Festival of the Trees

Last week Rylee got an invitation to perform with the big kids at school who were going to perform at the Festival of the Trees. I was so excited for her so we definitley decided to let her sing. It was fun to have her come home and practice the songs for us. The song they sang is a really good one for the Christmas season called Happy Birthday Jesus. In this clip they are singing "all the carols and bells make the holidays swell but it's all about you" and then they end it with Jesus I love you. It really brings tears to my eyes to hear these 3 little spirts singing such a special song about Jesus. I hope to hear it again later when they have their Christmas program. By the way, Rylee is the one with the big pom pom on her hat made only bigger with her hair being in a bun! :)

All Moved In!

Well it seems like a long time coming but we are finally moved in. What a crazy week it has been. We still have quite a bit of unpacking to do but it is coming along. I think the hardest part for me is deciding on where everything belongs. I almost don't even want to unpack because I just get this feeling of being overwhelmed (I know I asked for it) but once I finally delve into a box and get going it gets a little easier. We finised unpacking the kitchen decorations tonight and what a good feeling it is. My living room is almost done. I am saving bedrooms and bathrooms for last as nobody sees them but me. We are still waiting for our blinds but I think they are supposed to be in this week. Here's to hoping as I am sure my neighbors love the teddy bear blanket that is hanging from Rylee's window! :) Hopefully I can get some pictures to show later.

Halloween Fun!

We had a good weekend. It was kind of a bummer because we ended up not closing on our house Friday so my mom and I had canceled our trip to Utah for nothing and had my sister come here to help us move for nothing. Well, at least the kids had fun trick or treating together. Friday night we went to the Ucon School Carnival. It was cute and the kids had fun there and got lots of candy there. I haven't been to a school carnival since I was in elementary school so it kind of took me back a little bit.

Saturday we went and visited the grandmas and grandpas that we could and of course the kids got more candy there. Then that night we went to Trunk or Treat and then went around my mom's neighborhood trick or treating. At one point we just took the kids from house to house in the car and when there were a couple of houses in a row with the lights on we just had the kids run instead of getting in the car and it was so cute to see their little legs running as fast as they could go. I think they had a lot of fun! Andrew was a UPS man and Rylee was Cleopatra. They both looked really cute and luckily it wasn't too cold. I did miss decorating my house all scary though but that is something I have to look forward to next year!

My New Obsession is.......

Food blogs! I came upon them when I was trying to find the new Pumpkin Spice Hershey Kisses and I found a blog that rated these candies and that blog just took me from there. Oh my gosh I just can't get enough of them. I love to cook and am always wanting new recipes to try and when I stumbled upon these last week I just haven't been able to get enough. Each food blog has a list of more food blogs and I am just crazy trying to look at them all and see who has yummy recipes for me to try. If I sound a little food crazy it is because I am. I have a huge binder called the Big Ass Cookbook or B.A.C for short, full of recipes I have been collecting for years that I have gotten from websites like Kraft Foods.com and Food Network but I was kind of getting bored of these websites so I am all excited about these new blogs. I have a feeling I will be needing a new B.A.C. soon!

By the way-if anyone sees these Pumpkin Spice Hershey kisses you have to let me know. I love everything pumpkin and I hear they are really tasty. They are only sold at Target (that I know of and I have checked every other store in town and they have none) and Target has been sold out of them every since. By the looks of the package they are only here to stay for Halloween but I am hopeful that they will be back in November!

CLOSING DAY!

Well, we were told a couple weeks ago that we would be closing on Friday October 3oth. I didn't post anything then because I couldn't believe that they would be finished by that date. I still don't believe it as there is still so much that needs to be done. But people keep telling me that once they get going things can go rather quickly. So the plan is to close this Friday and I am really really excited but at the same I am scared to death that it won't get done and we won't be able to close and then we can't start moving in. So I am crossing my fingers that everything will go smoothly and it will all get done on time!

Pics of house

Here are a couple more pics of the house.











Right now they have finished the mudd and tape and they just did the texturing. The doors have been hung and the trim has been started. They have also just finished the hard coat for the stucco which needs to dry for 6-7 days. They should be pooring the concrete for the driveway tomorrow and then I think they will start to paint the inside of the house soon but I am not sure when.

Look What I Can Do!

So a few weeks ago we took the training wheels off Rylee's bicycle. We figured this would be the best time as she has just about grown out of this bike and it would be easier on this bike because she can touch the ground then try to teach her on a bigger bike. We have only been able to practice a couple of times and she was getting a little better-she could go down the driveway with no help. But last night as my mom and I were coming home from our evening walk we saw something in the road coming toward us. As I looked closer it was my DH walking besides Rylee on her bike with no help. She is just riding along (just a little skiwoppidly-don't even know how to spell a made up word) but she is riding all by herself. I was so excited. And as we got closer it was so cute to see she had this big huge grin on her face that she was doing it on her own. What a warm fuzzy to see how excited she was and how excited I was for her! I love everything about being a mom but I love moments like that the best!

She had a Bike a thon at school later that week and she did really well. They rode twice-once in the morning and once in the afternoon. My mom went in the morning and said Rylee fell once but in the afternoon she didn't fall at all and she rode the whole 1/2 hour. It was so cute to see all these little kindergartners w/ their melon heads (because of the helmets of course!) riding on the little bikes. How fun!!