Good News

Well, I haven't been blogging like I wanted to but hopefully that will change now. Our computer has been really slow and just to post a blog took hours. We were having some other problems with it as well so we went out on Andy's last day off and bought a new computer. It is super fast and we're both happy to have it. So with that, I can now blog in just a few minutes.

It's been a pretty crazy month for us. Andy is doing another month in the ER, which he enjoys, but he is working crazy schedules with lots of weekends and nights working so I feel like we haven't seen him very much at all. Fortunately, today is his last day on this rotation and we get him for the whole weekend. On Monday he starts doing a Trauma rotation, which probably won't have a great schedule either, but we'll see.

Eden is growing up so fast and moved into her "big girl bed" at the beginning of the year. Her crib converts into a toddler bed and she is so proud of it. She has a new pillowcase with the Disney Princesses on it (her choice) and she loves being able to get in and out of bed by herself. She is big into painting and coloring and cooking in her kitchen (and my kitchen). She got some 'dress ups' for Christmas and loves to walk around wearing them with various hats. She talks my ear off and is really funny sometimes. I'll add some Eden-isms in this post. The list on the side isn't working out the way I wanted it to. Here are a few fun pictures from the month.

Eden climbed up on her little red table to read John Grisham while I made breakfast one morning.

Eden loves to snuggle with the cat (and Bea and Ernie of course).

Eden wearing a dress up skirt and my slippers. Silly girl!


Eden with one of her latest masterpieces. I think this one is a study in lines.

Eden's ducky slippers. Thanks Jeffi and co.

Happy New Year!

Well, I didn't get to blogging in December like I thought I would. It was an extremely busy month and we have a very slow computer. Two things that don't go together. Hopefully January will be slower and we can get some more blogging done.

Andy is on the activities committee for our ward and so he helped out with planning our ward Christmas party and made sure Santa was there safe. It went really well and Eden even told us she would sit on Santa's lap and tell him what she wanted for Christmas. We really hyped Santa up so she would be excited for this. Once we got up to see Santa, Eden did not want anything to do with him and she cried when I tried to put her on his lap. Fortunately, Santa already knew what she wanted because he had been told many times at our house already.

Andy got the week of Christmas off, which was really nice, so we decided to go to Utah for a week and be with our families. The driving was long and we still don't have anything good to say about Wyoming but it was nice to have a little vacation. Eden got the "Thomas Train Set" she's been asking for, as well as a tricycle she is learning to pedal on the concrete floor of our basement.

We had a great Christmas and hope all of you did too. Now we're ready for 2009!

Happy December

I realize it's been a month since my last post. Sorry about that. There wasn't a whole lot to blog about for most of the month of November. Not that I only blog when I have something interesting to say...
We had a great Thanksgiving. My parents came out to visit us and it was a lot of fun. Eden was sad to see Grammy and Grumpy (and Prince) go. She told me she wanted to go with them. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the week, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
I'm having trouble getting pictures and videos to upload today so you'll have to be content with my promise to post things when I get a chance. Just wanted to let you all know we're still alive. I'll try to be better about blogging this month. At least until we go to Utah on the 19th....

A couple tags

I have a couple different tags I've been meaning to do lately and haven't gotten around to so I thought I would take care of both on them on one post today.

Eight T.V. Shows I Love to Watch:
1. The Office
2. That's really the only show I make time to watch.
3. I don't really have anything else I love to watch on tv.
4. Sometimes we watch America's Funniest Home Videos. Eden calls it the 'Silly Show'
5. Oh, I do like to watch reruns of the Cosby Show. And Friends
6. I usually watch 'Max and Ruby' with Eden, although I wouldn't say I love it.
7. I sometimes watch football and basketball with Andy, although I wouldn't say I love it either.
8. I just remembered, I love to watch General Conference.

Eight Favorite Places to Eat:
1. My parent's house/Andy's parent's house
2. Olive Garden
3. Newman's Pasta
4. Morelia
5. Sweet Tomatoes
6. Cold Stone
7. Disneyland :)
8. Anywhere I don't have to cook!

Eight Things that Happened Yesterday:
1. I went to the library
2. I drank some yummy hot chocolate
3. I made yummy pasta for dinner with Andy's favorite biscuits
4. I started a new book
5. I got to wake up to my Eden alarm clock which goes off later than my regular alarm clock
6. Andy and I read trivia questions to each other
7. I pet the cat
8. I ate 2 Little Debbie oatmeal cream cookies

Eight Things I Look Forward To:
1. Weekends
2. Eden being potty trained
3. Christmas
4. Living in Utah
5. Bedtimes
6. Vacations
7. Monthly book club
8. Thanksgiving

Eight Things I Love About the Fall:
1. All the pretty colors of foliage
2. Cool air
3. The urge I get to buy school supplies
4. I have an increased desire to bake.
5. Sweaters
6. Turning on our fireplace
7. Snuggling up with a good book
8. Soup and fresh bread

Eight Things on My Wish List:
1. More time to scrapbook and sew
2. A non-primary calling
3. A baby
4. A new wardrobe
5. A finished basement
6. A piano
7. A nice tropical vacation
8. I want to live in Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland

For my other tag, I was to open my fourth picture folder and post the 4th picture in that folder. Here it is: This is Eden and "Grendpeppy" Bruce at the Betty Ford Memorial Gardens, which is next to the Gerald Ford birthsite in Omaha. We took it this past July.

I tag anyone who feels like doing either of these things.

Cookie, Cookie, Cookie starts with C

Last week we had an evening where we were all home and had nowhere to go. We decided cookie dough sounded really yummy and if there was leftover, we could make some cookies. Eden had a new cute apron Grammy made for her and I had a new cute apron Grammy made to match Eden's and Andy had a fairly new apron Grammy made for him to BBQ in so we donned our aprons and broke out the mixer (and the camera).

Eden loves to stand on a stool and help me do things in the kitchen. This is usually not helpful to me, but she loves it. She helped me scoop out all the dry ingredients and insisted on licking her finger to taste them all (it turns out she's not a fan of baking soda). She wanted her turn to crack an egg into the bowl (or as she says, "Bang it on the table and squish it in the bowl- which is exactly what she did). Then Andy and I picked egg shell out of the batter.

After that she got bored and decided to do her second favorite thing in the kitchen- wipe things off. She wiped off the counters and the floor and the table and me and the cat...

Once we were ready to pour the chocolate chips in, she was interested again. It was time to snitch cookie dough! She pulls it right off the mixer. You may notice the two packages of cookies in the background of this picture. Those cookies aren't homemade. It's totally different.

The dough turned out great. Oh, the cookies did too. Even with all our dough tasting we ended up with about 50 cookies. And sadly, they're about all gone. Good things never last...

Halloween Night

It's been a little while since we posted, but we're back online again and I have a few posts to do in the next few days. To begin with: Halloween. Eden wanted to dress up like Olivia, a pig from one of her favorite books. She didn't go for the pig snout and ears but she still looks adorable. I thought it turned out really well. Thanks again, Grammy, for making her cute dress. It was a big hit. For those of you who have read the Olivia books, you can kind of get an idea what Eden's personality is like. And she does know at least 40 Very Loud Songs.

We weren't sure how Eden would take to trick or treating so we talked about it for a few days in advance so we could prepare her. She was so excited when Halloween actually came she spent all day asking when she could go trick or treating. She ran up to every house we visited and held out her bag for candy and always said 'Thank you'. Then she would run up to us and tell us she wanted to go to another house. We were out for about an hour and she raked in the candy. She didn't want to take her dress off last night and she was disappointed when we told her we couldn't go again today. By the way, does anyone know how to get a two year old off a sugar high? She's been buzzing all day.

On another note, we finally got some furniture for our living room. We actually got it about a month ago but I just took the pictures. Here's our sofa and part of the love seat. We don't have pictures hanging up yet or a coffee table, but for those of you who wanted to see them, here they are. They aren't quite as pink as they look in the pictures. We're really happy to have them.

In Our Kitchen

Our kitchen is one of the main areas of our house and a lot of stuff happens in there. Here's what's been going on in our kitchen this week:

Eden decided to feed the cat. By herself. She's very independent. It's very messy sometimes. Oh, and just so you don't wonder, the "beer" you can see in the upper left corner of this picture is actually "root beer". So don't worry...

The Suspect

The Crime (with the victim, who is getting fat)

While we talked about the letter D this week, Eden became aware of doughnuts and wanted to try one. So this is what we had for breakfast Saturday morning. YUMMY!

If you didn't already know, I babysit for some friends of ours during the day (Brian and Yohanna Vernon for those of you who know them). Sweet Mia is so fun to watch and Eden loves to play with her. The other day she got Mia to laugh and I grabbed the camera to see if I could catch some of the giggles on tape. What cute little girls!

Yesterday I baked a pie. Razzleberry, fresh out of the oven with whipped cream melting all over the top. VERY YUMMY. In fact, I think I'll go have some leftovers. Hope you all have a great week in your kitchens!