Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Halloween

Maddie loves Halloween and candy, she did get sick of the zebra head. I walked around with her trick or treating. It was the best Halloween we've had since we've been married. We started at our ward trunk or treat then made it over to my sister-in-law's mother-in-laws ward and did some more trunk or treating. Then we went door to door in some nice neighborhoods nearby. Then we watched the movie ghost, so cheesy but lots of fun.






I didn't get any other pictures but I dressed up in camo and put leaves & twigs in my hair and smuged brown eyeliner on my face. Jon dressed as a BYU football player complete with jersey, pads, and the white pants. A few kids at our trunk or treat wanted to tackel him.







Sunday, October 25, 2009

One Year Ago

Our baby is 1 YEAR OLD, here's what was going on exactly a year and 1 day ago.




........ But yesterday was full of treats and fun company. We only had two other kids there but they played together really well. And yes that is her costume, she is a Zebra.


























She loved the frosting, who can blame her though its the best part of the cupcake.











She was so funny about opening the gifts. I thought she'd be more into it, but I think she was distracted by our guests.









































Liz, Tyson, and Maddie.

Uh oh Tyson what would your Daddy say?


















That sticker says Happy Birthday she wore it all morning.
All the present were so awesome thank you to my amazing neighbors Natalie & Kelly, my good friend Heidi, and my mom & sisters, and of course of wonderful friend Karen.
I had so many treats, what was I thinking this wasn't a teenage party. All the kids were hyped up on sugar. I even put gummy worms in the ice cubes in everyone's apple juice.

My spooky decor, and my black entertainment center (we painted this several months ago this is for Jody who started the project, she'll be happy to see the finished product).





















Thursday, October 22, 2009

Visitors

A few weeks ago my Mom, Wendy, Katie, and lil' Macey came to visit. We had a blast with all day shopping trips and discovering a Shade Clothing store 20 min. away. We also found many treasures at a nearby D.I. We had lots of fun, good food, & great company. We miss them so much already.


That same weekend Riley, Destry, and Hinder stopped by on there way to a wedding. We were so happy to see them for a few hours. I can't get enough of this kid he is so cute.



Maddie will be 1 year old on Saturday! So weird to have a toddler now.
Jon has been working for an electric company temporarily. We're hoping that they will choose to hire him on because he's learning a ton from this company (he actually claims he learned more from them in the last 3 weeks then the last 2 years with his previous company).





Thursday, October 8, 2009

Conference, Toys, & Friends

Maddie where are you? Oh yes in the dirty bathroom again.
Please don't mind her bedroom, I'm hoping for a dresser one day that she won't be able to pull out the drawers and dump them on the floor.

Jon taking notes during conference, oops wrong picture.
New toys!!! I payed a $1 each, so happy.
Solemn faces. Liz is almost 10 months older.
New sippy cup, seems to like it ok.
SNOW! And so it begins...I hate driving on snow.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Bakerella




Actually this isn't a post about the Bakerella blog, I've just felt like I've been baking like a crazy woman lately. So below I'm posting a few pictures of the delicious cinnamon apple pie carmel apples I made. Pretty simple I first discovered them at my sisterinlaw's enrichment activity except their ingredients were expensive mine were not. I ran out of white chocolate so I used semi-sweet chocolate chips...I think I would have preferred milk chocolate. So like I said apple, carmel, white chocolate, cinnamon & sugar so simple. The tricky part was getting it all to stay on there.
Back to why the blog is titled Bakerella lately I made zuccinni bars w/ cinnamon cream cheese frosting, pumpkin bars w/ chocolate chips, gourmet carmel apples, apple crisp, pear/apple crisp, no bake cookies, and peanut butter bars w/ chocolate frosting. If you would like any of these receipes let me know. Don't worry these weren't all in the same week, more like month. Thanks goes out to mom for grounding me from TV and computer when I got detention in 5th grade & 6th, which channeled my energy towards baking. Thanks also to my neighbors for supplying me with apples, pear apples, zuccinni, etc.
I just broke my laptop screen, aw crap. Next time we'll get a desk top so we don't abuse it so much.