So we went to the fair...

The title pretty much says it all, so here's a bunch of pics! We didn't do much except look at animals and let Makayla go on 2 rides. (RIP OFF...)

And once again in backwards order, cause I am awesome like that. I can't seem to remember that it uploads them in reverse of what I click first.

Here's Makayla trying not to look at mom while I try to take her picture. I think I took about 10 trying to get just one of her looking at me.

And this will have to do. She was trying hard not to look...but getting a kick out of it!

Ferris wheel!
I look like I am having more fun than her. I don't know what I was so happy about...I guess I thought Makayla was actually looking and smiling too. Silly me. And see that gate to get into the car? Yeah...I had to turn sideways to fit through it. That made me feel awesome.
The boys, all watching us on the Ferris wheel.
Me waiting in line for Ferris wheel...really irritated that they charge 4 tokens for me to go, and I had to cause Kayla was too short. And 4 tokens=$4...yeah. Now you understand the look on my face.
My little, not so little baby...she looks so different to me in this picture. She's getting so big. :/
Off to look at some animals.
My little nephew Connor. He's adorable. Or as Greg calls him, "Adora-baby."
And us, the end. I love this pic of us. It's actually a good one of both of us!
And that was the local Cache County fair. We decided not to do the rodeo, because Brooklyn is currently working on about 5 teeth all at once. That makes for a baby that can only be happy for so long. But it was fun walking around looking at all the crazies that come out at the fair.

Blessed

I am so lucky to be blessed with three of the cutest, sweetest Valentine's in the world.

I love my little family SO much!!

*Makayla messed with the camera before we took this pic. Thus the crazy cool blue colored-ness of it. I think it's actually kind cool looking! No idea how she did it either.

Christmas fun

Well, the pictures are not in any real order here,...so I'll just explain a few, shall I? Here we go!
Started out the holidays with a nice warm loaf of banana bread, one of my faves! It turned out awesome, except for the fact that the entire bottom of the loaf stuck to the pan....woops, not enough greasing I guess. But it still tasted awesome.




This is the necklace that Jason got for me. Hard to see it really well in this pic, but it has 2 little circles that have mine and jason's initials on it, and then two long rectangles with the girls names, and then a pearl in the middle. I LOVE it!!


Haylee and Makayla playing with Grandma's new marble game!


Makayla enjoying the gift opening, I loved her reaction to everything. A different reaction to each and every little thing. SO cute! This was her poodle purse from Grandma.


The grandkids with great grandma.


Makayla lounging in her new blanky. She now totes this thing around everywhere with her. Her "very own" blanky.







The carnage...


before all the carnage...haha.


ok, so this was our Christmas Eve activities at my parents house. We played Minute to Win it games. My family is special...haha. I love them.


Greg trying to knock the cups over.


This one was the funniest one. We were all laughing SO hard at everyone's "shaking it" skillzzz.


I love this one, he had, in my opinion, the best moves...trying to get the ping pong balls out of the tissue box behind him.



Dang sideways video. Jason will kill me when he finds out I put this online...so enjoy it before he makes me take it off!! It's awesome!

The Gingerbread Cook

We made an awesome gingerbread house the other night. Or rather, we watched Makayla do all the work, after we got it all put together. She stuck all the candies on, and maybe ate a few too...
I asked her what she was making, and she told me it was a gingerbread house. So I asked her who it's for, and she told me, it's for the "gingerbread cook." In a tone that basically said "duh mom..."
I about died, I was laughing so hard! She cracks me up. Where does she even get this stuff?



So proud of her finished project. And she loved that daddy made icicles. Mostly because she liked pulling them off and eating them..haha. Santa's reindeer were having issues. One of the Rudolph's was a little tipsy. Don't think he should be flying...hehe. And we might have broken Santa's leg...sorry Santa, please still come to our house!! :)


We took a bunch of family pics at my parents house the next night. This one is just adorable. Haylee holding Brooklyn. Super cute!


This one cracks me up. We were trying to get everyone to look, and it was just total chaos. I swear Makayla is not really biting Brooklyn, as it appears.....


And all of us finally all looking at the camera. And the TV. Glad we got that in there too...


I cannot w-a-i-t for Christmas. I am so excited to see the girls opening presents and seeing the excitement in their eyes! I finished all of my wrapping tonight, and am hiding all of Jason's gifts until late Christmas eve...he tends to find them, shake them, weigh them, etc. He is the WORST!! Or I guess I should maybe say the best....cause for the last 5 years has pretty much guessed every present before opening it. The stinker. So I am trying to be sneakier and clever-er this year. We'll see if it pays off.

Thankful

We had such an awesome time in Illinois for Thanksgiving this year. We were there an entire week, and it went by waaayy too fast!! Before we knew it, it was time to leave. :(

The Sisters! I am so lucky to have married into such an awesome family! Love these girls!


Here's Brooklyn with Jason's uncle Greg. We were so glad he could make it out to visit with us!



Me and Jay at his mom's house.


Makayla and Diane. So cute, I love this pic.


Of course, we had to bust out Settlers!!!


Makayla opening her gift from Uncle Greg! Ruby slippers just like the Wizard of Oz ones! They are SO cute!


Steve and his deep fried turkey! It was soooo yummy too!


A little pool game. I was just holding that to look like I was playing...haha. I really suck at that game.


Makayla helping Papa Wade make his yummy rolls. She kept sticking her finger in the dough and eating it raw..haha. Such a good "helper."





Diane and Steve's house. I love it!


We are completely soaked in this pic. Hard to tell, but we came out of the movie theater and it was insane outside...I have never seen anything like it. We found out we were in a tornado watch, and so we were trying to decide if we should make a run to the van and go over to Jason's dad's place. So we waited for a "lull" in the storm, and made a break for it. Our car was like 10 feet from the doors, and me and Jackie were in the back and had to wait for the automatic sliding doors to open...they are SUPER slow...so Jackie gave up and jumped up front onto Austin, and my door finally opened, and hers was open, so the wind and rain was blowing straight into the van, and all over me...so I got even more wet waiting for the doors to slowly close... But it was pretty funny in the end.


We had to stop at Steak and Shake on the way home from the St. Louis zoo! So yummy!


I just realized these pics are kind of out of order, oh well. This camel was so cool looking. He was just standing there, looking all majestic, chewing on something gross, looking at us like, "I'm totally going to spit this in your face..."


Having fun at the zoo!


Makayla with Grandma and Grandpa





I just thought this was so cute, cause the cup is so huge!


A drive by Arch shot!


caught eating cookies before dinner... :)


Snuggle time on Grandma's bed, with Grandma and Great Grandma!


This is Litchfield as you see it coming in from the highway.


Jason taking down his dad in arm wrestling! Wade hadn't ever been beaten. It was about time he got de-throned!


And that's it!! We just had so much fun hanging out with family, not doing much except for relaxing and eating! Perfect.