Friday, November 9, 2007

Discovery Toys Party

Tuesday at 7:00 at my house!!! Get some fun christmas presents for your kids and grandkids :) If you don't live close by you can still order stuff and I can get credit for my party
Check out the website, but don't order directly from it w/o letting me know so I can tell Alison, the consultant, so she can give me the credit.
https://www.discoverytoyslink.com/esuite/home/alisonbernards
These toys are great and educational! And they have all their own specialized testing so you can be sure they are lead free :)
Please come if you can, you're all invited!! Just give me a call and let me know if you are coming or want to order :)

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Leggo my eggo...

Big thanks to Jared for the eggos coupons!! Normally we never buy eggos, one because they are expensive just for waffles, and 2, well they're just waffles, why not make your own. But Aarons brother works for Albertsons and he hooked us up with a pile of 1.00 off coupns for eggos, and then was nice enough to let us know when they went on sale 10 for $10. So today I got my coupons and went and got my 10 boxes of eggo waffles. We ate some for lunch and I have to admit I like that you can just pop them in the toaster. Looks like I get to do some more sleeping in now that Aaron has breakfast ready and in the freezer for at least a few weeks. :) Thanks Jared!!

New cakes



Here a few of the cakes i have done the last few weeks. Its been a little slower, which has been really nice.

Monday, November 5, 2007

New background

So I finally figured out how to change my background. I don't know why I had such a hard time with it, but I'm glad its done now, although I'll probably change it again and again :) I did notice when updating my links that Becky has the same background. Sorry Becky, didn't mean to copy you, although I think yours is much cuter.
Anyways
I was going through blogs last night linking from one to another and came across a bunch of people from our old college ward. It was so fun to see what everyone is up to and see new pics of their kids! I love getting in touch with old friends so it was really cool. It really is amazing the technology we have and how we can all stay in touch so well and so easily. I'm not very good at commenting a lot on everyone's blogs, but I do read most of them pretty often and love all the pictures and cute stories. Thanks for updating so often everyone!! Aarons family has a big reunion coming up for Thanksgiving this year and it is going to be so much fun now that I feel like I know his extended family so much better through everyone's blogs. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone and having lots of fun!!
Not much new is going on here. We did go out thursday night and had a lot of fun. We saw the movie No Reservations and it was really good. And a friend of ours was the waiter at the restaurant so he gave us a really good deal there too :) It was a fun night. Over the weekend we just hung out and enjoyed not having much going on. WE did make it down to Springville to check out a few more houses. After that the sadness of not being able to get the other finally started. Its just sooo much nicer than everything else we are finding. I'm trying to remember that if we are patient hopefully we will find something else just as nice. But it sure is hard when most the ones you go see are 60+yrs old and falling apart. I guess this is a good test for my patience huh. At least we are in a good living situation right now. We have the best neighbors ever who I absolutely love and will miss a ton when we finally do move. And we're comfortable and have enough room for all of us, and a great yard for the kiddos. So, we have a good thing going and I guess there should be no rush to leave it :) Anyway, today I'm babysitting for a neighbor down the street. The one that the mom is sick. The latest update there is that she does have cancerous brain tumors. She had her baby and then went right into the hospital for about a month and they started treatment. The tumors have taken over about half her brain already so they can't operate and remove them. But I have seen her strength slowly coming back over the last few weeks that she has been home and am so impressed with the strength that she has and the good attitude she has too. Her son Benny is about a year older than Parker and they have so much fun together. They play better than any of Parkers other friends so its fun to have him over. And today he is starting preschool at Parkers school so we will be giving him a ride everyday. I think they will enjoy getting to be together then. So I'm off to get KC off the kitchen table, again, and maybe finally take a shower :)

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Whoohoo!!

Well Aaron's nylons and high heals paid off and he won the costume contest at work. Which means he got 15$ in play $ that he could trade for cool things like gift certificates. So add that to the money he already had and a movie gift certificate he got a few months ago and we've got a date!!! I didn't think I could find a sitter on such short notice, but I did and we get to go out tonight :) Its been a long time since we had a date that we actually had a little money to spend so it will be fun. I think the last 2 dates, when we even had free babysitters, we spent most the night driving around wondering what we wanted to do. And by the time we came up with some ideas it was to late and we needed to head home. But even on dates like that its fun to spend some time together without kids and have a real conversation.
Anyways I'm excited for tonight and glad we have a nice girl to come over and tend.