TEMPLE SQUARE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

December 1, 2008
We went to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights and to dinner at Olive Garden. The girls had so much fun, it was so neat to hear them so excited to go see the Temple and the statue of Jesus in the Visitors center. We all had a great time and it was a fun way to start the Christmas season.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We had a fun Thanksgiving this year. Thursday we watched the Macy's parade while Derek baked his famous HAM! Everyone that tastes his ham has to have the recipe! He is a great cook! Thursday afternoon we went to Derek's mom's house for dinner then Friday afternoon went to my mom's! The holidays always keep on going with almost all of our family living within 15 miles of each other. We are so thankful for our families they are so good to us and do so much for us. It is so nice to have a day each year just to sit back and reflect on what we are thankful for, I am hoping to remember to be thankful more often sometimes in the rush of life we forget what is most important!

My handsome Husband

Thanksgiving dinner was delicious!

Mommy and her cute kids!

My creative 3 year old!

Kimberly is the cutest 3 year old ever! She is always creating things...the most recent crayon dolls! She is our baker and most creative girl! She loves using her imagination to make new things and is always up for a tea party! We love you so much Kimberly we are so lucky to have you in our family! In the picture she dressed herself, I am a proud mommy!

ART WITH HEART

Aubrey had her first performance of the year at the Covey Center in Provo. Art with Heart is a benefit concert for Shriners Hospital and all proceeds go to the hospital. Each year she gets better and it is so fun to watch her excel, she loves dance and especially performing. It was also my mom's birthday so we all went as a family to the performance. Happy Birthday MOM! We had to do crazy hair for the performance so I am posting pictures of her cute hair! :) Great job dancing Aubrey you are so cute!

Aubrey's Thanksgiving Program

We had fun going to see the Thanksgiving program at Aubrey's school! She is the cutest pilgrim ever!! Thanks for making our life so sweet Aubrey! We love you so much and we are so thankful to have such an amazing daughter.

CARSON

Our 9 month old baby is now 10 months old! The third child goes from being a newborn to growing up in the blink of an eye! He is adorable and we love him so much! It is so fun to have such a cuddly baby boy! Carson started crwaling on November 13, 2008! YEAH! Crawling is so great watching their cute little bum and their head wobble back and forth!

Our Little Goblins

We had a very fun Halloween even though Aubrey came home from school Thursday and threw up and then threw up again Friday morning, Kimberly is on an antibiotic, and we are giving Carson breathing treatments. Besides those minor things we had a blast! We carved pumpkins on Monday October 27, the girls loved it! Aubrey did her pumpkin all by herself! I also made caramel apples and pumpkin pie that day. Wednesday was the church party and Derek took the girls, they had fun. So Halloween was low key, but the kids still wore their costumes. We had dinner with all of the grandparents, they came over to see them dressed up. Trevor and Chanda also came over to see them on the way to a Halloween party! They looked so cute Chanda was Eve and Trevor the forbidden fruit! :) The girls did end up getting to go out Trick-or-Treating about 9 houses in our neighborhood...we still have the traditional Halloween in our neighborhood!! :) Well, this was the fastest Halloween ever! I woke up this morning and couldn't believe it was over.

Apple Dumplings

I had this at a baby shower last week it is the best!!! Serve it with vanilla ice cream or whip cream!

Ingredients
1 (8 ounce) can Pillsbury Refrigerated Crescent Dinner Rolls (The Croissant Kind)
1 granny smith apple, peeled, cored and cut into 8 wedges
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup dark brown sugar (or light brown sugar)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup Mountain Dew soda
Directions
1Preheat oven to 350.
2On a surface dusted w/ flour, unfold the Cresent Rolls. Cut them out with along the dotted line.
3Place an apple wedge on the wide edge of each dough triangle and roll up maintaining the croissant shape as much as possible (You will need to close the ends to cover all of the apple wedge.
4Place the dumplings in an 8 in baking dish.
5In a saucepan, melt the butter, sugar and cinnamon over medium heat. Stir in the Mountain Dew. Pour mixture over the dumplings.
6Cover the pan with foil and bake for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, uncover the pan and bake for an additional 15 minutes.

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Funny that I haven't been blogging so this post will be something new...

8 Favorite TV shows:
1. American Idol
2. The News
3. Food Network
4. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
5. Scooby Doo
6. The Doodle Bops
7. House
8. Grey's Anatomy (I don't watch TV very often at all and when it is on it is usually something the girls want to watch.)

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. Took Aubrey to school
2. Went to the Dermatologist
3. Went to the Post Office
4. Visited with my mom
5. Got Aubrey off to DANCE
6. Cleaned the kitchen
7. Played Strawberry Shortcake with Kimberly
8. Made Dinner

8 things to look forward to:
1. Halloween!
2. Aubrey's dance performance
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. My mole removal healing
6. An exotic vacation
7. Carson is 9 months old today!
8. The Halloween parade at Aubrey's school

8 Favorite restaurants:
1. La Caille
2. Sundance Foundry Grill (the atmosphere, the memories, and the raspberry lemonade)
3. Olive Garden
4. The Bakery at Gardner Village
5. The Cafe in Nordstrom at Fashion Place Mall
6. Zupas
7. Cheesecake Factory
8. Mikado

8 Things on my wish list:
1. A new ring since I lost mine exactly one year ago. :(
2. A beach vacation
3. Finish the basement
4. Ditto on the house cleaner Diana!
5. A new purse I like to get a new one every year...this year I chose a Juicy Couture, last year was Betsy Johnson, we will see what I can find.
6. New perfume I just ran out...
7. A Hummer H2
8. Maybe even a new house! Even though ours is way nice and only 3 years old...it's a wish list though! A girl can always DREAM! :)

8 people I tag:
1. Adrienne
2. Danielle
3. Kelli P.
4. Kelli And Eric
5. Marie S.
6. Steph S.
7. Sara (you know you want to do this!)
8 Natalie Layton!

FALL TIME

We had a great time driving the Alpine loop one Sunday after church! Fall is my favorite time of year and we went on the perfect day! The Sunday before conference! Not too busy and before the first big storm of the year! Well I haven't blogged for over a month! Our daily routine keeps us pretty busy! We get up and rush to get Aubrey off to school then we try to clean the house and get ready for the day before it is time to pick her up and take her to dance! And let me add that Carson is not a good Napper! He only take 20 minutes usually and only once while Aubrey is away so getting things done can be crazy! Well we did go up to Snowbird for a couple of days, Derek had some work meetings up there so his work offered to let us come up for a couple of nights! HE has the best job! I took the girls to Gardener Village one afternoon and they had a lot of fun. We had lunch, did some shopping, went on a pony ride and they even got their nails painted at the Spa. We picked our pumpkins up the last Monday in September for FHE and the girls are so excited for this coming Monday the carving night! We are so excited for Halloween. We also went to the zoo over UEA with some of our friends (The Jacobs) and stayed up in Salt Lake. We did a little shopping at the Gateway and they had free pumpkin decorating the kids loved it! We saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua it was cute and the only movie out that I would take the girls too, they liked it! So there's a brief update of what we have been up to.

Our kids!

Aubrey's birthday pictures.

Aubrey had her 6 year old birthday on August 30. She had 3 celebrations this year! We went to Disney World and we celebrated in Cinderella's castle. Then the day we flew home was her actual birthday so I bought a cake and we had our family celebration that day and she got her Princess Cd player/ radio! Then in September we had our extended family party! What a lucky 6 year old to get 3 birthday cakes. We love you so much Aubrey! You are such a beautiful girl, so smart and talented too! Now if only time would slow down, but since it won't we will just enjoy every moment possible!