First Snow

And so it begins. This is my back yard when I woke up this morning. Like every year I am not sure if I am ready for the long winter ahead! Be that as it my, it is here whether I am ready or not!

Turkeys Welcome

Yesterday, my mom and I started a project while listening to conference. We made these cute turkeys. They are going to be mounted on a big stick so they can sit outside our house. They say Turkeys Welcome on them. Did we do awesome or what? The real question is, can you tell which one is mine and which one is my mom's? Give up? Mine is the one on the right, the one with the abnormally big eyes.

7th Day of Disney

Today was a great day. We watched Chicken Little, ate chicken nuggets and boiled eggs (a bit morbid I know), and made bag puppets of the characters in the movie. Dillon made the little baby alien, and Truman made fish out of water. "It's not the winning that counts, it's the nah, nah, nah, nah taunting that goes with the winning that matters."

8th Day of Disney

I know what you are thinking, what happened to the 9th day of Disney? Well my husband didn't want to play. He was home for the day and decided he wanted to take the boys to a football game instead. I hate football, (I know it's blasphemy) and hate being cold so Elleree and I went shopping instead. We got some cute cloths, but no 9th day of Disney. :[

For the 8th day of Disney we went out to dinner and ate Chinese food. These are our fortunes. Which I think are very fitting. Then we came home and watched Mulan. My mom was here for the weekend, so she came with us. I was singing along with my favorate song ("I make a man out of you") and she was makeing fun of me. All and all it was good times.

Yoga

So, I said before that I have been doing Yoga right. Well yesterday the kids decided to do some with me. I think Elleree is especially good and downward facing dog. She is so going to be a future Yoga instructor if the disappearing down the shirt gig does not work out!

10th Day of Disney

Yesterday's movie was Mary Poppins. This is one of my favorites, I sing along with all the songs (Don't judge me). The kids had never seen it before, and technically still haven't because they fell asleep during the bird lady song (feed the birds Tupins a bag, you know, you know the song). Anyway our activity was going outside and drawing with sidewalk chalk. We had a lot of fun! No scences that you could actually jump into, but the kids are true sidewalk artists. I know that fying a kite would have been fun, but it is cold, and not very windy this time of year. Let's go fly a kite, up to the hightest hight........

11th Day of Disney

Okay today was
the 11th day of Disney
we watched Dinosaur,
and decorated bone cookies. I know what you are thinking, those looks more like dog bones than dinosaur bones (or you are thinking no they don't look like anything). You would be right, but who cares the kids loved it. Plus, I got to eat the cookie dough and the cookies (which ended up making me sick but whatever). They made a huge mess, that still needs cleaned up as we speak. I know you are waiting in anticipation for what we will be doing tomorrow. Tune in next time, same bat channel, same bat place.

Cute Bow?

The kids are going to have their picture taken on Saturday. This is what Elleree is wearing. Really I am posting this to see if Allison thinks the bow that I made will work with the dress. I am not sure it matches that well. I am planing on curling her hair and, just putting it off to the side, kind of what Rachelle does. What do you think? I'm not doing the pigtails, because I did that for her last pictures.

12 Days of Disney

Today is the first day of our "12 days to Disney". What we have to do is pick 12 Disney movies that we want to watch and then come up with an activity that goes along with that movie. The point is to get the kids more pumped up for our trip, and more familiar with the Disney characters. So, tonight we are watching Cars, and then playing Cars on the Wii. Hopefully it will get less stressful as the days go by, because it was kind of hard tonight. To do Scouts, homework, dinner, movie and activity done tonight was a little difficult. But hey it's all fun right!

Finaly done, almost

My basement has carpet now! I am really happy. The bonus is that each time we end up having to have work done on the house we end up with nicer carpet than what we had originally. All the restoration people have left to do is clean all the carpets in the rest of the rooms in the basement, to make sure all the contamination "poop" has been removed. Then my basement will be back in business!! Woot Woot!

Good Rubdown

I have started this new exercise routine, it's called P90X. It is really intense and each day I do a new workout, so I have been sore nonstop. I have to say though the program has a Yoga portion to it, and I have really started to enjoy Yoga. Call me crazy. Anyway, Jason was giving me a back rub and Elleree decided that she wanted to help too. Jason took some cute pictures of her working on my back. She does good work.

Good Visit

Yesterday I went through a session at the Idaho Falls Temple, and who should I see there? Why, my grandma Vaden, we ended up in the same session together. I didn't see her until the very end. We ended up getting to talk to each other for about an hour. I was so nice to see her there, I almost started to cry. I miss talking to her all the time. Sometimes I wish life wasn't so hectic. But alas, as a good friend of mine always says "it is, what it is". Thanks grandma, and I love you!!

First Pedicure

So last night I went and got my first Pedicure with my friend Jamie. She just got her degree in Accouting, after going to school with three kids (twins and a little girl), a full time job, and everything else that goes with life. We decided we needed to go and celebrate by having a girls night out. We had the deluxe pedicure done, and then went out to dinner. It was a good time. I am super proud of her! I know I would not have been able to do it, if our situations where reversed, she is amazing!

Why does it always take so long?

So my sewer back up after we came back from Redfish. Yes, that's right almost two months ago. These are pictures of what my basement still looks like, because they have not put it back together. I am tiered of not having carpet. I can't figure out for the life of me why things always have to take so long. A week or two, I get, but two months. Really, really. Maybe someday my house will stop falling apart, and I wont have to worry about things like this!

What are you doing?

I am afraid that I am going to have a lot of posts titled this. So here is my daughter doing her latest trick. It seems she likes to stick things down her shirt, food, money, toys, really anything.
This time it is seasoned french fries. It cracks me up! I mean I tell her no and she gets in trouble, but at the end of the day when I am getting her ready for bed it is kind of funny to see the things that she has shoved down her shirt. I think she might be one of those women when she grows up that keeps her cell phone, money what ever in her bra. Jason says he sees that all the time at the Pharmacy. He is always amazed at what women pull out of there.

Miniatures

So I took this picture of these really cute miniatures that I bought for the kids. Finding Nemo, and yes they are on a quarter. Turns out my kid don't really care about little things. How do I get my kids to get into the things I think are cool? I know that as parents we should let them be what they will be, but I am all into brainwashing these days.

Eli's blanket

I made Eli this really ugly blanket. Allison says she likes it, but I know she really hates it, because I spent a really long time on it.

My luck!

My first day home from my vacation, and my kitchen faucet breaks! This is so my luck!

Baby Eli

Abby, Me and Eli


I went to Firestone, CO to visit my sister and her new baby Eli. He was born the 25th of September. He weighed 10 lbs. 2 oz. In this picture he is 2 1/2 weeks old. He is sooooo cute!

A little hiking trip.

Jason and Dillon went on a little hiking trip. I am not entirely sure where they went, but they got some great pictures.