SO BLESSED.....

to have him in my life!!!!

I know Thanksgiving is over and I wanted to do this before Thanksgiving but I just got way to busy and couldn't fit it in. I figure it won't hurt to do it now!

I don't think you could find two people more compatible than Tim and I!!!! We are like pea's and carrots. :) It was actually 5 years ago over Thanksgiving weekend that we talked about and knew we were going to get married. After I celebrated Thanksgiving with my family in Mesquite I could not stand to be away from him for that long, so I caught a ride with my Aunt and Uncle from Delta to surprise him (He was in Delta with his family). On the drive home to Cedar City from Delta we had "The Talk". It was a very stormy night and it actually took us like 4 hours to get home (usually 2 hours). That is one storm I didn't seem to mind. It could have taken us longer and we wouldn't of cared. Great memories!!!

Anyway, here we are five years later and more in love than that stormy night we were all starry eyed. :) I couldn't be more proud of him and all he has done and does for me and our family. Right now he is going to school full time and doing great at it. I didn't know if we were going to make it to where we are right now. That application process was a doosey!!! With lots of faith, hard work, prayers, money and support we made it through! We knew that would probably be the hardest part of his schooling. So far that is still the case. He is doing well in school. I am so grateful for his brain he has been sent earth with, because he doesn't have to study too long and he does really well in his classes. I find what he is studying interesting as well. In his undergrad he would come home and tell me what he was learning and I have to admit I would go a little blank, maybe because I did not really understand what he was talking about. But now I love talking about pharmacy with him. I feel like I have learned so much too.

He still loves knives, guns and right now his big thing is swords. He has learned all about the Japanese kinds of swords. That fase seems to be fading out now though. I am just waiting for the next thing he will get passionate about. Maybe his I-Touch he got in one of his classes, he does seem a little passionate about that. :) I don't mind so much though because it has really helped organize his life and classes for school.

He is such a great help at home! Anything I mention he is always so eager to hop up and help me out. SO THANKFUL for that. He has NEVER been one to get mad and impatient. He is so calm relaxed and level headed almost ALL THE TIME! When we were first married I think I tried to test that quality a little bit and get a response (you know bring him down to my level) but he never budged and now we never fight and I know I can always rely on that constant stability. I LOVE IT!!!!

It has been a great 5 years of knowing each other! I couldn't be more pleased with our lives and the paths we have taken together! I sure love him to pieces and feel I am blessed beyond measure! Thanks so much for all you are sweetie! I can't wait for the many years to come! I wouldn't want to spend them with anyone else!!!

Grateful for My Emery Girl!!!

Sweet Emery Girl!!! She has been one to teach me so much in life. She came out screaming but is turning out to be quite a good little girl. I have always said that she just gets easier the older she gets.

She is such a great big sister to Kaven and loves him to pieces! The other day I went in her room to check on them and she had a little table top set up with her dolls and was checking them with a thermometer (we had just gotten over our weeks of swine flu) and she said, "We are doctors." "Kaven's a doctor, and my (she always say's "my" instead of "I") a doctor." It always surprises me how much patience she has with him.

She also just started joy school. I can not believe I have a kid old enough to go to a pre-school!!! I know she is still a little young for it but it is a great thing for her to do during the winter so she is not so cooped up in the house all day! So far she is REALLY loving it and doing great!

She is my snuggle or cuddle bug as we say! She loves to snuggle up and be held. She gives kisses and tells us she loves us all the time! What a sweet girl!! We always love it when she hasn't seen us for awhile she always opens her arms as big as she can and runs into our arms while saying, "MMMMomyyyy...." or of course, "Daddy!"

Oh my! What a little social butterfly she is. She LOVES playing with anyone who will play with her. That is why we go outside so much, because there is usually a friend out there. For the most part she is usually really sweet with her friends but will stands her ground if someone tries to take what she is playing with(I kind of like that).

She is not one to be told what to do. She knows what she wants when she has something in her head and will not be told otherwise or distracted! Luckily she is doing better with dealing with this personality but we are still working on it. It makes for some difficulty now but I think if she decides to be good in this life she is going to be POWER HOUSE!!! She has the capacity to do some really great things in this life! Plus if she decides to avoid the bad in her teenage years I am pretty sure she won't be swayed by her peers!

Right now she says she wants to be a doctor when she grows up, her favorite animal is a hippo, her favorite color is purple or orange (but she wants to paint her bedroom green). Her favorite story is The Three Little Pigs. Her favorite food is sour cream or anything with noodles. She LOVES 1.Music 2.Shows like Dora, Blues Clues, Little Einstien, Bear in the Big Blue House (Mostly shows with music or singing in them) 3. Reading books 4. Sippies 5. And of course playing with her mom. :)

It is amazing how much love you can have for one little person! So much that you can not put it into words or even describe it! She fills our little house up with so much joy and love! All I can say is that I am SO GRATEFUL for her! Love you Emery Girl!!!

Thankful for My Kaven Boy!

WOW! I can hardly believe that he is 6 months old! This little guys is just SO special to me. I figured I better write a few things about him since he is approaching 7 months now. *The thing that I love most about him is that he is a TOTAL Mamas boy!!!! I think the reason why he is so photogenic is because his eyes are almost ALWAYS on me, and he is so smiley. When ever his dad (or anyone else holds him), he keeps his eyes on me the whole time, even to the point to where his neck gets majorly kinked to do so! He then will lean as much as he can towards me. Once I grab him, he gives his dad that, I got what I want look, then snuggles in my neck. Sure melts my heart! *His sister is probably his second favorite person! They just adore each other! It is great that they are so happy to play with each other and by each other! They LOVE to wrestle (the best he can). Emery will open her arms to him and he will dive towards her and rub his head on her face or neck and wiggle around. Emery gets a kick out of it. Any time he starts crying Emery will run to his aid and sing him a song or give him a toy. Last night I heard him start to cry in the night. I go in to check on him and I hear Emery in her bed saying, "It's o.k. buddy, your alright Kaven boy." *From the time he was born he has been very special to me. He had taught me that having a baby CAN be fun and not so terribly hard (My poor Emery girl had a hard start in life). I no longer look at babies and cringe, but almost get baby hungry. Crazy seeing that I already have a baby! That is how sweet he is! *We just barely started to teach him to go to sleep on his own. It only took him two times of crying and now all you have to do is lay him down and he goes to sleep! What an easy child!!!! I put off teaching him because I just love rocking him and snuggling him so much! He quit letting me rock him to sleep so I figured it was time to let him do it on his own. *He is so happy all the time! Sometimes we call him flapper because he is always flapping his arms up and down because he is so excited about everything all the time! Emery then says, "flapper, flapper," and that gets him going all the more. * The other day we were sitting in the living room and he was babbling away. At the time he kept saying Da Da Da Da. So we started asking him questions like, "Who is your buddy?" and "Who do you love?" which he kept saying ,"Da, da, da.." I had just noticed that he needed a diaper change. So thinking I was clever and going to get out of diaper duty I asked him, "Who do you want to change your diaper?" He pauses for a little bit then says, "Ma, ma." Guess I dug my own hole for that one. :) These are just a few of the many wonderful things about him. He sure is loved in this household!

Little Haunts

I am finally coming around to posting about Halloween at This is This Place Heritage Park. I have been wanting to go there since we moved here, then Voila we won tickets! We had a great time with our friends the Whetmans. Emery (a.k.a Embrey by Cameron) loves playing with Cameron (a.k.a Cramrin by Emery). So she was pretty excited to spend a lot of the day with him. Here are some things we did:
Waiting for the tickets

Going on a Hay Ride

Trick-or-Treating at the Pioneer Houses

Playing in a miniature town while while Kaven and Dalin take a dinner break.

Horse Rides (I just love her cowboy boots given to her by Grandpa Alan! We thought they would be appropriate for the experience and they matched perfect with her costume too!)

Doing Projects (Emery especially loved the one where you scratch a black bat with a stick and the colors come through. She carried that thing around with her everywhere!)

Visiting the Animals (Hey Emery found a piggy friend!)

We also went for a train ride, had story time from a witch and did some other fun things! I am just glad we were able to do something fun before we all got sick!

Be careful what you wish for........

because you might end up looking like this on Halloween Night It all began October 5th with the Photo Halloween Party (pictures in header) then dressing up in Halloween costumes and Painting Pumpkins in Delta (pictures in previous posts). At this point we are still going strong. Then we made Haunted Houses out of cereal boxes for FHE on the 19th. As you see, this is when things started to falter (it is not compleated). On Sunday we got a little bit more ambition again and made Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin cookies for neighbors, BUT we ended up throwing them away because we were just too worn out to deliever them. Well this is just the begining. The whole next week we had a Halloween party or function almost every day of the week!


Neighborhood parties



Ward Parties


School Parties


The cake walks were a favorite at all the parties for Emery this year.



Well, we had so much fun before Halloween this year that on Friday we said, WE ARE JUST HALLOWEENED OUT as we dragged our giant pumpkins (eagerly awaiting to be carved) to the car!!!! I know, I know, you are all probably thinking WHAT!!! the holiday and party weirdos burnded out??????????? Yes, I am sad it say, it was true. BUT we were recharged again on Halloween morning. We had a full day planned out. For breakfast we had Monster omlets. Then we were off to This is the Place Herritage Park for the Little Haunts with some great friends. Which I am going to do a different post on. It was tons of fun and I got A LOT of Pictures!!! But here is a little video for peeks
. We were going to take a little break for nap time and carving pumpkins (sense we pooped out on Friday) then head off to Trick-or-Treating and dinner/Utes game/Halloween get together with the same friends in the evening (Which we were REALLY looking forward to). BUT now we're back to the begining of my post.
Tim started feeling down during our "break" and ended up sick on Halloween Night! So we had to cancel with our friends and sat around at home all night. We didn't even pass out candy because Tim had touched it all and we did not want to spread anything by chance! So I guess we got what we wished for. Halloween OUT!!!
Needless to say we had a FABULOUS month of Halloween activities and we learned some important lessons:
Be careful what you wish for and
Maybe you really can have too much of a good thing.
So I hope you all had a fun, safe, and healthy (I might add) Halloween!

Piglet, Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, and Christopher Robin
Oh and if you were wondering how our Jackolanterns turned out here they are....

(Still not finished) Guess sometimes you just can't do it all.