Wednesday, January 25, 2012

BIRTHDAY GIRL!

Ellie was so excited and a little out of it when she woke up on her birthday (Dec. 1) 
to balloons all around her.  
Yes, She sleeps all over the place and is half off her bed and don't mind the "dog bed" shes sleeping on.  Aunt Tar and the kids came to visit for Ellie's B-day and were sleeping in her room.
 Once again, we visited the M&M factory on the strip.  One of El's favorite places.

 El, with the help of dad, cheating at the "smart ball" game.  Nice!
 Hold On!

I cant believe my little girl is already 4!  Wow, shes growing up so fast!

PHOTO SHOOT












 So here is the story to our wonderful Target photo shoot...
As we began our long drive home from Idaho to Vegas, Joel and I were talking in the car about how we wanted to do Christmas cards this year.  We hadn't taken any recent family pictures (that were good) and knew we needed to do some quick if we wanted to get our cards out in time.  So Joel called up our friend Pete, that lives is Salt Lake and asked if he would take some.  He was more than happy to, but let us know he had work at noon, so we would have to be done before that.  We got into Utah the night before and stayed with some friends of ours in Park City.  I was hoping we had some "outfits" that somewhat matched that we could throw together, but nothing was really coming together as I hoped.  So of course the next morning we were scrambling around going to various stores to get our last minute things to put our "outfits" together.  (I know I'm a dork and probably make a bigger deal of this than it needs to be:).  Needless to say we were running late for our photo shoot.  I needed to pick up one last thing at Target, so we called Pete to meet us there and then we could decide on a decent location to take some pictures.  At this time we only had about an hour before Pete had to get to work. Well of course our day had to get worse and as we got ready to leave in our car to follow Pete to our "location", our car decided not to start, PERFECT!!! 
Hence, the Target photo shoot.
We were able to get some photos taken, Pete got to work in time, and we got our car jumped so we were back on the road in no time.  What a wonderful day!!! Ha!


THANKSGIVING IN IDAHO





We had so much fun spending time with the fam in Idaho.
We are so blessed and thankful to be able to spend time with them and have so many wonderful people in our lives.  We love you all!
 

Sunday, November 6, 2011

TRICK-OR-TREAT!

 Cousins getting ready for the candy!!!
 Banana Mama and her cute little monkeys!
Too cute!

PUMPKIN CARVING

Every year we have a pumpkin carving/Halloween party at my Aunt Carolyn's house.  The kids and I drove to AZ for Halloween so we could partake in all the festive fun. 
Thanks Trent for Helping El with carving her Pumpkin.  By the way, she chose to care two Ghosts on her pumpkin.  She said the big one was her and the little one was Crew, how cute!








PUMPKIN PATCH

Our ward in Vegas has a little play group that gets together each week and for one of the activities we went to a pumpkin patch.  Ellie is my little social bug and loves making new friends, she fit right in.  Luckily I had my brother Trent and his friend Jarom visiting from AZ to watch Crew while I ran around chasing her as she socialized and had a blast with all the things to do there. 




BIRTHDAY BOY!








I cant believe my baby boy is already 1!  Where does the time go?  
We celebrated Crews birthday (October 15th) at Barrows Pizza with friends and family.
I feel so blessed to have this little guy in our lives and look forward to many more birthdays to come.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONSTER!

RAIN, RAIN LETS PLAY!




Kids playing the the rain/mud in our backyard.
I'm pretty sure Crew ate quite a bit of mud. Ha, it builds the immune system.