Another Picture Update

I'm constantly snapping pictures with my phone, but don't regularly post them, so I just dump a bunch of them at once :)  (I wish I could just use the Blogger app like I used to on my phone, but the app for android is TERRIBLE)  So here is a little of what we've been up to in the last month or so.

We spent 2 days raking leaves.  Will was just in heaven.

 We have 7 huge trees that line our back yard, which is SO nice in the summer (COMPLETE privacy)  but...

 it amounted to 15 bags of leaves!!!  Good thing we raked, because...

 it snowed almost a foot that night!  The kids loved it, I hated it.  So I let them play in it and I watched from inside :)

 Caydence's snow man.  We used candy corn for the face (it's all I could think of)

 We took the kids sledding a few days later.

 And then the snow melted within a few days.  It's been a really warm winter so far!  I'm loving it!

I took Caydence to Disney on ice, and we had a blast!

 My mom bought Caydence a "snowman kit", but there is still no now, so she put the items on herself :)

 Caydence is a crack up!  She says the funniest things.  All of her teachers tell me she is just so funny!  She came home from primary with this picture and said they were all frozen.  Ha ha.

 Sometimes sharing is hard :)

 We spent the day before Thanksgiving at Boondocks bowling, playing games, and riding the go-carts.  It was a blast!  It's so nice to finally have something to do in Kaysville!  I wish it had been around when I was in high school!

 Caydence continues to dress up ALL the time.  This was a little number she put together, calling herself a leopard.

 And Woody.  I actually let her wear this to the store!  That's a pretty big deal for me!

 I'm in love with this face!

 So this is the gate to our basement where Danny keeps his drum set.  He usually lets the kids come play, but this night he went down just for a few minutes by himself and both of the kids just sat and cried at the gate, ha ha.  They love the drums!!  We've taught them well.

Well, that's about it!  Now I'm excited to start blogging about all of the fun Christmas activities we've been up to!  Stay tuned!

A strange obsession

I'm not exactly sure where it came from, but Caydence has a new obsession.....with mustaches.

A couple of weeks ago she randomly asked me "how do you spell I love mustache " I tried to keep my laughter in check as I recited the letters to her.  This was her interpretation:

Then she comes home from preschool wearing this:

Her teacher, trying not to laugh, told me that most kids wrote "I love family," or "I love my house." Not Caydence, hers said "I love mustache."

Where did she come from?!

Thanksgiving 2012

We of course had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!  I just love Thanksgiving, but I feel like it just goes too fast!!  We (the kids and I) spent the morning at the "1st annual bring your own breakfast 5k."  Ha ha, we used to all run the City Creek Cold Turkey 6k, but at $25 a person it is just adding up!!  So we decided to do our own this year.  We met at Windridge and ran/walked while enjoying the AMAZING weather we've been having.  Then my mom treated us all to bagels and OJ.

We then came home to Danny (who we let sleep in) and hurried to make our pies so we could be out the door to Danny's family dinner.  It was so good to get together and just enjoy each other's company, and yummy food!  We were all able to share what we were thankful for, and I personally said I am grateful for Danny's work paying his tuition for the MBA program he is starting in January!  Did I mention that here?  I don't remember, but he's starting the MBA program at the U and it was questionable if he was going to get tuition reimbursement because his company is changing the policy starting January 1 (6 days before classes start).  Well, they made an exception for him, thankfully, because we have already sunk $1,000+ into getting him registered!  Anyways, I'm sure grateful they are going to foot the $48,000 bill!!

Anyways, here is the whole group!

No more Reese's!

I mentioned in a recent post that we were having Will tested for a peanut allergy.  They sent us to the hospital to have his blood drawn and we got to have lunch with Danny's mom, who works there, and we got to visit my grandma, who volunteers there!

Anyways, the doctor called me the next day to tell me they ran the wrong test.  Good thing, because they also found out he was allergic to eggs.  I was shocked.  He has had eggs many times and I've never noticed any reaction!  But, bad thing, because we still didn't know if he was allergic to peanuts.  I felt so stupid, because I broke down on the phone and couldn't even really finish the conversation because I got so upset.  Who does that?!  I had been upset about something right before they called, so I'll blame it on that.  Or maybe it was the fact that Will had his blood drawn of of BOTH arms that day for 2 different things, and had 3 shots, and they wanted me to turn around and do it again so that we could  do the test I originally needed!  Well we are pretty lucky, because Danny's mom runs the lab at McKayDee, so she worked her magic and was able to tack on the peanut test with the blood they had leftover, so a happy ending after all, kind of.  He IS allergic to peanuts.  Allergic enough that they prescribed him an epiPen that we have to carry around.  {insert panic here}

It's a whole new world I'm getting used to. I had a really hard time thinking of things to feed Will before, now take out anything with peanuts, manufactured in a plant with peanuts, and eggs.  Awesome.  And now I feel like I can't leave him with ANYONE.  I must be with him at all times.  And I worry any time he puts ANYTHING in his mouth...  I'm going to try meeting with an allergist to help calm my fears and answer my questions.  It's going to be a long road, but hopefully being more informed will help me feel a little less overwhelmed.

On an ironic note, this of course happened right after I bought an entire case of peanut butter at a case lot sale...

Thoughts

I will be the first to admit that I am less than thrilled with the results of the election yesterday.  I had kind of hoped to wake up and see it was all a bad dream.  It almost seemed unreal, even as it was happening.  I have had a hard time even picking myself up today.  I am angry, emotional, and most of all afraid.  I fear for my family, our budget, and my country.  But we have to face the future, and make the most of what we have.  We still live in the greatest country in the world, for now.  I will definitely have a hard time getting over this but our church leaders have helped me put things in perspective.

Official Church Statement

Triplets?

While I was at Time Out for Women last weekend, Danny sent me this picture of Will and I couldn't help but think of this post I did a few years ago comparing Danny and Caydence.  Even though I think that Will is a CLONE of Danny, this maybe isn't the right comparison shot.  I think Danny and Caydence look a lot more alike than Danny and Will in these pictures.  Maybe it's the spiked hair?  Oh well, either way, they all look exactly alike!  Do I have ANY genes?  Ha ha

Happy Halloween!

Probably the cutest Dorothy ever.  And everyone was surprised at how legit her costume was!  Thanks to my mom for making it.  We are so lucky to have Paige passing down all of her nice things.  My mom made this costume for Paige one year for Christmas, so Caydence is lucky enough to have lots of nice dress ups to choose from for Halloween.  And, funny enough, red sparkle shoes are surprisingly easy to find!

 Getting a picture of Will is practically impossible.  I got him these skeleton jammies and they were his "costume".  He just passed out candy with Danny while I took Caydence trick-or-treating.

 I could not even believe how long Caydence lasted!  It probably helped that it was so warm!  Her basket was so full that she had me carry it for the second half of the night.  We found her friend, Marli, and they could have gone all night!  It was pretty cute.

Everyone kept quizzing her all night, "What's your dog's name," "Have you found the wizard?", "Looking for Kansas?"  I just sat there and laughed because she has no idea what they are talking about.  She has never seen the movie.  She doesn't even have any idea who Dorothy is, ha ha.  But she sure was cute!