Eight

8 Favorite TV Shows
1. Greys Anatomy
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Dr. 90210
4. The Hills
5. The Office
6. Good Eats
7. Lipstick Jungle
8. News

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Big City Soup
2. Caputo's
3. Happy Sumo
4. Dodo
5. Pistol Pete's
6. Red Butte
7. Tarahumara
8. Red Iguana

8 Things that Happened Yesterday
1. Ben trowing up down the side of my car
2. Celebrated my grandfather's 84th birthday
3. Had THREE closings :)
4. Went to the Zoo with my sister
5. Went through the car wash to was the barf off my car
6. Hugged one of my mom's friends that just had passed gas and had to sit through it - hello pregnancy sensitivity to smell - YUCK!
7. Went to Shivers for the first time in my life
8. Got my shift cut at the Gap :)

8 Things I'm Looking Forward to
1. To find out the sex of my baby
2. Will's last football game on Saturday
3. Mark's 2 week vacation that starts on Monday!
4. Spending time with my kids while they are off track
5. Spring
6. Christmas
7. Halloween
8. Thanksgiving

8 Things I Love About Fall
1. Cooler weather
2. Beautiful color in the mountains and valley
3. Halloween
4. Fall clothes - sweaters and socks!
5. Fires at home
6. Soup
7. More home time
8. Halloween candy

8 Things on my Wishlist
1. Healthy family
2. Mark retaining his job
3. Economy to turn around
4. Vacation
5. Gas prices to go way down
6. Grocery prices to go down
7. Not to gain too much weight with this pregnancy
8. Paid off house

Thanks for tagging me Stephanie!!!

Afternoon Delight

There's nothing quite like a caramel apple after dinner on a nice fall afternoon!!!

Payson Canyon

A few Saturday's ago, my mom and Steve planned a little family outing for everyone. We left right after Will's practice and drove down to Payson. Steve told us it was about ten miles up the canyon. So, we started at the bottom and headed up to meet them. They said their car would be easily to spot off the side of the road. Well, after driving almost fifteen miles up and not seeing a dang thing, we decided to drive back down, thinking surely we must have missed them. That didn't work, so we headed back up. We were getting so frustrated! I kept trying to call both of their cell phones, but we couldn't get anyone to answer. Finally, I noticed I had a voice mail, and it was Steve. He said it was actually about twenty miles up, and that my mom would be waiting off the road for us.

So, we finally found them! We were about ready to head to Nephi and eat dinner there.

We decided to take the four wheelers for a little spin before it got dark. It was a lot of fun. Max and Ben kept telling me to go faster and faster. The kids loved it!



Steve made the most delicious dinner for us.



Ben helped make the cherry chocolate cake. Well, he helped lick the spoon.




Mostly everyone participated in the egg toss. Even my 84 year old grandpa. Then, the kids turned the eggs on the cows that were grazing nearby.



We had a roast filled with crab meat and covered in sauteed mushrooms and peppers...



and delicious cheesy potatoes. Everything tasted so good.



After dinner we sat at the camp fire and roasted marshmallows and made smores. We also ate our cherry chocolate cake. As always with my mom and Steve, they are never short on food. Everyone was so stuffed!

Steve entertained everyone by telling some scary stories around the camp fire. They also entertained us by their lovely jump suits.

Thanks Mom and Steve, we had a wonderful time!

Will, Ben and Max - Who knew they has so many moves?

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A Little News

It has been forever since I've posted. I think this is the longest it has ever been. We've been really busy!

First, I must report on our anniversary. We had such a nice night. We went to dinner at a restaurant I had never been to before. Mark had with people from work, so he made reservations for us at Cucina Toscana. It was delicious, but very, very expensive - $170 later! Ouch!

After dinner, we went to the Hotel Monaco and......(see sidebar). The next morning we stopped by the farmers market at Pioneer Park. I had never been there before and it was so much fun. I can't believe I hadn't ever been before. We got some fruit and vegetables and a little breakfast. It was so great! I'm trying to find a time I can make it back before it ends. With football on Saturdays, I wonder if it will be possible before the snow falls.

Thanks Mark for planning our wonderful celebration of eleven years of marriage! Thanks to my mom for staying with our kids. They had such a great time with her.

We've been super busy with football. It has pretty much consumed Mark and Will with their little team. They've won the last two games, but lost the first two. So, hopefully they are on a roll and will win the rest of the season! Will is playing center and loving it. It is fun to watch the games - what I do get to watch. Max unfortunately doesn't follow football. He is too distracted by everything else around him.




This is a rarity...

Mark has been really busy at work. He works for Merrill Lynch, and as you may have heard, they were purchased by Bank of America. That is very unnerving. No one knows what is going to happen. So, the unknown is making me stressed out. The economy is horrible right now. We just have to think about our cute little family and how blessed we are to have what we do. That our family is healthy and safe. It just makes you really think about what is important in life.

We are so excited about our impending arrival!!!

Just Give Up Already!

So this was Max tonight. I'm sure this has happened to the best of us. He's asleep right in front of his door, making it nearly impossible to get into his room to put him in bed.

Someone lived in our house for a short time before we moved in. When we moved in we didn't have kids yet. Their son's bedroom door handle was placed with the lock on the outside, enabling them to lock him in his room. I thought that was the worst thing a parent could do. Then we had kids. Now I see the light! No, I don't lock Will and Ben in their rooms, just Maxie poo!

Today - no nap. He didn't wake up until 9:30, which gave me some nice quiet reading time to delve into Breaking Dawn. (I'm halfway!) So, I figured that Max wouldn't need a nap today and he'd go to bed early. It was a rainy day, so we stayed in the whole day. I made a beef stew, which was delicious! I love fall, it is my favorite time of the year. I love putting on a nice pair of socks to warm my feet and hang out in PJ's all the live long day. That is exactly what I did today.

So, 8:00 rolls around and Max is unbearable. After brushing his teeth and reading him 3 stories, we laid him down for the light. My plan didn't work. He wouldn't go to sleep and kept emerging from his room. We had to do it. We locked him in his room.

After a bit of crying, he finally gave in. I just had to take a picture of his dirty little feet. (We did play outside a bit this evening. I'm not that mean.)

Happy Anniversary

Today is our eleventh anniversary!

My mom is coming to tend the kid overnight, we are off! It is hard to believe it has been that long. It doesn't even seem like it! I guess time flies when you're having fun. Mark is such a great husband and father. I couldn't have asked for a better guy.

Will took our picture and I must say he did a pretty good job and I even had a few to choose from.