Happy Birthday Josh!

Josh turned 24 yesterday! We had quite the celebration for him too. We had the family come over to my mom's house for dinner and a white elephant gift exchange. To add to that we were all supposed to wear our "ugly sweaters." I think the ugliest sweater award went to Jared but there were some pretty ugly sweaters. Dinner was delicious and the gift exchange was so funny. We were all laughing until we had tears coming out of our eyes. The pictures below can describe the gifts and fun times way better than my words ever could. So Happy Birthday to Josh. We love you.

This and That

Since my Halloween post I have: seen New Moon with my mom and sisters (minus 1), saw New Moon again with Josh, had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal twice once with my dad and once with my grandparents and whole family, done a little Black Friday shopping for Christmas presents, enjoyed the nice weather with my sisters, and today said goodbye to Josh for possibly a month and a half. I need to explain the last one. We put an offer in on a house in St. George back in October but the process takes a very long time because we are waiting on the bank. So I have been told we will hear back to see if we have been approved in about two weeks. Josh is starting his job in St. George today and our house isn't ready so he was sent on his way to work and stay with friends down there while I stay here with Talon at my moms house. While I am so grateful we have these options that save us money, I wish so badly that there was a way to stay with Josh. Hopefully it will go by fast and all will go well.
In the meantime I will work on Christmas and Birthday preparations. I am going to be sending out Christmas cards this year and all my addresses are packed in a box somewhere in a storage unit so if you would like a card I would love it if you could get me your address. You can email it to me at princessjojo05@yahoo.com or text it to me at 801-472-4223. Thanks everyone!

Getting ready to go see New Moon

Talon will not like me someday for this but I could not resist this picture

Be Grateful

In honor of Thanksgiving, I wanted to list some of the many things I am so very grateful for this year.

I am SO very thankful for my husband and all that he does for our family so that I can enjoy staying home with my baby. He is such a wonderful father and husband that I don't think I could of asked for better or more!

I am thankful for Talon and the joy of being a mother to such a unique and wonderful baby boy!

I am thankful for all of my family everywhere and for their love and support in all we do, most especially right now for my mom that is letting us stay with her and for helping us out above and beyond.

I am grateful for the opportunity that we have to purchase a home in St. George.

I am also so grateful for the little things in life, like retail therapy for a really bad day, or happy hour at Sonic that helps get you through the rest of the day!

I have so much to be grateful for and it goes so much deeper and more than this but I wanted to share some of the things that are such a big part of my life. What are you grateful for?

Happy Halloween

Well we made it through another Halloween here. I am always sad to see it go because there is so much anticipation for me getting costumes ready and making sure everything is perfect that it just comes and goes too quickly. But I am also excited because it means that more great holiday's are approaching us just around the corner. For Halloween this year we got square pumpkin kids meals from Arctic Circle for dinner and enjoyed that and then decided we would take Talon out for his first Trick-Or-Treating experience. It was so much fun we only went to a few houses but I can already tell he will be a great trick-or-treater! After that we just went back to my mom's and passed out candy. We had so much fun!! And I can't wait to put together next years costumes.

Attempted Photo Shoot

I am finally getting caught up on some of my slacking blogging. Hopefully I will be able to stay caught up this time.
Last week, my sister and I ventured out and decided to try and take our own pictures of our babies instead of paying a hefty price to have someone else do it. Well now I know why people will pay the high prices for good pictures. It is so hard to get a good picture of babies. We tried and tried and got a few good ones but nothing that was super exciting. So if any of you know a good photographer for a decent price I would love to get their info! If nothing else we had some fun trying to get them to look at the camera and smile.

BYU Homecoming Game

This last Saturday, we took Talon to his first BYU football game! And as you can tell by the pictures he LOVED it!! Well for the most part. I had a decent time until TCU really started stomping on BYU. It was a little bit of a heartbreaking game but I am so glad that we had the opportunity to go. I look forward to going to at least one game every year! And even though BYU lost miserably, I still love them! Go Cougars!!

Annual Halloween Party

Many people probably know that Halloween is one of my favorite holiday's. One of the things I anticipate the most is our family annual Halloween party that Allie throws every year. This year we had it a little early (17th) but she did such a fantastic job and it was so much fun. We ate some delicious homemade pizza's and we decorated our own little pumpkins, and we also did the traditional trick or treating to different doors in the house. For our theme on our costumes this year we went with Monsters. Josh was Cookie Monster, I was the purple people eater, Talon was a 3-eyed monster, and we even got Charlie to be Frankenstein. Putting together costumes is always so much fun for me so I am already searching for ideas for next year. Everybody else gets so creative with their costumes that seeing them is half the fun of the party for me. We can't wait for actual Halloween to come to, Talon gets to go do a little bit of Trick-Or-Treating for the first time!

The Jungle Family (I helped sew their costumes, YAY )

Mom is a skunk and of course the Rag Doll

Madison the genie and Marli Ariel

Becky the Rag Doll