Crystal's Virtual Bridal Shower

As sister's we felt kind of guilty about not being able to throw Crystal a bridal shower, what with her living in New Mexico and all, so my awesome sister Leisa thought up the idea to have a VIRTUAL bridal shower for her! Brilliant!

So you are all invited to attend her Virtual Bridal Shower via her Bridal Shower Blog.

Crystalsbridalshower.blogspot.com

Playing Catch Up!

I know this has been a long time coming, I hope the wait will be worth it. It is very scattered and not really in any order. But enjoy!

Serena got a life size barbie for her birthday and she LOVES to put on her clothes and go dancing in them.

Serena dancing with her Daddy

We got some finger paints in our "Thanksgiving Turkey" Serena loves them... can you tell?

This is Serena's "boyfriend" Ender. They are in Nursery together and always hold hands and walk to class together every sunday. Ender's dad is our Home Teacher and he normally brings Ender with him. Here they are sitting together in our chair watching a show.

Serena LOVES her daddy. Here they are cuddling.

Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner!

We all had sunday afternoon naps one sunday and normally Serena would wake us up when she wakes up. But this week she went into the bathroom and started playing with the toothpaste. Can you see it all over her legs, dress, hair and face?

Christmas Jammies! I made robes, and matching Pajama pants for christmas this year.

Isn't my hubby so handsome?

Isaac and Jenny welcomed little Andrew into their family before the New Year. I am so happy that they live here in Provo close to me so I can see them all the time!

Westin's school books came in the mail and Serena wanted to wear the package so Westin cut holes for legs and stuck her in it. She LOVED it.

I can't seem to ever get a real smile from her... Here she is cheesing it up

Serena loves to dress herself now days. This day she wanted to wear her snow hat, gloves, summer jammies, and purple necklace.

We were sick this past weekend, and Serena fell asleep with me on the couch. Doesn't she look so pensive?

Well I hope you enjoyed. Sorry it took so long, I will try so hard to not take a month to update again :) Post a comment so I know I am not just talking to myself :)

Weddings!!!

I have half a dozen other things I should be blogging about but I had to take a minute and give a shout out to my little sister, who just got engaged!!! I can't believe she is old enough to get married (even though she is older than I was when I got married). I am so excited to get to know Cameron better, and so excited for the two of them!

These are pictures I pulled off Crystals blog of the two of them. You can go here (maybe not until tonight) for Crystals story of how it all happened.

Congrats Crystal and Cameron! Love you both!

Thankgiving "Thankful For" Turkey

Westin's sister Joseanne, and his Mom made each family these super cute "Thankful For" Turkeys. Every Day in November you pick a "feather" and it has something that you are thankful for. Then each feather has a corresponding gift to unwrap and an activity do to as a family.

It has been so fun to do with Serena every day, and I think that it is helping me more than anyone remember all the little things I am thankful for. Anyway, I am trying to take pictures of it each day and I will try really hard to post them periodically throughout the month. Here's what we have done so far.

November 1- I am Thankful For Our Car!

This day we got token's to get our car washed at the car wash, an air freshener, and a gift card to drive to our favorite frozen yogurt place, YogurtLand, to get a treat. We haven't washed our car yet because it was soooo cold and wet that day, but we will and when we do we will take pictures of it.

November 2- I am Thankful for Books!

We got the book 5 Silly Turkeys and Serena has LOVED it!

November 3- I am Thankful For Missionaries!

We looked at pictures from Westin's mission, Serena got $2 bill from Great Grandpa Judd, and some Guarana (a drink from Brazil), and a little tag that says "Future Missionary"

November 4- I am Thankful For My Bed/Sleep!

Serena got a new pillow case (that she insisted was a dress)

November 5- I am Thankful For Light!

We got a flashlight and we did shadow puppets on the wall. Serena LOVED it! She had so much fun talking to the "duck".

We also read a book by flash light (and by "We" I mean aunt Joseanne and Serena)

Thanks again Joseanne, Marjalee, Alora and Jenni for all the hard work you put into these activities for us!

Well, there you go. Please, Please PLEASE post a comment! I LOVE getting comments, it makes me so SO SOOO happy! Our last post only got 2 comments and I think it was worth WAY more than that... don't you think?

Halloween

This year for Halloween Serena was Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender (the Cartoon NOT the movie). I made the costume (with LOTS of help from my momma, thanks again mom). Serena did NOT want to pose for pictures, as you can tell by these pictures, these are literally the best ones we could get. Most of the time she was kicking and screaming and not being good for the camera.

This is the first year we went "trick or treating" with her and she LOVED it. It didn't take her long to catch on that all she had to do was say "trick or treat" and she would get candy.

These are pictures from the Ward "Trunk or Treat". I think Westin got pictures of our car on his phone... I'll post pictures of it once I get him to send them to me.

Enjoy the pictures... More updates to come I promise. Don't forget, Post a Comment!

Misc. Pictures

More updates to come this week, I PROMISE!!! But until then enjoy these misc. pictures I pulled off my camera today.

Sensuous Sandwich

There is this DELICIOUS sandwich place in Provo that Westin and I LOVE, it is called Sensuous Sandwich and I honestly could eat there all the time! They have a challenge that if you eat 24 inches in 30 min or less you get a free t-shirt and free refills for the rest of your life (as long as you are wearing your shirt) also you get your picture taken and hung on the wall. We have wanted to do this challenge since we first heard about it but haven't ever had much of an occasion to do it. Until, our good friends Mario and Wendy Chard met us there for lunch a week or so ago and decided that they wanted to do it with us when they came down next time. Well, last night was the night and I am both proud and disgusted with myself and my ability to each such a HUGE sandwich in such a short amount of time. Westin finished in under 10 min, Wendy and I both finished with less than a minute to spare, and poor Mario couldn't finish.

The before picture

The during picture (you can pretty much picture all of us looking like this)

Our victorious after picture!

You can't read it but the back of the shirt says "The Second Best Thing You Can Do With Your Lips Is Eat A Sensuous Sandwich" I LOVE it. Totally worth it! Thanks Mario and Wendy for helping us earn our t-shirts!