Danny's big night

For those of you who don't know, Danny is in a band called The Market with some of his friends.  They just play local shows and mess around for fun, but last weekend they got to open for the X-96 "Nightmare before X-mas" show.  They played with The Brobecks, Anberlin, and Hoobastank.  It ended up being the biggest crowd they've ever played for.  Everyone was really impressed and it was a lot of fun.  You can't really see them very well in this picture, but I didn't bring a camera, and this was the best shot I could find online.  At least you can see how many people were there :)  Danny is on the right in a blue shirt.  Check them out www.myspace.com/themarketrock

Crazy month at the Preece House...

So the last month or so at the Preece house has been pretty crazy.  Matt got his mission call moved up 6 weeks and that has put everyone into high stress overload.  It was even trickier because Matt was away at school and moved home only days before he has to leave for the MTC.  Every spare chance he would come home and go shopping, go to the ortho (he just got his braces of on Monday), and move stuff home from school.

Mom was already way stressed about getting the house ready, and food prepared for the farewell when Matt put out an invite on facebook for the big event.  He had like 140 people say they were coming and 80 say "maybe."  So this made mom even more stressed out.  We decided to plan on feeding 200!  Crazy.  We worked for at least a week to get everything ready, cooked 200 potatoes, and served potato bar with salads and desserts.

Everything turned out really well, and we had PLENTY of left over potatoes!  We did have a lot of people show up, but a really big snow storm that morning kept a lot of people from making it.  Here is a picture of Matt and just a fraction of the people who came.  (We also had people in the craft room, Mike's room, Paige's room, Nicki's room, the Living room, the kitchen, and the dining room!)

Oh, and Matt's talk went well - aside from the "joke" at the beginning that no one really understood :)

Last night we celebrated his birthday (because it is on Dec. 22) and Christmas.  We had a nice dinner and gave him presents (let's be honest-what do you give a missionary?!)  Then he unpacked all of his stuff from school and repacked his suitcases with mission stuff.  Tonight he is being set apart, and tomorrow he leaves!!  

"See ya in 2", as Matt says.

Festival of the Trees

Danny, Caydence and I went to the Festival of the Trees tonight.  Danny had never been, and I hadn't been in years, so it was pretty new for both of us.  We ran into my cousin Ally and her husband Matt, which was good because they told us all of the good trees to look at :)  These were a few of our favorites:

Twilight of course.
For the golf lover.
This one was all glass.  (Ally said she heard this one went for $27,000!)
This was in the gingerbread portion.  It was about 5 feet tall!

"You can be my punk rock princess..."

Body World....

On Veterans' Day Danny and I went to the Body Worlds exhibit in Salt Lake.  I am really grossed out with blood and guts, etc. but this was very different.  I think the bodies looked very plastic, so it wasn't gross, it was actually interesting.  I would definitely recommend you see it, if it didn't cost so much.  I thought it was really good, but not worth the $22 each!!!

Playing house

So my parents are out of town this week and I have been left in charge.  I am only half way through and it has been a crazy week!  Paige has ice skating 3 days a week!  My mom has way too much patience.  She spends half of her week at that ice rink, all the way in Bountiful.  Then Paige has spelling, typing, reading, homework page, and piano.  Man, her life is crazy.

Other than that it's not too bad- it helps that she doesn't get home from school until 3:30 so my mornings are free.  It's nice to have Caydence so young that she doesn't have all the activities, but it will also be nice to have her in school :)

Anyways, I can't have a post without pictures of Caydence, so here they are:

I went in to check on her sleeping today and this is what I found.  Yes, she is asleep holding her foot in the air.
This is one of the dogs in Caydence's "Grandma Toy."  My mom bought her these and she is only allowed to play with them at Grandma's house.  She likes to hold the dogs in her mouth by the tail like a dog-ironic...but too cute!

Ready for Snow!!

So it has been snowing all day and I was really excited for Caydence to wear all of her new snow clothes.  (Well, SOME of her snow clothes.)

This is her new hat.  It is so cute!

Halloween

We went out in the back yard today and raked leaves for a few hours, so we thought we'd put the piles to good use. I wish you could see Caydence's whole shirt because it is a way cute jack-0-lantern face!

Pumpkin Carving

We finally carved our pumpkins so they hopefully won't rot before Halloween.  It was pretty fun, but I absolutely HATE my hands being dirty, so it is always a challegne for me to clean out the insides!

Here they are all finished.  Danny's is the monster on the left and mine is some kind of haunted house on a hill with clouds and bats (It's really hard to see.  It ended up being so intricate that pieces were breaking.)

Danny's lit up

Mine lit up (even harder to see)

Sibling night

When Matt was home from school one weekend we decided to have a sibling night.  We went to Swan Lakes and did the putting course.  I don't remember the scores, but I remember that I beat Nicki, and that's all that matters, right?

I love this picture!  Caydence likes to put her hands on Danny's shoulders when he carries her in the backpack- or pull his hair :)

Catch up...

My parent's computer is finally free of the virus, so I can finally upload old pictures.  October 22 was Paige's 9th birthday.  Here's her cake:

Here is Page with her card from Grandma Eynon.  She had to get stiches in her head 2 days before her birthday (the band aid on her eyebrow)
And Caydence even got a present: a new booster chair for Grandma's house!
This was a baby shower we had for my cousin Shelby and her baby Maya.  We put the two cousins together and took some pictures.  Caydence LOVES other babies.  I think maybe she is petting Maya?

Annual Wariner Family Halloween Party

So every year Danny's cousins hold a big Halloween party, and it's a big deal. Every year has a theme and they go all out making amazing invitations and coming up with great games. I have never been into Halloween because I don't like bringing attention to myself or standing out in any way, but they make it so fun and everyone gets really into it.

The theme this year was super heroes, and I know absolutely ZERO about super heroes (honestly, the only one I could think of was super man, lame) So I suggested that we go as the ninja turtles. We worked together with Danny's parents and his sister and brother-in-law and made some pretty sweet costumes. (Click on the pictures to see them better)

This is us from the back so you can see our shells. I liked this one of Caydence. Elisa is April O'Neil, Alan is Kaycee Jones, and Caydence is Splinter. I tried to draw a nose and whiskers on Caydence but she would NOT hold still, and so don't look too closely at them, they're pretty crooked. By the end of the night she had rubbed all of it off anyways.

This is what happens when you leave children alone with Nicki...

Mission Call!!!!

My brother Matt just got his mission call to the Argentina, Salta Mission!!!! It includes a lot of the same mission my dad went to!! And his best friend is there as well! Crazy. He leaves February 4th.

6 months and counting

So Caydence is officially 6 months (2 days ago). We went to her check up and she weighed 16 lbs, 3 oz. She is in the 60th percentile for weight, but the 90th percentile for height! For weighing 9 lbs 4 oz at birth, she is sure a skinny baby! My mom said she would have loved to have a baby EVEN ON THE CHARTS!! We love our Caydence!

Catching up...

I know I don't update our blog very often, but it's because I never feel like I have exciting things to post. Everyone has been giving me a hard time that I never post, so I have been very good at taking my camera EVERYWHERE to take pictures because I think they make the posts a lot more interesting.


This is Caydence and my Grandma Preece at her 90th birthday party. I realized that we didn't have any pictures of them together!

Last weekend was Danny's mom's birthday and we went to the Union Grill in Ogden. It is an old train station that is now a restaurant. It was really good, and they have all these trains outside that were pretty cool, and we definitely had to have a picture of Caydence on the horse. Her favorite thing right now is rocking back and forth (if you have ever seen her or held her you know exactly what I'm talking about) and the instant we put her on this horse she started rocking. It was pretty funny, yet fitting...
This was on the way to Danny's parents' house the other day. It poured the whole way there and then this awesome double-rainbow appeared. (If you look really close you can see a light rainbow on top of the first one.)
Since I don't work anymore and have lots of family around we like to play :) This is one day at Pioneer Park on a miniature train. We went with Paige, my mom, and my Grandma. I hadn't been there in so long!! It was fun, but I'd like to go when it isn't so hot outside!And the best for last! I actually took this picture to tell a funny story about this toy, but she just was so darn cute. My mom bought this for us and it is Caydence's absoulte favorite toy. I like to take it with us when we go places, and one day I left it in the car, and it got REALLY hot. If you look close, you can see that all of the toys are drooping (they used to stand straight up). We just laugh about it. She actually likes it better because she can reach them now to put them in her mouth. I'm just glad we got it cheap at a garage sale, so then I don't feel so bad about it being melted :)

New Couch!

We have been so lucky in the furniture department and have been given or hand-me-downed (I think I made that word up) everything we have needed since we've been married. Our couch was really old and had a broken leg and needed a cover to be presentable (which drove me crazy becaue I had to straighten it 1,000 times a day), so we finally made the first big purchase of our marriage and bought a new couch. We got it from IKEA, which was an adventure in and of itself, but we love it. The picture isn't all that great, but you get the idea.

Good Book...

So I just finished reading this book, The Holy Secret, by James Ferrell, who used to be in our stake. It was SOOO good!! I just want to tell everyone to read it, it will change your life, seriously.

I know I am biased....

But is this not the cutest baby in the world?! She has been the world's most perfect baby, we have been so lucky! She sleeps from about 9 or 10 at night until 8 or 9 in the morning, and she has been doing it since she was 3 weeks old! We are so spoiled, she is just happy and rarely cries, unless she is hungry or tired. We just love her!

So this is a blog....

So I have started a blog, which is actually an amazing feat, considering my lack of computer knowledge. (My sister had to set up my first and only email account and that is why I have such a great password, Nicki) I don't know if I have all that much exciting stuff to say, but I really enjoy reading the blogs of friends and family to keep up on their lives, so I thought I'd give it a try. So here we go!!!