The rest of Christmas and 2009

Well, it has taken me forever, but I figured that since it's February, I better atleast finish out last year! :-) I'm having a hard time with the dang photo uploader, so I can't get the pics to stay in the order I wanted. So, here's our random pics from the end of the year. After Christmas at the Jorgensen's, we went to the Powell's. I didn't get as many pics because I was a little tired of taking pictures.  Deegan's birthday is the 27th, so we went home long enough for me to work the day after Christmas, and then turned around to go down to Provo to have Christmas/birthday with my grandparents and the rest of the Jorgensen fam. Then back up to the Powell's for a second birthday party. It was a lot of fun, but pretty chaotic! I was excited to be home after that and get Christmas put away and life back to normal!

Happy Birthday! (Just waking up)

The first birthday cake...

... the second birthday cake We got a little lazy with  the second one and just made it green with the tractors on top.

Birthday party at great grandma Jorgensen's! Deegan got TONS of tractors for his birthday!

Mom and dad were too tired to wrap presents, so we just opened them up before he got them. Saved a lot of time waiting for toys to get opened!

Christmas at The Powell's. This coloring pad makes music and plays faster/slower with the speed that you are coloring. It's pretty cool!

Overall, the year was good and it's great to finish it out with family!

Christmas with the Jorgensen's

I'll keep the writing to a minimum, but we had a great time with family for Christmas. We were able to spend time with both the Jorgensen's and the Powell's. Here's what the Jorgensen's do for Christmas:

We start with a big dinner on Christmas Eve. We had DELICIOUS Brisket with Adam's favorite BBQ sauce (Rudy's Sause) straight out of Texas. MMMMM!  (Sorry no pics of dinnertime!)

The kids got new jammies from Grandma. Now it's time to find out where Santa is...

Then the kids do a "cake walk" style gift exchange, and off to Grandma's room to watch a movie...

So that the adults can do their gift exchanging...

Adam won the "Tonight/ Not Tonight" Pillow!- Awesome!

Then the kids go to bed and the adults stay up and wrap presents and goof around.

(Steve got new jammies too! He looked rediculous and could hardly sit down in them :-)

Then off to bed everyone goes to wait for Santa to bring all of our goodies.

I managed to wake up when Santa was there and snuck up on him to get a picture. The kids were SO excited to see him at Grandma's house!

6 a.m. came a little too early for some (the ones who were up all night with their child in their bed not wanting to sleep!)

Deegan was a little too sleepy to open presents at first until we told him there was a tractor inside, then he tore into it and had a blast!

Adam got his own bottle of "Rudy's Sause" from mom and dad to take home.

My new mop and hat and scarf!! (P.S. I definately love the Shark Steam mop and would highly recommend it)

Deegan's tractor. He puked on his PJ shirt, and would only let us change one of his socks to his Christmas socks, so- he's a little mismatched. Kinda cute I think!

The kids helped deliver the presents, and then we cleaned up. After clean up, we headed over to the Powell house to spend the rest of the day... more to follow. We had tons of fun for the night.

On a side note, I got to open my gift from Deeg before we went down to mom and dad's. He made me a handprint stepping stone, and wasn't sure he was ready to give it up. He helped me open it and was excited about it, but wanted to hold it himself. He has such pride in his own work! Even now, I have it on a plate stand and he puts his hand in it and says "Deegan's Hand!"atleast twice a day.

And the verdict is...

Boy!

Griffin Alexander Powell

Look at that cute little button nose!

Our First Snowman

Last year we didn't get to play in the snow much because I couldn't find a snow suit small enough for Deeg. This year I made sure to buy it early, so I have been way excited to take Deegan out and let him play in the snow. So, we had a very small snow storm this weekend, and we decided to take Deegan out to play yesterday afternoon when it had warmed up a bit.

Ready to go!

Helping build the snowman

Snow Angel

Throwing snow at dad

MMMM! Snow tastes good!!

Halloween Recap

Every year Adam's mom does a fun party for all of the grandkids for Halloween. It was a lot of fun, and a nice kick off to the week before Halloween. We had "Mummy" sausages and soup for dinner- MMM! We played games like pin the wart on the witch, Halloween bingo, spider toss, and a cupcake walk. Later in the week we had some friends (Haley and Zach) over to carve pumpkins. Deegan painted and had a blast! Halloween day was tons of fun too. We went trick or treating on Main St in Logan during the day with my parents, siblings and their kids. Unfortunately we didn't get a group pic with the Jorgensen kids because by the time we were all together, everyone was so in to T-O-T ing that there was no time for pics! After Main St.we went to the mall and had pizza and then T-O-Ted there as well. Everyone was exhausted and ready for naps so we went our separate ways. That night we dressed Deegan back up in his "Max, King of the Wild Things" costume and took him to a few friends' houses in the neighborhood. It was fun, but we were ready to just be home and relax. So we went home and popped some popcorn and watched the new Transformers. What a week, but it was so fun to see Deegan enjoying the T-O-Ting.

REALLY ANGRY!

Maybe it's because I'm going on like 2 hours of sleep, maybe it's because I am pregnant and have been grouchy for the last day or 2, but I am very angry right now! Here's the story...
I got those wonderful little coupons from Kmart for a $25 gift card if you transfer your Rx. Great, Deegan needed more of his blood pressure medicine anyway, so I figured, let's do it! They sent a set of 4 coupons for $25 each Rx, so I also transferred my Zofran last week. Well today when I went to pick up Deegan's rx, the pharmacist was acting really irritated. After a minute he asked a couple questions about my insurance and then said "do you want my opinion about this medicine?" I said sure, no harm right? WRONG! He goes off on this big schpeel about how I need to be careful about transferring Rx's because your pharmacist should know your medical history so they can get the dosage right, etc. Then of course he says "and this one especially, a BLOOD PRESSURE medicine for a toddler? In the 8 years of pharmacy experience I have, I have never even seen this medication (Propanolol or something like that), that should tell you something." I left absolutely humiliated and feeling like a HORRIBLE mom because of course he had to tell me all of this in from of a line of 3 other people. On my way home I was trying to convince myself that I am not a horrible mom and that I would never put my son's health in danger intentionally and especially not over $25. Then I had an "aha" moment. What they crap does this pharmacist think he is doing even thinking about giving me anything other than what the Dr. asked for!?!? I know my doctor, and I trust him to prescribe the correct dosage and the correct medication and if there were any dangers he would tell me. Believe me, I have asked him at every appointment if it is really okay for Deegan to keep taking this. WHO DOES THIS STUPID PHARMACIST think he IS??? ARG! Anyway, needless to say, I will be transferring my Rx BACK to Smiths where I don't have to feel like a horrible person, and where I certainly hope that the pharmacists don't think they can prescribe whatever they want regardless of what the Doctor asked for!
(PS When Deegan first started taking it, I filled at Smiths and noticed a big sign at the counter that said something along the lines of "We now carry Propanolol", so apparently it isn't an uncommon drug- JERK!)
Ahhhhh! Okay, I'm done now, I can breath and maybe even take a nap! :-)

Happenings at the Powell House

So, I take a million pictures "because I want to put this on the blog", but I never put it on the blog. I am really going to try and be better about it. Promise. I just can't promise success. :-) A few weeks ago, we were hanging out with my inlaws, and Deegan decided he needed to show everyone how you snore... it was really LOUD, and sounded a lot like a pig! :-) We were all laughing pretty hard, so I had to have a video of it. If you watch 'til the end you can also hear his monkey impression.

Keli came up to my house one day with the kids to help me make apple sauce. We went out to pick the rest of the apples, and got the ones we could reach but still had lots more up high. I was getting ready to get the step stool, and I thought, I guess we should just shake them down. I told Keli that we could just shake it and she kind of laughed with the "ha, yeah you are going to shake the tree hard enough to make the apples come down" kind of tone. Then she realized I was serious. She didn't realize that that is how apple orchards get theirs down so fast! :-) She had a lot of fun shaking the tree! :-) It was like a kid at Christmas time. (Sorry if I embarassed you Keli, but really- I thought it was funny!)

Deegan's favorite pastime is to play with shoes... I give you "Deegan... in Boots!" He wears any and all shoes, no particular favorites. I keep my shoes in plastic tubs, so he only gets the ones that got left out which are usually my church heels or flip flops, but Adam's shoes never get to stay organized because Deegan gets all of them out of the closet and just sits in a pile of shoes while he chooses which ones to put on next. Then he will pick out one for me or Adam to wear too and bring them to us. He has gotten really good at putting the "thong" part of my flip flops between his toes and walking in them. I keep Deegan's shoes on the bottom shelf in his closet, right at about his waist level, which also means that really he just has a pile of shoes on the floor too! :-) Every day, he pulls them out, and every night before bed he sings "neen ut, neen ut" ("Clean up, Clean up, every body every where...") as he puts them all back on the shelf.

One of the things I love about my house is the 3 big trees along my sidewalk, but when fall hits and the leaves turn that beautiful orange and yellow, they also have this bad habit of falling on my sidewalk and lawn.


After cleaning up this mess, Adam had picked up 15 bags of leaves! He said he just picked up some because he knew more were coming anyway, so he didn't even get the lawn clean! Now, 3 days later, I have a lawn full of leaves again and probably will get another 10 + bags before we are done! But we have fun playing in them anyway. Deegan kept putting them on my head. He didn't quite get the idea of just throwing them in the air!

Last but not least, I gave Deegan a hair cut the other day, so Adam took some cute pics. He is so good at getting his har cut! He just sits and plays in front of the bathroom mirror. Good thing because this is a very frequent thing at our house... and I already have to tie Adam down and cut his hair as quick as possible, so I don't think I could handle 2 boys that hate hair cuts!