A Halloween fable

Once upon a time on Halloween night, there is a story of a family of bears.

Papa Bear:

Mama Bear:

and Baby Bear:

After a night of trick-or-treating, the Bear family decided to go for a walk after eating so much candy on Halloween night. While gone, Goldilockscame a knocking and found no one home so she let herself in.

She first came across Papa Bear’s Milky Way. She knew this Milky Way was yummy and chewy, and Papa Bear wouldn’t mind, so she helped herself to it.
Next was Mama Bear’s Reese Peanut Butter Cup. She knew this was creamy and chocolaty, and she knew Mama Bear wouldn’t mind, so she helped herself to it.

Next was Baby Bear’s M&M’s. She knew this was his favorite and he would mind, so she helped herself to it.
After all that candy, Goldilocks laid down on the floor to sleep off all that sugar.
The Bear family came home from their walk to find Goldilocks on the floor asleep. Upset that she had eaten all of their favorite candy, they chased Goldilocks out of the house and down the road.
The End.

Happy Birthday Andy

It's that wonderful time of year again. This last year flew by way to fast. I know we didn't get to celebrate the way we wanted to but maybe here in the future, we can make some better plans and things will work out. I hope you have a great birthday. You're an awesome daddy and a terrific husband. Thanks for doing all you do and putting in such long days for us. We all appreciate it.
Happy birthday Andy!!!
We love you!!!

Stay with me please...

There are several post (I have been very busy lately as you can see) so please scroll through them. Thanks!!!!

Let's try for round 2

WE HAVE A NEW HOME!!!!!

This time it is official. The home inspection came back great (minor cosmetic things) and the meth test came back completely clean. YEAH!!!!! We close the middle of the month and move the end of the month. We need to paint so if anyone has a hankering to paint, come join the party. Or if anyone would like to watch some kids for a couple of days so we don't have any awful paint mishaps, let us know.


Details of the house:
6 years old
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
2 car garage
Laundry room upstairs
Big dining room to fit our table and lots of room to move around it
Completely unfinished basement (we can do it how we want)
A yard (not in very good condition at all but we can change that)
Wonderful neighborhood
Lots of new development around the area


This house is a short-sale, meaning it does need some love, but we can give it that (mainly the yard and paint). We are VERY excited and can't wait to move in!!!

Take me out to the ball game

One of the things on our summer to-do list was to take the kids to a baseball game. Thanks to Andy's boss, this was made possible. His boss has season tickets and couldn't go to the game that night and gave the tickets to Andy. We were able to get Sam a ticket right by us so the whole family could go. We took the choo-choo train (trax) down to see the Salt Lake Bees play the Las Vegas 51's. The added bonus to the night was it was kid's eat free night so both Sam and Zack were able to get a hot dog, Cheez-It's, and a drink for free. We had pretty good seats (lower section) and had a fun time. The only bummer thing of the night was getting a cane dropped on my arm.

Where we were sitting was about two rows down from where the upper deck ends. We were having a fun time when I feel something smack my back right arm and make a big crash to the floor. I first thought it was a foul ball but it was the middle of the inning so it wasn't that. I turn around to see what it was and the lady sitting behind me leans down and picks up a cane, yes a long wooden stick with the metal top (and guess which part hit me). We look up to see an older gentleman looking down and a few others. Then a lady comes running down the stairs to grab the cane and starts apologizing. Apparently, her grandson took the cane and threw it. Nice!!! She is lucky that I am a nice, forgiving person because if that had been an older drunk person, I can only imagine what trouble she might have had. But like I said, other than that, we had a fun time at the game and are glad we had the opportunity to go.

$2 Tuesday

During the month of August, Thanksgiving Point was having $2 Tuesday. A couple of moms in my ward got together and headed down. We planned on going to the Dinosaur Museum but the line was way too long so we headed over to the farm. They have normal farm animals: goats, sheep, llama's, horses, chickens, cows, and bunnies. Sam is currently afraid of any animal that moves so she wasn't the greatest visitor. Zack did okay in the stroller as long as we were moving and he could see the animals. However, he was able to pet a goat and he thought it was hilarious. Everytime he touched it, he would pull his arm back and just laugh. We also took a horse pulled wagon ride and they both liked it. Their favorite part of the trip was going inside and playing "Farm" (I guess that is what it is called). You plant (put boards) of certain veggies in places and then I guess harvest them. I don't know. I wasn't paying too much attention. I was more concerned with my kids sharing and not getting hurt or something. Overall, it was a fun time and worth paying the $2 for.

My big boy

Zack had his 15 month appointment last Monday. He is healthy and everything is fine. In fact, he is a little too healthy. I knew he was growing when I had to start buying 2T clothes for him so I was anxious to see how much this little guy weighs. He checks out to be 29.5 lbs. and 33.7 inches tall. He is measuring at the levels of a 2 to 2 1/2 year old. From his last check up 3 months ago, that is a gain of 3 lbs and a growth of 3.5 inches. I think that could be from all the milk he drinks. He sure loves milk. He is starting to entertain us with waving and saying a few words. We knew he could do it before, because he did, but when we would try to get him to do it, he would look at us and be like, I'm not doing any tricks for you. So now finally, he has decided that it is "cool" and will do them for us. He loves to give kisses, even to his sister, and he will make this cute little noise to go with it. He also has learned that if he does something mean, he has to sit on the naughty step and then give Sam a hug and kiss. It's cute. He sure is an adorable little boy and we love him!!!