What a Cutie!!

I coulnd't help but post this little Sweetheart! Isn't she adorable! Such a girl!

Just a little shout out!

Just wanted to Thank Grandma and Grandpa Zeller for the awesome presents...the kids were really excited when they got a package from Mass. I know they don't look like it in the picture but they have been sick and Ellianna was actually really tired. Joey was really excited and just kept saying now I can play Baseball with Daddy, it was really cute!

AHHHH! She's 2!

She is growing up so fast! I just can't believe it!



Yes we went to the Zoo again for another birthday but they really love it. They had this snake out for the kids to touch...yuck!

These three are all mine. I still have a hard time with that if I step back and think about it.

3rd Birthday!

It is a Itlittle crazy to me right now to think that my little boy is 3! I can not believe how big he is getting and I don't want to blink for fear that my girls will be that old before I know it! This birthday was really fun with Joey though because it was little like Christmas for him! He could not go to sleep last night because he was so excited that it was going to be his birthday! It wasn't even about the presents for him it was all about his train cake and the fact that we would sing him Happy Birthday! He has been singing it for everyone else and couldn't wait for it to be for him!

We started the day out with a big mess up from mommy!!!! We had promised Joey if he were to be a big boy and go in the potty that he could have a scoop truck,(catch was that I thought I had one in a box down stairs, left over from Christmas that we decided not to give him at the time because he already had to much. But what I didn't realize was that what I had wasn't a scoop it was a Bulldozer! For all you mothers a little boys there is a very big difference! I forgot this until last night late so I decided to try and pass it off and give it to him! He opened it as his first present when he woke up and was really excited up a couple minutes later he looked at me and said

" Mom can we go to the store and get a scoop truck?"

Mommy says " Joey you got a scoop truck"

Joey "No this is a Bulldozer"

Well my bad he was right and I had been promising him forever that I would get him a scoop so while he went to lunch with Papa for his birthday I made a mad dash for Toys-R-Us to get the scoop truck that we had played with a hundred times. Thankfully it was on Clearance!!!

So he now has his Scoop truck and I have learned a valuable lesson that you can't trick a little boy into thinking a Bulldozer is a Scoop truck!

We started that day with Joey very excited about it being his birthday and all the decorations that we had!! He got to open one present before daddy went to work! Then he got to go to lunch with Papa a McDonalds! Then a fun time at the Zoo with Daddy and the girls and our Friends Lynnlee and Ashley! After the Zoo we had a pizza Dinner with the whole Family and his Train Birthday cake(That is all he has talked about for weeks is having a train cake)! With lots of great presents! Thanks to everyone! And again I am sorry the Scoop came at the beginning! Once he opened that Scoop he didn't pay much attention to anything else! And it is after 9 and he is still outside digging in the dirt!

One down TWO to go!

Yeah!!! It's POTTY TIME!!!!
This one is from the last week! He has actually filled half of another one already and we have had two dry mornings!!! I can't tell you how excited I am!!
This one is his favorite(He has filled about 5 of them)!!! I got lucky finding this one being that it is a train track was perfect motivation for him! But if you ask him what he gets for going in the Potty he will tell you "I get a scoop truck" We are so proud of him and he makes sure we tell him that all the time! I love it!!! It has been a bit of a task though with the girls around! Ellianna thinks she knows what she is doing too so she has been peeing all over the floor because she throws a fit until she gets underwear and doesn't get the concept just yet! Cambria on the other hand just tries to get in the potty and is climbing all over him while he is sitting there if I don't lock her out of the bathroom! If I was a fly on the wall watching the situation at times I think I might pee my pants laughing!

Four Amazing Years!

I know most of you need to pick up your jaws off the floor at this point because yes it has been four years, and yes it has only been four years since Joe and I were married! 4 years, 3 children, 2 dogs and 1 cat I think we are doing pretty good!

There are so many things that I want to say being that I am so blessed to have such an amazing husband father and provider for our family. Isn't it amazing how people are so meant to be together?! I know that there couldn't have been anyone else that would fit me better than Joe. We have only been married 4 years and we already have the same thoughts at almost the same time, we both are able to put up with the craziness of having an almost 3 year old almost 2 year old and a little one that is 9 months. Not to many people would be able to with stand that test(Parenting is not for the weak)

I love watching my husband be an amazing father making sure that everything is okay with all of his children and making sure that they are all happy...just the other night Joey Jr. didn't want to go to bed because there were dinosaurs under his bed and they were going to get him. So daddy being the hero that he is went in and wrestled with them under the bed until he caught them then he threw them outside and locked them out. Then daddy put maggie on the bed next to joey so that if there were any more dinosaurs she could eat them up! What a great dad!

And every day before daddy leaves for work his little Ellianna tells him to come back and give her a "tiss tiss" (Kiss) then tells him that he has to give one to "Roey too"(Joey)

The way Cambria lights up every time her dad walks into the room is amazing! I think the house could fall down around her and she wouldn't notice as long as she had daddy to look at!

Right after Joey was born I still remember Joe waiting on me hand and foot it was our first little one so we were both new at it and he saw to my every need no matter how little or crazy it might seem! And through every pregnancy he has gone and done the crazy craving food runs just so I was happy! Oh the things we put them through. Including all the emotions and hormones that come with being pregnant. Some days I wonder if Joe thinks I am the same person he dated because I have been pregnant for 90% of our marriage with hormones out of control at times!(I promise that I am not pregnant for all of you who are still questioning from that post a couple of months ago)

So any way I want to thank my husband for being who he is and for making our lives so much fun! You are the most amazing husband I could ever ask for and I thank you for all that you do for me and for our family! I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, and I am so greatful that we will be together for ETERNITY!

FOR-EV-ER FOR-EV-ER!!!!!

Love Your Wife

Happy Birthday Kari!

We hope you have an awesome Birthday we love you and miss you tons!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADREA!!

WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU TONS!!!

I Did It!

Just some ne one's of the little ones!

Free Stuff

I just wanted to share the love with everyone I know. I told about this web site called www.freecycle.org it is wonderful!!! You can post things that you want to give away or can get things that you need for free. You should all go and look it up so you can enjoy it as much as I have been. I have already gotten some clothes for Joey and a Johnny Jumper for Cambria! I love it!!!! Hope you all enjoy!

I know it has been a while and I promise I will get in gear and change it up a little. We have spent the last week sanitizing the house from top to bottom including the air ducts,and every set of curtains and bedding that we have, trying to get rid of all of the crap that has been running through the house. The kids really have been adorable and a lot of work. Joey and Ellianna don't know what to do with out each other. One day Joey was sick and Ellianna was so bored of playing with mommy, at times she just went and sat next to Joey(who was laying on my bed watching movies) and put there heads together. Then 2 days later Ellianna had the same thing and Joey did just what she did putting their heads together on the bed and cuddling. They are also playing with Cambria more...the older two sit on the floor in front of her and try anything to make her laugh. I really love it. I do have like 10,000 pictures to post and I will soon so don't go to far.

Your what....?????

Cambria's reaction when we told the kids that we were having another baby....just kidding!!!!! I promise I really am just kidding! But it's a boy!!!!! Just kidding again...Joe just knows how many of you are going to be freaking out at this we really are just kidding and if I could have waited to post this picture on April Fools it would have been even better but we couldn't wait that long to share this little gem with all of you! Hope you have a good laugh!

Happy Valentine's Day

Since I am a little behind the ball(Two out of the three have been sick) I thought I would give a little shout out to the east coast family this way! We love you guys and miss you tons!!!! Hope you have a wonderful Valentines Day!

You have to listen close to hear what Ellianna is saying but it is really cute she is trying so hard to say everything! (Can you tell also that Cambria puts up with a lot from her brother and sister, she is a real trooper)And I had to post both of them because Ellianna was not very happy in the second one but they got everyone in there hope you enjoy!

First big Dance!!!!

Our little girl is all grown up!! She is the youngest of us all and I can not believe that she is so grown up...it makes me want to hold my little ones a little longer hoping that they won't grow up to fast!!! A big shout out to Kayla for helping her get ready, she helped out a ton! The coolest part for us was that she went up to the hospital and got dressed there so that mom could see her in her dress and her date came there and picked her up there! Thanks to her date Andrew for picking her up there so we could all get in on the big date night!!

Secret Hide Out

These are a little behind but I thought I would still put them out there cause they were cute! Daddy made the kids a Hide out a couple of weeks ago.... we clearly have enough diaper boxes to do that. It is still in the play room getting a lot of use.

Finally a hair cut!

I made Joe take Joey to get a hair cut this morning, it was driving me crazy!!!!! Joe said that all the girls thought he was at least 4 cause he sat so still and was so good!

Just for Nana!

Just for those who might be a little confused, our Nana is a real trooper and has had both of her knees replaced this last weekend. (We are so proud of you Nana and we are here to cheer you along in the recovery process!!!!)It is going to be a while until the kids can see her because they won't know any better then to climb all over her so we decided this would be the best way to get a message to her.

President Hinckley

Rexburg Temple Open House!

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Joe and I were able to attend the open house to the Rexburg temple last night and it was very very busy! It was the second to last night to attend so they were trying to get everyone through that they possibly could. They actually didn't check any one's tickets at this open house there was so much interest that they were just letting people come in. I am so glad that they were able to accommodate so many people and it will be interesting to see how many people came through. They had given out 150,000 tickets then released a bunch more to try and accommodate all the interest, then they decided to just let people come through. The tour guide we had said that they had already had about 10,000 people through in the morning on Friday.
The stain glass windows are so beautiful with the wheat grain pattern to represent our area, that theme continues throughout in the floors and the art work. I am so excited to have two temples so close. We are so blessed!
It is kinda hard to see but in the picture of the church there is a tent that was covering the walk way from the church up to the temple they had covered the whole walk way and they were heating it to try and keep people warm. Being that with the wind chill the other day it was -34.

Tag!

I haven't done one of these before so I thought I would give it a go.

Two names I go by:
1. Mommy or mom, this is one used the most cause even Joe calls me mom more than Alyssa.
2. Alyssa

Two things I am wearing right now:
1. Striped pj pants
2. All Shine t-shirt: we are always advertising in this house.

Two of my favorite things to do:
1. Hang out and play with my kids.
2. Watching movies with my hubby.

Two things I want right now:
1. Spring...I am with Marybeth on this one. I can't wait to be outside with the kids.
2. Spring can't ask for anything more than that.

Two favorite pets I have had:
1. Charlie
2. Maggie

Two things I did last night:
1. Rexburg temple dedication, Joe and I got to go and really enjoyed it.
2. Put my kids to bed at 11pm when I got home cause they were little toads for the babysitters(Thank you Linda and Blake for dealing with them, we really really really appreciated it)

Two things I ate today:
1. Granola Bar
2. That's it I haven't been up long enough to have more.

Two people I talked to last:
1. Joe before he left with Joey
2. Ellianna cause she wanted more sippy cup.

Two longest car rides ever:
1. Last Christmas Idaho to Mass. with a 1 1/2 year old and 6 month old, and a husband who drinks a lot of Coke while driving, plus the snow storms that stoped us in our tracks in the lovely state of Nebraska
2. Idaho to I think it was North Dakota, our car broke down like a hundred times and it took hours to get anyone to help....good times with the family.

Two favorite beverages:
1. Water
2. Dr. Pepper I know it shouldn't be but it is.

I tag Brittany Smith, Brittany Allen, and Sharron. Haha that is what you get for reading my blog. J/K Thanks for checking in.
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ABC's again!

I have to just say I haven't seen Joey so excited about anything in a long time...it was so adorable. I let him see the video of his ABC's and he was singing right along with it he is so proud of himself("That's Roey,That's Roey" as he says.) Ellianna really tries she gets the EFG part and just sings it over and over again! I love it!

Daddy's Solution!!

So Joe was watching the kids this afternoon while I went out visiting teaching. Ellianna has started this whole taking off her pants and her diaper thing in the last week and this afternoon she wouldn't stop so daddy solved the problem...Gorilla Tape(it's like duct tape)...it really worked cause he had to rip the diaper down the side to get it off for bath it was great!
Ellianna is also showing off the necklace that her and Daddy made out of Cheerios and Fruit Loops...They did a great job!

Another Great one!

Another great outfit for the day! But today he has on 4 shirts! Spiderman, Toystory, Thomas, and his Thomas pj's shirt to top it off. Then he found his church pants and his Curious George pj's shorts on the top. He wore all 4 shirts for a couple of hours and then brought it down to 2 for the rest of the day!

ABC's

He is growing up way to fast! Please take note of the outfit for the day. I have been letting him pick out his own clothes so he found the Santa pants he got last Christmas and his race car pj's shirt. It was great!

Fun in the Snow!

These are actually from last week but i thought they were cute.

I decided to bundle up the kids and and go out the shovel cause it was like 15 degrees outside so it felt like summer!!!! Maybe not that extreme but it didn't feel to bad and they had fun! They also got to play with the cat which they love to death.

Learning to Crawl....on her head!

So Cambria has figured out how to get up on her hands and knees but she hasn't figured out how to make them move together yet unless she is mad. So she has given up on that direction and made one of her own.

1st Foods

So yesterday we decided to try rice cereal with Cambria for the first time. I love that with every child there are still those first time things that you get to enjoy. It really is fun to watch them enjoy life and Joey and Ellianna were all about it clapping and cheering for her it was adorable.

One of these things just isn't the same?!

"One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just isn't the same..." I think that is how the song goes any way. Can anyone tell me who is getting the most sleep in this house? And no it is not mommy!

I found Joey like this the other night when I came up stairs to go to bed...Cambria had finally fallen asleep around 11 and there was Joey sleeping in the middle of the Hall! I still haven't figured out why except that he probably had gone to my room looking for me and was to tired to look any farther since he is not sleeping very well any more.

Then there is miss Cambria I was busy trying to get breakfast for the older two and Joe found her asleep in her saucer...she didn't even cry about it, just went to sleep.

Then there is my little sleeper...she is almost like clock work to bed between 7 and 7:30 and not up until about 8 but I have probably just cursed myself because Joey was the same way at one point too. She is just such a happy little thing it is so adorable. They all really are I just thought it looked funny when I went through my camera that I had more picture of the other two asleep then awake.

Spoke way to soon!!!!!

So I opened my mouth way to soon in our little Christmas letter. I believe I said that we haven't had any of those little mishaps yet....like coloring on walls and things that they shouldn't get into. Well in the last week alone that has taken a drastic turn and Joey and Ellianna are working together to get things done which is making this house a little bit of a mess. I have gotten pictures of a few of them but missed some of the really good ones. One I did get was when Joey decided that he wanted to put lotion on, (but might I add that he always fights me at night after bath and doesn't want it on.) Then there was the soda that dad forgot about and ellianna and Joey decided to share it hiding in the play room and then telling me when it spilled and clearly Ellianna was not happy that it had spilled on her. There are several others that I will just leave alone but the latest was today and I missed the picture moment but wasn't really in the mood at the time....but Joey is in the process of potty training and has been doing wonderful I might add but he came to mommy and said " Mommy there's a lot of paper towels in the toilet" (With his little hands turned up looking at me like he couldn't figure out why there would be TWO ROLLS of toilet paper in the toilet and the water all over the bathroom. ) All of these happened within just a few seconds cause I really was only seconds behind them or had just left the room.

Just a little update!

Little Miss Ellianna had to have on her dress up clothes and pose for the camera...she loves to pose it is so adorable.
Cambria is already getting up on her knees and I am not so sure that I am ready for that!

Story time clearly worked really well because it put both Joey and Daddy to sleep!