Brock's Thanksgiving dinner.

This food was so good!

Thanksgiving

Matt taking a picture of me taking a picture of him.











Eating the oh so yummy food! Thanks Monica and Nick for inviting us over!













Kids playing with the Elders and Brock and Matt looking at pictures from that mornings turkey bowl.










Us before heading to dinner.

eatting jello

Abby decided to eat the jello powder for the salad i was making. Making three things at once makes it hard to keep track of what the kiddos are doing. Luckly Brock was home and after this incident he did a great job of keeping them out of the kitchen while i finished up for thanksgiving.

Random

Some randomness from the past few weeks:


I bought some red lipstick for my halloween costume. Abby just loves "lips" as she calls it. She stole into my room and took it into the bath with her. Doesn't she and Ariel look beautiful? She also got some of uncle matt's black makeup.









Our friend gave connor a little bike that his son is too big for. Connor is so excited but we haven't let him ride it yet. I am not sure how to do it and Brock hasn't been around at a time when they could test it out.

Abby loves to take pictures of herself and pretty much anything else.

Brock also put on my red lipstick and kissed my face. It was really wierd to see him in lipstick.

Halloween

This year we didn't go trick or treating house to house. Our stake did a trunk or treat and it was so much better then spending way to much time in the cold with the kids in coats so you can't even see their cool costumes!
Brock spent most of Saturday carving a pumpkin that later won a prize for scariest!

Washington

So, It's hard to believe that we have been in Spokane for over a month now. It's been good. We have been lucky to already now a few people out here from when Brock served his mission in this area and our ward is so great! They have been so welcoming and helpful! I have not felt alone like i thought i would. Our friend Matt came with us and it has been so great having him here. He has been so helpful to us!

Last week we were able to go back to Utah for a visit. We took off at 10 pm and drove all night. We stayed for just over a week and then drive all night again to get home. It was so great to be in Utah with family but i definitely wasn't sad to take off back home. Utah has gross water, stinky air, and dries out my skin. Washington is the opposite of that. Maybe Brock wont have such a hard time convincing me to stay!

Today Matt and I took the kids up by Liberty Lake. Matt goes up there a lot and It was so nice of him to take us! It is so beautiful and the hike was perfect! We saw a Mother and baby moose. Matt got some great pictures! I don't have a card reader for my camera and I lost the cord so i haven't really been able to take any pictures. I am hoping to be able to find an affordable camera so I can take some and get them posted! Especially since i can't get my web cam to work! GRRR!

Brock has some new agents and has spent the last week training them! It is so exciting to have everything progressing! Love you babe!

Happy Birthday Connor!

This is the little party we had on Connor's birthday. Brock decorated a diego cake for Connor's big party!

Roughin it!

Our first experience this summer with the wild! We went up Timpanogos (sp?) Canyon with the Taylor family! The kids loved it and so we spend a lot of time up in the canyons!

Parks....

We went to a park in Murray with our ward playgroup!

At the begining of the summer we went to the park with our friends the Svedins. It was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed it when it poured down rain!

burn, baby, burn....

About a week ago i had a jewelry party at my apartment. I was running a little behind as usual. I went to check on the cupcakes in the oven but didn't open the oven door all the way. I tried pulling out the pan but somehow didn't get a grip on it and as i tried to pull it out i ended up just slamming my arm into the inside of the oven door. It defiantly hurt. I ran it under cold water but not for long because i was in a hurry to finish everything. So here is the end result. You can't really tell but my arm was really swollen around the burn so much that it hurt to use my muscles. It was an interesting experience.

BROCK!!!

Yesterday Abby wanted to talk to brock so I dialed the phone and handed it to her. He answered and she started....
she talked about connor, our hamster, Miceala and Halle, Jessica and Kylee, and some things i couldn't understand. She walked from her room to the dinning area back to her room danced around and stood on her tip toes. I don't think she stoped talking. The funnest part was brock kept trying to say he had to go but Abby would yell "Brock, brock, brocky.." and then start talking and dancing again (this happened three times)! It was so fun to watch! She is so cute!
Also last night Abby started coughing really bad, a barky cough, and had a hard time getting air in so I ran her over to insta care to find out she has croup!! Luckily the cool air helped to calm her down. They gave her steroids and she is doing much better!

Our life lately...

Here is an update on what's been going on with us this past little while. Nothing too exciting but something...
A while ago i accidentally drowned my phone. It really deserved it but it was hard not having a phone or car. I felt really cut off from the outside world.
Just as i was feeling really sorry for myself we came into a car.... It isn't the car we wanted and we are going to try and sell it but at least i have four wheels! Right after that my super cool sister bought me a phone!! It was so nice of her and so nice to have a phone again!!!
So things were going well which means that something bad had to happen. Brock went out of town to a convention in Las Vegas! It was kind of nice but we were glad when he came home. But, i had to miss a week of working out which might have been nice if it wasn't the "easy" week. Then Connor get sick. I took him to the doctors and had to miss Jill's bridal shower and the kids missed Halle's birthday party. I think i took him in too soon, the next day he had a really high fever. Yesterday i felt that he felt good enough that we could venture out and get some things at the store. Last night he started complaining of an ear ache. He went to sleep but woke up at 3:30 and was up until almost 6. Then to top it off abby now has a cough. So today is going to be disinfecting day!! I did the basics like washing sheets and lysoling the couch he spent most of his time on but i guess it wasn't enough!! Hopefully i can kill if off before it gets brock or me. On top of all that we are starting to feel the reality of the move and all the have to do to get ready to go and open an office. It has been crazy! I just can't wait for the next year to pass by and for us to be settled!! It's kind of crazy!

I think i just need a good vacation! I think it's time for Disneyland....

There are also a lot of good things that i am really grateful for but we'll save those for another post. :)

abby's 2nd birthday

We celebrated Abby's second birthday on the 17th of January! It was nice! I can't believe she is two already! She is so grown up! I love everything about her!
She absolutly loves connor! If we go anywhere without him she talks about him the whole time and when we get back she gives him a big hug!
She always makes sure connor has his share of everything! Even her potty prizes and birthday toys!
She adores her daddy!
She loves to cuddle!
She is such a girl! Loves anything to do with princesses, shoes, makeup, purses, and babies!

And so much more!
We love you abby lou!

Born again connor.....

This morning I was having a conversation with connor that went like this:

Me: "connor, guess what? Tomorrow is abby's birthday!"

Connor: "Ya, mine too!"

Me: "Your birthday isn't until June."

Connor: "why?"

Me: "Because that's when you were born."

Connor: "No it's not. I'm not born yet"

Me: "You're not born yet? Are you in Heaven still?"

Connor: "yes."

Me: "You're in heaven with Heavenly Father and Jesus."

Connor: "yes. I went there last night. I came back. I want trains and curious george."

I wish...

that my computer wasn't so slow!! I can't download pictures! Grrr. One day i'll have one that works fast enough then I will bombard you will pictures.

Starting over

Today we started P90x all over!! Yes, we are crazy! We decided this time to do the eating plan that came with it. It is actually all really good food. It just times a little extra time. Which is why we didn't do it the first time. I am excited. We needed to do another exercise anyway so why not do this one again but better! I know this time we will definatly get the results we want! I just need someone to come eat the sugar stuff so it doesn't tempt me! Here we go!! Day 1...