Finally Fall

My girls have been waiting and waiting for this day to come. To play in the leaves. They finally got their day in DECEMBER. Things are a little different down here in sunny St. George. Last Friday, Avery and Adison got to play with their cousins Madi and Maleea all day. They were getting a little stir crazy in the house, so we headed to the park. Lucky for us, the leaves were falling like crazy. These 4 little girls worked so hard to build their pile as high as they could. They ran all over the park and would run back with arm fulls of leaves.They were very worried about their pile, because a "MEAN MOM" (as they called her, and I agreed) let her kids knock there pile over, so I stood gaurd over the pile so that no big kids would knock it down. There were some older kids working on their pile and they were so cute to help my girls make their pile bigger and bigger. They had such a fun time. Their little faces were just lit up the whole time. I had such a fun time watching the 4 of them. It was actually really cold, and Adi had had enough, so I pulled the car right up to the older girls and Adi and I watched them. We came home and had yummy hot chocolate. (I have to remind myself to buy a bag of marshmallows.) We are so lucky to have such fun cousins that live so close.

Thanksgiving and LIGHT PARADE!!!

We had a fun Thanksgiving this year. We headed up to Spanish Fork on Thanksgiving morning. We got there just in time for a yummy dinner. We had Thanksgiving at Tylers parents and my step-mom and 2 sisters were there and so were Tylers brother Mike and his family. It was a fun day.
Friday night we took the girls to the Light Parade. The girls loved it. I was not feeling good so I headed home and Tyler went to the BYU basketball game. So luckily they had grandma Olson, Grandma Kaiser, aunt Danielle and aunt Cassidy there to have fun with them.(Grandma Kaiser didn't send pictures of herself, shame on you.) They had fun, but look at Adison, they were cold.
Saturday I got some shopping done, then headed to the INTENSE BYU vs. UTAH game. It was a lot of fun, and BYU ended the RIVALRY WAR this year by beating UTAH in overtime 26-23.
It was a great weekend, spent with great family. Now on to Christmas. We are so excited.

Dear Target!!!

You used to be my favorite store. That is until today, when you completly annoyed me. It definately is the most WONDERFUL TIME of THE YEAR!!! I walked into Target, and it is so festive. Christmas stuff everywhere. I LOVE IT. They have the cutest Christmas dresses. Now I just have to decide what one to get my girls. Well, today I headed to Target real quick to get Adi some much needed black church shoes. They had the cutest ones last week when I was there. I headed to the shoe isle. Keep in mind it is only November, not even Thanksgiving. All fall and winter shoes were gone. All the shelves were full of sandles and white EASTER shoes. I was so annoyed, that I put everything else back that I had planned on buying, and left the store. Thanksgiving has already been pushed aside, and now I guess they plan on pushing winter and Christmas out of the way also. I don't know why I was so annoyed by it, but my blood was boiling. It completely took the FESTIVE look right out of the store.
I am hoping that I will find some cute ones next weekend when we head North.

Winter Wonderland

We picked the perfect weekend to head North. For a few hours on saturday it just snowed and snowed and snowed. Just look at my girls faces, I absolutly loved watching them play. They were in heaven, until their hands got too cold, then it was down hill quickly. They had a blast in the first real snow storm of the season. I LOVED IT!!! (and will miss it once I head back to sunny St. George.)Mike and Janille, isn't it pretty????????

3-2-1- BLAST OFF!!!

In order to get a REAL ASTRONAUT suit, you must have the coolest grandpa in the world. Lucky for my girls, they do. Avery has wanted to be an Astronaut since she was a year old. She LOVES space and everything to do with it. She has to watch the Space shuttles launce off, she reads her space book quite often, and can point out constelations in the sky. This is something that her grandpa Olson also enjoys, so they spend alot of time talking about space. We have even made our own space shuttle to launch off, hopefully soon. She was very surprised this weekend when grandpa pulled out the best thing ever. A real astronaut suit, with the real patches and everything. It is the cutest thing, and Avery did not want to take it off. She played space the whole time she had it on. She even corrected me on some PLANET FACTS, when I tried to play with her. When I asked her if she still wanted to be a astronaut when she grew up, she said, "yes, but I am not going too, you will miss me too much." She is so sweet. It was a little big on Adi, but so so cute. She was a little unsure of being in the suit, so she did not pose well for pictures.

Make-overs!!!

My little sister Cassidy is only 10, so ofcourse my girls think she is the COOLEST person alive, not to mention she has all the cool toys. Avery and Cassidy even fight like sisters, probably because they are only 5 years apart. While we were in Spanish Fork for the weekend, we were able to spend time with my step-mom and two sisters. Cassidy played so well with Avery and Adison. They played games, watched Annie, and did MAKE-OVERS!!! Aren't they the prettiest little girls ever? We just need Gracie Anne to make the picture complete! (and Danielle, but she is too old and too cool for make-over.) They had so much fun. Thanks Cass for being such a cool aunt.

Someone please take our scissors away!!

So it was about this time last year that Avery Lynne gave herself a beautiful (WT) mullett. It was bad. Well, guess who cut their hair today? Little miss Adison Anne. She was cutting with her KID scissors when I hear,"Guess what mommy, I just cut my hair". I just said, "No you didn't Adison". I mean we go over the rules everytime we use scissors. We only cut paper that mommy gives you and we NEVER cut our clothes or HAIR. You would think a 2 1/2 year old would grasp that concept. Apparently not. She walked over with a chunk of hair and I was devistated. I didn't want to look. It really is not that bad. It luckly blends in. It doesn't really show up in pictures. Hence, the reason there are no pictures of it. Next fall the scissors will be locked up.