Ficker Family

Am I crazy? Maybe. I joined the Pound for Pound Challenge that the Biggest Loser promotes. I plegded 21 lbs and will donate to the Utah Food Bank so that others might not go hungry....wish me luck!!!

I must admit, I'm not as good at blogging now that I've gotten into the whole facebook thing. My dear friend Becky and I were talking the other day and she was getting on my case about it so I'm posting for her mostly. I'm not really sure that anyone else really reads this anyway. Love you Bec. So I think the last time I posted was back in October and I hadn't really shared much about what we've been up to. They boys are growing bigger and bigger. We recently had my Brother in law, his wife and my niece, Emma, in town. We took pictures of the babies for my mother in laws birthday. She doesn't have any pictures of them all together so we felt it was a good opportunity to take pictures of them all together. Now we're no photographers but I think they came out cute. Other than that, we try to stay busy. Joaquin is taking a class for work. It will give him a 5% raise when he passes which will be awesome. We're hoping with the raise he can start working a little more normal schedule. (He works late hours because it pays more.) I've learn how to crochet from my very good friend Heidi. She's really gotten into it and I've just learned how to edge baby blankets which is good enough for me. Everett is finally growing a little hair but oddly enough, only in the back part of his head. I swear, it really does look like we sprinkled some fertilizer right there. He's being a little stubborn with his crawling. He knows how but chooses not to. If I place him on the floor, on his bum, he scoots every where. It's like he's afraid to go from the sitting position to the laying down position, so instead, he scoots. It's really funny, he looks like a rabbit. He hops all over the place. He can pull himself up on things but only if he doesn't think I'm in the room. As soon as he sees me, he thinks I'll just do it for him. When I do stand him up on furniture, he will stand there all day until I put him back on his bum. I'm afraid to say that I think he's a big fradie cat. He says Mama and Dada. Unfortunately his first real word was Dada. Little stinker. (Just kidding Joaquin.) He loves to copy us when ever we make noises. I've noticed lately when he doesn't get his way and he starts to cry, he starts to shake a little. Almost like he just can't believe I've taken a toy away from him or something. I'm thinking he might be a little dramatic when he gets older when he doesn't get what he wants. He also loves to scrunch up his nose and make a sniffing nose. It's so funny to me. I love it. My little Brock, or Big Brock, I should say, is getting ever so big. He is very strong and doesn't like to be held back. He's crawling all over the place and walking while holding onto the walls, furniture, chairs, my pants, anything. I'm pretty sure he'll be walking soon. He also says Mama and Dada. His first word was Mama. Thank goodness, although now all he wants to say is Dada. (What is it with these kids? I'm with them all day and all they want is their Dad. Geez.) Brock doesn't pay much attention to us unless we're doing something really extreme. For example, the boys were eating lunch today and if I call his name, I get ZERO response, but a lot of the time, I sing to them and I just discovered the song "Happy" by Leona Lewis and I had it on the computer and I was singing it so loud and I was being very flamboyant and crazy and fun and both of the boys couldn't stop staring at me. Who needs T.V. when you have a crazy mother. It was so fun. Brock loves everything he shouldn't. Like the computer, the bathroom, the vacuum and the plunger. Ewh sick. He loves loves loves to be tickled. I'll gently tickle his face and he zones out. It is so cute, he could be upset and crying and then I do that and he stops. He also just loves to be rubbed and kissed. He's very cuddly too. (When he wants to be.) They are both such good babies. I love them both so so so much. They will be a year old in two weeks and I can't believe that the little sweet angels I had a year ago have turned into almost 30 pound toddlers. WOW! When people say time really flies by, they weren't kidding. We have a lot of fun things to look forward to with the holidays approaching. I have family coming into town for Thanksgiving and I can't wait. I will be meeting my Niece, Jorja, for the first time. I saw her on Skype this afternoon and it was awesome. She's so beautiful! I can't wait for her to play with her cousins. I'll be sure to post pictures.

I think I've decided that I might go to a private blog too. As I mentioned earlier in this post, that Becky and I were talking about blogging and she uses her blog almost as a journal and I think I want to do that. I think this will be nice for the boys when they get old to look at. So, I haven't figured out how to do it yet but I think I'll be doing it soon....maybe. We'll see if I actually get around to it. So when I do I'll be sure to ask everyone to send me their emails so that, if you want to, you can still read our blog.

So I totally forgot to update everyone that my dear Sister in law Veronica and her husband Jon came up to visit us just prior to my other post. (I'm such a bad sister in law for not updating everyone on that visit as well.) Jon and poor Veronica were so great to drive all the way from Sacramento just to visit us. Veronica has had a broken ankle for the last couple of months and she and Jon had just had their wedding anniversary. They first went to Lake Tahoe, which is the most beautiful place on earth and also where they got married just a year before. After they spent some time there they made the long drive to Utah. We had so much fun. We hung out, ate and shopped. Veronica and I went to the farmers market and we both loved it. We think I should start selling things there. I have a few ideas what I can sell but I'm still not sure. Anyway, we had so much fun and I totally forgot to take one picture so I forgot to mention it in my last post. I LOVE YOU sister, "Your easy like sunday mornin'!"

Ok, so these past two weeks have been a little difficult for us. We've had a lot of fun but it's been very busy. We went on our first camping trip up on Caribou Mountain. The night before we left to go to Idaho, Everett had a slight fever. We still decided to go. Joaquin's Mom, Brother, our Sister in law, Lil Emma and Jerry were all going to be there. So we headed up and when we stopped to eat in Soda Springs and we checked Everett and his temperature was 103.8 so we decided to take him to the emergency room. They just said to alternate the Motrin and Tylenol to keep his temp down. He was acting really lethargic and melancholy but we still decided to go. Well that night we got up to feed him and he puked all over Joaquin, his entire body was hot so we decided to pack up and head home at 3 am. Poor little guy was so out of it that he didn't even really cry. Joaquin was so exhausted, he thought he was going to fall asleep at the wheel so we stopped to get him a 5 hour energy shot so it would take the edge off of his eye lids wanting to slam shut. My poor little family. Anyway, we did have a good time there but we wanted to stay longer than just half a night but that's ok, I'm sure we'll have plenty more camping excursions in the future.

Our next fun and exciting/stressful thing was Brock's surgery. It really wasn't all that bad but we weren't sure how he would react to being put under anesthesia. The little champ did so well. His throat seemed to be a little soar from the tube they put down his throat to help him to breath while he was out but other than that he was fine. As soon as he woke up, he wanted to eat, as usual. Little porker. Once we got him home, he wanted to practice crawling all over the floor. Joaquin's brother, Andon and his Wife, Ale along with Emma came down to Salt Lake to help us out. It was so NICE having them with us. I was really stressed out with Everett just getting over his sickness and trying to figure out who we could leave him with while we went to the hospital for Brock's surgery. When they said they could come down, it was such a big relief off us. Emma loves the babies so much, she could have been there Mom I swear. Always concerned about them and asking where they are and how they were feeling. Especially about Brock after his surgery. Ale helped out so much with everything too. She helped cook....(uh...delicious pork tacos....so good....my mouth is watering just thinking about them!) and take care of the boys. Andon was a lot of fun too. He's such a good brother in law to drive his whole family down to Salt Lake from Boise to help out. We owe them big time.

Another fun thing we did was go up to Midway by Heber for a drive. Joaquin didn't have to work so we decided to go for a drive up the mountain. We had so much fun. I had always heard how cute it was up there being that it's a Swiss settlement. All the houses look like they belong in Switzerland. While we were there we stopped at a art studio and this amazing antique store. Seriously this place was awesome. I walked in and I felt like I had stepped into an old movie. No one was around and there was a cat roaming around. I thought I was going to see a ghost or something asking me to help them free there soul.......uh.......okay maybe not but it was really fun. If anyone wants to go, I'd go again in a heart beat.

Then our last fun thing we did was go to the Utah State Fair. I haven't been to a state fair in a really long time so Joaquin and I went last night and we had so much fun. We got to go to the Rodeo which I have to say, Everett and Brock LOVED! They're going to be little country boys I can already tell. They loved the loud country music, everyone cheering, the horse riding, everything. It was awesome. After the rodeo we walked through the area where they have all the live stock and we had fun looking at pigs and cows and chickens. I have to admit I was a little disappointed in the fact that we didn't see more red necks. That's one of the main reasons we go to fairs. There is nothing like the entertainment you get from looking at country bumpkins at the fair. There's nothing like going to the fair to look at other peoples families because it makes you feel like your own isn't quite so bad....hahahaha!! (Jeff Foxworthy said something like that.) I decided it's the county fairs that you see more of that at.