November 2018

We did a couple of fun things this month that don't really deserve a whole post, but that I would still like to blog about. So here goes nothing.


Swing Park- We went to such a fun park this month. It didn't have a lot of things to do, but it did have a special swing that was extra fun. You sit on this swing and then it goes on a track around a half circle. Jason was really nervous at first, but ended up really loving it. The kids continue to ask to go to it even though it is so cold now. This is also the first time that Sadie sat in a swing. She didn't cry, but also didn't laugh. She didn't really care if she was in a swing, but she is pretty cute right?

This Is the Place Park- We were down in the Salt Lake area and so Camille asked if we could take Kevin to This is the Place Park and we agreed. When we went with Shantel we had SO much fun that I thought it would be a fun Saturday activity. We got there and hopped on the train and it drove around almost the whole park. It didn't stop to let us off or anything. We had to stick our arm out to have the conductor stop so we could hop off and look around.

We hopped off and the kids played on the big boat for a little bit and we walked around the tepee and hogan area and then walked over to town. The mini train was closed which made Camille a little sad, and everything else was closed as well. When you pay to get in, you get to do three activities, but nothing was opened, so we seriously just walked around and looked at buildings but didn't get to do anything. I was a little disappointed. It was nice to spend time together as a family, but we should have chosen a different and warmer activity.

Hill Air Force Base Museum- Jason wanted to go to the airplane museum so we packed up and went. Kevin had to work this Saturday so it was just the kids and I. It was really fun to go see the airplanes and see so many things. I was so touched by the POW display. I can't even imagine being taken as as POW and how they lived. It is terrible and hurts my heart. I wish that we could all just love one another and be kind. This world is a crazy place. But on the flip side, I was so grateful for all of the service men and women, from the past and now and in the future. Those men and women who risk their lives to protect my freedoms. So I can worship how I please, and I can write and read what I want. I truly live in the promised land.

Kevin gets dizzy so fast. This motion sickness chair would have been the end of him

Camille- Camille is as busy as ever. She is recognizing more and more words and loves to read books with me. Recently she has been coming in while I am reading my scriptures and she will sit as I read aloud the words. It is kind of a sweet and precious time to have with her as we learn about Captain Moroni and other people in the scriptures.

Jason-Jason is the kindest and most loving boy. In the mornings he will sit on my lap and give me kisses on my nose and ear and forehead and chin. It is just sweet. His imagination is starting to come alive even more and it is such a treat to be able to watch it bloom.

Sadie- This month we put Sadie in her jumper and she has been loving that. She is just like Camille was when she was a baby. They both just jump and jump and jump and jump. Sadie also is rolling like crazy. I will put her down and some how she will end up across the room and around a corner. She can pretty much get anywhere she wants to now by rolling and being a worm. She just doesn't know where she wants to go really. I think next month she will start crawling. I would be surprised if she didn't. She really is just on the move. Whenever she is rolling Camille will say, "Sadie is on the move to Hawaii!" and I say, "Sadie, take me with you!!!" Camille thinks it is really funny.

Jenna- This month I have been trying to get ready for Christmas. I am excited for Christmas this year and want to make it magical. I went down to Shantel's and painted some Ornaments that are all centered around Christ. I have them hung up and we are going to open one bag each day and take out an ornament and read about Christ's life. Then it has an activity we are going to do that day. I can't wait to spend time with the kids.

Kevin- Kevin has started a new business. It is called Kinetic Advising. It helps trucking companies put together a good loan packet so that they can get good loans for their equipment. He had his first client hire him this month! It is an exciting new step in the banking world that Kevin is embarking on. We (I mean Kevin) also bought a third semi truck this month. It looks like Kevin is going to do great things with his businesses.


Random Remembering
Someone brought this story up the other day and if I don't write it down it is going to be lost forever. This happened a couple months after we moved into our Layton Ward. It was Sunday morning and everything went as expected. We got up and got ready. The kids played. We put Jason down for a nap, and finished getting ready. We made lunch and woke Jason up so he could eat before we left for church. I made him a hot dog. He loves hot dogs. But for some reason he wouldn't eat it. I wasn't too concerned because I had snacks he could eat at church. We got to church and sat down. Sacrament meeting started and shortly after Jason threw up. Right on top of me and Kevin. Kevin luckily contained most of it and ran Jason out of the Chapel. It was terrible. I had no idea he was even sick. But now we know why he wouldn't eat the hot dog.

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we spent the first half with Kevin's family and the second with my family. I love that we live close enough to both of our families that we can see them both during the holidays.

On Wednesday we went up to Idaho Falls. We stopped in Idaho Falls and had dinner at Mike and Charity's house. Oh my goodness, their house is beautiful. This is the first time that I have been to their new house, and they did such a good job designing it. After dinner we went and stayed at Shannon and Collen's house because Jenny and Roger's family were staying at Grandma and Grandpa Haderlie's house. It was so nice to stay with Shannon and Collen. After getting our kids to be we chatted and played Carrom. I had never played before, but Kevin played it as a child. The way they play is almost like a little pool table type game. It was fun.

The next morning they set up the Wii and we played Just Dance. I have never played Just Dance before, but I really love dancing so this game is right up my alley. It was so fun! And Kevin being the awesome husband that he is even played a couple times with me, even though he doesn't like dancing as much. Or at all. After playing Just Dance, we got ready and went to Thanksgiving.

Grandma Haderlie wanted us all to wear blue or red for a family picture because we had everyone together besides Steven (who is in Guam) and Cody (who is at college and had to work). We are a big happy family, and we were happier after the picture was taken, but I am glad we were able to take a picture. Not long after we finished the picture we had a prayer and started thanksgiving. There were probably around 100-150 people at the Haderlie Thanksgiving, which means there was so much food. Kevin was in heaven. I am pretty sure Thanksgiving is one of Kevin's top holidays. We ate way too much food and enjoyed every minute of it. Then I tried to get Sadie to fall asleep and take a nap in the stroller so I could play some basketball.

One of my favorite traditions of the Haderlie Thanksgiving is playing lightning after Thanksgiving. Since we are in the church already, we have half the gym set up in tables, and the other half free for playing basketball. I don't get to play basketball very often. I just don't have very many opportunities. But I love playing, so it is fun to get together with other people to play a little ball. Surprisingly, or maybe I should say not surprising, I did pretty good. We mostly played right at the free throw line, and I held my own. I was usually in the last 4, and Kevin was there along with me. I had a lot of fun, I think that Kevin did as well.

We played for a while and Camille crated and watched Frozen. Overall we had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Kevin's family is huge, and I don't know 2/3rds of them, but I love going and getting to know knew people and meet more of Kevin's family. I might not know them all, but I know where they come from, and everyone I have met is truly kind and wonderful. Kevin comes from a wonderful family.


We came home after Thanksgiving on Thursday and stayed at our home. Then on Friday we headed up to Morgan for Grandma Walker's birthday. We got there before everyone else and helped cook the turkey for the Walker Thanksgiving that was going to be on Saturday. Everyone else rolled in about 3 and it was so good to see everyone. Matt and Brooklyn came from California, and Jacob and his girlfriend Whitney came as well. So did Shantel and David and family, along with Melissa and Blake. It is so nice to be with family. Friday we ate delicious food and celebrated Grandma Walker's birthday and Blake's birthday. After we got the kids to sleep, we played some super fun games. Playing games is one of my favorite things to do with my family. We stayed up until midnight!!! I could hardly believe myself. I am not a midnight kind of person, but it was just nice to talk and catch up with family. It was worth the loss of sleep.

Saturday we woke up and made pancakes for everyone as they woke up. Those without kids slept in a little longer. Then we started getting ready for Thanksgiving. This year we chose to serve turkey sandwiches instead of doing a formal turkey dinner and it was so yummy.

We had to leave at 5 so that we could get home and see Shaylee Dragon and her new boyfriend, so we didn't stay too long. But being with my family makes me so happy.

I am so thankful for so many things. I am thankful for my family. For my parents who raised me and for Kevin's parents who raised him. I think we turned out pretty good. I am thankful for my wonderful kids who are kind and loving and fun. I am thankful for Kevin who is so kind to me and who is so wonderful. I am thankful for my Savior Jesus Christ. That even though I am not perfect, through His mercy, I have a chance to make it. I am thankful for all that I have been given.

Happy Thanksgiving

None of my kids are looking in the family pictures we took, but each one is funny in their own way so I am putting all three in.

Decorating for Christmas

It is the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas has never been my favorite holiday until I had children. It is so much fun now. Everything is just extra magical and I love that.

This year we are in Layton, Kevin has a good job, we are out of school, and our house is big enough to have more than a Charlie Brown tree and Kevin wanted that so bad. In one of my very first posts I wrote about how much Kevin loves Christmas and how he wants a nice big pretty tree. And this is the first year we have got that.

This is a picture of our first Christmas tree together. We have come a very long way since then! 

We went before Thanksgiving to find a tree and we thought that maybe we would want to get a real tree this year, but no one had real trees out yet except Lowe's. So we headed over but Kevin was not impressed. So we decided this year that we are going to be a fake tree family. I feel okay about it. If we were to go out to the mountains and cut down our Christmas tree, then I would feel sad to have a fake tree. But just going to a Christmas tree lot doesn't sound as magical to me. So having a fake tree is good for us. We found the perfect one for us at Lowe's.

We came home and set it up while listening to Christmas music. The kids loved pulling out the decorations that we have. Each year we try to get a couple new decorations, like good decorations that we like. This year we got the tree and lights to go on the house. So our Christmas decorations are sparse, but it still is beautiful.

Making special memories like this with these little kids is what is most important to me right now. They are so special and deserve the very best childhood. Merry Christmas!

Book Cases

A little while ago Camille was playing in a little space between the wall and our bookshelf (that was handed down from Melissa and Blake) and she was pretending to climb the wall and ended up accidentally pushing the book case over. When I heard the crash I went to the family room and I just felt so grateful that it didn't land on anyone. Books are so heavy and it could have been so bad.

I ho-hummed around trying to decide if I wanted to just buy another cheap bookcase, buy an expensive all wooden bookcase, or make my own bookcase. With the help of my wonderful dad, I decided to build a bookshelf. I am SO glad that I did. It was a lot of work, but so worth it.

We went up to my parents for several days while Kevin was on a business trip to start on these bookcases. We would work on them after the kids went to bed, so from 7-10 PM. It ended up taking several weeks off and on of working on these book cases, but they were so worth it. Now they are in my home,  and every time I walk past them I just fall in love with them again.

Here are some pictures of the process and finished product.

While we were at my parents house so often we got to do so many fun things with them. Here are some fun pictures of things we were able to do with Grandma and Grandpa Haderlie.

Playing in the leaves with Grandpa Walker. Camille would pretend to be leaves, and Grandpa would stuff her in the bag and bring her to the bigger pile and dump here out. She thought it was the most fun thing ever.

This is Sadie's first time playing the leaves....or sitting in the leaves. She was not impressed. 

Camille wanted Jason to have his own piles of leaves so she went outside to rake him up a pile. 

Grandma did Jason's hair in a faux hawk and Jason would say, "My name is Spike" with his arms at his side. It was adorable. 

Making rainbow toast. Camille at about 5 pieces of toast because she wanted to keep making more pictures. 

While I was building a bookcase, Camille and Jason took some of Grandpa's scraps and made a bird house. They glued it together with Elmers glue and surprisingly it worked really well. 

Uncle Jacob was up one day and took the kids on long board rides. Jason thought it was so cool. I am pretty sure Jason is just a mini Kevin just waiting to come out. 

We had Lydia and Austin and Caleb up one day and the kids made "Kid Pancakes" with Grandpa. They are pancakes that look like kids. They thing they are the best food ever. But in reality they just have the best Grandpa ever. 

As much as I liked building the bookcases, the best part was being able to spend time with my parents. It was so nice to spend time with them and for my kids to spend so much time with them too.