Frozen Yogurt

 Last week I think on Wednesday (I don't really remember) it was national frozen yogurt day! Menchies sent me an email for free cup if you bring in the coupon. So off we went and each of us got our own cup of frozen yogurt! We also got free waffle bowls! It was really good and a nice treat! It was nice to get out of the house together and enjoy something and it being free was an added perk!

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Hair Cut

Andrew has Thursday's off this final semester and it has been really nice. He has been able to do a lot of networking and talking to different doctors, but he has also been home to help me and to run errands! A couple weeks ago Easton and Andrew had a nice Daddy-Son day. Easton has been in desperate need of a haircut and Andrew doesn't mind cutting it. Well the only thing we can't find from our move would be the hair clippers so we just kept looking and never finding them so he took him in. He loved it and the girl that did it commented on how well he sat there. It probably helped that football was on, this kid loves football and basketball.  He looks so much better and older! 

This kid is such a ham! His facial expressions are hilarious!

Eagle Scout

Last weekend we were able to go and see our nephew receive his Eagle. Colin is Andrew's brother's oldest boy. He did his project for Hill Air Force Base up in Ogden by where they live. He collected school supplies, he collected over 1200. He received it with two other boys in the ward. They had a lot of honors given to them. One from the Marines, a state senator, and the Mormon Battalion. It was nice to be able to go and see all his work he had done and let the kids see his great example! We are proud of him!

He is the one on the left with his parents!

 

Day Out

A few weeks back I went down to some new outlets in Lehi with my sister. We both had some Gymbucks to use at Gymboree and so we headed down there. We wanted to check out the new outlets, they just opened in November. We got some really great deals! I got a lot of next winters clothes for the kids taken care of. There were some great prices and I feel so blessed to get what I did! After we stopped at Johnny Rockets for lunch. I had heard it was a really yummy place and we were all starved so we stopped to eat! There food was really good! We can't wait to go back and take our husbands and maybe try a shake! It is fun to be able to do things with my sisters! 

Ella and I waiting for our food!

 Emily and Jack, he is busy!

 Easton and I. At this point he did not feel good and by the end of the day was really sick and had a high fever! He doesn't look good now that I look at this picture. I should have known he wasn't feeling good,  he wanted to sit in the stroller the whole time we were shopping and then wanted to sit on my lap while we ate.

A couple Sunday's ago was my cousin Ben's mission farewell. We ended up spending the whole day after the meeting back at their house enjoying yummy food! He gave such a wonderful talk and will be such a great Missionary! He has such a strong testimony! We enjoyed spending time with family all day! We didn't want to leave and almost couldn't it had snowed almost a foot while we were there! Our usual 10 minute drive home took us well over 45 minutes in the snow! It was such a great day!

 

Easton and Dahlia enjoyed dinner in the dining room with just the two of them!

Making Cookies

Saturday morning I had to make some cookies for my cousins farewell on Sunday. The kids were so excited to watch! They kept saying they wanted a taste so when I was done mixing them up I let them have a beater. They were excited! They loved licking them off. Probably not the best to give them raw cookie dough but oh well!

Grandma's House

We have been trying to spend a day each week with my Grandma Duzett at her house. My kids love to go to her house. I'm not sure why they love it so much, probably the grandma spoiling! She lets them run all over, jump on the couches, has lots of treats, and so on. They certainly love her to pieces! A couple weeks ago we went the day she was making her bread. She was so kind and let the kids help her add the ingredients. The first thing they did was grind the wheat. They loved each taking a turn watching the wheat grinder. Then they added ingredients one at a time and watched it mix up. My grandma let Ella make her own miniature loaf. She was in heaven! She still talks about wanting to go back and make another baby bread. While the bread was rising my grandma made us some scones. The first ones we made into Navajo Tacos and then the rest I ate with jam and cheese. They were so yummy! Anything my grandma makes tastes ten times better then when I make it, she has the magic touch! We waited for our bread to bake so we could take some home and while we were waiting it started to snow and snowed a few inches before we left, it was fun driving home in but wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It was such a fun day! She sent us home with a container full of chili for dinner and a hot loaf of bread! We ate like kings! We really enjoy the days we get to spend with my grandma and I'm thankful my kids are getting to know her and learn from her!

She was so happy to be helping!

Easton lost interest in making bread after about 5 minutes, but that's ok because Grandma has lots of toys he loves!

I was watching my sister's little Jack for the day so he was there with us too! He loves to head straight for the phone the second he gets there!

He was like uh-oh I was caught!

He also perfected walking that week as well!

Easton walked around in a circle pulling this little toy for a good half hour. It had little balls that were the caterpillars back on it, he loved it!

So she had her Gingerbread house sitting on the table ready to throw away but the kids noticed it and we walked in the dining room and they were both going to town on it! A little dust never hurts! They loved snacking on it until we left! When we went back again last week they did the same thing, funny kids!

Ikea

We are excited to be close to an Ikea again. There were many times we wished for the last 3 1/2 years that there was an Ikea close by. We wandered over there a few Saturdays ago and spent a good 2 or so hours wandering around. The kids loved it. Ella loved thinking every little kids room was hers and she said she wanted to take it all home with her. We then enjoyed a .50 cent hot dog on our way out!

Barbies with Papa

I went a week or so ago to my mom's with just Ella in the evening. I was sitting in another room when I heard Ella and my dad talking. I went in the nursery and they were sitting on a twin mattress playing barbies together! It was the cutest thing. Ella loves the barbies at my mom's house and they are the first thing she finds when we go over there. My dad was a great sport to play along with her. He tried to leave and she got upset so they played for a few minutes more. The things people do for grand kids! It made Ella's day!

Cousin Bath Time

I think this was on New Years Eve. Jack had never had a bath with anyone before and we put him in there with the cousins and he was in heaven! He was splashing with excitement! They had a lot of fun and then we celebrated the New Year with them at 8 and put them to bed!

Leftover Christmas Pictures

I had a few pictures from Christmas week that really didn't belong anywhere!

 

New Years Eve my mom's family always has a big breakfast together for my cousin Ben's Birthday. They make french toast, bacon, sausage, lots of different juices, chocolate milk, egg nog, milk, and so on! It is so yummy! The kids were excited to play with the cousins and try on Will's hat!

Andrew's sister sent this to me the other day. Throwing gang signs, they are from Memphis after all!

It was freezing the week after Christmas and Easton discovered a love for gloves! He loves to put them on and wear them around the house even if we aren't going anywhere!

Playing go fish with Grandma Pond and Jocey and a neighbor girl. They had so much fun playing it!

First Day of Sunbeams

 Sunday January 6th was Ella's first day of Sunbeams in the Primary. It is still so weird to me that she is in there. She was so excited all week and would get her backpack and tell me she was going to Primary Sunbeams school. She was a little hesitant to walk in but did great! It was our first week back in our old ward and so it wasn't familiar to her but she did great despite! She loves going each week and loves that they sing all the songs she knows! 

The first picture is the best. I finally got her to smile and be happy after 20 pictures! Then she wanted me to be in one. The third picture is from when I asked to get her picture she didn't want anything to do with it.

Sleeping

Poor Easton just hasn't been 100% for a few weeks. It has been a hard transition to be in the cold. He has a never ending cough thanks to the inversions that won't go away. He also keeps waking up too early and it leaves him tired and ready for a nap by 11. This last week he did not feel good and on Tuesday I left him with Andrew and he put him down by 7:30 and he fell right to sleep. He has thrown up his dinner and just didn't feel great. He insisted on wearing his boots to bed, can't argue with a sick boy. He woke up the next day perfectly fine and running through the house. He is so busy that nothing slows him down! He still has a cough but I think it is just lingering because the air here is so nasty!  The bottom picture was another night he didn't feel good and I went in and he was hanging on to his bear as tight as he could. Andrew's sister gave the kids each a bear for Christmas and they can be warmed up, they have been perfect this winter!

 

Happy New Year!!!

We had a calm New Years Eve this year. We had dinner with my Parents and my sister and her husband. We then played some games and snacked. We really had a good night. We are happy to say goodbye to 2012 and to ring in the new year! 2013 has lots of promising things for us! We are looking forward to Graduation first and foremost and Andrew starting his career and beginning to pay off our student debt! When he started school 2013 was so far away but now that it is here it definitely wasn't! We look forward to what is in store for us this year and hoping moving isn't on our list!

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Bibo Family Christmas Party

The Saturday after Christmas we had a Christmas Party with Andrew's family. His brother and his family weren't able to come on Christmas so we celebrated again that weekend. We started off by going to see Les Mis and his brothers family went to another movie! We then went and picked up our kids from my mom's and went back to his parents house. We had a yummy dinner with ham, veggies, chips, and they went and bought a few dozen Texas Roadhouse rolls on their way home from the movie that we ate. They were so good! We then did a white elephant gift exchange. We have decided to make this a part of celebrations every year. We also did our gift exchange with the names we had drawn! I got a game and some scrapbook paper! It was such a fun day and it was nice to spend some time with his brother and their kids!

  

Temple Square

Every year we always go down with my family to see the lights at Temple Square. Well since none of us were in town to do it before Christmas we decided we would do it after! We went the day after Christmas and it was perfect! There wasn't a whole lot of people and there wasn't any mutuals! It was lightly snowing but it just added to it! It was a little cold but we really enjoyed it!

Of course after we see the lights we always go to the Old Spaghetti Factory at Trolley Square. We always have! We were looking forward to it since it had been so long since we had been! The kids weren't very well behaved that night but we still enjoyed our dinner! It was such a fun night! I remember when none of us were married we used a table half that size!