Temple Square

Can you believe there is 10 days till Christmas?

Monday night we went to dinner at the Blue Lemon, and then to Temple Square (to see the lights) with some friends. -Thanks for the fun night guys! The weather was perfect. In Little C's opinion is was nice enough that we should have gone swimming in the reflection pond. he REALLY wanted too. He said to Chris, I need my hat and gloves off. Then he said he needed his jacket off so he could go swim in the water. :) Silly little boy. The lights were beautiful, as always.

I am so THANKFUL for...

this little boy.

He makes my life so much

FUN!

days go by...

Ha!

Thats about all I can say.

Another year is nearly flown completely past!

I think I have managed to post just barely more than once each season this year.

Oh well, what are ya gonna do about it?!

I have taken lots of pictures though- thats worth something right?

Lets be honest, we all know I wont really be playing catch up for the entire year I have missed in the blog department.

So, here are some of my fav pictures to show that we have been busy living, and loving life.

Because I loaded these in the wrong order (and dont want to take the time to move them around) they are in order from most recent then going back....

Our little man turned TWO

We had a Mickey Mouse Party- or as he says Micka Mowse

(like he had a mouth full of marbles)

Did you see the pumpkins? Enough said there...if you talked to Chris at all this summer you know what Im talkin about.

We went to the fair. It was a beautiful night, and was very fun to walk around looking at all the crazy people that are at the fair. animals, and rides. Christopher LOVED the animals. I had my first funnel cake. yum....

Daddy Chris had a birthday!

We planted a garden. As you know - the pumpkins grew!

I have SOOO many pictures, and lots of scrapbooking and journaling that I need to get busy doing. Lets see if I do more blogging in this coming year. lol.

So...till then folks- Happy Holidays!

Yep. He's a boy.

He likes to get dirty.

Mud puddles are one of his favorite things.

I took some groceries into the house- giving him a 15 second window of opportunity.

He took it, and had lots of fun.

and then got a second bath that day!

5 Years!

We celebrated our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY this year. I can believe how fast time flies by. Thanksfor the past 5 years Chris, I cant wait to see what the next 5 bring!

Happy Anniversary Chris! I love you!

p.s. what file are the wedding pictures in on this computer?

I have missed my blog.....

We have been busy with working, playing and wondering how time flies to fast!

Christopher has decided to start saying cheese when he sees the camera. Cute? Yes! but kinda makes him smile funny. lol He has been talking like crazy lately and its had a laughing continually when he parrots things we say.

Merry-Go-Round

They rode the carousel. Little Christopher loved it!  

$1.50 well spent. 

2 play dates in ONE week!

We got to have 2 playdates in 1 week! Wednesday we got to meet Christopher's newest friends Ella and Lynie at the Sandy Aquarium. We had never been there before, but since it was raining we decided it was a great day to check it out. The kids LOVED it. Christopher ran around and around. Quickly realized I should have left the stroller in the car! He went back and forth between fish tanks saying Mama-- "ook feeish" - or in other words MaMa look fish! He LOVED the penguins, but couldnt figure out if they were "feeish" or birds. So he just kept asking Fish? Birds? Fish? Birds? Mama--ook fish? and was kind of concerned that the birds were swimming. It was cute. 

After the aquarium we went to good old McDonalds for some nuggets and fries. While I carried our food to a table Christopher followed the other kids from the playdate into the playland (he has never been in one before, because they gross me out! lol) and had so much fun. 

Here is a picture of him when he first climbed inside-He was SO proud of himself! The picture is a bit blurry since it was taken from outside the plastic window thing. 

Then he got brave and decided to climb higher. That fun ended with me getting to climb up to get him because he didnt dare climb down. I was not sure who I felt more sorry for. Him- he was stuck and scared, or me- I had to climb inside the plastic germ farm

to get him! Just kidding! Seriously though.....

No Apology

Hi! I wont be apologizing for not posting...I think that due to the continual lack of posting I am about the only one that reads this blog anyway. lol. So, I will not be apologizing, just moving on with posts- obviously just from time to time (with lots of time in between) haha. 

Here we are mid April. I figure its time for a post. We have been staying as busy as can be. Having lots of fun along the way.  Guess what? I even have pictures for this post. I know- its amazing. I am actually doing a real post for a change. 

Me and my little guy! Of course he wasn't looking at the camera.

I swear its impossible to get a picture of him looking. 

He was very busy playing with the blocks. I sure do love my little buddy. 

so what have we been up to?...

This week Christopher and I got to go on a play date to the Gateway Childrens Museum with some friends. We had so much fun! Then we had lunch at the food court before we headed home for a MUCH needed nap time after playing really hard.

Christopher had lots of fun driving the cars. He was in his own little world making car sounds while he turned the wheel. 

It was also TONS of fun playing in the neat sandbox that was filled with ground up cork. 

You would have thought I was killing him when I pulled him out of it to go get lunch. He would have sat in there all day long!

Thanks girls (and thanks to your little boys) for the fun day! We need to play more often. It was fun to get out together! Love you both! 

Life is a BLUR....pictures coming soon

Good Grief TIME FLIES!!!! Life is sweet, and everything is going well at our house. ... I guess I will give a bit of an update since the last time I posted -- LAST YEAR- was in the fall. Oh boy... it its so sad that I am going to do it like this but seeing as how its been months I will just be giving highlights as to what our family has been up to.

Thanksgiving-- we had a great time with the Meier family. Dinner was fabulous. I have some pictures but cant figure out what file I put them in. So, just picture lil' c looking cute in a little sweater vest. We are so thankful for all of our wonderful family, and that we get to live close enough to see each other often. We are very very thankful to be a happy little family of 3. Christopher is so much fun to have in our lives.

The day after thanksgiving I slept in... no early morning shopping for me. I did however set up my Christmas decorations. Christopher woke up from his nap to see the house decorated. His face was so cute. He LOVED the tree. We had ornaments all over the house. He felt like they were more fun to play with than look at. The tree remained undecorated from about 3 feet from the bottom after he took the ornaments off the first time. I figured there was no point in fighting it. The picture below is him seeing the tree the first time-- his face was so funny.

The middle of December came and Christopher took his first plane ride with me. We went and visited one of my best friends (since preschool) for her birthday. Her sweet husband came up with plan for my visit to be a surprise. So, he picked me and little C up from the airport without her knowing. We got stuck in traffic for well over an hour, during which time she made LOTS of calls to him wondering why in the world he was not home yet. When we got to the house she was very surprised and a very long hug followed our greating! It was so fun! We spent a VERY fun weekend, shopping, saw a movie, talking till way to late at night, and going out to eat. I love you Ashy and miss you like crazy! Thank you to you and Jon for all the fun we had. I loved getting to see you and hope we can visit you in Colorado!

The plane ride home felt like it took forever. Christopher was a champ, but I will say traveling is much harder with out the Daddy of our family and we really wished he had been there. I got home and realized Christopher had cut two teeth while we were away. This explained why I wanted to ship him to the moon while I was visiting. He was so naughty when we would go to restaurants for a meal- life is all new with him. Just when I think I have the hang of things something else happens. This was one of those weekends where I wondered if I would survive being a mom. jk Thank goodness Jon and Ashlyn were so kind- I probably would have killed the kid if I were them. haha Thanks again guys. I love you both!

Christmas came so FAST! We had dinner Christmas eve at my parents house. Dinner was great, and then we opened some presents. Christopher was more thrilled with packaging than the actual presents.

Christmas morning we found that Santa had been to our house and brought more fun toys for Christopher! Then off to the cabin we went for snowmobiling and fun. It was SOOOO COLD! I kid you not- like 1 degree for the high! We had lots of fun playing in the snow, being with family, and relaxing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

I cant even believe its 2010. It just sounds weird! We rang in the new year with some good friends Tim and Kara. We played Wii, and of course Kara and I totally kicked the guys butts. Or not. Whatever. Played cards, and ate lots of yummy food. It was a very fun night! We need to play more Tim and Kara! Thanks for ringing in the new year with us!

January. This month was a total whirlwind of a month. I started nannying for an awesome family. They have a 4 year old and a 1-1/2 year old boys. Christopher goes with me, and really enjoys having playmates!- the bonus being I get paid while he gets to play! :)

I have loved it so far.... I mean changing diapers is not nearly as bad when you get paid for it. And the part that I truly love is I get to have Christopher with me.

I am still teaching class for Grocery Smarts, and saving lots of money on my groceries using coupons. Between the two jobs I definitely stay busy!

Chris started his LAST semester of school. Thats right folks! LAST SEMESTER! I am so proud of how hard he has worked and we are excited for him to be so close to finishing. He has been working after work- doing other electrical jobs, and we have definitely missed him! I do however how hard he works to take care of us! He is so wonderful!

Other January Highlight: Snowmobiling, a visit to the gateway childrens museum, movie nights at home, christopher cutting MORE teeth and being as cranky as possible about it, work, work, work. Christopher had his 18 month check up, and is tall and skinny. His height was in the 80s but weight was like 18 ( I have it written down somewhere) He is talking more and more. His favorite word for the month was NOOOOO! he has now added shaking his hand to signal NO as well. He barks at everything, loves to roll, kick, and throw a ball around. He is still carrying his litle golf clubs all over, and had learned they can help him reach things that are to high otherwise. He just swats things down using it. He is such a funny little boy! I cant believe how fast he learns new things, and is changing to a little boy already!

February.

We celebrated Valentines a week late. I HATE waiting for HOURS to get to have dinner, so by postponing a week we were able to avoid the crowds. We stayed home Valentines weekend and made a yummy dinner and just relaxed. Chris and Christopher gave me a sweet card that was complete with some of Christophers scribbles in it, and some beautiful roses (that are still alive-and beautiful- cool huh?)

Well, now that we are into February I will try and do a little more regular posting. For some reason blogger is not allowing me to add pictures right now so reading this super long post is all you get, but its better than nothing right?! jk. Stay tuned- pictures will follow.

Pumpkin Patch 10/06/09

We had a very fun October! I even took pictures......now that the month is over I will blog about it haha.

This year we went and picked pumpkins from a patch. It was so much fun! Christopher loved riding in the wheel barrow. We walked all over looking for the perfect pumpkins and finally found some. It was a really pretty day that started to cool off about the same time we got there. Lil Christophers nose got really red it was cute. I think we may have to make picking our own pumpkins at a patch a new family tradition. I took my nice camera but forgot the battery! Luckily I had the "back-up camera" in the car.
The Three of Us

He liked climing all over the pumpkins, and playing in the dirt. He is all boy!

Cheese. haha look at that cute little nose-dont wory we wrapped him up in a big blanket after this picture.

Chris and Christopher in the Pumpkin Patch

Cornbellys at Thanksgiving Point -9/25

We had such a fun night at Cornbellys! We went thinking that there was a deal for the corn maze (or so we had heard) for opening night. Well there was but, we didnt have the coupon so I suggested we just walk around and see what there was to do besides the maze. I was a bit worried about taking Christopher into the maze. I could just picture it going like this. We would be having fun having fun, having fun, nope now we are not, now are lost, now hes crying and we are still lost, HELP! .. ... I just didnt want that to happen. Instead we started walking around and playing on the other things that were there like a big slide, swings, and tractor bike things. We spent the whole evening there and didnt spend a dime. I love nights like that. Christopher played so hard that he was asleep in his carseat before we even left the parking lot! Thanks for going with us Mitchell family! We had lots of fun hanging out with you!

We had races on these. Tori totally kicked my butt! We laughed and laughed when I got stuck on the turn!

Do I have to sit here mom?


We all loved the slides. They were so much fun.

Crazy Animals!

I love my little man!

Lesson Learned

Use a hot pad....     Enough said.

 

 I am fine--feel pretty dumb but my burn seems to be healing fine.  glass half full perspective would be -that it looks just like a nike swoosh. that will be a cool scar huh? hahaha. oh, and I got to re-bandage it today I made it so its not so bulky so I can function a little bit more that I could with this sweet dressing on it. Thinking I might just hire a cook. I am pretty sure I dont love cooking as much as I used to, at least for a few days. 

Happy Birthday Christopher!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CHRISTOPHER HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

The little cake with the one was for Christopher to make a mess with. The big one was for us to have a piece of . Due to that his plastic golf clubs are always in his hands we went with a golf theme. 

I can not believe how time flies by. Our little baby is already 1! He loved eating his birthday cake! There was not even time to light the candle and sing. As soon as it was close to him he grabbed the candle and smashed his hand into the cake! It was really funny! He does not mind getting messy! 

Busy Boy

He is so busy......

getting into the fridge.

Finding the snacks that are left in the diaper bag. I left him alone long enough to take the garbage outside. This is what I find when I come in.

NOT wanting to sit in his high chair anymore. He thinks standing is more fun. PLUS when you are done you can really get the poing across to Mom and Dad by smashing the rest of the food 

with your foot. He thinks hes pretty cool.

Picture wont upload...

Emptying the tissue box. What is the problem? Now we don't even have to reach for the box to get one. 

oh what a good little helper I have!

I wanna drive!

Chris asked if we wanted to go with to hit a bucket of balls. When we got to the course the guy asked if we wanted to just go play a couple of holes because the range was already closed. It was so much fun to be out playing together. The last time I was on this course with Chris was the day before my due date. Lets just say I had much more fun this time- not feeling like I was going to pop. We set the camera up with the timer so we could have a family picture. Christopher wanted to drive the cart most of the time but towards the end was happy to just sit in my lap and drink his bottle. It was such a pretty night, and we had so much fun. We did get some funny looks- I guess its not really the norm to sneak a baby on the course. haha

Fun Weekend

I have had a secret hobby the past couple of years. It is something I love to go do all alone. what is it? Bike. This weekend I was NOT alone but it was so much fun. I rode in the tour of utah race. Here is a picture of me--well, the pack that I was riding in. There was a break away that I so wanted to be a part of but I was content to just be a part of the main group. Chris was along the race to take pictures. hahahaha yeah right! Me, in the tour of utah?!!! good one. We went up the canyon for a picnic and ended up seeing the bikers. That is the true story. There really was a break away group that was ahead of the main pack- but I was not even wishing I was in it. I am amazed at the race course-- It was all up hill. I think I would be so tired after the climbs that I wouldnt even be able to enjoy the ride DOWN the hill/mountain.

Our weekend really was fun. I woke up early to go do my coupon shopping. Tori and I met at walmart to try the price matching game. Lets just say I dont think I will do it again. I have just had so many people ask me about it in classes I figured I had better do it so I could give an honest opinion. It took FOREVER. We did save a ton of money and got all the sale items at one store though. so... anyway.

I got home and we packed up a lunch and went to Cascade Springs. Christopher wanted to climb into the waterfall so bad! Instead of a cute family picture in front of it he had a tantrum. I am not joking. I have no idea where he gets his attitude ;) He was trying so hard to get out of our arms that he scraped his forehead (i guess with his own finger nails?) and made it bleed. poor guy, just wanted to splash. He was happy if he could at least watch the water fall.

There was no picnic grounds there so we went down the canyon to the park and ate lunch there. The kids had so much fun playing in the dirt, and running around. I got an apple out and he figured it was for him. There was no getting it back.

playing in the dirt with his buddy. He wanted to be doing whatever the other kids were doing.

He is definitely all boy....loves the dirt!

9 month pictures

he sticks his tongue out all the time-- he kept trying to eat the grass and leaves.

we probably could have taken a hundred like this-- he was always trying to crawl away.

My friend Danielle came over and we took some pictures of Christopher. Someone should have taken a picture of us trying to take his. He is a BUSY boy. We did get some that are worth keeping though.

Open Class

I know this is my family blog-and have another blog that I am advertising this on but in case you dont read She Shops Smart (and you should) we are having an open FREE class. It will be on August 31st at 7pm in Provo. Here is your chance, if you havent been to a class, or missed one that someone you know had you can attend this one. If you have been to a class you are welcome to come but bring a friend who is new to Grocery Smarts it with you. Email sheshopssmart@gmail.com and I will email you a ticket. It will be a lot of fun!

Goodbye Friend...hello new friend

Oh my goodness....I cant even believe this is true. It is with very mixed emotions I tell you that we sold the truck. It was a very sad/happy day. I have had a love hate relationship with that truck. It was the first BIG purchase Chris and I made together. It protected me when I was in a wreck. It got us to the cabin on a road that looked impossible to drive. We have had so much fun with that truck. Drive-in movies, hauling all sorts of things, and driving around town feeling kinda tough. The down side-- it became my vehicle since Chris drives a long way for work. With the addition of a baby the half doors became very frustrating. Parking lots were sometimes a joke. I would have to climb and work really hard to get a car seat in. The cab was too small! We had out grown it. So that made it so we said good bye to our friend the grey truck. I will be honest. I shed some tears, BUT then I looked at what I am now driving and know that it fits our family so much better. Gets better gas mileage and is so much easier with the baby. And when/if we decide to add more children to our family there is room for them. So Good Bye you sweet grey truck, take good care of your next owners! We will miss you.