Yikes

Where has the time gone?? It's almost been 2 months since my last post (besides my rant post a couple days ago...) and sooo much has happened! I'll just pick up where I left off...


NOVEMBER 2010

Emma and I spent the greater part of November in Arizona! First with the Thurston's for about 2 weeks and then we spent Thanksgiving week with the Nelson crew!

Having fun with Great Grandma Nelson

Thanksgiving morning my sister-in-law Emily and I ran the Mesa Turkey Trot 10K (6.2 miles) It was a blast! Here we are before the race:

and after:

My birthday was the day after Thanksgiving. It's so good to be around family for your special day (especially when everyone is glued to the TV watching football....yes, it was special....)

DECEMBER 2010

After all the Thanksgiving fun ended it was back up to p-town for one last hoorah before packing up and leaving Provo for good!

Thomas' flag football team played in the semi-finals,

we went to my cousin Jami's baby shower,

we had a bath time photo-shoot,

and we had a going-away party to say goodbye to all our friends!

Thomas finished his finals, we got our apartment all packed up and said goodbye to Provo! It was a bittersweet goodbye for me but we're so happy to be in Arizona! (just in time to miss the freezing Utah winter :)

We celebrated the Christmas festivities with the Thurston's

Monday for FHE Paige hosted a game show involving the married couples in the family asking questions about their spouses. It was a blast even though Thomas and I didn't win...But hey, we still got a prize of double-stuffed oreos :)

Emma got all decked out for Christmas Eve, what a doll :)

Playing nerf ball out in the street

And then, of course, we recreated the Nativity story.

Lindsay was our narrator,

Parker played the angel(s),
Mom played the wiseman/photographer,

Paige was Mary, Tanner was Joseph, and Dad
played the donkey...he fit the part perfectly :)

Jake, Brittney, and Thomas were our audience/photographers/videographers.
(oh, and I was the shepherd)

This was my surprise Christmas/Anniversary gift from my darling hubby!!

It's hard to tell but he printed off a map of DISNEYLAND!! and on the back he printed off our flight itinerary! He is so cute :) We actually leave tomorrow!! Just a one day trip - fly to Burbank in the morning, spend all day at disneyland/california adventure, and fly back to Phoenix that night. I'm so excited I can't even believe it!

I was so surprised to open this from him - he thought that I knew but I had no idea! Talk about the best present EVER, not to mention the best husband EVER!

We ended the year 2010 by celebrating our 2 YEAR anniversary (I know, we made it two years!) with dinner and a movie. For New Years Eve we had a few of our good friends over for a night of games and a Seinfeld marathon! Goodbye 2010, here we come 2011 :)

ugh

So I probably spent about an hour and a half last night working on a post of all our holiday pictures. By midnight I still wasn't finished so after saving my post a million times I closed it out to finish it up tonight...Well to my utter dismay, my draft disappeared!! I can't find it anywhere!! and I'm not kidding you I saved it at least 6 or 7 times! And doesn't it automatically save like every five minutes anyways? Someone please tell me how this happened, I'm so mad right now I could break something

Well, since it's 11:23pm right now I'm not going to restart my whole post tonight...you'll just have to wait. So in the meantime please enjoy this adorable video:

Sometimes I wonder why we even bother buying toys
when she's perfectly happy playing with a wet paper towel!!

Fall Festivities

First things first. Thomas got accepted into the
Physician Assistant program at
A.T. Still University!
WOOHOO!! Arizona here we come!!!!

We kick started our fall festivities with a trip down south
to St. George to watch Kody Thurston run in the marathon
(he's in the ten year club, he can show you all his medals)

I also got to watch my best friend Natalie cross

the finish line - she did amazing for her first time!

(sorry no picture)

I was feeling very crafty once fall season started
so I decided to make an autumn wreath to hang on
our front door. It was fun buying all the different
pieces and putting it together :) I think it turned out cute

On October 16th, Lindsay, Eric, Emma and I took a road trip
up to Rexburg, Idaho to watch Tanner play in one of his
football games. It was such a blast and he played awesome!

After the game we hit up this awesome
Mexican restaurant. It was delicious

Then, less than a week later my parents came up to
Provo for my mom's birthday (she turned 39)
We celebrated her b-day at a Thai restaurant in Salt Lake

This is our 'Heidi' pose :)

My parents enjoyed a rainy weekend with us
(complete with a BYU game)
and then headed back to AZ on Sunday.
I love having family around :)

The next weekend was Halloween!
I got so excited about making Emma's costume
that I made it at the beginning of October.

If you do the math, by the end of October she was
a tad bit bigger than at the beginning of the month.
So, unfortunately her costume was too small!
But she wore it anyways and she was the cutest
Little Red Riding Hood I've ever seen :)
She was so entertained with her little basket.
It was in her mouth almost the whole night!
We went to our ward Halloween party and we
dressed up as little red riding hood's parents. . .

I attempted to win the doughnut eating contest but I utterly
failed coming in last place - half of it ended up on the floor

Emma had a long night and crashed on our way home.
It was probably from all the candy she ate

On the 26th Emma turned 6 months old!
Weight: 16 lbs 13 oz
Height: 26 in

And finally, today we went to the BYU game
against UNLV. But we didn't just 'go to the game'
We got to sit in box seats thanks to
our friends Ben & Lauren!