Christmas early...

So since we are going to be gone a couple weeks over Thanksgiving and then over Christmas I am debating when to do Christmas with Kaden. I don't know whether we do it before or after. He is still so little he won't understand, but I don't want to have to haul everything to grandma's. I work all next weekend and then the next weekend is Tyler's wedding in which I am going to stay in Utah for a couple weeks while Chris gets ready for finals. I told Chris I wanted to put our tree up this weekend he laughed. We will see I love getting out the tree with all the moving ornaments. I think I might only be decorating the upper half though, however with all my moving ornaments I might short circuit all the lights on our tree I can't believe though there is only 1 1/2 months till Christmas...that is coming fast! Sorry I already have Christmas as my background I am just lazy and don't want to change it now for Thanksgiving and then again in 2 weeks and I was sick of my last background!

Rainy days...

What do you do on a rainy day with an 18 month old. We have had an entire week of rain and we are bored. I can only wander around the mall so much or watch movies for so long. Any ideas? Last week we found a mall with this play area Kaden has fun and I meet other moms which is nice for me but we have done this already a couple times this week. Kaden likes this little fish the best...I think he likes things better when he can say the word it is cute when he says fish. I feel like though every time I take him to a place like this he gets sick!

Asian night...

So back in the days when we were living in Provo my sister was visiting our place. I love PF Chang's lettuce wraps and decided I was going to have what I called "Asian night" (hopefully that's not to politically incorrect) and make lettuce wraps. Well it turned out totally disgusting thanks to the hoison sauce ugggh! So bad that everytime I make something that goes wrong the comment is usually well it's not as bad as "Asian night". Well I attempted to do Asian night again and it went much better so this post is for my family. We had pork egg rolls (which I even ground my own pork in the meat grinder), crab wontons and ham fried rice it was much better than my first attempt so hopefully I have redemed myself...

Our favorite friends

Why is it that kids find the funniest things to become attached to? Since we stopped giving Kaden a bottle he has been really attached to the stuffed animals that he has been given. And they of course are somewhat strange. He has a monkey that Chris' dad won at the fair for him that is bright red and then he has a rat that my dad gave him (ratatouille). He carries these things around with him all over the house, I am lucky and he will leave them here when we go places but otherwise he has them in tow. When he gets out of bed in the morning he points and moans until he has these two and his blankie. His other new thing is saying "mon" for come on or "han" for hold my hand. He likes me also to follow him everywhere he goes. How can resist?

I just wish we had better playmates than these two...maybe they are sentimental since they are from the grandpas!

Recipe exchange

Thanks girls so much for coming tonight! I had so so much fun and I was suprised at how many bodies we fit in my little apartment. It was fun to see you all and wow you have some great tricks up your sleeve. I am going to have to see if I can recreate some of them! You girls are so amazing and I am impressed that since we are basically single mothers that everyone is so upbeat and positive. We definately need to get together more now that it is getting colder. It is supposed to rain everyday this week so lets think of something fun. Thanks again, sorry I should have taken picture to capture such a fun time! Next time.

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8 Favorite TV Shows:
Greys Anatomy
24
Desperate Housewives
House
American Idol
The Bachelor or Bachelorette
Today show
90210 (yeah can you believe it, I am really bored have to find something on every night)
8 Things I did yesterday:
Went to the mall with my friend Marissa
Took Kaden to play at the playground
Also changed lots of diapers
Planned what I was making for my recipe exchange party tonight!
Read and read and read more stories to Kaden
Watched Toy story
Watched 90210
Wrote in my journal and Kaden's Journal
8 Things I look forward to:
Chris coming home from school everyday
Kadens hugs and kisses
Kaden blowing me kisses from time out and saying "sors"
The day Kaden doesn't need to go to time out
Thanksgiving in Utah!!!
Visiting all my friends in Utah
Christmas with family
When I have my 1000 hrs of work logged for this 5 year period so I can relax and just worry about being a mom
Favorite resturaunts
Cheesecake factory
Market Street
Cafe Rio
Noodles
Tucanos
PF Changs

8 Things on my wish list:
To wish that I didn't worry about all the silly unnecessary worries
When Kaden is bigger to see his face at disneyland
To travel and explore new places
A home that we own and can paint and decorate
A flexible job
Enjoy being in school and not wish that we were almost done
I don't have 8 I guess I just think about what I wish for very often or I get down in life. I try not to think about and be happy with what I have and don't very often find myself wishing for things I don't have, except for the perfect life (you know the usual)!

Let the festivities begin...

We had a fun Halloween, the night before our family dressed up and when to a trunk or treat at the church. Kaden was a 101 dalmation, I was cruella and Chris was Roger although he thinks no one knew what he was supposed to be and felt stupid because he had a comb over and looked like a huge nerd. I overheard Chris talking to one on the young men passing out candy who asked Chris where he got his cool fangs? Chris said these are my real teeth and the young men wouldn't let it go he was sure he had in fangs. I felt bad because I know that this has always bugged Chris but it was kind of funny how sure this kid was that they were fake.

Halloween night our good friends had us over for dinner and their trunk or treat. We did rootbeer, Pumpkin pizza and hot wassle. The pizza was cute and Kaden liked eating it before and after trick or treating after treak or treating we watched the grudge 2 it was more entertaining watching everyone scream than the movie because the movie was dumb!

These are our trick or treaters...Conner is the Dragon and Cade the night. Conner all night kept trying to pet Kaden or would say this is my little puppy it was cute. Their boys are great with Kaden. Kaden and Conner would trick or treat together and people would say what a cute sheep and dinosaur...Conner would get mad and say I am not a dinosaur I am a dragon and he's a dalmation, it was so funny! I should have dressed Kaden up as a sheep at least he can baaa better than he can bark.

Halloween this year was a lot of fun. Kaden is finally to the age where his face lights up and he gets excited about things. I was also impressed for a 17 months old to understand how to hold the bucket and run from house to house (he literally ran the entire way!), although we had to break every couple of houses to pick out a treat to eat. His favorites are the dumb dumbs which is good because we got a lot of those. They are messy though and a few times the sticks have disappeared I am afraid he may have eaten those too, oh well extra fiber I guess. Kaden probably face planted on the cement 3 or 4 times and would get up running to the next house it wasn't until he had a collision with a bush that went up his nose and cut the inside that we had a lot of blood which kept running that I thought we should call it quits (that and the pumpkin bucket was full and too heavy for Kaden) but he wanted to keep going. We are going to have candy all year long!