High speed internet=huge post...

I am so excited...Nick and I finally have high speed internet and it is great. We have had dial-up for the last 4 1/2 years and now --it is amazing, just amazing. So as a result I am going to have a huge post of some random things over the past couple of months in no particular order. Enjoy! I finally finished my nativity before Christmas was even over. Trevor loves to play with it. A sister in my ward asked a few of us if we wanted to make one of these. I said sure thinking it wouldn't be that hard. It took a little more time and skill then I had originally thought it would, but it is done and I am glad I did it. I loved getting together and working on it.

So yesterday December 18, I finally did it-- I tied my chairs together so Brooke and Trevor would stop climbing up on the table. Does anyone else have a better idea? They think it is a game because all day long I have to go around taking them off the table. I tell them no, don't get up on the table, but they just laugh at me --it is pretty funny unless I am trying to get something else done. (Super Nanny would not be impressed with my follow through skills!) Well, yesterday I decided okay they can sit on the table no big deal (I was in the kitchen making dinner) , I was going to pick my battles what was it hurting. Well, they wouldn't just sit there, they would stand up and shake the table. So I got them down and tied the chairs together. It worked great. Except when dinner time came I had to untie the rope. Problem solved, until they learn how to untie the knot...

Aren't these the cutest pumpkins ever? I live in a townhouse but we have a little strip of dirt that we can plant things in. Well, I really wanted my own pumpkins to carve. So here they are. They started growing too late in the season, and they were still green when I picked them, and were still green at Halloween. But this is what they looked like at Thanksgiving. So we didn't get to carve them, but I loved having them by my front door as a decoration. I will try again next year.

My birthday was on December 8th and I turned the big "27". It was a great day. Here is Jeana and I blowing out the birthday cake. Nick and Rob made this amazing three dimensional tree cake. Every year my mom would make Jeana and I a tree cake so Nick and Rob know they have to and this year they out did themselves...What will they do next year???


My little sister Janessa and my older sister Jenn, came into town the week before Thanksgiving. It was so fun to have them here. We went to Gardner Village to see the Elves with Janessa.

Here is a picture of Nick and his mom on Thanksgiving. We went down to Cyndi's house (Nick's mom) and had Thanksgiving with her in Provo. It was so fun. We played a game of flag football before dinner and I scored 3 touchdowns!!!

In November, Trevor, Nick and I created our own snow storm inside. It was a lot of fun. We took a roll of toilet paper and ripped it to pieces and then threw it. Trevor loved it. Now we don't have to make our own snow there is plenty outside!


In September on the way to my sister's wedding in Nampa we stopped at Nick's Dad's house in Burley and stayed the night. On Saturday we went with him to Twin Falls and Shoshone Falls. Don't go to Shoshone Falls in September it wasn't more than a trickle, still very pretty. We will have to go in the spring next year.
My sister's husband had a birthday in October and Jeana decided to throw him a surprise birthday party. Well, part of that surprise was a life size guitar cake. Have you ever watched Ace of Cakes? That show was our inspiration. The cake was amazing. Jeana had all the ideas I was just her gopher. It took 6 cake mixes to make. After a crazy day, the party was a huge success!