The Scott Yearly Recap

Okay so I really like to do a yearly account of what happened that was exciting or note worthy so bear with me or just skip this blog. Most people do this in their Christmas card, but i wasn't that on top of things this year.

Well Jon graduated dental school this year in May and then we moved to Boise, ID where we bought a house and started a dental practice. He got to go hunting this year, but not nearly enough (is it ever enough though?) Even with all the changes that have happened Jon has had to be the rock of our family this year and we are so grateful that he has been there for all of us girls. We had a little bit of a scare this summer when my body decided to freak out on us. I was 6 months pregnant and ended up going to the hospital thinking that I was in labor and finding out that I was dying instead. I had Pancreatitis caused by galstones. As if that wasn't enough my body was trying to keep our precious baby alive so it started to shut down and work on just the baby. Therefore my lungs then collasped and sent me straight to the ICU where they put me on a bunch of machines to keep me alive (and the baby) On top of that I had a growth in my chest that was the size of a softball and an infection in my PICC line (feeding, IV tubes put in through your arm and leads to your heart). Infections are really scary to get though this because it is a direct passageway to your heart for the bacteria to get too. Anyway we finally induced me at 35 weeks (Aug 12, 2008) and we had our miracle baby Libby Marie Scott. She did really well at first and then took a turn for the worst with her breathing, but recoved from that really well. She is such a fighter! Two weeks later I went in for surgery to get my galbladder removed as well as the "softball" growth. Libby and I got to leave the hospital on the same day, even though I was in no shape to care for a baby. Luckily my parents were able to be with us for about 3 months while I was sick to take care of Jon, Me, Shelby, and now a new little one Libby. Thanks again for all you did, Jon and I don't know what we would have done without your help and support!!!! It took several months to recoup but now the whole family is alive, healthy, and happy.Shelby turned 2 in October and is our little angel! She loves to read books, take pictures, color, do makeup with mom and could take a bath all day everyday if we would let her. She helps mom clean the house and loves to do the Laundry. Moving here she was a little out of place for awhile when I was in the hospital, Dad started work, we were in a new house, and Grandma and Grandpa were basically her parents, but now she has tons of friends here and LOVES "Shelby's house." In fact it is hard to get her to want to leave the house sometimes!! Shelby Loves Libby and is always bringing her toys or tell her "it okay siter, Shelby here for you, no matter what." Libby is almost 5 months now and is doing great! She sleeps through the night from 8pm- 8 or 9am. She loves to grab any toy that you put in her arms reach, she hates tummy time in fact she just rolls over so there really is no such thing as tummy time for her. She adores Shelby and watches her all day. Libby loves her crib waterfall toy and her "bunny fu fu" that she got from Uncle Glen and Aunt Gayle. Libby is our little fighter and is extremely tough (I guess that is why we are so lucky to have her alive today)It has been a very eventful year for us with a lot of changes going on, but we wouldn't want it any other way. Thanks to all of our family and friends for your love and support and especially your prayers!

I hope that whatever the journey of life has in store for all of us we can stay on the path and remember what is truly important. We have been so blessed this year by our Savior and his atonement for us. I am so grateful for my family and feel so lucky to be able to spend another year with them! Happy New Year from our family to yours!!

Better Late than Never!

Well it has been a CRAZY couple of weeks so here are the pics. from our Christmas. It started out on Christmas eve when we went over to Brent & Ambers to have dinner, watch a movie, and open our PJ's a tradition for both families. We got through the dinner (which was delicious) and then got so busy playing and watching our movie (polar express) that we totally forgot about the Pj's until it was getting late and Libby was REALLY wanting to eat. So we took off and opened them at our house instead; I am not a big fan of wipping out the boobs outside of my own home. (I forgot to take my camera over there so I don't have any pics of that.) Anyway Shelby thought it was awesome to have had Santa come to her house early while we were gone and so she helped Libby open her present too. Then we went to bed.Shelby was so excited for her PJ'sDoesn't Libby looked StokedTrying to get a picture with Libby not rolling all over the place and Shelby actually looking at the camera is a modern day miracle so here is our miracle picture.Shelby was being soo cute with Libby telling her about Santa and giving her tons of kisses.This is what the girls woke up to. Shelby was so excited and Libby just wanted to eat but she now likes all of her loot.Shelby opening her stocking she was mesmerized by this toy, but her favorite thing was her Camera. She walked around the entire house telling everyone and everything to "say cheese guys; for your picture." and then after she would push the button she would look at the picture on the screen and tell us, "wow guys you look beautiful!"Mom helping Libby open her stuff. She was pretty into all the bright colors.Say Cheese guys!

Okay stockings "say cheese" after we put Shelby down for a nap Jon and I decided that we would look at the pictures that she took. We were really shocked when we turned on the camera and it said that she had taken 279 pictures in 1 hour. Most of them were of the ground or her feet and almost all of them were blurred because a 2 year old can't hold still to take a picture she is already off to take the next one!

Anyways our Christmas was really fun especially since this was our first year to ever have our very own Christmas with just our little family. We had a blast! The next day we were off to Idaho Falls to visit Jon's family and meet his sisters Fiance from England. The roads were awful so it took us close to 7 hours when it is only supposed to be a 4 -41/2 hour drive. Luckily the girls are awesome in the car so it was no big deal except we just had less time to spend with our family and friends there. (I forgot my camera on this trip too so there are no pics. but I will still bore you with my details.) We stayed with my really good friend Heidi (the one who takes the amazing pics of our family) it is always fun to hang out with her and even if we haven't spoken for a long time we just pick right back up and it seems as if no time has passed at all. In fact we stayed up till 2 the first night because we had so much to talk about, we felt like we were back in college. P.S. Heidi I know you are blog stalking me so leave a message!!!!

Anyway then we went over to Jon's best bud Josh's house and met their kid who is already 1 year old. He was adorable! We spent an hour or so and then we were off to Jon's parents house to have lunch and hang out. We visited for a while and then went over to Grandpa Wirkus's house to have Schnizel (I don't know how to spell it) and Huckelberry ice cream. It was so yummy and I wanted to eat more, but there was No room in the inn! Then we went back to Heidi's house and played Rock Band all night, which we are all amazing at by the way. Jon is now convinced that we need to get this game, thanks a lot Heidi! After another late night we finally decided we weren't that young anymore nor were we very good at Rock Band so we went to bed. The next morning we went to Jon's parents fixer uper house and looked through it. It will be really nice when it is done, but for now there is a lot of fixing up to do. They love all that kind of stuff though so it should be fun. We then loaded up in the truck and had another LONG drive home since the roads were still really bad!!! All in all it was a great trip and a great Christmas so we can't complain.

Shoveling the Driveway

All ready to help mom and dad
This is her CHEESE!

Since we moved to Boise and have our own house I have realized how much work it is to shovel the driveway. I actually really like doing it, but it is definately a new thing for me. I have been told that I will only have to do it a couple times each winter because even though it snows often the snow melts pretty quickly after it falls. Shelby loves to get all bundled up and play in the snow and ask about 1 million times...."mom, what you doininginging?" (she adds about 3 ings at the end of anything that ends in ing). Anyway we have a blast but it will probably get really old, although for now we really enjoy it.

The mystery of the missing 5 x 7

I am sooooo embarrassed to even have to write about this, but for those of you who know me...well you know that this totally sounds like something I would do! Here is the story. For Christmas I always print off a 5 x 7 picture for both Jon's mom and My mom to send with our Christmas card. This year my mom came to town while I was sending out our cards so I just gave hers to her. Then I put the other (Jon's moms) in an envelope and thought that I put the Label on it immediately so as not to send a 5 x 7 picture to someone on my christmas card list that would for obvious reasons not want to display it proudly in their home. Well I asked my mother-in-law if she got the picture and she said "NO, what pic?" Holy CRAP!!! I sent it out to someone else because I don't have it at my house. Anyway if you got a random 5 x 7 of our adorable family would you please let me know just so I can stop feeling so dumb and at least know who I embarrassed myself with.

Our Holiday Events

I haven't had much time to blog given that our family is so busy having fun. Let me start way back to the week of the 10-16th. My parents decided that they didn't get to spend enough time with our girls when they came for Thanksgiving because we had so many people here and it was just crazy so they came back to visit. We were so happy to have them here again and we had our first storm roll on through while they were visiting, so we made snowmans. Now I have to comment that when my parents are in town we are having so much fun and doing so much that we don't get many pictures. Somehow my parents were able to live with us for about 3 months this summer and we have VERY few pics especially of my mom with the girls. For those of you that know my mother know that she is always doing something, I don't think that she has a lazy bone in her body and so she is ALWAYS playing with the girls or helping me with different projects that I have around my house. So I want to apologize to my Mom for not even getting one picture of her this trip, I will do tons better next time; I promise. About my projects that my mom helped me with, they were mostly organizing closets because I am such a clean freak that I have to get rid of stuff on a regular basis. Plus I wanted to move Libby upstairs to her crib since she is sleeping 12 hours a night and I won't have to be hiking stairs in the middle of the night. Anyway here are the few and only pics that I was able to take while they were in town. Cheese Mom!

Shelby was so excited to play in the snow it was so cute!She always wanted to "kiss our noman"

Shelby and her favorite boys to do stuff with

The next thing that I wanted to blog or journal about was our NORTH POLE TRAIN RIDE! We went with some of our good friends (the Jenkins) on a train ride to the north pole to see Santa. Well actually we left from Horseshoe bend and then ended up somewhere between there and Emmett. The Jenkins got us first class tickets which meant that we got our very own Caboose; it had it's own bathroom, 2 couches, 4 swivel chairs, and a stewardess on board to get us snacks or whatever we needed. The ride was about 45min each way and then we spent about the same amount of time in the "North Pole". The North pole was set up so cute with carols being sung by the elves and Santa with Mrs. Klauss handing out candy and letting the kids visit "their house". Anyways this was SOOOOO much fun and Shelby and Libby totally dug it. This will have to be a tradition every year with the Jenkins(Kristin & Jason & Will) because it was such a blast!!! Thanks for taking us guys. Here are the pics from that fun trip. They are in no particular order because Blogger was being stupid!!! I also can't put any comments under each picture for some reason so

Shelby & Will on the back of our Caboose

After a fun day Libby and Dad enjoyed some bouncer time while Shelby slept and I did whatever moms do.

Libby is 4 Months old

Libby Marie Scott is already 4 months old. I can't believe she has been here for that long! Time just flies by. I can't remember life without you, but it also seems like you just got here. Well I am totally copying my sis-in-law Haley, with the way that she updates about her kids. So here it goes.

Hair: Dark brown, but getting thinner by the day. It is always so sad when the baby hair falls

out and they get the bald spot on the back of their head.

Eyes: Bright Blue

I'm not sure how much you weigh but I would guess 10ish and you are REALLY tall just like your dad. You wear 0-3months in shirts and 6-9 months in pants because everything else is to short for you.

Likes: Mom (you are sort of a mama's girl, your bouncer, being tickled, laughing, pepermint ice cream (I couldn't make her wait until next year to try it!), you love when Shelby talks to you and holds your hands. Reading books always gets a lot of kicking action, and you love the TV and you love your crib. Sucking on her fist (the dentist in dad hates that) but it is so stinkin cute!

Dislikes: Being scared or sudden noises, When mom puts you down, waiting to be fed, being left out of the fun, and you never will stay on your tummy for tummy time. She learned to roll over at 4 weeks old and won't stay on her tummy since. (Libby was 5 weeks early so I am pretty sure that she wasn't supposed to be able to do that yet, go figure)

You sleep from 9-10pm to 8-9am and then you take a nap around 11 and another around 1 and yet another around 4. I am so grateful that you have been on this schedule since you were about 2 months old. You eat great! You will take a bottle or mom, whichever is available (since I was so sick when I had you my body doesn't quite produce enough milk, but we will take what we can get) You love to laugh and giggle and you are the toughest girl that I know. You really are a miracle to even be alive and you are thriving at life. I love being your mom and I am so grateful that we both are here and healthy. IT WAS WELL WORTH THE FIGHT!! I love you Libby and I know that Shelby and Daddy are crazy about you too.

Gingerbread Disasters

I have to put a disclaimer on this post that this was the first time that any of us had made gingerbread houses (except Amber). With that said this was a disaster!!!!! I had called Jon's mom and gotten all the details and receipes for the frosting and all that. She told me to make rice krispy treats to use as the "frame" of the house. YEAH RIGHT!!! Dispite the fact that our houses looked like a huge pile of dung we had a good time. We had some of friends Brent and Amber over to have dinner and then do our houses. We had tons of fun, and there was certainly a lot of laughter, mostly at how awful our houses looked. Next year I am totally buying one of those pre-packaged gingerbread house kits. NO more fancy pants Annie, lets just face it, I am not a master when it comes to the kitchen!

Shelby loved eating the graham crackers and all the candy that she picked out at the store.Carter, Amber, Shelby, and me trying to get our creation to work...not happening!

Such concentration! (Carter & Amber)

Jon tried to pitch in and help, this is Shelby laughing hysterically because our house is caving it at that very moment.Brent & Ambers finished house... Yep you guessed it they just gave up with the graham crackers.

At least the Candy was Yummy (Brent & Carter)

This is my finished house. We even bought the cutest candy ever that looked like little rocks so we could make it look like our real house. There is some resemblance right???


Going, Going

Gone!!!!

Santa at the Mall

On Jon's day off last week we decided that we would go as a family to the mall to get me some new jeans that actually fit. Yes, folks I am going to stop wearing pants that make me look like a have a dirty diaper! Anyway then we went to the Cheesecake Factory because we have had a gift card for it for like 5 months now. It was awesome too! We have been telling Shelby all about Santa and she kinda gets it so we told her that we would be able to see him at the mall. Well she was a little shy to go to him, but once she was in his lap she was in heaven as you can see from the picture. He asked her what she wanted for Christmas and she didn't answer so he was giving her ideas like...Dora...Barbies? She finally looked at him and said "No goose, Shelby want books and toys." Santa laughed and Jon and I just looked at each other with a grin. Do you suppose we call her a silly goose too often??? O'well she was too cute. Libby also loved Santa, she was happy to go stare at him and all the glits and glamour of the mall set up.

Sunday dress up Activity!

A couple of Sundays ago I was trying to get Shelby to sit still for something (I can't even remember why now, but O'well) Anyway she found her clips and wanted to put "All dees" in her hair so I bribed her to sit still and I would put them all in. She kept wanting to look in the mirror and she would tell me "O boy I so beautiful... huh mom?" She cracks me up everyday! I just thought the pictures were kinda funny and cute.

Thanksgiving!

Aunt Molly, Macey, Grandma Hammons, and Libby ready to go to Olive Garden.

Cru, Treyson, & Shelby in their super hero capes that Grandma had made for them. It was hilarious watching them run around the house with their caps flying behind them.

All three boys are asleep and the games are still on. This was a common occurance this week!Jon, Shelby, & Cru just about to go to bed.
Okay....So I debated even putting this picture up because I was nursing Libby and Molly and I had stayed up the night before until 3am just talking so i am looking EXTREMELY hot, but it is the only pic that I got of Molly and I so don't judge!

This year for Thanksgiving I was so lucky to have My parents, My sister (Molly), and My brother (Matt) and his family come to visit. It was soo much fun to have everyone here and Shelby had a blast with her cousins. It was a bit of a mad house at times, but it was so nice to have my family come and see where I live, Jon's office, & just Boise in general. The girls got to sneak off and go shopping a couple of times and that was really fun. The boys mostly watched football, which I am pretty sure was fun for them. The kids were CRAZY but they were so happy to just be up in the play room and spending time together. I didn't do very good at getting very many pictures, but whenever I am having fun with my family pictures are the furthest thing from my mind. I am so grateful for this season and this time I get to be with family. There was a couple months this last summer that we didn't know if I would be around for the next holiday so I just want to express how grateful and blessed I am to still be alive and be able to be with my family. Thanks to everyone who came it was so fun to have you!!!