Our "Surprise"

Well I the past 2 weeks have been ridiculously BUSY for us! Our big surprise is that we bought a house! It hasn't been a very big secret so I am sure most of you already knew that! lol... Right after Christmas and the New Year we went looking for houses with Ray's sister and brother-in-law.  We weren't really expecting to find anything as quickly as we did! (And go figure it was one of the last houses we looked at!) We were trying to decide between our house and a home in Santaquin but the one in Spanish Fork won out (obviously) for a number of reasons.  We then got started on the buying process and it is all history from there! There were quite a number of hoops to jump through for us but we got them all worked out and we signed our closing papers a week ago today and took possession last wednesday! I have been waiting for better weather to take a good picture but it has been TERRIBLE weather so I will just give you the picture the inspection guy took a couple of weeks ago!

The previous owners left us their swing set and a trampoline in the back yard and the bball hoop! I will have to take more pictures soon (but right now we are still in unpacking mode...).  The master bed, bath, and closet are ridiculously HUGE (no really... our closet could really double as a bedroom if it needed to lol) and Brielle is absolutely LOVING all the extra room she has to run around and be crazy!  I am excited to have a place that we can call ours (and have kitchen counter space so I can stop lighting things on fire on our oven....)! More to come in the next couple of weeks so check back often! :)

November-December

There is not much to blog about November... I even forgot to take pictures of Thanksgiving... Not that it was too eventful but oh well... 

The MAIN thing that happened in November was my sister had her baby!! Baby Makayla and she is THE CUTEST BABY EVER! She was so small and she was the perfect little newborn model! :) (If you want to see more you should go check it out on my photography blogsite www.marleedavisphotography.com) But we all kinda like her!

The only other real photos I took on November were these:

At least there was some book reading and not only iphone playing... she really is too hooked on electronics already.. sigh...

Next, In December Ray's sister and brother in law came for the month (They have been in Ohio for school) Brielle LOVES playing with Eliana can ya tell!? 

Then, my dad got promoted to a Colonel in the Utah National Gaurd! Pretty cool! Even though that does mean they will be gone for a whole year to Texas A&M for war college! That will be a sad day!

One weekend when we were visiting in Heber, My parent's ward had a Christmas party and I decided to tag along!

Brielle hated santa. For Real!

 I decided to splurge this Christmas and get Brielle a christmas dress! I think she looks pretty darn cute with her cute curls! Her hair is getting so long but you would never know it with all the curl she has!!

Ah... Christmas!! We Spent Christmas eve at my grandparents/parents house! And then Christmas day at Ray's parents houe.  It was fun and yet again I forgot to take pictures... Or they are on another camera.. not sure. But I do have Christmas Even night! Christmas Jammies!!

This could have been chaos.. but luckily everyone was too tired to really throw fits!

On christmas morning, this is what all the kids woke up to! My dad is a dork and bought this because he felt bad that we never got one for christmas growing up lol

 This is a little out of order but I turned 25 this year! I am not really a fan of cake so I made ginger cookies with cream cheese frosting for my "birthday cake"! They were delicious!

(sorry it's upside down... too lazy to fix it lol)

I made this cute hat for Brielle! Cute little penguin! You cant see it but it matches the shirt she is wearing.. it had penguin on it too.. but she wouldn't leave it on :( oh well... 

Lastly, I decided I wanted to take some pictures of the kids for Christmas Here they are:

Best picture EVER!! I love this girl!

Aww.. baby Makayla was so nice to let me take EVEN MORE pictures of her! 

She is a super cute trooper!

See! Christmas Chaos!!

Mikey liked the Santa hat! The only child that would leave the dang thing on!

Braxton was having fun towards the end... At least we got a good one!

  

 And this folks is the true SHOCKER! A smile from Marcus in a picture that isn't BLURY from his constant moving!! It is a christmas miracle!

Aren't they all sooo cute!? :) 

Anyways, we didn't really do much for New Years... We are too old folk-ish to stay up past 10 at the latest. I know. But we do have some exciting news that I will get to in another post! :) I don't want to have everyone thinking that I am pregnant so NO I am NOT pregnant. That is not the exciting news. Just to clear that up.

The end of September through October

Well welcome to my new blog... Since the other was so full I had to start a new one.... I also wasn't able to "finish" off the last few months of 2012.  So... let's begin.

First off is my little sisters baby shower! :) It was fun!

aww... isn't she a cute prego mama?

Can I just say I found THE BEST drink!? It's a "blow pop fake-tini" It's just sprite with a blow pop in it.. but if you let the sucker dissolve enough they are sooooo addicting! I think I had like 3. I will defiantly be making these again!! lol

Next, Since I spend a good amount of time hanging out at my parents house I decided one weekend to take my bike up. I LOVE my bike. Probably the best money we ever spent! Since it was just me going (no Ray to babysit) I have to take Brielle with me. Now generally it is ok with just her but this time I decided to take my nephew Braxton! I decided to be CRAZY and go to the top of Valley Hills (worst bike ride EVER! It was so hard pulling probably 80 extra pounds UP HILL!!) But it was worth it! 

(Don't mind my bright red face... but it's to be expected... lol)

See! Told ya! Worth it!

Next we can jump to the end-ish of October lol We all decided to go to a pumpkin patch near my house in Riverton. It was the cutest little pumpkin patch ever! Too bad we are moving and wont live next to this farm anymore!

silly Grandpa.. had to carry the kids around in the wheelbarrow!

The finished product! :) cute spider eh!?

Now for the good stuff! Halloween!!! I have always liked Halloween but having Brielle old enough to go trick-or-treating was sooo fun! My sister had gotten all super hero costumes for her boys so I decided to follow the theme and go super hero! Who better to choose than WONDER WOMAN!!?? 

I think I chose right. What do you think? Isn't she the best wonder woman EVER!!!

It is total chaos whenever we try and get a picture with all the grandkids... (wait until you see the awesome ones we got for christmas lol...)

All in all it was a great October and a great Halloween!!