"There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking." Doug Nielson

Today is one of those days. I think it will be one of those weeks, that turns into one of those months...hopefully it will not last the year.
It is that time of year again when the man of the house takes flight to the outfitter shows. It still takes getting use too even after 10 years of it. I guess the bright side of it all is that I still love him so much and hate when he is gone. It would be sad if I was looking forward to him leaving. We will take it one day at a time. I am happy we have a job when there are so many that do not. I shouldn't complain but it really is hard to have hime gone for so long. Especially during this time of year when all the sick bugs are out. We have been so healthy and then as soon as he gets ready to go BOOM we get hit. Then the already sleep deprived state I am in gets worse and...well all you mothers know how it is. I am happy and I am just having a moment today.

More About Boston...

If you haven't noticed we sure LOVE this little man. He is all I can blog about. We had a pretty special event that took place recently. We blessed Boston on January 15, 2011 at our home. We have not blessed any of our boys at home, this was a first, and it was fabulous. We were able to have the entire blessing be all about him. We had our immediate family members over, did the blessing and then ate dinner. The program started out with a song and then a prayer by Lauren. It was pretty exciting that she and Addy were in town and could come to the blessing. After the prayer Easton gave a scripture for Mason because he was too tired. Easton gave us his talk on the Armour of God, and then we had a talk by my dad, the blessing by Garet...he did a spectacular job, a special musical number by Brikelle and Brekyn. They sang A child of God and Brikelle sang in Spanish. We then had testimonies by Garet and I and Grandpa Larry bore his testimony as well. We ended with a closing prayer by Chase. It was very intimate and special. For sometime now, 5 years or so, Grandpa Larry has let us know we needed to name one of our children Richard. For countless generations Richard has be passed on in the Jones family. It has been given to the first born son for generations (like 20 or so) either as a first name or a middle name. Well we finally kept it going. Rulon is not the first born boy in his family and none of his boys have the name Richard. His brother Richard is the first and he did name his first son Richard in his middle name but he has not yet married. Boston is the last in our family so it is not the exact tradition but we decided to use it in our family of boys anyway. Chances are the name would have ended with Garet's cousin had we not given it to our baby boy. Maybe we can start a new and our boys will keep the tradition going. Grandpa Larry was sure happy and it was really neat to hear his testimony and story and see how much happiness this brought to him. Sometimes there is a lot more to a name.

This is my Grandpa Paul. Bostons Great Grandpa. We went to my Aunts house on New years day and he was there. It was awesome to get a picture together with him. Look at how AWESOME he looks. A few grays and a whole lot of brown his original hair color. Look at that face, 78 years and almost no wrinkles, it really isn't fair but so awesome he looks SO YOUNG. I am hoping and wishing he has passed those incredible genes on to me.

Last but not least Boston had his 2 month apt. after his blessing and here are his stats:

Head 15.7 50%

Length 24.5 91%

Weight 14.5 91%

He is our biggest boy so far at this age! He is a solid little chunk and so beautiful!

here is a comparable to the other 3 boys:

Easton Head 75%, Weight 11lbs 9.5oz 50%, length 22 3/4in 75%

Mason head 60%, weight 12.63lbs, 60%, length 23.6in 56%

Grayson head 25%, weight 11.8lbs 50%, height 23.62 70%

It is fun to take a look back at the other boys.

I am one lucky lady!!!

6 weeks post partum...

& I pulled out a pair of pre prego jeans and they slid up over the hips and buttoned. Love that feeling. Don't get me wrong i have a long way to go on shedding the lbs. but I love getting back into my clothes.

Baby Boston

Boston had his 2 week apt the other day and all went well. He is growing great. He now weighs 8lbs 9oz (40th percentile), is 21 3/4 in long (80th percentile), and his head is in the 40th percentile as well. He is super cute loves to be held and loved, and eat. His brothers are really good helpers with him too. Each one of them wants to hold him every chance they get. He had to have his circumcision today...very traumatic. We normally have this done before leaving the hospital after delivery, but because of the severe coombs jaundice we had to wait. Not FUN!! On the bright side we were able to get him off the lights today. We can now dress him, hold him and LOVE LOVE LOVE him.
Mason calls him the cutest things. His main name for Boston is "that guy". Mom that guy needs his..., can I hold that guy and so on. It is pretty funny and so adorable. When I tell him to say Boston he says "Brockston" and also calls him Preston (Meag and Chases baby). Love you Mason.
Grayson loves to hold him and tries hard to steal him out of our hands. He likes to really get him rocking in his swing and tries to feed him M&M's, nuts and whatever else he is eating. We tell him no and he screams at us SHARE! Lately I have had to hide Boston around the house in his car seat some hiding places include the far side of my bed, in my bathroom or closet, in the laundry room or other places so he can sleep. Otherwise he gets pulled out of his seat and it is not always pleasant. My boys are very careful and really love their brother. I just have to keep an eye on Gray.
I have been really impressed with Easton. He is a natural with him. He holds him and loves him and can soothe him almost as good as I can. He doesn't get intimidated when he cries and will hold him for hours...really. He is really good with him and LOVES to hold him and help me with him. He takes care of him while I shower or clean. He is a lifesaver and I am so glad he is so good with all the boys. It really comes natural to him.
We are having so much fun and so happy that we get to have this little blessing in our home. I am a pretty lucky lady to be surrounded by all these wonderful, helpful, handsome boys. They treat me like a princess and make me feel special.

Funny Easton

Every night after we put the kids to bed Easton comes out like 5 minutes later and says he has had a nightmare. He says he is soo scared and can't go to sleep. So last night we had a lengthy discussion as to why he is scared. He really had no reason at all. I told him to remember that Jesus and his angels watch over us and protect us and keep our homes and us safe. He looked at me and said in the most serious voice, "Mom no guess what I found out...", I said what, "Easton says, "Mom I found out that Jesus is dead. He is seriuosly dead mom, so he can't watch over us or protect us, he is dead." It was pretty cute. Love these boys and the things they say. They make me laugh every single day.

I know this is a funny picture and I posted it on purpose. He loves to pull faces in all his photos lately.

It's a BOY!!!

First picture after delivery

MY 5 boys...gorgeous!

LOVE THIS BABY BOY

4 days old and in the ER the night before thanksgiving

This little guy was born on Nov. 20th, 2010 at 5:37pm. Boston Richard Jones weighed 7 lbs 13oz and was 20.5 inches long. The labor was exactly how I wanted it to be. I have been dilating and thinning for quite some time. The week I delivered, Garet was in Canada on a hunting trip, and I was home trying not to have the baby until he got back. Well I did it! It is very hard when you are 37 weeks pregnant and ready to be in labor and instead of progressing it along you are trying to stop it. Garet came home on Nov. 20th at 4am. My water broke at 12noon. I didn't want to rush to the hospital because I wanted to progress on my own and didn't want any pitocin. We left the house at 2 and arrived to the hospital in slc at around 3:30pm. Upon check in I told the nurse I wanted to try to go natural IF I continued to progress on my own, didn't have to have pitocin to progress, and if the baby would turn to face down position. I definitely did not want to have the baby flipped while I was delivering. She tried hard to get me to commit to a natural delivery and I wanted to do it but there were so many considerations. When I checked in I was dilated to a 6 and thinned. The pain was totally manageable and the contractions were not too intense. at 5pm things started to change. The contractions and pain were SO INTENSE! I looked at Garet and was like I need help. In my mind I was thinking I still had hours to go and things were going to get much worse. He was asking what he could do to help and I was like I have no idea call your mom and get me an epidural in here asap. At this moment my doc. came in and I told her I needed help. Garet told them I wanted the epidural and the nurse looked at him in shock and said "you didn't tell her?" Then she looked at me and said "he is in a c-section there is no way you are getting an epidural." Garet had told me this, however all my labors have lasted 7-8hours so I thought I had plenty of time. My Doc. Gretchen looked at me calmly and said, "she can have one, don't worry you can have one." She knew I couldn't but didn't want to send me into hysteria. Then I told her I needed to get to the bathroom. She said do you feel like you need to push in your bottom? I was like yes...feeling embarrassed and dieing in pain. She said lets check you I think you are ready to go. And she was right. I was feeling so thankful because I knew I was at my limit. Thankfully the intense part was like 6 contractions and then I was ready to go. about 5 contractions later we had our baby. It was intense and very special and I am so happy I was able to have the experience. The question I am asked repeatedly is would you do it again? My answer... absolutely! It was magical.

So here we are home with our new baby and we love him SOOO much. He was born with Coombs Jaundice and has had to stay on the lights. I am grateful to have lights at home but it is hard not getting to hold and love him as much as we all want too. His bilirubin levels have gotten higher and higher and so I have to pump and feed him formula. On wed. night before thanksgiving his levels jumped to 19. My pediatrician sent us to the hospital to be admitted. About 5 hours after we checked in we were sent home. His levels had dropped to 15.7. What a blessing. We continued him on the lights Thursday and Friday they were still dropping...now 15.2. I hope they continue to drop and we can get him off the lights, start nursing, and hold and love our baby.

He sure is special and has been so good through all the poking, prodding, and not being able to be held much. We love him more than words can say and wouldn't have it any other way.

Halloween 2010

My moms ward Halloween party. Capt. America, Mickey Mouse, Zebra

Spiderman, Knight, Zebra

the above 2 are from shellees ward party. It was fun, we got to take Jason and sally (from new Zealand) with us. It was fun for them because they do not celebrate Halloween.

Halloween night, going trick or treating

I am finally getting around to our Halloween post. We had a lot of fun. No annual family Halloween party this year...big bummer. Therefore I didn't do a theme and Garet and I didn't dress up. We were the party poopers. The kids got into the dress up bin and chose what they wanted to be. It was fun to see what they were going to choose. Gray didn't really have a choice I chose for him and he looked so cute. We did go to my sisters ward Halloween party and my moms ward Halloween party. We were really lucky to have Grandma Kathy come and be with us Halloween night because Garet and Rulon were on a hunting trip.

Mason and Grayson were really into trick or treating. It was so cute. Mason jumped out of the car ran up to the door and yelled trick or treat, said thanks and then was telling me let's go to that house mom. It was raining so we decided to drive around. Grayson was a little slower getting out the door and to the door, but was SO cute saying trick or treat, kank you, and then he would stand there waving and saying bye, bye. Easton was more into answering the door at our house and seeing who it was that was there. Grandma Kathy gave us a trick bowl (hand in the bowl that moves when you try to grab a treat) and the boys thought it was "spooktackular". They really did scare a few trick or treaters.

We had a great Halloween. Lots of fun memories.