Thanksgiving Thursday & Black Friday

For Thanksgiving we went to Jeff's parents house. Here are some of us at the table getting ready to dig in. I was thrilled to be able to eat Thanksgiving dinner this year, last year I was home throwing up while Jeff and the girls went to my parents.

Here are the kiddos at the children's table. Cute kids!

Here we are at my parents house, the day after Thanksgiving aka Black Friday. Doesn't Madison look pretty with the makeup she put on all by herself. She likes to get into my mom's makeup.

Here we are Black Friday morning in the University Mall parking lot waiting for Santa to fly in on the channel 5 news helicopter. Jeff was quite excited because he spoke to Kevin Eubanks (the weather guy) and Kevin touched his arm. Try not to be jealous. The weather was really nice, we had lots of fun.

Bailee is overjoyed to see Santa, can you tell?

October Fun

BOO!!!

Madison either giving her pumpkin some love or sleeping, you decide.

Madison was so proud of her pumpkin she helped carve.

My cute girls at an Activity Days Activity. They put together Babysitting Kits and loved it.
Olivia, Jordyn, Sadie, Elizabeth, and Natalie

Fun times at Pumpkin Land!

Hey Cuties!

We were only stuck in the corn maze for 2 hours, not too bad. No, not really, but we did have one family member who was getting grouchy from not being able to find our way out.

Guess who???????Jeff

The family that wears wigs together, stays together.

Whenever I need a good laugh I just put a wig on Jeffie. If he ever finds out I posted this pic on here, I'll be getting a spanking for sure.

Cotton Candy Head

Madison looks great in anything!

Bailee's Big Day!

Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday to you!

Happy birthday dear Bailee,

Happy birthday to you!

#2

Family, Fire, & Fun!

Since the weather was quite cool this past Saturday morning and Jeff was home, I decided we should light up our fire pit and cook some food. We had a good time, I'm so glad I thought of it. :)

I was having some serious marshmallow issues. I got messier than the kids.

Hot Stuff, roasting a hot dog.

Bailee doing her thing.

Just us girls!

We only had chocolate graham crackers, I think they made the S'mores even better.

Trouble for Tooth Fairy Carrie

A couple of days ago Madison showed me how loose her tooth was. I told her to keep wiggling it and it would be ready to come out soon. I was thinking it would be a few days, but no, that night in bed she twisted it and pulled it out. This is the second set of sheets she's gotten blood on from her nocturnal tooth pulling. I was just heading to bed that night when I remembered, "I need to get a dollar out of my purse." Unfortunately I didn't have one, so I ended up having to take a dollar from Madison. So, here I am, tooth fairy mom, sneaking into Madison's room to find her wallet, she had a few crisp dollar bills so I tried very quietly to get one out. Then I had to find the tooth, in the zip lock bag, under her pillow, but she has two pillows and it wasn't under the pillow she told me it would be under. Luckily I found it under the other pillow without too much trouble. It's always during those few moments of searching under the pillow that I have the urge to burst out laughing. I put the dollar in its place and snuck out of her room. Phew! The next morning I got up and peaked in her room to see if she was awake, she was, so I opened the door and she started punching her bed. I said, "What is wrong with you?" and she told me there was no dollar. So, I searched and found it had fallen between the wall and bed. You know, it's kinda fun having to be these mythical figures (Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, etc.), but it's kinda not. btw, I'll secretly pay her back when I get a dollar.

Happy Anniversary!!

Happy 9th Anniversary!

Jeff+Carrie

xoxo

July 8th, 2000

Making The Best Of It

Our 4th of July fun-filled day didn't quite turn out when Madison had a recurrence of the dreaded stomach flu. She woke up that morning barfing again (9 times by the time we arrived at the doctor's office, and once there, luckily we brought the bucket with us). We got her taken care of and she is doing much better now. Sufficed to say, our day was pretty easy going. I grabbed a mask at the doctors office, Madison wore it like a trooper, so at least we were able to go to my parents for a yummy dinner and not expose everyone to germs.

The Mask!

Here's poor little puppy resting on the couch.

Hot air balloons in Provo.

Cupcakes I made, if you can't tell, it's supposed to be the flag.

Bailee sampling the cupcakes (leftovers).

Just Catchin' Up

Here's some of the things that have been going on during the past few months. I should be better and post things as they happen. Oh-well.

What in the world is that? That little green thing on the brick is a baby praying mantis. I've never seen one that small. It was so cute.

We went to an aircraft show at the Provo airport. Jeff and the girls are standing in front of a

B-17 Bomber that my Grandpa Litton flew in WWII. It was cool to see it in person. It's kinda strange seeing all the guns on there, I can't imagine being in a war shooting at people. But I guess if that's what ya gotta do, that's what ya gotta do.

Madison and her dance class after the parade. Can you spot Madison?

Here is Madison performing a dance(cheer) routine in the Provo Children's Parade. She absolutely loved it. We were so proud of her. Her dance class took first place out of all the parade entries. So fun!

Here is a picture of Madison (the one with a blue belt) and Emma (next to Madison) at Madison's first dance performance. They were supposed to do the performance in the park, but it was raining pretty hard so it was moved into their dance studio. They did a cute routine with silver and red pom poms to the song "God Bless America". In this picture they are trying to hold their back bends for one minute. They also work on cart wheels, sommer saults, and doing the splits both directions, among other things. This is Madison's first dance class, it's fun to see the progress she has already made.

This was the first year we've planted broccili. It's cool to see it growing. I planted it on the north side of our house and with the weather being cooler this year, it's coming along nicely.

Madison, Bailee and their friends: Emma, Kyla(not in the picture) and Lily eating Otter Pops and playing in the pool.

Here's a picture of Bailee and Sarah's girls (Kyla & Lily) driving the Barbie jeep in our backyard. They were having some difficulties and ran into the fence, peach tree and over the top of some of my flowers. No permanent damage was done.

Here's a bunch of the kids smooshed in the kiddie pool at the swim party. I didn't have our larger pool pumped up and ready to go yet. Thankfully they were good sports and all seemed to have a good time.

This is a picture of Kari's newborn baby. We had a swim party in our backyard and they came over. The swim party switches to a different house in the neighborhood every week. It's been fun.

The pretty little plant arrangement I made. I love doing stuff like that. I also painted our front door red. Redford=Red door. I think it looks pretty good. I'll post a picture some time.

Here I am resting on the bench near the playground. I love camping, but sleeping on the ground is just not the same as being in your own bed. I got bruises on my hips from the hard ground, next year we'll be bringing air mattresses. Don't Madison and Isabelle look like sweethearts?

Madison and Jeff on the playground at the ward campout. The weather was nice and cool and even better, no mosquitos. We didn't bring Bailee with us, my mom was nice enough to watch her. We had a fun, relaxing time.

Here we are at our Ward Campout. We're in line for Sno Cones, thanks to Brother Johnson. I'm holding a friends (Kellie's) baby. She likes me :)

If you look closely, you'll see that Bailee dressed herself. I hope she doesn't get upset with me for posting this picture of her cute tush. At least it's semi-covered.

Here are Madison and Bailee on Madison's last day of 1st Grade. Madison was not happy about school getting out for the summer. She cried quite a bit on this day. She loved her teacher and her class so much. It took a couple of days for all of us to adjust, but we're used to it now.

Mr. Cutie with his healing broken hand. He had to have surgery to fix the bone. There are 8 screws in there. Little did I know we'd end up being at the surgical center for over 7 hours. They had a tv, which was nice, but it was on Fox News the entire time, and I couldn't find the remote. I was the only one in the waiting room, no receptionists, nothin'. After sitting for a while (quite a while) I got bored and started doing stretches. I also played Hide & Go Seek with the fish in the aquiarium, it was actually kinda fun, I'm sure they loved it. Anyways...Mr. Cutie is doing well, he handled it all like a sweet, tuff guy.