thanksgiving

with thanksgiving coming soon, I am reflecting on how lucky and blessed I am everyday. Sometimes I think about how much I am blessed with and I am humbled. I am so thankful for all of my many blessings.
just some things i am thankful for.

nate.savannah.my family.nates family. our warm home.full cupboards.my college education.the gospel and the knowledge it brings into my life.being an eternal family.faith.tacos, especially moms tacos. sunday drives. cheaper gas prices. cars.my talents. baby laughter. weekends. technology ( e-bill paying and the nice reminders they send.).choices.living in a free country. ice cream. shoes. my mom ( where would I be without her???). dad ( and his thanksgiving prayers, especially when he adds "stuff"). temples. teaching( I love it, despite my occasional complaints). good friends. (love you all). facebook. peanut butter and jelly. animals. neices and my soon to be nephew. scrapbooking. cameras. a wonderful amazing husband who is handsome, hardworking, honors his priesthood and is an AMAZING daddy. water. ability to decorate. health insurance. the Book of Mormon. sweats. washing machines and dryers. (too bad there isn't a machine to fold it all. a clean house. recess. socks.the color red. HGTV.fireplaces. and soooooooooo much more.

aunt becca- we will miss you this thanksgiving. I will take lots of pictures and post them as soon as possible. Lots of love to you and TJ.

just because she is cute

miss. savannah. last saturday, before heading to town with grandma and momma.

-this morning, she tried to walk using the couch.. holy cow.. I just can't believe it.

-she says momma, and cried when I left moms house and for enrichment last night. It breaks my heart, but makes me feel good at the same time. I have a Momma's Girl.

We just can't imagine life without her.

pictures from our ride

sunday drive

last sunday afternoon, we decided we needed a break and took miss. savannah for a ride. Now that she has a forward facing car seat, life in a car is sooooooooooo much better. We went to feed the fish and see the waterfalls. I thought for sure that savannah wouldn't like the waterfalls too much, but boy was I wrong, she was in love with them and cried for about 15 minutes when we left ,and then passed out in her carseat. funny girl

russian baby anyone/??

thanks to grandma in boise.. we have an awesome new hat. oOOHHH it is just delightful. and our baby girl makes it look beautiful. Savannah loves that her carseat now faces forward as well. She loves to look in the rearview mirror and talks to me..

this little piggy

our little piggy. moving everywhere, torturing the cat, the dog... figuring out how to open doors, smashing fingers in drawers, changing the channels with the remote, saying dada, obsessed with plug ins, loves animals, gives big kisses and hugs, throwing out the bink for some yogurt bites. Sometimes I honestly can't believe she's mine. She is amazing and intelligent (maybe I'm bias) But I love this little girl more than I know how to explain.

Happy Birthday Aunt Becca. YOU ROCK!! We love you and miss you oodles.
Hope you have a terrific day.

a new calling...

so last night mom and I got new callings in our ward. If feels good to have a calling again. I haven't had one in awhile because of having a baby and so forth... But mom and I are the sharing time coordinators for primary..what this means.. well we don't completely know. We aren't sure if we just plan or if we do sharing time.. we will find out on sunday. I am excited to do it though. It feels good to not have to teach ( that is my usual calling) it's hard to go from fourth grade to primary teacher..

Miss. Savannah is a crawling maniac, and is into everything. WE love her though, and she throws you this sweet smile before she does something shes not suppose to.. like rip a power cord out of the wall, or pull open a drawer and empty it for the fifteenth time.

I am going to take some video of her on my camera tonight and try to figure out how to post it.

Till then.. wish us luck...

pumpkin patch

A week ago we took savannah to the pumpking patch to pick out her very first pumpkin. She loved watching all the kids and when we set her in a pile of pumpkins she picked one up, and that is the one she took home. She wasn't much in the mood for pictures but we took a few anyway.

Also just last night Savannah crawled for the first time. It was terrific. She was so proud of herself, and then this morning she was a crawling maniac..so exciting and so much work.

savannah's first halloween

Here is our sweet little lady bug on halloween morning. Believe it or not she loved her costume and every time we took off her wings and antena she would cry.. She was a great sport and went to visit daddy at work, grandpa at work and even had lunch with great grandma.

Later that night, she raided mommy and daddy's candy for tricker treaters, and then went to grandma and grandpas for dinner and a movie. By the end of the night, she was tuckered out.

What a great first halloween.

it must run in the family...

so even though I don't have my halloween pictures with me, I do have this picture....

my sweet girl, hanging out in the craft room with mama...while mama actually begins some work on savannah's scrapbook. She found herself a piece of paper, and got crafty... (well if you consider ripping a piece of paper into 5000 pieces crafty). but she does love hanging out in the craft room with me and always admires my finished projects.

what a sweet heart.

halloween at our house

so.... I promised aunt becca some great pictures of miss. savannah...which I have..too bad my camera is in the diaper bag at grandma's house. tomorrow... I promise!! :0)
all in all Savannah's first halloween was great. It was a wonderful weekend. I will say more tomorrow when i have the pictures for the stories..