...Thanksgiving Videos...

**WARNING**

 These videos may only be funny to the people involved in making these films.

...Womenized...

Last week before church Chasey came into the bathroom and said, "oh, wow, the bathroom has been womanized!" Poor guy is out numbered, and if we follow with his families genes he will always be out numbered!

Pre- Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving started on Sunday this year. Like most holidays, we celebrated for almost a week. I taught my Sunday School class and made these kind of scary looking turkeys. The Betty Crocker ones were so much cuter! What do you do? The kids liked them, and I told them they couldn't have one unless they were quiet the whole lesson... it totally worked.

Chaseys cousin gave Rylee this cute Thanksgiving dress. I tried for almost an hour to get a good picture of it,but this is as good as it got. You can see the little turkeys on it... so cute!

This year was most every ones year to go to their in laws, so my Dad and Karen had a little Pre- thanksgiving with everyone on Sunday. Dad and Karen made a great meal, and Katie made her awesome amazing pies! Aunt Julie and Uncle Tracey came down, and Shirl came with them. It was a good afternoon chatting and eating! Thanks Dad and Karen for having us up!

Mat and his faces. Katie just wanted one picture with him that didn't look like Blue Steal!

The Girls.

We missed Shani and Mary!

The Guys minus Dustin and Chris.

A little football to end the day!

..Thankful...

I am THANKFUL for....

( The usual ones first)

Chasey. I am so thankful that he works so hard so that I can stay home and raise Rylee. He makes sure we have everything we need.

Rylee. Oh gosh, what did I do before this little girl joined our family? I cant even begin to say how thankful I am for her!! She teaches me so much all the time, and makes me so happy. I love her more then anything and am so thankful that I get to be her mom!

Our Families. Both my family and Chasey's family are wonderful. They have both helped us so much over the past year, and we are beyond thankful for that.

Health. I am so thankful that for the most part our families are healthy and happy. Health is such a blessing, and our families are very blessed.

Work. Through all the lay offs and jobs being cut, we are so thankful that Chasey has been able to keep his. I am also thankful that my small business has been doing good too. It has really helped us to make ends meet some months.

Gospel. Really, where would we all be without the gospel? The church is a daily reminder of who I want to be and what I need to be! It is such a blessing to have in our everyday lives!

(The not so usual ones)

I am thankful for doctors, our country, freedoms, good babysitters, hot showers, diet Dr Pepper, coupons, good neighbors, medicine, patient people, Grandma Darling's jokes, music, cameras, food, a home, good friends, Rylee's handprints all over the house, laughter, and so much more!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!



... A post about nothing...

I always have my camera and I always take a lot of pictures! Like you didn't already know that, right?! Since  a post about each individual picture would kind of be a waste, Ill do a big post about all of them!

Sundays we go visit our parents, and on a good day we squeeze the grandparents in there too. Chase and I always say what a blessing it is that out families don't live anywhere near each other, cause we would have a ton of family to visit. Since both our parents are divorced and a couple of them remarried we would have to visit 4 sets of parents and 5 sets of grandparents. It may not sound like a lot, but to us it does! We barely get to the people who are here now. Anyways, the kids always have fun playing with each other and either my mom or dads house. Mt dad and Karen have a fun playroom full of toys. The kids love to be in there!

Rylee and Sayla playing with the toys.

In the fall and winter the elk come down into my Dad and Karen's backyard. Its neat to see them every year. Here is a field full of elk.

I know its getting colder when I get my first bad cold. Now I get to share those germs with Miss Rylee Jean! We both were sick for about a week a couple weeks ago. Rylee just sleeps, or wants to be held, so that lets me rest too. She really is a great baby most all the time! Her room gets so cold that I put her to bed with a beanie on. She loves hats, so she is good to keep it on. We have since moved her bed away from the outside wall, and right next to the heat vent. Poor girl has the coldest room in the winter and the hottest room in the summer!

Her first tats!

We didn't really leave the house for a good 5 days, so it got kind of boring. We ended up putting tattoos on... Ry thought that was the most amazing thing! She loves Mickey and Minnie so much. All day she would point to them on her arm and laugh!

A sick baby = a cuddly baby!

I love it!

I don't know what you like to wear when you are sick, but this little girl loves to wear this....

She is really into hats right now, but she is the only one who can put them on her head. She doesn't know how to pull them down all the way, so she looks like a cone head most of the time!

She wont wear headbands or bows or flowers , unless she puts them on herself. It drives me crazy cause she usually looks like this....

My friend Shaun has an awesome line of soap and lotions. We did the same boutique last week, and he had these totally cute soaps there. I had to get it for Rylee. Oh man, she has had so much fun with this bar of soap!

Sunday morning watching cartoons and eating breakfast. She has learned how to take the cushions off the couch. I don't know why she insists on them being off, but it makes her happy! Don't you love Chaseys hat on her head? I'm telling you the girl loves hats!

Not only does she love hats, but she loves boots. You would think we were going somewhere with her dressed like this... ya, we were going to bed!

We woke up Sunday morning to SNOW! I am a little excited... it makes the holidays more festive! Rylee didn't really know what to think of it. She just kept pointing outside saying, " whats that?" She wasn't too excited about the cold wind and the icy sidewalks on our way to church, but hopefully she learns to like it a little bit... She is a Utahan!

Trying to get a picture before church... it didn't really work!

This picture reminds me so much of me! I always loved to color, and would color for hours! Heck, i still love to!  Rylee will and has colored EVERYTHING in our house. We try to teach her to color only in coloring books, but our fridge and walls and story books tell us she doesn't understand yet!

Ry is so funny when Molly jumps up on the table to eat her food. She yells," Stop. No No Moe Moe! " Its hilarious! Molly doesn't listen of course and stays right next to her until she drops something on the floor or table.

Cant leave home without a purse!

Just recently Rylee has gone to get her purse whenever we leave the house. I think she has seen me grab mine when we leave. She looks so cute carrying it out to get into the car.

All bundled up in this cold weather, and of course she has her lemonade!

This is the face I usually get for pictures now. Its not a cute smiling face, but its still stinkin cute!

... Family...

Last year I was so good to write what I was thankful for everyday in November. This year I have been busy with boutiques and Ry is a busy butt, so it leaves little time to make lists! I am thankful for alot, and feel so blessed to have everything that we do. I'll make my list of thanks later, but I am SO VERY THANKFUL for my little family!!! I couldn't imagine life without these two, and love them both so much!!

... Our Nerd...

I LOVE this little nerd of ours!

She is always doing something to make me laugh! I know when its really quiet that I am going to laugh really hard! This is what I found a couple weeks ago.... Ry decked out in Chaseys underwear playing with earings and pictures of two of her cousins! She sure makes life alot more fun.