Christmas is Here!

This month as flown by of course, but now we have plenty of snow and the long awaited day is about to arrive. Drew is excited but he has no idea when the actual day is but everyday he asked about it. We haven't been doing much since we went to the lights but we have enjoyed staying home, playing in the snow, watching Christmas movies and getting ready for the big day. Drew has really taken a liking to singing Christmas songs, I really should video him doing it because it is really cute. He will at any given moment break out in Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is coming to town, or A way in a Manger, sometimes just parts of each and sometimes he can get a lot of the words right, he has been so fun this year! We are excited for him to see what Santa left.

I got an early Christmas present from Dean and our very nice friend Spencer. They finally tiled my bathroom Hooray!! He just finished it last night and I would be quite happy if that was my only gift, I love it. Thanks Babe!

Ugly old floor
Beautiful New Floor
Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year!!
We are especially excited for 2009 because we will have a new baby at our house in July!

December is here!

Other then the lack of snow we are in full swing into the Christmas season. We have been to our ward party and a Barker family party. Last night we went to see the light at Temple Square. Drew is loving all of it! He is kind of getting it this year. He knows that Christmas is Jesus' Birthday and that Santa will bring him presents if he is a good boy. That sums it up, I guess. He got to see Santa at the Barker party and he was sooo excited. He sat on his lap and told him he wanted an optimus prime, a bumble bee, and a helicopter. He was equally excited I think to see all the lights, the temple, and the baby Jesus. He is also into the tree, the Santa decrations, and the nativity scene. He likes to redecorate the tree everyday it is not looking so beautiful anymore, but he loves it.

One night I told Drew that if he did not go to bed that I was going to call Santa and tell him that he is not being a very good boy and to not bring him optimus prime. He looked over at a little stuffed Santa we have and whispered Santa, bring me optimus prime, basically saying ignore her she doesn't know what she is taking about.


His first glimpse of Santa

What we have been up to....

So Halloween was quite awhile ago, and for all those who did not realize that Christmas is one month from today I just wanted to point it out!

Here is our family home evening activity we did before election day. I asked Drew which one we should vote for and he picked the Statue of Liberty, could be a good choice!



This is our first snow of the season, that has now been gone for awhile and we have been enjoying the nicer weather. However, I think when the snow really hits Drew will be very entertained he was pretty excited about it although he kept calling it rain.



On the 19th I went to Carrie Underwood with some friends from college. We had a great time! We went to Chili's and then to a fabulous concert! She was awesome! She sounded great, was fun to talk to the crowd, and is gorgeous!





She pulled this girl up on stage to sing All American Girl, she was fourteen, pretty cool for her...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Hope everyone had a great Halloween. We had a lot of fun this year! Drew was pretty into the pumpkins, candy, and being Mike Wasowski. We painted pumpkins for family night it was so much better then carving I think. Drew took it pretty serious and painted his little pumpkin all by himself.





On Wednesday we went to a party at the library it is always really crowded but fun they have games, crafts, candy, and a messy brownie.

Drew with his friend Shelby
Drew and Luke looking at a cute littl girls costume.
On Halloween we had a good time partying with our neighbors and trick or treating. Drew went with his friend Luke for a few houses and then with his friend Isaac. They were troopers and went all around our little neighborhood. Sometimes Drew would say trick or treat and sometimes he would not say anything and try to take like 4 pieces of candy. The weather was so awesome we did not even have wear jackets.






I have never been much into Halloween but now that Drew understands he ask me what I was going to be so I put a little cheap witch costume together. During the day on he was anxious to wear Mike and start the trick or treating so we spent our day dressing him up as all kinds of things. I thought of things that I knew we had stuff for but he thought of Ironman and a Penguin himself so I had to get creative, I am not much of an artist but he thought it was great!!
Cowboy
Football Player
Baseball Player
Yoda
Frog
Penguin
Construction Worker
Mickey Mouse
And Ironman

Miss this?

So today started out as an ordinary day full of various tasks I was going to accomplish. Going to the gym, washing the sheets, cleaning the bathrooms, a little work online, and starting my new project of actually ironing weekly instead of what is necessary and on Saturday night. My tasks may have been a little too ambitious but I had high hopes. Drew was in a mood so I thought a nap was a guarantee and I could really start on my tasks about 1 before my online meeting at 1:30. I left my wallet at smiths so after going to pick that up it was 1:30 and Drew was not asleep and I had done nothing but put my sheets in the wash, didn't even squeeze in a shower. Leave Drew watching buzz and woody with a threat to not get off the couch because we were having rest time. The meeting got postponed until they were ready so I was to wait around I guess. So I started on my tasks, cleaned the kitchen, picked up drew was still happy watching buzz so I started on the ironing. Pretty soon Drew comes in with no pants on, the potty training has not been going well, so he should of had a diaper on. He informs me that he pooped so I start giving him the lecture of you do not take your diaper off blah blah blah... wondering what he might have touched on the way to my room. I go to where he was watching buzz and oh my gosh I was stunned at what I was actually looking at and just kept repeating what were you doing.... At that moment of course my phone rang for the meeting we were suppose to have an hour earlier, I was about to tell them I needed to reschedule when luckily they said it first.

I will spare everyone the details but it was aweful, the highlights include a toy car that is now in the garbage the couch the floor, the wall, and dean's computer case. SO NASTY! With the help of oxi clean and some awesome cleaner my sister found that works on those kind of things, after about an hour it was all cleaned up better then expected. Dean came home to "help" but did help drew take a bath and stay out of my way. Finally after I got a shower at 4:30 I gave up for the day got myself a large diet dr. pepper and took Drew to the park.

My sister and I joke about President Monson's talk in conference when he talked about missing the mudane things of life, and enjoying the now with your kids, I am sure he did not mean this particular instance but I have to wonder if at some point I will really miss this....

My room after surrenduring to my day, I did get the bed made after the park, but the rest can wait till tomorrow.......

Weekend in Idaho

I have been on a birthday high now that my birthday has been over for a week and a half. I can't seem to stop treating myself and being lazy... it is time to stop.

We went to my sisters on Friday to spend the weekend. It was awesome weather and we had a lot of fun spending time with my family. We hit the zoo, a corn maze & pumpkin patch, and went to dinner. Good times!! Thanks guys for letting us come.

Great Day!

Yesterday was my 27th birthday. I get excited for my birthday it is the only day you can be compleatly self involved and not even feel bad about it. Plus I usually get to see family and friends and go out to dinner. Drew and I went to Park City in the afternoon for a little shopping and lunch at Quiznos. I found myself a much needed new pair of jeans, a shirt, and a jacket... buying new clothes always makes me happy! Then we went to one of my favorite places Tarahumara's with Dean's parents, his brothers and their families, and our friends Megan and Lonny. Good Times!!

Dean was feeling bad for not getting me anything because I told him not to, since I bought myself a table for my entry way last week because I finally found one I liked and it was on sale so it was a must. He set it up for me and hung a bunch of stuff in our house that I have been nagging him about, it was a great gift thanks babe!

I share my birthday with my Dad, so although parents say they don't have favorites I know I am his favorite, just a little :) so happy birthday dad! I am looking forward to more birthday fun this weekend in Idaho with my family.

My table, it is not very cute yet...
Me and my Drew boy at dinner
Brenden
All the boys wanted to makes silly faces for me to take pictures of
Kai
Jamin
and Drew!