Christmas in our new house

This past Christmas was the first Christmas we spent in our new house. The night before Christmas Casey put a light in the middle of our ceiling, we hadn't had one the whole time we had lived there but I wanted to make sure that we had some good lighting for Christmas pictures. We didn't have anything really planned for Christmas other than to get up and open presents that was the extent of our planning this year.

The past couple years we have usually gone some where close to Christmas to see family but this year we decided to stay at home and just hang out Casey, Adelyn, and I. We had gotten a real Christmas tree this year too, I haven't had a real Christmas tree in years. My parents had went to a fake one years ago, and when I was single and lived by myself I always just had a small fake one. The one we got this year was huge, it looked a lot smaller when it was out in the lot than it did once we got it into our house. Casey had to cut some of the bottom off for it to even fit in our house. I have a few pictures to post but not a lot. :)

 We went to our Church Christmas Breakfast and Adelyn got to sit on Santas lap she was actually a good sport about it, last year we weren't really sure if we liked him or not.

 This is our huge tree and Adelyn's presents that she got. 

 Adelyn opening her stocking showing Daddy that she got M&M's and a necklace with and A on it. 

 My kid loves gingers, her two favorite princesses are Ariel and Merida and if you give her all the princesses those are the two she will pick out every time. 

 Uncle Bo gave Addi this huge monkey and she loves it. It sits on her bed right now, and it is the same size as she is.

 Addi got a fisher price princess castle from Santa and Nana and Pops gave her the princesses to go with it.

 This is her Ariel doll that she got from Maga and Papa she drags this doll everywhere. 

 Adelyn got a stroller too. In this picture you can see she is wearing her Necklace out of her stocking and is pushing her new Ariel doll in her stroller. lol she ran that thing all over the house all day Christmas day.

This is the fisher price princess Castle that she got, when you put a princess on certain areas they sing or say their names and stuff. She loves that it talks and sounds like them. Can you tell by the look on her face. 

Family Pictures 2013

This is going to be a relatively short post as far as words go. We had family pictures done in Oct. so I am just going to post a bunch of my favorites. I had the gal that did Adelyn's newborn pictures and my maternity pictures do them. They ended up turning out pretty good. It was fall so the colors were great. Enjoy!

She always furrows her brows and I think it is absolutely adorable!

She loves to "fly" and asks to do it all the time.

Adelyn blowing kisses to the photographer. 

Halloween 2013

I think I was probably being a little over zealous this year wanting to make Adelyn's Halloween costume. I mean I sew, and I have sewn a few skirts for her and I sew baby stuff but a costume is a totally different kind of "beast."

Casey and I had decided that as a family we were going to dress up together so that we would match. It could be a theme, or a set of characters whatever we decided we wanted to be that year. I came up with the idea of Little Red Ridding Hood , The Big Bad Wolf, and Grandma. I just thought that Adelyn would make the cutest Little Red Ridding Hood. 

After deciding this, I had this picture in my mind of how I wanted us to look, so I went to find a pattern that matched what I had in my head of Adelyn as Little Red Ridding Hood. This is what I came up with. :) 

Probably not the best picture but you get the idea. I actually loved how it turned out. Adelyn LOVED the hood! I am thinking I might get some crush velor in a different color so that she can have one to play with (probably purple because it is her favorite color)

After I got Adelyn's costume done I was on the search for items to finish Casey's and my costumes. I had decided that I didn't have much time to make them so I was going to just see what I could put together that would fit what I wanted us to look like. 

This is what I came up with. This is me as grandma, please forgive me for the background, we are refinishing the bathroom and the green on the wall was going to be the color and it has recently been decided that we were going to use a different color. 

 This next picture is of Casey, Adelyn and I right before we headed to the ward trunk or treat. Our ward had a wonderful trunk or treat with lots of people that participated, and they hot dogs and hot chocolate too which was great. That was the only place we went trick or treating which was plenty for Adelyn. 

 Isn't that face just priceless, she really liked her outfit and she liked that she got to carry a basket. 

I know this picture is a little fuzzy but I love that she is running from the Big Bad Wolf, they were playing in the yard and people kept walking by, and stopping and staring at them. 

This is Addi showing off her candy she had stolen from our Halloween bucket for people that came to our house. She couldn't wait til we went to the ward part. :)

All in all, I think it turned out to be a great Halloween. I got lots of compliments on all of our outfits, which was nice. Casey and I had talked about this next year and so far one of our ideas is a family of Gnomes. Adelyn loves Gnomeo and Juliet, so we thought she might enjoy dressing up as a gnome. We will see I guess. :)

It is officially catch up time...

I have disappeared for awhile and didn't realize how long until I went to my blog and realized it had been a little over 6 months since I had written on my blog and there is so much to catch up on I will write several posts in the next few days trying to catch up and hopefully I will be better at the whole blogging thing from now on. :) 

So I guess the first thing to start with is that on September 26th Casey and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary! Man, I think about it and it seems like forever again and then again it also seems like yesterday. 

This is our most recent photo of the two of us. In Three years a lot has happened, I'm gonna do a little recap of our life the last 3 years. 

• We have officially lived in 3 different states (Arizona, Idaho, and Washington)
• Out of those 3 states we have lived in 5 different places which means we have moved 5 different times! I hate moving!!! Hate it!
• We have made it through our first deployment, it was hard (since that was when I was pregnant and had Adelyn) But I think in the end it has made us stronger as a couple
• We had our first child Adelyn and she is the greatest blessing in our life! She makes life interesting and she is so smart, it is always fun watching her learn new things. 
• We have gone through 9 different jobs between the two of us. 

I have realized that I made probably the best choice of my life when I married Casey, he is definitely my soul mate! We had totally had our ups and downs, but with those we have become closer to each other, I have realized that Casey is the only person I would want to spend Eternity with. He is the BEST dad to Adelyn, he is a better dad for my children than I could have ever hoped for. He provides for our family, he is a super hard worker and we have never gone without anything that we have needed which I am so thankful for. I am so happy where my life is right now and how it has turned out. I know that marriage is always sunshine and flowers but with Casey I'll take the ups with the downs, there have been more ups than downs and he helps me through them all! To the love of my life, these three years have been wonderful and I can't wait to spend many more with you. 

Falling off the face of the Earth...

I'm sure you all thought I had fallen off the face of the Earth....well I didn't, I am just not good at this whole blog posting thing! So much has gone on since.....JUNE, yep that's right it's September and I haven't posted since June. :( Sorry. So I'll do a little back tracking to catch everyone up. I'll try and make it short and sweet. It's 213am here and I couldn't sleep so why not catch up the old blog! :)

Since June, Casey has had his special military training that was for a month in Idaho. Addi went with him and stayed at my parents house. I haven't found anyone here to watch Addi that I feel comfortable with, and I get off work at 1130pm so I feel bad leaving her at someones house til 1145 or so when I can pick her up.

 My mom and dad love it though, they don't get to see us to much so a month with Addi is fabulous for them. Atleast that is what they tell me. I am sure she is a handful, she's a handful for me. :) At this training Casey was asked to do this special training and stuff with new tanks so instead of transferring to Washington he will be staying in the Idaho guard unit til August of next year. Which means that he travels to Idaho once a month, I go with him sometimes depending on if I work or not. Which is nice cause I get to see my family, it always seems like I don't have enough time while I am there. I plan to much!!

The summer has come and gone, and I don't know where it went. If feels like it was just beginning and now its over. We didn't do a whole lot this summer. We went to Seattle and visited the Zoo. Addi love it and it was Casey and I's first time in Seattle and we seemed to like it, we'll be going back sometime to do more things that we didn't have time or money for this time. The weather over there was fabulous though it was the perfect weather to go to the zoo.

I have been working a lot! Casey got a job with Coke but it has worked out. They don't really have a set schedule and it's just crazy and for the best interest of our family we have decided to have him quit and stay home and just do side jobs. Financially it's probably not the best thing but for our family it is so we'll make it work. I have been praying that my side business pick up and help with our money situation, and it has. I have ten orders right now and I am trying to get ready for a craft fair that I am attending in Ontario, OR on Oct 6th. So between my regular job and my business I have been super busy and if you came to my house you can see that I have done nothing else! My house shows it! I need to find some cleaning fairies and tell them what I need done. :)

Casey and Addi have been gone again for the past 3 weeks. Casey got called to Active duty to fight fires and he took Addi to my parents again. Even though it is nice to be able to sew without "help" from Addi, I miss that kid like nothing else!! I also miss my husband, but we've been away from each other before I kind of know what to expect. With Addi she changes so much it makes me sad. She is talking more and I can't wait for her to come home so I can hear it!

I am going to make her halloween costume this year, she is going to be little red ridding hood, I have all the stuff to make it I just  need to find the time to do it! I have been so busy with this craft fair to get ready for that I haven't started it yet and I bought it in June figuring that I have plenty of time to get it done and now it is  September. :(

She is getting so big! Her hair is long enough that I can pull it back in a pony tail or two pig tails

This is my family at the Zoo we had such a good time

This was Addi's favorite animal at the zoo, she even got a stuffed jaguar to take home, her name is Jazi

This is my little rag-a-muffin girl in the morning, she cracks me up 

Other than that I can't think of anything else that is important enough to mention. Casey and I are planning on going to Disneyland in January. We have been saving and we are driving to save money, which makes it so that my mom and little sister can go with us which is nice. We are way excited and can't wait to go. I hope all is well with your families.

Our new car!

I wrote about us getting a new car two posts ago, and I didn't have any pictures so now I have a picture to post for you. Also I was gonna tell you a few cool things about the van that I love!! One thing the Casey likes about it as well as me is that the brake and gas pedal move. So I don't have to move the seat all the way forward like I usually do, I drive short, I have short legs and if I get in after Casey I can barely touch the pedals with my toes. :)


I love that it has stow and go seats, all the seats fold down which gives tons of room to haul things, and if we want to leave Addi's seat up and fold the rest down so I can take business stuff to craft fairs and stuff I can. Love Love Love that!!!


I like that it has doors and a truck that opens with buttons and it is so nice to have and I can turn it off if I want to. 


It has dvd players in the head rests which Adelyn loves, and we love it too cause she is a better traveler with those in the headrests. :)


I also love all the little compartments and the lights. There are separate lights for each seat in case you want to read or something and then there are green running lights on the top which I like when it's night time. :)


And I love the color of the van too, it's probably my favorite color of car I have owned. 

Me just about me....

Work had been going great lately for me, I work from 1pm to 1130pm 4 days a week. They recently switched me to 4, 10 hour days. I work 3 days have 2 off, work 2 have 2 off work 3 have two off. It's nice cause on the weekends I get off at 730pm cause I come in at 9am so I get to spend more time with my family then I was before. It stinks cause I work every other Sunday so I don't get to go to church every Sunday.

I am still trying to work on my weight loss. I had a blog that I follow from a friend's wife back home and she is doing the biggest loser with her town and posted the goals they are following. I decided I would try it too so I am going to post them here in case you all want to try too.

drink 6 cups of water a day
Excercise at least 15 mins a day
Eat 2 fruit
Eat 2 cups of Veggies
No Soda
No eating after 8pm (which is hard for me since I am still at work.
No fried food or food cooked in oil (try baking or grilling it instead)
Eat breakfast
Write one journal entry
make one personal goal for yourself.

So I guess that these goals change every month so I will start with these and then post when they change and I will weigh in once a week like they say and post how much I have lost, I am not quite comfortable posting what I weigh yet, but I will get there.

Other than that I haven't been doing much, I have sewed some lately. I made some pot holders which are freaking cute, and I made some stuff for my business. I will start painting the house and refinishing furniture soon to so I will have pictures of that too. I hope all you have doing well and Happy Fathers day to my wonderful husband!!