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!!!