First of all, Darrin and I got new cars (well, new to us)! Darrin got a RED Dodge Ram 1500 and I got a BLACK Volvo S60. We both love our new cars! Darrin's brother got into a pretty bad accident and totaled his car so he got our Ford Focus. It had been a good little car for us but it was time to let it go and it all worked out well that his brother needed a car when we were looking at getting a new one. I cannot explain how WONDERFUL it feels to have a car. It's been a year and a half since I've had my own car and can get out of the house while Darrin is at work. YAY-it's wonderful!
Second item of business is that Darrin is now an OFFICIAL employee for American Express!! He's worked there as a contractor (temp) for a year now and FINALLY got hired on. He's working on finding/flagging frauded AMEX gift cards. So, if you're frauding AMEX gift cards, WATCH OUT cause my hubby is gonna catch you!
Thirdly, I was on my way to Saratoga Springs the week before last and my tire BLEW OUT on the freeway. I was all by myself and it was super scary. It took 2 1/2 hours to get the spare tire on. I was in the MIDDLE of the freeway people! I had pulled to the middle because I was closest to there and then my Pops came to rescue me but several things kept going wrong-needless to say it was scary and I don't want to go through it again!
Fourthly, Thanksgiving weekend was wonderful! We spent it with Darrin's family and it was full of good food, great company, Black Friday shopping, seeing the movie "Tangled" (fantastic!), and we also went on the Heber Creeper train ride with Santa! It was all a lot of fun.
Fifthly, we pretty much sold our Ogden Salon last night. We sold to a nice LDS couple who is leasing to own until they can get a small business loan to purchase it which they're hoping will be in January or February. We are SUPER MEGA EXCITED about it! We hope they do really well and love the salon that we put so much into! The reason why we're selling is because it's just been too hard to manage it from Salt Lake and now with little Parker I didn't have much desire to continue putting so much work into it when I've got my hands pretty full here at home with work and being a mom.
Lastly, Parker is eating solids like a champ-yet he's stopped taking a bottle! Lame. But he's also rolling over really well and today especially he's been showing off his sitting up skills. He's growing up so quickly and we love him SO much! He's been so much fun and we're excited to get the Christmas tree up so he can gaze at the lights as we know he'll love them.
Hooray for Christmas time!!! Here's some pictures of lately:
Wheeler Farm with my Sister, Heidi:
Toe Sucking:
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Heber Creeper with Santa:
