Valentine's Day

We had an eventful Valentine's weekend. To start it off we had an Adult Ward Valentine's Party, which Parker and I were in charge of. It went great we had the right amount of seats and food and it was just a fun relaxing party. Saturday I had to work all day so any Valentines plans were going to be cut short. Parker had to go run some errands and he came back with a beautiful edible arrangement. It had all my favorite fruit including chocolate covered strawberries and pineapple cut out in hearts. Not to mention it was delicious! After I got off work that night we were going to order take out to a place we have wanted to try since we couldn't find a sitter to go do anything. Well our plans changed and we ended up just going through the drive thru to a local hamburger shop and watched the olympics all night. Yes, we didn't do much but it was actually perfect since we were tired from the week. On Sunday we woke up and had a Valentine's breakfast that included pink crepes. We went to church and then we went to my sisters house in Layton for a family get together. It was fun to see everyone and we ended up staying late because the all-star game was on, but I was happy to spend time with my family! We had a fun yet simple Valentine's hope everyone else had a good weekend!Mason eating his pink crepes

Showing off my edible arrangement

Looks good, doesn't it!

Update...sorry no pictures!

I haven't posted at all in January and its almost over so I thought I would hop on the blog today, Although there is not much new happening to talk about. A few things that have happened in January was 1. I attempted to potty train Mason- I was actually putting it off till he was older but he was so interested in the big boy potty I decided to jump on the wagon while he was interested. Needless to say a week later he runs from the potty, and cries when we put him on. Guess we will wait a couple more months. 2. Parker started school again so he is busy with that, but somehow still managed to sign up for an indoor soccer league with his teammates from UVU. Its fun to go see him play again, even though I mostly just chase after Mason. 3. Parker finally got a job!!! So Parker has just had seasonal jobs over and over and his last job was a seasonal position at UPS. He loved it there and he got the best review from his drivers and he gets the next job opening but sadly enough, they are not hiring. (He pretty much has to wait for someone to quit, but no one wants to in the economy) He still keeps in touch with them every few weeks and once he gets offered a job he will probably go back to them, UNLESS.... his new job turns out amazing. He just got a job at babies r us int he backroom. Its exactly what he use to do at DownEast as the backroom manager by doing inventory and trucks and setting up cribs. He works 6 am to 12 pm which is perfect for the college student. We are just relieved its not seasonal!! 4. I subscribed to the paper! So I am attempting to be a coupon queen. I haven't started yet, but my first paper should be coming on Sunday, so wish me luck. Pretty pathetic that thats what I get to blog about myself! Thats all for now folks! Maybe February will bring a better blogger out of me!

Christmas

Christmas was a blast, we got to spend it at my parents house and we enjoyed every minute of it. The day after Christmas my awesome Dad took us all snowboarding while grandma stayed home to babysit the little ones. We had to much fun, and I wish it could have lasted longer!

This year for Thanksgiving we went to the Davis Household and had lots of fun. It was Jason's first big holiday with the fam, and suprisingly he isn't scared off yet! (JK you guys) Shannon decided to start a new tradition to play bingo every holiday get together, and tell you what, it got pretty intense and competitive. Thanks to my hubby who won the most we got sweet hook ups from Shannons awesome prizes. We ended up coming home with gift cards for $20 to Olive Garden and $15 Subway, hairspray & lotion (which will prob end up in my stocking on christmas) and a chocolate orange...yummy! This picture is their game faces to play bingo.

Jason and Whitni made the turkey which was awesome....especially for their first time making one!

Their Masterpiece!

Parky with his Mom

This was before the makeup and hair was done...yikes!

This was so cute, Mason and Kooper hid in a corner and were sharing the crackers. IT was so much fun to see these two interact together. They either got a long or were fighting. At one time both of them were fighting over a ball parker had and parker said, "what do you say?" and they both responded so fast yelling "please!" It was so funny. Thanksgiving was a blast thanks to Shannon, she put a lot of hard work to get the family together and we are thankful we could go spend some time with the Davis's.

CHUCKIE CHEESE'S

We went as a family to Chuckie Cheese with our friends the Ponds. Parker and Nate were on the UVU soccer team and they were the only players who had a kid or were even married. We get along great and we both have two cute little boys. Pretty much we had more fun than the kids because they got parker and I hooked to a game called flamin finger. Anyways its addicting so as an adult at chuckie cheese go over to the game and have some fun yourself! We hope to hang out with them again soon!

This is sometimes what we have to do to get a picture!

Lovin that Jeep

Mason & Landon

Its soon to be Christmas!!

This week I have had the strongest urge to get my Christmas decorations out already! I have to keep reminding myself that its still too far away, but you know next week is the week before Thanksgiving- so maybe I can convince Parker to go get the tree! So to get my fix, I just decided to change my blog to Christmas! My question to everyone is, When is the earliest you think you should put up decorations? Anyways, Happy Holidays everyone!

Halloween

So this Halloween Parker was in Boise for regionals for soccer. They did well and placed 3rd but I was left at home to work and to do the Ward Halloween Party. Parker and I are the ward party chairmans and it was our first party we were in charge. It took a lot of work, but it was a success. It was the biggest turn out they have ever had for the Halloween party. Needless to say, I am glad its over but now its on to planning Christmas! I took Mason to the trunk or treat with our friends the Kings. Mason wanted to eat the candy right when he got it. He was a cute spider!

These are just some pictures of Parkers game against BYU. It was funny because when I showed up UVU was warming up intense and BYU was not even warming up and were just talking to their friends like it was a shoe in game. They were shocked when UVU scored and the final score was 1-0. It was exciting to see Parker because he enjoyed it so much.

Parker's Soccer Pictures

I have been talking a lot about Parker's busy schedule with soccer, but I finally got a chance to take pictures. The team has done well and is ranked #4 in their league (toughest league in Utah for club teams) and will be going to regionals at the end of this month. There they will play some big schools including Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, and Gonzaga. They got some good games ahead of them and hopefully they can play their absolute best. Soon they will be playing BYU which is considered a semi-pro team. Parker is really excited to play at the stadium under the lights. They are also going to be announcing each of the players age, number, hometown, highschool, and major. This doesn't happen a ton in soccer so the team is really excited. Never playing soccer or having any family play soccer I realized it is a very hard sport to take pictures of. Your far off of the field, the contact with the ball is short, and they are never still! On top of that you have a two year old who loves to take pictures and is yelling "Cheese" at you because he wants a chance to take some. Needless to say these are the best we got. I will hopefully get some good ones at the BYU game and post them.