dates for twilight.

So, I was thinking about the first week in December to go see Twilight. Our ward Christmas party is the 6th, so that is out. I took Maddie to see HSM 3 on a Wed. night, and the theatre was pretty empty. A weeknight might be nicer for our hubbies too, they won't be left alone on a weekend night. So how about Dec. 3rd or 4th? Let me know. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one wanting to see it! If you haven't already, you should check out the trailer for it. Kate said it looked "scarwy!"

Sweet baby!

I can't get enough of him.

a little disappointed.

So this is what I was supposed to be doing this weekend. Jared bought me a ticket to Celine Dion's concert, and I was going to go with his mom, and sister Devanie. Celine is sick, and so she postponed the concert to February 22nd, which is a Sunday. I'm quite bummed! So, since our hotel was non-refundable, and non-transferable, we're going to Temple Square as a family instead. After cursing the Hilton staff for not giving us a refund, I decided it will be really fun to go as a family this weekend. Maddie is excited to take our picture in front of the conference center fountain, and I'm a little excited to see Gavin take his first swim in the hotel pool (not so excited to see myself in a swimsuit, but that's another matter :)

Twilight girls night out

So, I just finished reading Twilight, and wondered if anyone wanted to make it a girl's night out to go see the movie. The only problem is I'll be gone this next weekend when it hits theatre's , and the next weekend is Thanksgiving. Anyone willing to wait a couple of weeks? Let me know.

Which one do you like?

So here are the baby announcements I created on photoshop. Let me know which one you like best.

Typical Sunday Evening.

Just kidding, Jared told me to call this post "a typical Sunday evening". He can be sarcastic every once in a while. Making cookies with our kids is definately not a typical Sunday activity, but I must say I did enjoy it. I had to redeem myself after my very moody sacrament meeting with my family, so I decided to make cookies, and actually let them help.

A few of the things I heard while baking were:

(As Kate passes gas) Maddie shouts, "Fire in the hole!"

Maddie: "Can I lick the spoon?"

Me: "No, raw eggs will give you diarrhea."

(After we catch Kate eating cookie dough) Maddie: "Colin, Kate's eating diarrhea!"

Kate: (as she points to the mixer) "Dat go joom, joom!"

Colin, Gavin, and Jared were our silent participants. All in all we had an enjoyable time making cookies.

Gavin is 2 months old!

Now that we've switched Gavin to soy, he's a much happier baby. His first two months have flown by, and we are so glad to have him in our family!

I will definately enjoy!

So, I was cleaning up my counters after Halloween, and just had to take this picture, and ponder the current meaning of "Enjoy the Journey". Will I enjoy the journey to the bottom of these candy filled buckets? Most likely yes. But for right now I think I'll just enjoy Kate laughing hysterically at the old Pink Panther cartoon that she's watching while I blog.

Halloween 2008

This Halloween, we each had important jobs. I was the photographer (I failed, I have no pictures of kids in costumes, and more pictures of the jack o' lanterns than the family carving them, and to top it off, all my pictures are a little fuzzy, such is life, my mind has been a little fuzzy too!) Jared was the carving man, Colin and Maddie were observers, and Kate was the entertainer. Gavin, well, you'll see.

Kate sang "If you're Happy and you know it"

Gavin is clearly not happy.

Jared carving with the biggest knife in the house. We're lucky we didn't go to the ER.

Maddie's pumpkin.

Kate saying, "Ew, dat's gwoss!"

Colin's pumpkin.

The pumpkins on the porch. I did the ghost.


Jared did the pirate, and the smiley face is Kate's.


All together now. Thanks to Uncle Reid, and Tammy Collins for the pumpkins. We still have a huge pumpkin from Uncle Reid that I'm going to decorate the porch with for Thanksgiving, and then carve to take a picture of a happy Gavin (hopefully) inside it.