Thanksgiving 2018

It was a wonderful week! One to be grateful for even though it didn't go exactly as we planned it would! 

It started out in beautiful Arizona. Arizona is beautiful in November. We were so sad we couldn't stay for thanksgiving. Landon ended up being on-call all thanksgiving weekend and I just couldn't miss my favorite holiday in the world with my favorite man! But we had a blast in Arizona while we were there. Jax loved handing with his grandparents and playing with his new friend Carter, catching up with old friends like Stella, Emerson, and Aria! He was so sad to leave early. Ty loved every minute with Hal pal! And just being at mummys house. They take such good care of us when we are down there and we are so grateful for that! 

I was also grateful that Johnny lent me his car to make the trip with the boys. It was nice to have so many accident stopping features. Cars are crazy these days. I was also so grateful for Nate for helping us get hotels both to an from AZ. 11 hours is long with 3 littles, but breaking it up made it so easy! I was also grateful for Gary and my mom for keeping me up during the late night hours. Oh and Rachel! She helped me a good portion of the drive too. I do love driving with the boys. I think its really fun! 

Once we got home we spent the rest of the weekend at my moms house. I'm so grateful for my parents! They were in California because it was technically an off year for the Edwards family thanksgiving. But they were sooooo kind to let us hang at their place. I love them and i'm so grateful for them! I was so thankful that Nate & Sarah let us still come crash their thanksgiving. It was soooo much fun and soooo yummy. And I love them. I was also so grateful that Russ came to Ralph Breaks the Internet. It was amazing! 

The weekend was really low key. Which was really what we needed as Landon heads into a fairly busy few months. Its been a wonderful 2+ months of calm. I'm grateful for the past few months. 

Saturday some of the boys were not feeling very good, but it made it so we spent the whole day in our pjs watching football. I mean there was a 2 hour break from football when we watched the BYU basketball game. But we seriously watched football from 8am-12:00pm. I am NOT grateful for the BYU football game. It was the saddest loss ever. I am grateful for the low key day we had. Jax and Landon probably passed the football back and forth at least 2,000 times. I honestly did the math in my head. I'm not exagerating. That would mean they would have only had to pass the football back and forth 15 times in a ten minute span. And they FOR SURE did that. ALL. Day. Long. Landons arm is so sore. It was so cute. UGHHHH it was such a great day. Minus BYU losing. BOOO!!! 

I'm grateful for the Sabbath day we had today. The kids sang The Thankful Song in sacrament meeting. It was so cute! Ive never been more overwhelmed in a calling then the calling I have right now. I've cried 3 times about it already. Callings help us stretch and grow right? I'm grateful for the opportunity, and hope I just don't ruin anything :).  I'm thankful for all of the people that have been so kind to help me with this calling. Auroa for being the most amazing pianist. My friend Anna who comes to Chior even though she has 4 kids and her husband is often working! I'm grateful for them and for everyone else that comes to choir. 

Honestly it was a wonderful week! I'm so so thankful for it. Also I took 3 naps this week. THREE naps. Three 2 hour + naps. It was amazing. 

Landon was such a cute daddy today. He held Jax as Jax sobbed when BYU lost. He was calm when Ty really needed his batman and we couldn't find it. He rocked Luke to sleep for nap time. He made us all a wonderful healthy dinner. He's incredible! I'm so thankful for him!!! 

And for my three boys. Jax made decided he wanted to do science today. So he pulled out a bunch of spices, soap, baking soda and vinegar. He made some really cool things. I'm thankful for his curious mind. I'm thankful for Tys love for things. He really has such loyalty. He LOVES batman. He LOVES his brothers. He LOVES his cousins (Hallie, Harper, Hailey, Hazel). He LOVES his Nana and Mummy and Popsie and Papa Woolf. He LOVES his daddy. He LOVES having things clean around him and he LOVE playing. And he can not be convinced out of any of those things. I love how easy going Luke is. I'm thankful for that. On moment on Thursday I was eating dinner and realized I didn't know where Luke was. I turned around and Luke was on his tummy. Ty was straddling him over his back. Zack and Nate we being crazy in front of him. Harper was trying to get his attention from his side. He was just happily looking all around. No big deal!!! Man I l LOVE my boys. All four of them. 

Of course i'm always so grateful for my Savior and my Heavenly Father!!! I have this life because of them. I love them! ALSO, Also, I'm thankful for the fact that when I got home today after almost 2 weeks. I only found 1 moth in our house. YAAAAAAYY!!!! No more eating moths, larvae, cocoons, and larvae webs. Yay. 

Happy Thanksgiving and HAPPY CHRISTMAS SEASON!!!! 

Grandma Date for Jaxsons birthday! BEST birthday presents ever! Seriously. Everyone needs to convince their parents to do this with their grandkids. Experiences > stuff!!!! And experiences last longer! 

Oh I love this women and her kids so much!!! Spokane was a hard year but did give me some of the greatest friendships. Love you Rachel. 

I'm so grateful for my traveling boys! And again for Nate for getting us a hotel room. But not just a room, a two bedroom suite! You guys, I have the best brothers. They always always have my back! 

VR Baseball from Grandma Woolf

3.5 hour nap after not feeling well all day

I did the outline but he colored it in all by himself! Also, he stayed up til midnight watching the BYU game with us. He was such a cutie. 

UGH. Ugh. ugh. 

Leah & Lincoln

Landon: 

Worked all week. Flew in to Arizona late Friday night for Leah & Lincolns sealing. (It was wonderful to all be in the temple together! I loved what the sealer said about how we have a responsibility to help each other keep our covenants!) Landon flew home tonight to go back to work. Installed a trampoline. Loved being able to get ready in the morning with lights on and the blender running. Poor guy, has learned to do everything in the dark earlier in the morning. 

Becca: 

Spent the first half of the week getting ready to drive to AZ then drove to AZ. The boys were wonderful! We were so grateful for the Marriott guy named Michael who helped us! Some people can just make a huge difference. I loved Leah's Endowment session and BJs afterwards! I also loved the sealing being all together and Tia Rosas. Man, temple and food is my jam! 

Jaxson: 

He has been such a big help all weekend. And he loved staying up again for the BYU game. He made a little buddy that is also here for the weekend. He adores his Mummy and Papa Woolf and will be sad to leave. Jaxson is just so much fun right now. A 7 year old is so much fun! 

Tyler: 

Is obsessed with Hallie. They are such cute little buddies. He can write his name by himself! Oh man i'm just obsessed with Tys voice. I need to record it more. Its the sweetest cutest thing ever. His face, his expressions, his whole self!!!! 

Luke: 

He is eating solids!!!!! Oh man, thank you Papa Woolf. He continues to be the person and thing that calms my nerves, feels my mind with peace and my heart with joy. 

It was a fun weekend with everyone!!! I'm so happy we could all be together for a little bit this weekend. Family is everything! 

Love these men. I love that they went and got Sushi together while me and my mom were out of town. 

Baby Landon! It was so fun reading all of these babies books. 

 Oh man it was soooooo good to see Mahyo and her kiddos. I love this girl so much. She is the reason I ran a marathon! 

Soccer Season Ends!

Landon: 

He DOESNT WORK TOMORROW!!!!! Thats basically all I really want to say about him because it makes Sunday night so less.... sad. BYU won. It was a huge blessing that he was at the VA this week. He got off work on Thursday at 7:20pm and he was suppose to be Jaxson's soccer coach at 7:30pm. He ran in his scrubs from work to the field house a few blocks away and made it just in time! It was SO MUCH FUN coaching Jaxson's soccer team. We just had a blast and I think the parents and kids on the team loved it too. They gave us a beautiful plant and a gift card to cafe rio to say thank you. YES! He also got off early Friday and in time to have dinner with my cousin Russ. PPQ night is our favorite. Then he had the weekend off and we were able to go down and watch my nephew play in his basketball game and then my older brother Johnny took us all out to dinner. Man, when family functions the way God intended it too, it is the most beautiful thing in the world! 

Becca: 

I had such a better week this week. I was fairly sick, BUT I just think I had a killer Sabbath and was able to take that through the week. I also think I prayed so much this week and asked for help. Really amazing things just keep happening with homeschooling. And its not really in the realm of teaching, but i'm just really excited about it this week. Also, hats off to every mom out there who has home schooled or plans to or is doing it right now. IT. IS. SO. MUCH. WORK. I was able to go to the temple this week with my ministering companion sister. Love Rachel! I spent the day with Sarah on Tuesday. MAN I have the best sister in laws. And Sarah. She is such an example to me. Wednesday we played with the Petersons. Man Elise is incredible. And I was feeling so sick by that point that she even watched my kids for an extra hour so I could go home and rest for a minute. Elise. She is incredible. I love her! We played with the Fetzers multiple times this week and I also just love them too. Anna is one of the most humble good people i've ever known. I've learned SO much from her. Goodness one of my biggest worries is that Jaxson wouldn't have enough social if we home schooled, but i'm getting to the point where I wonder how we will keep up with all of this social. Friday we played with Lace and Hal. Ty and Hal have the cutest cutest relationship and I could just eat those two up! And Lacey, I swear all I do is talk her ear off about my life and she is the best listener. Tonight we had LIZZY over. My young women from Indiana. She's married. I love her husband. It was so wonderful to have them over. AND we ended the week with Audrey and Jared Reese. Oh. My. Goodness. They are 3rd year medical students. And it was so fun to just talk to someone and be with someone in such similar shoes. They are incredible. We talked about 3 things that have helped us have successful marriages in the medical journey. They were so good. I want to remember them: 

Audrey said: 

1: Family Dinner (6-7 no phones, no computers) 

2: FHE (Prayer, Song, Family Schedule, Family Business, Lesson) 

3: Tithing/Fast Offerings 

Jared said: 

4: Supporting each others passions 

5: Knowing the right time to bring up stuff 

6: Scriptures Study EVERY SINGLE DAY even for 5 minutes

Landon said: 

7: Date night every week  

8: Having callings in church and magnifying them 

9: Division of Labor (Knowing and being okay with each others roles) 

I said: 

10: Being good at talking about intimacy needs & wants 

11: Temple trip at least once a month 

12: Learning to be vulnerable with each other

Okay okay, it was a great week. Ive been blessed the most incredible people in my life to help me through this wonderful crazy ride. And I only talked about a few of them. 

Jaxson: 

I think he is really loving home school. I need to work A LOT on some things, but I think I will just make it through the holidays and then re-evaluate. I love this kid so much. He is in Mosiah 18. He not only reads the scriptures but he actually knows whats going on. He had so many friends to play with this week and loved it and them all. He loves chess club! He scored three goals in his soccer game and is currently working on jingle bells on the piano. He was so happy BYU won. He gave such a sweet talk in primary. Here is a little clip of it. He said it to me and I typed it out and polished it a little bit. So it was a team effort: 

I decided that I would read 7 pages of the Book of Mormon every day until the end of the year. 

My goal is to finish the book by December 31st. I’ve been marking the many names of the Savior. 

I’ve learned some new ones like: The Holy One of Israel, Jesse, Immanuel, the Lord of Hosts. 

It’s been hard some days to read 7 pages out loud, but by the end of reading I’ve noticed I’m really happy. 

I believe if we read the scriptures every day we will have a good mind and body. 

I know that when we follow the prophets counsel we feel happy. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen." 

Tyler: 

Oh my goodness he was so freaking adorable tonight. We just wanted to keep him up forever. He just loves his family and wants to be with them all the time. We love him so much! He knows T and Y in the alphabet so well. He killed it in soccer this week, he didnt even need me to hold his hand, and I was so proud of him for that. He builds the most incredible legos. He is going to school and loving it so much. He is learning this week that you can't force other people to play exactly how you want them too, you have to be flexible. Its been a hard lesson for him. He was so cute and wanted to go up and sing in the primary program. He mostly just wanted to be by Pierce. 

Luke: 

Love this angel, blessing, light!!! He only likes yogurt and eats it just a little bit. He can sit up so well. He is basically always happy and calm and chill. And I couldn't do my life without him. HE IS ALSO SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!!!

okay, it was a ramble tonight. My mind is tired, but my heart is full! 

We still have moths. I purchased all new nuts and stored them in air tight containers. And moths kept showing up. Come to find out, they are in our salt containers, baking soda, and CLOSED bags of flour and sugar. Sooo last night I threw a bunch more things out..... we will see..... Stupid moths. I hate my life hahah :).  

I was so proud of Tys FHE!!!! The songs were my favorite parts. Legos and suckers were the activity. 

Our door wakes Luke up when we open it, BUT I fixed it by putting a towel over the door. 

Family trees are amazing to me! 

My new favorite drink (other than water). Correction, the ONLY drink I like other than water. 

Love Oskar!!! 

I actually never took a picture the whole season. We were both so busy coaching and doing subs and helping the kids cheer each other on. But a dad took some pictures with his camera and here are a few of my favorite. Luke was always so amazing to either sleep of just sit patiently during the game and Ty always found was to entertain himself. It was such a fun season! And we are coaching basketball next! 

Cute Reese family!!