October 2010

Well the first even we had in October was Grant's Blessing.  Jace did such a wonderful job.  I feel so blessed to have a husband who honors his priesthood and was able to perform this blessing for our son.  It was such a wonderful day except for one moment.  After the blessing we headed back to our house to get the food and go to my old office.  I knew we had people waiting for us to open it up and so we were in a bit of a hurry.  Jace and I were loading things in to the trunk of our car so that we could go and those who did not know the way were waiting for us so they could follow.  Jace asked me if I had grabbed the stuff for the root beer.  I said yes as I came around the back of the car to get in the passenger seat.  I then started to say it should be right here and put my head into the trunk just to double check.  Jace had his back to me and did not see this and so he slammed the trunk closed but instead of it closing it landed on the top of my head.  The result was a good size gash on the top of my head right at the front where my hair is.  My mom the nurse told me I probably would need stitches which meant I would probably have to have my hair shaved.  I said I did not want that and so my wonderful sister Rachel came upstairs and did a small french braid that started from one side on the top of my head and followed along the gash line to close it so it would stop bleeding.  I then had to wear this for the next week.  We all got the flu for Tate's blessing and my head got cut open for Grant's.  I guess we can't do anything without having some drama.

Grandma and Grandpa Searle

Our little family.  

Grant ready for his big day.

What a sweet little face.  I have a hard time saying no to him that is for sure.

Uncle Jared and Aunt Kimee

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Williams

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Pearson

(I could not get this to turn for me for some reason.)

Grandma and Grandpa Pearson

Great Grandma Searle.  Great Grandpa Searle could not make it this day.

Aunt Rachel

Uncle Matthew, Joseph, and Jonathan

Max, Ty and Tate saying goodbye.  (See Ty next to Tate in the blue shirt he is 6 months younger than Tate but bigger.  If only Tate would eat.)

Aunt Emily, Aunt Rachel, and cousin Madison

The next event we had was Matthew's Missionary Homecoming Talk.  If I remember correctly basically all of my dad's and mom's brothers and sisters were there for the event.  It was a full house.  Grant could not handle all the commotion and fell asleep before we even got to church.  Matthew did a great job on his talk.  He has grown so much on his mission and we are so happy to have him home.

Next we have  Ty's 2nd Birthday Party.  Tate loved it.  He especially liked this Lightning McQueen Book Ty received.  Needless to say Grandma Pearson got him one for Christmas.  Everyone was dressed up even Grandpa (Lou) Pearson.  He was a clown.  It was really kind of freaky so I didn't take a picture.

FInally we had halloween.  Once again Jace was gone (he is either sick or gone on halloween) so I took Tate trick or treating.  I decided after the Bish's RV Trick or Treat I will not be doing it again by myself. We did the church Trunk or Treat and that went a lot smoother.  A girl in our ward took Tate around for me so it worked out well.  Tate was the Engineer of Thomas the Train and Grant was shrek.  Here are some fun pictures.

It was really hard to get Tate to take any pictures once he had a bucket full of Candy.  That had is whole attention.

I am so grateful for this little family I have.  Those who know me well know I have my struggles especially with Tate and his stubborn attitude and I know he probably gets a lot of that from me.  But I have to tell you after tonight of him snuggling with me all the struggling trying to teach him makes it all worth it for little moments like this.

Next up will be Thanksgiving and Christmas!!

September 2010

We had a very eventful September.  It all started with Labor Day weekend.  My little Sister Emily runs in her High School Cross Country Meet.  We went to watch her.  She did an amazing job.  At the very end of the race she passed 4 girls.  It was like she had a rockets on her feet and they started up at the very end.

This is her and her friend (I can't remember her name) right before the race.

Emily come around one of the turns.  If I remember correctly those two girls there were from Davis High School in Kaysville and I have decided they must feed them something that makes them run really fast.

Here is Tate cheering his Aunt Emily on to the finish.  Emily was going to fast for me to get a picture.

Our next adventure was the Eastern Idaho State Fair.  We had such a good time.  Tate got to ride in this train car and he loved it.  It was not very fun when we had to go.

This was his face when it was over.  He did not want to get out.

Here are all my boys resting from all the adventures.

In September I went back to work and I was so fortunate to be able to take Grant with me.  We had a great time.  He loved being on my desk watching me work.

Tate loves Reeses Puffs and so I decided to try my  hand at coupons for the cereal.  We did okay but not like the stories I have heard of.  Tate was so excited for the cereal he had to carry them all in himself.

Lets see which one do I want to open first.

Then we ended the month with my brother Matthew returning home from his Mission in the Billings Montana Mission.  It was so exciting standing there at the bottom of the escalator waiting for him to come down.  We kept looking at the monitors to see if his flight had arrived.  It said landed so everyone thought that must mean they are unloading the plane.  So we kept standing there watching and waiting.  We would see some one in a suit and say is that him nope, oh wait here comes someone else is that him, nope.  Then his flight changed from Landed to arrived.  We then waited some more and then he finally came down the escalator.  We all cheered and my Dad of course shed a few tears.  It was a toss up between my Mom and my Dad on who was the happiest to see Matthew.

There first hug after two years.

Our Missionary not sure about this welcome.

Getting his luggage.

Ready to head home and begin the next stage of his life!  We love you Matt and are so glad to have you home.

The weekend after Matthew returned we went to Roosevelt.  I was outside with Tate and Grant got a little fussy so my mom put Grant on this freshly dried batch of clothes next to the humming of the dryer and boom Grant was asleep.  

Next up is October.  If you thought our September was busy just wait until you see next month.  With Jace in School, me working full-time, and two wiggly adventures little boys nothing stays calm around our house for long.  I am so happy to be a Mom and to have the forever family that I have, even if our life is a little crazy.

Stretching: How good it is?

When Grant was just little he loved to Stretch and stretch and Stretch to get relaxed.  Here are some fun pictures of him doing that.

Oh Yeah Finally I am stretched out!

He is so much fun to have in our family it seems like these pictures were from forever ago.

A little bit of Fun!

Well my computer is now fixed; however, they were not able to recover any of my pictures.  Luckily between emails, facebook, and family we were able to recover most of Tate's Baby pictures and our family pictures.  With that said there are going to be a few posts that are from a while ago including Thanksgiving and Christmas.

While I was home with Grant Tate and I had some fun so here are few pictures of our fun.

Mom Leave me alone no more pictures!

My Sleeping Angel

Tate loves his Thomas train so we had to take a picture.

One of Tates favorite things is to set up his train tracks especially with bridges.  This was a good day.

One morning Tate woke up and came downstairs and his hair was absolutely wild.  I could not believe it.  I just had to take a few pictures.

This boy sure does keep me on my toes and I am so thankful for him.

Where have we been?

Well Life has been crazy busy in the Pearson household. Jace finished his semester of school we have had family events left and right, then Christmas, and to top it all off my nice Mac computer that I usually do my blogging on crashed a few weeks ago.  We are waiting to here if they can recover any information on it as I am one of those who did not backup any of my information.  Please pray we will be able to recover the data as it is all of Tate' baby pictures and video that I will lose.  I am praying that we will be able to recover it all.  Christmas was great we spent it with my family in Roosevelt and had a wondeful time relaxing and enjoying one another's company.  Every day is such as amazing day as I watch the wonderful things my two kids can do.  Grant is just about sitting up all by himself and wants to grasp at everything he can.  While he is still not sleeping through the night I am slowly adjusting to managing through each day with little sleep.  Tate continues to learn new words each day.  He knows most of his numbers through 20 and his Alphabet.  He still loves Thomas the Train and Lightning McQueen.  He has such an imagination and they do new things every day.  I will try to post pictures soon.  We have a new hard drive on my Mac and I am slowly making time to get the pictures I have on my camera downloaded to it.  Don't worry I will be backing up this next time around.  I hope everyone had a happy new year.

Tate going to Sleep!!

Ever since I went back to work I have been trying to get into a routine now that we have two boys and our mornings are really crazy with Jace having an 8 am class.  So with that said we have been trying to get Tate to go to sleep at a decent hour.  Before, we were always doing things and so he just went to bed whenever we got around to it.  Now we are trying to break this habit and at least have him in bed by 8:30 every night.  Well I am sure you can imagine how difficult it is to get a two year old to cooperate.  Every night it is the same thing with Tate.  We do baths, get in our jammies, and then we give him the option to watch a few minutes of his favorite show Thomas the Train or to read stories.  He picks and then after about 10 to 15 minutes we tell him it is time to go to bed.  He then starts deciding who is going to bed with him.  Now what I mean by who is what toys are going to sleep with him.  Well the other night something happened that was so cute and funny I had to write about it.  We had already taken Tate up to bed with his two Lightning McQueen cars, his big and little Thomas, and Percy.  After a few minutes he got out of bed and I was taking him back and he said he wanted one of his other cars.  So the next thing I knew we were headed downstairs and he was filling up my arms, Jace's arms, and his arms with cars and his golf balls.  We kept saying no more and he would then say one more grab a toy and put it in one of our hands.  Once this had been accomplished he then marched upstairs with us in tow, place each toy and ball in its place in his bed and then went right to sleep.  I wish I would have taken a picture but hopefully you can just imagine this little boy sound asleep with all of his toys laid out in a line next to him.  While he drives me crazy most nights with going to bed these moments make it all worth it.