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pictures of Halloween through Thanksgiving! And the quickest trip to Temple Square ever!

We have had some fun over Halloween and Thanksgiving. I am just terrible and blogging and posting about it! Here are a few fun pictures!

My mom is the cutest! She was the "word fairy" at work for haloween

My dad took this picture! we asked him to get the food, he just cut off my head in the process!!

Too much people, no food. My dad is a great photographer.

Our table for Thanksgiving! Terry looks really happy to be there. It was also Terry's B-day!

Gpa reading to Mae and Jack! Darling!

My dad's side of the family were getting together at temple square for the christmas party this year and we all decided to go. Only problem was we left Orem at 6:30 at night. Ran into traffic. Both ways. Got to see family for about 5 min. We were all starving. and freezing. But at least we have these few gems to show for our effort!

I love this picture. Mae screaming, Terry laughing.

We are definitely trying to live it up a bit while Terry is done with the semester. Terry is always busy but hopefully we can squeeze a few more fun things in while we have a break! I just have to say too that Terry did AWESOME in his first semester of the Accounting Program at BYU. I couldn't be more proud of him! It was not easy at all. Literally, we barely made it through, but we did. Now here's to making the most of Christmas 2011!!

My Conversation with Mae today in the car...

Mae: mmmmm that's yummy!

Me: What you eating Mae?

Mae: That's delicious!

Me: What is it?

Mae: That's my favorite! (as she rubs her tummy)

Me: Mae, what are you eating??

Mae:..........Booger.

Fall Fun!!

PUMPKINLAND

We have been able to do a few fun things lately to enjoy the fall festivities that are going on! The other week Terry had Friday off of school so we decided to go to Pumpkinland in Orem. It was cold, but so so fun! Mae had a blast looking at all of the animals and just being able to run around!

Then my cute nephew Jack had his first bday and we got to go to cornbelly's at thanksgiving point for his birthday party! My brother Bryan and Wendy went all out on his party and it was the most darling thing ever!!!

My dad ran all around with Mae. They had TONS of things for the kids to climb and play on it was awesome!!! But it also was like almost 80 degrees so we were all HOTT!!

Mae thoroughly enjoyed the piggie cupcake!!

Cute mamma Wendy and baby Jack who enjoyed his cupcake!!

Look at how cute this sunflower is!! They made these!!

Here is the darling family! Thanks you guys for an awesome day!!

Lastly, here are a few random cute pictures that I have taken lately!

We are having a .....

I am pretty excited about what we are having! I think Mae will have a blast with a little SISTER!!!!! I hope she has the kind of relationship with her new sister that my sister and I have! HOW FUN! And not to mention we won't have to buy much of anything because we already have tons of girl stuff. I am so excited! We also have done pretty well choosing a name this time around! With Mae, it was hard to figure out the kinds of names Terry likes but we have one already that we both like!!!

So, my mom has brought over a bunch of old videos and pictures lately from back in the day. They have been fun to look through but for some reason has made me kinda sad and nostalgic too. Looking back to when my parents were still married, by brothers were all in the house still, we lived in our old house...things were so simple and fun. Oh how things have changed since then. But, you can't stop time. No matter what time is still going to pass and things are going to change and that's ok. I just need to make memories for my kids that I once had with my family. Boy do I miss the days where all my bothers and sister were still at home and my brothers would tease me, they would bring all of their hott friends over and Mary and I had so much fun talking about which one was the hottest. Jared would blast his music before his football games. Bryan and I would go to blockbuster and get treats and a movie. Matthew would always play rough house games with us to which my mother would be sure to tell us, " there better not be blood on my carpet!!" As I was watching the videos last night by myself, I wished so badly that someone in my family was there to laugh and cry with me. Anyway, I am totally rambling...thanks for listening. I really was blessed with the most awesome family in the world! I am definitely going to try and make it that great for Mae too!

Nerd Alert!!

So how nerdy am I to take a 1st day of school picture of Terry?!?!

You can tell he is very excited about me taking the picture as well. I just was proud and excited for him to be starting the Accounting Program at BYU that I didn't want to not get a picture!

Here he is looking very studious! And handsome in his suit! They all had to wear a suit and tie the first day.

Way to go Terry! I am so proud of you and I KNOW you will do awesome!!

Since my sister is gone now, Mae and I have been figuring out a new routine. Here is a lot of what we do!

On this day, Terry actually was watching her. He got her ready for the day can you tell? :) He also took her around the park with him to do some work. The hat she is wearing is Terry's awesome work hat! :)

I bought a little paint set and coloring book from the Dollar store and Mae loved to paint! She seriously painted for so long this night!

We also go outside and Mae likes to water the plants. She also loves this hat! She put it on the other day and exclaimed "I'm a cowboy!"

We also went to this awesome new park in Spanish Fork that had a water fountain that the kids could play in and tons of swings. Mae loves the swings!

Mae and Dad enjoying some popcorn...Mae also loves popcorn.
Saying "cheese" at the same time!

Mae also did this little number on her leg with markers while I was making dinner one night. She was very proud of her artwork!

I must say we have had a lot of changes in the last little while. Some good, some not so good. But all in all we are doing pretty well. Life is definitely more lonely without my sister...but things are good right now for us. I feel like we are on a good path! And Mae is growing up too fast! But I sure love her.

FINALLY!!

So much has happened in the last little while...where do I begin?? Well, Mae turned 2 on July 11th. I can't believe how fast she is growing up. She talks like crazy. I would say she talks in 6-7 words sentences. She is so dang smart too! She loves playing with her cousins...so sad that half are already gone and the other half will be leaving soon. What are we going to do?!?!? Here are a few pics from her little party that we had at my mom's house.

Beckham needed to help of course!

He also needed to try on a pair of the princess shoes too!

Jane and Beckham definitely admired what Mae got

She loved opening her presents this year!

My mom got Mae and Jane these darling crowns!!

We have moved!! We are now in Provo living where Mary and Ryan used to live and took over their job as managers of Crestline Estates. We are so grateful to have this job and I think it is going to be great for us! But since we moved I decided to transition Mae into a big girls bed! She has done suprisingly well! Some days I really wonder if she naps though...she has been quite cranky lately! She wakes up with awesome hair though!!!

I need to take some pictures of our house! We got brand new carpet and it is wonderful!

She also had her first black eye! She fell, like she does on a daily basis, and happened to land perfectly on this one spot on a chair with her eye. It looked awful!!!

one more funny random picture...Terry likes to put stickers on his glasses and Mae thinks its so funny so she tried to do it herself...

She is the joy of my like, it doesn't get any sweeter!!