Happy.

That smile makes me happy.

New Moon

Yes, I was one of the many that went and saw New Moon at midnight last night. Yes, I am a little tired today, but I was so worth it! I was so impressed and thought that it was put together so well. It was perfect. Every moment. I love, love, love, LOVED it!

The Dentist

I took Noah to the dentist for the first time yesterday. I was nervous, really nervous, to how he was going to behave, but I had absolutely no reason. Well, it wasn't a completely perfect trip from start to finish, but all in all he did an amazing job. I talked to him about going to the dentist for an entire week and he got to the point where he was excited to go...really! But once we got there he kept saying "I'm scared...I'm scared of the dentist", but then I realized that he was just saying it to say it. You should have seen the smile behind the words...it was kind of cute. Well, they called him back and he let them take pictures of his teeth without a fuss, then he let them clean his teeth and he did everything that he was asked to do. I think he was mostly happy because he got to watch his favorite show, Finding Nemo, the entire time.

The Results:

NO CAVITIES {yay}

The dentist said that he has beautiful teeth, but he is bound to have braces {sniff, sniff}. I knew this, Doug knew this...our children are all bound to have a mess in their mouth thanks to their parents...you're welcome! Oh well, there's nothing we can do about that now. All I care about right now is that he has nice, healthy teeth, and he does. That puts a big smile on Mommy's face :).

I'm just so thankful that the entire experience was a good one for Noah. Until next time...in 6 months!

Watching his movie while he gets his teeth cleaned.
Check out those pearly whites :). I just love this boy...he's the best!

Trick-or-Treat

Happy Halloween!!!

I love this holiday, and now I have a little boy that loves it just as much as me! We took Noah trick-or-treating for the first time last year and he really didn't know what to make of it. He was pretty confused the entire time and just went along with the fact that he was getting candy at every door. Well...this was different, very different. Noah is old enough to realize that we dress up on Halloween for fun and he understood that he was going to be going to go from house to house saying "Trick-or-Treat" in exchange for the goods...CANDY! He got it...he was excited! I was a little worried that he wouldn't be as excited when we actually went, but he was, and we had so much fun!! Yay for getting older and understanding these weird little holidays! My only problem is that he told me tonight that he wants to go again next week...now I have to explain that he has to wait one whole year. Oh boy!

Noah was a COWBOY! Yes, he was a cowboy last year too, but the costume still fit him, and that's what he wanted to be. He was SO excited to get all dressed up and would walk around saying "Howdy partner".
Leah was a LADYBUG, and she was SO CUTE! These costumes for little kids are just too cute! I smile every time that I would see her walk around in this outfit...it really is so cute! I think that the tights make it complete :).
Doug and I were UTAH FANS...we were a little bummed that there was a home game tonight, but there was no way that we were going to miss out on going out with our precious kids tonight. Instead, we showed our support by wearing our red. Oh, and the Utes won...GO UTES!!!

We went to Alli and Spencer's house tonight and went trick-or-treating with them and their cute little boy, Ryan, who was a LION! He even mastered making a ROARRRR sound...very scary!
Leah really didn't know what to make of the whole thing, but she just went along with Noah and held on to her bag with a death grip. She wouldn't let anyone touch that thing. She knew what was in it and she wasn't about to share with anyone! Little does she know...{wink, wink}.
OK...Noah is seriously the best big brother to Leah. He was constantly saying to Leah "Come on, cute little Ladybug"! Plus he was constantly fixing her head piece for her and holding her hand as they went from house to house. I love how close they are getting. Makes me smile :).

We hope that everyone had a fabulous Halloween and that you got lots and lots of yummy treats :). Until next year...

Carving Pumpkins

Noah has been looking forward to carving our pumpkins all week, so we made an event of doing it last night.

Noah was so interested in what we were doing when we were cutting them open...he was a little confused on what we were doing exactly.
I don't think he realized that carving pumpkins isn't all fun...especially when I gave him the task of cleaning out his pumpkin.
Obviously, there wasn't much for Leah to do and she did not like the fact that she was not being included. Therefore, she was doing a lot of this at my feet...
So I put her in her highchair and gave her her own chocolate cupcake to eat. There...all better :).

Noah spent a good amount of time drawing his face on his pumpkin, or he just had fun drawing on the pumpkin.

Then we tried to get a picture of the kids together by the finished product...that just didn't work. I seriously can't win when it comes to getting a posed picture of Leah. Oh well.

So, here are our finished pumpkins without all the chaos. Happy Halloween!!!

Utah Game with Noah

We decided to take Noah with us to the Utah game this past Saturday, and I can truly say that this little guy is a true UTE fan! Yes, it was rainy and a bit cold, but Noah was too focused on the game and everything that was going on around him to care about the weather. Thankfully, the game was an afternoon game and the weather cleared up by half time, which made me feel better because the last thing I wanted was for him to get sick or something. Anyway, he loved it and was SO incredibly good until the last 30 minutes when he started to get a little sleepy. I was a little irritated that the game went into overtime, and ofcourse we had to stay at that point to see if we won. Good thing we did WIN! Go UTES!! It's always nice when we win and that other team loses...at home! Anyway, I'm so glad that we took Noah and that he enjoyed himself...we might just take him again :).

The joy of trying to get a decent picture with a 3 year old...story of my life!
The only thing that Noah didn't like was the ANNOYING whistle of this guy behind us. It is seriously an ear piercing sound...I don't blame him for curling over and covering his ears!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy 70th Birthday!

I love this picture!

Doug and his mom dancing...how cute!
Doug and his mom when he graduated from the U of U in 2005.
We had a big celebration for Doug's mom, Karin, last weekend, which consisted of a luncheon and an open house. We had such a wonderful time spending the day with family and celebrating my wonderful mother-in-law. I really got so lucky to have married into such a wonderful family and to have such a wonderful and loving mother-in-law! She is also an amazing grandma to all of her grandchildren. Noah and Leah absolutely adore her and get so excited every time we go to her house! She goes out of her way, every time, to make sure that the children are given the attention that they need and want. She really is so great! We love you bunches!!


Karin and her sister, Aunt Kathy.
Karin and our little family.