Forgot to post the pictures of us picking out our pumpkins...

20 month stats

Jaycee had her 18 month appointment yesterday. She actually turns 20 months next week, but with switching jobs and getting new insurance it threw it off a bit. Jaycee has never cared about going to the doctor, but this time she knew exactly where she was. She cried the whole time they weighed her, did her length, and checked on her. Luckily, when her doctor came in she was running around in her diaper playing. Then they came and gave her 3 shots and the crying began again. It was nice to have Craig come with me and keep her calm. She is all done with shots until she turns 4! That'll be a good break. Jaycee now weighs 24 lb. 11 oz 46% for her age and is 32 1/4" 49% for her age. So looks like we got an average little girl. We went and got ice cream after for being so good! She didn't eat hardly anything, but I think that was the affects of the shots.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

With the kids trick-or-treating

And pumpkins for carving to give a good scare

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

It's been a while since I've last posted but there hasn't been anything too exciting to post about.
Right after our hike we went on, the next day I came down with a bad cold. I'm still trying to get over the coughing stage of it. Now Jaycee has been coughing all day. It's not fun being sick. I blame it on the change of seasons. So all last week and most of this week we have been staying home and trying to get better. We have had some nice days in the high 50's so I was able to go for walks with Jaycee and Izzy and also take Jaycee to the park. I love the fall! Especially when the sun is shining all day long!
For Family Home Evening on Monday we decided to go to the Library. Yes, we're nerdy like that :) Craig has been wanting to get a book to read for a while. It was fun to see Jaycee play in the kids section and pick up all the books. She found a big Elmo one to check-out and has "read" it every day. Craig checked-out The Great Gatsby and finished it last night. I found a mystery book and wouldn't recommend it. The cop in the book has "made love" with at least 3 girls, the F word has been said at least a dozen times, and many other words. I should just go take it back, but now I gotta see how it ends. The book has a series to it, but I won't be reading anymore. I'm up for a good book or author if any one has suggestions?.....
Craig and I have finished our Halloween costumes. With 2 trips to Good Will and $12 later, our pirate costumes look pretty dang good. Here are some sneak peeks....






On another good note...I've officially lost all my baby pounds! Yahoo! I'm going to keep dieting & exercising to try to get off some "wedding" pounds by the time we decide to add another wee-little one to the family. Craig has also hit his goal weight and he only has 9 more to go to get to his "wedding" weight. I'm so proud of him. He has helped me so much to be my partner in this goal. Let's just hope the holidays coming up are nice to both of us :)
And the last good note...there is a light at the end of the tunnel! Our 4 wheeler is close to being paid off. I have been dumping $ at the loan since we moved out here. We've been living frugal so we can get it paid off and working on the truck loan. We're hoping with a good Christmas bonus it'll be paid off and a little extra to our account. We're so excited! I can't imagine what it'd be like to have no...heck only one car payment. Paying the truck off would give us an extra $300/month! I think it's Dave Ramsey who Craig listens to that inspired us to pay debt! I'm proud of Aimee & Kyle too who have listened to Craig's spill about paying off debt and got their signature loan gone! Yahoo! I can't wait.

Breathtaking!

On Saturday Craig decided that we should go for a hike before it got too cold. He researched online and found one about 1 1/2 hour away. Borestone Mountain. It was a 1.2 mile hike to the nature center than an additional .6 to go to the top of the mountain. It didn't sound too bad. Well little did I know it was a vertical incline almost the whole way. It was such a good work out. It got really steep near the top. It was bitter cold when we finally got to the top and the wind was horrible. Jaycee's poor little hands were freezing and she didn't want to be in the back pack anymore. We snapped a few pictures and headed back down. Jaycee cried the whole way down. I felt really bad. It took us about 2 hours to get to the top and about an hour back down. Next time we need to find me some hiking shoes and a bigger back pack for Jaycee. Other than that, it was a great time. We got home that night and just crashed. We were all cold and tired. Here are some pics I captured:



The mountain in the background is the one we hiked. This was the half way point




Walking through the woods...

General Conference Weekend

As one of our traditions on conference weekend we go for a drive between sessions to leaf peek. We are about 3 weeks from the peak of the colors so we'll have to go again. We headed up Old Canada Road which leads right to the border. In fact, we only had to drive 60 more miles to go to the border. Next year we'll be getting passports so we can play in Quebec. We really enjoyed conference even though we had to watch it on our laptop. Living outside of Utah I forget about all the conveniences we had living there. We couldn't even get it to broadcast on AM. At least we had the internet to watch it on. Here are a few pics of our peek

I wanna get physical...physical!

Jaycee thinks it's pretty fun to exercise with us. We're teaching her good habits, even at 18 months old!

DLP

We're having issues with our TV. After spending $1000 on a TV you'd expect it to give you much happiness and lots to watch on it. About 2 months ago our lamp (bulb) burnt out---super! We knew it'd happen eventually but kinda weird after 2 years. So we found a bulb online from QUICKSHIPWAY.com. DON'T EVER GO THROUGH THEM! It was $84 + shipping so we thought we got a killer deal. Wrong! Craig installed the bulb...worked perfect...then 2 weeks later---burnt out again! It's been a long 2 months and with trying to contact the company and get a new bulb since it's under warranty. Craig even filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Well we finally heard back from the company and they reimbursed us our money back but only the $84 so we got screwed out of shipping. So we've been watching everything on our 19 inch TV sitting nicely next to our 50 inch TV. We found another bulb online through Samsung for $120 + shipping. We've been holding out because we've been spending any extra money on birthday presents and christmas. I'll tell ya...football isn't the same! I told Craig to go ahead and buy the new bulb today. We're sick of waiting, or maybe just sick of watching TV on a small 19 inch squished into the corner of our living room. I can't wait. So after this experience I don't think I'll ever buy another DLP TV although the picture is great. Buying a replacement lamp is a joke!



We all 3 squish in front of that TV to watch shows. Get's pretty bad when Izzy decides she wants to come sit by us too.

Can't think of a Title

This is Sister Watterson from Nevada. She got transferred on Tuesday so they stopped by Monday night to say good-bye. Her and Jaycee really got to know each other because we go with the missionaries at least once a week. Sister Watterson and Jaycee were "riding buddies" I was sad to see her leave especially since she's been in our area since we moved here. She will be missed for sure! I'm just really glad Sister Hatch is still here. I'll put a picture of her on here soon. She's from Cali/Utah and also found out the other day that her and Jaycee have the same birthday! She's a great friend!


So Jaycee thinks she's a big girl. She now climbs up on the bar stools and wants to eat from the counter like we do. This morning I was eating cereal for breakfast and she kept saying "bite" so I figured she could eat her own. Her very first bowl of cereal with milk. She loved it! I DON'T love it because it makes me realize that she's not a baby anymore.


Jaycee giving a cheesy smile while eating her cereal. That's some major bed hair :)

Jaycee got a surprise in the mail. I decided to let Grandma see her open her special package. Thank you grandma and grandpa!

Halloween?

I know you're probably thinking I'm crazy for 1-changing my background AGAIN or 2-I put Halloween on it. I can't help it. I LOVE HALLOWEEN. It's my most favorite holiday.
So you're just gonna have to deal with it for an extra ten days. Do you all have your costume picked out? I can't decide what we're going to do. Craig hates dressing up, but I'm making him. I'm thinking maybe we'll be gangsters...that could be fun...we will see...