Lights at Temple Square

Wow!! It sure has been a long time since I have updated. I am sorry I will try to do better and updating more often. This year we have talking a lot about some traditions that we want to do as a family. Our kids our getting the age where they are going to remember what we do around Christmas time so we made a list of some things that we want to do. Last Monday night we went with my family to a live Nativity in Alpine. We first met at Barbacoa and got dinner and then we went to a church up in Alpine got all bundled up and rode in a horse trailer to up a barn. It was so neat. There was a live camel, sheep, and donkey. They also had Roman soldiers riding on horses asking for our name and taxes and if we have seen a new born baby. There were people dressed up and doing different things like making baskets, grinding wheat, etc. - acting like people from Bethlehem. Then in a different stable there was Mary, Joseph and the baby. I was so neat to see in real life. Then we went to my moms and had hot chocolate and played games.

Last Wednesday night we went to Temple Square. We first rode Trax from my bothers house to the Gateway and ate at California Pizza Kitchen, mmmm I absolutely love that place. Especially their spinach artichoke dip. If you haven't gotten that there, it is must!! Then we took trax over to the temple and walked around. It was fun to see all the lights. It doesn't matter how many times you have seen the lights they are truly amazing. I can't imagine how much work goes in to that. I did miss the huge red tree though. They stopped doing that a couple years ago and it is missed. Then we went and got some warm drinks at Starbucks. I got the Carmel apple cider. Delicious. So thanks family for the fun couple of days. Here are some pictures:

Taylor all bundled up getting ready to to on Trax, she looks like the kid who can't put his arms down.
Tess and Taylor in front of the Pink trees. Look at Tess striking a pose. She is such a crack up, so does stuff like that all the time.

Me and Kevin in front of the orange lights.

Here is Haley all bundled up riding in her stroller. She was so good. She didn't make a peep all night long and she was in her car seat for a near 4-5 hours. Such a good girl!

Kevin and Taylor riding on Trax

Mom and Taylor - look at Taylor's rosy cheeks

Tess and Taylor enjoying their OWN hot chocolates. Those are perfect for kids they make them so they are just warm. They loved them.

Taylor pulling a funny face!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

We had a wonderful Halloween. We started the activities off by going to Omniture. Kevin's work puts on quite a party. Each department is given $2000 to decorate the department in a theme. Kevin's department did BYU vs. UofU. They brought in real sod, goal posts, score board, cosmo and BYU cheerleaders, and much more. It was crazy. Some other themes were the Wizard of Oz, which they brought in midgets for the munchkins, and crystal ball the witch, scarecrow, tin man, etc and the yellow brick road. Another was the old school Nintendo. That was fun to see. There were so many I could go on and on. Then we came home and had pizza with Eric and Brandi and go the girls ready to go Trick-or-treating. Taylor was pretty tired so she wasn't much fun to be around at the beginning, so that is why I didn't really get any good pictures of her. After a while she like going to each house. At each house she always wanted a YELLOW treat. Whether it was peanut M&M's, starburst, Butterfingers, what ever it was it had to be yellow. You knew which bag was hers by looking in and seeing yellow. Then after trick-or-treating we drove down to Cedar City to visit my grandparents. It was a fun weekend. We enjoyed it. Here are some pictures of the girls' costumes.


Taylor-Devin, Haley-Angel
Taylor and Tyler Trick-or-Treating

Here are some of the kids in the neighborhood. There is Tess' cute Witch costume.

Haley being and Angel

And I couldn't get a picture of Taylor by herself, she was being a stink.

Witches Night Out!!

I am sure that most of you know that Gardner Village does a Witches Night Out every year right before Halloween. Well I have always wanted to go, but never have. Well this year I was determined to go. So this year Jocey and Middy wanted to go. We each picked a color and made these tutu's, got tights, made hats, and got a glow stick all to match. I must say, I think we look pretty cute. We had a little photo shoot before we left and here are some of the pictures. Jocey took some pictures while we were there and I will have to get those from her and post them, because I think they turned out pretty cute. While we were there we first each got a Carmel apple and I ate the whole thing, it was sooo good. Then we just shopped around. It was pretty fun to look at all the witches that were out and shop with no kids, car seats, and strollers. We loved looking around and finding good deals our things for our houses. I couldn't believe how many people were there, especially how many men were there. Every time we saw a man we kept asking our selves why they were there and how there wives even got them there. I couldn't pay Kevin enough to go to Gardner Village especially on witches night out. Anyway we had a lot of fun and plan on going every year, so if any of you are interested just let me know.

WOW, it's been a long time!!

So sorry I haven't blogged for such a long time. It has been too long. Our Internet has been on the fritz for a month. It is so frustrating to start surfing the web and then it just shuts off. So by the time I get to blogging, I am at my wits end. Especially when it came to loading pictures onto my blog. Anyway, Kevin spent all night, and I mean all night from like 5:30-10:30 getting our computer working right and the Internet working. I am so grateful, so thank Kevin. So I am back and will do better at posting. Is is just me, or does everyone else feel like when your Internet isn't working you have no connection the outside world. I have been going stir-crazy not being able to check my email and blogs. So it is so nice now to be connected to what is going on out there!!

Sisters {Cousins}

Tess and Taylor love each other so much. Most of the time they act like sisters. They usually play like sisters, but sometimes they fight like sisters. It is so fun for them to live next door. They love to run back and forth to each others house. Sometimes it is scary for Brandi and I because they just leave to go play and we don't know where they have gone. Today Tess came over to play and she was wearing the same outfit as Taylor. It was so funny, and even funnier than that is it has happened before. I had to take advantage and take a picture. They are too dang cute.

I just had to throw in cute pictures of Haley:

Happy 4 month Birthday, Haley

Haley is 4 MONTHS today!! I can't believe it, time has gone by so fast. She is such a fun baby, she loves to smile and goo and you. She is such a a talker. On Saturday she rolled over for the first time, and now she can't stop. Almost the second you lay her on her back she rolls right over. I think she is proud of herself that she can do it. The only draw back to her rolling over all the time is that she spits up a lot because she is laying on her tummy. It is getting really annoying, mostly because she will then put her face in it, and then she stinks. Hopefully we will get over that soon.

We just lover her to pieces and we are so glad that she is in our family. We love all her smiles and rolls, she has plenty of them. Happy 4 months, Haley!!

Miles Turned 1

Last Thursday was my nephew's 1st birthday. I can't believe that he is already one. Time when by so fast when you think about the last year. Wow! Anyway, Brandi put on the cutest and best party. She had a Jungle party. Her sister made this cutest cake. I can't believe how cute it turned out. Then she made these way cute cupcakes. I can't believe how talented she is. They turned out so cute you didn't want to eat them. We had a yummy dinner and then we opened presents. Miles got all these cute stuffed animals. He got like 6 or 7. Every time Brandi would open one she would lay it around his face. By the end it was like, "Where is Miles?" It was so funny. The funny thing was that he got all different animals. He was so cute. Happy Birthday Miles!!!