And The New Baby Is.....

A BABY!!! J/K! I went to have my big ultrasound today and everything on the baby looks really good. We got to see all the major organs and even got to see in color the blood flowing through the heart and umbilical cord. Jaron thought it was pretty cool. The nurse had a hard time getting a profile of the baby's head, but finally did. It was really cute because the baby was sucking it's thumb. I think Jantzen was amazed at the whole thing. Oh, By the way the baby is....


That's right, Josh is getting his little princess! He was very excited and so were the boys. Jantzen was clapping and saying yea, yea all the way to the car. I'm glad they are so excited.

After the doctor we had to go to Walmart for a few things for our trip and when we walked past the baby girl stuff all of the boys started pointing out all the things that she will look good in. Jaron was having the most fun with it. I think he's going to be my little shopping buddy. It's going to be really different having a girl in the house. I'm just used to all boys, but it will be nice, especially since she will have two older brothers to protect her.

So now we can officially introduce (at least on an ultrasound picture) Jaedyn Jene Goddard with a head shot of her sucking her thumb and a shot of, you know....

Grace Runs In The Family...Not From Their Dad!

Last week was a pretty eventful one for us. With Jaron off school for track break we have been keeping very busy. The boys played with friends all week and Jaron has been scrubbing the grout on our tile to earn money for our Disneyland trip. He hasn't been enjoying it but will be happy to get paid when he's done. Josh has offered him a bonus if he gets that and the base boards cleaned before we go. I would do it, but I hate to do it. That's why we are paying Jaron to do it. Anyways, the week was going good until Wednesday, that's when the owies came. The boys were playing with Caitlyn on her trampoline while I was enjoying Subway and an adult conversation with Amy. Not too long after they went out Jaron came in holding his face and crying. He said that him and Jantzen had bumped heads and he got hurt. I didn't think it was a big deal because Jantzen wasn't crying, only Jaron so I offered to kiss it better (that usually works) but he didn't want it this time. When Jaron took his hand away from his face he had a HUGE red bump. Poor kid! It looked like it really hurt. We gave him some ice to put on it so it wouldn't get any bigger and sent him back out to play. The next day he woke up and it was already turning into a bruise. We told him that he was going to look good in pictures at Disneyland.

Here is a picture of Jaron's face the day after and then about four days later. You can see that the bruise is starting to heal itself. Jaron had to pull his sad face for the picture. This is the same face that I tell him a bird will poop on his lip if he keeps pouting.



We thought that Thursday was going to be better, but it wasn't. It was Jantzen's turn to get hurt. First of all he slipped on some water that Jaron accidentally spilled on the tile while he was cleaning it. Jantzen hit his head pretty hard and cried a lot. Luckily they both have hard heads and they recover quickly. Later that night while Josh was at work he got hurt yet again (my poor boys get their clumsiness from me). They were running around upstairs and Jantzen tripped and fell right into a cabinet in the toy room. I heard him screaming so I went to get him and give him comfort. I didn't look at him, I just picked him up and took him to my room so I could sit on the bed (he's a heavy boy and I can't lift him very well these days) so I didn't notice at first the blood oozing from his head. When I did notice it I freaked out! I laid him on my bathroom floor to apply pressure to it while Jaron got my cell phone to call Josh. Jantzen had a deep cut on his forehead that wouldn't stop bleeding. All I could think of was when this happened to Jaron when he was two. He fell on a friends driveway and split his head open and had to get three stitches. Josh was home within a minute of when I called him so we could take Jantzen to the doctor. I don't want to be one of those overly paranoid moms but I wanted to make sure he was taken care of if he in fact needed stitches.

We took Jaron to grandma's house and headed to the Quick Care, of course the two by our house were both closed (one we missed by one minute) so we went to the hospital. By then Jantzen had calmed down and was doing really good. He was still bleeding a little and you could see the hole in his head pretty good. We had a long wait at the ER, as always, so Jantzen got to watch a movie on Josh's iPod. At one point he was asking for "his Jaron". He missed him and wanted to talk to him so we called and let them talk for a minute. When we got called in they took his vitals and had me check his info and it was then that Jantzen told the nurse that his name starts with a "J". He was being really cute with the hospital staff. He was hungry so they let him pick out something to eat. He picked chocolate pudding and an apple juice. When the doctor finally came in he checked Jantzen out. When he was looking in his ears Jantzen informed him that he has boogers in them just like his nose and his leg (he has a scab on it from Monday at Jace's house when he fell in the hole where their trampoline used to be...I know, this is sad). The doctor got a good laugh at that. The doctor said he would need to have his cut glued together. Thank goodness! We didn't want to have to hold another child down to get numbed for stitches like we did with Jaron. I think that was more torture for us than it was for him. It took a really long time again for the doctor to come back to get Jantzen all fixed. In the meantime Jantzen was getting really impatient. He kept saying that he just wanted to get his head glued so he could go home and go to bed. I don't blame him, it was after 10pm. We were all tired. By the time we left the hospital it was almost 11pm. Jantzen fell asleep on the way home. Josh had a message from Jaron on his cell phone. He was very concerned about him. Like I have mentioned before, Jaron is the best big brother ever!

We called grandma to let them know how Jantzen was doing and to see if Jaron was still awake so he would know everything was OK, but he was already out for the night. We did get told that the reason Jaron had called about Jantzen was because he was very, very worried about him. Apparently, Jaron told grandma that when he cut his head "he almost died" and he didn't want that to happen to Jantzen. That wasn't true, but it was cute that he thought that.

Jantzen's head didn't look too bad until Saturday when he was messing with it and made it bleed a little. I hope it heals okay. It's hard to keep track of him all the time to make sure he doesn't touch it. I'm sure it itches. It will take over a week for the glue to fall off. Again we thought pictures at Disneyland are going to look cute with the boys and their owies. I think that Jantzen wants so much to be like his big brother that he has to have a scar on his forehead just like him. He did miss getting it in the middle like Jaron's though. I'm glad they are both okay and I hope that this week is a better one.

This is what Jantzen's head looked like the next day. It looked a lot better. You can see the glue good here. Then I took a picture of him today before church to see how it was red from the blood after he messed with it.



Josh thought it would be funny to take a picture of the boys pretending to fight since it was kind of both their faults that they got hurt and because they like to play fight a lot.


Here is a flashback picture of Jaron when he got his stitches. He was only two years old. WOW, he was so little!

The Joys of Being a Big Brother

Jaron is such an awesome big brother to Jantzen. We were worried at first when Jantzen was born that Jaron would have a hard time with it since he had been an only child for four years, but he has been a really good helper. He loves Jantzen so much and shows it on a daily basis by giving him hugs, telling him he loves him, and by putting up with a lot of crap from him. There are so many things that go on between these two that I've had to write them down so I don't forget. Some are hilarious and some I don't know if I could have the same patience with Jantzen on, but Jaron is good at it. I should take a few lessons from him. Here is a list of everything I see Jaron deal with...

* After Jaron gets out of the shower Jantzen will chase him around to try and pinch his tooshy. Jaron can run pretty fast when he needs to.

* Jantzen loves to shut the TV off when Jaron is watching something. Sure Jaron gets mad at first, but does calm down very quickly.

* Jaron can't have any friends over without Jantzen wanting to be included in everything. They always let him join the playing.

* Anytime Jaron is gone somewhere, mostly at school, Jantzen will go in his room and make a mess out of it. The one thing that frustrates Jaron the most is that he will get into all his little lego sets and take them apart and make his own things, they usually get lost not too long after that.

* Jaron is such a good sport about watching what Jantzen wants, it's not very often that he gets to pick a show or movie. For the most part he will agree on what to watch.

* There is some times that Jaron wants to play quietly by himself in his room and Jantzen doesn't allow it. He always has to have Jaron playing with him. I just think Jantzen misses him all day while he's at school.

* Jantzen will tackle Jaron for no reason when he is sitting down.

* When they play video games together Jaron will let Jantzen win so he doesn't get mad.

* When we eat Jantzen will sometimes steal food off Jaron's plate. I promise we do give him enough food, he just wants Jaron's instead.

* Jaron will play "Burrito" with Jantzen (Jaron is rolled up in a blanket like a burrito). Jantzen will pretend to eat him and tickle him.

* When Jaron plays Star Wars Legos on the Wii he will be the characters that Jantzen wants to make him happy.

* Sometimes in the middle of playing the motorcycle video games Jantzen will stop it and make Jaron change his person and bike.

* A few times while Jaron is making his bed Jantzen has taken his stuffed monkey that he puts on his bed and will run in his room and lock his door so Jaron can't have it. Jantzen does have his own, but he likes to tease Jaron.

* While Jaron tries to clean the toy room Jantzen will "go shopping", as he calls it, with his Walmart cart and take toys to their bedrooms so Jaron has to go find them to put them away.

* Jaron reads the book "To Pee Or Not To Pee" when Jantzen is in the bathroom to encourage him to go. He will even change the names of the chracters to be their names. Jantzen loves this.

* If Josh or I are not around when Jantzen has to go Jaron is his potty helper.

* Jaron is teaching Jantzen how to ride his bike. He will walk along side him to show him how to do it and give him a push when needed.

* If Jantzen falls asleep before we put them to bed Jaron will automatically go unmake his bed so we can put him in it. We don't even have to ask him to do it. He is such a good helper.

I'm so glad that Janzten has an older brother like Jaron. He is a great example of never ending love. He will make a great dad one day (I have told him after his mission and his temple marriage). Sometimes I wonder why he is such a loving kid with everything that Jantzen does to him. He is also very excited to have another sibling. I didn't think he would be, but he tells me all the time that he can't wait to meet the new baby. Our new baby will be just as lucky as Jantzen to have Jaron as the big brother to love and protect them always.

Twilight Has Arrived!!

I know I will probably get laughed at for this, but I don't care! Last night Amy B. and I went to Walmart for the release of the "Twilight" DVD. It was being released at 12:01 am this morning. They were supposed to be having a party and giving away prizes from 10pm to midnight. In some places in the country there was even going to be characters from the movie there, but not here in Vegas. I think that's kind of weird seeing how celebrities seem to love Vegas so much. I wanted to go because I thought it would be fun, so I asked Amy to come with me because Josh wouldn't let me go out that late by myself (I don't think I would feel safe by myself anyway). That doesn't mean I didn't get harassed by Josh. He knows I love the movie so he didn't mind that I wanted to go, but he said there probably wasn't going to be very many people there and the ones there are just going to be a bunch of weirdos. I guess we were part of the weirdos.

When we got there they had just gotten done doing pictures with people (Twilight wanna be's) who were dressed as the movie characters (they looked nothing like them, just look at the picture, it doesn't do Edward any justice). If we would have known about it we could have had our picture taken with them, but we missed it. We did however get a copy of just the people dressed up to laugh at. We ended up having to line up until the movie was to be released. We got jipped that they weren't doing any prize give aways, but we were the second people in line so I guess that was okay. Josh was wrong, there was a ton of people there! It was a long wait...finally 12:01 came around and out came the movies. This was how it was supposed to work. The employees had us line up so we could go up one at a time and get the movie, but instead the guy who brought them out took them around the registers away from the waiting employees and that's when the mass chaos began!!! Everyone started charging towards the movie stand and Amy and I just stood there wondering what was going on and what we were supposed to do, I mean we thought we were going to get to the movies first, but we were soooo wrong. It was worse than shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. People were going crazy!! I even got pushed around a little, not too much though. Lucky for us we spotted some movies by the register that they had pulled out so we went straight there. There was only two special edition DVDs left and we got them. It was nice because we were out of there within ten minutes from when the movie was released and we got to leave the mass confusion early.


I got home around 12:30 am and surprisingly wasn't tired, so I watched a little TV. I didn't want to start Twilight yet because I knew I wouldn't be able to finish it all and I know that Josh is dying to be the first one to watch it with me. He put it on my ipod this morning and also has it on his. I know he is going to secretly watch it when I'm not around. He did inform me this morning that he is only going to allow me to go to the theater and see the next movie "New Moon" only once, not like "Twilight" that I saw four times. Yah right, like that's going to happen! :o)

St. Patty's Day Breakfast

This morning I made a yummy breakfast for the boys. It was ALL green, and I mean all green. I made green scrambled eggs and green blueberry muffins. Last year Jaron wouldn't eat the muffins for me so this year he said he would try them. I served up breakfast on green plates and gave them their drinks in green cups. WOW, There was a lot of green! It looked like the color had thrown up all over! I did however forget to make Jaron's milk green. When I thought about it, he wouldn't let me do it (mental note to self- make Jaron's milk green next year). They seemed to enjoy their food except Jaron decided he didn't want to try the muffins for me after all. One of these years I will get him to try them. Jantzen ate every bite.



Both of the boys got to take green chocolate chip cookies that we made last night to share with their classes. Tonight we are going to make homemade pizza and I haven't told Jaron yet that we are going to make the crust green. He'll love it whether he'll admit to it or not. I know Jantzen will love it, after all his favorite color is GREEN! HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!

Good News...

I went to the doctor yesterday and I came out of there really happy. After a short conversation with my doctor I have a new due date. He agreed with me that the date I got last time could be inaccurate so he gave me August 27th as the new one. He even told me that if I wanted he would start me a week before that. Yea!! As of right now I get to shave ten days off being pregnant. Double Yea!! Don't get me wrong, I love my children more than anything, but I hate being pregnant, especially in the summer! On another good note, as long as the baby cooperates we will get to find out on March 30th what we are having. Here's to hoping Josh gets what he wants. On a bad note, we are going to Disneyland the first week in April and my doctor told me that I can't go on any rides. That really sucks!! I just get to take pictures. That just means we'll have to go again when the new baby is older so I can enjoy it then.

Jaron was very happy with the news. Now he will get to share his birthday month with someone else, which is exactly what he wanted. I also talked to the doctor about getting an autographed picture of his daughter (Meghan Martin from Disney Channel) for Jaron. He should be getting it soon. When I told him that he was even happier. I really enjoy making my kids happy. :o)

Junior Pro Bowlers

Last Saturday we took Jaron and Jantzen bowling, little did we know that they were going to make us look really bad. They were really excited to get started. Of course Jantzen had to find a green ball even though it was heavy, he had help in getting the ball down the lane. Jaron didn't use it but they both got to have the bumpers up, I really could have used them myself. Josh and I were sucking it up pretty bad. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I totally rock on Wii bowling!



On my first couple turns I got no points and Josh had a couple gutter balls, luckily one of them jumped back up to get a couple pins. The boys were having better luck than us. After every turn Jantzen had he would do a little happy dance for us. I even got a picture of him in the air in one of them. It was really cute.



Jaron usually does really good when he bowls so when Jantzen's score got higher than his he got a little frustrated. He then decided that he was going to bowl "granny style". That still didn't work very well.


To sum up what happened, Jantzen got six spares in a row and totally kicked our butts! He was the only one who got over 100. Jaron took second, but I was only behind him by two points. Poor Josh was in last place. Again, in mine and Josh's defense, the boys got to use bumpers. We had a lot of fun hanging out together, but I think next time we'll play something that Josh and I will be able to keep up with the boys on.

"Little Stinker"

Jantzen is a sweet little boy, but as a lot of people know he can be quite stubborn and frustrating sometimes. That's why we have given him two nick names, one is Jantzilla and the other is "little stinker". A while ago we were at Old Navy and we found the cutest socks (that had Jantzen's favorite color on them) and Jantzen really wanted them. Of course I had to buy them because they had the words LITTLE STINKER on the bottom. I asked him, "how did they know what your name was", and he responded, "I don't know". It was so cute! We love Jantzen very much so I thought I would list some things that he has said and done that define him as a "Little Stinker".


As many of you know, we have been trying to potty train Jantzen for a while and he just doesn't want anything to do with it. This is how he responds to us when we try to encourage him to do it.

I told Jantzen we needed to save the diapers for the new baby (hey, it worked on Jaron when I was pregnant with Jantzen) and he got very serious and said, "The baby's not born yet!"

Josh told Jantzen that we had no more diapers for him so he needs to start going potty in the toilet. His response was, "Um, NO!" Then Josh told him to think about it because the new baby needs the diapers. Jantzen then told him as he walked away, "Whatever! I'm the baby!"

When I did finally get him to sit on the toilet, he tooted (see what I have to deal with in a house full of boys), but he did say the funniest thing. I asked him if he just tooted and he said, "No, it sneezed!" I couldn't stop laughing.

Another time when I was changing his stinky diaper he told me, "Ohh goodness! This is gross!" Ya, tell me about it. I'm the one that has to change it!

Now on to other things that are non-potty related. For a three year old Jantzen has one of the most witty minds you will ever meet. He can think of things on a whim that will just crack you up! For example:

I had some girls over for a stamp party and I had made brownies (the boys' favorite). Jaron and Jantzen had a couple before everyone got there and a couple more when everyone was there. I told them no more. Later Jantzen came up to me (I didn't see him at first) and he said, "mom". I turned around and he shoved another brownie in his mouth. I couldn't very well stick my fingers down his throat and retrieve it.

The other day Jantzen was picking his nose. Josh told him to pick a winner and Jantzen's clever little mind got thinking. He then stuck his finger back in his nose and pulled it out and said, "Ding, Ding!" I thought Josh was going to pee his pants, he couldn't stop laughing.

We are so happy that Jantzen is a part of our family. WE LOVE YOU "LITTLE STINKER".

And The Awards Go To...

Last Friday Josh had a foreman's dinner for his job with Anning Johnson. He wasn't very excited to go because it was on a Friday night when we usually have our family popcorn/movie night and also because they were having dinner at a seafood restaurant. It was only for him, spouses weren't invited. That's okay, the boys and I had a mommy and sons night.

When he got home I heard all about how gross his steak was, what do you expect at a seafood place, but he did come home with good news. His company only gives out two awards every year at these dinners and Josh snagged both of them. They were for "Most Profitable Job" and "Safest Job" (for the new Nevada Power Building). He saved the company over 4,000 man hours and never had an injury on his job site. What an employee! He is the hardest working man I know who is very good at his job and takes pride in what he does. Way to go Josh! Hopefully this will mean a nice bonus will be coming our way so we can buy a much needed new vehicle for our growing family.