"BOYS HAVE MORE FUN THAN GIRLS"

Jeff and Ammon at Pebble Creek Ski Resort

T.J., Carver, Ammon & Jeff
4 lil' buddies having fun together on the slopes!

While the boys spent several hours swimming I had to lay around in the hotel room all by myself.

Ammon getting ready to go on a big snowmobile ride with Jeff and Papa.

The boys are ready for some hot chocolate after sledding down all the big snow piles at Bonkin & Papa's house.

Ammon and Jeff have been able to spend a lot of time together lately. They have enjoyed many fun activities while I have sat on the sidelines and watched. I am pretty sure Ammon thinks Jeff is awesome and I am boring! One night after Ammon went skiing with his buddy Carver he told me "boys have more fun than girls!" I asked him why and he said because boys can go skiing, and ride snowmobiles, and play dinosaur's. Apparently girls don't do those kind of things. I can't believe he already forgot how much fun I can be.

DESPERATE

Poor kids! All they want to do is spend some time outdoors.

Ammon, Carver & Indie were having fun on the swing set for about 3 minutes...then the cold got the better of all three of them. Needless to say I don't think they will attempt the swings until we get rid of the snow.

They are all desperate for warm weather!

Poor Me! All I want to do is get through these next few weeks in a hurry.

I am at 32 weeks right now and the goal is to get to 34-36 weeks. I just don't know if I can endure this pain and stretching for that much longer.
I am desperate for time to fly!

Just in case you need a good laugh...I got stuck in the bathtub the other day! I got in but I couldn't get out...that is how large and awkward I am getting. So I just sat in the tub and laughed for about 20 minutes, I finally called Jeff and he couldn't come home because he was stuck in meetings. HIS SOLUTION: He said he was going to call Heidi (neighbor) and have her come help me...and that was incentive enough to find a way out.

AMMON'S 1st DAY OF SCHOOL

Ammon started preschool this February. He absolutely loves going to school! He is already learning so much...it is amazing to see how much he loves to learn. He was a little on the nervous side when we were getting ready for his first day of school. The instant he met his teacher his nerves were gone. She is fabulous with the kids and made him feel so welcome. She asked him his name and he said "my name is Koda." He has been telling everyone that. Watch out if you try to correct him...he will give you a nasty look.

Ammon thinks he is pretty cool because he gets to use "mommy's pack-pack!"

He is always so proud of his work.

JANUARY UPDATE

Jeff took Ammon up to Pebble a couple of times this month to teach him how to ski. The first time they went alone and the second time they went with Ammon's buddy Carver...and Jeff's buddy T.J.! Ammon really loves to ski and all he wants to do is go fast. He doesn't want to learn to turn or slow down. Jeff got yelled at all night "faster daddy, faster!"
Jeff with his brothers, Taylor & Tanner! Kristy had to take the picture so she got left out. The four of them had a great time together while me and Ammon hung out. When Ammon woke up and found out where his dad was...well lets just say it was a disaster for about 45 minuets. Poor kid just wanted to go skiing with his dad.

Ammon asking Aunt Becky on a date. He presented the rose and asked her to go to dinner with him.

She said YES!

I have been on a modified bed rest for the last little bit so Ammon has been really good to help out during the day. One morning he asked if I would make him some Ebilskievers (his favorite)for breakfast and I wasn't up to it so he took over and made them. He loves to cook! He has been a really big help around the house.

The boys were both worn out after a long day of taking care of me.

CRAZY BOYS

Ben and Cadence let Bryson stay and hang out with Ammon for a week after Christmas. The boys had so much fun together. We only had one crazy incident during the week. Jeff and I pushed a couch up against Ammon's bed so that the boys could sleep in a little fort in Ammon's room. Well at about 1:00 a.m. we wake up to screaming. So we both go running into the room only to find Ammon puking all over himself and all over Deeders. It was pure chaos! I grabbed Deeds and Jeff grabbed Ammon and we got the situation under control in a pretty speedy manner. Needless to say I think we will be able to handle twins. Sorry we didn't get any pictures of the crazy night, but here are a few pictures highlighting the boys week of fun.

These two boys love to wear their Spider-Man costumes ALL THE TIME! When they were running on the track they told me "we are super-fast" I asked why and they said "because Spider-Man is super fast!"

Here are the Spider-Man twins having a blast at the fun zone. They played for two hours solid in this jungle gym area and they still were not tired. I thought it was pretty funny watching them because they scared all the little girls away.

I don't know why Ammon has to act like his dad......how hard is it to say cheese?

Once again...way to go Jeff...look what you've done!

Oreos & Milk!!!!

Deeders loved drinking out of the little mug.

Out of three boys I could only get one to look away from the movie and smile for the camera. Easton is adorable!

CHRISTMAS IN SODA

Santa made a surprise appearance to the grizwold family Christmas Eve dinner.

Ammon wanted to make sure Santa was going to bring him a transformer.
We finally got all three boys to stand by Santa...the little girls didn't want anything to do with the big man in the red suit.

Christmas morning all three boys were looking good in their matching p.j.'s. I am sure Buzz would want me to say she is also looking good. The girls all got the same bottoms Buzz (Whitney) is wearing and the big boys got black p.j.'s with deer on them.

Ammon got spoiled!

The boys getting ready for a ride the day after Christmas.

Look...a bunch of grizwolds are getting ready for a big ride! Notice the two John Deere classics. I am sure they all had fun...I wouldn't know because Cadence and I had to stay home and do this....

Cadence hard at work on the old wooden ladder. I won't show you any pics of me on that old thing because it ended up being quite the site. So here I am showing off the finished product...

Merry Christmas Mom!

AMMON'S PHOTO GALLERY

Ammon really likes to take pictures and he usually does a pretty good job. Ammon's Uncle Brandon suggested we post some of his work on our blog. So here are some of his latest photos.

This one was funny because he told Sis to smile and just as he got ready to take the pic he says "hers rescusting" so that is why she is laughing so hard! I will not show you the pic he took of me immediately following the incident cause I am laughing pretty dang hard and lets just say it's not a pretty sight!

Kurt and Kris hanging out!


Tan & Tay
(Tay lookin great with his chubby cheeks...he just had his wisdom teeth removed)

and as Ammon always says about Kristy..."she's keepin it real"

ONE BOY! ONE GIRL!

We had our 20 week ultrasound today and discovered we are getting one boy and one girl. We had fun watching them. The boy (giving the peace sign) kept giving his sister elbows to the head. You can see in this picture he has his elbow on her head and she is looking away from us. Most of the time she tried to hit him back and protect her face. I think she is going to be scrappy! After we watched him give her about 20 elbows to the head, he decided to flash his peace sign to let us know he was just playing. It was pretty funny. We also got to watch as baby boy's bum was right on his sister's face. She kept putting her arms over her face so she didn't have to look at his bum...I don't blame her. Anyway everything looked really good and we are really excited!

HOORAY 4 HALLOWEEN

"Mom let me do it myself!"

Ammon got to go to the ISU Athlete trunk or treat on Wednesday night. He had a great time and all the athletes spoiled him with lots of candy.

These two crazy nerds had a great time carving pumpkins together. I couldn't get one picture of them smiling together, but I have about ten pics of them pulling dorky faces.

AMMON'S ANNOUNCEMENT

YES IT'S TRUE--AND WE ARE EXPECTING. . . . TWO!!!

I am currently at 13 weeks and going strong...I mean sick, although I couldn't be any more excited. Ammon is also very excited; when the Doctor asked him what he wanted to name the babies he said "Charlie & Lola!" I hope he isn't too disappointed when we name them differently.

Jeff here: I too am excited . . . and happy to help Amber eat for three. This will bring a lot of change to our little family, but we are excited about the prospects of getting no sleep (less than what we are getting now). Ammon is really excited, although he continues to ask us why he can't see them now. So bring on Phoebe and Phoebo!!!

NOW THAT SUMMER IS OVER...HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED

Cadence was in a violent battle with a large kidney stone so my mom picked up me and Ammon and we headed to Boise to take care of her because Ben was at high adventure with his young men. She was scheduled for surgery so we were going to help her with the kids and food. Well about an hour before the surgery out comes the culprit and we ended up having a blast that weekend.

Yes, that is exactly what you think it is! Easton (Cadence's son) pooped all over my white shorts at the farmers market. So as I scurry to get out of the crowded market paths he decides to spit up all over my shirt and arm. After cleaning up I had to run to a store and buy me some jeans.
Here is a great mother at work. While Ammon and Chole (Wendy's girl) are rock climbing I decide to take a photo; meanwhile my child is falling off the rock. Good thing Wendy was there to rescue him. MY BAD!

This is the only picture I could get of these three wild kiddos sitting still. We were at this awesome park for two hours and I could only get one picture of them sitting still. Chloe is my favorite little girl because she is so tough. She loves to play with the boys because she can always hold her own.

HELMET HAIR!

They were both so proud of their helmet hair. They asked me to take their picture. So here ya go boys!

Kurt is at Dental School in Vegas so when he comes to visit the family it is a given that we will be going water skiing. So one evening Jeff, Ammon, Tanner, Kristy and Kurt and I went the lake. As you can tell Ammon was having a great time watching his Dad, Uncle's and Aunt Kristy.

I didn't really get any good photo's of Jeff and Kurt skiing because well they were skiing in the dark. I love to watch both of them ski, I think they are amazing!

Jeff having some fun.

Kristy skiing at dusk.

Ammon and I did a lot of farming this year. As you can tell he takes he job very serious.

Papa asked him to go pick rocks, he came back with a load of dirt "rocks" he was sure proud of his work. I hope he soon figures out what a real rock is so that I don't have to pick rocks any more.

He wanted to get ready for hunting season. Still a bit small but it was cute to watch him try.