Todd: 0 Cookies: 1






Yeah, Todd is on a diet! And he got Danish Butter Cream cookies from my work party. 300 Danish Butter Cream cookies to be exact! So yeah, since they ALL made it into the cookie jar located ever so conveniently on the kitchen counter I am counting it as Todd zero, cookies one so far! So - 300 cookies on 12/15/08 - should we take bets on how long they last? These are some of Todd's favorite cookies that consist of - from the label in order: flour, butter, sugar, and eggs! Lucky for him I don't even like these cookies, as I think is consistent with most of the population, so he doesn't have to worry about my swaying the total calorie intake! I'll keep you updated on how long they last - but as for now let's hear what you think!

Merry Christmas!

Just thought we'd post a little Christmas cheer! We, of course, thought she looked absoluetly adorable. But then again what else is new?

And Soon There Will Be 4!

Wow, that seems a little crazy to say out loud. A family of 4 is like a real live family! So yes, we are totally going to have 4, and we are so excited. We have been more excited about this baby than we ever were about Savannah!

ETA - which I posted this last time and still tons of you asked when I was due, so FYI - ETA means Estimated Time of Arrival.

ETA is June 30, 2009. Common questions that arise after this is known:

They will be 16 months apart.
We are hoping for a boy. (Having 2 girls 16 mos apart seems like a lot of drama!)
We will totally be excited about a girl too.
Nathan or Emily.
I am 9 weeks along.
It was TOTALLY planned.
I feel great.
Todd is so excited and has been ready for months now!
It's perfect timing for my job.

Well that's about it. No pic this time. The second time around definitely feels different than the first. I opened up "What To Expect When You're Expecting" just because I felt guilty I hadn't yet. But hardly read a word. It's actually kind of nice. Went to the Dr. Didn't have really any questions. And now we are just counting down the days. Which by the way seems like it might last forever this time! Did any of you have any of these same problems? With the second or third or fourth?

Camping in the Kiabab

Recently we went on Jenny's deer hunt to Arizona in the Kiabab forest. We were in a camp trailer but it still got pretty cold at night. Since we are the kind of parents who are going to have our kids sweating instead of shivering this is how we dressed Savannah to brave the cold! We thought it looked so cute when we were done we couldn't help but take a picture. And yes, of course, these are the only pictures we took the entire time! But really, isn't she so cute! She slept soundly through the entire night everytime! We felt pretty lucky!

I'm Totally Serious

Okay does anyone have any ideas for a fat-free, sugar-free, calorie-free, carb-free snack? And I don't want anymore water and I don't like the Miracle Noodles. I would appreciate any and all help in this matter. I am really counting on you guys to come through for me. Yours Truly, Jen.

Long Time No Post

We have been kind of busy this past month, but haven't neglected to take some pictures. But funny thing, as we were looking through which pictures to post - we only have some of Savannah! But she is the cutest member of our family so rightfully so!


We did take some pictures of the snow we got. Early October we got a snow storm and although it wasn't like Burley's it was pretty tragic! Most all our flowers were still in full bloom and most got frozen. We ran outside and saved these few red roses. It hasn't snowed since but it was a rude awakening for winter.


You might remember that we posted a picture of our kitty and Savannah when she was much younger - like months younger! Well here is an update. They are still good friends and Kitty is doing pretty good letting Savannah pat her!

Then of course there was Halloween. Lucky for us Todd's brother, Robb, and his wife, Amanda, were nice enough to send Savannah a cute costume to wear. The backup we had was a horse and Todd was not into his little princess being a horse! So we went to our friend's "Trunk or Treat" and took some pics of Savannah.

We then went back to our friend's house and took some more pics. Their little girl was Snow White and their little boy was a puppy. It was perfect as he is crawling like crazy and looked so cute running around!

She is also getting pretty good at clapping. Who knew having a baby could be so fun?!

Savannah also got her first Halloween card from her Grandma Welch. She loved looking at it and eating it!

We finally went Watersking again!


We went with a girlfriend from high school and her family. It was the best day of sking we have had in years. It was warm but not hot and not windy and there was only 1 fishing boat and 1 other boat that randomly skied. We did the normal kneeboarding, slaloming, and tubing but we also wakeboarded on a our new wakeboard Jenny got at a yard sale for $5 and it's awesome.

I couldn't help but take this pic of Savannah sucking her thumb. She actually just started a couple weeks ago. I don't think I will think it is as cute when she is doing it at 2 yrs old, but for now it is adorable!

Savannah has her own spot that she loves. She sleeps there everytime and it works out perfectly!

This time she got so tired she started falling asleep between my feet as I was sitting on the back of the drivers chair driving and not realizing how tired she was!

We couldn't help but post this pic as she looks like she really means business!

She loved the sand! And this is why we love SandHollow. The beach is really unbeatable for Utah!



Just in case you forgot what Todd looks like and what a hunk I married, here you go!

We really have to Thank Amanda for taking so many great photos. We never take this many but always want to! And for Judd and Amanda for taking their family with us. We know it isn't always easy but it was so much fun!

Updates of Savannah -



As she is so cute! She is currently 7 months old and so much stinking fun. She has started teething but we didn't know it until we saw 2 cute little front bottom teeth. They are so surprisingly cute. She looks adorable with them! This (just in case you didn't get it) is Todd playing the guitar to her. She absolutely loves it. She used to just watch, but now she participates! She is getting quite good, very comparable to Jenny actually! She sometimes stares at the guitars when Todd is holding her until realizes it and grabs one and starts playing for her.

We Went to Michigan...

and we didn't take any pictures while we were there! We drove and that was fun. We put the camper shell on the back of our truck and Todd made a platform to put our guest queen bed on and we stored all of our stuff underneath it and we slept on it at night and Todd slept back there while I drove sometimes too. We both took our shotguns and slept with them right next to us. (Last year in Cedar there was an incident in our Walmart parking lot and the shotgun won so we figured it was a good idea!) The whole thing was really quite the experience. Savannah did so well and we stopped at rest areas and ate the food we brought in our cooler, played on blankets and visited and it was such a great trip.

A few fun facts: Top speed was 121 mph, Low speed 30 mph on the freeway! Best Tank was 19.82 mpg. Most expensive gas was $4.29/gal and we paid that 4 times! Cheapest gas was $3.90/gal and that was in our own hometown of Cedar City, Utah. (We liked that actually!) Total miles traveled 3768 taking 3 days to get there and 2 days to get home. Our total trip was 9 days and including food was cheaper than it would have been had we flown! (Remember we didn't get a hotel room!) We think there is a good chance we will drive out there for years to come. It was very fun! Our favorite state out of Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan was Iowa with western Colorado and eastern Utah close seconds only because we are more familiar with them.

They are actually pretty fantastic!

We experienced a real live mid-western hail storm with 1/4" hailstones. It was so loud slamming against our truck going 35 mph we thought it would be dented for sure and Savannah slept through the whole thing, well we think she did as we couldn't hear her! The best part about that stretch of road was it was one of the few times I was driving and we were both pretty scared about that! Out of all the vehicles on the road we were the only ones stupid enough not to pull off! We were the only ones coming or going for miles. It all turned out fine though!

We saw 2 vipers and neither one wanted to race! (sissys) We experienced our first Toll road and Todd completely missed it. Meaning he went through the I-Pass lane because the other lanes were all stopping and he didn't want to stop! I had to explain what happened to him and why we should have stopped and had to go online and pay our toll!

Todd only let Savannah drive once, but she really loved it! She thinks she is going to be a natural! I couldn't believe how it seriously looked like she posed for this pic!

Michigan was too stinking fun to take pictures! We went to a ball game, made homemade jam, ripped down a fence and built a new fence, played on the lake, had excellent food(as always) and Robb and Todd dominated "Fantastic Contraption" (for more info google fantastic contraption. Warning: be prepared to loose track of half your day!) It was excellent to visit Todd's brother, Robb and his wife Amanda and their little family. They just had a new baby and it was so fun for Savannah to get to see her cousins. They are pretty close in age and Amanda got some really cute pics of them holding hands! We love our annual Michigan and the chance to see and visit them.

The Littlest WaterSkiers!

Recently we took my brother's family (without him) waterskiing and it was, of course, a blast! But the funnest part of the whole thing was that my 7 year old and my 6 year old nephews both got up on kneeboards! They loved it and it was so fun to watch them. It added a whole new element to the day! Above is the 6 year old, Shawn, and me.

This is Colton the 7 year old and his mom Jana. They had a blast spraying eachother!

This is Ashley, although she didn't get to ski she loved the trip as well!

And of course Todd, who always loves a trip to the lake! Megan, my coworker, also came as she wanted to come with us to the lake but didn't want to be forced to have fun, so coming with Jason's family was perfect for her!

And this was awesome as I had just started recording and then Jana decided to do a 360!

Pics

Todd recently repremanded me for using our blog as a funny read instead of a journal of our lives. So here is a little bit of what I am "supposed to be doing!"




If you blow this pic up you can see the new "duck face" that Savannah has started sporting! It is so funny to see.





Savannah is 6 months old now, and as such is getting quite the opinion on what she wants to be doing. Reading to her is getting to be quite interesting as she wants to look at what SHEwants to look at!

Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.

Wit is a form of intellectual humour. A wit (person) is someone skilled in making witty remarks.

http://www.seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/

It took me a while to decide whether or not I liked this blog. At first I must say I couldn't decide if someone was being too rude or too harsh and meant to hurt feelings or was just being funny. Well I have decided - I think it's pretty stinking funny. After taking way too much time over the past week I have read every post and every comment and have laughed at some of the very familiar words, expressions, etc. So I have decided to share it with the 3 total people that read my blog!

http://www.seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/

And here is a little background so you can be blessed from my efforts of reading the entire thing to try to understand some of the things she was talking about:

TAMN is the girl who's blog it is - stands for Tiffany/Amber/Megan/Nicole

JJWT is her perfect husband - stands for Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor

DTD is her OB - stands for Down There Doc http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/07/down-there-doc.html

Fro-Yos - stands for Frozen Yogurt http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/07/yummy-in-my-tummy.html

Yvette is her still single friend - very sad http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/06/gno.html and how to help her - http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/08/to-my-searching-sisterz.html

Nice Degree! is a joke meaning that no guy is going to want a wife with a degree - have you ever heard a guy shout "Nice Degree" - also found at http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/08/to-my-searching-sisterz.html

GNO - Although you might already know - Girl's Night Out http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/06/gno.html

Her Wedding was really quite funny, but the comments where the best on this one! http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/07/happy-anniversary-to-me-well-us-but.html

And Just in case you want to get to know about all the blogs she making fun of - http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2008/06/love.html

So now I hope that you can enjoy yourself a little and laugh at this "a little too close to home" blog! As now I am addicted - Have a great day!

Heck Yes I Am!


You Are Belle!

Intelligent and kind. Your beauty goes much further than your apperance. Also, you make judgements of people based on their personality and not their looks. Attaining all the knowledge that you can is one of your major goals in life, but you are also a person who can make things happen.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

A Few Words...







I'd like to say a few words about our lives. Our yard looks great, our kid is cute, and our summer is slipping by without enough waterskiing. Thanks for coming, drive safe.

A Few Quick Updates!

Todd finished up the backyard and we did hydroseed as we have had really good luck with it in years past. This is our new lawn a week and a half old! It now looks even better at 3 weeks old. I'll post pics of that soon hopefully.

We recently went waterskiing with the Smith's. It was really fun as their little girl had just finished swim lessons and loved the lake! Jackie and I kneeboarded together and the guys had kneeboarding wars!

We also took Savannah on her first road trip to Twin Falls over the 4th of July. She did great and was so smiley the whole time! It was sure fun.



Todd is also teaching Savannah to play the guitar and she is doing just great! She's such a fast learner!!