Happy Birthday Garrett!!

Yesterday was my little brother Garrett's birthday. We love Garrett so much, he is one of those kids who is usually pretty quiet but when he decides to talk he says some hilarious things! In going back to Aberdeen to do hair every three weeks we have gotten to be really close. He loves sports and we always say he is going to be an announcer on ESPN or something because he is constantly glued to Sportscenter! He is such a great uncle to Easton, and I think Garrett loves having atleast one nephew! We love you Garrett, happy birthday!

Crazy 8 tag

• 8 favorite TV shows:

1. The Office

2. Kath & Kim

3. Survivor

4. Jon & Kate plus 8

5. Biggest Loser: Families

6. Law & Order:SVU

7. Grey's Anatomy

8. Watching BYU football and Jazz basketball

• 8 favorite Restaurants:

1. Cafe Rio

2. Rodizio Grill

3. Maddox

4. Cheesecake Factory

5. Benihana

6. Texas Roadhouse

Two new favorites since moving to Utah are

7. The Pie pizzeria

8. Windy's Sukyaki

• 8 things that happened yesterday:

1. Went shopping for home decor at Hobby Lobby

2. Looked at dining room tables at Ashley Furniture

3. Cuddled with Easton when fever came back for a bit

4. Gave Easton a bath

5. took before pictures of the nasty old carpet in our bathrooms that is being ripped out RIGHT now and tile is being put in!

6. prepared leftover dinners.

7. Made banana nut bread with old bananas.

8. Watched Jazz game with hubby and easty.

• 8 things I look forward to:

1. NEW tile in kitchen and bathrooms!! NEW carpet in living room!!

2. Easton walking...he's taken a couple steps so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it happens soon!

3. going to Idaho to see family and do hair, shopping with my sisters

4. seeing the TWILIGHT movie!

5. getting a new dining room table (ours is falling apart)

6. my little brother returning from his mission (a year away, but hey I can still look forward to it right?)

7. putting up home decor recently purchased

8. HAWAII in March with family!

• 8 things I love about Fall:

1. smell of the air

2. color of the leaves

3. holidays!

4. going to BYU football games

5. cooler air

6. feeling like you have new clothes, but really just bringing the old winter clothes out of the closet.

7. hot chocolate

8. daylight savings time (one hour more of sleep)

• 8 things on my wishlist:

1. LOSE WEIGHT! (of course that's number one, probably always will be)

2. go to disneyland with shannon (he's never been)

3. get my house fully decorated sometime soon!

4. finish landscaping and exterior work on our house eventually (lots of work has been done to inside, need to move to outside now...since it's cold it will be postponed till summer)

5. to see BYU dissapoint Utah in football again!

6. for my little brother's team to win the State championship in football

7. to get pregnant quicker the next time around (probably TMI, sorry)

8......can't really think, I really feel pretty blessed so I couldn't ask for much more out of life, I'm a lucky girl!

• I now tag Angie Daw, Hailey Bradshaw, Whitney Wahlen, Stef Collins, Jen Lucas, Erin Fanello, Katie Anderson, & Brittany Baker...and whoever else wants to....

Batman got sick this week....

So I know halloween was OVER a week ago but I had a couple computer errors and Easton came down with some sort of bacterial infection and had a fever of over 100 so it's sorta been a rough week. We decided to stay with the superhero theme this year and go with Batman. Halloween night we were all prepared to go to the ward trunk-or-treat...had Easton all decked out in the costume and when we pull up to the church..no cars, we then try the stake center...no cars. So we spent the rest of the night handing candy to trick-or-treaters (which I thoroughly enjoyed after growing up out in the country and NEVER having trick-or-treaters) and watching scary classic halloween movies. We trick-or-treated to a couple houses but since Easton is only 1 it pretty much came off like we were trying to score candy. On Sunday we found out we had the wrong time and wrong place. Go figure. atleast we got the right night? Easton is now finally getting over being sick....I hated seeing him be so miserable but kinda enjoyed the couple of days of just cuddling with him in my bed since he never lets me do it anymore. Here's hoping halloween is a little more eventful next year....I told my husband I was sad we spent the money on the costume and didn't get to display it, he reminded me I could blog about it and flash his little picture all over the world wide web and I instantly felt a little better about the purchase!

We were so happy to get atleast ONE pic of him with mask...he HATED the thing. Let's just say it was a quick pic, he was two seconds from ripping the mask off!

Standing on his own enjoying his sucker he got trick-or-treating

Where's all the candy?

Excited to go...this year as BATMAN

last year as SUPERMAN! what a difference a year makes...

how could you not love this face?

Happy Birthday MOM!

Today is my beautiful mother's birthday! She is the best mom ever. Anyone that knows her always talks about how nice she is. She is always serving those around her & is a very unselfish woman. After spending time with her I'm always motivated to be a better person. She is a wonderful nana to Easton, we all love spending time with her! Love you mom, happy birthday!