Breaking Dawn

This week a big group of ladies from my ward all went to the 10:00 pm premier of Breaking Dawn. I'm so glad it was at 10:00 this time instead of 12:00am. I do not like going to midnight movies. A bunch of us showed up at 8:00 and had a great time talking until the movie started. I thought the movie was good. The 5th movie was better than the ending in the book for sure. They did a great job. I want to watch it again. After the movie we went to IHOP. Talk about a late night. It was tons of fun though. I paid for it on Saturday. This girl needs her sleep.

Other than that I'm just busy busy doing wedding stuff, ward party stuff, and mom and wife stuff. Life is good. I've got a pretty good groove going with Corbin's preschool so that is good. I'm seeing some definite progress. I just need to keep it up.

I made three skirts last week. I had enough fabric to make my skirt, plus one for Gabby and Piper. I can't wait! It's going to be super dorky. I don't care. I'm glad my girls don't understand that their mom is being a big dork with them. It was the temple dedication so we couldn't match today. Next week though. I'm excited and you know I'll post pictures. My sister in law sang on the front row in the choir during the temple dedication. It was fun to see a familiar face.

Last night I went to the youth celebration at the stake center. 9,000 youth participated. They sang and danced for the prophet. It was great! Hardly anyone was able to actually go and watch it at the Taco Bell Arena. I was thoroughly impressed and very happy that our youth got to participate in such a wonderful event.

11 of the 16 of us at Breaking Dawn. Fun times!

Cute Gabby

I busted out the Christmas movies yesterday.

Family Bed.

Puppy dog Piper. She will do a little woof woof if you say dog. Cute!

Scott and Gabby jumping off the table. It was a long Sunday, why not jump off the furniture.

Birthday Week

It was my birthday on Tuesday. Election day. Not my ideal situation, I don't even like politics. That's okay. It was a bummer that Obama won on my birthday but life goes on. I woke up to a treasure map taped to the bathroom mirror. Scott hid my presents around town and I had to go and find them. Luckily he gave me a map, plus a picture of where it was hidden, plus he took Corbin with him so he knew where all of the presents were. Good thing he made it so easy or I would have never found them. I really needed him to dumb it up for me. Ha. In the middle of the treasure hunt I took my kids and went and voted. Luckily there was only a 2 minute line. That night I decided that I wanted to go out with the kids to eat at Cafe Ole to celebrate. I wanted to go somewhere the kids like to go since it was a family outing. They love eating the chips and salsa. After that it was cake and present time. My kids were so cute and funny singing to me and opening presents with me. Precious, precious moments.On Thursday my friend took me out to lunch and then on Friday Scott took me on a birthday date. We went to Olive Garden and then I got to go shopping. It was fun! I bought a super cute yellow coat. I think I have bought a new coat every year since I've been married. They are a weakness for me. I LOVE cute coats, and I have a lot!

I am still not really adjusted to Daylight Savings and neither are my kids. Piper used to sleep in past 8:00 every morning. Not anymore, (although she did today, cross your fingers). My other kids are up in the 6:00 hour guaranteed. I am now usually up at 6:00 as well now. I guess I am getting more done and I am turning into that morning person I always want to be. I did get a lot of stuff done this week so maybe it's a good thing. Plus I found out that Scott is in charge of the ward party and I am on the committee. I am already bouncing all kinds of ideas around. I have a lot of work to do for that.

Last night I went with my friend Jen to the Craft Warehouse open house. It was super fun. I sure do love that store. I thought for sure I would win a prize. Darn! I did get some cute fabric that I am going to attempt to make a skirt for myself out of it. I have not ventured into the clothes making department much. Wish me luck there.

The kids stayed home from church today. I went and left Scott home. Missing church is the worst. Thanks Scott! We have all been battling colds all week and their coughs were pretty bad so I decided maybe they shouldn't go. In Relief Society the lesson was on teaching your children. Wow, we have such a big and important job as parents. Parenting is the most important and challenging calling we will ever have. I'm so humbled and blessed to be a mother. I can't think of anything better in the whole world.

Cute kids!

Piper still blowing after the candles were burned out. If you say something is hot she will automatically blow. It's funny.

Silly Gabby

If I kick Corbin off video games he often times wants to build a fort and then watch a movie in the fort. Ha!

Another fort, they are watching their movie player.

I was brushing my hair while holding Piper and I accidentally hit Piper with the brush It was sad! She didn't cry she just looked at me with the saddest face for such a long time. Heart breaking. That face isn't even her worst, she had the pouty lip going on like crazy.

Luckily she forgave me and came in for some loves!

Piper loves crawling under our kitchen sink, you know next to the cleaning products and other safe things!

Halloween

Let's see Scott went to Texas again this week. While he was gone the kids and I carved pumpkins or rather I carved pumpkins while Corbin watched and Gabby danced to Halloween music. Jeff grew our pumpkins and Janet gave us a carving kit and Halloween music so we were set. I have never carved with proper tools before and like most things it makes all the difference. Having a picture to copy helps. I'm not good at thinking things in my head but I can sure copy someone else's good work. We picked up Scott on Halloween night and then we went trick or treating. It was fun. Our kids were so cute. After they got candy they would say "thank you, and Happy Halloween." Listening to Gabby's cute voice say Happy Halloween was precious. We came home and had a binge and put the kids to bed. Then Scott and I watched Psycho. That is a great thriller. Scott says they are making a movie about Hitchcock making the movie Psycho. It looks good. Apparently Psycho was filmed at the end of his career and no one would back him up so her mortgaged his house and made it anyway. Interesting stuff.

I'm almost completely done with wedding stuff. My goal is Thanksgiving and I am going to make it. I want everything in Arco so I don't have to worry about it and also so I can focus on doing Christmas things with my family. I can't believe that Christmas is right around the corner. Chase finally got officially engaged on Friday. Good thing I didn't wait for it to be official before I got to work.

While Scott was gone Corbin and Gabby were watching a show on the movie player and Piper tried to come in their room and Corbin kicked her out. I got after him and he said, "but mom, Gabby and I are having a cuddle." This was after he said to me, "me and Gabby are so fun!" Ha. Gabby also told Scott that a ghost said boo to her. She also said: "me and Corbin are gonna get married." Funny kids.

Fitting right in at the library stacks.

"Having a cuddle"

I probably should have made Corbin wear his pirate costume. He did wear it to a Halloween birthday party. He informed me that his costume was missing a parrot. Scott felt like a Piper peacock should suffice.

Edward and Bella

I forgot to mention that we went to the Boise temple open house 2 weeks ago. It is beautiful and the interior is completely different. We took our kids. I wanted it to be a memorable and fun experience so we decided to use our Tucanos gift card and go out to eat afterwards. Unfortunately the whole time we were at the temple our kids kept asking if it was time to go to the restaurant yet. So that kind of backfired a little bit but that's okay. We did have a great time at the restaurant. We don't eat out very often so it's pretty exciting for our kids.

Our family got invited to a costume birthday party. The mom served mummy wrapped hot dogs, monster mouths, and eye balls with dirt and worms for dessert. It was cute and clever. On Wednesdays in the wintertime we meet up with Anna and her kids at Burger King. This is a great time for our kids to play and for us to get out of the house.

Friday night was the ward Halloween party. It was one of the worst turn outs I can remember. It was kind of nice for the carnival though. The kids got to play all of the games and hardly wait in line at all. They had a lot of fun games set up. I was wishing that I could play. Scott and I decided to dress up as Edward and Bella. Ha. I don't think anyone knew we were dressed up. I looked totally normal (except I never wear skinny jeans with skater shoes) and Scott had pale make up on. I think people just thought Scott looked sick or something. We thought we looked pretty good though.

I got released from the Young Womens. It is sad but it's okay. I have been serving there for 4 years. There was a lot of turn over for different reasons so I think the Bishop thought it would be a good time for me to move on. I am now the Compassionate Service Coordinator which is pretty much making a lot of phone calls. Not my favorite. That's okay. I'm pretty excited about going back to Relief Society, I like Relief Society.

It was the Primary program today and Corbin was the only one who cried and the only one who didn't do his part. I was a little frustrated with him and I thought how can I be frustrated with him when I was the only one in the primary who would cry and who wouldn't give my part. Unfortunately it looks like I passed this gene on. Better luck next year.  Let's hope he does better than me, I never participated in the Primary program ever. It nearly ruined me! Ha.

Some funny quotes from this week. 

Gabby “When I share it makes Heavenly Father happy, when I don’t share with Corbin it makes Heavenly Father sad.”

Scott was talking with Gabby about trick or treating and he said that he hoped it didn’t rain on Halloween and Gabby said, “Yeah, because that would make Heavenly Father sad.”

Corbin was expressing excitement over having fruit snacks in the home.  Scott said, “Yes, what a nice Nana you have to get you guys those fruit snacks,” to which Corbin responded, “Yeah, I love Nana and Jesus.”

Corbin "Mom, I left that out so you could pick it up." 

Last Sunday before dinner at the Cannons we passed some time by feeding the neighbor horses.

Gabby dressing herself.

Edward and Bella "We are so SERIOUSly in love."

We probably shouldn't let our baby feed herself soup and she should probably have a bib. Oh Piper!

Brought to You From Utah

We went to Salt Lake to visit Scott's family this weekend. We went for a few reasons. Of course our kids are always dying to go to Nana's house for on thing. I also love going to Utah in October, it is beautiful and Janet is the Halloween Queen and it's fun to see her house decorated. I also wanted to see what things I could borrow for Chase's wedding. So here we are. We came down early on Friday morning and made it just in perfect time to get lunch at Hires. After that the kids had fun picking apples and pumpkins with Nana and Papa. Scott was so happy to repeat his nerd fest with his brother and brother in laws. They played video games until 2:00 in the morning. I finally go to watch Janet's favorite scary movie that I have wanted to watch for years. It is black and white and it is good. It is called The Uninvited but it's nothing like the stupid modern movie with that title. I liked it a lot, it was scary and had a good ending. It wasn't too cheesy and it didn't get stupid. Scary movies often have a hard time not doing those things. Of course that night I was a little spooked and got further spooked when I heard a sound that I thought was Piper. I proceeded to open the basement door to be met by a screaming cat. Wow, that made my heart skip a beat.

We had a horrible incident when Piper fell down the entire flight of the Cannons very long staircase. I was standing right there and in a second I had to watch my baby roll down the stairs catching speed the whole time she fell. It was horrible and sad. I'm a little traumatized thinking about it. I think this has been the scariest thing I have had to experience as a parent thus far. She came out fairly well. Her nose was gushing blood and her upper lip was swollen. Thank goodness that was all. She cried for a long time and it was sad. She woke up only a little swollen. She has a little bruise on her upper nose. Thank goodness their stairs have nice plush carpet. It was all hard wood a few years ago. I'm glad she fell down with at least a little cushion.

On Saturday we went down to Thanksgiving point and checked out the Barnyard Boo. They had a lot of cute farm animals. We saw all the animals and went on a short hay ride. Gabby was in a mood the whole time but she improved dramatically after lunch. Piper had the best time out of all the kids I think. Afterwards we went to Porter's Place in Lehi. It was so good. I loved it! It is a restaurant named after Porter Rockwell and they have Mormon Malts along with other delicious things. The restaurant is very old timey and has excellent food.

Scott and I sneaked off at one point to check out Uncle Rick's basement to see if there were any craft projects for myself or for the wedding but I didn't find anything. We then went to Goodwill and I found some more great things for the reception. It was pretty low key last night, there were a few rounds of cards played. Carole and I went to Nordstroms. I stayed up late catching up on a few shows while Scott played some more games with Rustin and Clark and for a little while Corbin as well.

We are headed home tomorrow. Hopefully we will play some games tonight. I love playing Sunday night games with the Cannons.  

At Barnyard Boo

At Porter's Place, you can see Piper's upper lip is a little swollen.

I think it's cute when Gabby watches Corbin play games.

Corbin playing with the boys. He was so focused. It was cute. Good bonding time.

The hideaway bed sinks in the middle. Corbin and Gabby slept real close all night. Funny and cute.

After church Corbin was feeling a little clingy or something. We had some good cuddles and watched Princess and the Frog together.

This is an old picture from Nicole's phone. Look at that face!

Another old picture from Nicole's phone. Cute!

Busy Week

This has been a busy week for me. It's mostly my fault but I got everything I wanted accomplished so that is good. I like having deadlines because they motivate me to get things done. I knew my parents were coming on Saturday for some baptisms so I thought that was some great motivation to get some more things done for the wedding so my parents could take it home and I could get rid of it. My house is too small to have tons of wedding decorations. So on Monday morning I began my fake wedding cake project with cardboard, paper, tape, fabric, and hot glue. I am happy to say that by Friday after cutting out and gluing hundreds of flowers I finished that wedding cake. I was so proud! Seriously it was a lot of work in a little amount of time. I think it looks good. Sorry you will have to wait and see (if you care).

Don't ask me why but I'm in a Twilight mood and so I decided to call my friend Lisa because I knew she would want to watch them with me for sure. So we watched 2 of the movies last week and I'm sure we will finish our marathon next week. I can't wait to watch the 4th one again because I think the wedding in that movie is amazing so I want to get some inspiration from it.

I made lots of cupcakes this week. I swapped with the Beehive leader and so 4 Beehives and myself decorated 48 Halloween cupcakes. It was fun, Beehives are crazy. Ha. My friend Jen Holyoak threw a baby shower for her sister in law Jen Holyoak (funny huh). I offered to make the cupcakes because I want some practice making gourmet cupcakes since I will be making those for the wedding (yes I am quite aware that I am a crazy person). So I made  48 snickers and lemon cream cheese cupcakes and they were both dang good. I'm pretty sure those will be making the wedding dessert list.

Piper has been really happy and low maintenance this week. Wow what a difference, it turns out I really do like this baby. That sounds terrible, I always love her but when she screams all day sometimes it's hard to like her. I liked her tons this week. She is so dang cute!

I've been doing Preschool with Corbin most afternoons. Sometimes Gabby is there. She loves it even more than he does. I'm sure she will be an early reader as she hangs out and listens and participates with Corbin's lessons and she likes it a lot. They both mostly like it because Gobstoppers are involved. Corbin does not like preschool things very well so I found gobstopper rewards to be very helpful and effective. We all have a great time. He has made a lot of progress. We have a lot more work to do.

Yesterday we went to two baptisms. My twin brothers both baptized their daughters. It was Lance's youngest and Alex's oldest. We went to Dejah's baptism at 4:00 and then Ruth's at 6:00. Thankfully Ruth was in the first group. Hallelujah because the group was huge and we would have been there all night. Plus by that point we were all tired of being reverent. Afterwards we had a yummy dinner at Katie's. The kids did really great for the most part. We were gone a total of 51/2 hours. That is a long time to be in church clothes and try to be reverent for half of it. It was good though. Plus we didn't want to miss out on an opportunity for our kids to watch their cousins being baptized. These are some of the teaching moments. That's all!

Here is half of Piper's costume. Cute! Yes she is surrounded by chokers and I think is putting one in her mouth.

Raspberry snitcher.

I love that Gabby is playing in all of those Fall leaves in her shorts. Love Indian Summer days.

Piper loves to kick her leg up while she eats. Funny girl.

I got both Gabby and Piper's dresses and shoes at Kid to Kid. So cute. What did I tell you, I love second hand stores.

Her first piggies. You an sort of see them, they looked pretty cute.