Happy Birthday Boston!

In honor of Boston's 3rd birthday here is a trip down birthday memory lane!

Who can stop 3 grown men in their tracks and bring them near to tears?? None other than my Bossy Boy! This of course was Boston's actual "birth" day. I felt like I was in labor for a long time but imagine about a million Ruberts/Jones'/McNally's stuffed in the waiting room...now that must have been a long wait. We sure do love and miss Papa Mac. He and Grandma Kate started driving from Montana as soon as I was in labor. We have a few of these 4 generation pictures and they are the best!

Boston on his first birthday. This seriously seems like it was yesterday, I can't believe he's so old! 

Second birthday looking just as handsome as can be!

Here is our very own birthday boy today, his 3rd birthday! I keep saying 3 is the beginning of the end because 3 leads to 4 which leads to school which leads to leaving Mommy. For some reason though we decided to get him a bike which will just get him to where ever he wants to go to leave me faster, what were we thinking?! He sure is handsome though!

Fancy Easter Pictures

Okay so here are Boston and Chloe's Easter Pictures. We have like 300 different shots so that's why there are so many on here, I just couldn't choose! They are all so cute. Boston is so stubborn lately with smiling, but he still is so handsome! Enjoy!

'Appy April

1&2. The nasty neighbor boys wouldn't let Boston play with any of their fun outside toys. Not one to let my spoiled Boston suffer we marched right down to the store and got him a scooter. Here he is showing it off to the ducks at the Greenbelt in Idaho Falls.
3. On any sunny day around here people plant themselves outside for as long as they can stand it. You never know when the sun will be back you know. We are no different and this is a picture of Boston and Chloe on the first really warm day of the year.
4. Cute Chloe.
5. We took the kids to get their pictures taken in their Easter outfits. This is the both of them after the photo shoot and as you can tell it wasn't pretty! (The kids are pretty, the general mood wasn't)
6,7&8. We met some friends at I-Jump in Idaho Falls which is just a giant building with wall to wall trampolines. It's the best idea Idaho Falls has had since...well probably Target. We went at night so it was really crowded with wild teenagers so next time we'll go during the day while they are in school or detention and we can run wild!
9. Boston and Daddy at the Greenbelt in Idaho Falls.
10. Boston on Easter morning eating jelly beans out of an egg after he WON the Easter egg hunt!

1. We went to Lava Hot Springs and here is Miss Chloe, first time in a swimming suit!
2. Boston LOVES dinosaurs, and thanks to Dinosaur Train he can name pretty much any dinosaur. Seriously it's incredible. So when the dinosaur exhibit came to the Museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls we knew we had to go. He loved it! He would run to a dinosaur-bone-exhibit-thing name it (from just the bones) and run to the next. Oh yeah he's 2!
3. Chloe crawled for the first time! She only did it for a fruit snack and once those were gone she was done. She's a lady so she likes to be carried around. Now she's all over the place.
4. Dinosaur Museum
5. Dinosaur Museum on a horse...I don't know what that horse was doing there.
6. Lava Hot Springs
7. Museum
8. Museum

Justin and I started school in April. I've never been so busy and stressed in my life! We usually stay up until 2 or so in the morning trying to get homework done, I don't know what I was thinking. Justin should be graduated by next April, but BYU-Idaho is sure putting up a fight to let him finish though.

March Melee

1. Just our cute kiddos.
2. Daddy got a flat tire on his hot rod but luckily Boston was there to help! Boston loves tools and even more he loves being with Daddy. What could be better when you put the 2 loves together?
3. I just had to get one little thing done but Chloe wouldn't let me put her down. So I thought of this genius idea! Put her in a box with food. Boston caught wind of it and hopped in. Here they are eating Cheerios in the basket.
4. Papa Mac and Grandma Kate got Chloe this Irish singing bear. They both love it! She usually stays up in the closet so she doesn't get ruined but we got her down and well here they are adoring her!
5. So gross I just had to record this and show everyone. We moved the couch and found 3 years of toys and dust built up. Sick.
6. Boston went to a Father and Son camp out with Justin, Papa Russ, and Uncle Kaden. Of course this is during winter so they rode snow machines into a cabin to "camp." Chloe, me and my anxiety stayed home. Here he is all packed and ready to go, except for his snow suit.
7. Sibling love.
8. More cute sibling love. Boston holding Chloe in the stroller.
9. Chloe pulls my hair constantly! I thought getting her a doll with hair would solve all my problems. It worked! She loved it for about 5 minutes. Once she realized it wasn't real hair she was looking for Mommy.
10. More cute babies! Sour puss Boston and grabby Chloe.

Finally February 2012

I am once again playing catch up, I swear I'm the worst blogger ever!

Here are my favorite pictures from February.

1. Boston loves his Chloe...maybe a little too much sometimes!
2. This was only the best day of Chloe's little life! Although she is quite tiny, she is a BIG eater. I was feeding Chloe some snacks when she knocked the container out of my hand and they fell all over the floor. I put her down to get the broom but by the time I came back she had made herself at home on the floor eating her way out of the pile.
3. Cute kids huh? Boston is going through a rebellious phase, he doesn't like to smile for pictures. Isn't he a little young for the attitude??
4. We went to Arizona to visit Justin's Uncle Shawn, Aunt Misty and Cousin Jeffery. Uncle Shawn was getting baptized so we pack up the car, our favorite movies, favorite travel companion Uncle Kaden and care-a-vaned  with Grandma and Grandpa Rubert and Aunt Lynzi for the LONG trip down.
5. On the way to Arizona we stopped at Justin's Uncle David's house to stay the night. Uncle David and Aunt Molly have the biggest nicest house we've ever been in! Once we finished the tour and picked our jaws up off the floor Boston and Chloe settled in to play with the fanciest toys they've ever seen. Here is sweet Chloe driving her first car.
6. On the even LONGer trip back from Arizona poor Boston got sick, really sick. Throwing up every 10 minutes or more for about ohhh 8 hours or so. Those are the kinds of trips that make you never want to leave your house again! Doesn't he look so handsome still? Like a miserable kind of handsome.
7. Boston loves to help give Chloe her baths. Now they take baths together but he is still such a helper. Oh and that is Boston in the dinosaur towel that Grandma Kim got him. He doesn't use it to dry off, just for dress up.
8. Boston riding the Daddy horse, while Daddy is trying to get Chloe to roll over.
9. Gorgeous Chloe!
10. Boston and Chloe (and their silly smiles) riding the fancy car at Uncle Davids.

January 2012

January has been great so far! Chloe is 6 months old and sitting up. Boston is the best brother in the world and is even more attached to Daddy. He also started Gymnastics which he loves! This is Justin's off track for school and he's only taking 1 class so we're all soaking up the extra attention! He is so busy at work because someone quit at work but I think he loves it because the days go by so much faster. I feel so lucky to get to stay home with my kids! There are times when I feel like I'll go crazy but more often than not I absolutely love  getting to spend my time with Boston and Chloe! 

I loved every single one of these pictures! Boston is seriously the best brother to Chloe. I am so proud of the way he treats her. Chloe just adores him which I also love! Just some sweet pictures of the 2 of them spending just a few minutes together that I'm so glad I have.

Even though I'm posting pictures of Boston with Grandma Jones I want everyone to know that he has other Grandmas in the world who love him, also...with that said, Boston has a special bond with my Mom. When he was 2 months old I went back to work and she took care of him everyday so they are super close! I am grateful that we have decided to live close to my parents and Justin's parents so that our kids with have a close relationship with their Grandparents. 

(PS. Even though we don't live next to Grandma Kim and Grandpa Ken they do a great job of being involved with Boston and Chloe. Boston and Chloe both somehow knew them and loved them from the first time they met Grandma Kim and Grandpa Ken. It is really so sweet!)

Just an FYI...
I changed the blog back so everyone can see it now. I want to share with everyone and show my kids off, (it's my favorite thing really) but I keep hearing scary stories about what weirdos do with pictures of kids so that makes me want to never put pictures online again. Hopefully they're not looking at this blog!

Just another FYI...
Justin has gotten to the point with school where there aren't anymore classes he can take online. We had to decide if he would quit work and go to school full time or give up on being a teacher and work full time. We were not prepared for this so we do not have the money saved to last us for 3 more semesters. Quitting his full time job isn't really an option right now. He's decided to keep working at Taylor's full time, do classes part time and will change his major from English Education to English. I'm devastated for him and it wasn't an easy decision. He has such a great attitude about this even though I know this isn't his ideal. Justin is sacrificing so much for his family and so I can stay home with the kids. He is so close to getting his degree! It'll happen just not how we planned it. We are so blessed that he has such a great job. It actually pays better than he probably would ever make as a teacher in Idaho so we are very very lucky in that respect!

December

December was so fun! Chloe's first Christmas, the first one that Boston cared about and understood. Here are some fun pictures of December (before Christmas).

 Dear Boston and Chloe, 

I am so so sorry that I accidentally erased all of the pictures of you from Christmas morning. I am as sad about this as you are. I promise next year I'll let Daddy put the pictures on the computer instead of trying to do it myself. 

                    Love, Mommy

I can't believe the holidays have come and gone! We made some really great memories and continued to establish our own family traditions, which is so exciting! Justin finished his semester with straight A's again! I couldn't be more proud! He definitely worked his buns off for those grades and sacrificed a lot of sleep to make sure he was able to spend time with us and get his homework done (along with working over 45 hours a week at work I might add). We were able to see lots of family over all the holidays which is fun and exhausting! We hope everyone had great holidays!