survival of the finals...

So finals haven't even started yet and Chris is gone first thing in the morning and home and midnight or one! It is awful! I am so looking forward to Thanksgiving and the break and focusing on what I am grateful and Thankful for. I am grateful for all of Chris' hard work but I will also be Thankful for having time to spend with him and my family! I am so excited I can hardly wait! Chris will be back to the grind after a short but long weekend and we will still be doing our thing! We made him a cute survival kit to make it through the next couple weeks. It was fun to go and pick out all his favorite things, just for him! He is such a hard worker and we are so lucky to have this opportunity and for his dedication and perseverance...

Football Champs...

So Chris was excited about his two football wins this past week. The UofU won!!! He was really excited. Since not in Utah he couldn't watch it on TV so he tried the internet and that didn't work well he had to listen to it on the radio, but he didn't care because they won!!!

He also play with the ward on their football team and WON!! They were the champs this year in a close game with last years winners! He was so excited they passed out their champ T-shirts yesterday at church and he is already wearing his with pride! Way to go babe!

Date night...

So Chris and I rarely get date night just with ourselves. Usually we have Kaden in tow doing whatever we are doing and it is a lot of work. Well some girls in our ward had a great idea, they put together a group of us and decided to rotate Friday nights so one Friday we will watch all the kids and then have three Fridays that we can go and do things without kids. Last night was the first time and it was great! They were wonderful with Kaden and I could tell that he was a happy little guy when I picked him up (I was worried that because we got home late and he was woken up that we would have a rough time putting him down and it would be a long night, but he went right to sleep). We have the kiddos next week so it will be fun to have them all together at our house to play! Chris and I tried to go to the Temple but in Spokane you have to make an appt. and by the time we knew our plans and I called the Temple every session was over booked so maybe next time (Chris was bummed he said that's the first time he has ever been turned away from the Temple, however isn't it great that it is that busy!). Our next idea was to go to the new Bond movie, however when we got there every time was sold out. I should have figured that would be the case. We had fun though we ate and did some Christmas shopping! Next time around we will make plans earlier so that they work out but it was just fun to be able to spend some one on one time with Chris, that is so rare these days!

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!