Our Place

This is the upstairs loft that is the girls playroom.





Here are a few pics of our place for those of you who have been asking. I am still not done putting pics and decor up and who knows if I ever will!

Halloween

This is the first year Maddy would touch the pumpkin guts! She loved it and did a great job cleaning it out!




The crew! Madison, Maggie, Gabby, David, Aubrey and Emma McCabe, and Olivia.

Maggie and Olivia
This Chicken is on a Mission!!
I really wish she would pose a little more!

Olivia did not want to stop, she stood at the door and screamed!
We shoved a sucker in her mouth and she was happy!
She really enjoyed the Chocolate!!

We had a great Halloween this year. Maddy new months ago she wanted to be a witch and it took her about 30 minutes to pick out the perfect witch costume. Olivia on the other hand, I didn't know what I wanted her to be. Then this stupid Chicken costume showed up in a box I was unpacking. I really didn't want her to be a chicken, it's not very girly (plus, we made her be scooby doo last year) but after putting it on her and laughing hysterically, Micha made an executive decision that she needed to be a chicken! She really liked wearing it too, which was another plus. We even taught her to say "Bock Bock", like a chicken. It was pretty funny. We went to Jenny and Davids house to trick or treat their neighborhood. The kids had a blast!

Olivia is Growing Up!

All ready to go! She loves going outside!
Climbing into her booster seat.
Sitting in the kitchen sink while I cook.

Olivia is 17 months and is getting too big, too quick. She is talking like crazy and is beginning to repeat more things you say. She loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse still and wants to watch it first thing when she wakes up. She screams from her bed "Show, Show", when she gets up in the morning and is ready to watch Mickey. She loves sitting in the kitchen sink and in my bathroom sink. She is always in my bathroom sink every morning while I am getting ready. She also loves to walk Winston. She will get his leash anytime she wants to take him out. Olivia climbs into her booster seat when she is ready to eat(which is about 8-10 times a day). She also has quite the temper when things aren't going her way!! She get's that from her father:)

DeeDah and Grandpa Visit

An attempt to get all the kids together, didn't work out so well!


My parents came and visited the first of October. It was great seeing them and spending a little time with them. All the kids loved having DeeDah around and they couldn't get enough of her. That brought tickets for General Conference, so we were all able to go to a session with them.

Catching Up

Jenny has apple and pear trees in her back yard and the kids love picking the fruit and eating them when they go outside.
This is what Olivia does when she comes into my store! Lots of rearranging

Boating with our friends,the Ballards

The girls playing at a mall play center.


Celebrating Gabby's 5th Birthday Party.
Wow, this has been a crazy, busy month!! First of all, I started working! I am managing a GNC store and Micha is now a SSM Manager for GNC. This job was basically handed to me and it has been a real blessing. Micha and I are able to work our schedules out the way we want them and what works best for our family. It is a great experience for me and a relatively low stress job. It is hard to be away from the girls during the day, especially Olivia. She is still so little and I feel like I am missing out on so much, but I also know this is what I need to do right now. It also puts my mind at ease that they are in good hands with Jenny. We are moving into our new place in less than a week!! We are so excited to get into our own place and have some order back in our life(and for my huge closet!). Micha is flying home this weekend to get all of our things out of storage in Arkansas. I can't wait to have all my things(shoes) back. After taking a huge leap of faith and moving to Utah, things are falling into place and working out. Utah definitely isn't home but I can stand it for a little while. Micha and I are getting the work experience we wanted and needed that can hopefully take us back to the south!

Maddy's First Day of Kindergarten

David wanted to get in the picture action.

Maddy finally started Kindergarten!! We were all very excited. She only goes half days, 12:30-3:30, because Utah schools are apparently stupid! Fortunately Micha and I both had the day off so we were able to take her to school. We got there and they had muffins and milk for the kids. After that the teachers lined up the classes and took them inside. I am proud to say I didn't cry, I was too excited that she finally started! Anyways, when she got home from school I asked her how it was and she said, "Good, I got a Disney Magazine". Are you kidding me, that's all I get after hearing you talk about going to school for the past year! She finally told me she made 2 friends but didn't know their names. Her teacher's name is Mrs. Hutchings and she seems to be a great teacher and Maddy really likes her. Hopefully she will have a wonderful first year of school and not get in too much trouble!!

Maddy Loses her "First" Tooth

Madison called me Monday while I was out and told me her tooth was broken and it was bleeding. I immediately freaked out because it wouldn't have been the first time. After talking to her and then Jenny, I found out the tooth was loose. Madison had her top teeth pulled when she was 3 because she had fallen and chipped them. So this was her first official loose tooth. She was very excited about it. She then asked when we were going to go to the dentist so they could pull it out. I explained that she would have to pull it out when it was time. She wiggled it and messed with it for a couple of days and last night she asked if I would pull it out for her. I got it good and loose and told her to pull it the rest of the way and she did. She started jumping up and down and ran to show Micha. She asked if the tooth fairy would give her $100 for her tooth. Well she didn't get $100, she got $5 and she was thrilled when she woke up. She went running through the entire house showing everyone. She has another loose tooth and is looking forward to loosing it so she can get another $5.

Ice Cream and the Zoo

If you pet this elephant it would start making elephant noises and then spray air out of its trunk.

The kids touching some water ball thing, they thought it was pretty cool.
The high was only 80 degrees so we decided it would be a perfect day to take the kids to the Salt Lake Zoo. The kids had a great time. There was a baby giraffe that was only a week old and Maddy loved it.
David enjoying his ice cream away from all the girls.
Olivia, Maddy, and Maggie enjoying their ice cream.


Olivia was eating ice cream outside and decided to share it with Winston, aka "Woo Woo". Now don't let this video deceive your perception of Olivia, she has turned into quite the stinker lately. She has started throwing herself on the floor and kicking her feet when she doesn't get her way. She even gets angry at me and yells if I put on the wrong show for her or pick out the wrong shoes. I don't remember this stage with Maddy, although I am sure she went through it. Church is pretty much impossible and ridiculous! I spend 2-3 hours chasing her around the church and I am completely exhausted by the time I go home. One benefit of living in Utah is living 2 houses from the church so it is very convenient to just go home instead of dealing with my precious child. Olivia is really starting to talk. She says bath, woo woo, pat pat(Little Einsteins), nana(banana and her pacifier), dada, bye, up, and yeah. She has also started shaking her head no and blowing kisses. She is a very funny and entertaining girl, but man does she have some attitude!