Friday, November 25, 2011

thankful...

These last couple of days have been soooo nice! Devin finished school around noon on Wednesday and doesn't have to go back until Monday. His professor told the class that their only assignment for the weekend was to, 'forget about school'. So that is what we have been doing!

Wednesday we trekked up to Salem to go to Olive Garden. The usual 40 minute drive took us over an hour due to a semi truck running itself off the road, but other then that it was a great little outing!


SJ really enjoyed the marinara sauce...


I can't get over SJ's face in this picture. Apparently he doesn't like kisses all that much!

On Thursday, Thanksgiving, we went over to our friends, Billy and Allison's, apartment for dinner. We made the jell-o salad, mashed potatoes and candied yams and they did the rest. We had a great time and I'm sad I forgot my camera so I couldn't take pictures.

Today we have: gone to Wal-Mart, continued our Harry Potter marathon that we started on Wednesday (we just finished the 6th one), re-arranged our family room, got out our Christmas tree and decorated for Christmas, and enjoyed lounging around as a family!


Our newly re-arranged family room! I'm glad we finally figured out a way to put the bookshelf up without
fear of SJ pulling it over.

SJ in front of our tree!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

our life in bullet points

Because I'm such a consistent blogger, I will be summing up our last couple of months through lots of pictures and bullet points. Bare with me!!

  • A couple of weeks ago Devin had a Monday off from school. So, we decided to pack up our little family and spend the day in Portland! It was our first time really exploring the city, and we loved it!
SJ getting ready to take on the city.
Possibly my new favorite place, Powell's Books. A HUGE bookstore!
 The inside of Powell's Books looked like a warehouse. They sell new and used books.
 An entire shelf dedicated to my childhood favorite, Nancy Drew. (The Hardy Boys were just across the way)
 My favorites

 Eating ice cream at Ben and Jerry's


  • About a month ago, Devin's parents and brother's family came and visited us! That weekend BYU played OSU and we were all able to go. It was a little weird going to a BYU 'away' game 15 minutes away from our home.
SJ was super excited for his first BYU game, ever!

 Due to so much excitement, SJ fell asleep at about half time
... and slept for almost the rest of the game.
  • SJ was a puppy for halloween. We went to a Halloween party at Devins school and also one that our ward put on. I may be a little biased, but I think SJ was the cutest puppy there.





(No more bullet points because my formatter just started being funky...)
SJ has started crawling and 'cruising'. One of his favorite places to 'cruise' is Macy's kennel.
 The only movie that SJ will actually 'watch' is Tangled. This means I have seen it at least twice everyday for the last couple of weeks. I could probably quote any scene of the movie line by line.

 SJ isn't a huge fan of the 'baby food'. I am also not a huge fan of waiting patiently for him to eat it. Dev is better at that than I am.
 SJ has also started throwing - everything. Devin and SJ will play a game where SJ throw something, Devin picks it up and gives it back to him saying, "Good throw," and, for some reason, this makes SJ laugh really hard. So cute.
 Macy got a bath and hair trimming today. She doesn't look quite as homeless.

That's about it for us. I look forward to doing another massive picture/update blog in May. Ha. Kidding - sorta.