Some Say we are Crazy!

Last Night my mother and I finalized are plan of attack for BLACK Friday Shopping! We would got to bed at 7:00 pm! Yes 7:00 pm! We would try to leave Grantsville about 12:30 am and hit Toy R' Us, then Old Navy at 3:00, Kohls at 4:00 am, Then Target or Walmart at 5:00 and the Mall at 6:00.

Of Course there were a few deviations form this plan but we got most of the stuff we wanted to get and I got all the stuff I needed to complete my Christmas Shopping for the day. Just a few little Stocking Stuffers to get and I am done! I will have to post pictures of mine and my moms haul this year, she went a little overboard again, when we bring in the stuff tonight after the kids go to bed!

I hope you all had a Great Thanksgiving and Day after Thanksgiving!

Sorry

I have been so bad about blogging this last year. I will try to do better! I promise! Our old computer monitor fried so I can't access any pictures from this year. Then we inherited my parent's old iMac. So as I am able to get things transfered over here I will.

So James is almost two and a half and can count to five and sing his ABC's! I will try to get video of him doing it. Jasmine now loves to sing songs and teaches them to James it is so cute! Anyway I do better and try and catch you up on our new lives.

PS: Are you happy now Shay!

Pay it Forward!

I found this on Sara's Blog and I wanted to do it!

So, here's how it works-the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a handmade gift from me.  What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise!  The catch is that you must participate as well.  Before you leave your comment, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going.  Then come back, let me know you're going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival or your gift!  Please submit in an e-mail or on the comment, your address, if I don't have it already :)  Remember that only the first 3 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick!

Memory

Last year for Christmas we bought Jasmine the Disney Princess version of Memory.  However she didn't have the patience to try and learn it, so it was put in the top of her closet and forgotten about.  Until last night, I really wanted to have some family time and remembered that we had that game, so Reuben dug it out and we ended up playing two small games and then a big game with all the tiles.  

The first game was spent in tears and complaints that it was her turn.  By the last games she was was saying "Good job mommy," when I got a match.  She still needed help on finding the matches but she was learning about taking turns.

First thing this morning she wanted to play again.  Since I am not feeling great, I only wanted to play a very small game.  I laid out 8 matches and began to play.  Jasmine got 4 matches without my help.  She is growing my leaps and bounds and I love watching her try and master new things!

Something to Blog About!

My Great Great Great Grandfather Jacob Woelfle

So I keep thinking about things to blog about but, haven't actually sat down to do it. Well Sunday night by little cousin Tara gets this message through Facebook from some random distance cousin of ours. She has pictures and written histories about a line on our family tree that I have hit a dead end on.

So over the last two days I have my mom and I have been chatting about family history and her getting in contact with some of her cousins back East and it has been really nice. I am not very close with any of my extended family. I am still pretty close with my Aunt Tami and cousins but since my Uncle died, I have seen them as much as I would like. My cousin Tara seems excited about the family history and doing some of the Temple work. I am going to plan a trip with her in the Spring.

Anyways I pretty excited about getting back into my family history, over Christmas my mom and I are going to scan in our family pictures and compare with our distant cousin and see if we can figure who some of these people are. I am looking forward to hearing stories about my family.

Next will be my dads sides, I thought my LDS Aunt would have done alot but I think I have more then her. Of course it doesn't help that 2 of my Aunt are only 1/2 half aunts and I have 1/2 uncle and 1/2 aunt floating around. It will be an adventure figuring that out. Yeah for FAMILY HISTORY!

Finally Halloween

For the first time in a long time I actually enjoyed Halloween.  For those of you that don't know, I hate Halloween.  I like the idea of it but for about the last ten years nothing ever goes as planned and I also end up stressed and cranky by the end of the night! 

 

The night before we made donuts for Reuben's work party, it is also 

a family tradition on his side.

Reuben being cute and creative!

I made Reuben take half a day off so I wouldn't feel like everything fell on my shoulders or so rushed.  We had an early dinner of hamburgers and godfather

s made with homemade fries.  Godfathers is cheese fries and brown gravy, another Talbot family tradition for Halloween.  We got the kids ready and headed over to our wards Trunk or Treat.  Jasmine had a lot of fun looking at all the 

different costumes.  After the Trunk or Treat we headed to Nibley and hit one awesome street and then headed home.  We had an awesome night!

I Voted!

I voted today.  I voted for change.  I voted for Barrack Obama!  I know, I know, I am from Utah and a Mormon!  I am not posting this to start problems, I am just so happy that someone I believe in will be the next president!  I hope that he will make it through the next 4 years!

Another try

So of course Jasmine pulled her hair out, which is no surprise. However, she asked me to do something new so this is what I came up with!

New to me

Today was the first day that I tried to do something creative with Jasmine's hair. I have seen on some of my friends blogs, all the cute hair styles that they do on their little girls and have been so jealous.  So today while Jasmine was at preschool I went looking and found some cool blogs. The only problem is these blogs give general instructions and I am the type of person that needs detailed instructions on how to do, well anything. So this afternoon I took someones instruction and come up with my own take on it and this is what I came up with.It is not very polished or even but I think it is ok for a novice!

Side View!



Happy to be a Princess


I have a goal to try something new everyday and to learn to French Braid by Christmas. That's right I don't even know how to French Braid but I will learn!

First Haircut

Tonight we gave James his first hair cut. He is so not my little baby boy anymore. He looks so big now and he also looks like his cousin Morgan. My hubby's family has some strong genes if you ask me. James was not excited about getting his buzzed at all, but he looks so good!

Before his hair cut


Yes I know that is a pink binky, it was all I had at the time!

James when all is said and done!
His cousin Morgan on the right!