A little catch up

Okay, I figured 3 months is long enough to wait to update everyone on our lives, right? So here's what's been going.

WARNING: Extremely long post

November
All I can remember for the month was Thanksgiving. It was a great one! Almost my whole family was here for it. My sister and her fam drove all the way from Texas and my parents traveled from CA. We spent the day at my grandparents (like always) and devoured some delicious, mouth watering food.

December
My brother-in-law flew in from Austrailia to spend the last of the holidays with all of his family (we're all here in P town). It was great to see him again and loved seeing him with Mr. E. they become great little buddies.
Then came Christmas. I did a crapload of crafting and loved every second if it. Except for the part when I had to clean up all that glitter, that stuff will be the death of me.







 We took ev sledding Christmas Eve and he really, really, really disliked it. We probably shouldn't have started from the top of the hill...whoops. But he did fall in love with this little red sleigh thing my sister-in-law let us borrow. He pulled that thing all around.

That night we were supposed to go to our family's house for a nativity play but I got so sick! It was such a bummer. Christmas morning came and started off late, I'm not complaining though. I think we finally opened presents at 11 am. Mr. E could have cared less about opening his gifts. He tore one piece of wrapping paper and was over it. So it wasn't as eventful as I thought. Maybe next year.

Then came New Years eve. We spent it with my sister-in-law, and our good friends. We played games, ate food and drank...sparkling apple cider of course.

My sister, so kindly, took our family pictures for us while she visiting over Thanksgiving. Loved the way they turned out. Taking pictures with a toddler is really hard. 

January
More family came to town to visit. My father-in-laws sister and her son and his friend flew in from South Africa to surprise him for his 70th birthday. We had a house full of family for quite awhile and it was awesome. I loved getting to meet and get to know more of Conryd's family. They're all such amazing people. And I just love to be surrounded by family. It makes for great company. We showed the out of town-ers what Krispy Kremes were all about. And a trip to Park City. I guess those are 2 neccessites when visiting here :)




Two weeks in to the new year, all of the visitors left and the house felt so empty. It's always hard the first few days to adjust when guests leave.

And I guess this now gets us caught up with today. Yesterday I dropped the hubby off at the airport to go spend 3 weeks in Florida. Yes, you read right, THREE WEEKS! I'm already dying and it's only been 24 hours.
This is where my husband gets to call home for the time being... (not that exact spot, but you know, in an actual house)

If you're wondering what he's doing out there, let me fill you in as best as I can.
We still haven't heard great news back from PT schools, so we're starting to look and explore new possibilities of where life can take us. The hubby's best friend produces his own music and has gotten quite busy with his work. He asked Conryd if he'd be interested in coming to work with him doing media updates for his "band," I'm not quite sure if you call it a band it artist or music maker or whatever, and also do office management type stuff. So we've sent the hubby out there to test trial it for a few weeks and that also gives us time to hear back from schools.

So that's about it for us. Will probably do another update when we finally find out what we are doing with our lives.

So long October

Wow, is it seriously November? I cannot believe how fast this year has gone. It's crazy. I'm not complaining, but just in awe over it. October was a pretty fun month. We had way more activities going on than we normally do in like a years time. Mid month the hubby and his good friend ran a zombie 5k. They chose to be zombies and got to "chase" the humans for 3.1 miles. Everyone loved their make up and costumes. It was like they were famous zombies, getting stopped and people asking to take pictures of them. Proud wife right here :)

 Hubby's on the right, the zombie surgeon

Then came the adventure to the pumpkin patch. It was actually kind of disastrous. Mr. E wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins and EVERYTHING to do with the wagons. Maybe next year?

That next night, Riverwoods was having some Halloween market thingy. They had bounce houses, craft booths, a teeny tiny animal petting cage, and free pumpkin spice cupcakes. That was probably the best part of it all.

Next came Halloween. I wanted to do something cute as a family because I figured this year would maybe be my last year where I get a say/choose what I wanted Mr.E to be. I'm assuming next year he'll be old enough to maybe decided what he wants to be, and because he's a boy, it'll probably be lame and boy-ish :) We dressed up as the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts. And let's just say, I'm crafted out...at least until a week or so before Thanksgiving, and then I'll have to kick it up a notch and get stuff done for Christmas, whoa, yes, I did in fact just mention Christmas. Anyways, back to Halloween. Mr. E was a champ trick-or-treat-er. He learned quickly to knock on the door, reach his cute little hand into the bowl of candy, grab a handful and put all of it back except for one piece and put in his jack-o-lantern. And then he'd run off to the next house and repeat. Too cute, but after about 45 minutes, we all had enough and called it quits.

The last event, that I guess technically counts as November because it just happened this Saturday, was another zombie 5k. I did this one, along with my sister-in-law and her husband, and her sister-in-law and her husband, and the same friend that did the first race with hubby earlier this month. And we were the ones being chased by zombies...down the canyon...at sun set. And the zombies were all BYU track team members. So yeah, they were fast. And we even had a 5 minute head start. Sadly, 4 of the 7 of us were "infected" while 3 lucky ones survived.

(missing 1 of the survivors)

Now I'm ready to get my turkey on and set up my Christmas tree. Peace out October, see you in 2013.

Texas

Last weekend we (Mr. E and myself) flew out to Texas to see my sister and family. Mr. E was a champ flyer. It helped that the man next to me moved to another seat, so we had the row to ourselves. And man, what a difference it makes to have seat for your toddler. Only way to fly!

It had been 8 months since the last time I saw my sister, so it was definitely time to change that. It was a quick trip but so much fun. My sister's kid are hilarious and played so well with Mr. E.
The day we flew in, was a pretty mellow day. It was too hot (for me) and humid that I don't think I could have managed anything else but lounging around inside...in an air conditioned  home. Friday we packed up the kids and headed out to the infamous Texas State Fair. And holy cow, you really CAN deep fry ANYTHING! I attempted to take pictures of everything you could deep fry, but started to get lazy with it because every booth had something new you could batter up and fry. Here are just a few of the things you can eat to jump start a heart attack with...

My brother-in-law got the deep fried brownies, and of course, we had to try. I'm kind of mad I didn't try the pineapple. Oh well, next time. 

These were the cutest baby goats! I seriously wanted to steal them and bring them home.

Saturday we headed to the aquarium and ate the best BBQ I had ever had. I would be so fat if I lived in TX. Sunday came, we packed up, and flew out. Like I said, quick trip. But so fun!
Thanks for the memories! To see better pictures, check out my sister's blog
Happy October! My favorite month of the year! Yay for fall!