Stephan is mobile!

Stephan is mobile! I was warned this would happen, but I had no idea just what it would be like. He especially likes opening cupboards and closets and emptying them. I have to refill Tetons (dogs) water a lot more. Stephan likes to dump it all over the kitchen flour and then cries for me to rescue him when the cold water soaks through his clothes and he dosen't seem to know how to crawl out of it. Just after getting him washed and changed into clean dry clothes he heads almost straight back to the recently refilled dog bowl:(. Our poor bird experiences an "earthquake" everyday now. Stephan likes to stand up and shake the stand and cages that the bird is in. Grinning from ear to ear as he does. The bird is hilarious he know sleeps with one eye closed and the other eye opened and focused on Stephan (silly bird!).

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Hale Center Theater - The Scarlet Pimpernel

What an excellent play! It was so good! I good friend got us tickets and I will never forget it. So much passion and such good acting. I've been to several other plays at the Hale Center but this one was my favorite. I really can't say enough good about it and I could never do it justice. I would highly recommend it to anyone. Here is a picture of the actors that played Percy and Margarite.

Snow Driving

Robs is in Chicago. It snowed about 5 inches last night. I had to take Rob to the airport so we left at 5:30am. Scary drive home from Airport. I was driving their was a good amount of snow on the road but I had everything under control. I was in the middle lane just in case I did slide I wouldn't hit a barrier or anything. THere were no cars behind me and only one in front of me. Things were going very smoothly until the car in front of me did a 180 and I found myself driving directly into a car spinning into my direction (facing me head on). I pumped the brakes and prayed really hard that I would be able to stop and not hit the car in front of me. Miraculously my car did slow down in time for the car ahead of me to regain control and drive off to the side and out of my way. I was very grateful for an answer to my prayer.

Black Friday Deals

So Rob and I conveniently slept in on Black Friday but we still got some great deals. We finally got a glider (rocking chair) at Baby's R Us. They were 50% off! So we got a $300 chair and ottoman for $149.00, I'm so glad we didn't pay full price (we almost bought one a few months back) So glad we waited. I got a much needed hard drive, a little toy for Stephan (Reg 25.00 - we paid $9.99) for Christmas its a little train with a track and all. Its really cute - I can't wait to see him play with it. I'm trying to get 72 hour kits together so I was able to pick up some stuff for that for a good deal too. Got a bunch of other good deals on Christmas gifts but I can't say what they were in case the recipients read this. But I was tickled! It was such a fun day. I'm so glad Rob is so willing to go shopping with me.

We put up the Christmas Tree on Saturday, I need to work out some lighting issues. Its a pre-lit tree and the mid section of the tree lights don't work :(. Robs gone and I don't have a clue. Why is it all the technical things give me problems when he's not here to fix them for me? Last night the door lock decided to break and I was basically locked out in the cold with Stephan luckily I was able to drive to my moms and recruit my brother Jacob to come unscrew the door and get me back inside my house. Needless to say I really miss Rob when he leaves.

Robs is in Chicago. Scary drive home from Airport. It snowed about 5 inches last night. I had to take Rob to the airport so we left at 5:30am.

My sister Wendy had her baby yesterday morning. Her husband William finally got his little boy after two little girls :). Congrats you two!

Watched home videos today with Jacob and Lizzy. It was a hoot! So many things that you forget if you don't record them. So funny! My family is so cute.

Cutest Hat!!!

A dear neighbor of my parents made this hat for Stephan - I thought it was so cute I had to take his picture!

Family Pictures

This is my boy, how I adore him! Fifty pictures and we couldn't get a smile - get in the car to head home and that boy was all smiles. (Rascal!). He loved the globe, he touched it and wanted to look at it the whole time.



Stephan and Me - I loved this picture!


We got family pictures taken! I was very happy with the way they turned out.



We opted to have the pictures taken outside but we all got drenched (notice Stephan's hair in below picture). Notice mine in the picture to the left.

Andrea's Baby Shower

So I was lucky enough to co host a baby shower for Andrea Hatchell. It was incredible! Don works for Diamond Rentals so we had access to all sorts of wonderful things (tables, chairs, satin napkins etc). I think Don said it would have been over $1000.00 to rent everything we used for the shower.

4th of July

Rob and I have decided that we love biking to the BYU fireworks so much that we are going to make it a family tradition that we do every year. We did it last year and this year. We did have a small challenge we have a bike cart but Stephan still isn't quite big enough to sit in it alone. So Rob got creative and securely fastened Stephans car seat into the bike cart. Stephan was as warm and secure as he could possibly be and he looked sooo cute! Heres a picture:

Thank you to my dear mother in law who took us last weekend to get some professional family portraits taken. She got it for us for our three year anniversary (which is this month!).

New Baby!!!

Well yes its been over a year since I posted anything. Life has been so busy and hectic so much to write about but such little time. I have to write about the greatest blessing in our life and that is our new little son Stephan. He is such a joy in our lives.