Happy Halloween to ALL!

We had a very eventful weekend! My sister was here with her husband and three kids, and we jam packed our weekend with lots of fun stuff. Our husbands went to the BSU game on saturday, and we took the kids to a Halloween Dance Party that our ward put on in the morning, and then we came home and played and ate, then the boys came home and we trunk or treated it and the boys took the kids trick-or-treating in our subdivision. We are all exhausted, but it was a very fun weekend! Here are a few of the pics!


Zander stopping in the middle of the road to check out his loot! Don't the other kids look so amused!?
I know this one is blurry, but I think it is so cute! My sweet niece Tylar was so good with Zman all weekend long! She said he just wanted to hold her hand the whole time!

Checking out the bright lights! I love this one!

I thought this one was a good action shot...nice job Mitch!

Zander taking a break from the trampoline to eat some Marshmallow Matey's.

And yes, that is a Marshmallow Matey stuck on his face!

My sisters cutie kiddos!

Zander was not having fun at the dance party. Everyone else was dancing and having so much fun, and my child was in the corner pouting the whole time! Precious...grrrr

I finally figured out why he was so mad...he saw the pinata on the way in and wanted it NOW...here he is trying to climb on the stage and get to the pinata.

Mad because he couldn't get to itWith a little help from mommy, he finally go in on the Hokey Pokey.

A very happy birthday to me!

So Mitch bought me this GORGEOUS new couch for my birthday yesterday...and drum roll please....HE PICKED IT OUT ALL BY HIMSELF! I was so shocked! It was exactly what I wanted! this room is "in progresss" I promised myself I would only buy pieces I was in love with, because I am not changing it for a very very long time! Oh, and don't mind the pet shocker mat on the couch, we are making sure our dogs don't ruin this beauty!

Happy Boy!!

It has been a while since I have posted anything...we have been in kind of a funk around our house for like the last..oh I don't know...six months! Zander is getting so big, and changing so much. In spite of being a VERY determined 2 year old, he has the sweetest little personality, and his sense of humor is becoming more and more evident every day! He was born a ham, and I believe he will only get funnier and funnier! I love him so much, and there have been days that all I can do is just cuddle with him and kiss his cheeks...it makes me feel better, and he is a real sport letting his mommy kiss on him! He is my world and I have no idea what I ever did before he came to our family! Love you Zman!!

The New Holiday Collection!!

These will be available for purchase November 15th!!

Here they are!!

Starting October 1st Scentsy will be introducing College themed warmers!!!!!! The first three to be announced are Utah State, BYU and BSU!! As we get licensing for other colleges, we will add them to the line! I am so excited about these!!!

New Trampoline! (well new to us?!)

So we bought a trampoline off of Craigslist on Saturday, and Zander didn't even want anything to do with it until Sunday...then we couldn't get him off of it!
Here he is so excited! We are so ghetto, we let him run around in a diaper or naked all the time, he just won't keep clothes on when he is outside.

Uhhh, wrong side kid, jump on TOP of the tramoline!
Maybe daddy can jump higher than I can??



Yup...here we go!!!

I am alive...barely!

Oh the joys of moving....NOT! For those of you who don't know, we moved about 3 weeks ago, and I doubt my life will ever be the same...in a good way! While this move has been the healthiest change in our lives, it has been the most stressful 3 weeks of my life. I have kind of shut down, and taken to my new home in retreat mode. I won't go into all of the gory details, but lets just say there is a light, even in this unseasonable rain, there is a light.

Mitch called me at work about the time we were getting ready to move and told me that he had called his former boss and asked if they needed any electricians. He knew they would since his brother was moving. I was shocked...I had been begging him to sell the blasted tanning salon and go back to school....I didn't care what he went to school for, I just wanted him to find a career, and not just another j.o.b. I was at work when he revealed this aha moment with me, so I couldn't exactly jump for joy. I have felt a huge sense of relief. It will be hard not having him home in the mornings with us like I have been used to for the last 18 months, but just having him bringing home a PAYCHECK is worth it....so, if you know anyone who wants to buy a tanning salon...send them my way!

We love our new house and our new neighbors, and our new yard, and our new tiny mortgage, and our new sense of freedom from our big, beautiful, custom, expensive house with it's big suffocating mortgage. I kind of laugh when I think of our lives 18 months ago...we had it made. We had everything we could have ever wanted. But, just as The Lord gives, The Lord taketh away...and we have surely been put through the refiners fire in the last year and a half. Are we better for it??? I am not sure yet. But what I do know is that we will be...some day. I think we both still have a lot to learn, and a lot to change, and a lot to overcome. I know that 6 years ago tomorrow August 8th, I married a man who I knew loved me, and who would always be worthy of his Priesthood, and who would help me as my partner overcome any obsticle, and here we are at the tail end of the hardest time in our marriage so far, and we are both still in tact...a bit ruffled, but still in tact, and that same man kept all of his promises, and he still loves me, he is still worthy of his Priesthood, and, we are going to get through this as partners. Life is funny, and life is unpredictable, but so goes it right?!?!

We are so thankful for this second chance and we hope to learn everything that The Lord wants us to so that we NEVER have to go through this again! Thanks to all of you for your prayers and support! I love you all so much! I promise to have some pics up soon of the house! We really do love it. It is amazing how much more at peace we ALL are here!
I just had to put a picture of this cute kid on my post! He is loving his new huge yard with a FENCE! I just let him run around naked he is so happy!