Aaron and Katie and our lil' family

Pajama Party

2012-01-21T13:34:00.001-08:00

January is a Birthday month for us. Im on the 6th and Chloe the 19th. For my 28th Birthday this year I woke up to Emma all ready for school, breakfast in bed with flowers and a chocolate fudge cake. What a great way to start the day! Plus my sister in law put together a girls lunch at Olive Garden, it's nice to feel so special. Aaron took me out to dinner and a movie and gave me a bike trailer which I have been asking for the last 7 years, can't wait to use it! We went on bike rides every Sunday as a family growing up and I loved it, I want to do that with my kids.

I reached the 6th month mark on my Birthday. I have been working out everyday, except weekends. I do the treadmill, elliptical, yoga, and a prenatal water aerobics class which I love! It's so nice to get in the water and have the weight off my back, every time I get out of the pool it surprises me how much weight I've been carrying around. Gravity kicks in and it feels like a ton of bricks. Even with my efforts I still get so huge and bloated.....sigh. I can't complain though, I am so happy! I feel so blessed and the love I have for this little boy overwhelms me and I am enjoying every moment of this pregnancy and can't wait for April to welcome him into our little family.
Anyways, enough about me, this blog is about my baby girl's 5th Birthday. She'll always be my baby girl even though she hates it when I call her that. As I've said before, growing up I never had anything special on my birthdays so I try to make it nice for my family because it's important to feel special no matter how old you are. I made chocolate chip pink heart pancakes to send Chloe off to preschool.

Grandma Ruthie took her to McDonalds for lunch and then to Barnes and Noble to pick out a gift and get her free Birthday cupcake.
We had a pajama party, which despite my best efforts to keep it simple, which I think I did, hardly spent anything, it was still a lot of work but totally worth it.
The girls decorated their sleep masks when they arrived. Then we played charades, musical pillows, freeze dance and I read them a Charlie and Lola book 'I am not sleepy, I will not go to bed.'
Thanks to pinterest, I found these super cute pajama cupcakes using the zebra rainbow gum and chewy spree candy with frosting for the faces and hair. Aaron did all the faces and hair for me, amazing isn't he? He made each one different.
I think we have a cake boss in the family.

We had a treasure hunt that led the kids all over the house and to their final treasure hidden in the bathroom. Jelly bean cupcakes and chocolate cake pops.

Such cutie patooties!

It was such a fun party, the girls were pretty mellow and shy but I guess that will all change when I start having boy parties. Now Emma says she wants a Scooby Doo Party for her 8th Birthday this June, better get going on that especially since baby boy will only be about a month and half and I won't have the time or energy to put together a party.

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Getting ready for Christmas

2011-12-19T13:22:00.000-08:00

Christmas is just around the corner and as always it seems to come too fast but we've had fun with all the holiday festivities and parties.

Emma's Ballet class had us come and see what they've been learning. Emma really enjoys ballet and the slow music as she says. She is a very graceful dancer and it was really cool to see how much she has learned in a short amount of time. So excited for her recital in the Spring!
We had our ward Christmas party which was really nice. They had a band playing fun music, fantastic food and Santa and Mrs. Clause paid a visit with reindeer cake pops. I missed having Santa at our ward Christmas parties in Texas, that's how it was at my ward parties growing up and what's a Christmas party without Santa? It's fun for the kids and I don't think it takes away from the true meaning, it's not like we bring Santa to primary on Sundays. Anywho, that's my two cents.
I love this picture.
I look forward to my families Christmas party every year, it's always so much fun! There are 14 grandkids with one on the way :) and they're starting to take over the parties now but instead of doing a gift exchange between the siblings we go on a sibling date with no kids! Its fantastic and we have so much fun! Here are the kids doing the Nativity and poor Ben who is the oldest grandchild (12) went up to his Mom after getting into costume and said, "Shoot me now" Lol, I remember feeling that way at my Grandmas Christmas parties. There should be an age limit. :)
Each family tries to contribute something to the program. My brother Spencer is an amazing clogger and his girls have picked up on that talent, so fun to watch!
My sister stepped out of the norm and did an hilarious Muppet skit.
And my hubby did his Christmas jam, very proud am I. The kids were just mesmerized while Aaron played, they loved it!
We had a craft table to distract the kids so us adults could play Christmas song pictionary.
I love pinterest, so many great ideas, like this one I just finished as a gift for my mom and Mother-in-laws. I took makeup compacts, cleaned them out and turned them into mini photo albums they can carry around with them in their purse.
I was able to get 7 pictures of the girls into one and they come out accordion style. Pretty cool huh? Way cheap and super easy!
It's not Christmas without gingerbread houses. I found this package of a cute mini village, so fun!

Watch out, it's giant Emma and Chloe!
And my Texas girl Shelley made me this shirt, hehe I Love it!

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Getting in the holiday mood

2011-12-02T19:55:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it's December already, craziness! Our holidays have been really nice so far. We got to have 3 Thanksgivings, one at Aaron's Dads house, one at my Moms house, and one in Delta. Lot of Turkey, yummy! I think I gained some extra pounds.

The best part of Thanksgiving weekend for me was shooting guns in Grandma Dutsons backyard for 3 hours. We have 3 different 22's and it's been years since we've had the chance to shoot them and it was so much fun! We set up a bunch of targets and I got really good, quite proud of myself :) After hours of shooting, Sheena's boyfriend brought out his shotguns and after trying that once Grandma Dutson got a little freaked and made us call it quits.

This is my very own little 22, cute huh? It might look little but it's quite loud and way fun to shoot!

Tonight we braved the chilly weather and layered up like The Christmas Story to take Trax to see the lights at Temple Square. We had so many layers, even our pajama bottoms under our jeans, but even after all the "Oh Mom leave us alone, we're fine" and the rolling eyes from Aaron, everyone was quite thankful I made them layer up.

Halfway through Chloe rebelled and refused to wear her coat but she had an undershirt, two long sleeve shirts, a sweatshirt, scarf and was still fine.

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Fall Colors at Stewart Falls

2011-11-13T18:07:00.001-08:00

Last month we took advantage of the last nice weather Sunday and went on a hike up to Stewart Falls. It was such a pretty hike with all the Fall leaves and I love a hike with a great destination at the end, makes it all worth it.

Isn't it pretty?

This was the longest, hardest hike we've taken the girls on yet and they loved it as much as we did. The hike was 4 miles total and the girls were so proud of themselves for making it all the way. Im so glad that hiking is something we have done since the girls were really little, they have fun and never complain. They're such troopers.

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Parties and Pumpkins, Costumes and Candy!

2011-10-23T20:18:00.000-07:00

I wasn't ready for summer to end, it seems like we just had the Holidays, and they always put all the Christmas stuff up way too early in the stores, give me a break, I can't deal with that right now....but a few Halloween parties and a visit to the pumpkin patch has gotten me in the mood for the Holidays. I've wanted to dress Aaron up as Harry Potter for years. Looking online costumes are $70+ so we had to figure something else out. Aaron already had the suit part with the sweater vest, white button up shirt, slacks, dress shoes. I found a black cape in our costume box, a pair of glasses and a tie that looks almost exactly like Harry's at DI. All we needed was a wand and we found a pretty good looking one among the sticks in Aaron's mom's yard in Delta. I think he makes a great Harry Potter, don't you? Tho I think he looks more like Harry Potter's Dad. I wish I had made time to put together a Ginny costume for me, would have been perfect, but the best I could do was witches for me and the girls.

Emma on her way to her Ballet Halloween Dance Party, had no idea she could be so sassy.

Chloe heading to her Preschool Party as Miss Kitty.

My Mom throws a Halloween party for the grand kids every year and it's so much fun for the kids. We got all 14 kids together for a picture and I took a ton and they all looked like this, someone blinked, looking the other way, or poor little Will unhappy and crying BUT

I got Lucky! My last picture I just happened to get all the kids looking, no one blinking, Will stopped crying and they're all smiling, amazing! And check out the wide arrange of costumes we have this year, my personal favorite was my niece Christine as Flo from Progressive, she looked just like her LOL! Will as Charlie Brown, Adorable! A mime, Pippy Longstocking, a giant banana and many more. Such creative kiddos.
Check out the spread! My Mom went all out for the food this year and she likes to work under pressure so she put off all the shopping and setting up till that morning so we all chipped into to get it put together.
We had cheese fingers,
rotten mouths,
delicious bones,
mummy pizzas,
and a severed hand in bloody punch.

After the party we headed to the Pumpkin Patch to pick out the perfect pumpkins. The girls loved the smaller sized wheelbarrows they got to push around, even though they were a little tough to push sometimes.

Decorating them is half the fun, and I found some fun ideas on pinterest this year.

The girls were so cute as we went Trick or Treating. They ran from house to house yelling at the top of their lungs 'Trick or Treat!' And then Chloe would end by saying in her sweet little voice 'Have a Happy Halloween,' she said they practiced at preschool. :) After an hour and half of trying to keep up with the girls, their buckets were full to the brim with goodies, we had to call it a night. Hope you all had a fun Halloween.

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Lil' Blessing

2011-10-23T19:46:00.000-07:00

After 2 miscarriages, lots of pain and sorrow we have been blessed with baby #3 coming in the spring. Because of what happened before my OB wanted me to come in and have an early ultrasound at 8 weeks and this is what we saw. Just a little peanut but it's heart was beating so that was a huge relief. There was one concern tho, that dark rectangle shape on the bottom left is bleeding. So she set me up for another ultrasound at 12 weeks....
And this is what we saw. Isn't that amazing! In just 4 weeks it went from a little peanut to a little human with fingers and toes and the good news was that the bleeding was gone. My sister went with me and during the ultra sound both her and my OB said they saw a little wiener float by, but the baby was so wiggly and moving all over the place we couldn't get another picture. We'll find out for sure at my next appointment in November. Im already coming up with names but Chloe doesn't like any of them, she says we should name the baby Lovely, hmmm ;)
I debated over and over about wether or not I wanted to post this pic. Im in that awkward stage, too small for maternity and my clothes are getting too tight so I have nothing to wear. I've had to resort to using rubber-bands to button up my pants, if anyone has maternity clothes they can lend that would be much appreciated, mine are 6+ years old and way outdated. It seems the style now is tighter fitted shirts that show off your baby bump, my maternity bin is full of tent like shirts.

I definitely feel pregnant, something cheesy makes me cry at least once everyday, it's getting ridiculous! Nauseous all day everyday, whoever dubbed it morning sickness was full of it, mine is all day and gets worse when I lay down to go to sleep at night, but Im 13 weeks along now and am finally getting over the worst and starting to feel better, it's all worth it. The girls are so excited to have a baby brother or sister, Chloe asked me before I went to my last appointment if I was pushing the baby out that day, she is going to have a hard time waiting till April.

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Chloe's First Field Trips

2011-10-23T19:10:00.000-07:00

Chloe's Pre-school has had some field trips lately. The 1st one was to Peterson Farms Pumpkin Patch out by Daybreak. They had a cute little corn maze and Chloe's teacher bought each of her students a little pumpkin. Chloe is really enjoying preschool and loves her teacher Miss Martha.

The 2nd field trip was out to an Apple Orchard in Orem. They showed the kids the process they go through with picking their apples and getting them ready for customers. They even let them go in their ginormous fridge where the apples are stored. They gave each of us an apple and they were the yummiest apples I have ever had, I had to buy a basketful.

Chloe had another field trip to the fire station, but when we got there the Fireman and Firetruck were missing. We looked in their kitchen and there was half eaten breakfast all over so we figured they got called out on an emergency, so we're hoping to catch them in November.

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What can you make with Raspberries, Cheesecloth and Marshmallows?

2011-10-09T19:26:00.000-07:00

My older sister has a wonderful overflowing garden and others including myself have benefited. Tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, all the cucumbers Chloe could ask for, cantaloupe, zucchini, which I used to make zucchini pizza's which were surprisingly very tasty. But best of all are the raspberries. Kerstin called me over to pick as many as my heart desired despite the threat of getting stung from all the wasps hanging around. Kerstin taught me right then and there how to make my very own 1st batch of freezer jam, I am quite proud of myself, isn't it pretty? :) It tastes so yummy and was SO easy, if I had known it was this easy all along I would have done this years ago. I will never go back to store bought jam after this. I even froze some to sprinkle in pancakes later, looking forward to that! Can't wait to try strawberry next!

Pinterest is Awesome! If you haven't come aboard you need to, you won't regret it. One of my pins were these adorable DIY cheesecloth ghosties. Handmade decorations and things you put together are the best and so much better then store bought things. I got this idea of the hanging ghosts from my sister in law and I just love em! You can make them any size you want and as puffy or skinny as you like, I made a few large ones and a couple of small ones and have them hanging throughout my house.

Kerstin and I got together to make the ghosts and she brought starch so we could try making them this way as well. Aren't they cute? And they're so easy to do and cost next to nothing.

We do our family nights on Sunday because Aaron doesn't make it home until 8:30 during the week so tonight we talked about temples. I showed them pictures from our wedding, showed them my temple dress, talked about temple recommends and then we pulled out the marshmallows and frosting and built temples. Got this idea from my sister as well :) The girls had so much fun and were on quite the sugar high, they ate half of the marshmallows and frosting as they went.

Emma even put a graham cracker angel Moroni on top.
Doesn't it look yummy?

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Art, Art, Art

2011-09-23T16:55:00.001-07:00

I had to do something about this, the girls are covering the walls throughout the house in their artwork, which is fine, but it has leaked out onto hanging from around the table, completely covering the fridge, all over the front door and any surface still available so.....
After coming across this fantastical idea on pinterest (gotta love pinterest) rummaging through my box of old frames, using leftover paint, picking up some great finds at the DI and finding some time while Chloe is at preschool I put this together for a couple $$. I love this idea, with the office clips I can change out their artwork whenever and maybe this will keep back the clutter.

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Chloe's off to Preschool

2011-09-08T11:36:00.001-07:00

I sent Chloe off to her first day of preschool today. She was so excited, which surprised me. I've been so worried about how she would deal with it, but all morning it's all she could talk about and she kept asking when it was time to go. When we finally got there she got real quiet and said she didn't want to go, but as soon as she saw her teacher and the other kids she went and sat right down with no problem, no tears....from her anyways. And this coming from the girl who after a year of being in our new ward still has a hard time and cries every time we drop her off at primary. I was amazed! So I drove to the store to do my grocery shopping with no kiddos and I cried the whole way. I'll miss having my lil Chlobug all the time but Im hoping I can use this time to finally catch up on years of scrap booking and some craft projects.
She was so excited to finally get to wear her new sparkly shoes.

Im really glad I got all those books from the library about going to preschool and read them to Chloe every night for the last week, it's amazing what books can do.

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Growing up

2011-08-31T09:59:00.000-07:00

My lil Emma is growing way too fast for me. I can't believe she started 2nd Grade this year. Emma is such a great student and she loves school and seeing her friends. I was quite proud of myself that for the first time I did not cry when I dropped her off on the first day. And the other day we were walking home from school and Emma ditched me when she spotted Luke her dancing partner from last year and she ran ahead to walk with him. At least she still lets me hug and kiss her goodbye when I drop her off.
Emma loves dance, especially Ballet. She took it for a year back in Texas when she was four and we have been on a waiting list since we moved here a year ago and Emma was so excited when the wait was finally over. When Emma walks it is on her toes, something she has done since she could walk and something she inherited from Aaron. She is also naturally graceful, I think she will love Ballet this year being older. Hopefully next year I can talk her into trying Jazz too. She was too afraid this year because her friend told her you do the splits in Jazz. I can't wait for her recital in the Spring!

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Lake Powell

2011-08-31T09:27:00.000-07:00

My family takes an annual trip to Lake Powell every year but because we lived in Texas we haven't been able to go for the last 4 years. We were so excited to finally get to go this year. We had such a great time! I learned how to surf, which was lots of fun! The girls had fun playing with their cousins and playing in the red dirt. We look forward to next year.

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VIP Day at the Zoo

2011-08-12T14:18:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago Emma won a coloring contest and we got a VIP trip to the Zoo for our family. It was so much fun! We got to ride on our very own golf cart with our tour guide which was very nice on the feet.

We got to choose which animal we wanted to be our close encounter so we chose the tigers. This guy is 2 years old and weighs over 400 lbs. The trainer was showing us some of his tricks but he was being really feisty and kept standing up and growling at us, it was really cool! She had to give him a time out to behave.

They had 4 giraffes and that one in the middle there is pregnant and due next month. Our tour guide said her baby will come out 6 feet tall and Im thinking are you serious, she doesn't even look pregnant, how does she fit a 6 foot giraffe in her without showing it??? Not fair! She said the animals in the zoo are just like that, they don't really put on a lot of weight or show when they are pregnant....I guess that's just for us humans :)
This was their baby monkey, she was so cute. As soon as she saw us pull up in our golf cart she got out of her bed and came and posed here and just stared at me while I took her picture. Our tour guide said her favorite game is to play tug of war with the trainers. She has a big sheet that she will throw at them and they will play tug of war together.
This is their Mommy and her baby elephant. Our guide said that she is a first time mother and that elephants and giraffes don't have instincts on how to care for their babies, the other moms show and teach the new moms what to do, but they don't have another mom to teach her the ropes and they were worried with how things would go but she said she has done so great for a first time Mom all by herself.
They gave us tickets for the carousel and to ride the train.
Besides our close animal encounter with the tiger, I would say the Bird Show was my favorite part. This little guy was right in front while we waited 20 minutes for the show to begin and as soon as the place filled up with people she wanted some attention and started dancing and singing to the music, the more we applauded her the more energetic she got, it was hilarious.
The trainer came out and showed us all these different types of birds and he would have them fly in from all over, they would swoop in right over our heads.
This one was quite the talker.
This owl was flying in and came right at us, it swooped right over my head.
The bald eagle was gorgeous to look at.
The Zoo became a Zoorasic park for the summer and had animated dinosaurs throughout the park. They were so life like it was awesome! They would move around, growl, and some shot water at you.

What a great day at the zoo!

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Trip to Oregon

2011-08-09T03:54:00.000-07:00

This month we got to take our first real road trip out to Oregon to visit Aarons sister Karley and her family. Karley has always made the effort to come see us every year wherever we have lived and so we thought it was time for us to finally make a trip out to see her. The longest trips in the car my kids are use to is 3-4 hours so this 10-12 hour trip was quite the difference plus Chloe came down with an ear ache, fever and sour throat during our drive which made things a little more difficult.

We had so much fun just hanging out, going to the park, splash pad, pool, playing games and Karley taught me how to make my own jewelry, cute huh? It's so addicting!

I've got to get me one of these.....mmmm maybe not :)

Giving Aunt Karley wet hugs, she's such a trooper.

Wii Dance for Kids is so much fun, the kids loved it!

All this driving was making Emma and Aunt Karley a little bit crazy.
Aaron made the long drive all by himself non stop to spend the weekend with us and Im so glad he made the effort and took the time off work to come join us, we had such a good time!

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It's what fun is!

2011-08-04T18:09:00.001-07:00

Grandma Bell treated us to Lagoon for Aaron's birthday and it was such a fun day! The weather was perfect and there were no long lines on any of the rides, we walked onto almost all of them, it was perfect.

Karter and Emma are the cutest cousins together! They are exactly one month apart, have the same temperaments and have always got along so great with each other.
Awaiting the waterfall on rattlesnake rapids....
Getting soaked :)
So much fun we got in line and did it again and it cooled us off for the rest of the day.
Better watch out, Emma's behind the wheel!

It's weird how the rides I loved as a kid I can't handle anymore cuz they make me sick, am I the only one?

Emma begged and begged to go on the big swings and I was glad I took her on them cuz she had the biggest smile on her face the whole time.

Best people ever, love these guys!

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Rainy Campout

2011-07-20T12:18:00.001-07:00

The other week we went camping up Mt. Nebo to Payson Lakes which is so beautiful, with my sister Kerstin and her family. We love camping, it's one of our favorite things to do as a family. Unfortunately with this camping trip we got rained out and had to leave after one night. Very frustrating after all the preparation and spending a whole day packing just to turn around throw all the muddy stuff back in the van and head back home to spray everthing down. But on the plus side we got to roast marshmallows, play games, have yummy camping french toast, and go for a pretty hike around the lake. We've noticed that this is what happens to us every year, we get one rainy campout and then we do a redo and end up with a great camping trip, we're already planning our redo.

We all got our hair braided by Kerstin, even me, Aaron said I looked like that girl show I like to watch, "uh Anne of Green Gables?" 'Yeah', hehe

Utah's seasons and weather have been so strange this year so hopefully next time we can have our long camping weekend without the rain :)

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Delta 4th of July Celebration

2011-07-17T08:04:00.000-07:00

Summer is going way too fast this year! Life has been so crazy busy Im just waiting for things to slow down, if ever. It's weird, when Emma's last day of school came I was worried about summer and how I was going to keep my girls entertained for every day for 3 months. But seriously we haven't had one day for the girls to even nag at me saying "Im bored", we haven't had one free weekend where we could ask "What shall we do today?" This summer has definitely been different, in the past summers were about sleeping in, being lazy, vacations and this summer was booked up before it ever began. Granted I think it's because we are back in Utah with family and so there is always stuff going on and Aaron's business keeps us both busy, but oh what I would give for a quiet day at home.

Okay so there is my rambling, I just had to vent. Anyways, for the 4th of July we were so excited to be able to spend it back in Delta like we used to. Delta is where Aaron grew up and it is a small town with one traffic light and they put on an awesome 4th of July every year. The weather was great, it was overcast and perfect. Everyone else kept complaining that it was too hot, but after living through several Texas summers Aaron and I were quite enjoying ourselves. I keep waiting for it to get hotter, and then I realize wait, this is Utah where 90 is the high, wahoo! My mother in law kept saying how humid it was and I was laughing at her cuz in Texas the humidity is 3 times worse. We would step outside and it would curl Chloe's hair for me I never had to use any product.
We started with the parade of course. Aaron was in band in high school and was the Drum Major and got to lead the band and he gets so excited when the band comes through he just had to jump in there with him. One time we visited Delta and went to a football game and Aaron is still good friends with the band teacher and he had Aaron take over the drums during the game and he was in heaven.
Chloe with Aunt Sheena. Whenever we go out with Aunt Sheena, people always ask her if my girls are her kids, they could easily pass for hers and Grandma Loene has started telling me how much Chloe reminds her of Aunt Sheena more every day....not so sure that is a good thing or a bad thing, haha just kidding Sheena, we love you!
Pony rides for only $1 and they let them go forever, versus Draper Days yesterday which was $3.50 for like one ride around, lame.

Wagon rides for only $1, awesome! The girls loved it! It was really bouncy and rocks side to side.

You can't go to a fair without getting cotton candy, or in this case two.
Cotton candy beards :) We weren't able to get tickets to the Derby this year and we did our own fireworks. Can't wait for next year!

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"King of the Wold"

2011-06-25T08:52:00.001-07:00

Aaron turned 30 this week, it was a hard Birthday for him, but we made it fun. When my Dad turned 30 my Mom made these 30 t-shirts for the family and I thought it would be fun to do the same thing.
We're short a couple of kiddos and a mustache hahaha
Emma and I got up at 6:30 in the morning to decorate Aaron's car before he woke up and headed to work. We improved a little from last year and used window markers. I gave Emma a couple of windows to do as she pleased and on one of them she wrote, "King of the Wold!" I love it! Aaron said he got a lot of weird looks driving around lol!

I took Aaron on a surprise date up to Ruth's Diner up Immigration Canyon. Ruth's Diner is a Trolley car turned into a restaurant and was featured on the Food Network Channel on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. It is the 2nd oldest restaurant in Utah and has been around since 1930. We sat outside on the patio with the live music, it is a great place and so beautiful up there.

30 candles makes for a BIG flame!

Happy Birthday Aaron, we love you!!

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Emma's 7th Birthday!

2011-06-17T18:53:00.001-07:00

My sweet baby Emma (yes she is still my baby) turned 7 years old this week. I asked her what she wanted to do for her Birthday and she said she wanted to spend the day with her cousin Myree. So we had my niece Anna and Myree come sleepover and we turned Emma's Birthday into a 2 day celebration. We started the day with chocolate chip pancakes and then headed over to this great splash pad that is free just at the bottom of Spanish Fork Canyon. We made a trip of it and packed a picnic, played in the water for a couple of hours and enjoyed the playground they have there too.

We came back to the house and continued with more outdoor play all day. We got out Emma's new sprinkler and put it by the trampoline, brought out the bubble machine, got out the new chalk toys, and once we were all exhausted from being in the sun all day we headed inside for a couple more party games and then Emma's favorite dinner, fruit filled crepes. Once Aaron finally got home from work we got to do cake, ice cream and presents.
Wishing hard, "I wish I would grow up faster so I can drive a car."

The party didn't stop there, the next morning we went out bowling and then over to McDonalds. It was a crazy fun Birthday! We Love our Emma Lou, she is such a sweet, caring, friendly girl and we are so blessed to have her in our family.

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Sunday Hike

2011-06-05T16:42:00.000-07:00

One of the things I missed most while living in Texas was hiking. It's one of my favorite things, and I love that the girls are old enough to go with us but not at that age where they would hate it. So after church today we went on a Sunday hike. The girls were great, they didn't complain even though it got hot and steep in some parts, they were troopers.

Emma is such a sweetheart! On a really steep part I took her hand and showed her that as you go down you turn your feet to the side and that makes it easier and she said, "I'd rather fall then have you fall." And before we left Aaron was packing up our backpack with snacks, water, gotta have band aids for Chloe, and a pocket knife, don't dare go without one after 127 hours. Anyways, Emma packed up her own backpack and when I asked her what she put in it she said, "Extra pair of socks, slippers and my Book of Mormon because you never know when you might need it." I love her way of thinking.

Chloe is Wonder Woman!
Gotta love these crazy girls!

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A little bit of everything

2011-05-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I have blogged, we've been so busy so I will try to catch up. Just before Easter Aaron got quite the surprise. Aaron served his mission in the Manchester England mission and his favorite companion was Elder Baron who is also from England. Well John and his girlfriend just happened to take a trip out to Utah and Aaron had no idea he was in town. I told Aaron we were going on a date to a restaurant in Salt Lake called the Red Iguana. While we were waiting to be seated his companion walked through the door and Aaron was totally shocked! He was so excited to see his companion, it had been a long time since they have seen eachother. We had so much fun just eating great food and visiting. I could just listen to them talk for hours, I love their accents.
Easter was a fun weekend with family. We traveled to Delta and had a BBQ and a egg hunt for the kiddos.
Then we came back to my parents house and did another egg hunt for the kids. Did I mention Emma got glasses a couple of weeks ago? At night when she did her homework she would complain that her eyes were watery, I finally figured out that her eyes weren't watering but that was how she described blurry, it looked like she was looking through water, duh! So we took her to the eye doctor and yep she needs them to see things up close but she is still suppose to wear them most of the time. Well she has my eyes, but hopefully she gets Aaron's teeth.
My brothers, what can I say....
But the kids weren't the only ones who got to do a egg hunt. Every year my Mom puts one together for us older kids :) She spends a whole week getting it ready. But there is no candy in those eggs, no much better, money! Haha we get so greedy with our reusable shopping bags around our necks and my Dad gives the green light and it's total chaos! All the eggs are filled with coins and some lucky ones get dollar bills. Aaron and I made it out with $40, date night here we come!
I got more eggs there Aaron did, I was a little more aggressive.
Emma just had her Spring Program at school today. I am so proud of her, she did such a great job and she was so adorable! Look at her squished between all those boys. Her table at school is all boys and she loves it.
The theme was Seasons Change, so they sang lots of songs about each season.

Emma got to do the Winter Waltz with this pretty white dress we borrowed from my niece Mary, it was her baptism dress.
Emma's dance partner was Luke. He is such a sweet boy! They have more boys then girls in her class and the teacher chose 4 boys and 4 girls to dance in the program and she said she needed one more and asked the boys who would volunteer. All the boys were quiet but then Luke raised his hand and said, "I will dance but only if I get to dance with Emma." How cute is that!

Look how cute! :)
Emma also had a singing part with two other girls, Emma loves to sing and she has a really pretty voice.
Here was a country dance Emma got to do with Luke.

She talked a lot about the end of the dance where she jumps on Lukes back. It was really hard to get a picture of, but it was really cute!
Luke asked if he could get a picture with Emma after the program. Aaron later asked Emma if he needed to have a talk with Luke and she just gets real shy about it. I Love it!

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Everyone needs a lil Green!

2011-03-17T11:00:00.001-07:00

I love St. Patrick's Day! Every year growing up my mom would go all out and the Leprechauns would come visit our house and it always made me feel so special. I have continued the tradition in our family with our kids and the girls love it. It's worth the time and effort the night before even though it gets taken down the very next day.
The girls have to follow the lil leprechauns feet from their room to their pot of gold and treasure. When Emma saw the foot prints she said, "The Leprechauns aren't very good at wiping their feet are they mom?"

And we always have Lucky Charms with green milk, I usually do green chocolate chip pancakes too but I was too tired from staying up late the night before helping the lil leprechauns.
Emma was excited to wear a whole bunch of green to school today cuz she wasn't going to get pinched.
Everyone needs a little green :)

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Keepin busy

2011-03-12T18:12:00.001-08:00

Lately I have been getting really tired of my routine, getting the kids ready, cleaning, dishes, laundry, grocery shopping, dinner and so on....I usually feel like I can't take time to do something I want to do like craft or read until all the housework and family stuff is takin care of first and so I usually don't get a lot of me time cuz of that. But this last week I just needed a break, my house suffered for it but I have a few projects to show for it and it I feel good cuz I accomplished something. I think every now and then I need to give myself permission to craft and leave the dishes piled high in the sink and the house an utter mess....it's good for me, right?

So this book is a quiet book great for sacrament meeting and even family nights. I love quiet books, I made one for the girls at Christmas and they still pull it out every Sunday. To download and print it out go here

I saw two different Emma and Joseph collage frames in friends houses in Texas and I just fell in love with it and have been wanting to make my own ever since. There is one more picture I want to put in called While Emma Sleeps and these are all Liz Lemon Swindle pictures but Deseret Book and Seagull Book don't carry them in this size anymore so I had to make a special order to her warehouse in American Fork and go pick these up. If you come across that other picture that is a 5x7 pick it up for me :)
Lastly were these pom poms to decorate the girls room with hardly any money. Some tissue paper, floral wire and fishing line and that's it! My sister in law Heather did this for her girls room and I love it! For directions go here. It just adds a little something. But I can't decide if I should add a third one or not, if I do it will probably be a light pink, I did pink for Emma and blue for Chloe cuz those are their favorite colors....what do ya think, two or three???

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The Tooth Fairy

2011-03-06T13:30:00.000-08:00

Emma finally lost her first tooth! She has had these two loose teeth for well over a month now and one of them finally came out today. Emma was really nervous about it falling out, but once it did and she saw that it didn't hurt she was really excited. I got this idea from my friend Sarah to make this little Tooth Fairy for when the kids lose their teeth. It was really easy to make, if I can make it anyone can. For a step by step tutorial go here
The Best part is the mouth is a pouch for the teeth to go in...LOVE it, so cute!
Emma's teeth were so stubborn her permanent ones grew all the way in right behind her baby teeth. She got to have shark teeth for a while :)
Yea!!! Finally! All Mommy did was give it a little tug, Emma was so brave.
We get to use the Tooth Fairy which has been hanging from the kitchen cupboard reminding Emma to keep wiggling that tooth. Now we just got to get that other tooth to come out ;D

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Vegas/St. George Getaway!

2011-02-14T08:38:00.000-08:00

For Valentines weekend we went on a getaway to Las Vegas and St. George with my brother Josh and his wife McCall. We stayed one night at the Excalibur which was lots of fun!

We got to Vegas late, but decided to walk around the hotel and casino anyways. We were all pretty tired and Josh tried to capture our exhausted faces with his iphone, alas McCall cracks me up, she is too funny that I couldn't keep my straight tired face without laughing. :)
Before.....
After.... yeah we lost it all

We got to spend one day walking the strip before heading to McCall's family condo in St. George.
They wanted $30 for this photo, yeah right! Josh and Aaron were sneaky and took a picture of our picture with their iphones. Little croping and there you go.
St. George was a blast as always. This was our 2nd trip down there with Josh and McCall, they're so much fun to hang out with. We went hot tubbing, played couples tennis, wii mariokart (which is really hard!), sat outside reading enjoying the sunshine and getting sun burns and did a little hiking plus I got the largest ice cream cone I have ever seen and this was a Small!!

Josh and McCall somehow convinced us to shimmy our way through this crack between two rock walls, I was amazed we fit! It was a little scary....

This is right after we squeezed through the crack, that crack under my leg, yeah that was it.

A Little Mermaid, couldn't resist :)
Some cool cave with a fireplace inside. Such a Great trip and the weather was like 70 degrees!

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My Texas Girls!

2011-02-03T11:13:00.000-08:00

I am so lucky to have been blessed with such Great friends! My Texas Girls are amazing, for my Birthday they all chipped in on a plane ticket for me to fly out and spend a weekend with them. It couldn't have come at a better time. We had a miscarriage and a trip to Texas with the support of my friends and some time to relax, have fun and get away from it all was just what I needed.
We went out to eat, went to the movies, did some shopping and just had some much needed girl time.
But the highlight of the trip for me was our sleepover. We stayed up till 5:30 in the morning and then got up around 9:00 to start the rest of our day. I am definitely too old to do that anymore, we were all like zombies the next day, but it was worth it we had a blast! We played the Scene It game for all three Twilight movies, of course! What's a girls night without some Twilight! Then we rocked out on Rock Band and to finish it off we all made our own individual blankets. Granted I don't know how to sew, but I was lucky Miss Sarah helped me out and whipped it out in no time. I still have some finishing touches so I will post pictures of the finished product later.

I made sure my flight didn't leave till after church. I was so excited to visit my old ward and to see everybody. It was such a Great trip, thank you My Texas Girls for being so sweet and for making it happen. Love you!

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Birthdays!

2011-01-16T06:56:00.000-08:00

I turned 27 this month. I've noticed the last couple years whenever I got asked how old I was I had to think about it for a minute. I remember asking my parents when I was younger how old they were and they wouldn't know and I couldn't imagine how you couldn't know how old you were but now I do lol!

My birthdays when I was little never seemed like they were a big deal. I didn't have parties, I don't remember any cake or presents so now Aaron gets the responsibility of making up for it and making it a special day for me every year, and he does a great job!

I have the greatest friends! My girlfriends from Texas all chipped in on a ticket for me to fly out to Texas for the weekend, I am so freakin' excited!!! My brother Jon was so awesome and came over and made me chocolate molten cakes with mint sauce, they were soooo good! My sister took me to lunch at Kneaders and I don't know if it's just because Im pregnant but I had the Best sandwich I have ever had, I've been craving it ever since. Then Aaron surprised me with flowers, velvet cake and took me to get my nails done (which I love doing but can't justify how expensive it is) and then topped it off with dinner and a movie. It was a great birthday!

My little Princess turned 4 years old this month and she definitely took advantage of being Princess of the day, we couldn't get her to make her bed or do anything she didn't want to do. I was so happy to be able to celebrate her birthday in Utah where family could come. We took her to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point with a bunch of family and it was awesome! After that we came back to our house for cake, ice cream, pinata and presents. She really racked it in! It was so nice to have her cousins and family there to celebrate her special day with us.

This dinosaur was so huge I couldn't even get half of it in the picture.

This is Chloe and Anna's scary dinosaur faces, lol!
Mary plays so well with Chloe, she gave her all the dinosaurs. Chloe gathered such a huge pile other kids were coming and asking if they could have one.
Myree and Emma had so much fun building and rebuilding their dam.

I love this picture and how Chloe is worried about Grandma Bell.
Digging for fossils and they found one :)

Grandma Bell is the Best! The kids have so much fun with her.

I don't know how but we managed to squeeze 25 people into our little apartment. It was a little crazy but well worth it!
It's not a party without a pinata! I was surprised at how fast these kiddos tore it apart.
Happy Birthday Chloebug! You're such a sweetheart and so loving and we are so blessed to have you in our family, we love you!!!

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Christmas!

2011-01-05T16:57:00.000-08:00

We had our first Christmas at home without having to deal with airports, layovers, fitting all the gifts into the suitcases onto the plane and it was heaven! We had such a great Christmas! My favorite part of Christmas and the thing I look forward to the most every year is my immediate families Tycksen Christmas Party. It is a blast every year just having a party with my siblings and nieces and nephews. We do the nativity every year and Chloe was an angel this year and one of the three wise men.

After that each family does a skit or contributes to the program. First was my amazing older sister Kerstin and her family. She is my example of a great mother. I admire her for so many things and she is my go-to gal for everything! She is always there for me and I love her to death! Her and her kids did a song with bells, they are very smart and talented kiddos.
Emma woked hard on a Christmas story that she wanted to read for everyone. Emma is always writing books. When Piper (my parents yorkie puppy) died a couple of months ago, Emma wrote a couple of stories for my Grandma about Piper, one called 'Piper and the Cabin' because my Dad would always take Piper to the cabin every weekend and the other was 'Piper and the Bath' and it was all about how Piper was stinky and needed a bath lol! Then Emma and Chloe sang Jingle Bells with bells of course.

Josh and McCall's skit was the funniest skit! They did the twelve days of Christmas and include every member of the family in the lyrics, it was awesome!

Then Aaron and all my brothers (plus Joey a family friend) surprised my mom and sang Away in a Manger. It was really nice, they all sounded great! After their song Aaron and I had a surprise of our own for everyone. We gave Grandma Ruthie a present and inside was a baby bib. Everyone was really excited for us, I am working on getting the video of their reaction downloaded, just have to figure it out.
Then we played games, the kids played white elephant.
And decorated gingerbread houses. This is Kerstin's youngest Anna. These two are best friends and less then a month apart. They both love playing princesses together.

Emma spent hours outside building this snowman all by herself. Not too shabby!
We got together with Grandma Bell and had scones and hot chocolate at Porters Place and then went and saw the Thanksgiving Point Lights. Karen is the sweetest, caring person and she is so much fun to be around. We love her to pieces!
It was nice to have our own little Christmas morning actually on Christmas and not two weeks in advance. It was a small Christmas but the girls loved it and were happy. They got sleds, scooters, movies, books and jewelry boxes. Hope y'all had a wonderful Christmas!

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A bit of randomness

2010-12-20T08:03:00.001-08:00

I guess I kind of dropped off the face of the earth since Halloween, just been crazy busy I guess. Life is great being back in Utah and near family, tho we miss our Texas family everyday. Chloe still says she wants to go back to Texas.

Lets see what have we been up to....last November we dropped the girls off with Grandma Loene in Delta for the weekend and took off to St. George with my brother Josh and his wife McCall. McCalls family has a way nice condo there that we got to stay at. This was the first time Aaron and I have had a get away without the girls in over 3 years. It was very much needed! We had so much fun! Josh and McCall taught us double tennis, we went hot tubbing, watched football in the theater room, stayed up playing games and watching Hot Rod, went to the movies, and you can't go to St. George without shopping at the outlets. Plus on our last day we went and visited the St. George Temple and then took a drive around beautiful St. George and all its red rock. We came across the Tuchan theater which was closed but we snuck in anyways and walked around. It's pretty cool, I hope I can see a play there someday. Thanks Josh and McCall for a great weekend!

Living in my parents basement apartment has its perks, such as sneeking out after the girls have gone to bed and going to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter in DBox seats no less. I've never seen a movie in DBox seats and if you ever get the chance it's worth the extra money. Of course the guy in front of us couldn't handle the intensity of the DBox seat and threw up all over the floor, disgusting!

Then there was Thanksgiving, we got to have two, one in Delta with Aarons Mom and then again in Orem with Aarons Dad. It's always a challenge to fit everyone in for the holidays, we don't just have the common two grandparents houses to visit, we have four, but it sure makes it fun :)
The girls have loved all the snow and building snowman's, as for me I could do without the scraping the ice off the windshield every morning before car pool ugh!

Totally random, but hey that's what this post is all about....I finally got my thimbles up. I started collecting thimbles when I was about 6 years old. My first one was from our trip to Zion National Park. Most of these I have collected from the different places I've been able to visit but a lot of them are from family and friends who will pick one up for me on their crazy adventures, love it!

And I recently inherited this fantastic dresser from my father-in-law for the girls room. It belonged to Aaron's Grandma and we have a picture of her standing next to it in the 1930's. I can't wait for spring, Im going to haul it outside and give it a nice paint job.

Lastly we finally got some family pictures taken over Thanksgiving by sister-in-law Heather. We were at my family's cabin in Mt. Pleasant and we went into town by this old shop. Heather is a fantastic photographer and I love her style and how she uses natural light and no flash and doesn't tell the girls to smile, just takes natural shots. If you need pictures for any occasion look her up. Well that's all for now but I already have Christmas stuff to blog, so stay tuned.

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Family Night Pumpkins

2010-10-25T18:09:00.001-07:00

I have been sick today, I have had the stomach flu twice now in 2 weeks and I have a head cold on top of it. I woke up and couldn't get Emma off to school, but luckily Aaron was able to stay home with me and take care of things. On the plus side Chloe and I watched Anne of Green Gables all day and Chloe actually sat through the whole thing with me. With Halloween days away and I promised my girls we would do our pumpkins for Family Night I pulled myself together and we got it done. Plus Aaron roasted the pumpkin seeds which were so good!
Aaron's is the Boo Owl one, mine is the mummy and Chloe's is blue and Emma's red. I saw this cute idea for a safe way for the girls to decorate their pumpkins in a magazine using paint, different colors of felt and craft foam.

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Hiking

2010-10-18T13:39:00.001-07:00

One thing that I really missed about Utah while we lived in Texas was the mountains and how pretty the leaves are in the Fall when they change colors. Yesterday my brother Josh and his wife McCall invited us on a little Sunday hike. It was really fun, the girls made it all the way through the hike with no problems and then as were walking to our car they both biffed it on the sidewalk within 3 feet of each other. We all felt really bad for them but we couldn't stop laughing either. Emma got first hurt and was screaming pretty bad and then Chloe biffed it and Emma just laughed. It's interesting how when Josh and I were younger all we ever did was fight or ignore each other and now it's actually fun to hang out with him. Hahaha funny how that changes.

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Fall Festivities

2010-10-15T19:58:00.000-07:00

I love when the Holiday season starts and all the fun family activities. This week I helped my mom throw a Halloween Party for the grandkids, we have 14 grandkids so it was a lot of fun! The girls dressed up as clowns this year, Chloe is wearing an old clownsuit my Mom made for us when we were little and Emma is wearing one my sister Kerstin made for her girls. I hate clowns, they scare me, but my girls sure make cute clowns.
Emma just chillin waiting for her cousins to arrive.
My sister Kerstins kids and my Mom as a crazy scientist.
One of the games we played was Mummy Relay. We divided up into teams and gave each team a roll of toilet paper and let them at it. Emma wanted to be mummified, it was hilarious!
Another game was freeze dance. We put on Monster Mash and the kids had fun dancing and striking poses and then they started a conga line. We played some more games like put the bones on the skeleton and guess how many candy in the jar and then we decorated Halloween cookies. The girls just love seeing their cousins all the time, I hope we make this a yearly Halloween tradition.
Emma is out of school for Fall Break and my sister in law Heather invited us to go see Ramona and Beezus at the dollar theater today. I read all those books when I was little and I loved them. I hope Emma will someday love them too. The movie was fantastic! It was so cute and so funny, I loved it! Later we went to the Pumpkin Patch with Heather and her family and my brother Josh and his wife McCall.
It was a pretty cool pumpkin patch, the pumpkins are way cheap and they have all these tractors for the kids to play on and a corn maze and hayrides.
We let the girls wander around until they found their special pumpkin. It didn't take long for Emma to find hers.

Chloe on the other hand took a long time to find her special pumpkin. She went up and down the rows and when she did find it she held it above her head and yelled, "I found the perfect pumpkin!"
I love Fall time and Im looking forward to all the festivities.

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First Day of First

2010-08-28T05:59:00.001-07:00

We had our first semi normal week here in Utah. Our house is mostly unpacked except for our room, you have to jump over boxes to get to the bed but we are getting there. Chloe is finally adjusting to living in a new place. She is a Texan, lived there since she was two months old and she struggled with the move. The first week she would be up all night crying saying she wanted to go home. She once asked me if our house was gone and I said no that we moved and this was our new house and she got all upset and said "No it's not!" So I made their room a priority to get put together hoping it would help Chloe feel more at home. She is starting to do better, but the other day she asked me, "Mom I want to go back to Texas, how about you?"

She is still adjusting to change of weather from Texas, she still puts on a coat and scarf and carries around her gloves, anywhere feels colder then Texas, lol. One morning we went outside and Emma said, "Mom is it winter!?!" It's 90 degrees people! I think it feels fantastic! It was really funny, one day I was standing outside the school next to some other moms waiting for our kids to get out and they were talking about the weather and one mom said, "The news said it's suppose to get up to 90 this week, oh my gosh!!" "I know that's so hot!!" Come on people are you serious?!? I wanted to chime in and be like excuse me I just came from 105 plus humidity this is heaven, instead I just smiled to myself.

Emma started first grade this last week at the same Elementary school I went to. The school is right down the road, it's so nice being able to walk her to school everyday. I teared up on my first day walking her to school I was overwhelmed with fun school day memories with all my friends, it doesn't seem that long ago, ya know? It's so weird! Emma was a little nervous on her first day, her tummy was upset so I couldn't get her to eat very much breakfast. It's a new school and a new teacher, but her teacher is really nice and she is enjoying it now. I can't believe she is in first grade already. I didn't think I would get emotional this time, that you only cried when they started Kindergarten, but no it doesn't get any easier. After dropping her off and watching her walk into the school without me I went home and cried to Aaron. Chloe and I miss having her around all day. When I pick her up I can't help smothering her with kisses and hugs.

She is growing up too fast!

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Celebrations

2010-08-22T07:09:00.000-07:00

To celebrate Aaron's graduation I threw him a surprise Welcome Home/Graduation Party with his side of the family. We had it at Los Hermanos which is the restaurant where we had our luncheon after we got married. Everyone was already at the restaurant when we got there so Aaron was totally surprised. I thought I had given it away so many times, but thankfully he had been totally oblivious to it all. He kept saying "Did you know about this!?!" Um yeah I planned it haha
Here we have Aaron's sister Cheree and her family along with Emma.
And then we had Grandma Bell and Aaron's sisters Sheena and Karley and her two boys and his cousin Markai and her husband Wes. I was so glad everyone was able to come, it has been forever since Aaron and all his sisters have been together.
Sibling Love :)
Cheree and one of her cute twins, sadly I still can't tell them apart so I can't tell you which one this is, I know that's terrible.
Aaron's sister Karley was so awesome and drove 10 hours from Oregon just to come visit us. We haven't seen her in two years so we were really excited to get to spend some time with them. For Aaron's graduation present Grandma Bell and Aunt Karley bought our family tickets to go to Lagoon and we had a blast!

Here we have Ty Ty, Chloe, Karter and Emma being crazy kiddos.
Bumper cars was my ultimate favorite of all the kid rides to watch. Chloe was hilarious, she just kept going around and around in circles.

These cousins get along so great, it's like they have never been apart. Emma and Karter are exactly one month apart to the day and Ty and Chloe are about a year, so it works out great. Karley and I have plans to get pregnant at the same time for our third babies, it is just so much more fun that way :)
You can't go to Lagoon and not ride on the cars and boats.
These two are concentrating so hard on making it around that turn lol!

This was one of their favorites because they could all sit together, they could have ridden it all day if we would have let them.

We also had a game night, where we had pizza, roasted smores, played on the trampoline, Aaron and Karley battled it out in ping pong and we all had fun playing games with the kids. It was such a nice visit with the Arritt family and we can't wait to take a road trip out to Oregon and spend some more time with them.

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Big Changes

2010-08-15T13:24:00.001-07:00

My baby graduated this weekend and is now Dr. Aaron Bell, way to go Aaron! I am so proud of him, he has worked so hard for the last 8 years of schooling and really deserves the best.

Shaking hands with President Fabrizio Mancini

It met everything to Aaron that his baby sister Sheena flew out from Utah just to go to his graduation and then keep him company in the Uhaul on the 27 hour drive back home. You're the best Sheena!
Aaron's Dad also flew out for the graduation and to help us pack up and move everything, he was such a big help and Aaron was so happy to have some of his family there to celebrate with him.

I love Chloe's faces in pictures, she cracks me up!
The girls and I were not about to make that drive so thanks to Papa Steve we hopped on a plane after Aaron's graduation. My whole family was leaving on vacation to Lake Powell for a week but my sister Kerstin and her daughter Anna made us a sign and baked some cookies and put some flowers in our apartment to welcome us home. Thanks Kerstin!
My brother Josh and McCall also surprised me with a few thimbles which I collect from their travels abroad this summer. If you ever go anywhere amazing, pick me up a thimble.
Now here are the pictures of our apartment my Dad built for us after his house burned down at Christmas 2008

This will be our driveway....
The walkway to our apartment....
We have a basement apartment....
The living room, the carpet is sooo soft....
The dining area, love the light fixture and hard wood floor.....
The kitchen, love the granite countertops, blinds, cupboards, new appliances....

The girls room....
Our room, love the closet.....
The bathroom, love the tile work....
The hallway that connects onto my parents house....
And a little sign they added for us for privacy hehe....
The backyard!!! So excited about this and Chloe can't wait to roast some smores....
Emma's excited about hot tubbin with Papa Steve....
These are the mountains I grew up with, I've really missed the mountains....
The best part is the trampoline, the girls didn't know what to do at first, just stood there and stared at it, so I jumped on and showed them how it's done. It is soooo nice to be able to go outside and actually be able to play and not be drenched in sweat the minute you step out the door. The weather is so great right now, the girls and I were actually cold when my sister picked us up from the airport we had to turn on the heater. But Chloe's hair has gone completely flat due to no humidity.

They could get used to this....we're so spoiled!

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Bon Voyage Party

2010-08-10T19:07:00.001-07:00

I have been truly blessed with the Best friends ever! Our last weekend here was bittersweet hanging out and saying goodbye to friends and our ward.
This is Tirzah our babysitter whom the girls just adore, they're really going to miss her.
This is one of my young women Breeana, she is so sweet!
Our Primary had a splash party with all these different relays and the girls had so much fun with their primary friends.

But the best part of the weekend was the amazing Bon Voyage Swim Party my friend Sarah threw me.
Check out this cake! Holy cow so cool! Sarah handmade suitcase invitations for the party and then my friend Shelley took the invitation to the store and had them make an identical cake after the invitation, how cool is that!?!
Sarah and Shelley also got us a Texas Star as our momento of Texas, LOVE it! Can't wait proudly display it in our home in Utah.
Sarah is the most creative talented girl I know. I envy her creativeness and her talent for making such cute crafts. You know you're a lucky girl if you receive a handmade gift from Sarah and I can proudly brag that I have received many! Haha

She went all out for this party and had all these cute details and party decorations. When you walk in the door she had made us a memory board with words that represent different things for our time here in Texas. And there on the table she had Utah and Texas postcards with our new Utah address on the Texas ones for our friends to take and the Utah ones for them to write their address for us to have, so creative I love it!
Sarah also had gone through and printed off pictures from our blog and used them to decorate our timeline for the past 3 1/2 years that we have lived here. It was really cool to see Chloe as a 2 month old baby and how much she grew and all the different things we have done in Texas. Can I just say it again how cute and creative that is!
But my favorite thing of the party was this Beautiful quilt Sarah surprised me with. I was so surprised, I couldn't believe it! She made white blocks all over the quilt for the guests to sign and write us a message on, this is definitely one of the best gifts I have ever received, I just love it!
The girls had so much fun swimming and playing on the slip and slide with their friends. They're really going to miss them.

Thanks Sarah for throwing us the Best going away party anyone has ever had!!!

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In One Week....

2010-08-06T16:27:00.000-07:00

In one week after 8 long years of school, 8 years of living away from family, 3 different colleges, 3 different cities, $$$$$ in school debt, leaving friends behind and making new ones, my husband will finally be Dr. Aaron Bell and I will be Mrs. Dr. Aaron Bell hehe A wife couldn't be more proud!

In one week we will cram into the uhaul and the girls and I will hop on a plane and head back home to Utah.

Texas has been our home for the past 3 1/2 years which is longest we have lived anywhere since we've been married. The Texan accent has rubbed off on us all y'all. :) Chloe has lived here almost her whole life. Emma has her southern drawl she surprises us with every now and again.

15 things we will miss about Texas:

-Our Friends! Aw our friends.....they became our family away from family, we love you!!

-Our ward, we have the best ward that we fit into so well only to leave it behind and learn to do all over again in a new ward.

-Our fantastic babysitter that our girls adore, she is going to be hard to replace.

-Our swimming pool with the kiddie pool in our front yard, being able to head right outside and go swimming whenever we want to.

-Texas thunderstorms, you haven't experienced a lightning storm until you have seen and heard one in Texas, it is so cool!

-The 9 months out of the year where the weather is perrrfect! You get your snow to play in once or twice and then when you've had enough it's gone and you never have to deal with it again.

-The people, I haven't met friendlier people, everyone holds doors for ya, smiles or says hello at the store.

-Six Flags right out our front door 5 minutes away.

-The Dallas Cowboys, Go Cowboys!!

-The Lonestar 4th of July fireworks show, I have yet to see more spectacular firework show.

-The Splash Factory, cheap fun for my girls for only a dollar.

-The variety of stuff to do and places to eat, a lot more choices then just chilies and applebees.

-All the wildflowers that grow all over the place and on the sides of the road

-The variety of wildlife right in my backyard, armadillo, raccoon, wild boars, foxes, yes I have seen all of these right outside my apartment, but I will not miss the gigantic bugs! It's like all the bugs here are on steroids, they're ginormous!

-The Mountainless camping, haha we had our doubts, but we had lots of fun on our Texas camping trips.

We love Texas, it has been good to us and we will miss it.

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Fashion Show for Sarah

2010-08-03T13:22:00.000-07:00

Our girls don't get new clothes unless it is a gift or special occasion so when my friend Sarah gave them a bag full of clothes that her girls grew out of my girls were excited! They wanted to try everything on and do a fashion show for me and I just had to take some pics because it was hilarious! I don't know where Emma learned to pose like this, but it was very entertaining to watch.

I think she is quite the model :)

I love how Chloe jumped in at the bottom of this picture with an apple slice in her mouth.
Sucking in her cheeks to look like the anorexic models, tho I don't think she did that on purpose. Thanks Sarah for the clothes!

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Happy 4th of July

2010-07-04T19:20:00.001-07:00

To celebrate the 4th of July we did the whole parade and fireworks thing, which was lots of fun! The girls got spoiled at the parade last year with bags full of candy so when there was no candy at this parade they were quite disappointed. At one time during the parade after Emma realized there would be no candy, she turned to Aaron and said, "Daddy is this exciting for you?" That girl cracks us up :)
We slept in and had to run out the door to make it in time to the parade so there was no time to do hair, hence the hats and Chloe's mullet.

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Twi-Nerds

2010-06-30T10:56:00.000-07:00

I got to go to the midnight showing of Eclipse with my friends Sarah and Shelley. We got tickets to see the trilogy and it was so much fun! We even made our own T-shirts that say, "OCD Obsessive Cullen Disorder" The theater had a costume contest which was lame, but if they had a t-shirt contest we would have won hands down.
When you walked into the theater they had these life size props of Jacob and Edward to take your pictures with and then everybody voted in a drawing for either Edward or Jacob and they randomly picked two people that won the life size Jacob or Edward to take home. Edward won of course with 51% votes to 49% to Jacob.

We were sitting in that theater for 10 hours so we brought everything to make us comfy, including blankets, socks, burritos from taco bell and lots of candy. The whole night was so much fun besides the squealing throughout all of New Moon every time Jacob had his shirt off which was pretty much the whole show, that got a little annoying. But I really liked Eclipse, I think it's my favorite so far.

Thanks to my girlies for being a Twinerd with me :)

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Uncle Erik

2010-06-29T05:39:00.000-07:00

I haven't seen my little brother Erik in over 3 1/2 years. We moved out to Texas about the same time he enlisted in the military and we have never been visiting Utah at the same time so we always missed each other. He called and told me that he would be at airport near my house for a few hours before he had to take off for some more training. I was so excited that I would finally get to see him and have him meet my girls, even if it was at an airport and only for a couple of hours.
Erik was worried that since the girls didn't know him they would be really shy, but they took to him right away, what's not to love? They thought he was so funny and they wore him out making him carry them all over on his shoulders and back and upside down, good thing he has packed on some muscle. :)

The first thought I had when I saw Erik was "Man he got big!"
The girls got antsy hanging out at the baggage claim after a few hours so we had to leave, but it was nice getting to chat with Erik and we can't wait till next April when we can see him again. We love you Erik!

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And the Diabetic gets some cake

2010-06-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

Today is Aaron's Birthday. He has school all day as usual until real late, but we were able to get a babysitter for the weekend and go out for steak and see the Karate Kid, which was awesome!! Aaron wasn't expecting much today, but the girls and I made Egg and Sausage Muffins for breakfast and surprised Aaron by sending him off to school in a car full of balloons.

Lucky for us a patient had to reschedule so Aaron came home and joined us for lunch, cupcakes with 29 candles and presents.

Poor guy never gets sweets because of his diabetics, but the girls and I made cupcakes for him anyways.....I figure once a year is okay, right? Happy Birthday Aaron, we love you!!

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Emma turns 6!

2010-06-15T12:42:00.000-07:00

*Beware lots of pictures

School has been out a week and a half now and it has been nothing but busy. Im all for free entertainment. Add a bubble machine to a bubble bath and you get a free hour of fun. Check out your local library for storytime and there is another free hour of fun. Our library had a magician last night and it was lots of fun. Play places at the mall are also a great free hour of fun, except when your 3 year old decides it's a good time to pee her pants, sigh! And this weekend we have also been celebrating Emma's 6th birthday.

Aaron has school real late on Emma's birthday so we celebrated over the weekend at the bowling alley.
Chloe waiting for that strike....or not :)

Chloe's victory dance

Mmmm frosting!
I got this idea from my sister Kerstin and put together a craft box for Emma. It was the best gift, after opening it Emma said, "This is the best birthday ever!" Ah just what I like to hear.

Then today was Emma's birthday and we couldn't just do nothin, so I told Emma we could do whatever she wanted on her birthday and she chose the splash factory, which is awesome cuz it only costs a dollar. To make things better our friends the Kirchmanns came with us!

Emma and Aubree stickin out their behinds in the sprinklers lol!
To top things off Sarah made these adorable shirts for the girls. Chloe got a pink C shirt for her last birthday and it is her Favorite shirt! She insists on wearing it just about everyday, it's a nightmare trying to get her to wear anything else so Chloe was quite a happy lil camper to now have two C shirts.
And the backs have cute butterflies on them. Plus Emma got this cute flower clip. Thank you Sarah, you're so thoughtful! Emma has been spoiled this birthday, but she deserves it. And she is very excited that Princess Belle is going to be calling her tonight to wish her a Happy Birthday. https://secure.uvoxnetworks.com/disney/ Check it out, it's a cute present for any little princess.

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Emma Graduates!

2010-05-24T08:59:00.000-07:00

My baby graduated from Kindergarten today. I am so proud of Emma! She learned how to read and write, do math, tell time....I know I wasn't learning all the stuff she did when I was in Kindergarten. Congrats Emma! We love you!!

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Happy Mothers Day!

2010-05-09T12:09:00.000-07:00

Happy Mothers Day! I gave my mothers day talk today in Sacrament meeting and I was grateful for the opportunity, but man I was nervous! I hate that I always get so nervous whenever I have to give a talk or a lesson, no matter how much I will myself to stop shaking I can't help shaking like a leaf....it's horrible.

I made these pictures flower bouquets for all my moms for Mothers Day. I thought they turned out cute and they were super easy and cheap, just the way I like it.
This last week was Teacher Appreciation Week and here is the pencil vase I put together for Emma's Kindergarten teacher. I got this idea online and I loved the idea of the teachers being able to use the pencils off the vase. I just used a rubber band to hold the pencils around a Crystal Light container and then covered it with a ribbon. Again cute, super easy and cheap. :)
Yesterday we went to the Scarborough Fair and we got to ride the elephant again, you just can't pass up an elephant ride.
I know its hard to see, but Chloe is wedged between Emma and I. She was leaning over trying to pet the elephant.
Chloe looks concerned, I think she was wondering, "Who are these people?"
The girls loved this ride. Chloe got off and said, "That ride is so busy!" Meaning it made her so dizzy. It was really funny because at the beginning while the girls were sitting in the ride waiting for the other kids to get on Chloe said, "It's too slow!" The people running the swing thought that was pretty funny, don't they know to hurry up and get things going? Chloe waits for no one.

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Blue Bonnet Pictures

2010-05-06T16:53:00.000-07:00

It's a popular thing here in Texas that when spring roles around you go out and take family pictures in a field full of Blue Bonnet flowers. Often times these fields are on the side of the road and you'll see people pulled over taking pictures of their little kiddos. We got together with our friends the Kirchmanns last weekend and took our family pictures among the Blue Bonnets and I think they turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

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Camping! Camping! Camping!

2010-04-27T15:03:00.001-07:00

We LOVE camping! I didn't grow up with camping (besides girls camp), but Aaron did and he makes it so fun. We played badminton, volleyball, stayed up late playing phase 10, woke up early to a nice fire, hot chocolate and a yummy breakfast. It was a nice getaway. We went to Cedar Hill State Park and it was so green and pretty. Chloe helped Daddy set up the tent.
Emma helped with the sweeping, though it seemed like a never ending job, lol!

The girls playing in the tent yelling, "Let us out, Let us out!"
Even the doggies had a good time
One of the best parts for me is Aaron's tinfoil dinners. I look forward to this every year at our annual camping trip and it tastes so good!
The girls favorite part was roasting marshmellows
Heaven...
Our camp had so many butterflies, they really like Aaron and Emma. Little did Aaron know that he had two on his backside hehe
Our camp also had a playground which was awesome
My three favorite people :)
We went for walks, it was so beautiful
And we got on our swimsuits and played by the beach and looked for seashells.
We called Emma the Butterfly Whisperer.
She has two, one on her hand and jacket.

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Easter Sunday

2010-04-04T16:57:00.001-07:00

We had a nice Easter today. I loved conference this weekend and I loved that my girls are older now and behave better that I can actually sit and listen. Aarons sister Cheree and her family moved back home to Utah last month so it was just us this year celebrating Easter. It's hard on Emma, her only cousin that lived here in Texas is far away now and it's hard for her to understand that we can't go visit her yet.

But we still had a nice day. The girls woke up and found their Easter baskets hidden in the bath tub. We colored Easter eggs which later Aaron made into deviled eggs, yummy! Then we watched the dvd the church sent out a couple of years ago called Finding Faith in Christ and the girls actually sat and watched the whole thing, I was very impressed. Then we went outside and the girls hunted for eggs, I am looking forward to next Easter when we get to do the Easter Egg hunt with my family and all Emma's cousins.

During conference Emma was drawing on her notepad and then she wanted to show me her drawings. She said, "This one is the Easter Bunny with polka dots and this one is the Easter bunny hiding eggs. The Easter Bunny and eggs are fun, but that's not why we have Easter." I was surprised and asked her why do we have Easter.
She showed me her next drawing and said, "Easter is because Jesus died for us and came alive again and was resurrected." I said, "Is the heart above his head because you love him?" And she said, "No, when he died for us he loved us." I am so thankful for Easter and that we can remember our Savior and his sacrifice for us.

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Aaron's Drum Solo

2010-03-24T14:59:00.000-07:00

Give it up for my hubby Aaron winning 2nd place and $500 two years running at the Parker College of Chiropractic Talent Show! I am so proud of him! He worked so hard at this solo and practiced everyday. Last year he just did a drum solo, but he had a lot of friends ask him if he would play to music this year so he chose Grim Goodbye by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

Twirling his stick, the crowd loves that.
I bought Aaron firestix which light up blue when he hits the drums. Halfway through the solo they dimmed the lights and he pulled out his light up drum sticks. It was awesome!!
They use a meter that judges how loud the crowd cheers for you to determine who wins. I kept telling Emma and Chloe to be really quiet for all the other contestants and scream as loud as they could when it was Daddy's turn. I could hear Emma's little voice "yelling" Go Daddy! I asked her if she yelled as loud as she could and she said, "Yes but I couldn't hear myself yelling!" It was so loud. He had all his friends and classmates come support him and that meant so much to him. After the talent show Aaron had to go back to class and he was late because he had to put the drums back into the van. He said that when he walked into his class the teacher stopped class and everyone was clapping and cheering for him. He is so happy and thankful to have such a great group of peers.
I love this picture, everyone is clapping for eachother. The group on the right was called Radial Head and they won 1st, Aaron 2nd and the Latin group on the left took 3rd place, but if you think about it Aaron won more money because they have to split the winnings amongst themselves and Aaron gets to keep it all hahahaha
Aaron and his girls
I'm so proud of you Baby! You're the Best Drummer I know, I love you!

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St. Patricks Day Memories!

2010-03-16T13:18:00.000-07:00

If you know me you know that St. Patricks Day is my favorite Holiday. I grew up anticipating March 17th every year because the Leprechauns always visited our house. My Mom made it really special for us and it it stuck with me when I started my own family that I wanted to share the tradition with my kids. We wake up to little green footprints outside our bedroom door that wind around the house and end at a pot of gold under the rainbow. The Leprechauns decorated our house and table with Lucky Charms, green milk and green prizes. My favorite thing was the rainbow glasses and silly irish music playing in the background. Hope y'all have a great day and wear a little green! :)

My older brother Josh and I right before heading off to school. I think I was in 7th grade.
Josh and I the next year, I got contacts so I think this is about 8th grade.
This is my family, can you find me?
Another year, I think I was in 9th grade. The little leprechauns stayed up real late covering the house in green.
The tradition carries on with our family with Emma's first St. Patricks Day in 2005.
St. Patricks Day in 2008, aw look how cute and little Chloe is!I am missing a few years, but I can't find where I saved the pictures.

St. Patricks Day 2009
And this year 2010, I was so happy to come across these felt glasses at JoAnns, Lol!

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Scentsy Giveaway!

2010-03-14T18:46:00.000-07:00

I recently bought a scentsy warmer and I love it! If you haven't tried it or if you just love scentsy, check out this college warmer giveaway!
http://wicklesskp.blogspot.com/

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The Phantom of the Opera

2010-03-06T10:08:00.000-08:00

We are still celebrating our 7 year anniversary, but this time we got a babysitter and got to go out just the two of us. I have never been to a broadway production and I was so excited when I found out that The Phantom of the Opera was in Dallas, neither Aaron or I have seen it. The Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running show in Broadway history and is in its 22nd year. We got to get dressed up and I finally had an excuse to wear my little black dress and strappy shoes. It was an amazing show!

Tim Martin Gleason played the Phantom and he just blew us away! He has been doing Phantom of the Opera since 2001 and has the longest running record playing the role of Raoul more then 2,600 times. He was amazing!

Now I really want so see Les Miserables and Wicked.

Emma took the picture for us, for a five year old she did a pretty good job.

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Monster Jam World Tour 2010

2010-02-28T12:24:00.000-08:00

Our 7 year Anniversary is March 1st and as we were coming up with ideas of ways to celebrate we came across the Monster Trucks event at the Cowboys Stadium. I have never been, but ever since I was little I always wanted to see Monster Trucks, so when I found out that it was being held in town on our Anniversary weekend it was a no brainer. Plus we got to take the girls along and they had a blast!

Emma and Aaron's favorite Monster Truck was the Batman.
The US Air force Monster Truck really tore it up over a jump and totally broke off the front axle.
Captain Curse

This was really cool to see, Captain curse drove right over the winnebago.

Gravedigger

Gravedigger was awesome!
Bounty Hunter
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle was a crowd favorite

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle caught on fire after a rollover.

We can't wait to do it again! The girls keep talking about Monster Trucks and how they want to go again. I highly recommend it to y'all . :) Happy Anniversary!!

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Giveaway!!

2010-02-24T18:27:00.000-08:00

My sister-in-law makes amazing beautiful jewelry and is having a giveaway on her blog right now! I have a watch bracelet and necklace set that I just love and is my favorite jewelry set. Go check it out, you won't be disappointed! http://www.bedangleme.blogspot.com /

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Old Spice

2010-02-21T11:32:00.000-08:00

My sister Kerstin emailed me this link this morning and I couldn't stop laughing, it gets funnier every time you watch it! Loooove it! Lol!

http://www.oldspice.com/videos/all/22/The_Man_Your_Man_Could_Smell_Like/

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Snow Day in Texas!!!

2010-02-11T13:31:00.000-08:00

I took Emma to school this morning despite the fact that it was snowing unusually hard for Texas. It never let up and I wasn't surprised to get a call a few hours later from Emma's school saying to come and get her because they were closing the school. Born and raised in Utah I had to laugh at this, but Texans aren't meant for the snow so I was happy to get a snow day with my kids. Aaron's school got cancelled too so he got to build a snowman with us.

Look at her face, pure bliss! Chloe loved the snow! She just laid down and rolled around in it.

This is our backyard, crazy huh?

Emma was pretty excited about the whole thing, she just kept yelling "Snowman!"

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Valentine Vase

2010-02-11T07:58:00.000-08:00

I was trying to find a unique inexpensive gift idea for Emma's teacher for Valentines Day and I came across this cute idea online to make a stained glass valentine vase http://video.about.com/familycrafts/Valentine-Stained-Glass-Vase.html

It's was super easy and fun for Emma to do and her teacher loved it! I removed the wrapper on a snapple bottle and used goo gone for any residue and then rinsed it out with soapy water. Emma tore lots of different strips of red and pink tissue paper in different sizes. She would smother Elmer's glue on the bottle with her finger and then smooth on tissue paper. We did several layers and then the glue drys clear and it looks great in the light. Cute, cheap and fun for the kids to do.

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100 Days!

2010-02-05T15:54:00.001-08:00

Today was Emma's 100th day of school. They celebrated by having all the kids in Kindergarten decorate a poster with 100 things and parade them around the school. Emma made a flower out of 100 marshmallows. Aaron, Chloe and I surprised Emma by showing up to the parade and she was so happy to see us there. Thanks to my Dad I inherited a soft side and started to tear up, I really tried hard not to and Aaron just laughed at me, but I am so proud of her. Emma got thrown into Kindergarten unexpectedly this year and she has made the adjustment so well. I thought she had another year so I enrolled her in Pre-K, only to find out after a few days of Pre-School that she was suppose to be in Kindergarten. She went from being at home with Mommy all day to going to school 7 hours everyday, but she has done so well. She has an excellent teacher and the other kids are just naturally drawn to her, she has made so many friends. Yesterday at school her "boyfriend" Nathan bought her a Valentine pencil out of the pencil machine and gave it to her, aw so cute!! Im so glad Emma loves school, we are so proud of her!

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Sick! Sick! Sick!

2010-02-02T18:00:00.000-08:00

The Stomach Flu bug hit our house last week. Poor lil Emma got it bad and then I caught it, which is always the worst cuz when the Mom gets sick who takes care of everybody else? I was too sick to pick up Emma from school so Daddy surprised her and she felt so bad for me so she made me this cute little card and had Daddy sign it.

She said thats me as a heart and the little people on the bottom of the card are our family.
Mommy, Daddy and the two dogs.
Daddy as a heart, love the hair! :)
Chloe did her part to take care of me too. When I felt like I was ready to throw up she took me to that bathroom, shoved my head into the toilet and said, "Come on Mom! Go like this, Blaaaaaah!" I can always expect Chloe to make me laugh even when I feel bad. Even though it was hard being sick and still taking care of the kids once Aaron got home I locked myself in my room and put on the long version of Pride and Prejudice. Aaaah Mr. Darcy!

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