!

Who eats more? That's a tough one. I think I generally do, but he makes up for his lack of eating on nights and weekends.

Who said I love you first? Jared, it was on my porch when I lived in the house at Bridgerland in Logan.

Who is smarter? I wish I was and sometimes I even pretend I am, but lets face it, I spend 24 hours a day with a 3 and 2 year old while he goes to school every day.

Who does the laundry? I do! He will help fold when it's my turn to put the kids to bed but if it were up to him we would do laundry semi-annually. There's a funny story about him wearing an old nasty pair of jeans to church when we first met b/c he was out of clean clothes.

Who does the dishes? I do. Sometimes he puts his cereal bowl in the sink after breakfast...sometimes.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Depending on the room, I usually sleep next to the wall when applicable (that way I'm guaranteed some of the bed), or I sleep closest to the door (easy access to the potty). I tried switching sides with Jared to trick the kids but they still found me.

Who pays the bills? William D Ford Federal District LOAN Program.

Who mows the lawn? Some wierd guy with cut off sleeves and a big old snaggle beard.

Who cooks dinner? I do on the weekdays, Jared usually does on the weekends. And I have to say I cook so we don't go hungry. He cooks because it tastes good when he does it.

Who drives when you are together? Usually Jared, unless he's sleepy. Bad things happen when Jared drives when he's tired!

Who is more stubborn? Next question please, I'm not answering this one.

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? I don't know, I've never seen it happen.

Whose parents do you see the most? Both, we have to make it even.

Who proposed? Jared did. He tricked me, but to make a long story short, it was all very romantic with a lot of roses and a lot of cute pictures of us together. He did it on Valentines day 2003 at the Logan Temple.

Who is more sensitive? Definately Jared.

Who has more friends? Jared. Sometimes he gets on my case about making more friends, but I think I enjoy being alone most of the time, one of my strange quirks I guess.

Who has more siblings? He does, but only three times as many. He is 4th of 9 and I am 3rd of 3.

Who wears the pants in the family? Definately Jared, no...Definately I do. No...Probably Jared, or maybe I do. It's hard to say.

Bring on the Spring!!

Sorry it's hard for me to blog very often when I'm outside soaking up the 75 degree weather (neener neener for all those who got 15 inches of snow yesterday).

We had a great super bowl party...Go Giants!! Most of the girls stayed in the kitchen with all the yummy food (we had the whole melting pot restaurant recreated in my kitchen..Michelle is always welcome at our house) while the kids ran around causing a muck and the boys couldn't unglue themsleves from the game. The highlight of the night was when Rus would squeal like a girl when he got excited about the game (which happened quite often toward the end). All in all it was a great party (sorry the Hales missed out-we missed you guys!)!




(I tried to get Madeline to pose 'cause she looked so cute in her cheerleading outfit but this is all I could get from her)

Here are some more cute pictures of our boys.






BTW-there probably is not a more white trash (no offense) place for our kids to be than right in front of those apartments in the first picture. The guy who owns the old Ford pick-up revs his engine every morning around 6:30 and it wakes up the whole world. Apparently someone put water in his gas tank (I swear it wasn't me, I would've put oil) but it didn't help. He still does it every day. GRRRRRRR.

The Party's Over

So, we've made it back to Virginia in one piece. We had a great Christmas! We suprised Jared's family and I think the best reaction came from his mom. She stood there and stared at him for a while before reacting at all. I wasn't sure if she was going to laugh or punch him in the nose. Eventually she ended up laughing and giving kisses, so that was a releif. We suprised everyone at the Weaver family Christmas party. Which we have Sharidee to thank - so Thanks Shar!!

We had our own Christmas before we flew out to Utah because Santa wanted to bring the boys bikes, and that would've fit on our plane ride home.





I am going to try and do this fast. Here it goes...
This is how the Weavers party








Here are Jared and the boys making use of all the snow





We spent Christmas Eve with the Weavers







And Christmas morning. Dad Weaver made his famous Christmas breakfast made to order (thanks Dad!!)






We spent Christmas afternoon with the Astles. It was defnately more quiet, but it was a fun filled day of opening gifts and playing Jenga!

In a contest, Kali could beat Brian and Jared in Jenga



Last but not least!! We went sledding with Grandpa and Grandma Astle. John and Misa and the kids were able to come too and we had a great time at Murray Park.





Ahhhhhhhhhh, I did it. All in all, we had a great time!! We never got to bed before 2 am because we were up playing games almost every night and I loved every minute of it. Jared is experiencing withdrawls from not playing St Petersburg and I'm going into withdrawls from not playing Rook..so if anyone wants to come aleviate us from our sorrows, our house is open for visitors! Thanks everyone for letting us stay at your houses and play games and keep you up 'til the wee hours of the mornin. We love and miss everyone!!!

Happy Holidays

We're still alive...we are just having the most fun and busy holiday which doesn't allow for much blogging. We'll be up and rolling again soon. Happy New Year!!

NEW YORK, NEW YORK!!!

We took another trip this Christmas to the Land that NEVER sleeps!! Our friends watched Jackson and Tanner for 4 1/2 days so we could go party hearty. My old roomate from Utah State lives in Harlem and she was so nice and let us stay at her place. We met Jerrin and Sharidee first then later met up with Joey and Katie in New York. The first thing we did was go to the Statue of Liberty.

I new it would be cold, but it was COOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDD. This day actaully wasn't too bad. It got progressively colder as the days went on.

I think we spent 96% of our time in Time Square. Jared and I love Time Square..it's just SOO New York! We ate a lot of Pizza. MMmmmm, I'll dream about some of that pizza for years to come.

This is my FAVORITE store.

This was Charmin's gift to New York. It was nice to get a break from the cold and the Grimy subway latrines. They had a whole bunch of toilets and every time someone came out, it was sanitized, febreezed and you got to choose super soft or super strong toilet paper. Cha Cha Cha...Charmin.

Jared's goal for this trip was to walk across the Brookly Bridge. My goals was to walk across the Brookly Bridge alive. I am not fond of heights, but we made it and it was actually pretty cool.

Our New York trip was not nearly long enough. We didn't see Rockefeller Plaza, Chinatown, Diamond district, Central Park, Somebody Famous....I guess we'll just have to go back again soon. I forgot to mention, we did get to see 3 shows. The Lion Kind-awesome costumes! The Spelling Bee-HILARIOUS! and Stomp-that was something I've always wanted to see. So overall we loved it and New York has not seen the last of us!

One last trip to the potty.