I Love Dave!

I have the sweetest husband ever. The whole month of my birthday he gives me a present every week. This year he gave me all of the books from the Twilight series, and if you haven't read those books yet you need to! They were so much fun to read. The other night when I got home late he had the table all decorated in Halloween things, which is my favorite holiday, he even made me a couple of grab bags and made his own Halloween floral arrangement, it was awesome! Who doesn't love grab bags...it is so much fun to open them and see what's inside. Then for my birthday he took me to eat at Johny Rockets, nothing too fancy, but hey we are poor. That wasn't the biggest success but it was so much fun just to spend time together. When I got my clam chowder it was totally cold, so I asked the waiter if he would warm it up a little. I don't think I have ever sent food back in my life, but that is how cold it was. The guy says someone had turned off the crock pot and so it would be a few minutes. He comes back just as Dave was finishing his burger and tells me that it is broken and asks if I want anything else. Since Dave was already done eating I declined. So we went home and watched Harry Potter, since we actually had the house to ourselves we decided why go out. And I ate frozen pretzels for my birthday dinner, which was fine by me because I love them. It was so much fun just to be able to spend the evening together. He gave me an electric blanket for my birthday. Those are the best inventions ever!! I love mine! We had a great time and I am so grateful to have such a good husband that tries so hard to make me feel special.

Blessing

We finally blessed Landon on Oct. 21st but it was totally worth the wait. Dave's Dad came home and my dad flew in and he also flew in Nichole and Timmy. We had such a fun time that weekend. Lily was so excited for Nichole and Timmy to get here that was all she could talk about. The night before they flew in we were driving somewhere and Lily thought we were going to pick them up and she was so excited. Dave had to explain to her that it wasn't until tomorrow and she had to go to sleep for the night first and then when she woke up it would be time to go pick them up. So she pretended to be asleep and threw in a few fake snores and said lets go get Cole and Timmy. It was so cute how excited she was to see them. We had so much fun while they were here. Nichole and I took the kids to the farmers market on Friday and got our favorite thing ever... crab cake benedict. YUM! Then Timmy and Lily shared a cow cookie which they thought was the best. We tried to take the kids out shopping and that was an adventure. We both left our wallets out in the car and so I went out to the car to go get them. It was pouring rain and I was carrying Timmy and when I lifted up the back gate on the car everything fell out, our diaper bag landed in a puddle and poor Timmy got soaking wet. Lily found a doll that she loved at the store and the lady that owned the store gave it to her, it was so sweet of her, Lily takes it everywhere with her. On Saturday we all went to the zoo together. It was so much fun for the kids to see all the animals and I loved being able to spend the day with my family. Then we went to our favorite Chinese place, which has the BEST hot and sour soup. Then my dad took Nichole and I shopping for some new clothes and totally spoiled us. It was such a fun day! Sunday we blessed Landon. It was such a great blessing and I feel so grateful to have such a sweet baby. A few things that stood out to me in his blessing were that he would have a love for the Lord, be a great example to those around him, and have a great love for learning throughout his life. He wore his cute little tuxedo that Dave bought him and he looked awesome. We went to my moms house after and had a huge lunch with all of the family. Monday we went to breakfast with my mom and we braved the mall with the kids once again. My mom bought Nichole and I a bunch of cute clothes and shoes and we got spoiled rotten again. It was so sad to have everyone leave but I was so glad they could all be here for such a special day. It meant so much to us to have them here.

Our little Star!!

Lily decided that she wanted to put on a performance for everyone!! We hope that you enjoy this little performance!! I have no idea where she learned this, but she was so amazed at what Grandpa was doing that she kept covering her mouth and saying "gosh." It was cracking us up so we decided we had to get it on video.

Lily has such a fun personality. It is so much fun to watch her develop into her own little person. She is such a little performer. She is hilarious and she loves to make us laugh. If she does something that we think is funny she just keeps doing it over and over again to keep us laughing. She loves music, and she has started to love to sing along with me and the radio. She loves to dance, she always comes up to me and asks me for a song and says "dance." She also loves to play the piano. She has her own piano book and sits at the piano and flips through the pages and tries to play each song. I remember when she was blessed as a baby Dave blessed her to have a love of music and that is so true, music makes her happy and puts her to sleep at night. She loves to use her imagination, especially to pretend to be different animals. She will chase the dog around the house pretending to be a cat and meow at her. She loves to color and she is starting to learn the different colors. she loves pink of course and she also likes "geen" and "poo poo" (purple). It is so much fun watching her learn everyday. She is such a girly girl and loves to play with her dolls and pretend to feed them or sing them rock a bye baby. She loves to watch me put on makeup and pretend to put on her own. She is very independent and likes to do everything by herself, and she definatly always knows what she wants. She knows what she likes and doesn't like and I love that about her. She is already such a good example to me. If we sit down to eat she will fold her arms and say "prayer" so that we remember. Dave has been teaching her about the sacrament and this Sunday she took the bread and said "bread, Jesus" because Dave had taught her that we take the bread and water so that we can remember Jesus. It is so special to watch her learn develop her own testimony about the gospel and I hope that as she grows she will have a close relationship with her Heavenly Father.

Teething

Who would have ever thought I would have two kids teething at the same time! Boy has that been fun! Landon is getting the funniest teeth in first. Instead of getting his front teeth he is getting a bottom one all the way over to the left and then a tooth all the way over to the right on the top. He is going to be our little jack-o-lanter just in time for halloween. Poor Lily has been so uncomfortable, and all of this equals no sleep for me. At least they are worth every second of it.

Conference Weekend

On Friday night we went to Arts Walk downtown. It was so much fun. I love looking at all the art and going in all the antique shops. The crazy guy selling combs was there again and this year he added an item... a twig. The rumor is next year he will be selling an empty soda can. This guy probably makes so much money selling nothing. He is so hilarious and you could listen to him talk about nothing for hours, I think you can only understand how funny it is if you go listen to him. Lily made best friends with the sweetest dog named Mia, she was so upset when the dog had to leave. Landon had so much fun just watching all the people and being out and about. Then on Saturday night my mom and I took the kids and went to Lady's Night at Deseret Book in Seattle during priesthood session. They give away prizes every ten minutes and have treats it is a lot of fun. Last year we went on accident not knowing anything was going on and I won the grand prize which was a huge framed painting of the Seattle temple, so my mom and I decided to go every year. This year we had a blast but we worked up a sweat chasing Lily around, and I even won a really good CD. While we were up there an industrial plant right off the freeway in Tacoma had a huge explosion. We were able to get home fine by the time we headed back there was just some traffic. It smelled so bad though, and once Lily smelled it she goes "EWWW" really loud and I looked back and she was sniffing her feet trying to decide if it was her feet that smelled so bad. It was hilarious! Conference was really great, I always look forward to it. It is so uplifting and it gives me so much to think about and work on. I am so grateful to have the gospel in my life and to know that the Lord speaks through the prophet to tell us what we need to know.

Applefest

The last Saturday in September we all went to Applefest at Lattin's cider mill. We had so much fun. There was a live band and we got to eat hot dogs and drink cider. Lily had so much fun dancing to the music while she ate her corn dog. Lily loved feeding the animals especially the goats and baby ducks. It was such a fun day!


That Sunday our stake had a fake 7.2 earthquake. You will be happy to know that none of us were injured. All the men had to go check on the families that they home teach and report back to stations that each had ham radios that reported to the bishop and stake president. It was really good practice and it really got us thinking about if we are ready for something like that to happen. We have a goal to work on our 72 hour kits and make sure that we have everything we need for an emergency.