Santa Santa Everywhere.

The City of Soda Springs, hosted Santa at the Park this year. So we went downtown to the park and waited in line for and hour and a half for the kids to see santa! In the freezing coldweather! But the city provide nice hot chocolate & cinnimon rolls that were yummy! This was visit 1 to Santa, and Izzy asked for castle, and Tyler asked for a Bat Cave.

Visit number 2 to Santa was at our ward party. Izzy through a huge fit, and wouldn't sit on his lap. I don't know what her deal was. Tyler climbed right up and then told Santa he would like a helicopter. ( Umm...what? but Santa already bought the Bat Cave. What's an elf to do???) Then after Santa left and we were eating dinner, Izzy says "where's

Santa, I need to tell him I want a castle." (At least it was the same toy. Santa was safe on that one.)

We went to the Mayan (check the next post) & in the waiting area they had Santa & Mrs. Claus. Again Izzy through a huge fit and wouldn't sit on his lap. But up went Tyler and said he wanted a remote control grave digger. (What??? Santa went out bought the only helicopter she could find, to go along with the previously asked for Bat Cave so he wouldn't be sad.)

At that point Tyler was told that Santa wrote Mommy a letter & said it was too late for a remote control grave digger because he changed his mind. He didn't seem to mind, thank goodness.

Just Because

These are pictures I took, well just because Izzy is the cutest thing on earth!


This was a new winter hat she had never worn, and we just thought she looked cute & funny! She has the sweater to match, but it was still to big to wear.




Lately Isabella is going through a stage, where she tells me how she wants her hair. Which ever since my mom came for her birthday, she says "I want my hair like Grandmas." & this is an every day occurance. Not exaggerating, everyday! Then when I am done she will go up and ask Tyler & her dad "does my hair look like grandmas?" Just to make sure I did it right. Well this day she put this hat on and said "My hair looks like Daddy's" It was just funny. And as you can see she was also going through, she didn't think she needed a shirt on phase!

Thanksgiving

We had a great thanksgiving this year, my parents and my Grandma Taylor made the trip and came for thankgiving. Of course there was way to much food & we ate too much. But I was so glad that my Grandma was able to come. Isabella adored her! They were great buds.

Then on friday instead of going out shopping and fighting the crowds, my mom got a massage at our office. Then Papa took us all to Lava to sit in the hot springs. Except, Izzy & Great Grandma stayed in Soda and baby sat her. It was Tyler's first time there and he was so excited. Papa had told him back in September he would take him on thankgiving, so everyday for almost 2 months he would ask if was Thanksgiving yet for Papa to take him to the hot springs.

Some how, these were the only pictures I got, not very good.

Papa, I mean Darth Vader & Tyler

A little wrestling with Papa on the floor. I'm pretty sure thats not what he thought when he laid on the floor. & of course nothing would be complete without Snoopy joining in.

ow everytime Izzy see's anyone with gray hair, she starts talking about Grandma Taylor.

Thankgiving Program

Tyler had thanksgiving Program. He had a few different parts, and did so good. He got right up there spoke in the microphone loud and clear.

He was chosed out of the kindergarteners to do the welcome for everybody in attendance. Then he had to lead the Pledge of Allegiance



"I am Massasoit, cheif of the Wampanag tribe. I made an agreement with the Pilgrims to be friends & live in peace."

" I'm an Idian Warrior bold, many things about me are Told. I helped the white man with his living, & this is why we have thanksgiving."

Slacking

Okay, so I've been informed I need to update my blog, because not everyone is into facebook! I know I've been slacking on the updating. We did celebrate thanksgiving, christmas, new years, and we also went to Vegas. So I am going to be posting a bunch of updates, so keep checking back!

The coolest thing ever!

I just this commerical for the coolest thing I've ever seen! I want this soo bad!!

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Before & After

This is what the walls in my living room looked like BEFORE!
This what the mess looked like after I took off the border

We decided to texture the walls, since there wasn't any. This was the hard working sexy man part way.This is what the texture looked like after it was painted. This is how the accent wall turned out. I have mixed feelings about it, so I would appreciate some thoughts on it. It was "joint" decision on the color.

This is what my walls look like up against my new beautiful couches! Its just a dark off white/tan. So much better than the red and the green border.

Izzy's Birthday

Sadly for mommy, Izzy's birthday was this weekend, she is no longer my baby
Grandma & Grandpa Carwash and Aunt Katie came for the big day! Grandma Carwash made her this night gown and Izzy was more than happy to model it!
Grandma & Papa gave her "fake" make up, which turned out not to be fake. Izzy was showing us her beautiful lipstick. (Don't you like Jared in the background playing with the doll! Well he was really taking all the packaging off, but it looks like he is playing.)

Grandma & Papa came for the big day, and brought along cousin Brooklyn and of course Snoopie & Angel.

I had a lady in my ward make her a cake and it was possibly the cutest cake ever. I didn't want to cut into it. She even made a dress up high heel out of chocolate for it as well. The pictures do not give it justice. It was amazing!

You're All Invited to .....................

A Birthday Party for Izzy!!!! She will be turning 3 On Saturday November 22. Let me know if anybody wants to come, and we can arrange the time then. We are flexible on the time, so just let me know.

And for all you Twilight fans, some of us will be going to Pocatello on the Friday night to go, so if anybody wants to come feel free!!

Wall Paper Sucks!!!

I just want to say Wall Paper sucks!!! Ding Dong the christmas border is gone! Everyone thought it looked like christmas holly with the red walls. On Thursday I took some time and took the ugly wall paper border out of my living room and dining room. I borrowed a steamer and it came right up, I only had to work about an hour. But the mess was after, it was all over the floor, and the little gooey pieces got tracked all over my house. I'm so glad its gone, but still wall paper sucks.

Halloween Part 4

Okay so I promise this will be my last post about Halloween.

The Living Center (nursing home) here does a little activity on halloween. They had a few games for the kids to play and win prizes and then they had all the residents lined up in their wheel chairs handing out candy. There is no other way to put it than it was just soo cute. Yet is was a very tearful experience for me. All I could think of while we were there was my cute little Grandma Veda. Unfortunately she spent the rest of her time here on earth in a living center like this one. But she loved Halloween, and she would have loved that activity. I remember growing up, all the way through high school she just had to see our costumes and see us dressed up and would usually give us a full size candy bar.

One little lady kept telling tyler she had a secret for him and then would kiss him. And then Izzy felt jealous ran right up to the lady giving her a hug and wanted her kisses. This too reminded me of my Grandma because she was always kissing us.

This little lady was all dressed up with face paint and all. I felt a little guilty at not being dressed up for my kids.

This lady was so funy, and she had this witch hat on and had a little stuffed witch in her lap. She smiled for me so I could take her picture, and then when I got done, she said "don't you take my picture." It was really funny.We were very gratful to these people and their willingness to try and give the children a great halloween.

Halloween Part 3

Here were the kids' costumes this year. Pretty Darn cute if I do say so myself.



Tyler was a Fighter Jet Pilot. And obviously Izzy was a Skunk. And she was the hit of the party wherever we went. Not to many skunks out there trick or treating. People kept asking her if she was stinky, and she would curl her nose up in confusion and then tell them yes. One guy at trunk or treat asked her if she was going to lift her tail and spray him, and so she did. She turned around and lifted her tail. It was so funny.




We had to wait in line to get into trunk or treat for about 45 minutes. At one point Izzy got sick of standing there and walked over to a tree and sat down. From a far it looked almost real. Then everyone in the line slowly started to see and everyone was laughing. It was way too cute and way too funny!! Too bad I haven't gotten used to my new camera and the picture if blury.



Tyler said that this is the face the Fighter Jet Pilot's make.

Halloween Part 2

Here in Soda the city does a trunk or treat. Well they provide the spot and any local business can participate in the trunk or treat, in a contest for best decorated trunk. So Bear River Chiropractic did a booth (trunk).

Halloween Part 1

We had about a billion different activities over the week of Halloween, so I'm going to split it up into separate parts.

Our real estate agent here in Soda, provides a pumpkin patch for everyone at a local park. She fills it with pumkins, and then serves Hot Dogs and chili, and Hot chocolate. And it was all free. So we all came home with full bellies and pumpkins.

So for Family home evening we all carved pumpkins and entered them in the City of Soda Springs pumking carving contest. And 2 of them won!!! Of course Jared actually did all of the carving but the rest of us took the credit!

Cami Look alike

So for those of you that know my baby sister Cami, will understand this post. I have been having a ton of fun with Izzy's hair lately. The other day I did this cool pattern on her head and then made the back of it curly and poofy. After it was done I was shocked at to how much she looked like Cami. And not just because of the Big Hair!! Ha Ha Cam, love ya anyway. I would post a picture of Cami to go with it, but all those pictures are on the computer that crashed.

Where to start...

Let's see I'm about 10 posts behind since the breakage of my camera. As I said before my camera died one day. Well since I have a determined husband who is usually pretty good at fixing anything he touches, he decided he was going to try and fix my camera. Well it was unfixable, but was in about 100 pieces on the work bench. Ironically enough I would have loved to take a picture of the camera in all those pieces.

I don't know where to start. First I'll start with pictures of our new office. We did a bit of redecorating in our office, and I am quite proud of it. We only redid the front waiting room and

reception area, and then decluttered the rest of the office.

Jared bought these fishing baskets as file/patient folders holder. So that when he's with a patient the receptionist takes the next patient back and puts their file in it. It goes with the whole Bear River theme.

This is just one of the treatment rooms. The rooms in this office are very large. There is Jared's office, 2 treatment rooms, 2 massage therapy rooms, and an X-Ray suite. All in all we have a lot of square feet and a lot of space. As you can see from the one picture there are borders in a few of the rooms. Those will be coming down as soon as possible and a new coat of paint over the rest of the office.

Gifted & Talented

I thought I would post a quick update on Tyler. As many of you know we had a lot of struggles with him in school in Meridian, with his teacher and his "behavior" and his learning. Well now here in Soda he has a wonderful, awesome, great teacher. I can't say enough about her. He is doing so well, he pays attention, he gets his work done. She still has to remind him not to talk to his neighboors during table time, but he is doing better each day. Then in the IRI's (a big standardized test that all grades take) He got the highest score out of the entire kindergarten ! We were so thrilled and for even better news; drumroll please.......He is being tested for the GIFTED & TALENTED!!!! That is just amazing to me, where his teachers in Meridian didn't know he could read, and just thought he was behind etc. His teacher here thinks he is so smart and learns so well with her that he is excelling so well. FINALLY!!!

I don't even think it has anything to do with being smarter than he was before, I think that it is his teacher tells him he is so smart and that she loves him. So he believes that he can do things, so then he tries hard to please her. Where that definately was not happening in Meridian. The same thing with church, he had 2 church teachers, and they were always telling us how naughty he was, and coming to get us etc. He knew that they didn't like him. So he didn't even try to be good. Well the primary president told me this week that he sits in primary just like an angel, that he is so well behaved, and she said "I just love him." I said "my child, are you sure its Tyler". That was probably rude of me, but all we heard about in Meridian was how horrible he was. So this past week was just so excited for us to see him growing and learning and behaving so well.

So if anything from this move, Tyler is doing great! I am so thankful he is excelling and doing so well. We also found out he's a little ladies man in class. I guess all the little girls follow him around, and always want to sit by him and be his partner! His dad got a big grin out of that one!!

I have had so many cute picture opportunities this week, but I broke my stinking camera! & my stupid computer is broken with the pictures that I got before it broke. So hopefully one day I'll post some pictures. I really wanted to post a picture of Tyler's Gifted & Talented letter, but I'm on Jared's laptop and don't have the scanner plugged in. Maybe one day I'll actually get it on here.

Fun Tag

I normally don't like these tags, but this one is easy and fun

Rules of the tag: Go to your picture file, find the 4th folder and pick the 4th picture in it. Explain a little about the picture. Post. Tag others.




This was my picture in that order. It is of Tyler when he was a few months old with my brother in law Hal, and my nephew Braydon. My sister and I had our babies just a couple months apart, and Tyler and I traveled to Worland to see them. I think that these two boys were excited to have another boy in the house!

Talking about that, I wanted to show a couple more pictures from that day. I love these little pumpkin pictures, they were so cute. And although they look the same age, Tyler was already 3 1/2 months old. We also had them matching ducky blankets that I made and we called them our little Burrito babies. Oh how time flies. Its weird too think that Tyler is now six and Brynlee will be six next week.


I love how he had his arm around her!


I tag everyone who reads my blog, since I don't know who actually does, so this will let me know if you do!!