A (quick as I can) December Post!

Fairbanks Christmas Party

I feel like I have to start from where I left off! So I am going to try to sum up the past two months as fast as I can! We had a great Fairbanks Family Christmas party...I am pretty sure it was on the 8th of December. We played games, ate dinner, decorated cookies, had a white elephant exchange for the adults. Played the wii, and sang some kareoke! It was lots of fun just to all be together!  

Sophie gets a kiss from Toby

Emma Decorating cookies

Playing a not-religious nativity story with candy bars...and yes that is Jana who won the candy!

Then it was time for some serious kareoke...this is Eric...and even Grandpa Wally joined in!

Emma's Birthday Party 12/15/07

Emma decided to have a cooking party for her fourth birthday. It was lots of fun to have her friends and cousins over. It was pretty crazy, and I learned lots with my first kids party. They played a fun M&M game, and then made pizzas, decorated cupcakes, opened presents....by then I was exhausted and still had an hour to go! I was VERY grateful for all the help! My mom, and sisters were there, and then Kim stayed with Anzley and Jana stayed with her boys! It was so fun to watch Emma...she was so excited! 

Emma and Anzley

Opening presents

Emma and Grandpa....check out the darling aprons my mom and Whitney made for the party! 

blowing out her candles!

It's not letting me add any pics so I will have to do part two....

President Hinckley

Only this could drag me out of a blogging block....I am so sad to hear that President Hinckley has passed away tonight. And at the same time I am so happy that he is back with his sweet wife. We were so lucky to have him as our leader of the church. He truly taught us to work hard, to endure, and to enjoy life. I loved his sweet sense of humor and his amazing ways of helping me understand the gospel better and have a desire to follow. I am so thankful for a guided man that was able to help carry the church across the world. He truly will be missed. 

Seriously...Where did November go????

Ok I can't believe it is already December! We had a crazy November and I kept meaning to blog...and kept putting it off! So here goes our month....

Las Vegas




We went to Las Vegas with the Stohl's and Taylor's for a dental conference! It was so great to have a little break! It was very nice to sleep ALL the way through the night! And much needed. It was great to shop and have 3 hour breakfasts just chatting...while the poor guys had to get up early and be at the conference. Then we went to the Ellen's Big Show...which was pretty entertaining! And went to a medieval show another night! My poor girls spent a night somewhere different every night! First Emma went to Jeff (Jon's brother) and Jarrica's and Sophie went to Brandon (Jon's Brother) and Jana's, who loved having a baby girl in their house! I think she got lots of loves! Then my sister Lindsey watched them at Wally and Fran's until they got home from a play. And then the next night my parents came and got them on the way to a cabin they rented for Thanksgiving (more info on that...) But I think they had a great time!

Thanksgiving





Right when we got back we headed up to the cabin by the Canyon Resort. It was awesome. We played lots of games, and lots of Wii. Guitar Hero was definately a favorite. Thanksgiving dinner was so nice....but over way too fast! There wasn't any snow up there (now there's tons) Personally I was ok with it...but I know my Dad, Jon, and Dan would have loved to go skiing! We really missed Ryan and Whitney but it sounds like they had a great time on their cruise!


BYU vs utah
Can you tell which team we were cheering for??? What an awesome game! If you were a cougar fan you went from excited because it looked like you were going to win...to total shock that you were now behind with only 1:30 left in the game.....to total happiness, (i'll be honest there were a few tears!) that BYU pulled off a last minute (literally) touchdown (30 seconds left in the game!) We went with Jon's brother Eric (A big utah fan) and his wife Holly and my mom and dad and Lindsey! Eric made great shirts (Totally intoxicated, by intoxicated he meant with football...not with alchohal) to make fun of the totally invested shirts from BYU. Unfortunately because he didn't have a licsence he got shut down. But even as a BYU fan I thought they were pretty funny. Some cougar fan wanted to know how he could get one in blue! If you are a Utah fan it was a pretty rough game....and they pretty much handed BYU their TD!

Sweet Simple Things

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

I read this quote the other day while I was running in a scrapbooking book (Real. Life. Scrapbooking. by Rebecca Sower...very good!) I thought it was such a simple but very true statement. So here are a few of the simple sweet things in my life that I LOVE!

Kissing Sophie
Kids laughing
watching Emma make a right choice
spending time with family
not being able to stop laughing
a quite hour
playing Cinderella/stepmother with Emma
watching Sophie sleep
watching tv or just talking with Jon
talking on the phone with a friend

Alright I didn't really plan on doing that and now it's hard to stop....take a moment and think of your sweet simple things...it will make you smile!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! We had so much fun deciding on our costumes! Jon was great and dressed up as the Jolly Green Giant so he would coordinate with Sophie! I found the costume online for a totally ridiculous price and had Fran take a look at it. She said we could make it for half...we did even better and made it for a third. I have no clue how to use a sewing machine (I would really like to learn...but so far my attempts are pathetic!) So I cut all the leaves out and Fran made a pattern and then I pinned everything on and she sewed it all together. Then I died tights and a shirt green! It was perfect! Thanks to Fran for helping and to Jon for wearing tights! It was a definite highlight of Halloween watching him put them on! We went to Brandon and Jana's for their Halloween Party that they have every year...but it was our first time able to go! Jana made homemade Chili (although Brandon was trying to take credit!) We went trick or treating around their neighborhood With Holly, Jana, Brandon, Jon, Lindsey and me...I think we had just as many adults dressed up as kids! It was so fun that Linz would come and hang out with us. And that she was all dressed up in her ballerina too! Some of the highlights of the night were seeing all of the cousins running around all dressed up! Watching Wally (my father-in-law) play the Wii! Jana's parents trying to talk Wally and Fran into going to Cancun with them for Thanksgiving, and Jana's dad made up a song about how fun Cancun is! The bottom pic is of Jon and I, Holly, and Jana and Brandon (of course a few kids had to be in it too!) Brandon made a great Austin Powers! I have loved being close to family and being able to be at all the stuff we just heard about!




I just noticed that Linz didn"t put this pic on and I thought it was such a great idea! Emma had to be a ballerina after she found out that Linz was going to be one! Also just an after halloween note we stayed up way to late! We didn't get the girls home and get them to bed until 11 (I know we are bad parents!) So after a few meltdowns I decided to not torture Emma's preschool teacher and just keep her home! Who knew that a funny holiday would cause such exhaustion!

Lindsey's Birthday!

Happy 22nd Birthday to Linz! (it was the 23rd...like I said I have struggled with blogging!) She was very nice to invite us to her college birthday party and start it an hour early so my girls could go before bed time! She called me all panicked about an hour before that she had burned cupcakes so could I go and get some more boxes of mix! It was pretty funny and the whole time at the store Emma kept asking "why did aunt lindsey burn the cupcakes?" I kept saying "I have no clue...ask her when we get there!" Her apartment was totally decked out in halloween decorations...it was so cute! They even had extras to give to Emma! I felt really bad because an 8 pm party does not sit well with college students so nobody was there! Linz was freaking out that no one would come to her party and I kept telling her she had 100 people last year at her party I am sure people would show up after 9! I told her I would text her later that night and if nobody was there I would come back and get her! Of course I didn't have too! She said it was a blast! Emma had a great time decorating her cupcake and eating it!

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This is just a random picture from the other night when Sophie was so tired she just layed on Emma's lap and let Emma rub her hair. It was so sweet!

Costa Rica!

***WARNING GROSS PIC***


Costa Rica was not quite what Jon was hoping for, but he still had a great time. It rained for 3 straight days while he was there! Which didn't make the best fishing/golfing weather! Unfortunatly a little friend must have bitten his arm! He noticed a little bite Thursday morning...and it just kept growing and growing! On Wednesday it looked horrible and I could tell it was causing him some serious pain (he was trying to be macho) we finally had to go to Instacare and have them lance and drain it. He also had to get an antibiotic shot....which the nurse said was like peanut butter. It must have been pretty horrible because Jon just about hit the floor! After Jon having to witness and ER visit with me for a bloody nose, and two babies...I was just not ok watching him in pain! I felt so bad! Now I know how he feels just standing there watching and not being able to really do anything! I would much rather be in pain than watch someone in pain! I know Chelsea and Lindsey are dying of shock right now! They don't handle pain so well! The next day it was WORST and we just decided to go to the ER where it was drained and lanced again and he had to get an IV of antibiotics. They decided that he would need more so they left his IV in and he has to go back for the next 4 days to get more meds! POOR GUY! He has both arms wrapped up now! Anyway we took a picture of it! I don't want anyone to die of shock so I put it at the bottom....let me just say that this is a huge improvement of what it was yesterday! I will keep you posted!