Now that's what I call a "Play Date!"

This weekend we went out with some good friends who just moved back from San Francisco (if anyone needs a great dentist let us know!) It was so much fun Brian and Becca's daughter Sadie and Lydia are about 3 months apart and it was obvious they were destined to be friends. We had a quick dinner at Pei Wei and then went to the mall to ride the merry go round and hit up the play place. The girls had a blast and it made it so much fun to plan a date around them. Thanks guys for a fun night we will have to do it again! The girlies had a blast!
Liddy and Sadie had a blast running around playing while we got to catch up

YYYEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!

They went on the rollercoaster quarter ride, it was pretty funny when the music for the ride started they both started dancing.

Destined to be friends!

What the what???

Well if anyone has ever heard us talk about our ward you would hear us use words like, HUGE, ENORMOUS, LARGE (I think you get the idea) Anyways a few weeks ago our bishop announced that our ward was being split. This wasn't a big surprise but it was sad to say goodbye to a lot of great people in our ward. I was serving as the 5 yr old teacher with the most amazing partner ever. I won't lie I loved my calling, I loved my little kids and seriously I loved being in primary.

Well last Tuesday I got a call to see if I could come in and recieve a calling. I thought well they sort of told me that we would most likely be recieving our same calling so I thought Ok awesome, I loved my calling. Well I was thrown a bit of a surprise, I was called as the PRIMARY CHORISTER!!! Now mind you I accepted the calling whole heartedly and I really am so so excited. But I must say I definitely feel extremely inadequate. Who are we kidding I do not sing, if any of you have ever heard me you know I am tone deaf and I know it.

Anyways I was so nervous for today, but it was actually so much fun. The new primary presidency is going to do an amazing job, and I truly feel blessed to be able to be apart of it. Anyways overall despite my horrible voice I love my new calling...mind you I might change my mind once it comes to primary program time (ha ha ha!)

NEW MOON

YES I am one of those dorks that is totally obsessed with Twilight. So when my good friend Jill called me to see if I would be interested in tickets to see the "New Moon" movie the night before it comes out, you know my answer was YES!!! Anyways a bunch of friends from high school and my sister-in-law all went last night (at 9:00 pm) and saw the movie. It was actually pretty funny to come out of the movie and see all the people waiting to see the midnight showing (suckers!) I must say after reading the books I was always on team Edward but after seeing the movie Jacob definitely moved up a notch. It certainly helped that he was ripped and his shirt was off for the better half of the movie (ha ha ha!) Anyways overall I thought it was a great movie, stayed true to the book and kept ya excited for "Eclipse" So anyways Jill thanks for the tickets and girls thanks for a fun night out!

Once there was a snow man!

I woke up Sunday afternoon from my nap to the sound of a snowball hitting our bedroom window followed by "MMMMMMOOOOMMMMMYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!" When I went out back this is what I found...Chris and Lydia's snowman
Chris putting on the 2nd head!

Lydia by her first snowman!

Lydia and her best friend following right behind.

Lydia copying what Che' does when he is outside.

All I have to say is that I am married to one amazing man, who are we kidding he let me take a two and a half hour nap and while I was doing that he got Lydia in tights, and jeans (she is getting her snow pants for christmas) took her out and built her one cute little snowman. He also spent our Saturday evening hooking che up with a sweet new doggy igloo and he rigged it with a heating lamp to keep him warm. Anyways what I am really trying to say is that I don't say it enough how blessed I am to have Chris for a husband. He works so hard and provides so much for our family without complaint. He truly is my best friend, and partner in crime. He is an amazing dad with such a soft spot for his little Liddy. We love you babe and hope you know you are APPRECIATED!!!

A toddler's best friend!

OK so for those of you who have known Che' since he was a puppy you know that he was our baby. He ruled our home no doubt. We sacrificed 2 sets of blinds, several hoses, so many of my high heels I don't even want to count and countless socks. We let that dog rule the roost and all because yes we love him.
Well after Lydia was born, we became pretty typical (I like to think) parents and we became SUPER overprotective of Lydia around Che'. It wasn't that we thought he was going to try to hurt her, I don't think Che' could hurt a fly. We were worried he would hurt her without meaning to.
So for the past 18 months Che' had found a new residence OUTSIDE. It seemed to work, he seemed happy and we would bring him in at night when it got cold. Well someone else had a different idea.
For the past couple of weeks Lydia has become obsessed with Che' from the moment she wakes up until she goes to be all I hear is CCCCHHHHEEE (it is pretty funny because when she says his name it sounds like she has a British accent.) Anyways we have slowly but surely been bringing Che' back inside. I'll be honest I fought it tooth and nail. I hate dog hair, and hate having to be on guard for my shoes and socks and now Lydia's toys but and there is a big BUT...
Lydia absolutely adores him. So anyways Lydia you win, I will let Che' come in the house, and I will sweep up and vacuum up his hair but only because I love you, and who are we kidding I really do love Che' too.

P.S. Surprisingly Che' has mellowed quite a bit, he knows he can't go in Lydia's room, and who are we kidding he will just sit there while Lydia malls the poor dog. Not to mention that now she follows him around on all fours (like a dog!)

Lydia and he new best friend!



Welcome back puppy!

Where my girls at?

Well my good friend Stacie was out of town (in Puerto Rico to be exact) and needed someone to watch her girls for one day. I of course volunteered #1 because I love her girls, and #2 Lydia gets so excited when she has someone other then me to play with. Let's just say it was quite the day. 4 Girls, 3 playgrounds, the merry go round, McDonalds, the Aquarium, movies, ice cream and me in a mini van. Here are a few of the pics, it really was so much fun!

7:30-8:30 am

We started off playing down in the studio. All three of Stacie's girls take from me so they were so excited to play on the mat's and dance around without any instruction with it (ha ha ha!)

8:30-9:30am
Then it was off to the park. Lydia and Ameliah were the best of friends.

Cute sisters Kaylee and Emma

Lydia

9:30-9:45 am

Snack time at the park

10:00-10:02 am (ha ha ha!)

We went to South Town mall to ride the merry-go-round. For some reason I thought this would take all sorts of time but Lydia's tantrum (when the ride was over) was longer then the ride itself.

Cute Emma would pose every time she saw the camera pointed at her.

Lydia and Ameliah... they loved it

10:15-11:00

We went down to the dinosaur play place in the mall...The girls had a blast and for most of the time they had it to themselves.

Ameliah and a little boy that showed up later went the rounds over the globe in the background. It was so funny to watch them baby argue over it!

Kaylee was Lydia's protector...she kept saying "Lydia is my best friend in the whole world!"

I love love love Kaylee she is seriously my favorite. She wore her favorite spider man shoes, and roared like a dinosaur the whole time we were at the dino play place.

McDonalds

11:00-12:00 pm

Living planet aquarium

12:00-12:45

After McDOnalds we went to the living planet aquarium.

By this time they were pretty tired and towards the end it was really showing that it was 1 hr past Liddy's nap time.

All the girls loved the sting reys but they were a little scared.

Right after Emma washed her hands she went back over and one of the sting reys totally sprayed her. It went ALL OVER!

1:00-3:30

After the aquarium it was back to my house for naps (only for Lydia), ice cream, Ice Age, more studio, a tea party, playing with Che' and chip time!

Emma was so excited about her puzzle that she completed while we were watching Ice age!

It was such a fun and jam packed day. I will say that 4 kids seems like a lot but we had a blast!

Tywer is 23!

Well my youngest brother Tyler turned 23 yesterday (Nov.3rd) We celebrated his birthday on Sunday at my parents. We had Ty's favorite pizza and brownies. I seriously love my little brother, he has so much energy for life and is just such a good kid. I feel like most youngest kids are the most spoiled but for some reason Tyler has turned out despite being spoiled (ha ha ha...minus of course the crimson fury!) Some of my favorite memories growing up involve Tyler just being Tyler. I love him to death and hope that he knows how much we love him. Happy Birthday Tyler! Tyler is not only cute but available...ha ha ha!

Liddy demanding all the attention (of course!)

Lydia was loving grandpa, partly because she was so scared of Uncle Tyler. Every time Tyler would come even close to Lydia she would give him the look of death, not joke we laughed for about 45 minutes because it was so funny!

So much for being the fun uncle huh TY?

Tyler's favorite mom's homemade brownies!

My cute mom and dad...I can't believe that their youngest is 23 years old!

One fish, two fish...three million gold fish!

THe Evidence

The culprit!

I was getting ready this morning, and all of the sudden I realized it was QUIET! And you know when it is quiet that something is wrong. I came out of my room to find that Lydia had taken the newly opened (this morning) box of goldfish out of the pantry and decided to make some fun with it! Good thing I love that little toad.

The church is true again!

Ok, ok the church has always been true but for the first time in 5 months as a family we all went to all three hours of Church. Why do you ask...because Lydia is now in NURSERY! I have been in the primary for the past 5 months and Chris has tried with all his heart to make it through the last two hours by himself but Lydia can be one tough cookie, especially around nap time. Anyways I was a little nervous about how Lydia was going to be in Nursery, I thought that it might take her a minute to feel comfortable but Oh no not Lydia. We went to one of the three nursery's and found which one Lydia would be going to. When we walked in all the kids were sitting at a little table and without even thinking twice Lid went found a seat and didn't look back. It was so funny she could not have even cared if we were there or not. It was so funny because I went into primary and was telling one of the other teachers why I was late and I was telling her I felt bad because Lydia didn't really care if I was there...and she said oh ya you should feel bad your child is so well adjusted (ha ha ha!) Anyways I know I should feel lucky, and who knows it may not always be like that but I just have a hard time believing that my baby is growing up.

My little toad is growing up!


She was a little onry after church...

but nothing daddy couldn't help with!

I had to put these in too, I took off her dress and she decided to do a little spa treatment with her yogurt!

This is HALLOWEEN

We had such a fun Halloween, Lydia was dressed as a little Lady Bug and we took her trick or treating. At first she was a little shy, but by the end she was getting all excited knocking on the doors and putting her little bucket up for people to put treats in. She made me laugh because at the first house she got a sucker and those are her all time favorite so for the rest of the time she was sucking on that sucker. It was so fun to see our neighborhood just come alive, there were a ton of kids. Afterwards our good friends the Millers came over and we all hit Red Robin and watched the dumbest scary movie ever (The shining) Don't see it, it is old and very stupid. Overall it was a great Halloween, and it made it so fun with Lydia!

P.S. The title of my post is for Justin and Linds...you guys can do the actions for it (ha ha ha!)

Trick or Treat!

My good friend's girls were all bugs too so I had to get a pick of the bug ball!

Notice that Lydia won't take the sucker out to save her life!

"Yum, Yum!"

Next year we will definitely be traveling with a wagon, Lydia walked so stinking SLOW!





Even Che' got in on the trick or treating action, he was pretty excited!



All ready

Liddy bug, my Lady Bug!

Bye Bye!

Lydia has a new obsession with getting the keys, getting her coat on and saying "Bye Bye" and heading outside!!! So I close the door and wait for her to come back and knock on the door...I tell ya that little girl cracks me up!

We've been hit by the...

You know how you get hit by the "Phantom" around Halloween? Well Last week we were officially hit by the Swine Flu Phantom, and we survived.

Chris came home Wednesday night and literally didn't come out of our room until Sunday. I was lucky because I was able to get on the tamiflu as soon as we found out he had it so I didn't have it nearly as bad. We were also so lucky that Lydia was able to get the vaccination and didn't get sick!!!

Chris does want to tell the world that he thought it was overrated so to anyone worried about getting it minus the risidual cough it wasn't too bad!

18 months!

18 Months

Well Lydia is officially 18 months old.I took her in for her wellness check up and Dr. Boettger was pretty impressed that she has not been sick one time in 18 months. She has only been in for wellness visits (knock on wood!) Anyways she 32 1/4 inches tall (60%), 24 lbs (45%) and her head is 47.5 cm (80%) She is healthy and happy and that is all that matters. It makes me feel so excited for everything that she has grown into and all that she has in store. Here are 18 things about Liddy now that she is 18 months old...
1. 14 teeth with two more on the way
2.Loves Yo Gaba Gaba
3. Loves to color in her coloring book (amongst other things.)
4. Says the cutest things like, Cute grama, bye bye dada, uh uh, no che, owee, uhoh, Oh Ya, hot, Raini, Bode, nin nee (lindsey), Nana, grmpa, blankie, binky, apple, strawberry, ball, balloon, key,slide, purple, these are a few I could go on but for the sake of time I'll stop there!
5. She loves to read books (i.e. I read them to her, she turns the pages.)
6. Loves to cuddle with mom and dad before bed.
7. Likes to fall asleep with the door open.
8. Has quite the obsession with balloons.
9. Loves to play outside with Che'
10. Absolutely loves to go down the slide at any park.
11. Loves to get out the sugar from the lazy Susan and the measuring cup and make huge messes on the floor like mom.
12. Throws things in the garbage (things that should be thrown away now.)
13. Still loves shoes, she has a new pair of dress up shoes that she adores.
14. Has to sleep with her two blankies still.
15. Has the cutest little fake laugh she does when other people laugh.
16. Finds mom's shoes for her when we are getting ready to leave.
17. Likes to open things when I put them in the shopping cart.
18. Still loves to dance and shake her booty to any music!!!

Anyways I love this little girlie so much and not a day goes by I don't feel completely humbled by the amazing opportunity that heavenly Father has blessed me with. I love Lydia she has brought so much joy and happiness to my life, I truly do feel complete. I was telling Chris the other day, I know that some people feel that they were put on this earth for certain talents like musician, athlete etc. I truly feel like I my life is complete just by being a mother.

Semi-annual Knudsen family St. George Vacation!

Can I just say we had so much fun on our st.george trip this year. Lydia had so much fun playing with her cousins, I had a blast shopping and making a really cute craft and of course Chris had a great time golfing until his heart was content. The weather was great, the company even better and overall it was a blast. The only thing that could've possibly made it better was if Darin was there, but there will be plenty more trips with Dar. Anyways I didn't get a ton of pictures thoughout the trip but here are the few pictures I did get! The kids eating breakfast, Lydia was in heaven have Bode and Raini around all the time!
We went to the park to play and the kids had a blast...gotta love the bed head we have going on in this pic from both girls!

Cute Bode is getting so big!

Bode and Patrice

Clint...such a great B-I-L and great dad. He is always fun with the kids because he loves to play with them like he is a big kid!

Lyd coming out of the tube

It was so exciting because Jared and Stacey got a new dog while we were in St. George. I am so excited that Booker is going to be the newest member of the family. We became fast friends, when I first met Booker he was so excited he accidentally peed on my leg and shoe. It was pretty funny. Che is going to be so excited when he is up here for Thanksgiving!

The proud new puppy parents, I think you can tell that they were extremely excited!

The Pedersen family .

The kids all wanted to ride in the same car! It was so funny they would just sit back there laughing and having a grand old time. Needless to say we will have to get a new car before we have three kids though (ha ha ha!)

While we were shopping the kids were great they found ways to keep themselves entertained. From the looks of this picture Lydia and Raini are going to be the best of friends!

Bode was showing us his muscles, while we were in Target he fell off the skate board and got a bloody nose but he was still smiling afterwards.

Our two little monkeys!

Just swinging around.

It was another great trip filled with alot of laughter, swimming, eating, crafting, golfing, shopping, and much much more. Thanks Robin and Wayne for another great trip!

Cornbelly's Farm and Pumpkin Fest

Saturday we took Lydia to "Cornbelly's Farm" it was a lot of fun for Lydia and I won't lie I have always wanted to go.



We had to wait in line for the jumping pillow things so Lydia entertained us while we waited!


Lydia absolutely loves trampolines so she was in heaven!

Yes even I jumped with Lydia (more to protect her from the big kids that kept knocking her down)

Going down the slide...I was a little too fast for her to sit up!

On the hay ride

pulled by a tractor

playing on the choo choo train

watching the chicken show

Playing in the playhouse full of corn kernnals, it was very cool.

"Hi mom!"

Yet again she found another slide.

She went up and down this one for about 30 minutes while Chris had a cookie and I had some cotton candy!

Here I come!

Another favorite...the swings. This was a cool swing shaped like a horse.

Liddy and her daddy on the rocking chair!

Thanks daddy for a fun filled day at "Cornbelly's Farm"

Clean up on aisle 4 please!

A few pictures of Lydia doing what she does best...MAKE MESSES!

In this picture she is actually trying to help me clean up...I think!

"Mom I thought you said you needed bread crumbs all over the floor, after you got done moping it!"

Wasn't too sure about the frosting, but she really liked the sprinkles!


It took her a minute to get into the whole flour on your hands messiness...

but not too long!

Eureka!

Well my cute grandma and grandpa Favatell live in Eureka, Utah. It is just west of santa quein (sp.) and on the way to the sand dunes if you know where those are. Anyways they have a pretty unique set up and it is awesome. My grandpa is a stone mason and can build just about anything. He built his entire house from the ground up and everything you see in all the pictures he built. Every time we go my grandma has a "honey do list" and he is working on it. We went there earlier in the summer and I couldn't get my pics to download for some reason. So here are some pics for our day in Eureka!

Grandma and Felix

Lydia and Tayjah playing in their hot tub, in the sun room.

The girls had a blast playing the the horse shoe pit, which converted nicely into a sand box!

My grandpa Felix's daughter and son-in-law live in Panama. My g-ma and Felix have gone back a couple of times and decided to build a Bajio in memory of Panama...it is really cool!

With wine glass windows

(Sorry I couldn't get some of the pictures to rotate to save my life)

I don't know if you can see but one side of the Bajio opens completely up so you can do you bbq-ing in or out doors!

The fountain that Felix built for my grandma!

Felix built this house from the ground up. It is very innovative with an elevator, and heated floors. Felix takes such good care of my grandma we love her and we are all so happy that she met Felix!


The Gazeebo and bridge

Yes they have a real teepee and totum pole. I can't wait until Lydia is old enough to stay in it!

The garden and arbor


The girlies all tukered out after a fun trip to grandma-ma's house!

Let it snow, let it snow....let it snow!

I woke up the other morning and looked out the window and much to my amazement I thought....IT SNOWED!!! Upon further inspection I realized that Che got in a fight with his bed, and the bed definitely lost!

We don't have any leaves to rake up, but we do have doggie bed cotton!

Provident living...I guess!

Well we have had the food provident/food storage bug lately. For starters this summer Chris built me a grow box which I was so excited about. I had all these plans of a salsa garden, fresh corn on the cob amonst other things. Well let's just say our 1st garden was a slight success. I got a few tomatoes, a couple of little peppers and corn the size that you put on a salad (it didn't help that che' chose to sit on the corn daily and we just couldn't keep him out. Overall I was just glad they we did it and next year we will hopefully have a little more success and if not it was still fun.

Then recently Chris has been on a food storage binge. By that I mean Harmon's had their quaker sale and case lot sale. We have enough captain cruch, maple and brown sugar oatmeal, life cereal, granola bars and quick oats to last us atleast until the end of the world and maybe on into the milleneium (sp)Anyways Chris got so into it we went to three different Harmon's to get the 5 for $5.00 (we got all of the above listed items for $1.00 each) Plus we restocked out canned goods. Anyways it was fun, and it made it even more fun how much Chris got into it. So hopefully it will all last...atleast until the next case lot sale that is!

There are rows of cereal...it is pretty funny



Notice the apple juice, I think we have 8 bottles (ha ha ha!)

Can you say canned good please?

The peppers and one tomato from my amazing garden...ha ha ha!


Chris admiring all of his hard farming work (notice my corn is every which way due to che!)

My cabbage was the real success, they got huge too bad #1 I don't really love cabage and #2 the caterpillar's got to them before I could give them away.



My tomato plants were the real hero's they were transplanted three times before they found their final restin place in the grow box.

Lake Powell...again!

Well I know you are all sick of hearing about it but yes we went to Lake Powell again. We went down Thursday night and stayed until Sunday. Because it is later in the year the air only got up to about 90 and the water was about 80 so to say the least PERFECT! In the mornings the water was actually warmer then the air so it was so nice getting in. We haven't had that good of water in a long time, I think I skied more this trip then the entire trip combined. We went out atleast 5 times each day and we could ski all day long it was AWESOME! We had a lot of fun this trip getting out the AIR CHAIR. It was an old time favorite but we haven't done it for years. It was a fun trip overall, thanks again mom and dad for taking us with you guys!

Lydia is so good about wearing he life jacket on the boat, she get's in and she will even point to it...to say the least she knows the drill!

I love that sideways smile!

Me on the air chair, it may not look like I'm that high but I felt like I was flying!

My dad is amazing at the air chair, he was a really good coach for chris and I

Chris definitely kicked my butt, he got way more aggressive then me! (We were actually competing, imagine that ha ha ha!)

My cute mom, she skiied in the mornings and is getting way more confident!

My dad's famous line to Chris and I was "you guys need to hurry up and get good at this!"

We thought we were doing pretty good...little did we know (ha ha ha!)

Lydia after playing on the fun island...she loved these steps throughout the trip she would take off down the hall and just go and sit on them. I think she liked them because they were just her size!

She was sporting the shehawk...the water down there makes for some good gel!

Laying out on the fun island...Chris spent the better part of a day patching it all up so we could play on it!

Shoe Fetish!

I think it is safe to say that Lydia has a bit of a shoe fetish. All day long all I hear is "shoe, shoe shoe!" She brings me about 10 pairs of shoes from my closet at various times of the day and she wants to either put them on me or she wants me to put them on her. It is hilarious. It is even to the point where I have to avoid the shoe aisle completely or we will be there for hours while she touches every pair and looking so excited says "shoe shoe!"

Besides the shoe fetish she is becoming quite the talker. She is starting to put phrases together. This morning I took a bath, after I got out of the tub and the water was draining Lydia ran over to the edge and excitedly waved and said "bye-bye bubble!" She did it several times until all the bubbles were completely gone. And anyone she sees wearing jewelry she will say "Cute!" The other day I was putting on a necklace while she was in the room with me and she said "Cute mama!" It was so funny! I'm telling ya the girl cracks me up and not a day goes by that I'm not so greatful to have her in my life!

Back to School!

Sunday we took Lydia and Che' over to our neighborhood school to play on the playground, we figured that Che' would be able to play as well because there wouldn't be anyone there. Well let me tell you it certainly took me back. It was so funny in the kindergarten area they had left all the balls, hoola hoops, and other various items out and we had a blast. Lydia was in heaven running from toy, to toy and going down the slides all by herself. Chris loved playing soccer with Che' (minus when he kicked the ball against the wall and it hit Lydia in the head.) And I was having a blast taking pictures as well as having a hoola hoop contest with Chris in which I crushed him.

Anyways I won't lie there is something about a school playground and actually an elementary school all together that is somewhat magical. I love the smell of the school and the sight of those yellow and red playground balls. Even to this day nothing beats a pack of new, unbroken crayons in a cleaned out totray. I loved being a teacher and sometimes I miss that I got to be reminded of how great it is to be a kid every day, but now I have my own little one to remind me. While we were at the school I told Chris that it seemed kind of weird that in a couple of years we will be dropping Lydia off at that school and I will be putting my baby in the hands of a teacher. Anyways we had fun and it brought up some fun, and funny memories of being in elementary school.

Fall Line Up!

Ok so Chris and I when it comes to television we are pretty pathetic. I swear that due to the invention of the DVR we are absolutely ruined. Anyways yes it is ridiculous how many shows we are absolutely obsessed with but now that it is fall so many of our shows are on again. Thank you thank you (ha ha ha!) Anyways I thought it would be comical to actually see how many shows we watch and prove just how obsessed we are.

Monday

House-Atleast we are only into one medical show, right.

Intervention-How did those people get like that?

Hoarders-My new favorite...thanks Liz! I am now the opposite I throw everything away even if I think I need it just because I don't want to become like them ha ha ha!

24-Doesn't start until January boo hoo! Considering naming my first born son after him in hopes he will some day save the united states 24 hrs a day!

The Bachelor and Bachelorette-I hate watching this show though because I come away feeling like "hey why don't we go on a date that involves helicopter rides, waterfalls, personal concerts, and huge diamond necklaces?"

Tuesday

HELL'S Kitchen-I LOVE Chef Ramsey, it is one of my dreams to either eat at one of his restaurants or eat at Hell's Kitchen while he is there. We actually have Justin and Lindsey over every Tuesday just to watch this show.

American Idol-Simon how I love your square hair and your gray tee-shirts.

Wednesday

So you think you can dance- Yet another reality contest show, this one I actually watch to see the amazing dancers as well as get ideas for the studio as far as music and choreography. I have even gotten Chris so into it he critiques the dancers (ha ha ha!)

American Idol- The results show...why do they make us wait so long?

GLEE- This is a new found show, we have started watching it three times only to turn it off that night and swear we hate it. Then we wake up and finish it the next morning and some how it is funny again. I don't know what to say, we are weird!

Thursday

(when Darin was home this was called Thrilling Thursday!)

Kath and Kim-ok I don't know what happened to that show but we loved Kath and Kim not so much them but the guys in that show were hillarious.

Parks and Recreation- It started out slow but as totally grown on us. Who would've thought building a park could be so funny?

The office-This is no minor obsession, I'm telling you people I cried when Jim and Pam finally went on a date, and cried even harder when they got engaged. It is pretty serious.

30 Rock-yet another new found favorite, we love this show. Every character is funny and, it is definitely a show that you find yourself quoting in regular conversation, like "Shut it down", "your burnt", or our personal favorite "what the what?"

Friday

The soup-what would we do without Joel Mchale to make fun of all the stupid shows we watch or don't watch during the week?

Dateline NBC-I don't know why we watch this show it always leaves me feeling paranoid that Chris is getting ideas for the perfect crime (ha ha ha!)

Saturday

I know it is a miracle but we don't have any shows we regularly watch on Saturdays (ha ha ha!)

Sunday

The Apprentice-Nothing beats Donald Trump firing Chole Kardashian because she got a DUI, he told her he doesn't like people who drink and drive (ha ha ha your burnt!)

The Shark Tank-This is actually Chris new show, I think he would like to be on the show one day, as a shark of course.

Now I know what you are thinking they are pathetic, what do they do all day sit around and watch T.V. well I have to say before the invention of DVR this list was about 1/4 of the size. But now that we can fast forward through commercials and watch at our own convienence we are ruined. So hopefully some of you relate and to the rest of you, you can say it we are PATHETIC!!!

Birthday Month!

Well September is the month of Birthday's for us. I celebrate mine on the 3rd and Chris' is on the 9th. It was a great year for both of us. I will say for some reason 27 just kind of stinks. I am no longer in my mid 20's i'm now in my late 20's AAAAAHHHHH, I don't want to get any older. Anyways for my birthday Chris took me to "500 days of Summer" a really cute movie and then to my favorite Cheesecake factory. For Chris' birthday we went to China Grill and Neilsen's forzen custard for desert. We both got pretty spoiled from our families. We celebrated on Labor day with Chris family (and I'm sad but we didn't get any pics.) And then we celebrated with my family today. I feel so blessed to have such amazing family and friends in my life and even though I hate getting older I have great people to share my life with and so it's worth it!

Anyways shout out to the following September B-Days!

3rd-Me!

6th- Mr. Colby Miller

9th-my amazing hubby!

12th-Mia Babcock..turning the big 9 years this year!

16th-my Jr High BFF Rachel Simkins Alley

18th-my high school BFF Lindsey Hoskins Johnson (love ya girl!)

I'm sure I'm forgetting someone but hope ya'll have as great of a B-day as we had!

My cute grandma made it for dinner and cake!

Lydia getting every last bite of the cake!

YEAH...we actually got a picture with Lydia smiling, I really think it is the first ever!

My cute brother Tyler...we were glad he could grace us with his cool college presence (ha ha ha!) Thanks Ty for adding to Lydia's rock collection!

My studly brother Derek, who gave Chris and I some really thoughtful gifts...he was always good at that sort of thing.

P.S. Thanks mom and dad for the gifts as well, and Congrats to Dad for completing the LOTOJA...we forgive you for falling alseep, I would've been dead in the grave if I had ridden my bike for 12 hours, you are amazing!

Remembrance Field!

Sandy City put out an American Flag for every life lost due to the 9/11 attacks. It is such an amazingly humbling thing to look down and the the endless rows of flags. It really make you think we can not forget!