Ladies Night Fun!

Every other Tuesday night the ladies in my neighborhood gather for a ladies night. We do it after bed time so we can put our kiddos in bed and then hang out! It is always so much fun! Sometimes we end up chatting until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. Our latest project was these Halloween buckets. My cute friend Mindy made one a little while ago and we all loved them, so she was nice enough to show us how and help us do it all. I love how they turned out! The girls were so excited to have a new bucket to Trick-or-Treat with. I love Halloween so I was happy to do this project. Thanks Mindy for all your hard work!

Updates...

We have been super busy lately! With Abbey in kindergarten and Alyssa in second grade, I am doing a lot of driving! I am so glad I get to be the one to drop off/pick up my kids from school though. It is sad to see the little kids that are picked up by the daycare workers. I love being able to see their happy faces after school. They both are loving school!

Alyssa had parent teacher conferences last week and her teacher had nothing but good to say about her. She is doing really well and she is really friendly to her classmates. I was able to go to her class last week to hear her present a book report project that she worked on. She did great! Before I left the class sang two songs to me. It was so cute.

Abbey is the tallest person in her class. On her first day of school when all the kids were lined up to go inside I noticed that she is at least a head taller than the other kids. It always makes me laugh because for those of you who know us know that we are not "tall" people. She is also loving her class and is always happy when she is done with school. Some of the homework she brings home is the same as what she learned in preschool, so I hope as the year goes on it will get more challenging.

Avery is 7 1/2 months old now. She is crawling all over the place and has now figured out how to stand in her crib by holding onto the side rail. She has two bottom teeth and I think she is going to get some top ones soon. She is always so happy and we love having her as a part of our family.

As for me, when I am not driving, or sleeping, or working, I have been making a lot of hair bows. My friend Kristin and I have been making them together and it has become my new favorite past time. Our goal is to sell them, but we usually end up liking them so much we just want to keep them all! I do have some that I plan to sell and I will probably post some pictures on here if anyone is interested.

Our Labor Day Adventure

On Labor Day we thought it would be fun to take a picnic into the mountains and take a "walk" through nature. We deciced to go up Millcreek canyon and find a good spot to eat our lunch. I guess the rest of Utah had the same idea as us, so there wasn't a good spot to eat. We ended up eating our lunch in the car. Lame, I know. Then we drove to a spot where we could find a trail. David and I are NOT experienced hikers by any means, so we really didn't know of a good trail to take. We drove into a parking lot at a trail head. We found what is called Desolation trail, which is very fitting. We started walking and we found the sign that said you could hike 2 miles to a Salt Lake Valley overlook. That didn't sound so bad, so we started hiking. It was a rough trail! It zigzagged up the side of the mountain and was pretty steep. Our fellow hikers were passing us going up and down the trail. The girls got so sick of hiking! We were probably just a few minutes to the overlook and both of them sat down and said they were done! On the way down both girls had to go to the bathroom. It's times like these that boys would be so much easier! Because the trail was so steep, you couldn't just walk off the trail to pee. We waited till there were no other hikers around and we let Abbey sit over a log and go potty. Once Alyssa saw what Abbey had to do, she decided she could hold it. We survived the hike, but we will do our research before we try it again. I really wanted to see the overlook so maybe David and I can go alone next time.

Chuck E Cheese

Grandma Jeri took us to Chuck E Cheese last week and we had so much fun! The girls could play there all day. One funny thing that happened was while we were eating, Chuck E Cheese came out to visit the birthday kids and we noticed Abbey was missing. My mom and I looked all over to try to find her. We asked the employees if they had seen her, and no one knew where she was. I went back over by the tables to see if she was laying in one of the booths, and I saw her under our table. She was hiding from Chuck E Cheese because she was scared of him! It was so funny! She stayed under there until he left. Thanks Mom for the fun day!

Alyssa's first day of school

Alyssa started 2nd grade on Monday. She was so excited to start school. She loves her teacher and she seems to be having a great time so far. Today when I picked her up she told me she had an AMAZING day! I hope this contiues all year!

Abbey will start kindergarten next week. She met her teacher on Monday and she is really excited to meet her "new best friend" at school this year. When we met with her teacher, she told us that where Abbey is now is where she should be by the end of kindergarten. She is a smarty pants! Her teacher told her that she can help her friends in her class so she was really excited about that.

Cabela's

The girls wanted their picture with the guy who was missing a hand.

On Saturday we went to Cabela's. The girls love that place.

6 months old!

Our little Avery is 6 months old now! She is such a sweet baby and I can't imagine life without her. She is starting to sit up on her own, though she is still a little unstable. She loves to roll around and she is happiest when she is on her tummy. She smiles all the time and she rarely cries. She sleeps about 9 hours at night so I get plenty of rest. We had her six month check-up last week and she is now up to 14 lbs (15%). So she is a small fry! I don't remember her height or her head size, but they were both in the 50%. She had to get two shots and she only cried for a couple minutes. She ended up just falling asleep as soon as we got in the car. One thing I found out at her appointment though is that they changed the car seat requirements, so kids now have to be rear facing until they are 30 pounds instead of 20. At the rate Avery is going, she might be two years old before she reaches that size.

I also had an MRI done on my wrist because it has been bugging me for a couple of years. Just over a year ago I had a cyst removed (sucked out) from my wrist and I thought that was the problem, but I still have weakness and sometimes it hurts. I figured since I have already met my out or pocket amount (from having Avery) for my insurance that this would be a good time to get the MRI since it wouldn't cost me anything. The cost of an MRI is about $1000 for each body part that gets scanned. One of the doctors I work for thought I may have a torn ligament and having an MRI would show that. Luckily, nothing major is wrong with my wrist, but there is some fluid in my joint. My boss (Dr. Fotheringham) said that he could do an injection of human growth hormone and that should help. I will probably have that done next week. After an injection you have to take it easy for a couple days or you could make the damage worse, so I need to have it done close to the weekend so I will have David around to help me.