Our Life Lately

Well, We've been busy having lots of fun and I wanted to document all of that :). Thanksgiving was great! We spent most of the day with my family and then headed over to Darrin's parents for Black Friday fun. Other things we've been up to is selling the salon stuff from Ogden (FINALLY!!!), we went shooting with some of Darrin's family, Parker and I went with friends to the FREE day at the Aquarium which was a lot of fun!, we went to the festival of trees with our good friends Shane and Mel Otvos, we went to MIDWAY with our good friends Pattyanne and Cory Waddoups and stayed at Zurmatt Resort and it was SO SO much fun to spend the weekend with them and our little ones love spending time with each other and we love spending time with them!, and lastly, we got to go to Lights at the Zoo last night as a little family-a lot of fun!

So, now you know we've been busy having fun. Here are some pictures to prove it:

Shooting in Saratoga Springs with Darrin's Family (my first time). The kids stayed warm in the car watching.






Free day at the Aquarium (Fishy, Fishy Fishy!!!)






Festival of Trees. Parker was not happy that night. He just wanted to be running around everywhere and we couldn't really let him because we would have lost him in a second in all those crowds-SCARY! But we still had a great time. And here's my 22 weeks along prego picture:




Weekend in Midway with the Waddoups. We had SUCH a good time! Parker learned to jump into the pool to Darrin and I-he LOVED it-what a daredevil! And we also saw "Father Christmas" at the Swiss Christmas boutique we went to. We went and saw the "Crater" at the homestead and relaxed.







Last night at the Zoo Lights. We had such a good time even though it was preeety cold! Parker LOVED looking at all the animals-especially the monkey that was right at the glass to see him! And he loved walking around with Mom and Dad holding hands :)













There you have it-our life lately. I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family and friends! I just feel overwhelmed with good feelings and I'm SO excited and happy that it's the Christmas season! I LOVE it!

Gender Revealing Party!

Well, my sister-in-law and I are having babies 2 weeks apart :). So, we decided to do a "Gender Revealing Party" tonight! Here are some pictures (see video at bottom to see WHAT we're having!!!): And here's THE video to find out what we're having! DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!....

This is Halloween

How was your Halloween? Ours was great! We went to our good friends The Waddoups' party on Saturday (Thanks Mom for Babysitting!)and we won the prize for SCARIEST COSTUMES!!, and then last night we went over to our brother and sis-in-laws for a part-ay. We made homemade root beer, had breadsticks shaped like bones with our spaghetti, and dirt 'n worms for dessert :). YUM! We played a murder mystery game which was a blast and then watched "The Village". Over-all a GREAT Halloween!!

Wondering what we were for Halloween??? Well, here's some pictures:


Darrin was CHUCKY and the baby protruding out of my belly was the SPAWN OF CHUCKY coming out to Trick or Treat!


A game we played at The Waddoups' party- boys vs. girls of who could fill the cup the fastest with candy corn held from a spoon in your mouth!



Our little MONKEY:





More Pics & Halloween Food!:

Park City and Lately

Remember how I said that for my Birthday Darrin gave me a voucher for a Park City weekend getaway?!? He scheduled it for when I was 16 weeks prego so that hopefully I wouldn't be as sick. Well guess what?! That was this past weekend! Oh, we had SO much fun and it was a MUCH needed, relaxing getaway!! So, here are pics that show what we did (although I didn't get pictures of shopping at the outlet malls, at the movies-we went and saw "Real Steel"-super good!, or at meals out to eat-I know, what was I thinking?!) Our getaway basket, and the condo we stayed it-I don't know why I didn't get pics of the bathroom because it was AMAZING too :) Look how GORGEOUS it is up there this time of year-pictures do NOT do it justice! We went to the Olympic Center in PC and did a tour (really neat) and even got to see some athlethes practicing on the big green jumps! It was really cool! So, Park City was a BLAST and now we're back :). Another shout out to my wonderful in-laws who babysat Parker while Darrin and I got alone time. Are you guys catching on how amazing these people are?! In other news, Parker is walking all over the place and showing off new tricks all the time which is a lot of fun! Here are some fun pics and videos of him lately: At our ward Luau:
Beginning stages of walking (now he's a walker :)):
Parker LOVES to crawl in, through and around things. Want proof?

Another video before he could walk on his own but this is the way he liked to get around before:


And lastly, we carved pumpkins last night and here they are:



Happy almost week from Halloween!