Shout out to my Husband...

Hooray for Dan! Last night he took his last final, and assuming he will have earned a passing grade in all of his classes he will be graduating from BYU! So to celebrate we went out to eat at Cheesecake Factory!!! YUMMO

Gingerbread House

Tonight for FHE we decorated a gingerbread house. It was a lot of fun, it's just a shame it didn't turn out that well (the roof ended up sliding off...oh well) Kaitlyn had tons of fun putting the candy on the house and in her mouth, and once she found out that the frosting was like candy too all she wanted to do was eat that as well. Needless to say our house looks nothing like the picture on the box and more like a 2 year old did it. But at least we all enjoyed ourselves!

And can someone please tell me why I always find my daughter in the most random positions?

Thanksgiving Point

Today Kaitlyn, Lisa, Keaton, and I went up to Thanksgiving Point and visited the petting Zoo. It was SSSOOOOOO freezing cold, but a lot of fun. We were the only people there, and the animals are obviously fed a lot by people because everytime we would come near they came right to us. The llama was the most friendly...Kaitlyn and I were trying to get our picture and the llama came straight at my face and then tried to eat my shoulder, which took me by surprise which consequently freaked Kaitlyn out.






And I just thought this was the cutest picture of Kaitlyn and Keaton and the pony that you can't see...thanks Lisa for being the photographer!

SNOW

*Background info - it snowed over the weekend and I left my car out in the driveway so it was covered in snow. Yesterday rather than spending 30 min to de-snow the car before church we decided it would be easier to switch the car seat over to Dan's car. Last night the wind was super strong and howling all night so when we woke up in the morning my car had provided a nice wall for all of the snow to build up against making a huge pile of snow infront of the garage where Dan's car was parked. We haven't invested in a snow shovel yet, and being the first house to close in our neighborhood we have no neighbors to borrow from.


Lydia: Why don't you take my car today, I can just stay home
Dan: No I can get out of here
Lydia: Are you sure, that's a pretty big pile of snow and you're not driving a big ol' truck
Dan: Ya I can make it, I'll just go real fast...

Needless to say, the car did not make it through the pile of snow (top picture taken at 5:30pm and bottom picture taken at 2pm so a lot of the snow has melted, it was almost knee high at time of Dan's attempt to plow through it). We ended up using our dust pan to shovel a path out for Dan to take my car for the day, so I'm still stuck at home with our car hanging mostly out of our garage. And on his way home, Dan will be buying a snow shovel.

Us the Past 2 Weeks...

1.We finally moved into our house, which is the reason why I haven't updated in awhile. We've been without the internet for the past 2 weeks!!!! waited a week and a half for Qwest to come install, and on the day they were supposed to show up they call and tell us they don't have service in our area yet and aren't sure when they would be getting it. Thanks for lying to us and telling us you did have service. Although I guess it could be a blessing in a huge ugly disguise because I was able to unpack and organize instead of browsing the internet. Thanks to Dan's mom for the cute and yummy basket of house warming cookies!


2. Capture the mouse, yes there was a mouse in our house!!! It decided to make it's debut from behind the refrigerator when Kaitlyn and I were eating breakfast, I let a little girlish sqeal out, Kaitlyn followed, Dan thought there was someone in our house until I yelled it was a mouse. Dan and his brother Aaron tried to get get it out of the house alive but it went back into hiding for the rest of the day. So Dan set out a mouse trap at night and by morning the poor thing was decapitated. (sorry if that offends any animal lovers)

3. Thanksgiving, we had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving. Dan was the master chef cooking the Turkey which we were both surprised at how easy and yummy it turned out. Kaitlyn was just excited to eat the turkey and kept saying "gobble gobble" throughout the whole meal.


and last but probably most importantly (at least in Dan's mind)...

4. BYU vs Utah football game! Another heart attack giver like last year but the Cougs dominated all game and were able to pull through at the end.

Last Year :



This Year:

Christmas is 2 weeks Away!

Ok Dawn, here's an update just for you!
We've pretty much been kept busy trying to close on our house (hasn't happened yet), shop for furniture, packing, and football games (BYU and flag football).

I just realized that Thanksgiving is next week! And for those of you who haven't been introduced to "Lydia counting" here is how is goes... Since Thanksgiving is next week, that means next week doesn't really count since it's a holiday so December is basically next week. Then we basically only have 2 weeks to get settled into our house before Christmas, which will go really fast so really that only counts as 1 week. Then our baby will be here! So much to do so little time.

The past week we went to the BYU/Colorado State and BYU/TCU football games. Lot's of fun, GO COUGS!


And here's a view from the top...the 2nd time around I've noticed a lot more uncomfortableness, squishyness, and even weirder dreams. Someone please tell me that each time it doesn't keep getting worse and worse. Either way it's all worth it, and we can't wait to meet our little girl!

Kaitlyn the Photogragher

Watch out Jen, Kaitlyn got a hold of the camera one day and I think she might be your next big competitor...