this is how i feel right now

I'm bored.

Gotta love this boy!

a dream come true...

Now this post probably isn't what you're thinking. I'm talking about when you have a dream at night, and then whatever you dreamed about actually happens. Has that ever happened to you? Well it happened to me once - I once dreamed about this random kid from my piano class at BYU - I didn't know him too well and never really talked to him much. This one night I had a dream that he proposed to his girlfriend on stage after his sophomore recital. I saw him in the HFAC a couple of days later, and I was like, 'Hey! I totally dreamed about you!" and I proceeded to tell him about the dream. He kind of just stared at me with a shocked look on his face, like he couldn't believe it, and finally said " I AM planning on doing that...." Sure enough, about a week later I was at his recital, and at the very end he had his girlfriend come up and he sang to her or something and then proposed. Later I was introduced to his girlfriend as "the girl who had the dream." Yeah, it was crazy.

Well, it happened again last night. I had a dream, and then today it came true. Although this time it was more like a bad mommy dream that comes from changing so many diapers. This morning I went to change James' diaper and it was so messy that I just took off his pj pants and took him right in the bathroom to give him a bath. He had his bath, and then I got him out and put on his diaper and was cleaning up a few things. I walked out into the hallway and then I realized I was standing in something kind of...sticky. I started screaming, after which my in-laws came to see what the heck was the matter. (It was most definitely one of my finest moments.) And then it hit me - I had had this exact dream last night! I had changed James' diaper in my dream, and then there was poop on the floor and I stepped in it. When I woke up, I thought "eeew! what a weird dream!" - and then totally forgot about it, until it came true!

Has this ever happened to anyone else? (and I mean the whole dreaming something and then it actually happens thing, not the stepping in poop thing....)

random goings-on

Mommy, Daddy & James on Sunday afternoon. Notice my new funky RED glasses. They actually don't look this bright red in real life - I think the flash of the camera made them way bright! Anyway, I bought these recently, and sort of tried them on as a joke and then ended up buying them!

Daddy is teaching James how to blow bubbles in the bathtub. James loves to stick his face in the water so we figured we'd better teach him. He does it like a pro now!

Lately James loves to wear other people's shoes, especially Daddy's.

Father and son, relaxing at the end of the day and playing the Wii.

What a cool dude!

stickers

What better thing to keep a kid busy with than stickers? James LOVES stickers lately. The other day I put some star stickers on his hands and he just LOVED them, he kept them on for two days until I finally took them off myself. Cute kid.

just some pictures

a pretty sunset

looking off the back porch

James loves to look out the window at the cats!

we think he looks like his Uncle Andrew in this picture

squished nose

very curious

what a cute little guy

sweet boy

what a cutie

his new favorite pastime - listening to Mommy's iPod!

listening intently

we just love this boy

Varsity

James has a new basketball jersey that he just loves. He wore it for the first time the other day and absolutely loved it! He was very fascinated by the picture of the basketball on the front. Whenever we say "James, where's your basketball?" he looks down at his shirt and finds the basketball and points at it. What a smart kid! (He is also very good at finding his head when we ask him where his head is, and we are currently working on other body parts like ears and nose!) His Daddy has started calling him "Varsity" because of his basketball jersey. It's like how my sister Liz calls Jonathan "Camden" because of a shirt he has. Well anyway, here is our handsome boy in his basketball jersey, striking a handsome pose for the camera -

Blessings

On Thursday night, Jonathan's little sisters Rebecca and Anna were driving to their school in the Geo. It was pretty dark, and they were probably going about 45 or 50 mph, when all of a sudden there was a black cow right in the middle of the road, and they hit it! The cow was standing sideways, but turned its head to look straight at them right when they hit - so its head hit the windshield and shattered it. It all happened so fast, and the girls don't remember too much about what happened, but looking at the car we all knew that they had definitely been protected. They were both able to walk away with hardly a scratch - they were both covered in glass and were pretty shaken up, and are pretty sore now, but they are just fine. What a blessing it was! There are holes in the windshield where we think the cow's horns went through, and there is even grass and manure-y nastiness in the back seat of the car. The cow is dead and the car is totaled. We are all so grateful that Heavenly Father was watching out for them. It was quite the crazy night at the Boster home. We all decided that it gives new meaning to that "interrupting cow" knock-knock joke...

The damage to the car -



The cow -

Our Big Boy's Latest Adventures

He just keeps on growing and growing...

This kid is so much fun! He walks around like a pro now, and is getting pretty close to running at times. It is so funny to watch him toddle around. This morning he woke up after twelve hours of sleep and was well-rested and excited to start playing. I got him out of bed and he was so excited, he started practically running down the hallway in his "white part" (Gibbons family lingo for onesie). He got going so fast that he could hardly go in a straight line and almost ran into the wall multiple times! It was hilarious.

Today James was "talking" to his Daddy on the phone at lunch time (he does this by holding the phone up to his nose and listening intently) - and all of a sudden he said "Dad" as clearly as could be! He also loves to mimic things we say and has a growing vocabulary, including his newest word, "Grandpa" ("Ba-pa"). Rumor has it that he also said "Grandy" (or something along those lines) the other day, although I wasn't there to hear it - so both Grandpa's should feel really special! :)

Today for lunch, my sister-in-law Emma Jeane and I decided to make pancakes. We were so excited, they sounded SO good. We made them from scratch using my Mom's amazing recipe. We sat down to eat them and they just didn't taste...right. It was quite the mystery. We finally decided that the flour smelled really funny, and that we should probably just throw the pancakes out. Well, my in-laws have no garbage disposal - so what do you do with no disposal in the country? You throw the food out on the back porch for the cats to eat. James LOVES it when we give food to the cats, he can hardly contain his excitement. He tries to run out the door and yells "oh!! oh!!" Since we had a whole plate of pancakes, I thought he'd like to help feed the cats! So we opened the door and I handed him a pancake, and then started to throw the others out. We kept telling him to throw the pancake, but he just wouldn't - he just kept walking closer and closer to the cats, and holding on tight to his pancake. Well, I finally picked him up and tried to take the pancake from him and he hurriedly shoved it in his own mouth. What a funny boy!

Here he is in his cute football shirt - I think this outfit really makes him look like a big boy! I'm not sure if 27 is anyone's number or if it's supposed to be a particular team's colors, but who cares - it only cost us a quarter and looks brand new!

Happy New Year!

For New Years Eve we drove down to Utah to spend a few days with my family! We miss them so much, so it has been wonderful to spend some time with them! We had "Christmas" with them and exchanged presents when we got there. James has caught on really well to the whole opening presents thing. He peeled off little strips of the paper, and got SO excited when he opened his nice presents from my family! It was adorable. We had a fun night playing games, and my sisters even got awesome New Years Eve hats and tiaras, and sparkling cider, of course! What a fun night. What a year it has been - it has been amazing at times and hard at times, but overall we have been so blessed. Jonathan and I are optimistic and are so excited to see what this next year will bring to our little family!

We had wonderful weather for driving through Idaho, which we were very grateful for!

Our sweet, sleepy boy

What a loved little guy...

Opening presents with Grandma

Toys are fun for Grandpa's, too!

He just LOVED this teddy bear from Aunt Annie

My Dad gives the coolest presents to Jonathan - this year it was a model of the Nauvoo temple, which Jonathan immediately got to work on and finished putting it together within an hour or so!

James in his Christmas pj's

Midnight! Happy New Year!

Did somebody spike the sparkling cider??

Matching pj's made by my Mama