Friday, December 24, 2010

Thanksgiving Trip

 I was really bad about taking pictures over Thanksgiving so most of this will just be words.  We got up early Wednesday and left for Utah and our drive was pretty uneventful.  We stayed at Paul's mom's house and the kids slept great there, it was so nice!  Thursday morning we hung out with my family and then headed down to  Orem to have Thanksgiving dinner with Paul's family. And it was delicious as usual!  Connie is always in charge of bringing rolls and stuffing to dinner and they never disappoint.  That morning she was making rolls and she let Leila help even though she was running late.  She pretty much let Leila make an entire batch all by herself, I was surprised that Leila stuck it out the entire time and that she was strong enough to stir in all the ingredients by herself.  Leila loves cooking so she was in heaven getting to make rolls with Nie nie!




Drive to Utah, thank goodness for the DVD player and headphones!
Greydon playing with his ball in the car, he kept throwing it up and getting it stuck on his head, he was so frustrated until I started laughing and then he thought it was funny.



Thanksgiving night there were a couple things we wanted to get at Toys R Us and Walmart.  We met up with Nan and Jon.  When we got to Toys R Us the line was wrapped like a mile long around the building and we decided it wasn't worth it so we headed to Walmart.  When we got there not very many people were there yet so we were pretty much first in line for whatever we wanted.  Jon got in line for Band Hero and Nan for some Leapsters.  Paul and I were looking for a 12" girl bike but could only find 12" boy bikes or larger bikes, we finally gave up and were going to go buy some things which we were price matching from the Toys R Us ad, on our way to the register they brought out a palet and on it was the bike we were looking for.  I stayed there with the bike and Paul went to buy our other stuff.  Then he went to wait and get some other stuff.  A little before midnight I heard like an explosion and yelling and people started running near where the Band Hero palet was.  Then a Walmart worked told us we could grab our stuff so I got my bike and found Jon who had his Band Hero and we went to find Nan. This is when it got ugly, people were going crazy around the Leapsters and movies.  I literally saw a women trying to swim out of a crowd above peoples heads. Then we see Nan yelling and furious, she wanted a pink and green Leapster and had her hands on one of each when the green one was ripped out of her hand, she luckily got a second pink one.  We were then on to find Paul who was suppose to get an art kit.  We found him running with his arms full of items.  He said he got a little caught up in the excitement and just started grabbing things.  We quickly made our purchases and headed home. It was a lot of fun but not sure if I would brave black friday doorbusters again.
Friday night I got to hang out with some of my friends while Paul got to go to the Jazz vs. Laker game with some of his buddies.  And then on Saturday night we met up with our good friends the Petersons, Phillips, and Sloans at a Sushi restaurant to celebrate Seth's birthday.  I tried Sushi for the first time, it was ok, not sure if I would ever order it on my own but I could definitely eat it again.  On Sunday we celebrated my mom's birthday and then we headed home.  It was snowing most of the way home and was a little scary, but Paul got us safely home, it only took like 8 1/2 hours.  


Cactus Gardens

 One night before Thanksgiving we went to see the lights at the Cactus Gardens for FHE.  We love to see the lights and then go get our free sample of chocolate at Ethel M's.  Greydon loved the lights and and Leila loved finding all the Santa's.  We went and sat in Santa's chair (he wasn't there since it wasn't a weekend night), Leila thought it was cool to try out his chair without actually having to see Santa.




Some of or favorite people

I watched these kids one day and we had so much fun playing school, nap time and lots of other fun games! 




Sunday, December 5, 2010

Sweet Tooth


We have entered a whole new phase with Greydon.  He has become quite opinionated in what he wants and if he doesn't get it watch out for his tantrum.  I didn't think tantrums started so young but Greydon can sure throw one.  Don't even think of eating something without sharing it with Greydon especially chocolate, candy or suckers.  If you stop him from doing something he wants to do or don't give him something he wants to eat a meltdown WILL occur.  Leila has been so good to always share her candy, suckers or popcicles with him, I guess she would rather share then have him follow her around screaming and trying to grab her stuff.