Wednesday, November 30, 2011

OCTOBER!!!!!

You know I don't like to do this, but I was going through all the pictures and realized there is a lot from October, I was about to file them all away when this thought popped in my head... "what if kem asks about her first halloween?" Then I remembered that it wasn't her first halloween and still felt just as bad skipping over it. So here it is... october 2011...


Jared's brother, Jason and his wife Melissa came to visit. 
It was so much fun and we miss them tons. We went to the coast and did lots of crabbing. ..



You can barely see it, but my finger is pointing to a teeny tiny baby crab. Cool huh.  


We went to a cool old light house.

More crabbing...


And then they all went to a BYU vs OSU football game while kem and I hit up the outlet mall.  


Apparently k man ate a lot, which for him is a big deal.



Kem learned to walk!!
I know... crazy... right?!


I broke a lens!
it was sad... but we move on. 



We picked pumpkins...

As always.



Kem just loved every minute of it ;)


Kroten worked on his camera skills...





We carved said pumpkins!
Kroten hated the guts. He absolutely would not touch them. After this picture, we forced him to have the experience and he actually cried. Poor little man. 




Halloween...
Our halloween costumes were somewhat disappointing, much like my blogging, I did not have time nor the money for cool ones, so I resorted to last years models. K man however begged me to be a scary pumpkin, so i did make his costume. 


I just love having my picture taken...


 Our happy fam on halloween. K man is not scared, this is what he does when we tell him to smile. It is horrible. 


We went camping...
and I took my first time laps star pic. It was a fun 15 min of sitting in the pitch dark in the middle of a campground parking lot looking at the stars. I was shocked at what came out of the camera. 




And that is OCTOBER in a nut shell. Whoo, glad that is over. 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

hello my name is kristen and...

... I used to be a good blogger.

I wanted to see what Kroten was like at kem's age so I went back in the blog and started reading. It hit me all at once, I used to be  a good blogger. Posting regularly taking awesome pictures etc. Now I just post the occasional phone pic. There is soooooo much in our life right now that is worthy of a post, but life will not slow down. I need to blog, I want to blog. I will not surrender, I will one day blog. 

Probably not tomorrow, but soon, I am not done blogging. 

My heart hurts a little for my lack of blogging!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

thanks to the giving!

Thanksgiving is my absolute, hand down favorite holiday and here are my reasons...
1. you eat!
2. being grateful makes me happy.
3. being together.
4. candied yams with pecans.

5. left overs. 

6. Autumn.
I love it.  love it.  love it.  love it. 

It was funny, we ate probably two hours before our normal dinner time and the kids were throwing starvation fits as though it was an hour past. I am starting to think that it is just the smell of food that decides the timing of dinner not the actual time. 

kemmers waiting patiently for her turkey dinner...


The whole gang just before the feast. We spent it alone this year, just us, our family of four :)


Kman's favorite part of the meal by far...



And Jared's favorite part...


Oh, and jared played football in the AM. I have always been a sucker for men on the field, I got lucky, he is a champ!


Wednesday, November 23, 2011

a day of thanksgiving...

Last year I did 25 days of thankfullness, posting each day of november about something that I am grateful for. This year I have been WAY to busy, although I am super grateful that I am so busy, it has left my blogging to the wayside. But I truly do have so very much to be grateful for. I figured I could make up for it by posting it all at once.

What I am grateful for...

1. My incredibly supportive and talented Husband...




2. My buddy...




3. My kemers...




4. Prayer
5. Photography
6. Oregon...




7. The plug...




8. Technology (computer, fridge, vacuum, microwave, movies etc.)...




9. my bed
10. Food to eat and food to feed my babies...




11. My girls at church...




12. The temple and my eternal family...




13. My babysitter mother...




14. The silly and sometimes insightful things k man says. 
15. A car that works
16. Our health
17. Wal*mart (I know I know, but seriously!!)
18. Friends...




19. The rain
20. Rain breaks so I can do photo shoots
21. Hot showers
22. Crafting
23. My Camera
24. My Amazing Father in Heaven who gives me everything that I have.


I was cooking dinner tonight and had this overwhelming feeling of gratitude for all my blessings. I truly am in debt to God for all he has given me. 

now that it is thanksgiving...

...we can start thinking about christmas. I am totally ready to start crafting with my k man. These are the cute Ideas I have found so far.

 Anyone have anymore... I could use them!!! 

SO EXCITED!!! 










PS... totally making snow globes.... HOW COOL IS THAT!!!