Stuff

I love the Holidays, but hate how crazy I feel. I keep thinking "why didn't I start this earlier" except that I probably wouldn't have anyway. Much has happened lately and I don't have very many pictures to represent because either 1. someone else was taking pictures and I thought I would just get some from them (which hasn't happened) or 2. T-man left the camera at his grandma's house again :) you always want something more when it's not there. So here is a short list of our going ons:

1. T-man got an internship this summer with American Express in New York City so we will be living there from mid-May to mid-August. We are excited.

2. We found a place to live next semester, it's actually right next to where we lived when we first got married (fun fact). Moving does put a damper on the holiday excitement since it brings much stress with it but it is such a relief.

3. Letty had her first dance recital, it was very cute. She has been a bit shy lately and clingy but did great.

4. Letty and cousin got to go on the "polar express" a very cute 1/2 mile mini train ride where they got to stop at the north pole and visit Santa in his workshop. It then continued, and along the rest of the way were beautiful pictures that depicted Christ's life. It was very fun for her.

5. T-man is done with finals tomorrow and then we are mostly moving out Thursday before we head to see the family for Christmas.

"Santa at the North Pole"

"Polar Express"

Who says girls don't wrestle? I know random picture, oh well.

Ice Skating and Cookies

It was really nice to enjoy a few days off for Thanksgiving, it's such a wonderful holiday! Our family plus T-Mans sister went ice skating the day before Thanksgiving, good times.

We took turns pushing Gracie around on the ice in her stroller until someone told us we couldn't do that. :(

This little piece of plastic kept her entertained for quite a while...


T-Man enjoyed playing with the cones... between that and the stroller we were being rather delinquent!

Letty and Aunt J making funny faces.

We spoke in church on Sunday and to persuade Letty from wanting to go up to the stand with dad I told her we would make Christmas cookies. I think she only wants to make cookies so she can sample dough, yummy!

Feet, Feet and More Feet!

I have three feet stories. The first is a rather sad and a bit traumatic for Letty. On Saturday there was what they call "gifts from the heart exchange", you can take things you want to get rid of and pick up whatever you want. Everything is FREE! So we decided to go and check it out. We get there, Letty finds some friends and then later comes to me with her shoes off (pretty typical). I inquire about them and she points in the direction she left them. It came time to leave and her shoes were no where to be found. It seems someone thought they were a great find and are now enjoying them. It was all very upsetting to her because usually when you take your shoes off someone doesn't run off with them. Luckily we found a pair of shoes that fit so we could leave, since we had planned to run a couple of errands.

Gracie is discovering her feet can be used for more than chew toys.

Here is Letty sporting my shoes. I remember wearing my moms high heels and loving it.

Primary Program

So for our Primary Program today our Letty had a solo part singing the second verse of "I am a Child of God". She got a little stage fright but made it through. I wouldn't have even gone up to the mic at her age. She was pretty wiggly up there but I think it bothered us more than anyone else. We were proud of her.
It's too bad you can't video sacrament meeting.

and the Winner is...

Letty! Just like her dad she is lucky. At our Halloween party they had a "guess the candy jar" game and she told T-man what she wanted to put down. I think he told her to go a little higher after her first guess but left it at that, so 250 pieces of candy later (on top of Halloween candy) YIKES! She was so excited. (I never win anything) some people have all the luck.

Cookies in a pinch

Okay, my friend gave me this really easy pumpkin cookie recipe. It's great if you're in a hurry or you have extra "little" hands helping.

1 spice cake mix
1 15 oz. can of pumpkin
chocolate chips (however much you like.

That's it! You mix it up and bake at 350 for 10-12 min. or so.

The Y

Yesterday we hiked the Y. Sorry Lainey and Fisher we wanted to go with you (we still can) but we saw an opportunity and made a last minute decision to take it. Props to Letty who hiked the whole way up which earned her frozen yogurt afterwards. I carried Kendra up and down so props to me j/k. I realized part way up that T-man wasn't going to carry Letty so we should have switched but oh well, it intensified my workout. The view was beautiful, especially with all of the fall colors. T-man and I realized we had never hiked it since getting married. So here we are over 6 years later doing it as a family. The hike is about 1000 ft up and 2.5 miles round trip. It's really not that bad but kids seem to make a short hike seem like an over nighter :)

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Other highlights this week: joining family at Gardner Village and having dinner afterwards. Its fun being close enough to do family home evenings together sometimes.