Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year, it's always great to be with family and just relax. My 91 year old grandma even made the trip up to Boise with us. Thanksgiving dinner is always amazing at my house because my mom is an incredibly good cook-everything is intensely good. I'd have to say my favorite thing this year was the mashed potatoes and gravy, I decided that potatoes are my favorite food. I also really loved the pumpkin cheesecake with butter sauce for dessert. Yummy!!

My family's tradition is to go around the table and say what we are thankful for and what our favorite food from Thanksgiving is. This year the thing I am most thankful for is to be a mom:) It is the greatest thing in the world!

Kirstie made these super cute turkeys to put by everyone's plates

Everyone enjoying the delicious meal...
Sweet potatoes

Huge turkey leg

Mashed potatoes with the most delicious gravy I've ever tasted

Carrots

Sister-love her!

Grandpa rocking Saylor to sleep-so cute!

It was so fun to see so many friends at Sarah's baby shower. I was amazed at all the people who home made their gifts! I was inspired to be more crafty!

Yay!! Sass is having a girl so I have someone to get excited about big flowers and bows and all those other fun little girly things with. Also someone to make them with! We made the cutest ever bows at Sarah's shower. I was so proud of Sarah and all her big bows, she'll have the cutest ever little girl soon! (I like to call her Betsy since they have no name for her yet...they don't like that very much so I tell them to hurry and pick a name or Betsy just might stick!) Here are the bows I made. Me and Sass even made matching bows for Saylor and Betsy to go with the matching dresses I got for them! I have plans to make many more-I've already been to the craft store to buy ribbon, flowers and little rhinestones, I can't wait!

Murder Mystery Dinner

Last Friday we had a murder mystery dinner at Matt and Sarah's house. We actually did the same exact mystery dinner like six years ago for Morp when we were seniors but we couldn't remember anything (except Steve claiming to be FBI when he really wasn't...)

When Sarah called to inform us of our characters I was surprised when Ty wanted to get really into it. He was Calvin, the nerdy guy, and he insisted we go buy him some suspenders and glasses to look the part.

It was a lot of fun trying to figure out the mystery...and look who ended up to be the murderer!!

Time Flies...

When did my tiny 10 day old Saylor go from this....

...to this?

Time goes way too fast, my baby is getting so big!! (She somehow managed to fit into the same outfit though!)

Look what Ty got...

I never thought I'd let my husband get a motorcycle ...

Ty has had his corvette since before his mission and its been sitting on the side of his parents house for years now. When we first got married I tried really hard to get him to sell it since we needed the money and it was just sitting there wasting away. Ty went on and on about the sentimental value it held and how some day he would have the money to fix it up...it was a lost cause. When Ty started begging for a motorcyle I finally just said, ok well when you sell your corvette, you can get a motorcycle (and in my mind I thought, that's never gonna happen!) Then Ty's brother Stig went and got a motorcyle this summer and I don't think Ty's ever been more jealous. So jealous that he finally decided to sell the corvette...and I couldn't say a word about him getting the motorcyle after I had given him permission (kind of by accident)

So now Ty's got a bike. It's bad timing since it just got super cold but he did get a few good sunny weeks to ride it. He doesn't even care that it is freezing cold in the mornings and usually dark when he rides home, he'll ride that thing any chance he gets. Ty is like the happiest guy ever. The first weekend he had it we rode all the way up to Park City on it. We did some Christmas shopping at the outlets and had dinner, it was such a fun date!

Family Pictures

Stig took some family pictures for us awhile back and I never posted them. There were tons I loved of me and Ty but Saylor was usually making a strange face or not looking. So here are some of the ones where we all look semi-normal. I'm having a hard time deciding which one to blow up and put on my wall...

8 months

Saylor is 8 months old today. This has been a big month for Saylor with lots of firsts. She no longer feels like a little baby, she's growing up and getting so big. She learned to crawl this month but it started out as the worm and slowly evolved. Saylor is very happy about being able to go anywhere she wants. She also learned how to clap and wave this month which is so cute. She says lots of words like Mama and Dada but she doesn't really know what she is saying yet I don't think. Being a mom just keeps getting better and better!!

Trying to drink Daddy's root beer

Daddy showing off Saylor's standing skills

Working on those crawling skills
Her hair keeps getting longer!

Saylor loves the camera, she always does cute little poses like this for me.
Saylor stills loves her paci and can not live with out it when she is going to sleep.

Just in the last few days Saylor started making this face all the time, I don't know where it came from but it's so funny.
Saylor's new favorite thing is the mirror. It is so cute because its like her little friend in there that she loves to play with.

Here is Saylor showing off her new crawling skills

Happy Halloween!

Halloween really turned out to be so much fun even though it was very stressful at times (I'll get to that later)

Saylor was the cutest little fairy for Halloween

Saylor with her cousins Eliana the ChaCha Dancer and Daniella the Peacock at the family Halloween Party

I was Wendy and Ty was Peter Pan

Our Nephew Tra had his baptism on Halloween and since me and Autumn had just finished our cake decorating class we wanted to make him a cake. We had tons of really cool ideas for the cake but since we had another family Halloween party Friday night by the time we got home all the craft stores that carry all the cake decorating supplies were closed so our options were getting limited. We ending up making the cake into a pumpkin which actually turned out pretty cute. Decorating cakes is soo time consuming though so we were up until 2am finishing it. Tra also asked me and Ty to give the talk on baptism so I was stressing about that.

Ty was feeling left out so he wanted to make Tra a cake too. So we got up early Saturday morning for the baptism after getting NO sleep at all and we rushed out to Alpine being very careful with the cake and we walked in about 5 minutes after the baptism started and pretty much walked right up to give our talk. The talk ended up going well and things were great until we got in the car after the baptism to go to Tra's birthday party. For some reason Ty decided to try to drive, answer the phone, turn a corner and hold the cake all at the same time. And my cake flipped over and squished right into the floor of our car:( The damage turned out to not be that bad but I still was very sad after spending so much time on it...I was not very happy with Ty.

After the party we quickly went home to pack our stuff because we were having another party up at my cabin with my friends. I was stressing out because a few extra people decided to come last minute so I was worried we wouldn't have enough food. We ended up having TONS of food, we probaby could have stayed up there a week with all the food we had. So everything ended up turning out great and we had a really fun time up there. My friends are great, I love them so much and it was fun getting to know some new people too.

Sass and Matt making their haunted gingerbread house

Jules and Nate made the drive all the way from Twin Falls to be with us!

Me and Ty made an awesome spider house!!

We made delicious carmel apples!!

It was beautiful on Sunday so we went on a nice afternoon walk.

Eating donuts off a string...me and Sarah are usually the only ones that want to do it but everyone got really into it this year!! Jules and Bre were the most intense but I think Bre ended up winning.

We were covered in stickiness!Saylor made friends with Luke over the weekend, it was so cute to see them play together.

Saylor was so good all weekend, it was so weird to think that I was pregnant with her when we came up last year. Life has sure changed since then. Usually when our friends get together we can't stop talking about high school and all our great memories. This trip had a different feel to it, with two moms and two pregnant girls our conversations mostly focused on pregnancy and parenting. We weren't quite as out of control as we usually are. Its a new and exciting time in our lives, we're growing up and becoming parents!