Happy Veterans Day!

What a great day today was! I am so thankful for all that have served and who are serving now to protect my freedom. Today was extra special because my Dad is a Vietnam Vet. He was asked to speak at Skyview High School in Nampa today. He spoke about his experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War and how it has affected him today. A Colonal and a Navy Officer also spoke and it was great. I had to bring Dylan which didn't work out so well. He got really antsy right when my Dad spoke because he was the last one to speak. However, I was greatful that I was able to go. I am so proud of my Dad for all the sacrifices he made to serve our country.

Good Deal!

Today my sister and my Mom and I went to Albertsons and Target because we had a ton of coupons to use and I was hoping I could get a good deal. At Albertsons I was able to get the peanut butter, jelly and toothpaste for $5.40. Then at Target I had a $1 off of their brand of wipies and they were on sale for $1.62. So, I got them for .62 cents with a grand total of around $8 including tax!! I love a good deal!

Food Storage

I am very excited because we FINALLY were able to get some food storage and 72 hour kits together. Now it's not a lot but it is probably about 3 months worth. What I am most excited about is our 72 hour kits. We have 4 backpacks with first aid stuff, food, water and other emergency things that we could grab in a hurry if something happened. I will continue to add to our storage but I am just thankful that we were able to get some things together!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was really fun this year! We went to our ward trunk or treat and we had a blast! Then on Saturday we went up to my sisters house and carved our pumpkins and decorated sugar cookies! There goes all of my workouts I did last week!! Oh well!! Then we went trick or treating and all of the kids got a ton of candy!

Trading their candy, always a Halloween tradition!

Carving pumpkins that I grew!! How awesome! Everybody was making fun of me cause I was so excited!

My pumpkin, as scary as I could get it!!

Madi's pumpkin, she was very proud!!

Can you guess whos pumpkin this is?!! GO UTES!!!

Dylan's pumpkin, that Daddy helped with!

Happy Birthday Aaron!

Aaron is 32! I love birthdays, but Aaron didn't really want me to make a big deal about it so I HAD to restrain myself! I woke up on his birthday extra early, 7am just to make Aaron breakfast! I know that 7 is late for some people but I love my sleep. I made him eggs and toast, his favorite. He was running really late but he stayed and ate cause he felt bad that I had gotten up! So nice!!

I asked Dylan what he wanted to get him for his birthday and he said a toy! I told him that I didn't think he would want a toy for his birthday but he insisted that, "Dad will share the toy with me"! I thought that was SO sweet, so off we went to walmart and we got him the gator golf toy that Dad and son can play together!!

After Aaron got home from work my parents came over and we gave him presents and sung to him!

It was a really fun birthday celebration for everybody and I know Aaron secretly LOVED it!!

Happy Birthday Honey!! I love you!

Fall storm and...the flu!

Last week we had a really fun storm! It got really warm and so Dylan and I decided to go outside and enjoy it! I took a million pics of Dylan and Roxy playing together, they really are best friends!! Later that night I started to get a fever and it continued to get worse. I was up the whole night barfing my brains out, I was SO sick. I haven't been that sick in a long time. I only had the flu for about 3 days so not so bad I guess! My wonderful Mom and sister came over and took care of everything while I laid in bed and tried to sleep! Now that I feel better, I just know that Aaron, Dylan or Madi will get sick! Ugh! Should have gotten those flu shots sooner!

Utah

We miss Utah! We decided to take a trip down to Utah because Aaron's brother and his wife Shauna had a beautiful baby called named Lucy Lenora Geyer! They were blessing her in church, so we made it into a mini vacation! We had such a fun time in such a short amount of time. We left Thursday night and stayed in SLC for Friday and we walked around Temple Square. Our neice Madison had never been so we saw EVERYTHING! Every video, every tour and every exhibit. It was so much fun and the weather was perfect. On Saturday we went down to Provo to meet up with the family. We played soccer in the park and then later that night we went to the nickelcade, who knew you could have so much fun with a bag of nickels! Great suggestion Uncle Alex!! Then we woke up on Sunday and went to church. Lucy is such a beautiful baby and we felt so blessed that we were able to be there to share that experience with them. Then we had a yummy lunch that Shauna's Mom put together and we were off. Back to Idaho, back to reality! Thank you to Alex and Shauna for letting us stay with you, we love you guys SO much. It was also so good to see Jim and Lenora again, we love you!!

Salt Lake City Temple! As beautiful as ever!

We went to the childrens museum in SLC and Dylan and Madi had a BLAST! It was worth the $8 a person (gulp!)

We went to a restaurant in SLC called The Mayan. They have divers that dive from 20 feet in the air! They even have a guy that was dressed up as Indiana Jones, Dylan's idol!! Madi said that was her favorite part of the trip!

We went to, This is the Place monument, as you can tell it was FREEZING!