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Four Years!

It was our 4th anniversary on December 11th. We celebrated by going to Salt Lake, we stayed at the Radisson Hotel and had dinner at the gateway, did a little shopping. And then slept like babies with no kids waking us up at four in the morning. Actually I still woke up at four, I guess my body didn't realize there was no kid crying. But this time I got to just roll over and go back to sleep. The room had one of those sleep number beds and I want one for christmas. It was so soft and comfortable. Once again I brought my camera but the batteries were dead, So here are some of my favorite pictures of him.

And... Here are some things I love about My wonderful Husband:

1- He always keeps me laughing
2- He has a lot of patience(he keeps me under control, like when Caselyn draws on my bedroom door, and the walls in my bedroom, and the light switch, and in the hallway, and the car door, and her pants)

3- He is a hard worker, always working extra hours, and doing side jobs for people.

4- He always kisses me and tells me he loves me before he leaves for work and before we go to bed.

5- He is such an amazing dad

6- He is working hard to put my kitchen back together

7- He takes me hunting with him

8- He cleans the bathroom

9- He usually lets me be the boss(or at least lets me think I am)

10- He takes me to eat at Panda Express to cheer me up

11- He plays with the kids

12- He doesn't make me mow the lawn

13- He always shovels the driveway for me

14-and starts my car when its cold in the morning

15- and most of all i love that he loves me

Just a little late....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We went to big ol burley idaho to spend thanksgiving with my mom and grandparents. It's different being up there because my mom is only child so we are the only cousins. The first couple nights we stayed at Grandma Dayce's which is always so much fun and amazingly good food for every meal. On black friday we went to wal mart at about 3 in the afternoon and there were like 20 people there, nothing like everywhere else where people were getting trampled and shot at. Then we went to an even bigger town called gooding, its about 30 or 40 miles from twin falls. It was a nice break until we all started getting sick. McKoy was the first one to start throwing up, then the next day Grandpa leonard and my mom got sick, then the next day, Grandma Dayce, me and casey caught it, We had to have Kole drive home cause neither of us could stop puking long enough drive. Thanks to Brock and Lindsay for letting Caselyn ride with them so that we had one less person to take care of. Then when we got home sunday night caselyn was throwing up. And now it has gone through casey's entire family. Kole had it monday and Andie got it too... It's like some magic contagious super bug. AND IT IS AWFUL! But we are all back to normal, we should start placing bets on who is going to get it next. But that's not the worst thing that happened. On sunday night we pulled into our driveway at about ten o'clock exhausted from the drive home and just wanting to crawl into bed.... we opened the door..... and our water heater was gushing water..... EVERYWHERE!!!!! Our living room carpet was soaked and our wood floor ruined! Casey had to take monday off work to pull up the carpet and the pad and try to stop mold from growing. Well we called our insurance and they sent some people out who proceeded to tear up our wood floors and drill holes into the dry wall, cut holes in the living room floor, and place ten very loud industrial fans throughout our house. We have now had the fans for 2 nights and will have them through the weekend, and they have to be running at all times. We did end up getting some money from the insurance to have the floors replaced but I don't know if this will all be taken care of before christmas, which sucks! We may not even be able to put a christmas tree this year. So if any of you know someone who can lay wood floors let me know. At first I was fuming mad and complaining why us, why right before christmas? But it really has turned out to be a blessing, we will probably actually have a little extra money to buy christmas presents or a new dishwasher or new countertops. So... I'm thankful that my water heater leaked. I'm also thankful for my Father in law- Brad the Barber cause he has been down at my house helping with the clean up, and had a guy fix the water heater and is going to have someone re-install the carpet after he has it cleaned. I'm also thankful for my Dad for waiting at my house while they service master guys tore it apart, and for DeAnn feeding us since we don't have a kitchen and for Chiara and everyone I work with for listening to me complain. And for everyone else in my family who has helped or listened! LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!

Christmas Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial, but I would LOVE a real one this year
3. When do you put up the tree? Not until December
4.When do you take the tree down? I don't know, its probably up longer than it should but casey loves the lights, they are so relaxing to him.
5. Do you like egg nog? HELL YEAH!!!!! and Egg nog ice cream
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My little red car I got when for christmas when I was 16
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, a beautiful Willow Tree set.
8.Hardest person to buy for? This year it would have to be Uncle Chad A. I have no idea what to get him...... HELP!
9. Easiest person to buy for? Casey and my kids
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received: I can't really think of any.....
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? ELF!!
13.Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Aunt Teresa's mush on christmas morning
15.Clear lights or colored on the tree? Mine are clear and blue mixed
16. Favorite Christmas song? Where Are You Christmas by Faith Hill and Martina's McBrides cd
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel
18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? yep
19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning
20. Most annoying thing about this time of year? I HATE SNOW!!!!!!!!
21. Favorite ornament theme or color? We have a Los Angeles Dodgers theme on our tree, blue white and some silver
22. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? Honey Baked ham and Mashed Potatoes
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? Clothes, decorations for my bedroom, and for my wedding ring to be fixed somehow(I've all of a sudden become allergic to it)
24. What is you favorite Christmas tradition or traditions? Christmas Eve Pj's, How My father in law makes us walk down the stairs one at a time from youngest to oldest before we can see the presents
25. What do you like and dislike about Christmas? I love spending so much time with my family, and like I said before I hate the snow!

This was fun(thanks Ab) I tag everyone who wants to do it

The PARTY!!!!

We had a birthday party with my Evans side, I'm glad that everyone could be there to help celebrate. I had big plans to make a cute camoflauge cake but I could not find the right frosting anywhere! So i gave up and just went to buy him one from walmart but there was literally not a single boy cake so I settled for what I believe is the worlds ugliest birthday cake ever!! Oh well, Koy devoured it and didn't know the difference. Koy didn't have any interest in his candles so his oh-sohelpful sister stepped up and helped him out. The next night when we had the Grover family party and My sis-in-law Megan had made him a CAMO cake, but guess whose camera was dead.... yep.... mine. So no pics of that party, but the cake was darling! Thanks Meg. We also took the kids to jumpin jacks(still a dead camera) and I think I had just as much playing on the slides as they did. I am a wimp so little kiddies blow up sides are the perfect amusement park attraction. So sad the first year is done but boy is being a mom fun!

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.....

My baby turned one year old on November 14th. It was such a bittersweet day for me. I love his little personality but I just want him to be my baby longer.

Another Photo Shoot

We went to have McKoys 1 year pics taken and Caselyn didn't want to be left out so here is my princess. She is getting so much better at having her pictures taken.

And then the Carving

After we got home from the patch we carved the pumpkins, I carved the Cinderella, Casey 'helped' Caselyn carve Tinkerbell, and my sister in law Ashley carved Jack skellington and oogey boogey from nightmare before christmas. She is very talented. It took about a half hour for Caselyn to let us carve hers, she did not want us to cut it and break it, and then it took about 20 more minutes to get her to stick her hand and get the seeds out, she didn't like that very much. She is super OCD about having clean hands and feet. I keep some of that foam antibacterial stuff in my purse and she will always ask me if she can have some to kill the 'inbisadle' germs. And that concludes our halloween adventures. Can't wait for next year!

Pumpkin Patch

The kids and I went to the pumpkin patch at the Big Red Barn in santaquin with my mother and sister in law(I did remember my camera this time) After we had each picked out our pumpkins Koy wanted to hold one on his lap and try to eat it on the ride back. We also had some delicious pumpkin pie ice cream with real pieces of pie crust(simply amazing) Casey didn't come because it was the last night of the rifle hunt, his younger brother Cory went with him and ended up shooting a huge 8 inch wide 2 point, it might be the smallest buck I've ever seen but it was the only buck he had seen on all three hunts so he took it. So congrats to Cory and I can't wait to eat a big delicious deer roast for sunday dinner.

Its about time!

I kind of suck at blogging lately, so I'm finally putting our halloween pictures up. I also suck at remembering my camera, so these are pics of when we got home from trick-or-treating after the kids were tired and ready to be out of their costumes, and after koy ate a sucker so his is a little dirty, thats ok though, I don't think ogres are known for their cleanliness. I did remember to take my camera up for our tradition of trunk or treating at my Grandma Linda's church. So here are some of my cousins..... Boston is the chicken, Britlee is Alice, brennae is the rabbit, Bryson and Briggs are tweedle dee and tweedle dum.