MOVING!

Hi friends and family! After much prayer and job hunting, we have finally been offered a job in Magna Utah at the Kennicot mine. We are excited, nervous, scared, sad to be leaving, and many other emotins!! Its such a rollercoaster! We are trying to rent our home within a month so if you know of ANYONE looking to rent in Twin Falls, please share our info! We will miss our Twin Falls friends so much!

here is our listing in craigslist. Thanks for your help!

http://twinfalls.craigslist.org/apa/3423772436.html

30 SUCKS

Tommorow is my wonderful husbands 30th BIRTHDAY! We celebrated on Friday at Idaho Pizza. I had a surprise party planned for him and our friends were there waiting. I had to tell a few lies, but I actually surprised him and pulled it off! The theme was 30 SUCKS.

I made these baskets with suckers that said "30 sucks" and had some straws in a vase that said "30 really sucks!"

 The surprise.

 I made a Better than...ANYTHING pumpkin cake that was sooo delicious and put 30 candles on it!

 These pictures are supposed to be in the shape of a 3 and a 0. Lots of great things have happened over the last 30 years and I felt I needed to make a tribute!

 30 also bites (bite size candy bars)

 We had so many friends and family come. We both felt so loved! My parents were able to come.

 And the Martinez family.

 And the Browns.

 And the Whittens

 And Chads cousin Lorie Taylor with her 3 (almost 4) girls

 The Sorenson Family came too!

 We were so blessed to share this day with some of our very closest friends. Thanks to everyone who made it happen!

Happy Birthday to my man of 30 years. You amaze me every day at your strength and will to do good. Not a day has gone by that I have havent thanked my Heavenly Father that you fell in love with me. I hope we will have many happy birthdays ahead of both of us. So glad we could celebrate you. You deserve it. Hope you felt special because you really are! I love you!!

Newphews!

Our family has truly been blessed! My little brother Tony and his wife Monserrat welcomed their first baby boy into their family on Oct. 21. They named him Ashton Ian Reed. He has a head of dark hair and my brothers big lips. They live in California and I cant wait to get my hands on this little guy and kiss his chunky cheeks!

 A few days later on Nov 1 Carrie my sis in law went in to the doc with some painful contractions. The doctors told her she was in labor and to get ready to have a baby! Little Greyson Charles Reed came flying into this world 5 weeks early! He has spent all of his days so far in the NICU since his lungs are a little under developed butis improving quickly! He still weighed 6.11 (what both of my babys were at full term!) for being so early.

I did get to take a trip to the NICU and hold this little guy for a few minutes. What a sweetie! Carrie is such a strong mom. I'm sure I would be a wreck if I had to leave the hospital with out my baby!!

We like to think he was too excited to meet his cousin. Keep getting better sweet boy! This aunt has big playdate plans with her nephews!!

Bah Humbug Halloween

The title says it all...Bah Humbug! I just couldnt get into the Halloween spirit this year. Maybe it was the stress of being in charge of the ward halloween party....or maybe some of the newly added stress I can't say much about yet. (no I'm not pregnant...) But I was NOT into Halloween this year.

I only captured a few pictures too!

Here's our sweet little witch.

 And our Bronco football player!

We didn't even go trick or treating on Halloween! Lame! But the kids got plenty of candy at the ward trunk or treat the night before.

 We finally did carve a pumpkin the day before halloween. But I didnt even take a picture of the finished product! Double Lame!!

 The kids enjoyed it though.

 One thing I always enjoy is our Joy School Halloween Party. The kids were all dressed up so cute and they all had a great time! I'm so glad we have been a part of this group.

Anyway...maybe next year I can get into Halloween a little bit more. Here's to a Happy Halloween next year.

Fun With Cousins!

We got to have my brothers kids visit last weekend. My Sister in Law is pregnant with her 3rd baby and was having contractions and was put on bed rest until they stopped.  She also has a 1 and almost 3 yr old! She's a champ! So we took them Thurs-Sat. It was kinda crazy having a 1, 2, 3, and 4 year old in the house but for the most part it went pretty smoothly. And the kids loved it!

Mollie & Haidyn

                                                                     Carter & Ryker

 Two princesses and Woody & Spiderman!

 Movie and pizza party!

Glad we could help out and hope that baby #3 comes soon so Carrie can begin to feel better. So glad I could capture some pictures of the weekend. I have so many fun memories with my cousins and I hope these kids will have the same opportunity!

Mollie is TWO!

Has two years already come and gone?! I can't believe it! Our sweet not-so-little girl turned 2 on Oct 5.

 Carter was more excited than she was I think!

 This was the best picture of the birthday girl I could get!

 We went with some friends to Hop2It.

 We stayed up late the night before finishing her dress up closet. Here is the final result! And she LOVES it!

 It was a Minnie Mouse theme. She is currently very obsessed!

 It was conference weekend so we did a quick party with the fam between the last conference session and priesthood session. She was one spoiled girl! Both sets of grandparents were there and Adam & Steffan.

 5 new pairs of heels!

It was a success!!

Some fun facts about her at 2:
-She wears high heels most everywhere she goes and necklaces.
-She can talk very clearly and in sentences
-She calls milk "gunk"
-Starting to potty train!
-Loves to tuck her babies into bed
-Loves books and would do it all day long if i could just sit and hold her all day long!
-Loves to wrestle with her brother and we find her winning most of the time! :)
-Loves to gives kisses and "loves" to anyone who will take one
-Has quite the attitude and is very opinionated!
Love you Miss Mae! You have blessed our lives in more ways than you will ever know! Happy Birthday Sis!

A few fun things...then on to the good stuff!

Whew! I am behind on blogging...but what's new?! Aren't we all? Me and Chad got to take a little get away to Utah while G & G Reed watched the kids. It was a great time! I didn't get to sleep in, but we stayed at the marriott and had a yummy breakfast there. I actually had time to get ready and curl my hair and attempt to look cute with no kids nagging me! Then I dropped Chad off to where he needed to be and I shopped to my little hearts content! All day long...with no kids!

I fell in love with some skinny jeans...

 And a California Turkey sandwich from Zuppas

And Gardner Village! I wish I had found this sooner in the day because I didnt have much time to explore it!

 We went to dinner with Cami & Chuck & Mason and it was so fun to catch up with them.

When we returned, it was time to hunker down and start INSANITY!! If you havent heard of it, its an intense 60 workout program. And OH MAN it is hard. Most days I end my workout with applying ice packs or ice massage. BUT it is AMAZING! I love it although it is super hard! Chad has already lost 13 pounds on it! And I havent lost weight, but I have lost inches and we both feel great!

 I was getting ready one sunday and some how Mollie snuck some nail polish and tried to paint her babys toes on the COUCH!! It was hard to be mad at her because it was so cute! Luckily its yellow and kind of blends into the couch!

Very random I know! But had to get these pictures in our blog book! Now on to the fun celerations for Mollies 2nd Birthday!!