Ashton turns 1!

Happy Birthday Ashton!  11/27- a little late posting the blog, I know!

The first bite of cake.

The last bite of cake!

We celebrated Ashton's first birthday while we were in Vegas with all of our families.  He was spoiled rotten and loved the cake.  He is such a sweety.  I love to see him and Annika interact more and more.  I like it better when they get along when they interact too.  He is my lover.  He will come up and want to sit on my lap and give me kisses.  I do wish he would stop being so stubborn and finally start walking, we are waiting.  Here are some pics of my big boy.

Thanksgiving!

I have been slacking lately.  I think I am just too stressed with decisions and too much going on.  We had a great time in Las Vegas for Thanksgiving.  We got to see lots of friends and family and eat a lot of great food.  We stopped to look at houses in Utah on the way down and looked for apartments on our way back home.  We may have to rent, if the house up here does not sell fast.  The kids got to spend a ton of time with cousins.  They love that.  We are thankful for our families and always have a blast with them.  We saw the movie "Enchanted" and Annika is now Giselle almost every day.  It is hard to keep her personalities straight.  We enjoyed the warmth, but we are happy to be in our own home again.  But, I could take the warmth again.  I was driving Ryan to work this morning at 9AM and the thermometer in my van read 19 degrees.  Too cold!  I can not even go out with the kids.  Well, I will try to update more.  

Annika's Halloween Dance

At Annika's dance class, they all got to dress up and do a special Halloween song dance for their parents.  My friend videotaped since I had the troublemaker (Ashton) to deal with.  So, it pays close attention to Annika and her little girl.  Here is the video.  Remember she is dressed up as Snow White.

Happy Halloween!

I have had problems uploading photos, so these posts are taking me forever, maybe it is because I use a Mac!  JJ! 

We had a great Halloween!  I had a beautiful Snow White and a handsome lion.  Ryan thought Ashton looked more like a scarecrow, but he was a lion.  No homemade costumes this year, I think I realize I am not crafty enough.  Here are the cute photos.  We went to a special dress up story time for Halloween, then I took the kids around with some friends to safe trick or treating at a local motorsports store, that is why Annika is on a snowmobile.  Then we made chili (our Halloween tradition) and went trick or treating around the neighborhood.  This is the first year Annika really got into it.  She had a blast, and Ashton went along for the ride.

Bowling!

K-This post has taken me a week to get up, I kept on getting errors, I think I have it figured out now, so I can really catch up!

This was Ashton's first time on one of the rides that you put in a quarter and it goes round and round.  He was not so sure about it.

Last Friday night we had to get out of the house.  So, we had family fun at the bowling alley.  Ryan won, Annika second, and I lost.  But, just so I do not feel like the worst bowler (I did take a bowling course in college), Annika had bumpers.  She would roll the ball and run away as fast as she could.  Then look and watch all the pins fall.  It was too cute.

I am playing catch up! Pumpkin Patch

One day last month, we hit up a pumpkin patch in Idaho Falls.  The kids had fun, Ryan thought it was pointless.  My husband is always a grump when it comes to holiday things, unless they involve food.  i.e. no phantom ghost, no carving pumpkins, picking pumpkins is a bore . . . etc .  I think you may have figured out his personality by his last post, that was definitely Ryan.  I learn to laugh at him, I think he does it to bug me, because I know he actually loves to do all these things, he just has to act cool and pretend not to, something about "Man Law" he always tells me.

We're Moving!

Hey there, we have some exciting news this week.  Ryan accepted a job with Expeditors International, a shipping and logistics company based out of Seattle.  He starts his job with them on December 31 at their Salt Lake City Branch.  Utah here we come!  I never thought I would live in Utah, who knows, I may even like it.  I never thought I would love Rexburg, but I am really going to miss it.  Well, now maybe we will have more visitors since we will be closer.  We will keep everyone posted as we decide where to live.

PS-If you know anyone who wants to buy a cute townhome in Rexburg, let us know.  Our's is on the market.  That is right, I need to try and sell my house, move, Ashton's birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, buy a house and buy a car, all in the next two months.  YEAH!