Halloween 2010

This is a little late, but I wanted to share what we actually did ON Halloween Day!! After Church, we headed to Ogden to Matt & Nat's and met up with them and my parents. We had potato soup and pumpkin colored bread bowls. Then the kids frosted some cookies that Aunt Natalie made.
Then we dressed up Carson, Kaylee, and Hallie in their costumes so we could show Grandma & Grandpa how cute they are!

It was a fun evening spent with our family!! We always love getting together and playing! The holiday season is so great because of all the fun we get to have as a family! We can't wait!

Football Weekend!

We have been super busy with school, work, and lots of play! I don't have many pictures of what we did between Conference Weekend and UEA, but we stayed busy with scouts, date night, working on cars and trucks, and enjoying the last warm days before fall and winter hit! On Friday we headed up to Tremonton and picked up Gma & Gpa Brower before making it to Idaho Falls to visit Marisa and her family. Once we got to her house, we left Carson to play with his cousins, while we went and visited Gma Edstrom. She had knee surgery a few weeks ago and so she is recovery from that, but doing very well. We visited for a bit, ate a yummy glazed donut and then headed back to Marisa's for dinner. She made a yummy Spaghetti Pie. Then we had a movie night complete with Ice Cream! It was great!!! The kids really enjoyed the ice cream part!
I also think Grandpa liked it to! Okay, we ALL did! It was a custom ice cream Ris got for her bday. It had Oreos and caramel in it!

On Saturday Morning we all went to Braydon's champion football game at 9 AM. It was so fun to see him play! He is the teams kicker. They did a great job and won the game 12 to 6. Here is Braydon's fan club.

It was a little cool, but as soon as the sun came out it was a beautiful morning for a football game!

The proud football parents: Justin & Marisa.

And Grandparents.

Kaylee and Mayci were so cute!!! All the kids had so much fun playing with all the cousins and cheering for Braydon.

In preparation for the big game, Friday night the kids made signs to help cheer Braydon on.

Including a big sign for them to run through after Half Time!

I loved being able to spend time with my wonderful sister and her amazing family! I love that we are both pregnant together (for the 2nd time in a row!). I only wished she lived closer!!!

After the game we had homemade pizza at Ris's house before heading back home. Since Nick had to work Friday and Saturday and was unable to come with us, we were excited to get home and spend some time with dad. We took the kids to McDonalds for dinner Saturday night and then enjoyed a quiet Saturday evening at home. On Sunday, we went to church. I was asked to sub and teach the relief society lesson. It was on Repentance. I have never taught a lesson for RS and so it was a little out of my comfort zone, but I learned a lot and I was relieved when it was over! :) Overall it was a great weekend. It is crazy to think that October is over halfway over now and Halloween is approaching quickly! But we are going to enjoy it as much as we can!

Happy Birthday to Hallie!

Last Sunday, September 26th, our niece Hallie turned ONE!!! To celebrate, we went to Matt & Nat's house for Dinner and some Yummy Dessert!

We had fun playing with Hallie...she looked so cute in her tutu!!!!
Matt cooked us up some yummy dutch oven chicken and potatoes...Yum! Before and After Dinner (and during too) the kids LOVED playing in the sand box!

Then we watched Hallie open up her presents!

It was a fun afternoon celebrating Hallie's Bday! We can't believe she is already a year old!!!! Happy Birthday Hallie!

Secret Revealed

I found what makes a girl tick. New clothes.

This girl is no different than any other, I'm sure. I found a skirt pattern and thought it would be so cute to make it up for my girls. I also had the idea to use it for a Young Women activity. The problem is, the skirt pattern is only for sizes 4-8 for girls. I'm pretty positive that I can figure out how to make it work and get a pattern made up to make it for the Young Women though. I'll just have to experiment this week.

Saturday the girls and I went and picked out material. I started at about 3:30 pm on Saturday and stopped at 4:45 (I had to go to the Women's Broadcast that evening.) I came home and finished the skirt up in about another 1/2 hour. It would have been less but I messed up on the sash part and had to unstitch it.

Now I know how to put it together and it shouldn't take me long to put one together for the other girls.

This morning I asked Mayci if I could take a picture of her with her new skirt on. She got so excited and talked about being a princess and so pretty. We decided to go out on the front porch and Mayci started posing like she had been posing her whole life! It was pretty fun to watch her personality come out, all because of a new skirt!
(Mayci did not have this smile most of the morning. She spent most of the morning whining and she wasn't feeling good over the weekend due to an earache. After putting her skirt on, she was a completely different little girl!!)

Funny how new clothes will change a girls outlook on things!!

In His Blood

This kid was born to play football-
Braydon's team is currently undefeated for the season. They only have 1 game left and then they will have playoffs and the Championship game. We're pretty sure that they'll be playing in the Championship game. All but one of their games they've played have been 50-something to 6 or 0. The game they played last week was actually a pretty tense game. The other team got to score first and it was back and forth until about the 4th quarter. In the 3rd quarter (and some of the 4th), Braydon's team managed to put about 7 kids on the other team on the sidelines. One of the kids broke 2 bones in his arm. Another kid broke 2 ribs (Braydon sacked that boy. Oops!) They ended up winning 50-20. I almost lost my voice after that game. It was worth it though. I love watching these kids play!! My mom and dad actually got to make it up to that game. Didn't get pics though. We were too into the game to remember about the camera.

Here are a few pictures I got of Braydon during one of the games and just afterwards. I love to hear the coach talk with the boys after each game. He's been an amazing coach and I hope that we'll be with him each year to follow. He does a great job keeping things positive for everyone and encourages each kid alot.

Such great experiences for Braydon. I don't know if I'll be able to stand watching him when he's playing college ball or maybe even pro's. I already can't stand it if he's hit and ends up on the ground. He's tougher than I think though. Like I said, he was born to play football!!

A New Knee

This is my Grandma. Grandma Ruth Edstrom.

She had surgery last week to replace her knee that has been bothering her for sometime now.
The boys went to a friends house for a sleepover Friday night and so Justin and I took the girls and decided to go pay Grandma a visit before she left the hospital. My Aunt Lorie was there also and so we spent some time visiting with both of them.

She was having a good day the day we visited. The previous day, though, was rough on her. Her blood sugar levels had dropped and really messed up her blood pressure. She didn't feel good until they gave her 2 pints(?) of blood. She said that she was actually up and walking some the day we had come.

My aunt told me that Grandma was actually the first one at EIRMC to have a signature knee replacement. Signature, meaning custom made knee. They did up molds of her knee and made a new knee that fits her body just like her old one would have fit. She's hoping that she's back to herself in the next few weeks. It could be a few months before she's out skiing again though (ha, ha).

We're glad we live close enough to Grandma Edstrom to see her more often though.

Love you Grandma!!!

Unusual Sleeping Habits

This is how Justin found my girls the other night:
My kids are all pretty wild sleepers. They each talk in their sleep and they are very good at walking around in their sleep. The girls have a hard time remembering each night were the bathroom is. They wander around and if Justin and I are awake, we usually take a few minutes and laugh at how funny they are before showing them were the bathroom is.

My kids have been caught dancing with plungers, trying to brush their teeth with soap, crying that the bathroom is gone, opening up closets to find who know what and a whole list of other very entertaining things. I really should go to bed with the video camera by my bed for all of these said occasions.

For now, we'll just have to laugh at pictures of these two silly girls and their sleeping habits.

TOFW Boise 2010

What a fun weekend!!!! I attended the Time Out for Women Conference, put on by Deseret Book, in Boise this past weekend with my wonderful mom and sister! We all got up early on Friday morning, and I dropped Carson and Kaylee off at a neighbors house to make sure Carson got to school and Kaylee made it to dance, and then I headed to Tremonton about 8:30 AM to meet up with my Mom. Nick worked a few hours on Friday and was home in time to get the kids from school and be home when Kaylee was done with her dance class. They also headed up to Tremonton to do some painting on another rental house. My mom and I drove together from Tremonton to Boise and got into town around 2 PM. We met up with my sister and her two friends, Lynette and Heidi. We did some shopping and then all had a pedicure at a salon in Boise. I think it was called Y-Lin. It was so fun and very relaxing, especially with the massage chairs they had for us to sit in! Here are some pictures from our fun day! My mom enjoying soaking her feet.
Heidi, Enjoying some much needed pampering!

Marisa and Lynette enjoying their time away from their kids!

After the pedicures, we went to Fuddruckers for dinner. Yummy!!!! (They have really good turkey burgers there!)

After dinner, we got settled into our hotel, The Grove, and got ready for the Friday Night session of TOFW. The hotel is just around the corner from the conference center it was held at, so it was really convenient. Friday Night, Amanda Dickson and Ardeth Kapp spoke, and we had musical guest Jericho Road perform. They were SO good!!!! And Amanda Dickson was wonderful and VERY funny!!!

Mom is a HUGE fan of Amanda Dickson and during the break, she found Amanda and got a hug and autograph on her book.

She even took time to pose with me for a picture!

After the Friday session, we enjoyed chatting before heading to bed for the night. Oh, and we took a picture of how cute our toenails were after our pedis. Fun, huh?!?!

Lynette and I got up early on Saturday morning and got a workout in at the hotel before getting ready for the Saturday Session of TOFW. We hear from DeAnne Flynn and Emily Freeman in the morning, with musical guest "Mercy River". We really liked them. In fact, mom bought their CD! They were super cute! In the afternoon we heard from Jill Manning and Kris Belcher. I haven't laughed so hard in the longest time as I did when we heard Kris Belcher talk. She was hilarious!! She had cancer and lost her eye sight 7 years ago and has an amazing story, but has a very funny way of telling it and it was such a delight to hear her speak! The theme for this years TOFW was HOPE. It was a great topic and I learned so much and got a renewed energy of hope to take home with me! The best part of the weekend though was spending time with my mom and Marisa. I only wish Tiffany and Natalie could have been there too!!! Maybe next time! Because I am sure this won't be the last girls weekend we have!

While I enjoyed my girl time in Boise, Nick did a lot of painting and the kids attended a track meet with Grandpa and even spent Saturday at Hogle Zoo with Matt, Nat, and Hallie. Then spent the rest of the evening with them until Nick and I picked them up around 10:30 Saturday night on our way home for the weekend. I think we all had a great weekend! Thanks again to every one for making this weekend so fun and memorable!