Game Night!

So we really haven't been up to much the boys are doing great they love to play together in the pic above they are reading a book together so cute! I have just been running alot and getting ready for my half marathon this saturday. Pat is traveling alot for work right now and we are getting ready to go to Hawaii next sunday for 9 days and we can't wait.
We did have a nice weekend grandma and grandpa watched the boys for us so we could have a night out with some friends so we went to cheryl and taylor's for a BBQ and played some really fun games, mindy and cheryl watch that show minute to win it so they got a few ideas off of that and that is what we played their was this one called on the nose and it was with vaseline and cotton balls so here are a few pics of the night: anyways those are just a few of the games we played we had a great time.
Thanks Cheryl & Taylor for the great food and good fun with friends:

A year old Already! :(

Okay so I know I am a week late on blogging about the boys turning a year old but I have been a little busy with birthday parties after birthday parties.
Well we celebrated the boys 1st birthday on monday the 15th they turned a year old and I was so sad because they are growing up way too fast. We had a little birthday party at Grandma's house for them and for their dad yep Pat turned 50 on the 15th along with the boys turning 1 man he is old hehehe.
We did a cow theme because the boys love cows and everything is moo every book they see every toy everything says moo so we went with cows it turned out really cute, aprils mom made their little cakes and they turned out so cute thanks again Karla.


We had lots of friends and family show up and the boys got a ton of stuff I am not even sure where I am going to put everything its still piled up in the play room in boxes and I just keep looking at it all and saying wow they are spoiled. Here are a few pics of them opening up a few gifts well more like dad and mom opening up the gifts:



The boys loved eating their cake here are a few pics:


Caleb just dove right in


Ayden was alittle hesitant at first and then he got into it



Anyways the boys are doing great they had their 1 year check up and they are progressing as they should:
Caleb weighs: 19lbs 5 oz and is 29 inches long, he is in the 10th percentile for weight and alittle under average for heigth. He has 4 teeth and still will not crawl unless its on his terms he actually is doing alittle bit of crawling but mostly he gets around by scooting everywhere still not walking and is not even close to it but trust me I am so okay with that. Ayden Weighs: 18lbs 1oz and is 30 inches long, he is in the 3rd percentile for weight he is my skinny minny and right where he needs to be for heigth. He has 2 teeth and still trying to get those top ones to come through they finally cut throught the skin but they just wont come down. He is crawling all over the place and before we know it he is up 6 or 7 stairs and he walks if he has something to push but will not walk by himself he is so scared its cute. Anyways that is how the boys are doing and mom is so sad that they are a year old but so happy at the same time cuz they are so cute at this age and they just love playing together and just being together
and yep they are still sleeping in the same crib but would you move them after how cute they are together when they sleep:

Well sorry for such the long post but thats what happens when you blog every 6 months.

Finally all Better!

So finally we are no longer sick, pat finally came down with it last week and he got over it pretty quick unlike the rest of us but finally we are all over our sickness and things are much better at the Mills home. The boys are finally back to sleeping at night and I am getting sleep again and I have finally got back to were I can start running again and start training for this half marathon that I am doing in April so life is good.Anyways the boys just turned 11 months old a week ago and it makes me so sad cuz that means only one more month and they will be 1 years old oh how time flies.
Well the boys are doing good now that they are all better.
Ayden finally started crawling over the weekend and now he is all over the place its so cute but he only does it when he wants to not when we want him too if we put him on his belly he just lays there and cries but if we sit him up and he gets on his belly on his own then he is okay with crawling he is so funny, he also has 2 teeth finally on the bottom and he loves to say dada and mama and he loves to tell us that the cow says amooo its so cute.
Caleb has been scooting all over the place for about a month or so now but he still will not crawl its so funny to watch him cuz if any of you have seen Forrest Gump he reminds us of Lieutenant Dan it is hilarious and so cute but my mom just told me that I actually never crawled I just scooted everywhere and then I finally just walked so thats probably what he is going to end up doing. He now has 4 teeth its funny cuz him and Ayden both got there 2 bottom teeth at the same time right at 10 months so I figured they would get there 2 top teeth at the same time but no such luck only caleb has 1 top tooth fully and the other one is working its way through.
Caleb also loves to say mama and dada and tell us that the cow says moooo not amoo like ayden just moo and he loves the cats he says kitty not real clear but its definitley kitty that he is trying to say anyways there is alittle bit about what they have been up too and how big and fast they are growing up soo sad.
So we finally put them in the big tub together and they loved it we didn't dare put them in the big tub because caleb would not stay sitting up he kept flinging himself backward but he now stays sitting up so here are a few pics of bath time so fun:

Sick, Sick & Sick!

Life in the Mills home is wonderful right now LOL! Yep it is true all 3 of us are sick and it sucks....of course pat is the only one that has not been sick yet so knock on wood for him. Anyways it all started the week before Christmas my boys came down with a cold both of them at the same time of course and that went on for about 2 wks and I figured it was just the common cold and the docs wouldn't be able to do anything for them so of course I did not take them to the dr. so time went on and I caught whatever it was that they had the day after New Years and I have been sick ever since and of course I just assumed that it was the common cold once again so I did nothing about mine, well my boys started getting better but I just kept getting worse then my boys woke up sick again and not eating and just being irratible about a week ago so I took them both to the dr last monday and they were just fine the dr. said they were just trying to get over the cold from about 3 wks ago so away we went and by wed they were both doing great but of course I wasn't my cold kept getting worse and my throat kept getting worse so I told pat if I wasn't feeling better by monday I would go to the dr. so saturday rolled around and Ayden woke up with a swollen eye and all pink and blood shot and filled with goop after goop it was sick, so I called the on call dr saturday night and she called us in a perscription for eye drops and then she said to get him to the dr on monday cuz he might have an ear infection along with the eye infection so we started on the eye drops and by monday his eye was looking alot better but still a bit swollen and he was coughing all over again and snotty nosing again...gross their is nothing worse then a snotty nosed baby hehehe.
K so monday rolled around and I was feeling so horrible so I went to the dr finally and yep sure enough I have a sinus infection, ear infections, swollen throat and lungs so they put me on like 3 antibotics and I started them yesterday and I am starting to feel better finally so then I took Ayden to the dr. again yesterday and sure enough he has a sore throat also and is just full of snot and the dr said that is why he is not eating and gagging on all of his foods because he has so much snot running down the back of his throat poor little guy but at least he did not have an ear infection. Okay so Caleb has been fine so I thought until last night he decided he was going to projectile vomit all over me and my bed yep it was a good night last night, pat was at the jazz game and by the time he walked in I was standing their holding 2 screaming sicky babies and I said oh my hell I am going to go insane I am so glad you are home. So anyways that has been what we have been up too the last month.

What we have been up too!

So here is alittle bit of what we have been doing and what we will be doing for the holidays I can't wait I know my boys are still to little to realize anything but thats okay cuz I am excited to start our own little traditions with our family.
Okay so Yes I am a slacker and didn't put up a tree again this year I figured I had one more year that I didn't have to put one up cuz after this year its decorations from here on out so I took this year off hehehe so we went over to Mindy's house cuz she is not a slacker mom and we took some pics of the boys in front of her Christmas tree so they got to see their first Christmas tree:

So we took the boys to see Santa Clause out at our friend Heidi and Brody's house a couple of weeks ago it was alot of fun and it was alot nicer then going to the mall to fight the crowds and wait in those long lines to see santa so here are a few pics of the boys sitting on santa's lap:
Caleb & Ayden with Santa
Ayden is trying to pull Santa's beard in this pic it was so cute! Sammy with Santa
Then that night we had our Annual Christmas Sweater Soiree party out at Cheryl and Taylors house it was alot of fun it was just the adults so it was nice to have a little get away from all the kids and get together with a great bunch of friends we had a nice dinner and then we did our white elephant gifts and then we played some Taboo so here are a few pics of the gang:



So then the next weekend we went to mindy's family Christmas party and the boys got to see santa again so we took a few more pics of the boys and sam sitting on santa's lap and this is what we got this time:Ayden was not thrilled about seeing Santa again Oh he finally warmed up and decided santa wasn't so bad! Sammy once again very happy to see Santa or not LOL!
Well now we are just trying to finish up our last minute shopping because yep I am a slacker and we always put it off til the last minute so pat is taking the day off on wednesday so we can get the rest of it done then we are going to go to dinner with my grandma Carol on wed night then we are going to go to Temple Square on Christmas Eve to see the lights with the fam, this will be April's first time to Temple Square to see the lights ever in her whole life that is so crazy to me that she has never been there. Then we will head back to grandma's house to have some hot chocolate and open the boys first Christmas gift yep it will just be PJ's that you know every kid gets to open on Christmas Eve but I am excited it will be fun then we will head home put the boys to bed and get ready for Christmas morning we didn't go all out this year for the boys because they are too young to get it and we have plenty of years for that hehehe but we will get up and open what few gifts we did get them and then head to grandma's house for breakfast and then we are all going to go sledding up at EagleWood for a few hours and that is what we are going to try and do every year from here on out if the weather allows us to so we are excited it will be alot of fun I know the boys are alittle young this year for that but thats okay cuz you gotta start somewhere right!
Anyways that is what we have been up too and I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!