Halloween Party

We went to our ward Halloween party tonight. It was fun to socialize and let Emmie have free run of the whole gym, which she very much took advantage of. I can't believe that she never tires. Emmie and Darren had their own little doughnut on a string eating competition. It was funny to watch the two of them go at it. Emmie was embarrassed at first because a bunch of people were cheering her on. But she got over it once she tasted the sugariness of the doughnut. Allison fell asleep a couple seconds after we got there and slept through everything and I spent my time holding her and chatting it up with a bunch of other moms.

Emmeline was a butterfly princess and Allison was a bear.

MMM all that sugar right before bed.

Getting Chilly

The weather is turning cold and wet outside and that makes for some very stir-crazy cranky people inside (myself included) I don't know why Rexburg can't think to construct some good indoor activity places when they know that 80% of the year is consumed by cold nasty weather. So we try to make do with what we have. Here are some pictures of the girls taking advantage of the indoor playland at Micky D's. (For some reason the one of Allison is really washed out.)

This ones for you

So JD and Keri this is mostly for your viewing pleasure but I decided to post it on here since Darren and I found so much humor in it. Emmie was having a blast putting together all sorts of interesting looking Mr. Potato Head creatures and with this certain one she held it up proudly and exclaimed "Hims looks like JD" haha too funny. Hopefully you don't take it too personally that she thinks you look like a bug-eyed pirate. Maybe she just needs to see you guys again sometime soon *hint*hint*

Weekend

So we had a fun eventful weekend but no pictures to show because we are horrible about remembering our camera. Saturday we went to the Idaho Falls Harvest Fest which was fun because they had tons of things for kids. They had a lot of game booths set up with candy and a "train ride" for the little kids. The "train" was actually a riding lawnmower and the train cars were half barrels painted with seats screwed into them. Ghetto I know but Emmie loved it. Also they had the huge blow up castles to jump in, yummy food, and live bands playing. Then today we drove out to Bedford, Wyoming for the blessing of one of Darren's nieces. It was fun to see all his family and Emmie loved hanging out with a bunch of her cousins for the day. I sure wish I had pictures to show of all the fun so make sure to chastise me so I will remember my camera more often.

Battle Wounds

Can you see my injured legs? Immunizations are the pits!

Just in case you can't see them here's a close up

But I'm not going to let them get me down, I will smile through the pain.

Allison had her 2 month appointment today filled with the lovey immunizations that we all hate to torture our kids with. She was so happy and smiley and cooing and then WHAM they stabbed her with those horrible things 3 times and she started wailing so bad she was turning purple. Poor thing. But now as you can see she is back to her happy self but a little more groggy. She is such a little trooper.

Workin' up a sweat

Mom and Becky you would be so proud... 3 miles baby! That's right! This girl who swore she couldn't run even to the end of the street just ran 3 miles. To say I am happy is an understatement. I am ecstatic! Darren and I looked at ourselves after I had Allison and decided we needed to make some major changes in our lives to better ourselves and health was a big one. So we have been trying to eat better and exercise. Eating better has been really fun. Darren and I both LOVE food and I think that is probably why I gain 40 pounds with my pregnancies, because I throw caution to the wind and eat whatever I want when I want. Well I guess that way of thinking caught up with Darren and myself because we are sure out of shape. But looking online and through some fun cookbooks we have really enjoyed venturing out and trying new things each week in the kitchen. Also a few weeks back we finally just got off the couch and went running. We have to take turns going after we put the girls to bed so someone can be home with them and that has been tough to stay motivated when you have to run alone but man is it worth it! We both feel so much better after we go and once you get past the initial pain of the run it starts to actually be fun. Imagine that, I actually think running can be enjoyable, never saw that one coming. Don't get me wrong, I still hate having to do it but in a twisted sort of way I kind of like having to push myself. I have my brother Richie to thank for making me push myself my first night running or else I would probably still not believe I could go for more than a minute. My first night running he was actually staying over at our place and I asked him jokingly if he wanted to go running, he said sure and so I then felt like I had to follow through. Well while running whenever I wanted to stop because it hurt or I felt like I couldn't breathe he would say "just make it to that sign" then before we would get to it he would point to another one further away and say "just make it to that sign" before I knew it a whole mile was over and I was home, feeling like I might pass out or throw up, but home nonetheless. Darren and Richie can still run laps around me I'm sure, but I'm at least Darren and I are finally doing something about feeling out of shape instead of just complaining about it. I came across a quote about a week ago that I reread every now and then to help keep me going, it said "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind" Just some food for thought I guess.

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Already have a question about this thing if anyone can help. I don't understand how to post a default picture. If you know how, email or call me with the easy how to instructions since the blog spot instructions are confusing me. Thanks

First Blog

Well here we go. We decided it was about time we started one of these to be able to keep family and friends updated on our lives. We will try to post often to tell about our adventures (HA) I guess instead about our lack there of and our boring everyday life instead. Currently as all know we are finishing up Darren's last semester of school and applying to a bunch of jobs. All the while we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get an offer where we want. (preferably Salt Lake or Boise) Lets see... other factors in our family; Emmie is turning 3 in November and has more attitude than a bunch of teenage girls rolled together but keeps us laughing with all the new things she comes up with. We just had Allison in August and thus far has proved to be an awesome baby. She currently sleeps the majority of the time (obviously) but sleeps pretty much through the night on most nights or if she does wake it's only once to feed for a couple minutes and then is back off to sleep. We are trying to get her better about the car and leaving the house though. She is a total homebody and would love to stay in your arms sleeping all day if she could. I'm sure Darren is starting to feel the overload of estrogen by now in our little home. He still has yet to learn how to do girls hair but we are determined to break him in soon. By the time we are done with him we will have all the neighborhood moms wishing their husbands could do what he can. (That's probably wishful thinking huh?) Ok we'll shoot for a good ponytail instead. I'm still trying to learn my way around this whole blog thing but will try to master it in my free time (oh I crack myself up, free time, what's that?) But hopefully I will learn to post pictures and videos like a pro eventually so I can put them up often so everyone can come see our growing family here instead of having to send out tons of emails to everyone. We'll see how this thing works out.