Saturday, November 27, 2010

Tis the Season

The night of Thanksgiving I got into the mood to start decorating my house for Christmas. I love this part. It makes my home feel magical and wonderous. All the little twinkle lights and garland and bright colors make me smile and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Stella is just starting to understand Christmas and what everything that I am putting up is. She calls anything green "trees" including the tree. When the lights are on she says "look Trees! It's beautiful!" I love watching her eyes get big and sparkle as she takes it all in.

Thanksgiving... what are you thankful for?

This time of the year is my favorite. Starting with Thanksgiving and ending with Christmas. I love that it centers around family and loved ones. I wish it could be year round because it seems to bring out the best in people. Even if it's only for 2 months I think it's great that people try and make an extra effort to show kindness and love towards others. This year we celebrated Thanksgiving in Tooele, UT in a bowling alley at the Army Depot that my uncle manages. He opens it up every year on Thanksgiving and invites both sides of his family and friends and anyone else that wants to come to enjoy wonderful food and good company.







Sunday, November 21, 2010

Shhhh....


I am the type of person that loves, loves surprises! Not only getting surprises but surprising other people. There is something about anticipation and suspense that makes it that much better. It gets me all excited just thinking about the reaction of the person when somthing unexpected is given. Why am I writing about surprises you ask? Well tonight I am surprising my husband with a massage. Many of you know I went to massage school and became a massage therapist. However, this didn't last too long because of many reasons and just became a hobby on the side that I didn't do too often. My husband Alex works and works and then works some more. He is such a hard and dedicated worker and does so much that I wanted to do something great for him. I am not great at keeping secrets so this is my outlet to not tell him. :) He gets home a little later tonight and I am looking forward to seeing his reaction. I hope he enjoys. :)

Happy Birthday Alex

You know what I like about blogging, it doesn't neccessarily need to be in chronological order, so it's not. :) These next few posts are just things that I haven't been able to write about. Little tid bits that have happened for our little family. So right now I would love to give a late shout out to my wonderful, hard working husband Alex. His birthday was on Nov. 6th and he is now 27!! He is an amazing father. He loves his Little Stella so much and loves being a daddy to her. He is such a hard worker and only wants the best for our family. He has the biggest heart and only wants to make people around him happy. I love him and I am grateful for that he is in my life forever. Happy Birthday month my love!


Let it snow..

Last night and today Mother Nature has sprinkle well more like dumped on the area with a Beautiful white Blanket of snow! How fun to wake up and look outside and see everything covered in white. Snow is so peaceful and fun all at the same time. Everything is magical looking. I love it. It brings me back to my child hood and praying for it to snow,so we wouldn't have to go to school. I would get all bundled up from head to toe and run out side and play with friends for hours on end. Snow ball fights, building snowmen and sleding down our big hill out in front of my house. Then getting too cold and running inside and warming up with hot chocolate only to run back outside and continue having fun. This year is Stella's first year of really understanding snow and wanting to play in it. We kept her PJ's on put some boots on her and down vest and put a big scarf around her neck this morning so she could play with Alex in the snow while he shoveled. She loved it! She was such a good little helper! Using her little shovel and bucket she followed Alex around while he moved piles of snow out of the way. So fun to watch her discover the snow around her.