Fun with the Family in Town!!

We always have such a great time with mom and coley here with us... !!!
my dad left early saturday morning... we got up to tell him bye and then went back to sleep for a few hours!!... brian made a great breakfast, it was like have dennys in our kitchen... he got a new griddle friday when shopping, we couldn't resist it was a great deal!!... so he made pancakes, bacon , eggs, hashbrowns.. ooooo it was good!!... man im hungry again... lol.
Brian worked all day in the yard finishing up lil things here and there, runnin to walmart to get more lights... lol.
My computer had finally came to that point of crashing, so mom and coley took everything off of it and restored it back to factory... ugh.. what a pain in the butt. So if you were all wondering why i was MIA for awhile, its cuz i've been workin on gettin everything back on my computer!!... which i haven't come close to doing yet!!... but it sure is nice to have a working computer again!!>.. I was ready to throw this thing out my front door, but i didn't thanks to mom and coley.. so now its working great!!...

Even Taylor was frustrated with the computer!!!.. I let her watch Elmo on there, and play on the disney fairies website too.


So grandma let her play on her computer, and so did aunt coley... what taylors spoiled?? no way!!.. lol.


I was sad to see mom and coley go on sunday.. it just went so fast i wasn't ready for them to leave yet!! =(

BLACK FRIDAY!!!

You know when you have the best husband in the world, when he will tackle crazed shoppers on Black Friday!!... Mom and Coley decided to stay behind and watch taylor, i guess they weren't feelin the shopping in them. And my dad just hung out around town, and the house... So Brian and I got up super early in the morning.. bout 5am or so... we weren't too crazy bout 4am... We threw ourselves together, and headed out the door, it was freazin ass cold out there, thats for sure. So our first stop was Walmart!!.. We did a number there... we got lots of xmas gifts for taylor, and xmas decorations for our house. we were on a mission that day to get a tree and decorations for the inside and the outside of our house!!>.. our first xmas at home!!.. we never did a thing to our apartment in Va cuz we went to idaho for like the whole month... so this year was different. lol. We got all sorts of things... We got a killer deal on our Christmas tree, we bought stockings, ornaments, a skirt, lights...and so on and so on.

We swung in at Starbucks to get coffee for our 70 some mile trip to tricities for shoppings... good thing it was worth it!!.. We were goin to go shoppin at kohls... lol. we went inside straight back to the xmas stuff.. and I thought there was something goin on in the back of a store like a drawing or something, cuz it was packed in that lil area, until brian went to go ask someone about a certain thing, and came back and told me that was the check out line... OMFG. are you kidding me... the line went from the front of the store wrapped around to the back... I was all screw this... I don't want this stuff that bad!! good lord, by the time we got through that line, we would have missed all the sales...so moving on.

Toys r us was next on the list, we got some great stuff there for taylor for xmas!!>.. it wasn't as packed as you would expect, but the store was completely trashed stuff all over the floor, they were completely out of ps3's and had only one Wii left... complete madness... lol. when we were done there, we decided against the mall.. it was a freakin circus, i was afraid of the inside... so we were sittin in this really long line of traffic to get out of the mall... OMG... insane... and brian spots this dirt ramp up to the street... hey we are in a chevy tahoe... so he said he was goin out that way... he got out of sitting traffic... from the parkinglot... hopped the curb... (this is great)... we went 4 wheel driving through dirt..and rocks.. hahahaha.. im laughin my ass off.... and we high tale it up this some what steep dirt ramp hop another curb and get out on the main street... needless to stay we only sat in traffic for about 5 min... thats it... so worth it!!>.. so we moved on to other stores... brian was totally stoked when we were done, cuz he had gotten dear for our front yard, and 2 blow up things, along with winnie the pooh stakes that lit up in the ground... (he's a softy) he got them for taybugz... we got home, the girls did the tree,
This is our 1st tree... i love it.. i think it went together really well!!!...
Taylor is our Vanna White, modeling the tree!!...

But she is so dang cute, that she is stealing the show!!!... lol.

and my dad and brian went and worked outside in the yard... he was so happy.. and anxious!!... the dear are awesome, they are probably my fave... and one of the blow ups we got is a santa , and the other one is a snowman!!...

This is our house!!.. all decked out and festive.

santa!!!
the dear are my favorite!!, they are so cool.. they move!!! woohoo!!

Taylors winnie the pooh decorations that daddy bought for her...

Brian did a really good job!!... kudos to him!

We had so much fun shopping... but we were broke, and tired, and went home... unloaded the car in about 6 trips, showed off taylor xmas gifts while she was nappin, and now they are hiding..lol.

we had a very successful trip shopping... we got everything we needed for our tree and indoor and outside decor, and we made a huge dent in our xmas shopping!!!!.... It was nice for Brian and I to have the day to ourselves, we dont get that like EVER!!... so we really enjoyed that, i don't think we could have gotten through everything with taylor, she would have been so sick of shopping... course it doesn't help that we live 70 plus miles away from all the stores!!!>...

Great Friday!!... Plus it was coleys birthday!!... We stayed up all night, played card games, and enjoyed a few festive drinks... we had a blast, we laughed so hard, surprised we didn't wake up my dad!!..


Here is our tree all lit up!!... very pretty. good job girls!!!.. and brian of course... he helped in the end when he was done outside!!!!! Can't wait to start puttin presents under the tree!!!... woohoo!

Happy Turkey Day!!

Mom and coley got here on wednesday,they came the day before Turkey day so that they wouldn't have to tackle the madness of traffic on turkey day, plus my mom also needed to cook her ham and make her famous gravy for yummy mashed potatoes...
So that night, brian made his famous chicken fetticuine alfredo...mmmmm i love that stuff, he is so awesome in the kitchen. I had been handmaking pies all day long.



My first pie i have every made was moms blackberry raspberry pie... i even made the crust,


it turned out awesome, i had so much fun makin it, that i moved on to the other two pies i needed to bake. I made coley a two layer chocolate silk pie, which was probably my favorite, her and taylor ate that one all gone..lol.


And then I made a caramel pumpkin pie for Brian and I, since we are the only ones out of the family who likes pumpkin... more for us!!!...

(I didn't decorate this one until we ate it... we had no more room in the fridge. lol. but we decorated it with whipped cream and caramel of course!!... yum!)


my pies turned out great! I was really proud of myself, considering i had never made pies completely from scratch before. And of course i had Taylors help!!.. lol.







Then she helped mom and coley make rice crispy treats.. which were also very yummy!!... We just enjoyed our company that night, played some games, stayed up late, you know the usual. lol.

Taybugz lickin the spoons clean!!.. that was her only job those few days!!>..lol
Here Grandma, have some!!...

Happy turkey Day!!.. we cooked all day in the kitchen, and my dad was makin the trip that day to come to our house for turkey day!!>.. you know you make a good turkey, when a vegatarian tells you your turkey looks good. lol. I thought I would never hear those words come from my dads mouth EVER!!!... Compliments to Brian... He made the best turkey in the world, seriously this turkey would knock your socks off.. it was so yummy so moist... mmmmmm... it was great. And my mom never eats the white meat cuz she says its too dry, but she ate the white meat from brians turkey, she was amazed at how perfect his turkey was. I had faith in him the entire time. I wasn't worried not even for a second!...

isn't this delicious!!!!


he also made his yummy mashed potatoes, which went perfect with moms famous gravy...

Coley stirring the gravy!!!

turkey dinner was amazing, and now im craving it just reliving it all over again. I actually think my mouth is starting to water!!!... lol. the sad part is Im not even joking... lol. anyways. we had a great feast.. i could eat the leftovers day after day after day... mmmmm....

Taylor diggin in to her turkey dinner!!!!


Everyone stuffed their bellys full, we worked as a team in the kitchen to put everything away and clean up, we were done in no time. we sat down to enjoy some jeff dunham... he's helliarious...











i think just about everyone fell asleep from their full bellys.. my dad stayed a couple nights, and mom and coley stayed until monday!!... Since we had the family together we did Birthdays... Coleys birthday is nov 28th, and mine is only a few days after hers.. dec, 1. We had great birthdays, we got great gifts. My wonderful hubby and daughter got me a pink ipod, im in love with it!!... never had one before, its great... i told everyone ipod accessories for xmas please!!!>.. lol. cuz i was so excited!!.. lol. needless to say i've been downloading music like crazy for it!!... lol.

so we ended the night with our birthdays and some delicous pie!!!... perfect end to the night!!... taylor loved her piece of pie, she ate every little crumb of it!!... lol.


There she is again lickin the whipped cream spoon clean.. after decorating pies to eat...

Coley givin her a boost..lol

So now that we had all the sale papers, and were able to plan our black friday shopping day!!... it was time for bed, cuz we were gettin up early =) happy shopping!!!...

Taylor scopin out the sales, and makin her chrismtas list.

Beaverton, OR here we come!!

Now i know what ya'll are thinkin. Why did they go all the way to Beaverton, OR... well your probably goin to laugh!!... We found taylor a Big girl bed complete with a set, and boxspring and mattress. It was definitely worth the trip there to get it. It is so dang cute. Its purple and white with flowers on each part of the white. Super cute. She got a really nice twin mattress, i almost think its nicer than ours!!! lol. Spoiled lil girl. Well she hasn't been sleepin in her crib.. she had been refusing, so we figured it was time to take down the baby crib!!! =( I seriously wanted to cry... it was heart breaking. Taylor helped daddy and I to put her bed together, she was so anxious that she wanted to get on the bed before we were even done!!.. She loves it!.. I can't believe my lil Taybugz has a big girl bed!! sniffle....sniffle....sniffle.
She loves it. She hasn't slept in it yet, we need to get her a bedding set, and pillow.... =)
This is all part of her Christmas!!... its just something that she needed NOW!!!...
but i love it, Brian loves it, and most importantly Bugz loves it!!...
Once we get the bedding , i will take pictures of it, so you can see it.. cuz its to perfect for her room. The purple goes really well with her dollhouse bookshelf, and the rest of her room. I promise to put pictures up as soon as her room is done. We are transfering from Baby to Big girl!! Im excited, but very sad at the same time!!>. she is just growin up way to fast!... Im very proud of her though, she has been really good, and very helpful... she really does like to help clean, and put things together!!.. its great!!..
we love her to pieces!!...
oh by the way, in an earlier post i had put how much i didn't like portland, well apparently we were on the wrong side of it.. cuz driving to beaverton, it was beautiful, the water the mountains, the falls that i got to see for the first time in my life, i wish i could have gotten pictures but we were goin by just to fast. Goin through downtown portland, was so cool, all the buildings and the highways that overlap eachother, and its very curvy, but it was great.... beaverton was pretty!!.. all i can say is lucky ducks!!... And then of course it took us over 4 hours to get there, and over 4 hours to get back home!!... so it was night time by the time we left beaverton... and portland night life is very pretty!!...
it was a really long day. on our way to beaverton, we stopped at a burger place called burgerville, they have the best burgers ever, taylor loved the sweet potato french fries... it was a nice break. On the way back home, we had to set up the dvd player so she could watch tinkerbell.. cuz she was itchin to get out.. but she did great. she was really good, and really excited when she got home!!...
being in a car all day we decided to order dinner to go at dennys, which is literally minutes away from our house. just around the curve. taylor had two helpings of pancakes, and 2 helpings of fruit. she was a hungry girl. lately she hadn't been eatin very much, cuz of her belly aches... but clearly she was feelin better last night, she scarfed down her food.
needless to say she deserved everything she got yesterday!!!
pictures comin soon!!!

Thanksgiving Shopping!!

Its official who is comin and who isn't to our Thanksgiving. So far the weather seems to be on our side, so that is really exciting. Brian and I sat down and made our thanksgiving menu, found a few recipes for things to make!! Im so excited this year. I mean don't get me wrong, i love thanksgiving no matter what all the yummy food and what not.. Last year we were unable to go home for turkey day when we lived in VA.. Brian just didn't have the time off. so we spent it as the 3 of us, we did a good job, Brian made an amazing turkey, the ham was yummy... it was just alot for just the 2 of us that were eating it, and so we never made any homemade pies... or anything.

This year is a different story. We have our house, and we are only bout 3 hours away from Idaho... And my family is actually comin here for turkey day!!... So its on us this year!!... Brian is stoked, and Im very excited. I found some really yummy recipes.. pies are in my hands this year. I've never made a homemade pie before, i never really got the opportunity, but im totally stoked to do it this time. Im makin my mom and dad a very berry pie, with a mix of blackberries and raspberries. And Coley gets the famous two layer silk pie, and Brian and I.... a delicious caramel crunch pumpkin pie!!!....
We went shopping for everything we will need for the holiday, and it was actually really exciting, Taylor was so good, and it didn't do to much damage to the pocket book either!!!...lol.

Mom and coley are comin up the day before, so that will be great to get to sit and visit for awhile, and then we will be cookin all day Thursday!!... Brian is makin scones and mocha lattes ( the best with his cappuccino machine).... in the morning... You know add a lil baileys, and we can be drunk by 9 am. totally kidding. But we are gettin some baileys, Kahlua, and we already got some boonesfarm!!...Anyways, mom and coley are stayin until Sunday... Which will be great, cuz we are goin to drag them Christmas decoration shoppin the day after... Good ol Friday!!... its goin to be a mad house... but since we didn't do Christmas in VA last year, we got nothin... lol. just the few things i always pick up after Christmas every year... So we need a tree, and stockings, and lawn furniture. lol. Brian wants light up reindeer for our front yard... even though sometimes we have real ones!!...

Not kidding, Brian was comin home one night, and he say a deer just standin in the drive way, when she say the headlights, she took off across the front yard!!... how cool is that!!...
Anyways, not to get off subject... but my dad will be comin up early Thursday and probably will leave on Friday!!...
We plan on gettin some Jeff Dunham DVDs to sit down and watch while all our food digest in our belly... they are hilarious, if you haven't seen them before, you should, cuz they are great!!....
And thats about all that has been goin on over here. Just gettin ready for the family!!...
Can't wait! I hope everyone out there has the best turkey day ever!!.. As i know we will be =)
xoxo

Weekend Cover Story:

These two are so dang cute together. She loves her daddy, and you can definitely tell.


Today has been my first chance to sit down and catch up on the week and the weekend. Taylor is doin great, she took all her medicine, and we haven't seen the hives since. so that is a huge relief. I heard back on her bed that we were lookin to get her, and all we have to do is plan the trip to go get it. So that is very exciting for all of us. Her big girl bed is an early Christmas Gift. so when we get that all set up I will take pictures for all ya all to see. Its goin to be super cute! I can't wait. Im transforming her room from Nursery to Big Girl... I can't believe my baby isnt a baby anymore... sniffle* ...well i guess its time for another one. hahahaha.

Anyways... Taylor got her WALL-E movie yesterday...


she held it through the entire store, and came home and continued to hold it, she showed it to daddy when he got home, and tried to give it to him to put in the dvd player, unfortunately it was alittle late, and if we put that movie in, then Taylor would have never fallen asleep. So we haven't watched it yet. Right now Taybugz is watchin TinkerBell... AGAIN!!!!.... she loves that movie.

Over the course of the week, i cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and did laundry... because we were goin to be havin company over the weekend... Alicia and the boys were comin.
Alicia and the boys.... and the baby on the way??? boy or girl ?? we'll soon find out!


I couldn't wait, we were so excited to have them comin out here to see us. It was so dang cold though we didn't really do much ...but visit and catch up, which i love, except every time we get Alicia and I together all we can talk about is food i swear, and i could feel myself gettin fatter by the minute. lol. They arrived late in the evening, we were still able to visit, I tried to wait for Brian to get home so we could eat dinner together, but he was runnin extra late... so Alicia the awesome house guest she is helped me throw something together... Neither one of us really had the money to go out shopping, and it's to dang cold to check out the shops down town. Something we will have to do in the spring!! We went out to dinner to a home cookin lil restaurant downtown called Miss Patti's... none of us had been there, so we didn't know what to expect. Well i will tell you this, they are not use to new customers, you could tell they were use to only regulars, so we really didn't have great service, and the waitress seemed so nervous, that when she took Alicia's green beans back, she spilt them on Taylor, luckily they didn't seem hot enough to burn her... and the food was ok.. the mashed potatoes were really good... and Alicia and Brian said the chicken fried steak was really good too...and they did have a really good salad bar.... but judging on our experience there i probably won't be goin back there any time soon. Such a bummer it had to be like that with Alicia and the boys here... but i think when we got home, and made banana splits, i think that had to make up for it. We missed Bubba's birthday so i promised him banana splits for his birthday celebration... they were delicious!!...
Happy Be-lated Birthday Bubba!!...

It was great for Alicia and i to just talk and catch up and can't even remember the last time we did that.. she is about 4 months preggers, and you would never know, course the 2nd day they were here i think she grew over night... she has a cute lil baby bump. i can't wait to find out what she is havin... she will call me on Thanksgiving to deliver the news!! And im countin on that call Alicia Smith!!... =) Taylor had the boys to play with... all she seemed to want to do is hug and kiss them lol. when they first got here, she chased bubba around the house with her lips...lol. she thought that was pretty funny... and her and Ashton were so cute huggin up on each other...lol. i thought i was goin to have to separate them. lol.

See she didn't want to let go of him... lol. awwwwww


OMG Taylor and Alicia's boots... once she discovered they were there, she didn't want to get out of them. My baby has gone country!!... must be the new style, boots and diapers!!

They all had lots of fun.. Taylor has a ton of toys, and Alicia can verify that im not exaggerating. she had toys from VA and toys from ID, and when we combined them... OMG... we have toys comin out of our ears!!...lol. So the boys were in toy heaven..
Ashton... one of taybugz boyfriends


they had a lil bit of everything out at once.. . which really made it look like she had a ton of toys... I hope everyone had fun. i know that Taylor did. she cried when they left.. she didn't want them to leave...
I need to make some friends for Taylor and I around here, but im just not sure how to go about that. Its not like Taylor goes to school where she make friends and i can meet moms. I thought about checkin into mommy and me classes, or a dance class or something for her... where we can both meet people. I just know how it was for us in VA... and it was extremely lonely... and unhealthy for the both of us, and now with her at an older age, i don't want to put her in that situation again.. so if anyone has any ideas.. let me know... I go to walmart often enough you would think i would meet someone... but our walmart is mostly empty of people inside... its great...lol.

So its always great to have company out here!!... And i was totally stoked to hear that Alicia and the boys were comin.. I just hope they had enough fun for them to want to come back again. hopefully when the weather warms up... we can go out and about more, and not eat at miss Patti's. lol. Im thinkin Chinese food...mmmm.

She likes to pose!! she is posing for Alicia's Camera!!

It was sad to see them go on sunday... the time just flew, and i wish we had more time with them.. but it won't be long and we will be back in Idaho in December!

(Thank you Alicia for comin out here to visit us, and thanks for bringing the boys to play with Taylor. We had lots of fun, and i hope we can do it again soon!!... Lov ya guys. hope you had fun!)

Next week...
We will be hosting Our very first Thanksgiving, and my family will be comin here for. Im totally excited and i can't wait.. I've been rummaging through tons of recipes... so i think i have an idea of the menu... i do know that im handmakin the pies this year, and im really excited to do that!!...Brian will be makin our delicious turkey, he got an electric roaster to do that. We just have big plans for that day. Mom and coley are comin up the day before... so that will be fun.
Coley's birthday is the day after, and i can't believe my sister will be 20... it just seems like she should be 16 or 18 forever. lol. And then a couple of days later is my birthday... and i can't believe im goin to be 24... OH my.... we just keep creepin up to 30... yikes-a-be. So i guess you would say its more of a Thanksgiving/Birthday Dinner!!.... i guess i better get a gazillion candles... lol. Im just very excited, and then before you know it, it will be Christmas, and then the new year of 2009!!... my how time flys.



Taylor and Daddy !!!

Bugz playin on the Tinkerbell Website!! she loves it....imagine that! Im Thankful for these two !!!!