SNOW!!

The other day we got snow! Makenna was so excited that she ran outside and started jumping on the trampoline in her t-shirt! I love her zest for life!

Field Trips

Makenna has been on two really fun field trips. For the first one we went to the pumpkin patch.
horse rides

corn box
lassos
games
corn maze
pumpkins!
It was great, but seriously hot! The highlight was definitely the horses.

Then yesterday the kids went to Petco for a field trip! They loved touching all the animals. Jace also loved it.

Buds Makenna and Kaden

haha

snake!

IDAHO

After Utah, we headed on up to Idaho to see Scott's sisters, Christa and Michelle, and their cute families. We had so much fun up there with them. Idaho is definitely a great place to live, but holy cow it's cold! It was in the 30's and 40's the whole time we were there!


Cute cousins in their church attire


We celebrated Scott's birthday while we were there. Can you believe he is 29?! Holy cow I have an old husband! Thanks Michelle for spoiling him with a cake!


I love how those boys just could not resist!


We took a day trip up to Rexburg to check out the old stomping grounds. We could not believe how much it has changed! It doesn't even look like the same place! They have definitely made some really pretty changes, and now more than ever I would definitely recommend BYU Idaho as a great place to go to college! I had the BEST experience there and it was really fun to relive that and remember the special spirit that school has.


The little boys at BYU Idaho


We also got to hang out with our friends, the Cooks, from Idaho Falls. We were really great friends when we lived there and it was fun to catch up! Can you tell the kids were just not having it that day?!

Utah

Our first stop on our trip was to see our BFF's the Becks! We miss these guys so much! We met them in Albuquerque in our last ward. Hopefully someday we will have the chance to live close again!

One of my favorite things by far was hanging out with these guys after the kids were in bed. We laughed so hard and had so much fun together!


Makenna and Brinnley wore matching outfits and looked so adorable!!


They love each other tons!


We went to Kangaroo zoo


Jace was in heaven


Someday I'm sure these boys will be buds too! :)


Thanks Becks for entertaining us! We miss ya!

Tagged: Couples Quiz

(our one year anniversary)

♥ What are your middle names? His is Scott, I don’t have one (so what's his first name you ask? You will have to ask him!!)
♥ How long have you been together? 6 years, together almost 7
♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating? 4 days??
♥ Who asked who out? He asked me out
♥ Who made the first move? he did
♥ Did you go to the same school? Yep, BYU Idaho
♥ Are you from the same home town? No, Scott is from Bloomfield, NM, and I’m from Carlsbad, CA
♥ Who is the smartest? Scott
♥ Who majored in what? I got my Associate’s Degree in General Studies, and Scott majored in Business.
♥ Who is the most sensitive? me!
♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple? The place we eat most is Sweet Tomatoes
♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? San Francisco from Albuquerque. Sad huh. Someday we will have to take a real vacation!
♥ Who has the worst temper? We are about the same.
♥ How many children do you want? 4-5
♥ Who does the cooking? I do ALL of the cooking. Once in a while Scott makes beef and broccoli!
♥ Who is more social? I am
♥ Who is the neat-freak? Me
♥ Who is the most stubborn? We are about the same. Scott is probably a little more.
♥ Who wakes up earlier? Scott since he’s a seminary teacher! He wakes up at 5:00 AM
♥ Where was your first date? We went snowboarding at Kelly Canyon
♥ Who has the bigger family? He has 7 older sisters. I have 1 older brother and 3 little sisters.
♥ Do you get flowers often? Maybe once a year. Scott is just not the most thoughtful person… oh well!
♥ How do you spend the holidays? Lately it has been Thanksgiving at his house, Christmas at mine since we live by his family.
♥ Who is more jealous? I probably used to be more jealous, but I don’t think either of us get jealous anymore.
♥ How long did it take to get serious? uhhh, a week probably!
♥ Who eats more? About the same. Seriously.
♥ What do you do for a living? Stay at home mom. Scott is a Paint Sales Rep. for ICI Paints.
♥ Who does/did the laundry? I do. Sometimes Scott does it if he has no socks or pants left! Sorry babe.
♥ Who’s better with the computer? I am.
♥ Who drives when you are together? Scott does.
♥ What is "your" song? Stereofuse- Everything

I tag Megan B., Mom, Rolene, Stefanie, Jenny, Annie, Rebecca, Jessica P., Lisa, and Kim! I know that's a lot but I think it would be really fun to read your answers!!

Dance magic dance

Makenna has been begging for dance lessons for months. We finally got her in a class a few weeks ago, and she has absolutely loved it. It's really fun to watch her do something she loves so much! Makenna is hysterical to watch dance; she is so dramatic but very serious about it all (see previous drama post), and she loves to watch herself in the mirror! It is so funny. I will need to record her one of these days...

The most random post in the whole wide world

1. Last spring, Scott was lifting a heavy railroad tie in our backyard, when POP! (not usually a good thing) He found out soon after that he had a hernia but we decided to wait it out a little bit. Well after my lovely hospital stay, we decided to take care of it this year (insurance reasons). So last Friday Scott went in for surgery. It went great, and his recovery has been fine.

Scott curses the garden that we were building when he got the hernia, because not only did he get a hernia because of it, we also broke his sister's windshield, and the corn we grew in it tasted terrible! Blasted. We are getting rid of that garden...

2. Well, besides the corn garden, our other garden has been lovely this year. Our best plants have been our peas, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, carrots, and cucumbers. Not so good- onions, green beans, peppers (only 2 the whole summer!), and corn.

Before

after

Yummm those carrots were so good!

3. So we are realllllly careful about locking up our house/car ever since we had my car's window broken and stuff stolen from it, and Scott's car had things stolen from it, and then ultimately the whole thing stolen. Plus lately I have heard of a few instances around the neighborhood of robberies so I am EXTRA careful!! So you can imagine I was SICK this morning when Scott told me I forgot to shut the garage door last night and it had been wide open ALL night!! I seriously felt so sick and could not believe that everything was right where it was supposed to be! Wow, makes me feel like I live in Leave it to Beaver's neighborhood all of a sudden! Don't worry, I'm not fooled.

4. We also woke up today to NO sunshine. This is a rare thing here to not have the sun shining in the morning. It has been raining allll day- also rare. It's kind of weird! I feel like some of the happiness has been sucked out of me. I definitely could not live in Forks.

5. Makenna had her 4 year-old check up today. Everything went great! They did some new tests today such as a vision test and hearing test and they went very well. She was also very brave when she got her immunizations and didn't cry. That makes me feel so much better because I hate feeling like she thinks it's my fault that they are hurting her. But nope, she just shook it off like nothing. Love that. Stats: height 41 1/2 (85 percentile), weight 38 lbs (75 percentile).

6. Favorite Costco item of the month- mickey mouse chicken nuggets!! Holy cow those things are so good and they are made with decent ingredients too. yummmmmmmm

7. Callings. I think I forgot to mention on here that Scott began his seminary calling a few weeks ago. It has been crazy to get used to since we are late night people, but I have already seen how it has blessed our lives. I have actually found that I am enjoying going to bed early and getting up early! Now who would have thought?! I also got a little calling change last week from YW counselor to YW adviser. I am really grateful to have the opportunity to teach the awesome girls in my ward! I am definitely feeling a little inadequacy/nervousness because I remember what an impact my advisers had on me when I was in YW. I think it will be really great though.

8. I wish I could have been at the 9/12 March on Washington. It feels good to know that even though I don't feel Washington represents me, I feel represented by all those millions of people who marched that day. Our government has got to stop the over-spending. They need to stop trying to control everything and let the people do it for themselves. I love this quotation by Abraham Lincoln...

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
I wish we could get back to the roots of our Constitution and the beliefs that those amazing men had for our country. It is scary where it is going now...

Makenna's Four!

The night before Makenna's birthday I reminded her that when she woke up it would be her birthday... bad idea!! She could not sleep! She even came out and said "I can't sleep mom!!! I'm SOOOO excited!!!!!" She was up till about 10:00! (We put her down at 7:30) It was so cute though. So on her birthday morning she got to open her Ariel outfit that she really really wanted and I let her wear it for her party which was "under the sea" theme. We even did her hair "just like Ariel." :)

After I took pictures of Makenna, Jace came over and started saying "cheese!" so I had to take a picture of him too! Did I mention he is obsessed with balloons?

So at the party we played musical chairs (to little mermaid music), fishing for magnet fish, crab races, threw water balloons at a shark, and fish fish crab (duck duck goose).

Then we had cake and ice cream with her Flounder cake.


Then she opened her presents which were so much fun! She looooved them and wanted to play with them as she opened them!

We finished the partay with a little treasure hunt where we found a treasure chest full of all the kids' party favor bags. They LOVED that. It was so much fun and such a fun party. I'm such a sucker for parties that I start out doing something little, and it ends up a whole fiasco. It's so much fun for Makenna though so it makes it worth it!

She also got to go to her cousin Brody's birthday party which was really fun. When she got home, we surprised her with this!

She looks so big on that bike! I can't believe how big she is!

Here she is on her birthday last year on the bike she outgrew!

I love that little girl to pieces. She is seriously my best bud and we have so much fun together. I love her cute, fun personality. I am soooo lucky that I get to be her mom! Happy 4th birthday Ken!

Can you top this?

I loooove to think about the future and what kinds of things will change. Sometimes I have a hard time thinking how certain things could possibly be improved upon! I specifically remember back in the 90's thinking that the styles and everything were so cool and advanced that they could not be topped! I thought it would be funny to list what I think those things are right now, and it will be funny to look back at what I wrote! (or maybe I'll be right!)

MP3 players!

I mean how much better and more convenient can listening to music get? I cannot fathom a better idea than this...

TV's
Yes, that is a TV! It displays a picture when the TV isn't on! AMAZING! Seriously, how much better can that get??! I guess the only problem is, where is the DVD player?!

The spikey do:
Guys have been wearing their hair like this for a while now, and I just can't see this going out of style!

Cars
This is definitely not the coolest car out there, but it is our car that we recently got. For a plain ol' ford car, I'm thinking cars are looking pretty good these days! The front grills and headlights look awesome on all the new cars and the paint jobs look really pretty. Can't really see cars looking much prettier??

longer shirts
I just can't imagine now going back to those shorter shirts- awful!! (BTW isn't this Anthropologie shirt cute?!)

This style of jeans
I think no matter what may be the fad of the time, women will always go back to the slight flare jean because I think it is the most flattering! Perhaps someday our children will call these "mom jeans." hahaha, you have to see this SNL skit if you haven't... :)



A few things I think will change fo sho:
DVD's- can't stand them (my kids ruin them)
Telephone lines- I'm sure there's a better, prettier way!
All the mystery ingredients in our food
self-cleaning toilets? a girl can dream...

Joy school!

Makenna was so excited for her first day of Joy school! Mom is excited too because I have been CRAVING a routine lately! I love routines!



So here it is! The Routine:
6:00 AM wake up/scriptures/clean
7:00 kids wake up/clothed/fed
7:30 running
9:00 Joy school/mommy and Jace time
11:30 Pick up Makenna
12:00 lunch
12:30 Jace nap/quiet time/mom and Makenna time
3:30 Jace up/play time till dad comes home/prepare for dinner
5:00 dad's home/ make dinner
6:00 dinner
6:30 family walk
7:30 kids to bed
8:00 kids are finally in bed/ mom and dad time!
9:30 mom and dad to bed!

Probably won't happen perfectly, but c'est la vie!