Love is in the Air

So, yesterday was Valentine's Day. Not my favorite holiday in the world but anything to celebrate LOVE with my loved ones is fine by me. Jon has been in New York all week on a business trip so this year it was just me and the boys.

 Thursday night, these beautiful roses and box of chocolates were delivered. I have the sweetest husband. Even when he's far away he still makes me feel so loved and blessed.

After the boys were all done taking showers we gathered all of the books about love off the book shelf and read them. And as I sat reading Love You Forever  with my boys , I realized how blessed I truly am to have so many people to love and that love me back. (and of course it did made me cry)

Young Love

Here is my sweet Landon. About a week ago a girl in his class named Jaden asked if he would be her Valentine. On Thursday, (Feb 13) Landon came home with this painting from Jaden. In the corner it says 'I hope you like it'.  Landon informed me that he wrote her a Valentine story and drew pictures in it too. Then on Friday (the 14th)  Landon asked me if he could give Jaden one of my roses. Of course I said yes, so he selected a pink one and I wrapped the end of it for him. That day Jaden gave him this little monkey holding some candy.

On the other side of the country... Here is a picture that Jon text to me. Its taken from the top of the Empire State Building. Which of course made me think of Sleepless in Seattle.

I will do a post of Jon's NYC trip once he gets back home.

A Full House

 I realized I haven't posted lately so I started thinking of what has been going on with us. We have been quite busy actually. As mentioned in a previous post, Jon's mom broke her right foot just before Christmas. She had surgery and was put in a walking boot for 6 weeks. Well, the beginning of January I received a phone call from Jon's Dad saying he had broken his right foot and was at the doctor's office and would need a ride. I seriously thought he as trying to be funny but he wasn't. He had surgery about 5 days later to fix 3 compound fractures in his right ankle. The doctor ended up placing a plate and 7 screws in his ankle to fix it. Dad Hum was but in a hard cast and was told not to put any weight what so ever on that ankle for 8 more weeks. 

The point to this story is... Jon's parents moved in with us so that we can help during this difficult time. (For those of you who are keeping track, that makes 11 people in our house). The boys thought it was pretty awesome to be able to have Grandma and Grandpa stay with us. 

 

 The boys loved carrying down dinner to them and serving them. This picture above is Gpa with 4 of his grandkids playing cards on the bed.

 

Here are the two gimps with their matching casts. (This was before Dad Hum surgery)

 

Dad had to get a little creative with being able to do some things. Here he is trying to shave with his leg propped up on one crutch that is balancing on the counter and bath tub.

I am happy to report that Mom Hum got her walking boot off and is mostly back to complete health (except she caught the boys colds).  Dad Hum had his first hard cast removed as well as the staples in his ankle and a second hard cast put back on. He is half way through and is doing well. He will be going back to work for a couple of half days a week now.

The Beach

After spending the last two days at Legoland we decided to head over to the beach for our last night in California. Our hotel was only about 3 blocks from the beach and the boys had never seen the ocean before.

 We told the boys to only get their feet wet... yeah right. they were wet pretty much waist deep and covered in sand. Nathan's pants weighed so much they started fall down.

 It was certainly beautiful

After getting everyone showered again. They boys just played some more of their new games

Here is the only picture of the two of us. I forgot to post about a few things in the previous posts so I shall do it now. Jon and I had a lot to celebrate this past week (aka Dec 22-27). Sunday the 22nd was Jon's birthday so the day before we took the entire family to see the new Hobbit movie (great show... I highly recommend it). On Sunday we went to church of course followed by a small dinner and dessert with Jon's parents. The next couple of days were filled with errands and Christmas preparation. Also I forgot to mention that Jon's mom broke her foot so she was having surgery. Wednesday was Christmas day as well as my 30th birthday... that's right folks I am no longer in my 20s. On Friday the 27th we celebrated our 10 year anniversary. It's hard to believe that we've been married that long but at the same time it seems as though we've been together forever. It's been a great 10 years and can't wait to spend many more with this amazing man by my side.

LEGOLAND!

The evening of Christmas while the kids played there new video games with Jon, I packed up the suitcases. It only took a few minutes and we were set. The next morning, we got up and ate breakfast, then threw the stuff in the van and...

We're on our way to California or Bust

 The kiddos ready for the 6 1/2 hour car ride

 My handsome hubby ready for the drive

We arrived at our hotel around 4:30. After checking in at the hotel and dropping off our bags we headed out to a store to get some food. We decided that instead of paying $10 a person for food at the park we would fill our cooler each day with lunch. The boys thought we were awesome parents because we let each of them pick out 2 lunchables (one for each day). We also grab easy dinners that we kept in our little fridge at the hotel and cooked in our microwave.

In the evenings we played games that the boys got for Christmas and watched some of their new movies.

 Here are the boys laying on their beds watching the new movies. I also want to point out the cool 'quillows' that the boys received from Aunt Jeni. They are quilts that fold into a pillow.

Finally it was time to go. Sorry if the sun is really bright/my kids are hiding their eyes from the sun. We enjoyed to lovely 73 degree weather.

 

Okay, so Legoland was amazing and I took over 200 pictures but of course I can't blog all of them so I will try to refrain myself and just hit the highlights.

 Chewie and R2-D2

 The X Wing fighter jet is life size.. it was amazing. The Death Star is still under construction but it looked awesome in the picture.  Also I should mention that Nathan was very attached to Jon the entire trip

Since this trip landed on mine and Jon's 10 year anniversary I told him that he took me around the world... at least in lego form

 

The Jungle Safari Ride. You drove zoo cars and got to see a lot of different animals all made out of Legos of course.

The boys each went to driving school and then were issued their very own Legoland driver's license.

It was split up by ages so Nathan was on a different track for just 3-5 year olds. Landon and Kyler were on the older track that was set up like a little town complete with stop signs and traffic lights.

 They had this awesome area set up just for the Holidays. They also made snow and had areas designated for just being able to play in the snow... but since we're from Utah and that white stuff is easily found, we decided to skip all the snow stuff. (Plus they had really long lines)

 During a walk-through quest, in which we had to find the 7 hidden keys, I decided to slip my hand in this polar bears mouth. The bear actually moves and bit down on my hand.

 

 Riding the Rescue helicopters

Shooting the bad guys 

 

 On this ride you have to peddle and it makes you go faster around the sky track

We learned very quickly that Nathan LOVES roller coasters. This is the newest ride... the Technic. (it is also the fastest and has the biggest drop) It was Nathan's favorite.

Our entire family with Lego Santa

Christmas Morning

Christmas Morning:

 This was the first year that the boys woke up on their own before 6 o'clock. We could hear them talking and laughing but we had given them strict instructions not to come out until it said 6:00 on the clock. This year we all took turns reading Luke 2 and then had our family morning prayer. 

It looks like Santa came :

 

Here are few of Nathan's Presents:

Mud slinging Monster Truck

  Rescue Bot

A couple of Kyler's

 DS with a case and a couple of games

 Hex bug, pokemon, and of course legos

  A couple of Landon's gifts:

 A pocket knife

 His very own camera (mainly because of his DC trip this summer)

 The entire Harry Potter DVD collection

 Santa brought the boys Skylanders Swap Force to share

 And of course Dex needed some new toys as well

 Jon got a Utes polo

And Ky made me this awesome calendar.

And THEN there was the LAST PRESENT!!!

Clue #1

Sent them to the garage, where they found a small cooler filled with snacks and another clue.

 

Clue #2

Sent them to the living room and was found in the piano bench... it was a calendar with a car driving. At this clue Landon figured out that we were going to a road trip

 Clue #3

Led them out to the trunk of my van where they found a suitcase. Inside it was an awesome map that Jon drew on the computer and the FINAL clue. Thanks to the map they learned that their destination  was California.

 Clue #4

Sent them back to the toy room (Where we did our Christmas) 

There they discovered that we leaving the next morning for Legoland. We have a video of there reaction but it wasn't loading correctly. They were so excited!!! We took a ton of pictures but that will be yet another post.