Thanksgiving- Walker and Haderlie

I have not been in a great blogging mood recently, these big posts intimidate me. So mostly this is me just blabbering about what happened in no specific order. 

This year I was able to have two Thanksgivings. At first I went down to Morgan the weekend before Thanksgiving.

My dad and I went grocery shopping and we were sent to find pies. We were really disappointed in the pie selection. We went to at least 3 different grocery stores and the only pies they had were pumpkin (and maybe one apple) but they definitely did not have any sugar free pies (for my grandpa and Blake). So after much desperation I just decided that I would make the pies. That night we got home and I opened the pre-made crust because making crust and getting a good crust is kind of hard. I made two pumpkin pies, a blueberry pie, and an apple pie. The apple pie was my pride and joy. Every year we can apples, and I took those apples and turned them into pie filling, and it was pretty delicious. Everyone super loved the blueberry pie.   It made me laugh, because Shantel and Kevin both thought it was the best blueberry pie they had ever eaten. But all I did was take the Pillsbury pie crust, put two cans of blueberry pie filling inside the crust then covered the top with another layer of Pillsbury pie crust. Everything was just bought. It made me laugh.

Also, my dad thought that sweet potatoes and yams were the same thing. I just want to let everyone know, that I do not really know the difference between them, but I know they are different. When we got home my dad looked it up, and found out that sweet potatoes and yams are totally different, like Wheat and Corn. I felt very smart.

Then on Thanksgiving we got up and started making all of the food. We had all of our family there (minus Kevin and Matt), and then my Grandma and Grandpa Knowles and Walker were there. It was so fun to see grandparents. I do not make it to their houses often enough.

After our Thanksgiving dinner we went to Jacob's play that he was in. He did so great. He is such a great singer and actor. The play was Thoroughly Modern Millie. It was fun to go watch him. Jacob played the Boss that Millie was trying to fall in love with.

We also celebrated my Mom's birthday. She is such an amazing person. I just love her and admire her so much. It was fun to celebrate her and her life.

On the real Thanksgiving, Kevin and I went to American Falls to celebrate with all of Kevin's family. Kevin's extended family is so large. They held Thanksgiving in the church house. They had so much food!

We all sat down and ate Thanksgiving, then all of Kevin's aunts played some musical numbers. (Kevin's whole family is amazing at the piano, especially his aunts!) They played so many fun music pieces. After the music, Kevin's brother Steven recited the night before Christmas for everyone. There is more to that story than I ever remember.

After the program most of the kids and men started playing two ball (lightning) there are many names for this game. But it was a basketball game. Kevin did so good, except there were these twin girls who were probably 13 and they constantly got him (and everyone else) out. They were really good. It was really fun to watch every play these games. They must have played at least 100 rounds of this game. Kevin wouldn't let me play since I was pregnant, so I just watched.

It is so fun to be able to spend so much time with family, and we are so blessed that so far we have lived close to both of our families. I am so thankful for family and the joy that we can receive from them. I cannot wait to start my own little family with Kevin.

Fun Five- Birthday, Star Valley, Portland, and Flowers

I changed my name of this post again. Spontaneous is too long, and now I am writing little reminders about what happened during that week or so because currently I had 20 Spontaneous fives, but I had no idea what was in them. So I hope you now enjoy the fun five. My disclaimer is the things written in fun five may not always be fun, but it is a short and sweet title, so enjoy!

1. I love that we live so close to family. We were able to go to Kevin's cousin Jordon's birthday party. Aimee made the most delicious pie and we had ice cream and played bang. We now LOVE the game bang. We are going to have to get it soon.

Blowing out the candles in the pie

2. Kevin is the  best husband for me. I was not having a great week a couple weeks ago, and Kevin just spoiled me. We had a date night where we went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner.

After dinner we went and walked around the mall. Window shopping is really probably one of my favorite things to do. I love to just walk around holding Kevin's hand and looking at things. It can be clothes, toys, food, museums, pretty much anything. I just love to look at things. It was such a wonderful night. I am so spoiled.

Kevin being a goof playing with the exercise equipment 

I am especially spoiled because that same weekend we went to Star Valley. The day was beautiful and Kevin said, lets go to Jackson (we ended up changing our destination). We headed on our way and it was so beautiful outside. I didn't even fall asleep on the way there. When we got there, we drove past the house that he grew up in, and he showed me where some of his childhood memories were ( the bus driving lady who was in a lot of crashes, where he won the state title for BMX when he was younger, his two story church house, and many more). It is always fun to be able to hear stories about Kevin's childhood, mostly because he was a crazy child.

After touring we decided we were going to go eat at Rulon's Burger Barn. Rulon was an Olympic wrestler from Star Valley. When he came home from the Olympics, he started up this restaurant. We were excited to go there. We finally found it, and it was closed. They only served ice cream. It was totally lame.

Since we could eat there, we went to a little cafe called Hegg's. It was pretty good. Kevin said his burger was so so delicious.

These are not our best pictures ever...but at least we took pictures

This is us eating at Hegg's

After eating we went and saw our friends Tom and Jessica and their little baby Ryker. It was so fun to see them. We then headed home. The drive home was wonderful also, but I did end up putting the seat down and closing my eyes. It was such a wonderful day though.

3. I have been watching what not to wear this past week. It has made me want to go shopping. So I went shopping in my closet. Last year for Christmas, Melissa bought me this shirt and necklace. It was so so so cute, but every single time I tried to wear it, it looked funny on me. But since watching what not to wear, I thought that I should wear it with a belt. it now looks SO cute. It is now probably one of my favorite shirts now. I am so excited to wear it again.

4. Kevin finally had his interview in Portland. They flew him out, got him a rental car, and a hotel. Kevin interviewed Monday afternoon. He ended up interviewing for 4 hours. I think that is such a long time to interview for. He said that the interviews went well. He has another interview with them over the phone next week.

His rental car

The Hotel

Next week Kevin also has an interview with a company in Salt Lake City. Don't tell Kevin, but I am really hoping that this job will work out for us. 

5.Kevin went to get some ingredients for dinner. When he came home he had these beautiful poted flowers. Kevin is so sweet to me. I am so grateful that Kevin does the little things for me. The little things mean the world to me.

6. Just to put on the record, I cannot really see my toes anymore. My belly is getting pretty bit. My belly button is now popping halfway out. It is kind of fun, but a little weird. I haven't ever had a belly button that pokes out (except when i was first born).

Spontaneous Five- Halloween, Hospital, Shoes and Soup

1. I had to get my glucose screening test to see if I had gestational diabetes. I haven't been particularly looking forward to this, but I wasn't scared either. I went in around 9 AM because you have to be fasting. I had to be admitted to the hospital, and then I went to the Lab and they had to draw three vials of blood. After that they gave me a drink to drink. I was given the Lemon Lime flavor. I have heard people compare it to soda, and that is what I would compare the first two sips to. After the first two sips I started getting sick. It no longer tasted like delicious soda.After that I had to slowly sip the drink. If I didn't do it slowly, it was going to come back up fast (if you know what I mean). I finally got it down and had to wait an hour. In one hour the Lab people came and got me. They drew one more vial of blood from my other arm. Then I went back into the waiting room and waited for another hour. After that hour was finished they drew one more vial of blood from the first arm.

I couldn't believe I had already been poked by 3 needles and I hadn't even had breakfast yet. I am a big breakfast fan if you are wondering. After I finished the glucose test I went down to labor and delivery. The nurses there had to give me a shot. Yes, another poke with a needle. The reason I needed this shot was because I have O negative blood. This is a blessing and a curse. A blessing for others, because I like to donate blood and anyone can use my blood (it is universal), but a curse for me because I HAVE to have O negative blood if I ever needed a transfusion or something of that sort. Also, now that I am pregnant and every time I get pregnant after this, I will have to get this shot. We are not sure what Kevin's blood type is, but it isn't worth the risk.

Since I have O negative blood, if the baby's blood type is positive (from Kevin) then my blood can attack her blood, or something like that. My body will not accept what is going on, so I have to get this shot. (I believe that is the reason why).

After four pokes and 4 hours without breakfast, I was finally able to come home and eat.

I was going to send this to family and tell them that our baby was coming early, because I totally look legit, but I thought that would be rude. But here is my official proof that I was admitted to the hospital. 

2. Kevin and I didn't do much for Halloween this year, but I wanted to celebrate at least a little. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love dressing up, I love candy, and I love seeing other people dressing up. So instead of doing anything crazy, we stayed at home. I had found a cute idea on pinterest to make cute little mummy dogs (like pigs in a blanket). So for dinner we made those. Lets just say everything on Pinterest looks better than what I could make. Even though they didn't turn out super cute, they were still delicious and we have a good time celebrating Halloween.

See how these look nothing like mummies? I tried to put ketchup eyes on the top one, but the ketchup just squirted out. 

3. Kevin went to the store to pick up a couple of things. When he came home, he brought in some of the cutest little girl shoes. Kevin is so excited for our little baby. She is so lucky to have such a loving dad who is already buying her shoes. I love the Kevin think about our little girl.

When he came home from the store he told me he is so grateful for my mom who has been buying us some used clothes and getting really good deals, because this is the first time he has realized that baby clothes are so expensive and they only wear them for a couple months. We are so grateful for the clothes we have received from those around us.

We have a cute little hat that match these shoes. Kevin is so excited for her to wear them. 

4. Last night (11.01.13) my sister-in-law Charity was so kind. She had made dinner, had some extras and sent it home with Kevin for us to eat. (Kevin had been over motorbiking with Michael). This was such a blessing in my life. Work was crazy yesterday and I was so exhausted by the time I got home. I still had dishes to do, laundry to fold from last week, and the thought of making dinner was making me sad. It was such a tender mercy that Charity would think of us and send us over some dinner. I am so grateful for the family that I grew up in and the family I married into.

5.On Saturday (1/02/2013) we watched Oz, for our date night. It was kind of different, but it was still pretty good. I love that we can have little date nights in. I made some caramel popcorn (you can't get that at the theater). Kevin is so weird. He doesn't like caramel popcorn. He doesn't hate it, but whenever I make it, he hardly eats any. So now I have a HUGE bowl of caramel popcorn that I have to eat by myself. 

Haderlie Halloween Party

This last Saturday we were able to go down to Logan and celebrate Kevin's mom's birthday. We started our trip down to Logan in the mid afternoon. We got to Logan and went and got some Aggie's Ice Cream. My sweet sister-in-law Shannon gave me a gift certificate for the ice cream, and we figured we probably wouldn't be back down to Logan for a while so we got it. I got the "True Aggie" flavor, which was vanilla ice cream with chocolate hearts filled with a raspberry filling and had a raspberry swirl. It was very very delicious. Kevin got the 'Blue Mint" flavor. That is a classic, but it is super delicious!

After ice cream we went to Jenny's house (Kevin's sister), and changed into our costumes. I forgot to mention that this party for Kevin's Mom was a dress up Halloween party. Our nieces and nephews were so funny when we got to Jenny's house. They were all dressed up awesomely. We had a pirate (with a super legit costume), a man in disguise, a tinker bell, a gypsy, and a cute little lady bug. Kevin and I dressed up as a construction worker and his sign. Very cliche, but it was fast and fun!

The party consisted of homemade root beer and chili and chips with tons of desserts. Pat (Kevin's mom) read a fun Halloween story that had some musical instruments involved . Diane wrote this story for Pat's music class she is teaching. It is so cute and fun!

After the story we talked and ate and caught up with everyone. Everyone had to travel home, so it didn't last too late into the night. We were the last people to leave Steven's house. It was really fun and we enjoyed seeing the Haderlie family (especially since Diane and Steve traveled over from Minnesota to visit!)