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!

Update

I know it's been a while.  I have totally lost the excitement blogging used to give me.  I know no one reads this anymore, now that it's private.  I get so angry/frustrated when I think about it.  I really never wanted my blog to be private, but some unfortunate events cause me to feel I needed to protect us from a few individuals.  Don't worry, if you're reading this, I'm not talking about you :)  I guess I'll keep posting, for my record if nothing else...

So, here's a little of what we've been up to the last few months.  I'm sorry the pictures are so bad, most of them are from my phone, and the rest are super dark!  I wish I knew how to take good pictures!

Will has finally started walking full time.  This is one way we encouraged that (embarrassing!)

 Read a PHENOMENAL book for book club, I highly recommend it.

 Constantly looking for new hair do's for Caydence.

 All dressed up for church!

 Nicki returned September 22 from spending the summer in Europe.

 We hosted a pumpkin carving contest with some friends and had all things pumpkin: cookies, decorations, etc.

 Made these with my silhouette (LOVE that machine!)

 All the kids watched a movie in the love sack while we carved.  It was almost impossible to get them all looking at me, ha ha. 

 Here are the pumpkins, mine is the top left (frankenstein) and Danny's is the top right (Jazz)

I finally got my Petunia bag!!!  I worked some magic (and patience) and got $100 off!  I LOVE it!

 Met sweet baby Claire (the kids' first cousin on my side)

 Unfortunately, due to sickness, and Danny's GMAT studying, the rest of the fam didn't get to meet her until she was 1 month old!  But she was even more beautiful!

 We attended the annual Wariner Halloween Party and had a blast, as always.  The theme was Disney Pixar.  Let's just say there are 6 major awards for costumes, and the 4 of us won 4 of them :) 

I brought these cupcakes as our Halloween dessert, found them on pinterest.

 Caydence and I made Halloween sugar cookies while Will was napping. 

 My cookies (we had to make do with the food coloring I had on hand :)

Caydence's cookies

 Made this for Halloween.  (also from pinterest)

 Went to the Davis High Homecoming parade.  Oh the memories...

 Caydence got 2 pairs of colored skinny jeans.  She is way more stylish than me! 

Decorated our back window with Bats (also from my silhouette) 

Made these wreaths with my mom during conference.  (Yep, also from pinterest :)

The girls went the the worldwide art competition hosted by the church (held every other-ish year?)

Anyways, here were a few of my favorites.  These pictures don't even do them justice. 

This was a gorgeous quilt of bright red and orange cliffs.

  

 Just had to throw this in there because it was SO WEIRD!  Purses with feet coming out the bottom....I wish I could remember the title.

 They have an amazing exhibit for the kids!  Caydence's favorite part was where you could dress up like a Spanish dancer and follow a movie that showed you a traditional Spanish dance.

 The fire station had an open house and Caydence BEGGED to go.  But when we got there she was her normal scared-of-everything self, and wouldn't go anywhere near ANYTHING.  So Danny took advantage instead.

 Yep, you guessed it, found this on pinterest, and I just happened to have everything on hand, so I took them to the ladies I visit teach.

 Paige turned 13!  Crazy!

 Went to my card party and took this card to trade.  (Way brighter/cuter in person!)

 Long story, but Danny and I spent a day at Frightmares at Lagoon.  It was so fun!  We hadn't been in 4 and 10 years, respectively.  Danny's parents' watched the kids and they had a fun packed day and didn't want to ever come home!

 Our cute neighbor hosted a Halloween party and all the kids were so excited to get dressed up and play Halloween games. 

This was one of the activities at the party.  (It's a mummy :)

 Every year I buy the kids skeleton pajamas.  They are a great "costume" for the younger kids that don't understand Halloween.  Love them!

 Had the first snow of the season last week.  YUCK!

 And we spent the next day an a SUPER MUDDY Black Island Farms.  It was fun, but I think it will be better when the kids are a little older.  We went with a bunch of ladies and their kids from our ward.  This is our good friends' son.  They moved in one week after us and we've just clicked.  Their little boy is almost exactly one year older than Will.  Crazy, right?!  And I thought Will was little!  He has now passed Logan in weight.  This was the best picture I could get of both of them, ha ha.

 Caydence rode this tire swing horse for about .5 seconds before she was scared, of course, and begging to get off.

Loving this face!

 Our ward has an annual children's parade and breakfast and this was Caydence ready for the parade.  Just a bunch of patriotism and pink :)

 All the older girls in my family spent the weekend at Time out for Women.  It was our first time, and I LOVED it!  We are going to make it a tradition every year now!  We spent the night in SLC and just had a blast!  We entered the facebook photo contest they were holding with the picture below.  We definitely should have won.... 

And now you're all caught up!!  We are headed to the doctor today for Will's 15 month appointment.  I cannot even believe that: 15 months!!!  I am very excited to see how much he weighs!  And we are wondering if he is allergic to peanuts.  I gave him his first peanut butter and his lips swelled a little and got red with little white dots.  I did it 2 more times just to test it, and it happened both times, so I've kept him completely off peanuts since then.  I'm hoping we can get him tested today to see if he is really allergic.