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!

Violated

First off I had a WONDERFUL weekend up in Park City! What a great Labor Day! I will post pictures (as long as I can get some e-mailed to me by people who actually took their Camera) and tell you more about it soon....ish.. But today's blog post is NOT about how much fun it was. This is a post for me to rant and rave about how mad I am that while we were innocently playing it up in Park City some jerk broke into my house and stole my things!

Yep you heard me our house was broken into. Luckily nothing big was stolen, our TV is still here, our nice camera, our documents. All it looks like they stole was some cash I had in a jar and some 1 oz silver coins that Serena has gotten for her birthday and christmas from her Aunt Joseanne. The silver makes me the saddest, one of the silver pieces said "baby's first christmas" and I always thought it was so cute and sweet of Joseanne to give to Serena and now it is just gone.

BUT I am so MAD! What kind of jerk would be so self centered that they would break into an olds man's house (remember we live with an 87 year old man) and go through everything he has and leave a huge mess for him to come home to? I am seriously more bugged that he went through my underwear, and personal things that I am that he stole some petty cash. I feel so violated. Grrrrrrr

I don't feel any better now that I have ranted. Darn. I guess pictures to come of Park City soon.

Cute Serena-isms

Serena has done the cutest things lately, it seems like every day she does something new and cute and silly. She is definitely full of personality. Here are just a few cute things she has said/done in the last little while,

1- Whenever we are looking for something she says "hmmm, where is it?"

2- Once we've found it she squeals "there it is!"

3- When we play Hide and Seek she sometimes finds really good places to hide so if we say "where is serena?" she replies "Hmmmm, where is she" and we are able to find her.

4- Everything is a hat... especially food.

5- Today she was trying to get me to eat an apple left over from her breakfast, after multiple times of me telling her I didn't want to she says " It's nummie" and continued to try to force me to eat it.

6- Westin picked her up today and she got a sly, mischievous look in her eye and she said "I gonna eat you"

7- Sometimes when I randomly walk in to the room she squeals with delight and runs up to me and gives me hugs and kisses

8- She loves to show off her toys, especially right after her nap. For example I will go in there to get her and she will show me her puppy and then pretend the puppy licks her face. After which she giggles and giggles and giggles. If she has already thrown all her toys from the bed she will show me her "jammies" (all clothes are jammies to her)

I think I could keep going for pages and pages about how smart and pretty and fun she is but for now that should do. I don't have any super recent pictures that are on my computer so enjoy this one from the zoo a month or two ago.

Enjoy! Post a comment. Please, Please PLEASE!!!

My Husband is the Coolest!

So I just have to take a minute to brag about how stinking cool my husband is. Over the summer Westin took 14 credits for school. He now has his Associates Degree (no he is not done with school but it is a great step to have done) Today we were able to see what his final grades were and what not. He recieved 4 A's and 1 B+. AND he raised he GPA from a 2.79 all the way up to a 3.40!!!

I am so proud of him! This has been a big summer as far as school goes and I definitely feel like Heavenly Father is helping us go toward the direction we are aiming for (BYU animation program)!

Also, he is learning to play the Bagpipes! He has a teacher and everything... Yep, eat your heart out girls, I am married to a red headed Bagpiper....

July-Birthday Month!!!!

Well, July has come and gone! It is always such a crazy month for us, with all 3 birthdays being in there and the 4th, and the 24th. It seems like it was one big party after another. I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked but here are some of the Birthday pictures that I did manage to either take, steal from other people who took pictures. (Note, these are NOT in chronological order)

My birthday was great! We just chilled at home and Westin made me and AWESOME balloon bouquet (see the oversized picture below)! The next day we headed down to the Smith's and partied there the whole weekend. It was lovely and a muchly appreciated break.

I don't know what happened but I can NOT get this picture any smaller! I almost didn't add it but I thought that this balloon bouquet was just WAY to cute, it needed to be showcased!

We didn't do much for Westin's birthday. He had school for most of the day but we had cake and ice cream after dinner and Joseanne came over and played with us for a while. The big exciting thing we did for his birthday was actually 2 days after when we went and saw Captain America. I am sure Westin will eventually blog about it, but it was AWESOME. (In my opinion). I did make Westin's birthday cake to look like Captain America's shield. I am in no way a cake decorator and it definitely turned out sub-par, but I still thought it was fun.

Joseanne, Serena and Westin Blowing Out the Candles

Brother Fife, Me, Serena and Westin. Right before digging in to the delicious Birthday cake!

My sad attempt at decorating a birthday cake... It did taste delicious though! And next year I will be that much better at decorating.... right....?

Serena's joint birthday party with her cousin Aiva was definitely the highlight of the month. They are 1 year and 8 days apart in age and they both LOVE Ponyo... You know the kids Japanimation movie. So that is the theme of their party.

Heather (Aiva's mom) made them both these adorable birthday hats.

Westin made this REALLY cool paper Machét Ponyo that we stuck out of their "birthday cake" (it was really a chocolate truffle in a green bucket with blue whip cream on top)... Isn't it sooo cute! I have such a talented husband!

The kids LOVE playing in the pools!

Smith cousin's all in their 4th of July outfits (The Birthday Party was on the 4th)

We did do come cake and ice cream on Serena's real birthday.

Getting excited to blow out her candles!

Well that's all for now! I have another post almost ready about a fun trip we took to the Zoo with the Wallace's, so stay tuned for more! Don't forget! POST A COMMENT!

Short Update

I have a whole slew of pictures to update the blog with, Pictures of my birthday, Serena's birthday, a trip to the zoo with the Leisa and Andrew Wallace family... the list goes on and on... they are downloaded onto my computer and everything. But, for some reason I just can't bring myself to update tonight with a whole big long "catch up" update. So while you can anxiously wait for a big long update in the next few day's here is a couple of super cute pictures of Serena wearing my sun hat. Isn't she the cutest?

Fun in the Sun

We have been having so much fun over in these parts. Westin just finished the first half of summer semester and he is rocking it! I am so proud of my little college boy. Serena and I have been having a blast playing outside and watching "shows" all day. Last weekend Serena had her first official "sleep over" with her aunt Josie. In preparation to go, we bought her new jammies and a back pack just for her sleep over stuff to go in. She was way too cute, and way too grown up walking around with her back pack on, I almost shed a tear or two as she walked away holding Josie's hand saying "bye bye!". I tried to get some pictures of her with her back pack on but just was just too excited to get going!

Serena getting ready to go to Josie's house

Like I said we have been loving playing outside! Here are just a few cute pictures of Serena enjoying the sun.

I feel a little like I am advertising for Roberts with this picture

Serena LOVES taking her "babies" outside with her!

Also, we've had a couple of hats floating around and Serena has been enjoying playing with them.

Sitting on/in a construction hat

Two hats at once (A french beret, and a construction hat)

And just for your enjoyment...

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