Weber State Hockey

Saturday night my brain was completely fried from taking 2 midterms that kicked my bum (but I did well on both, yay me!) and the kids and I ALL (even Kylee) took a nap around 6. When we woke up at 7:30 I felt like the night was still young and we needed to do something really fun. It's hard to find fun CHEAP things to do in the winter...especially at 7:30 at night.

Then I remembered that Weber State was having their last home game that night. Since I'm a student I get in free and my kids don't cost anything either, so suddenly we had a fun and FREE activity we could do. I wasn't sure how long they would last since the game didn't even start until 8:30 (which is when they are usually in bed) but figured it was free, so even if we only stayed for a little bit it would be fun.

Cannon was SO excited!

Kylee was too.
Cannon started to get a little crazy as the night went on. Sadly the place was pretty empty so it was hard to make him sit in his seat when there were so many empty seats and aisle's for him to run up and down.

He made me laugh so many times that night. He really does like hockey and I really couldn't be happier about it.

Trying to get a picture of all of us together, but as usual it didn't work out that great.

We did leave early as Weber was getting killed and I could tell the kids were getting tired. It wasn't long before I looked back and saw them both out (poor Kylee). That's how you know you've had a good time!

Best Friends

Since mommy is back in school and working, it seems like any spare moment she has is spent on homework or church callings/HOA/other responsibilities. My poor kids have to entertain themselves a lot. I'm so glad they have each other and are such good friends. They keep each other company and seem to find plenty of things to do for fun without mom.

Kylee loves to be the boss and things are usually ok as long as Cannon is doing what she wants him to. :) She's learning that she has to let him choose a movie or a game once in a while. Plus Cannon is getting big enough to push Kylee back, so he isn't getting pushed around as much.
Most of the time though he will do whatever sister wants. Like have a tea party. I love how he is pretending to eat the fake potato chip.

And pretending to drink the non-existent drink.

"CHEERS!"

TOO DANG CUTE!

They love to play the piano and sing together.

And they LOVE to sit on mom's bed and watch movies together.

One of my favorite sights was coming in and finding them snuggling together and watching UP. It looked so nice and warm and fun...

That I had to join them.
I decided homework could wait until later.

It ended up being a late night of work, but it was totally worth it!

Not Football....HOCKEY

I love hockey and I guess my kids have inherited that love. We went to my parents house this last weekend to watch the Super Bowl and when we turned on the game Cannon said "not football, HOCKEY." It made me so proud.

He found an old helmet and it has become one of his new favorite things. I may have to see if I can get him an old stick or something. He is just the cutest little hockey player I've ever seen.

He calls the helmet his "hockey hat"

I put him in the "penalty box"

"I didn't do it mom."

Oh my gosh he's cute!!!

Kylee made the "bench" out of her chairs and even found some old trophy's to use as prizes.

Love it!!!

The Silly Things

No doubt about it nothing cheers me up more then being silly with my kids. I think that is the only reason I get so sad sometimes...is because I have to spend so much time doing other things when all I want to do is play with my kids all day long.

Kylee LOVES to make silly faces. In fact, it's hard to actually get a nice picture of her anymore because she just wants to be silly and have fun all the time. I love her love for life and how even at just 3 years old she can find the good in every situation. She loves to pretend and makes a game out of everything.

I asked Cannon to give me a silly face and this is the face he pulled.

This picture makes me laugh so hard. It looks like it's been photo shopped or something. That's just my Cannon man though. He is getting to be such the little stink and I miss my sweet snuggle bug. He is just getting too big too fast. He is such a copy cat and loves to do whatever sister is doing, for good or bad.

I sure do love that sweet face of his.

His eyes still melt my heart.

So thankful for these sweet faces!!!

They really are the joys of my life.

Alive

I am alive...although just barely. Lots of things going on...lots of sad things although some really good things as well. I'll try to get you caught up with everything even though I'm not even sure anyone reads this anymore anyway. But for my own record...here's what's been going on.

• SCHOOL - School is super hard but I am loving it and am so thankful I am able to attend. I have decided to get my BS in Computer Science and feel like this is the way for me to hopefully start a great career. I'm a little bit worried that I'm not "geeky" enough to understand it all but so far I am loving it and am doing really well in all my classes. I have 16 credit hours this semester so it is a lot, but like I said, I am so thankful for it. My kids go around saying "WEBER STATE, WEBER STATE, GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!"
• WORK - My job with ATK has already came to an end. It was interesting and neat to see how they build airplane parts and such, but it wasn't the best environment and the job was very boring, so I'm glad it's over. Towards the end I was barely putting in 20 hours a week so my finances are lacking big time and I have bit the bullet and got a full time job. I have been offered a job back in the ICS department of the LDS Church and should be starting any day now (stupid paperwork and such). I LOVE working for the church and am excited to be back among some dear friends. I will be doing Data Governance and am excited to get some experience with databases. I hate that I have to spend so much time away from my kids, but this is life right now. They get to go to my mom's so WHAT A BLESSING! I don't know what I would do without my awesome family.
• BEING A SINGLE MOM - This is the really sad part. I've been a single mom for some time, but now it's official. I don't know what to say about this other then I am completely heartbroken beyond words and feel like a complete failure, but am learning you just can't control some things in life and have to just always do your best and trust in the Lord, and that's what I'm doing. I love my kids and am SO SO thankful everyday for them. I hate that they already have had to endure so much at their young ages, but they are most definitely choice spirits and I'm so lucky to have them in my life. That's all I am going to blog about this, but if you want more details shoot me an email or something (I don't have my cell anymore...working on getting a new one soon).
• MORE KIDNEY PROBLEMS - 3 more infections and 2 stones in the past 3 months, but not too bad. I am thankful everyday I actually feel good and we take advantage of those days as much as possible.

That's about it. I'm so very thankful for the wonderful family and friends who do so much for me. I hate to ask for help, and hate even more that i need it, but man am I thankful that so many are willing to help me. I am so blessed.

Christmas Day

Christmas this year was so wonderful. Santa was amazing and really came through. I don't know if I've ever felt so loved and blessed. I am so thankful for the wonderful people in this world who make up for all that I lack. My kids really did deserve a great Christmas...and they got one!

Check out these cute little kids waiting to come downstairs and see the tree. They were both so excited.

Kylee handed out all the presents. She could actually recognize whose name was on the tag. I was so impressed.
Kylee got CANDYLAND! She was so happy and it is one of her most favorite games to play.

Cannon LOVES his little people farm.

Kylee got this AWESOME dollhouse.

She tells me all the time, "mom, I really love my dollhouse"

Cannon loves his drum set.

Christmas morning my family came over for breakfast.

I am wearing the apron my Grandma Hebdon made me. Isn't it cute?

I received these cute pancake molds a few years ago from my awesome cousins. Aren't they cute?!?

We had a yummy breakfast and a great day.

Here we all are in our new Christmas outfits Santa brought us.

Aren't we cute?!?

It's really hard to get a (almost) 2 year old to pose for a picture...

THANK YOU SANTA for a wonderful Christmas 2009.