Yum.

These are photos from last year, but I love them so much :)  I love his dreamy catchlights!

Having a hard time....

I miss this so much.  My heart hurts, and I really wish I could have these moments back.

Appreciate all the days and silly time you have with your little ones.  Eventually for us all those days will only be memories and I can tell you it is sad.  I wish with all my heart I could have more children, and it is by far the hardest trial I have ever gone through.  I am so blessed to have my two beautiful children, and I know that.  

Ghoul's Night Out!

We had Kye's Birthday party on her birthday a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to do a quick post :) I designed the invites (it took me forever!), but Kylie was in love with it.  We had the girls come over for a Ghoul's Night Out, ate pizza, watched a movie, and opened presents.  The girls all had a great time, and I really lucked out finding some Monster Highish stuff around Halloween :)  Thank you TARGET $1 bins :)  We kept it small, because I have to also get things ready for her baptism this Saturday!  I can't believe it's already here!  

Annual 12 Days of Christmas!

Okay, I am so excited just like every year!  Our 12 days of Christmas are almost here :)

Here is our list this year, and I know it's going to be the BEST!

December 13th

1st Day of Christmas

Making A List 

we are going to go visit Santa and give him our lists!

December 14th

2nd Day of Christmas

Grinched

a day of green food, green treats, and of course watching the Grinch!

December 15th

3rd Day of Christmas

To Grandmother's House We'll Go

the kids are having a fun sleepover at my Mom's with their cousin!

December 16th

4th Day of Christmas

Christ Our Savior is Born

this is a day of remembering the true reason of Christmas and learning about our Savior's birth!

December 17th

5th Day of Christmas

Mother Tell Me a Story

a night of hot cocoa and our favorite Christmas tales!

December 18th

6th Day of Christmas

Visions of Sugar Plums

we are building gingerbread houses!

December 19th

7th Day of Christmas

Tis Better to Give

we are making and delivering our neighbor gifts!

December 20th

8th Day of Christmas

The Polar Express

 we will find a ticket on our pillows tonight, hop in the car, and see all the lights on the Polar Express!

December 21st

9th Day of Christmas

Dinner and a Movie

homemade snowman pizza and our favorite Christmas movie!

December 22nd

10th Day of Christmas

Cookies for Santa

we're making yummy sugar cookies to share with Santa!

December 23rd

11th Day of Christmas

Late Night

the kids get to stay up late and play a family game!

December 24th

12th Day of Christmas

Scrumptious Surprise

we are taking the kids to breakfast, SURPRISE!

I am so excited for all the holiday fun, and spending time with my family!  

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

A little business......

Happy Birthday Kylie!!!!

Happy Birthday to my sweet, funny, talented, and beautiful 8 year old!!!!

We love you so much and hope your day is amazing!!!!

Warning.... there are a few pics of E as well :) 

(If we go out, everyone gets their picture taken!) 

AWESOME E!

This seriously just made my crappy week a billion times better :)  Love this kid!

November Update 2012

Can you believe it's November?  I can't quite wrap my head around it, and I better get there soon because this is a crazy month for us.

Bry is doing awesome!  He has a 100% pass rate on all his tests thus far (knock on wood), and I really am so proud of him.  He studies so much and has to take in so much knowledge over a two week period it makes me dizzy just thinking about it.  He showed me a paper this week and said now you need to memorize this and 18 more of them before my test next week, lets just say I am glad it is him and not me ;)  We are looking forward to his Thanksgiving and especially Christmas break :)  It will be nice to see him a little more!  He also has a new calling teaching Gospel Doctrine, and everyone said his first lesson was amazing.  I wish I could have gone, but I was teaching sharing time in primary, so all I can do is wish him luck.  

I have a few more weeks of craziness of work, and then I can take a breath and enjoy my holiday :)  January and February are always slow months for me, so I have plans to get crap done around here.  I am busy trying to plan a birthday in the midst of the chaos and a baptism.  I did give myself a little pat on the back because I am done Christmas shopping!  YAY!  I am so not a procrastinator, so it really isn't that big of an accomplishment.  I had big plans to take some fun photos for our Christmas cards, but just ran out of time.  I just put photos throughout the year on them and called it good.  I didn't even get around to doing fun Halloween photos, but I promised Kylie we would get around to some birthday photos.  A promise is a promise ;)  

Kylie is busy with school and dance as usual.  She is learning her solo, and it is going to really push her this year.  I think she is up for the challenge though, and I've already started to design her costume EEK!!!  Sorry, but that is one of my favorite parts to all of this ;)  She is getting really excited for her birthday party, and her upcoming baptism.  She is a little nervous for the primary program a week after her baptism though.  She was given the part of bearing her testimony about her baptism experience.  It will be her first time bearing her testimony, but I know she will do a great job!  

Ethan is loving Kindergarten, and is doing amazing!  He has straight A's or I guess 5's ;)  He has a best friend who actually lives in the building next to us.  I am so happy he is getting big and doing so well.  Of course it also breaks my heart at the same time, so I am a hot mess most of the time.  

Ethan is looking forward to Christmas and has a very specific list of what he would like, good thing it only has two things on it ;)  

Well that is us in a nut shell, hopefully this month goes off with a hitch.  I just hope I can hold it all together and not get sick at least until January ;) (knock on wood!)

Tricks or Treats?

I had to take a few photos of the kiddos before we left for Tricks or Treats!  We obviously didn't go with any themes for our costumes ;)  We did however get lots of candy and had a lot of fun!  

Hope your Halloween was awesome too!