Time Out For Women

This past weekend my mom & sisters & I gathered together to have a little bit of a girls weekend. We spent two days at the event, "Time Out For Women," a conference put on by Deseret Book. Some of the speakers we heard from were Elder Nelson's wife (Wendy Watson Nelson), Sherri Dew, Kris Belcher, S. Micheal Scott & a few more. Also, singer Hillary Weeks & violinist, Jenny Oaks Baker, performed. Both did an AMAZING job & I can't wait to buy some of their music...maybe Santa will bring me some! :)
All of it was so inspiring & uplifting. These women were hilarious too! Some stories I laughed so hard that I cried! I can't wait to attend another Time Out For Women. Holly, Jenny, Me, Susie, Mom, Angi & Adalee
Here we are on day one. Although, we didn't feel complete missing our sister Mandy, who couldn't come down from Boise. We really did miss having you there!!!

Little Adalee was the only baby girl with us. I just CANNOT get over how darn cute she is!!! She is so happy, I could hold her all day.

The first night we spent it at my sister Jenny's house, she lived close to Salt Lake, that way we didn't have to get a hotel. We played our "favorite things" game. We all brought an item that is one of our favorite things, under $10 & then played a game where we kind of swapped. Everyone went home with something new. It was fun, we'll have to play again!

Day two.
Notice Jenny's cute scarf? That was my favorite thing I brought, I love it!

My two cute sisters, Susie & Jenny w/the babe.

For lunch on day two we ran across the street to the Olive Garden & had the worst experience! I never knew you could have a bad experience at the Olive Garden. Anyway, a long story short, we ended up getting about three meals for free-including mine!

It was a short weekend spent together as women, but it was a lot of fun!
I'm so grateful to be a part of such a great family, filled with so many amazing women that I love to be around. Thanks for such a great weekend girls!

And thanks to all the hubbies & babysitters for watching all our cute kiddos!

He's a funny kid.

This funny little boy really likes to get into things.
Lately we've caught him putting our tooth paste in his mouth & Matt caught him licking his deodorant. Gross! They were both in his mouth for a second. Don't worry I swear we usually put things up high & we don't usually let him get into the more dangerous things, that we'd have to call poison control. :)

The most recent one happened yesterday.
I jumped in the shower & I usually shut the door, turn on a movie & he's our little couch potato so he doesn't usually even notice I'm gone. I left the door open & I hear him come in & I could tell he was doing something. I peeked out & noticed the tooth paste was gone, again!
At first I yelled his name about 20 times & nothing. Then I thought, "I'll just hurry & finish up." And then the thought occurred to me, "What if he smears it all over the couch & carpet & everywhere!" Because he totally would. So I had to jump out of the shower, with soap in my hair, grab a towel & chase the little guy down!! He was already starting to smear in on the coffee table.
Boys.

Even though he can be a bit of a little rascal, he is still our favorite little guy & he is so much fun.
His most recent favorite words/phrases are cool, oh really, wow, cute, thank you mom, stop mom. He is talking so much. I starting making a list of words he says & there are well over 50! This boy is just growing too fast! He is so smart. I've noticed when we drive past our friends houses he says, "Lily house," "Parker house," or "Jason, Marilyn, Baby house."
Every day he does more & more that just amazes me of how smart he is!
He is now really getting into books, which we love! He's never liked them much until now. We'll sit and read books for a half an hour.
Many of you know that Matt was in Seattle for a few days interviewing. It went very well, he really liked it there. We were a bit lonely without him & Luke was very happy when his daddy came home. He loved playing in his suitcase with "T" & playing with daddy.

Luke & I leave in a few days to fly home to Utah & then Matt will join us the following week. We are very excited to be with our families for all of the holiday festivities for the next two months! We're excited for Luke to play with all his cousins, aunts & uncles & his four papa's (he thinks they are all papa's). I'm especially excited to meet my newest nephew Oliver!

Oh & we are also looking forward to our trips to Phoenix, Denver & Hawaii-while we're there.

Halloween 2009

We started a yummy family tradition this year. I think every holiday tradition we've started has to do with food. For those of you who really know me, I lOVE breakfast foods. We have brinner all the time around here. We decided to make some yummy pumpkin spice pancakes to eat each Halloween, for dinner. Mmmm they were good!

On Halloween evening we stopped at our friends house for a little bit. They did the cutest thing, they had a trick-or-treating pit-stop for people they knew. You could stop & warm up on your way trick-or-treating. They had hot apple cider, treats & all sorts of fun stuff. It was such a great idea. After that we joined some other friends to have pizza & watch a "scary" movie, but since all of us (at least me & Matt) are not fans of scary movies, we watched "Wait Until Dark." Unfortunately we couldn't finish it, since Matt had to catch a flight at 5am the next day.



We all decided to dress up the last minute as cowboys-lame, I know. But it was cute too, well with Lukey. He made such a cute cowboy.



And, I'll say, Matt makes a fine cowboy himself!



Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!