Being Blessed

About this time of year most of us sit back and look at all the things that we are blessed with. When its snowing outside we are blessed with the warmth of our homes. When we are sick we are blessed with great Doctors and Medicine. And when we are down, We are truly blessed with the loved ones around us. I Just couldn't sleep last night, Thinking of all the many blessings I have in life. Even thought the last two years have been some of the hardest years of my life! I truly am Blessed with everything that should matter in life! I hope everyone has a great weekend and week.. take time to see the many things you are blessed with! Love ya all
Amber!

Sneak Peek...

Over Thanksgiving weekend up in Ogden, we had my amazing cousin come and take family photos of Josh's whole family.. I am so excited to see the rest but she sent me a sneak peek of some of them.. Thanks Brit.. For those interested. She is amazing photographer and very well priced!!! a link to her web page is on my side bar under Photographer. Stay tuned for more family photos to come! :) Also, VERY IMPORTANT!!! Please please ladies, I need addresses for Christmas cards.. Please either comment and leave it or you can email it to me at Atjswens@mail.com Thanks!!

sweet baby girl update...

Heart specialist said that everything with her little heart is good for now. (heart warming news for us) so for now we are just going to focus on her kidneys and what we need to do next. It truly is amazing and so very emotionaly touching for all your heart felt thoughts and prayers.. thanks to all my dear dear friends, Love you all

Hard day

Today we went to the specialist high risk ob and found our that our lil girl has 3 kidneys possibly 4. She will most likly have to have surgery when born to seal off 1 or 2 of hem. Also, they are sending us to a Heart specialist. they are seeing something growing on the outside of her heart and are going to look at it more indeapth weather it is a part of her heart or just a sack of fluid. Also today My moms dog Gabbie DIEd! we have had gabbi in our family for 12 years now and this morning she was coughing up blood and so my mom and dad had her checked and they gave her a couple of hours to live. so my parents had to have her put down. if any of you know my mom and gabbi. she was like a child to my mom.. she is heart broken.. just thought I would let you all know. we are going to the heart specialist in an hour so I will update everyone when we find out more.

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Kaden showing His love

This is Kaden getting back at Tanner while he sleeps.. You will have to trun off the Music at the bottom to get the full effect! This is what happends when mom is not home and Josh is watching the kids..lol LOVE THESE BOYS!!!

I have a monkey man!

KADEN IS A FREAKIN MONKEY!!!! for the last month or so, the lil devil has been climbing out of his crib! it is on the lowest it can go, and the lil sucker wraps his lil toes around the bars and climbs out... Nap time , NO MORE>. SET Bed time, NO MORE.. Sleeping in, NO MORE>> kaden use to take a nap from 12 - 2:30 perfect time cause I timed it to be the same time that Tanner went to school so I could be a lazy ace and sleep tooo.. But kaden sits in his crib and will act like he is taking a nap until I close the door and then out he comes. Kaden use to go to bed at 7:30 -8 pm. No more, Kaden will finally fall asleep about 9 or so..kaden use to sleep until 8 or 8:30 am.. no more the lil sucker gets out of his room at 6 freakin am... shoot me... What do I do.. I have thought of tieing the lil guys limbs down to the crib posts.. I have also thought about turning the crib over on him like a cage.. lol what to do.. as I even sit here an blog the lil sucker is climbing out, I can hear him.. UGGG. help, Drugs are my next option.. hehehh

Very McGiver!

When your pregnant, You cant hold back when you sneeze! Embarrassing, Hell ya! anyways.. Driving on the freeway in heavy traffic doesn't make this any easier! Normally I do all my wash at my moms home before heading back up to Idaho.. this time, I just wanted to get home.. so when a lil sneeze attack snuck up on me while driving, there was no clean clothes to change into.. so my McGiver instint kicked in, and remembered that Tanner still had clean clothes and sweet power ranger underwear.. so Im not sure if I should say I'm proud to have fit into my 5 yr. olds underwear or embarrassed that I had to.......lol once again, great adventures with ME!!

Tasting this Saturday

Mona Vie tasting party Saturday the 17th at 11 am in Layton at my Brother in laws home. This drink is amazing, and was ranked #1 in the Future 500 Magazine as best food and beverage in America! Come check it out!! This is your answer to great HEALTH!!I know so many people that this has helped their lives in great ways!!!! I stand behind it 100%!!!! let me know if you are interested and I will shoot you the address! My cell is (208) 559-7374

A lil thought

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by loving an imperfect person perfectly.

Our Escape

Kauai was AMAZING!!! I am actually really bummed to be home! I could have stayed another week! We had a blast. It was fun watching Kaden experiance the ocean for the first time. Tanner and Kaden played everyday in the sand. It was the perfect vaacation. We met up with my family in Salt lake and flew over together. Karen ( josh's mom) flew over to meet up with all of us on tuesday. we loved having her with us. Josh and I had fun doing to Tech40 photoshoot in princeville. We got to go hiking up cool trails and swing on vines. I cant wait to see the ad for the new watch. Normanly when we go to Hawaii we plan lots of stuff to do, this time, it was actually nice to do nothing, we just played everyday at the beach and pools. Josh and the men did excape a couple of days to do some serious hiking, jeeping, and body boarding at the Barking sands beach,,( deadly waves) It was the best, I wish I could do it all again. Here are some photos of our wonderful vacation!!!!

Vacation TIME!!!

Waiohai Resort here we come! We are off to Kauai. The whole fam is going. We leave first thing in the morning and get back in 8 days! not long enough in my books but we are happy that Josh is taking the time off to go, he wasn't going to stay the whole time but we talked him into it. although he will be working everyday while over there I'm sure, I'm just glad to have us all there! We first fly into salt lake and then from there we will meet up with the rest of the fam and head over together... Ill let you know how that goes..lol On Tuesday Josh and I get to go do a PHOTO SHOOT for a watch company www.tech4o.com It will be fun, and we get to keep the watches and get paid. I'm super excited, I will let you all know when the ad for the watches comes out. like I said in my previous post, I will have my drugs in one hand and a swimsuit in the other, I'm set! Hope all of you have a great week and labor day weekend. ALOHA!

Freak show!!

What the hell is it about Pregnancy that turns a woman into a FREAK SHOW? you start craving stuff that looks like it should have been put together by a garbage truck! PICKLES and ICE CREAM>>> not me.. My neighbor is pregnant as well and kinda weird but I still talk to her.. and she just loves that Im pregnant and so we can share craving stories.. Sorry lady Im not that weird (yet) Any ways, I was outside the other day and she came up to me eating the most nasty smelling thing in the world, i litteraly dry heeved.. PICKLES IN ICE CREAM!!! are you freaking kidding me.. thats just sick and wrong!!! I was wondering why she always smelled like pickles, well now I know... bless her heart..lol Anyways it had me thinking of all the crap that pregnancy dose to us woman.. we turn into walking FREAK SHOWS!! litteraly! We get fat, our boobs start growing in ways that boobs should not hang!! we start to waddle, we eat nasty crap, we love ya then we hate ya.. we cry when we see a bug get smashed.. one min. you feel great and have energy , the next you are hugging a toilet wanting to kill someone.....WHAT THE HELL>>> lol.. THATS JUST MESSED UP THAT MEN GET THE EASY PART.. anyways needless to say there are great doctors that give great drugs ..:) heheheh so hopefully I will stay clear of being that walking Freak show ( for now) I will just think of my dear sweet neighbor , and try to be the opposite! :) we are all freak shows in our own ways,, You all know you are.. heheheh Much love to you Freaks!
All I know is that I'm headinqg to Hawaii on Sunday and in one hand I will have my ZOFRAN drugs and in the other the last naughty swimsuit I can squeeze my saggy boobs in!

happy thoughts to that Y;ALL hehehe

Cat out of the bag

Yes, Kaden is going to be a big BROTHER!!! Im due in april. And sick sick sick... I wasnt sick with Tanner man or kaden so.. I am crossing my fingers that this one might be a mini me.. :) and Josh swears Im already getting a putch,, R U KIDDING ME>> THANKS BABE.. hope you all have a great weekend! Hugs

Time?

I just had a few thoughts that I felt like sharing. Have you ever wanted to stop time in its tracks? The other night I had this moment. It was a warm summer night and we were all just hanging out outside late. Tanner and I were playing Hop Scotch, Kaden was picking plums off of the plum tree and Josh was putting the grass that he had just mowed in a black garbage bag. We were all happy and having fun. We sat out side for a good hour and just hung out. Tanner was trying to tech Kaden how to color with chalk and not to eat it. it was the perfect summer family night, i wish I could have stopped time and enjoyed it more. These days Tanner and kaden are so fun to watch play together. I cant wait to watch them grow together and become best of pals. I hope you all have great timeless nights like this.. they are the ones that will stick with us forever.

To all my Ladies in my life!

Turn off the music at the bottom of my Blog to listen. Its worth it! Love you all!

My lil Tanner man Is 5 years old!

We love our lil T-dog. I am sad that Im missing so many pictures from when we moved up here and switched computers. some day I hope to find them. Our lil guy has grown up to be such a loving and fun kid. He has the biggest heart and can always stand up to a fight..lol He loves being a big brother, and kaden loves to follow Tanner around and do everything that he does. Love you tanner man! Happy Birthday Big Guy!

Our trip to Utah.....

Im so behind! we were in Utah almost 3 weeks ago and I havent even put pictures up.. Anyways, its always fun when we make it down to spend time with our friends and family. I got down on monday afternoon and Josh flew down on thrusday night. Tanner and my dad went fishing monday night as soon as grandpa got off of work. although there were no fish caught, Tanner always has the best of time with grandpa. I was able to be in town on my dear friend Sarah's birthday, and got to celebrate it with her. we took the kids to the gateway discovery and the splash pad, then cake and Ice cream in good ol Heber. Many days were spent laying by my parents pool. My moms aunt died so we had a good day spending with her extended family, which I might add, are ver interesting, ( totaly wacked) people.lol We had fun spending the 24th with dear dear friends and doing fireworks. On saturday we took off for the Moutains up A.F. canyon and went fourwheeling for the day. It was a blast. The week went way too fast! but I was glad to have made it down. here are some pics of the week. Hope everyone is doing good, Tanner's birthday is sunday so lets hope that I am on top of stuff for it..lol Im loosing my mind these days!

More Photos

A Little preview of Ogden photo shoot..

My cousin is so freaking talented! Thanks Brit, I cant wait to see the rest!