Dinner Menu

Tuesday - Zuppa soup
Wednesday - sloppy joes, potato wedges
Thursday - winger's wraps
Friday - ABC (artichoke, bacon, chicken) pizza
Saturday - crockpot beef stroganoff
Sunday - pancakes, bacon, sausage
Monday - Ikea sweedish meatballs

Potter Head

I'm not gonna lie -- I'm a little too excited that Cailyn is getting obsessed with Harry Potter.  I've pretty much been waiting for this day my whole life.  ;)

While the kids were on winter break we got the Harry Potter Lego game for the Wii and played pretty much non stop.  It was as fun for me as it was for the kids.  This made Cailyn want to watch the movies (I think she'd seen the first two at some point but didn't really remember them) so we've watched the first 3 in the last couple weeks.  She's also VERY into Legos right now and when we went to the Lego store a couple weeks ago she asked if they had any.  They informed her that over Christmas they retired the Harry Potter Legos so she's out of luck. :( 

Just this week she started reading/listening to the first book.  She's had two big projects due and has pretty much worked on them non stop.  But when I gave her 1/2 hour of free time today after school before she had to work on them, all she wanted to do was read Harry Potter. 

My heart is now happy. :)

Wedding Prep FUN!

Taylor and I have had some fun this week preparing some things for our wedding. 7 1/2 weeks until it finally happens...I canNOT wait!!!

Registering for some awesome stuff for wedding presents :)

After finalizing our wedding invitations we decided to have some lunch
at Sams Club...mmmmm! So good!!!

Dinner menu

Dinners
1. Spicy Meatballs with Apple Glaze and mashed potatoes, corn
2. Roast, ramen cabbage salad
3. Chicken noodle soup
4. Chicken chimichangas
5. French toast and buttermilk syrup, bacon

Dessert
Apple chimichangas

Breakfast
Mini breakfast pizzas

Merry CHRISTmas

Thanks mom and dad for the beautiful picture. (oh and mirrors :) I'm glad to have beautiful art on my walls to make it feel warm and cozy...more like home!

Happy Birthday Mckay!

Ok ok so this post is long overdue but we had some cute pictures of Mckay's two little birthday celebrations and I wanted to post them.

The Lady's Man

In October when Mom & Dad visited us, Dad showed Connor the movie Tangled.  He LOVED it and still loves it, as a matter of fact.  He has decided that he loves any show that has a girl singing in it.  He just saw Pocahontas and loved her too.  He is so cute.  He starts giggling and tries to get as close to the screen as possible.  I think that he wants to give them big kisses! :)

I know that's a guy but it was the only photo I had of him watching Tangled.

Owen & Jacob and the Kitty Cat

Today while Owen & Jacob were playing out in the backyard a little cat decided to jump up on our fence and tease them.  He walked up and down the length of the fence and the twins kept following and shouting to him, "Come here, Kitty!"  They went at this for a good 15 minutes.  Owen came inside asking me to help him get the kitty and when I went out I saw that the cat had jumped into our yard and Jacob was slowing walking behind it to try and pet it.  Of course, when Owen saw that the cat was at ground level he let out a huge squeal and went running across the yard to it.  Which caused the cat to jump on the fence again.  :P

I was able to coax the kitty down again and the boys were LOVING that cat!  They were so cute with it and wanted to touch it and pick it up and love it.  And I think the cat was happy to have some attention, too.  :)

Some Weekend Fun in Denver

This is only like the third saturday that Wes has had off and we wanted to do something new and cool here, so we decided to hit up the Hammond Candy Factory for a tour of how they make their candy :).

It wasn't quite the peppermint place, but we had a lot of fun! Mckay loved watching the taffy get all stretched out on the turny stretchy thingy haha. I told him that was Grandma's favorite part :). It also didn't hurt his excitement that they gave us some free candy cane tree suckers that he proceeded to get all over his face on our way to the toy store!

We found this sweet toy store online that seemed like it had a lot of promise...and since we have a void left by Blikenstaff's toys in Orem, we had to check it out.  The Wizard's Chest actually turned out to be a weird mix of spencers and creepy World of Warcraft conventions, but outside was shaped like a castle and there was a magician so it wasn't a complete disappointment lol. It actually ended up being part of this HUGE indoor/outdoor mall in downtown Denver so we had a lot of fun walking around there until it started snowing on us :).

It was a fun filled day topped off with BYU crushing Idaho :).

Oh PS, I found a video of an earlier day version I described of the Thriller flash mob on Halloween. Imagine the first like 5 old folks up front after a long day of hanging out lol.  If you need a laugh :)

Always A New Game

Tyler and Connor always invent new games! I love it! Boys will be boys!