"Trash Truck"

Eli is completely OBSESSED with trash trucks....that's right trash trucks! 

I am not sure what he loves about them, but he waits every Friday for the trash truck to come down the street and screams "Trash Truck" when he sees it or hears it!  Even if we are downstairs hanging out and he hears the trash truck he will run upstairs so he doesn't miss it.

He constantly says the word "trash truck" - he refers to everything as "trash truck" and when he is excited about something he says "trash truck"... we hear "trash truck" all day long and not a muddled "trash truck" its a very clearly pronounced "trash truck"

I remember Ashtyn loving the trash trucks, but no where near the level of Eli...

Everyone who knows Eli, knows that entertaining the child is next to impossible - he will stay occupied with an activity for no more then ten minutes.  Well, the other day Matt had an idea, got on You Tube and searched for "trash trucks" and of course he found videos of trash trucks!

Can you believe some guy drives around and records trash trucks?

Well, Eli sure appreciates it, because he sat at the desk and watch "trash trucks" on You Tube for an hour, completely engaged...

Oh, Eli you are SO cute!

We have now found a new way to keep monkey boy quiet and safe for more then 10 minutes...

You Tube seriously is the answer to our prayers...!

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I did it!  I FINALLY finished my first ever digital scrapbook and I absolutely LOVE it!
I started getting into the whole "digital scrapbooking" world about a year ago and about a year later I finally have something to show!  I originally had wanted to complete Eli's Baby Book, but I seemed to get off course a bit and it just seemed to get more overwhelming as time went on.  So that's when I decided I would first complete a Blog Book and then move on to other projects - get my feet wet a bit! 
Scrapbooking the Blog was so easy since all the writing is done and my pictures were already sorted and ready to be loaded, so it went together pretty fast!  Besides for me being overly picky with layout and other composition details it went pretty smooth!
I now have two more Blog books to complete and of course still Eli's Baby Book!  I think I will take Jamie's approach and do maybe a couple pages every other day and hopefully soon I will have more books to share.
I am so grateful that I was inspired to start my blog, it is probably the best thing I could have done for keeping memories of my family and our life.  I LOVE to Blog and it makes it so easy to document milestones or simple days of life with little effort and then later allows you to put together one hell of a book!
I hope my kids will enjoy these books as much as I have creating them...now on to Blog Book 2010!

Man Down

Hello there! 

That's me doing a shout out from my hospital bed at St. Josephs...

I had a little procedure done on my heart this morning and have spent the rest of the day recovering.

My SVT ablation went perfect - was not at all enjoyable to say the least - but as the doc said,

"It was textbook and could have not gone better!"

For years I have had major palpitations in my heart which were unrelated to anything I was doing.  I could be just sitting in a chair and my heart would start racing leaving me feeling horrible!

My condition got worse while I was pregnant with Ashtyn and they finally diagnosed me with mild SVT and informed me the only cure was to have an ablation.

After LOTS of thought and prayer I finally scheduled to have the procedure - my condition was getting worse causing me to have really bad days - and when you are a mommy with toddlers - bad days are not acceptable!  So I did it - I had the procedure, and hopefully from this day forward I will never feel my heart race for no reason - just when Matt kisses me!

Like I said the procedure was VERY uncomfortable since I had to be awake and alert the entire time, so hearing, feeling and seeing everything they were doing was not so relaxing!  But with it being an ablation my recovery has been very quick and besides for a headache and feeling tired I am doing really well.

My mom stayed with me all day and then later on Matt and my babies came to visit...

 Ashtyn made me card in the shape of a heart covered with stickers, and on it she wrote,

"I love you mommy and thanks for taking me to The Goodwill"

how precious is she...

Eli loved playing on this chair during his visit!

I will spend the next couple days taking it easy and then I should be back to normal.

I am excited to finally have this procedure behind me and hopefully I am SVT free!

Now, hopefully I will enjoy a good night sleep, with no husband or kids to keep me awake...

Goodnight!

Saturday

Saturday was a LAZY day for us Trujillos...

I had absolutely NO motivation to do anything and with all the snow outside we decided to just hang around the house in our pajamas...

We did get a little ounce of energy and headed outside to play in the two feet of freshly fallen snow...

Matt carved out a little igloo for the kids to play in...

 We played on the swing set - the slide is so much MORE fun when there is a big pile of snow at the bottom!

Had some snow ball fights...

 Once Eli face planted into the snow - play time was over...

 so we headed inside for some snacks and warm drinks...

 and then played a game of "Horse" - well technically I did not play, Matt did all the work, but I did capture the moment quite nicely...

 What a good lookin' horse he is...

 What an awesome Dad my kids have!

His little riders definitely wore him out though...

That pretty much wrapped up our day - It's always nice to have a lazy day...

Monkey Boy

My son is clearly a MONKEY!

While I was getting dressed the other day, I later walked into the bathroom to see my little monkey trying to brush his teeth...

 This look is priceless...

It seems he had found a way to climb into the sink, and who knows how long he was in there before I caught him - anyone questioning my mother skills?

At least he is practicing good hygiene!

Swoop, Swoop...

 I forgot how much I LOVE to ski.

On Saturday I made it back to the hills to do my most favorite thing ever in snow - SKIING!

I haven't been since before I was pregnant with Ashtyn so I guess I was pushing 6 years of no skiing, until Saturday.  I was a little worried I would forget how to even get my skis on or worse how to get on and off the chair lift - but I guess I am a natural because I swooped, swooped right down the mountain - no problems.

Of course the whole trip was filled with drama - what event in my life is not these days - so when I was headed up the chair lift with my $70 lift ticket flapping in the wind and $50 of rented ski equipment strapped on, I was a little skeptical if I had made the right choice to spend the day at Copper Mountain with Kevin and my Dad.  Every day I spend money is one more day living with the in-laws - you see what I am saying.

But my $120 dollar excursion turned out to be fun, (not sure it waas still worth the money) and I truly fell in love with skiing again. I will say I will not be returning until I have my own equipment and a pass, but still I can't wait to go back!

The mountains finally got some snow this past week so the 7 inches of fresh powder combined with the beautiful weather created a very nice day for enjoying the beautiful mountains...

I will say the fashion of the 80's is clearly making it's way back to the ski slopes.  Everyone was wearing fluorescent colors - pink, green and yellow!  Colors I have not seen since kindergarten - just look at my brother, even he is sporting the new fashion...

I can proudly say I will not be sporting the fluorescent colors anytime soon - I tend to be very trendy, but that is just one trend I don't think needs to be repeated!

It was a great day skiing with Kevin and my Dad - can't wait to go back...

Stock Show

On Wednesday, last week, Matt took the day off and we headed down to the Stock Show with the Ohlheiser's!  I have lived in Colorado my entire life and have never been to the Stock show - crazy I know, being a cowgirl at heart...!

Since Ashtyn is absolutely in love with horses, bull riding and everything else there is to do with this culture we thought a day at the Stock Show would light up her world...and it did!

We started at the Coliseum where they were having some sort of competition - I have no idea what it was called, but it involved calves and horses, so Ashtyn and Adam were completely entertained.

Adam and Eli loved when the tractor would come out to clean up the arena...

 Ashtyn LOVED watching the girls on the horses and I think so bad, wishes she could do that...maybe one day!  Although, Matt and I don't know the slightest thing about horses, so this obsession of her's is quite new and we really have no way of showing her how to do much.  I guess she wil be teaching us!

Luckly, I have a contractor who owns some horses and has offered us invitation to visit the farm and ride them, so when it warms up and drys out we are headed out to the farm!

 Before leaving the Coliseum the kids played on the tractors - I think Eli liked this the best...

 The Stock Show had a complete Kid's Exhibit, so we hung out there most the day at the Petting Zoo, riding ponies, looking at chickens, learning about farming, playing games, eating dip-n-dots and $7 hot dogs and playing on the playgrounds they had....quite a busy and exhausting day!

 Adam looks like a natural and even shouted out "Yee-ha" while rocking back and forth - I think Jason was quite proud of his boy!

Before leaving we toured the basement where all the cows are prepped for their showing.  It was like a spa down there for a cow - very smelly, but I don't think the cows minded one bit as they were being washed, blow dried, fluffed and fed!

We are still trying to get the smell out of our clothes, but I definitely enjoyed our day at the Stock Show.  Next year I would love to go to the rodeo and actually see some action, but it was fun to get our feet wet this year.