Shoveling, Shopping, Lights, and Cleaning.....

Monday i decide to SHOVEL our sidewalk.. Our apartments don't shovel them enough... And since we are the most clumsy FAMILY!!!, we need all snow and ice removed so we won't fall.. Madden falls every time we leave the house and Brakken and myself always SLIP! So removing the snow and ice is something that i HAVE to do.. It's a most do, on my LIST of things to do...

The next day we went to work with Joel.. Well so i could do some Xmas SHOPPING.. I hadn't done any shopping for my fam (Brakken, Madden, Joel and myself). So i was off to Walmart, Smith's and PetSmart.. i got the boys a Toyota FJ Cruiser.. It's a super cute power wheel!! I need to loose some LBs so i can take a ride in it!! hahaha.. I got some stocking stuffers at Smith's... and the main reason for going to Smith's is for Smith Tix!! Joel says we can get the Britany Spears concert tickets for MOTHERS DAY!! Her concert is in APRIL!! So I'm way WAY WAY excited!! Oh yeah at PetSmart we bought a little Hermit CRAB!! his/her name is Herbie!! And right now he/she lives in a red shell that has a Reindeer painted on it.. and the shell he/she will move in next is a MIAMI Dolphins helmet painted on it! so that's a gift for Joel.. haha.. But for the Boys.. Joel got off work early so we could get soup and salad a Olive Garden, and then off the the LIGHTS at TEMPLE SQUARE!! I have to say this was the first time for us (Brakken Madden and myself ) seeing the lights.. And it was REAL cold but Clear and NO SNOW!!

here are some pictures of our first time seeing the Lights as a FAM!!

Brakken says "look it's the TEMPLE mom.. and it's OURS!!" it's so cute that he can tell the difference between a church and Temple..

After the lights we meet up with some of Joel's friends from work.. and we went to some YUMMY sushi place in the Gateway food court..
Here is a picture of the boys eating with chopsticks..

After eating... more shopping.. i had like 10 minutes before the stores closed but that's enough to look for a bag and matching wallet.. and i found one.. So cute.. And Joel wants shoes for Xmas so we got him some too.. Today i have felt like a shopaholic.. But we got everything for Xmas..

Wednesday was a VERY LAZY day.. i didn't do anything but hang out and make dinner and had the Pitcher's over to watch Survivor and eat some chili.. But yesterday i got back to work and carpet CLEANED our carpets!! I did the front room, dinning room, and hallway.. today I'll TRY and get the bedrooms.. But that means i have to clean the boys room FIRST!! Oh yeah and my mom's coming to hang out with us and drop off the power wheel.. So I'll post pictures of today tomorrow!!

DRIVE SAFE Everyone!!!

Begining of DECEMBER to NOW

1st of December we put up our TREE!! Not lights or very many ornaments BUT lots of CANDY CANES!!! or what Brakken calls them Canny CORN... It's really funny..
The next day the boys broke the gate down and eat ALMOST all the candy canes!!

on the 3rd.. We had our Ward party.. It was pretty fun.. We eat and Santa came.. and then we did a White Elephant gift exchange to a story about Mrs. wRIGHT and Mr. LEFT.. So you sit in a BIG circle and pass the gift from left to right.. Really fun.. But i sat next to 5 kids and we would always end up with like 5 or so EXTRA gifts.. haha.. But when the story ended we all opened the gift we had.. Brakken opened his first and it was COOKIE cutters.. And he looked at his Cookie cutters and said OHHH MAN.. And throw them in the middle of the circle.. And walked away pouting.. Maddie opened his and it was a Xmas HOT PAD... And looked at his hot pad and gave it a hug and still to this day he walks around the house with it.. It's every cute Madden truly made his lemon into Lemonade.. and Brakken not so much..

This is Madden with this HOT PAD!!

Here is another picture of Madden carrying it around

This is a picture of what happened when we were walking into our house... We had a lot of stuff to carry in our house.. And we hear Brakken say he needed to go pee... and then this is what he did..

on the 4th Tayli and myself went and did Temple work.. After being at the temple Tayli and Jake had us over for some yummy soup.. Thanks Tayli and Jake.. We hung out after dinner and played with their bunny.. And when we drove home Brakken was helping Joel drive.. Brakken was pretty good at driving.. When we got home we finally took pictures of the boys by the tree.. Madden was not wanting to take any kinda picture...
Here is the SAD boy..Here is the SMILEY boy with the SAD boy on the ground..

After Brakken took his picture by the tree he wanted to be the one behind the camera.. Here are some pictures that he took of Joel and myself..

The 6Th was my Really good Friends BABY shower.. Well it was a Welcome to the World party (she had her little girl 6 or 8 weeks early).. i forgot to take pictures again... but had a great time anyways.. oh yeah and after the shower Elizabeth and myself took our rice rocket to get it registered.. Lots of waiting time in Jiffy Lube.. Later that night i went with 2 of my friends to see TWILIGHT AGAIN!! I love that movie!!

7Th was Joel's gma Afton's birthday and her birthday party and it was in Riverton.. So we left on our journey out of Cache Valley at 1pm.. to hang out with FAM.. I forgot to take pictures of today.. But we had a great time!!

Last week Madden throw the biggest fit.. He cried and didn't breath, and walked from the kitchen gate to the middle of their room.. And he layed on the ground.. i have to mention that he's lips, feet, and hands are BLUE and his face is WHITE!! He had walked and cried withOUT BREATHING!!! i thought he was going to pass out and he finally took a breath and turned his normal color.. He has always thrown fits were he holds his breath but he has never took it that far.. But he is fine now..

This past Friday, we went to my mom's house.. She had my little niece over Amaya.. So we hung out with Amaya, Danni (my brothers girlfriend), Josh (my brother).. The plan was to make gingerbread houses but we did other things.. Things that i don't remember.. Well Amaya was getting potty trained.. So you can imagine what the day was like.. running back and forth to the bathroom... Here are the kiddos taking a nap together.. I love how Madden has his arm on Amaya's FACE!! Kids are so cute.

But when Joel came to pick us up after work.. Amaya wanted Joel to hold her and wanted to go with us to Debbie's house (we stayed Friday night and Saturday day at Joel's mom's house so we wouldn't have to drive in the snow).Here are some pictures of Amaya LOVING on Joel..

She cried when we left.. It was so cute but i felt bad.. It broke my heart to see how much she loves us..

Saturday i went to Lunch with a high school friend.. we had a yummy lunch at Apple Bee's.. Penny/Dano i had an AWESOME time catching up and eating with you.. Take care..

Wow sorry from the long post.. But i haven't been keeping up.. So i had to put the last few weeks in one long post..

Oh yeah "now it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" the snow finally CAME!! YEA!!

Wall-E Book

I have to post this... Madden found Brakken's Wall-E book.. Well with the movie you get this little book thing that has the information about the characters and what not.. Brakken loves to look at it and he lost it.. Welllll, he thought he lost it, cuz i put it up so he would quit showing it to me.. (he LOVES Wall-E).. But Madden found it and Brakken said "Thank you so MUCH Baby, I love you" and then GAVE Madden a GREAT big HUGE!! How cute, i thought..

BLACK FRIDAY...

MADNESS.. is the only word to describe the day after thanksgiving!! BUT i LOVe LOVE LOVE it.. I got some clothes for the boys and myself and some MOVIES!! I got HIYA OSO for 7 dollars!! How AWESOME is that!! Oh yeah HIYA OSO is Kung Fu Panda.. Brakken is learning Spanish and is now turning into a bilingual kid.. haha.. NOT so much.. But all the fam is telling him it's PANDA not OSO.. I don't think they know he is speaking spanish, i think they think he is making up words.. But oh well..
And we got WALL-E too (and a xmas movie).. And Wall-E is the movie we haven't got out of our DVD player.. It's been in our DVD player since FRIDAY!! I have the movie already memorized!! They want to watch it again but i have to have at least a hour of peace without it PLAYING! The Boys walk around the house saying WALL-E and EEE-Vah.. It's way cute..
I wish we could spend more MONEY on Black Friday but this year money it tighter than normal..
But on Saturday we took FAMILY pictures.. Debbie is giving them to Joel today at work so I'M WAY excited to see them.. We took them with all the FAM, Conner even came down from Florida to take them with us!! How awesome is that!! Oh yeah Conner is Scott's son (Joel's step dad's son) and he lives in Florida with mom.. I'll post the pictures when i get them from Joel today.. I have to admit we are one GOOD-LOOKING FAM!!