Food Storage

So I know that I should already have made a new year resolution and broke it now even. Well I am a little behind in the game so I am making a mine today Ground Hogs day is a holiday so I figure it counts. Holiday=Resolution right? Anyway, I have really been feeling like I need to get back on the band wagon with food storage. I had a pretty good head start at one time when we lived in our old house but when we moved I hadn't done that great of a job rotating it and so I had to get ride of a lot of it because it was going to expire. And then when we moved into our new house I didn't have shelves built to put my food storage on so just shoved what I had left into my pantry and since I had more cupboards then I knew what to do with since my kitchen was now bigger I just filled them up. Well needless to say a year has gone by and I am barely getting around to getting back to getting my food storage plan back in order. I have come across a fantastic website and blog that I thought I would share in case anyone else is up for feeling inspired. This girl is my food storage hero. Check them out ; www.myfoodstoragedeals.blogspot.com or www.myfoodstoragedeals.com Wish me luck and I will keep you posted!!!!

Baby Steps!

Have I mentioned for Christmas that Ron bought me a very nice camera. I was jumping for joy I have been secretly wishing for one for a long time. My wish finally came through. I have mostly just taken some pics of my kids but my friend asked me if I would be willing to take a couple of pictures of her new baby Carter and I thought I would give it a try. I really have no idea what I was doing but I think between the crying and baby bodily functions they turned out alright for a girl who has no idea what she is really doing. I hope one day that I can take some photography classes or find someone to teach me so that I can figure out what the heck I am really doing so that I can at least take some awsome shots of my kids. Baby steps I guess. Anyway here are a few that I think turned out pretty cute.

Ode to the Sweet Potato!!

The other day Aidan wasn't really feeling up to eating what I was feeding him so I just turned him loose and let him figure it out on his own here is the result of my actions. I only wish I loved sweet potatos this much! YUM!!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Last week we had a family get together with the Jones/Knutson family and Santa popped in for a suprise visit. The kids were so excited to see him and he had gifts to top it off. I was just waiting for one of them to cry but no one did not even the babies. Here are some pics of my kids putting in one last Christmas request. Enjoy!

Kids say the funniest things!

Last night we were hanging out the T.V. was on but we were all in the other room except for Avery, she came in and said "Mom do we live in Utah?" "Yes" I answered next she says "What are oysters?" I am thinking where is this going? I explained to her what they are... then I said "Why?" She said " She said there was this guy just on T.V. and he said Get ready Utah a lot of new oysters are headed this way." I just started to giggle then we told her what he really said was "Get ready Utah there is a lot of new moisture headed this way." I seriously was laughing so hard. My poor bladder. So then a little later she finally said "Mom what is moisture anyway?" She is such a funny kid!

This morning I was driving to my babysitters (who by the way is the best babysitter EVER!!) anyway we are headed to my babysitters and Avery says "Mom can you change your name if you want to?" I am thinking oh great she wants to change her name to some crazy thing...So I hesitantly answer "Yes you can if you really need to but most people don't, Why?" She then said "Well you should change Aidan's name to Jesus." I again try not to giggle to much, I don't want to offend her and so I just played a long and said " Well that is a good name but we will probably just leave his name as it is. Why do you think we should change his name to Jesus?" She then said "Well it is Christmas and he is a baby." Duh, why didn't I think of that first......Seriously she is hilarious.

Ahh the Holidays.....

I have been kind of a Scrooge this year. I don't know why, I just have. Anyway my kids had been begging to put up the Christmas Tree and every time it was mentioned I groaned and would give them some reason we couldn't do it until later. Thank goodness for Ron or I don't know if we would have ever put the tree up. Any way here are some pics from this momentous occasion.
Along with some other holiday fun. Enjoy!



Here is tree right after the kids finished decorating. Please notice that the decorations only made it up as high as they could reach. I usually hover over them and move the decorations around to get our tree perfect but like I said I was feeling Scrooge like and didn't want to decorate the tree in the first place. I think it turned out great and they had a wonderful time decorating.





Aidan of course had no idea what was going on so I crawled over to his favorite spot and chilled there. He has a serious curiosity about heating vents. He crawls all over my house and takes them out. Silly Boy!



Here is the happy boy during all the decorating fun.

Here are Avery and Porter at the Wayman Christmas party. I know lame that we have already done Christmas together but trying to juggle the schedules of 7 families can be a little tricky. Anyway we had a great time and think the kids were thrilled to be opening presents so soon in the Christmas season. Just a side note, Avery and Porter get a long so good together, it is so cute to see them play together.

Most of the grand kids getting ready to open their P.J.s from Grandma and Grandpa.

We also celebrated Garrett Birthday. I seriously cannot believe that he is going to be one this month. I don't know if you can tell but the circle he is sitting in is actually a cut out so you can test the toy in the store. He was so excited he just dived right in. Happy Birthday Garrett!!!!

November

I know we have all had those times in our lives that are just endless days upon endless days. That is the way it has been around here anyway. I can't believe Christmas is just around the corner and how very, very quickly Thanksgiving has come and went. They say time flies when you are having fun, so if the theroy is true that means we must be having a blast!!! Here are some of the things we were up to in in no particular order in November. I am warning you this is long.......Enjoy!!!!







Here is Aidan enjoying a spoonful of brownie mix, I know this might not be the most healthy choice for a baby mostly due to the raw eggs but I had made brownies and let the girls have the bowl and they decieded to share. I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.......or at least a chocoholic! Thats my boy!!!!

Avery lost her 1st tooth on November 8th she was so excited to follow in her big sisters footsteps and of course to get some extra cash from the tooth fairy.

Okay you know you are tired when you fall asleep sitting up. Poor Aidan! This picture and the one following were taken at about 7:30 in the morning. That day he had woken up at 6:00 a.m. and we were going about our normal routine of getting ready for work, school etc... So at about 7:00 we put him in his crib to play and we could finish getting ready and get to where we were going on time. Anyway I could hear him playing on the monitor and after a while it got quite so I went in there and this is what I found. At first I freaked out thinking he had choked or something, but soon after I realized he was breathing I just had to giggle. I checked to make sure he wasn't going to smother and let him snooze while we snapped these pics. Poor baby!

This is a picture we took at Scotsdale Park near my parents house on Thanksgiving. It is a Wayman family tradition to take pictures at Thanksgiving dinner for the annual christmas card and while we were waiting for everyone we took these. Don't I have such cute kids?

Yesterday we decided to take the kids along with my in-laws to Temple Square to see the movie at the Legacy Theater and see the Christmas lights after. Here we are hanging out in the main street plaza.

Aidan chillin' in the stroller as we cruise around the temple grounds. It was so pretty and the weather was great!

Here is a picture of the temple Ron snapped after the movie. So pretty!

Yes I know this is upside down, but that is how we took it. My kids were rolling down a hill and this is how they ended up. Silly kids!

Another great temple pic along with the lights. It was so pretty and fun to go this early in the season. It really helped to get us all in the mood for Christmas. All in all it has been a great month I know I have left a ton out. It just make me realize how lucky I am to have such a great hubby and kids to be able to do such fun things with.