FuN Times

Christmas is my favorite holiday and we had a great time.

This was one of the highlight's of Kason's morning. Santa gave him a little motorized 4 wheeler.

Another fun thing - Cars!

It has been a very snowy couple of weeks! We took advantage of the snow and went out and played one day. It was pretty cold! Kason liked the snow and playing in it. He was a bit hesitant of how cold it was at first, but he is getting more used to it. We are getting a little worried about the snow and roads on the way home again though!

We look a little weird

My sisters getting pulled on sleds behind the truck.

Isaac and Kason getting a turn. Kason actually liked it.

We are having fun and enjoying the relaxing time and being together. I am not ready for Isaac to start school up again! But, we get our ultrasound the day after we get home to finally see what we are having! We had to delay it until now since we have been gone.

Snow!

We are in Utah and Isaac is out of school! We had quite the time getting here with lots of snow. They closed a pass and we thought we were going to have to spend the night, but they opened it back up and we went through. They closed it back up a couple minutes after we went through because of so many accidents. We went about 20 mph through the whole pass. I think the saddest thing I saw was a truck flipped over and people handing little girls out of the truck window to get out. But, we made it just fine and we are happy to be here! We have had a fun and relaxing time. It has been snowing, snowing and snowing some more. I don't mind it at this time of year though, I love a white Christmas. Kason is loving the constant attention!

Plowing the driveway

At my sister Jenna's basketball game. Kason is seriously obsessed with basketball
Ready for church

Playing with my cousins' kids. Kason loves to play with other kids, even if they are 3 times his age.

GRahaM CRaCKeR HouSE

Today at playgroup we made a graham cracker house. Kason was more interested in eating the candy than putting it on the house, but we got a little bit on there! Here is the sequence of pictures I went through to get him to do a normal smile. It seems like it is either a cheese or a somber face for the camera lately. 1 1/2 more days and counting until Isaac is done with finals and we are heading to Utah!!

Things We Love

I am a little bit behind! But, right now alot of things are happening that we love so I need to catch up.

About a week ago I went to see the Twilight movie with a bunch of friends. And while it was not as good as the book, I still liked it and it was alot of fun to be able to go

Stephanie, Marci, Callie, Trista, me

Kason LOVES baths. I ask him if he wants to take a bath and he gets really excited and says, "bath, bath" and runs into the bathroom.

We loved Thanksgiving! This was the first time we did it on our own. We were sad to not be able to be with family, but it was great to do things on our own for the first time too. I had never stuffed and made my own turkey before, but everything turned out so good and alot better than I expected for my first time! The menu: turkey, stuffing, gravy, green been casserole, candied yams, mashed potatoes, and rolls, with pumpkin and sour cream apple pies later. We got together with a bunch of families for the pie. It was great to have Isaac home for a day. He was back to school the day after Thanksgiving and now I just keep telling myself, "2 more weeks, 2 more weeks". Here is our attempt at a family picture.

We also set up our Christmas decorations. I love Christmas!! I love the smells, the sounds, the lights, the feeling... Kason was very excited about the lights and the tree (even though it is a little one it's better than nothing). I am sooo excited for Christmas, because: 1. Isaac won't be in school, 2. We will be home and hopefully it will be snowing, and 3. Kason will get what's going on more this year.

This is a picture of Kason last year at Christmas. He was just barely starting to crawl. Wow.

This is him now! What a difference a year makes! He can say "Jesus" and for Santa he says "Ho, ho, ho". We love this time of year!

Daddy's Shirt

This is Isaac's shirt that he wore when he was little. His Grandpa Smith got it in Hawaii and gave it to him. It is a cute little shirt and I thought it was neat that Isaac used to wear it when he was little.

And since I blog a little more often than I write in my journal and because I am planning on someday printing this or making it into a book, I want to remember some of the little things Kason is doing as he is growing up.

-Right now he loves football (he still loves basketball too) When he says football it sounds like "buttball"

- His hair is getting so much thicker! I cut it all a couple days ago. He just seems like a little boy now.

-When we eat dinner he gets this big smile, raises his cup above his head and says, "Cheers" and calls "Dada" to hit each others cups and then "mama" to hit cups.

-Isaac has taught him and he loves to give five, then pow, then a bzzz. This is where he will go to Isaac and give him five and then have to do it to me. Then he will give us each a pow (fist). Then he will do a bzzz (pointer fingers touching and "shocking" each other). He loves this!

-Also, although there are some things I don't like about Oregon and even though it did rain pretty much all day every day last week, this week has been a different story. It has been beautiful! It does not feel like the middle of November to me.

Finally!

I am finally doing Megan's tag. Each answer is supposed to only be one word.
1. Where is your cell phone? counter
2. Where is your significant other? school
3. Your hair color? brown
4. Your mother? work
5. Your father? work
6. Your favorite thing? happiness
7. Your dream last night? scary
8. Your dream/goal? eternity
9. The room you're in? living
10. Your hobby? homemaking
11. Your fear? death
12. Where do you want to be in six years? Home (meaning in a house and Isaac DONE with school)
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? decided (about where to live right now...long story)
15. One of your wish list items? washer/dryer (IN the house/apartment)
16. Where you grew up? Utah
17. The last thing you did? visit (a friend)
18. What are you wearing? sweatshirt
19. Your TV? liked
20. Your pet? nope
21. Your computer? blessing
22. Your mood? stressed
23. Missing someone? Isaac
24. Your car? civic
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? Walmart (sad, but probably true)
27. Your summer? fun
28. Love someone? Isaac
29. Favorite color? green
30. Last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? yesterday
I tag: Dulcie, Katie M., and whoever else that hasn't done it

Halloween and Applesauce

I have been wanting to post for quite a few days now, but just haven't gotten to it. So this morning, amidst the dirty dishes and still in our pajamas, I am doing it! Better late than never!

First of all, this is Kason's new crib! Isaac's dad has made a crib for all of us when we have our first kid. We are excited to have it and really like it. And Kason didn't have any problems adjusting to it. So, for those of you who have wanted to see it, here it is!

For Halloween Kason was a fireman. I was pretty happy with how his costume turned out for just going to Goodwill and getting the hat for $0.99 and the jacket for $2 and some yellow duct tape. He had a good time at our ward trunk r treat and on Halloween night we went trick or treating around the mall with some friends. Kason got the hang of putting out his bucket to get the candy. I don't give him that much candy, but I am eating way too much of it! He loved his costume and would say imaman (fireman) and do the siren noise.

And last of all, Kason has a new word - "applesauce". I give him applesauce alot for a snack or before bed and one day, he just came up to me and was saying it pulling me to the fridge. It is just such a big word for him and he says it so well; 3 syllables- pretty amazing. :) Maybe it is because we are his parents, but we just think this is pretty funny and pretty dang cute. We try to get him to say it all the time.

BIG Brother!!

We are all doing great and having alot of new and interesting experiences with where we live. Isaac is keeping very busy with school, but if he is home we are very happy!

I was trying to do something different with his hair this day, it didn't really work.

Kason loves books! He has some of his own and we go to the library and get about 15 new ones every few weeks.

Multiple times a day he will pull them all off the shelf and look at them all and come tell me what he sees. He loves it and I love it!

He will be a great big brother! Yes, we are having another BaBy! We are excited. The due date is May 12. So that makes me almost 11 weeks along, or I like to say a little over 2 1/2 months. Although I am pretty much scared to death of being pregnant and having the baby while Isaac is in this first year of grad school and gone all the time, we are definitely super excited. I am also excited to feel better, which will hopefully happen soon. This pregnancy, so far, has seemed a little different than with Kason and that makes me wonder if it is a girl. I don't want to speculate yet, but I can't help wondering. And I definitely wasn't showing at this time with Kason! The doctor is doing an ultrasound at the next visit and I am hoping there aren't two babies in there! We are excited and wanted to share the good news!

DaNCinG and the oFFicE

Kason has really been liking this little video we have lately about animals and singing. It's pretty much the only thing he will watch. He has started doing his own kind of dancing. He usually bends his legs up and down alot and tries to jump. The day I recorded this, though, he was doing more running/dancing. He turned 19 months old a couple days ago and is growing up so fast and talking so much! He is always making us laugh in the little things he says and does.

Also, Isaac officially started all of his classes and teaching assignments this week. eek! He is teaching 3 classes. I think it is going to be pretty intense! He has an office he shares with another guy. So here is a picture of his home away from home.

NoThinG MucH

It has been a little while. We have been keeping busy and enjoying Isaac being around before all his classes start. He has a math final this week and then all of his classes start on Monday. There are so many fun parks here. This is a really fun one called Skinner Butte Park (thanks Callie). It made Isaac and me wish we were kids! They had tons of different kinds of playground epuipment, water stuff, and this castle looking set up. Kason loved it.
We also went to a parade a little while ago. It was a fun parade. The little paragraph about it says it shows the diversity of Eugene. So, here we have the nudist colony.
And here is this guy, in a belly dancer- genie outfit. The theme was "I Dream of Eugenie" He was right behind the lesbian choir group.
And yesterday Isaac tried to be a Duck fan at the Oregon, BSU football game. He got all decked out in green and yellow. Kason happens to have a green and yellow shirt so he wore that. (although Kason and I didn't go-the student section is a little too crazy) Unfortunately, Oregon didn't have such a great game.
We are doing good. It amazes me everyday how smart Kason is and how much he is growing up!

Motorcycles, Cars and Basketball

We decided to take a great deal and buy Isaac a motorbike. He has been looking for and wanting one for a long time. Since we are in the process of selling a car we are planning on the motorcycle being very helpful since it gets great gas mileage and Isaac will be able to drive to school and back and find parking easily. Kason and Isaac both love it, and I even tried it out in a parking lot one night.

Kason wearing the helmet, or hat as he likes to call it.

We also got this car for $3. Kason loves it and is always crawling into it on the patio.

Kason Loves BasKeTbaLL. Sometimes, when we go to parks (and there are TONS of them here) he will skip the slide and the climbing stuff and make a bee line for the basketball hoops saying ball, ball. So, for $2 (I love garage sales!) we got this hoop for him. He is very excited about it and plays it ALL day. He learned to say "batketbawl" within an hour of getting it.

Kason was 18 months this past week so we took him to nursery today. Hallelujah!!! They actually asked me to be in there and help today, so I didn't leave him. That will be next week and I think he will be just fine and not even care that I am gone. Isaac starts school on Wednesday. We are excited, but nervous about how it will be!

Anniversary

Today is our 3rd Anniversary!!! I am so grateful to have spent 3 years with Isaac and am glad there are so many more to come! I can't imagine life any other way. I love you Isaac!

Tagged

Brittney tagged me for 6 un-spectacular quirks

1. Every night, without fail, I check the sheets as I climb into bed to make sure there are no spiders in them. This is because one time while sleeping in a sleeping bag a spider crawled up and down my leg multiple times before I realized what it was.

2. I am not the biggest fan of animated movies. This sometimes makes Isaac and Kason sad.

3. I like to pick up the house before I go to bed for the night. (although this doesn't always happen)

4. I think I stress out really easily

5. I have a hard time making decisions. Whenever I have one that is really hard for me to make I write out the pros and cons for each, but they always turn out equal.

6. I prefer back massages to back scratches

I tag:

1. Megan

2.Katie

3. Liz

4. Sarah

5. Elly

We Are HERE!

Well we have made the big move to Oregon! We did the drive in two days. Isaac's family helped us move and we definitely owe them a big thank you! I feel really far away though!We are all unpacked and have hung pictures and are just trying to get settled. I am glad the unpacking part is over, I am not a fan of packing or unpacking! We like our apartment, although it is very small. But, we managed to fit for the time being. We live right by a big playground so that will be really nice for Kason. He already cries at the door to go outside to it. And my favorite thing is that we have a big (for an apartment) fenced in patio out our back door. And I am very happy to say that it has not rained a drop since we have been here. In fact, it has been very sunny and nice. Yay!

I have never lived in a city this big and that is going to take some getting used to. There are tons of trees here. And while it is very pretty, sometimes I just want them to be pushed down so I can SEE. There are also alot of one way roads. I don't get them at all. What is the advantage of one way streets?! They just seem to add confusion and stress to driving!

We went to the campus and looked around. We didn't realize what we had at BYU-I!! Just the atmosphere and the way it is kept up is really good there. It seems a little older here. But, we got to see where Isaac will have his office and classrooms.

So we are starting to adjust. It kinda seems like we have just been on vacation here, it doesn't feel like home.

We got to go do some fun things while Isaac's family was here. They have beautiful parks with tons of trees and it is just green everywhere. We also went to the coast. I have decided to call it the coast instead of the beach, it is just more fitting. The water was a little chilly and it got foggy while we were there, but it was nice and fun. It was cool to see the ocean and then the forest right next to each other. It is its own kind of beautiful. Although, I miss the warm brown mountains. Here are some pictures:

At the coast

The forest and the ocean

A famous lighthouse we hiked to

Tagged

I have never been tagged before so here goes, I can never think of these kinds of things when I need t
4 Things You May Not Know About Me:
1. I love to watch football
2. I don't like having to talk in front of a big group of people
3. I reallylike having a clean house and being organized, though neither of these always happen
4. I like to write lists

4 Places I Go Over And Over:
1. Wal-Mart
2. Grandma's right now

3. To the 4 wheelers
4. Outside

4 People That E-Mail Me:
1. Mom
2. Stephanie
3. Dad
4. That's about it, I don't email that much. It's mostly on the phone, blogging, and web cam

4 Of My Favorite Foods:
1. Burritos!
2. Strawberries

3. Ice cream
4. cookies

4 Places I'd Love To Be:
1. Mapleton/Provo Utah
2. Bear Lake does sound good
3. Montana
4. I agree Megan, Hawaii would be nice.

4 Movies I Watch Over And Over:
1. Pirates of the Carribbean
2. Phantom of the Opera
3. I guess I don't watch that many movies but I really like the TV shows:
4. Fear Factor, What Not to Wear, and definitely Survivor

JOYS

1. Getting into bed for the first time after you just washed the sheets
2. Laughing and seeing other people laugh
3. Playing games

4. Being with Isaac and Kason

FEARS

1. Tornado's

2. Spiders

3. Losing someone I love

4. Sometimes I think I am afraid of the unknown

GOALS

1. To be a good wife and mom

2. To teach my kid(s) well

3. To get in shape

4. To be closer to the spirit

CURRENT OBSESSIONS

1. 24

2. Twilight

3. Lately I have been working on finishing up alot of craft projects that I am making for our new apartment

4. Blogging I guess!

SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT ME

1. I did gymnastics for years into high school and I still love it

2. I was homeschooled/private schooled

3. I don't like to drink the milk i n my cereal bowl after the cereal is gone

4. I don't like touching eyes and I can't touch my own. I could never wear contacts!

4 people I tag

1. Dulcie

2. Anyone else who hasn't done it!

And here are just a few pictures I wanted to post of our night in the mountains. Kason said, "hot hot" all night long to the fire. It was really pretty up there.