{Giving Thanks}

I hope everyone is enjoying the short week! I love Thanksgiving, can't wait to enjoy an amazing meal surrounded by family, and a weekend of football {GO UTES!} family, friends and SHOPPING! This is our year to be with Ed and Linda for Thanksgiving! I am excited because we are going to bring my favorite game (pictionary) over! I'm sure it will be a late night of fun so I think we will just stay the night instead of driving on the icy roads. Our fun starts tonight though, Tracy and I are taking Bailey and Brookie on a mommy-daughter date! We are taking them to dinner, buying them a Rapunzel princess doll, then taking them to see the movie tangled! How cute! They are soooo excited {and so am I!} This Saturday we are heading down to Provo to hang out with Lisa and Quin to celebrate Quin's 35th birthday and watch the U vs BYU game! Exciting! {GO UTES!!!!} We are also planning on getting our Christmas decorations up and maybe even go get a tree! My least favorite part of the weekend... at some point I have to write a 7 page SINGLE SPACED?!?! paper on organic chemistry...yuck! Other than that I am very excited for a fun filled weekend! We have SO MUCH to be thankful for!!!

I just had to add this picture! Linda put it up on facebook and it made me laugh so hard...Ed is starting to prepare the Turkey for Thanksgiving! HAHAHAHAHA! It is so funny to me because Ed always gets so into cooking, I can just see him getting all of this together, oh my it makes me laugh!
Last weekend Kayla, Danielle and I got together to do a fun little craft, we headed to lunch at chili's (again haha) then Michael's to get supplies then went to Kayla's house and made these cute Thanksgiving shirts for the kiddos to wear on Thanksgiving! They turned out really cute, although we definitely are not seasoned crafters! We were cracking up the whole time over how horrible we were! It was so fun though, Kayla made hot chocolate and we listened to Christmas music! The kids had so much fun playing together!
I didn't get any pictures of us actually crafting because I forgot my camera, but I took a picture of my finished product once I was home! Bailey, Tristin and Camden loved putting paint on their hands for the turkey! We decided we want to make a new one every year!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Grizzly game

Friday night Chris's work had a night out at the Grizzly game! We have always loved going to hockey games so we were excited to take Bailey. We invited our friends Chris and Ang Ottley and their son Kaden. We had so much fun! We had dinner at Chili's then the game. Bailey was sooo into it! When I first told her she could yell and scream she was hesitant but then when she saw me and Chris were doing it, she was all about it! It was hilarious! Chris always says "That's my boy blue!" when he watches football so she kept screaming "That's my son!!!" Oh my gosh we were laughing so hard! What an awesome night with great friends!

Here she is with the Geico gecko...


I love how they are holding hands! Bailey is a little cougar...he is a year and a half younger than her! Haha!
Having so much fun!
She was up and yelling and dancing, seriously she had the best time!

"Little City" aka The Discovery Zone

One of our favorite places to go to is the Discovery zone at Gateway...or "Little City" as Bailey calls it! We go at least once a week to blow off some steam. Bailey just runs around that place like crazy! She loves it. My sister Vauri and her husband Jay bought us a membership in the summer {thank you!!!} so we have been taking advantage! We will definitely be renewing our membership!

Me and Bailey before heading out to "Little City"

Here are tons of pics from one of our visits... I love her face in some of these pics, she get soooo serious!
Watching the ball go up...

building houses...


shopping at the grocery store...



taking her groceries home...

picking the veggies at the farm and getting them ready to take to the supermarket...

doing her ironing...


this is for the kiddos 3 and under, much less crazy


dressed up as a bird in the bird house...


taking a nap on the couch haha!
performing on the mini stage...





What a cutie she is!

Christmas with Shutterfly

One of my absolute favorite things about the holidays is receiving Christmas cards in the mail.

But, not just Christmas cards...

the ones with PICTURES of our family and friends and their sweet babies.

Shutterfly has tons of cute designs this year and is unbelievably reasonable when it comes to pricing!
I have been sooo bad at sending out my own Christmas cards, but this year I am doing it!

We have a huge list of people to send out to, so I am excited to get this started!

Shutterfly makes it so easy for you to click, choose, upload family photos, personalize your message, order and await your bright and shiny Christmas cards!

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There's a design to fit any style from modern to traditional.

Here's a few that I am loving right now... how do you choose?!

Love this design...believe in the magic of Christmas...

I like the sayings on this one, very fun!

I love this design for some cute beach pictures :)
I love the green in this card

Simple and classic, plus I am loving the brown and red in the card.

Which is your favorite Christmas card from Shutterfly?

Are you planning on ordering your cards soon?

I would like to have mine out by the first of December.

Let me know if you find one you love!!

Visit Shutterfly to find some wonderful Christmas cards; Christmas Gift Tags;

or Christmas party invitations

Danielle's bday

One of my best girlfriends turned 30 this week, Happy birthday Danielle!!! Her birthday is 3 weeks before mine so I am next...eek! We celebrated by have a surprise dinner party for her at Z Tejas at the gateway. I love these two. We have been through so much together. We have been besties for the past 10 years... the crazy 20's when you really find out who you are. They were my bridesmaids, I was Kayla's bridesmaid this past September, we each have little kiddos now {Kayla's son Tristin is Bailey's boyfriend :) } and now Kayla is pregnant...due in July! They really are like my sisters and I am so thankful we have remained so close throughout the years.

Happy birthday Danielle!!! I hope you have the most amazing year!

Kayla~Danielle~Jenny 11-10-10
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Golfing

Last weekend we had such good weather, so before heading over to Nick and Tracy's house to watch the big U of U vs TCU game, (which was soooo pathetic) we decided to get some golfing in. We love Old Mill golf course, it is so close to our house with great views of the valley and our gorgeous mountains! Here are some pictures of Bailey boo and Chris practicing with a bucket of balls...

A club just her size
Daddy helping her get the hang of it
So fun!

My parent's remodel

My parents are remodeling their kitchen and living room and my Aunt Ann started a blog about it so we can all check it out! I am so excited Here is a link so you can check it out as well! Can't wait to go home to check it out in person!!!