Lando's Birthday bash!

I almost feel embarrassed making Landon's blog post so late, but i figure better late then never! We just all took turns getting sick the month of January and the only thing i felt like doing was plopping my happy butt in the recliner and watching Vampire Diaries lol! But here I am beginning of February finally getting the energy to get on the computer to make a blog-post for my little boopy!

So my little peanut was born on Jan. 18th 2011 that made his birthday this year his 2nd birthday!..
It doesn't seem possible but i really was!..We had a little mini party with our little family the night of his birthday, and then had a party the next day were we had friends and mostly family their to celebrate!

This was the night of Landon's "real" birthday! we had my mom bro and sis and Wil's brother to join us!..We of course ate some cake and celebrated by playing headbands! a freaking fun game to play with a group of people! even though it is made for 7+ LOL!

So this was Landon's little mini cake that we had the night of the party!..it was just a little cake at Wally that we thought would be perfect and not get too caked out for his party the next day!

These were Landon's guests!..we were so happy that they could make it to his party!..although we are missing Daniel, Ashly, aedynn and Ryleigh because they were getting balloons that i forgot!

This was Landon's birthday cupcake cake for his party!..we decided to do cars themed party for him!

And here he is blowing his candle out!

When it came time to open presents this boy knew exactly what to do!..the shoes on his feet he even unwrapped and decided to wear!

Daddy helping!

I feel extremely happy with the turnout of his party! and this year it actually has felt like a party! This is a all new experiences to put on birthdays for our child when not that long ago my parents were putting parties on for me!..I'm so proud to be Landon's mom! he has touched our lives in so many ways! It's hard to accept the fact that he is growing up. He no longer feels like a baby anymore! he seems like a little boy! I love him so much and i look forward at putting together more parties again!..I'm so appreciative of the people who were able to make it! and i know Landon was too!

On a side note we gave Landon his 2nd haircut! he loves his hair to be cut!..We kind of went military on his hair but it was so un even and patchy we figured doing it like this would kinda even everything out!..and he looks freaking adorable!

Bringing on the New Year!!

I cannot believe its a new year already, and I can honestly say it was a beautiful year!..I met so many great friends and only focused on those who matter to us, and it really made for an awesome year!..We will be celebrating just the three of us again, which I'm exited for, we have plans to for little smokies, crescent rolls and our last little bit of binging on junk food before we make a resolution to have a year of clean eating and getting our sexxaay on!

But I cant forget to mention all the fun leading up to the new year!

A couple of days after Christmas (on my hubby's b-day) We headed down to Utah to celebrate and eventually gather with family to celebrate Wil's grandparents 50th wedding anniversary! absolutely amazing!..They are such great people and we all celebrated over a delicious lunch at T.G.I.F I was a first timer, and i can honestly say i was impressed! We were then going to go back with Wil's grandparents to their home  in Nephi, but then made the decision to go back home and spend the next couple days as a little family before Wil needed to go back to work.

Wil's Twinner

My little boopie..and well hello Daniel back there ;)....

Me and my handsome hunnee

Me and my sis in law, and the back of Lando's head at TGIF

Shortly after leaving the lunch i told Wil I really wanted to go to City Creek Mall, I have heard so much about it, plus i really wanted to go to MAC because it's not an easy store to go to and find in this area! upon arriving  at Mac I pretty much knew what I wanted but in the back of my head i wanted one of the artist to put red lipstick on me! I was about to disregard that but then a tall lady came up to me with bright red hair and bright red lipstick that looked fabulous, I decided to go for it, because I had the feeling she knew what she was talking about ;) So here it is..

Do I pull it off? lol

I absolutely love it! so I had to buy the color! maybe a new look for 2013?

So after leaving Nordstroms l really wanted to visit some of my family on the way back home, so I called my mom and asked if she knew if they were available. Turns out they were on their way to Salt lake and we just so happened to be leaving!..So i called my cousin who I saw only once this year, and turns out we were by the same exit!!..It was meant to be!..So we pulled off and took the EXIT to Centerville were they just so happened to have a delicious In N Out Burger for us to meet at!..I was ecstatic!.. i Love seeing members of my family!..It was a little Reunion!..but it was so fun to be able to visit for the short amount of time that we did, and thankfully my little stinker child was in a splendid mood!

She just so happens to ROCK awesome red lips too! and we look HOT!

LOVE these ladies!! 

So our little Utah trip was so much fun! I'm glad it happened! I'm glad the world didn't end and I can look forward to another amazing year with all the wonderful people in my life! and continue to love upon my little boy who is turning 2 in less then a month!..well now i guess its time to have another one then!..jk that definitely wont be happening in 2013! LOL We got our gym memberships for Christmas and I plan on making a resolution of getting in shape, along with Wil and some other goals as well... and I assume Landon's would be to stop crapping his pants and get potty trained ;) jk Landon  plans to make more friends and melt the hearts of those he comes in contact with! :D

Good Bye 2012.....

It's Christmas Time!!!

So I have just come to the realization that it has been FOREVER since i have written in my blog! and i figured now would be the perfect time to do it! The end of the year is my favorite time of the year!..it's so festive and family oriented, i couldn't love it anymore! I had mentioned a lil bit on FB about how this is going to be our first Christmas as a  just our little family this year!! I'm way exited!!..We have so many fun plans together!..although it is going to be weird not being around tons of family on Christmas, but that's okay! I'm thankful for the many years that i got to spend surrounded with a bunch of family! and now its time to start making new traditions!

We started off the winter festivities by taking cute pictures in Salmon, I used this one for our Christmas card this year along with others from fall!..I wanted to make sure our cards looked extra festive this year!..it was even snowing when the picture was taken!!

 

Speaking of our Christmas card!..here it is!..I absolutely LOVE how it turned out!! I think I will use Etsy more often!!..which by the way is a new found obsession!..even had to download the app because I'm contantly browsing it;)

Bridge look familiar? Because its the same one used in our fall pics!..So fun!

One thing that has been very unique to me this time of year is making crafts!..i think i found another new obsession!!..I LOVE doing crafts!..which is a complete surprise to me because that was something i sucked at growing up!..But this year i gave them a shot and everything clicked for me! I have so many more ideas for this next year and more holidays to come!

See not to bad for a rookie! ;) 

So although we will not be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas with the rest of the family we did get to see them! almost in the same weekend too!

This was Christmas at my parents house in Salmon! We had so much fun!..We were able to get all my siblings under one roof!

Then less then a day later we made it back to IF and woke up to Wills parents coming to visit us!..Landon got lots of nice presents from them too!!

But they were only able to visit for a short time, but they left my brother in law Daniel with us!

Sure love this guy! he is an amazing person from the inside out!

He even helped me make some Christmas treats!!

We  had so much fun in the short amount of time he got to spend with us!..I'm so grateful for the family I have and the family i married in to!..I'm constantly surrounded by amazing people, even though we don't get to see them all the time, we always make the best of it when we are together!. and i couldn't be happier!..I cant wait for Wil to get off so we can enjoy the Holiday's as a little family! We have plans to open our gifts from "Santa's Elf" tonight, drink Peppermint Hot chocolate and watch non stop Christmas movies! I'm sure the same goes for tomorrow as far as the hot chocolate and movies, we plan to have a little feast and of course see what Santa has for us tomorrow morning!.. And then shortly after Christmas we will be celebrating Wil's birthday and visiting more family in Utah and possibly going to go see the lights at Temple square, if they are still up, because this year we were not able to go see them before Christmas but that's okay as long as we get to do it spending time as a family..because that's what its all about.....

Halloweeeen: Trick or Treat!

So even though Halloween is over i have to wrtie my blog today because you are out so much past your bed time trick or treating that when you get back and stay up because you are on a sugar craze it is too late to write it the same day!..Halloween this year was by far my favorite. It was the first year Wil and I have ever trick or treated and it was Landons first year trick or treating as well. He was 9 months last year and we went to Utah to enjoy the halloween festivities and for some reason we didnt even get to go out :( I actually think it was because he fell asleep right before we were suppose to! So that is why this year was by far the best!

We basically had three days of non stop candy! all the way from the 29th-31st it was Halloween everday!

Oct 29th- TRICK OR TREAT STREET!!: We were not sure if we were going to go to Trick or Treat Street on the 29th because we didnt want to do exactly what we did and get boat loads of candy, but it turned out to be such a fun event, and they gave you a fair amount of candy so it wasnt bad at all!. My neigbor was kind enough to invite and take Landon and I to the event! Although when we got there the line was out the wazoo!.. it didgo by pretty fast though. I was way worried about the line because Landon doesnt do lines but his friend Kenna entertained him!

Very entertained..See I even think they are playing footsie

Zonked out as soon as we got up to the businesses.

And believe it or not he slept through the whole thing!!

Oct. 30th- BOO at the ZOO!!- So not as great as I thought maybe it was something great, but when we went it was super crowded and we got maybe 3 pieces of candy. It was a great experience and the money we paid upon entering was for a fund raiser so it was the thought that counts!..and I totally would have posted pictures but it just so happened that Wil, Ashly, and I all forgot our phones! =(((..but we did get one right before we went!

They look so cute!

Oct 31st- HALLOWEEN DAY!!- So we started out the day with some chinese and shopping!..It was pretty fun at the mall! and then we went and got some caramel apples and in no time it was time to go trick or treating! bwahaha!!..We went to a nice little neighborhood and were able to collect quite a bit of candy!..Landon took his nap right before we went out so I was worried that we were going to have a last year repeat!..but he woke up just in time! It was so cute he held his daddy's hand and walked right up to the front door!..and before long it was getting later in the night and it was time to go home!..We got two trick or treaters the whole night!..so we have boat loads of candy!!..and thats probably not a good thing!

Excuse my horrid face I was still half asleep from staying up till 2 am chat'n it up with my sis in law

Playing at the fun playland at the mall



And just to put the cherry on top for Halloween this year, Landon's Grandma and uncle Kolton and Aunt Kately sent a package!!..OoooH I love getting packages we got lots of candy, a card and of course some mula!

They were so nice to think of us! ;)



So yup! definately my favorite halloween EVER! I was so happy to spend it with my family, and still be in the town we reside in. Every year Wil and I would either go to my parents house or his, so it was a very nice change for our little family!..I cant believe October is over..I'm so exited for this time of year!..I'm already working on my Christmas crafts!



~Crock Pot Mama~

My new Crock Pot!

So recently I have been obsessed with cooking out of the crock pot, I don't know why? It could  possibly have something do with the fact that there are so many delicious crock pot recipes on Pinterest?!..hmm yup that would make sense. So this fall and even bits and pieces of this summer I have made numerous meals that it has become an obsession! An obsession so deep that I feel the need to make every single part of our family's meals out of a crock pot! But how can i do that with one crock pot? Well that would be an easy answer! GO BUY MORE CROCK POTS KIMBERLY!!....Yes I shall!..So I gave in to that little person on my shoulder and convinced by awesome hubbs to buy me one! And so he did!!!..Problem Solved!

So to give you some background info, (because I wasnt always a fan)... Wil and I got our very first crock pot the first year we were married from my parents for Christmas. I used it once, maybe twice and i actually think Wil was the one who used it to make Pork Roast and Sauerkraut. I at the point had no desire to cook, so i really didn't take interest in CPC (Crock Pot Cooking), because for some odd reason I thought it was complicated..What the heck was wrong with me?!?! crock pot cooking is so freaking easy! and thats why I love it today.

With my precious little Lando its hard to spend hours in the kitchen making a gourmet meal, but thanks to Pinterest it has changed my life! and with a bibity bobity boom, dinner is served! I found that I can make mostly anything in Crock Pot! It's freakishly AMAZING..And I have now taken it to the next level and made pre-made crock pot meals that I gathered and made into a Zip lock bag and froze, so on my lazy days I just dump it into my crock pot and we have dinner for the night!..AMAZING!..I even started using slow cooker liners, which has taken it to an even HIGHER level!! Because the only thing I would say I EVER disliked about CPC was the cleanup!..omg it was horrible, I would usually have to let it sit over night in soapy water, scrub and put my back into it just to get it clean!.. It was so much maintenance!..And now I' am so thankful for those darn liners! and thankful that I have a second crock pot!..because now I never have to clean MUAHAHA!!..jk jk

Yup! I was like a little girl on Christmas!

Nothing like taking cooking to the next level!..I know I'm a freak!..but hey atleast I' am feeding my family!..and that's what it is all about!....

CRaYoLa ReHab

So we all know Landon loves to color, it his favorite thing to do and it's the only thing that he will sit there and do for any extended period of time. We also encourage Landon to color, because we like him to express his creativity. But It has become a HUGE problem! as if him coloring every inch of our house wasn't a problem but today he hit top notch, I even think above and beyond that too! So we went over to our sweet neighbors house to work on crafts, and he manged to find their only pen upstairs and got ink all over something important, and then he manged to find the markers that were hid and DREW all over their walls!.I was SOO embarrassed. And as bad as that was, it wasn't the worst part of his little addiction today! 

So we went to the craft store to pick up some things and within a blink of an eye he manged to escape from me, and he went strait to were they had their permanent markers, and he drew all over their floor!!!.. bright red, big circles, all over the place! OH MY FRIGGIN GOODNESS!..HE DID NOT!..I seriously wanted to hide under a rock, or make a run for it!..but of course I did the right thing and got one of the employees, I apologized profusely  and she said it was no big deal, it would clean right up!.Well that was SOOO wrong, they practically had to burn the floor just to get the ink out, no, wait worse!..they basically had to strip the wax off the floor because it was embedded in the wax!..I was mortified and I wanted to cry! I couldn't believe that happened, and of course growing up I was always told "You break it, you buy it." So I had butterflies in my stomach worrying the whole time the manager was going to come up to me and tell me I needed to pay for a new strip and wax job in their craft store!! gahh!!..not what I wanted to spend Christmas money on, that would of been horrible if I had to explain to Wil that for Christmas we were paying a craft store to get their floors redone! Thanks to Yours truly, Lando!..Well needless to say, that didn't happen..I just felt bad when I walked by and saw a little old lady on her hands and knees trying to remove my sons artwork with a can of WD-40!...So from that point on I knew that was IT!..This boy is going to Crayola Rehab!..We have taken all his markers, crayons, and colored pencils away!.. and he is only to use them under EXTREME supervision, if he fails to adhere we have agreed to start putting him in time out for 2 minutes!..Ya I know.. It's practically a slap on the wrist, but he's not even 2 yet! I was not expecting to deal with my 21 month old child doing this stuff!..I thought I had at least 3 more months before I was going to start ripping my hair out! LOL!..oh good times........

Fall in LoVe

Fall in LOVE.......

Fall is in the air already! the leaves are changing and it is such a beautiful atmosphere, I just love it. However it is very unfortunate with all the fires in the area it is depositing the retched smoke in the air, I took my little man on a walk not realising how bad it was, and I totally should of put masks on the both of us, but if it came to that I would rather stay at home, because it was making it very unpleasant to enjoy the fall crisp air :( despite all that, the feeling of fall has got me SUPER exited for this time of year. I have always been a summer person, and not that my summer wasn't amazing, I have just added another fav season to my list that I absolutely love.


I cant believe this year is almost over and I can honestly say it has been fantastic!  Wil and I  have got along great, we live in a beautiful little town home, and Landon is growing up so fast!!! I will have a two year old in four months!..is that really possible? He knows how to do sign language and it is the most adorable thing! it melts my hearts every time and I throw a hoot and a holler and he loves it!

So with all the beautiful leaves changing we were able to take alot of fun family photos, they turned out amazing! Most of all I posted them to facebook. So we went to Salmon for a visit, and my parents have an awesome camera, that we took the pictures with. It was soooo much fun, although our only day to take pics was on Sunday, we had to wait to get out of church to take them!... so by the time we were already to go, Landon was in serious need of a nap, and he was a bowl full of cranky pants, but despite his screaming and running off and throwing his head back almost giving me a black eye and a busted lip, we were able to whip out some dang nice pictures! with no extra facial modification ;) woot woot!


So now that we are back home, we finally put out our first fall decoration, a little reef on our door! I think it adds that little fall pizazz to our little home, we also have our scentsy  filled with Sticky Cinnamon bun, now I' m debating what color of nail polish I should paint my nails, and I'm highly addiced to Orange Cinnamon rolls at the moment! gahhh not good for my health!..But I am also on the lookout to find Caramel Apple Milkways! I had a bite size piece in the Primary in Salmon when they passed them out and now I cant find them anywhere here in  Idaho Falls!..Maybe that's a sign of the universe telling me I need to kick sugar! but anyways  just to be festive and on top of everything else  I have been doing nothing but cooking out of our rock pot so not only is fall in the air...Its also in our house ;)