Thanksgiving In Alamo

Thanksgiving in Alamo this year was a lot of fun, I had the opportunity to take photos that same day and run home and make my Martha Stewart recipe for cranberry cornbread stuffing which I burnt the pecans so we had to roast them again and then we did a half Bach so when we took off the covering to brown the top it got to dry! :( oh well I thought it still tasted good. All in all we had a great thanks giving dinner at my brother Derek's house. Cheyenne and Bianka spent the day cooking up a storm as well so that everyone would have a wonderful thanksgiving and we did!  They even made a small roasted chicken that looked like a Turkey and side dishes for the kids table so that they could have there own miniature thanksgiving dinner and Cheyenne cooked it! After words we ended up downstairs dancing for three hours! I didn't gain any weight this year Ye Ha!

Hear is a Highlight of what we did the rest of the weekend. Ben went duck hunting and got two ducks a teal and a shoveler oh and one goose but it landed in the middle of the lake and it was frozen and on way to get it poor Ben it was his first one ever! I guess no Goose dinner for Christmas this year :(. I helped my mom decorate the tree and Sunday morning we had about 3 in. of snow fall it was so pretty we had to take photos and try to see if Paige would play in it, but she didn't like it poor thing.

 Oh I forgot we played games with friends and Ben did his fair share of playing basketball which cosed him lot of body pain hear is a nice bruise he got from a knee to the leg poor guy.

Young Women in Excellence

This is our Invitation

For all that might not know this, I was called to be the 1st councilor in YW a few months ago. I'm over the Mia Maids it’s been 10 years since I've been in YW, and it has been fun and challenging to learn everything again. This month we are having our YW in Excellence night and I got to make you program and invitations I hope you like them I was up till 11:30 pm last night making this word collage in Photoshop and it was totally worth it!



This is the cover for the program



Our Summer Vactation to WY 2010

OK I have been putting this one off because there is so much that we did while in WY I have just been over whelmed just thinking of writing it all down. So Hear I go! This is our first real vacation we have taken since Paige was born so we were ready to get out and explore and fall for tourist traps & hick; we did! We bought cowboy hats in Cody WY which was lots of fun, we went to a photo gallery of a local photographer husband and wife team their photos were amazing! We Hiked to medican wheel mountain I think that's what its called its a very spiritual place for the native Americans. I'm always fascinated with the Native American because my mom in 1/16th Navajo Paiute and that makes me 1/32 not much but I have some in me. If you have ever read the book To Soar With The Eagle it is about my family will from my mom side. After that We stopped at a camp ground and had our lunch there is a few photo's of Paige sinking her teeth into some elk sausage it so good I can't waite to go back and buy some more! We spent time at the Hopkin Family farm and we went to a small town kind of like Alamo so to fare from Powlle to watch fire works and man did they put on a show I love it it we almost had front row sites no the grass it was to loud that my body was shaking Paige was a champ she slept threw almost all of it till the grand finally it was crazy loud then no one could sleep threw that all in all it was a great summer trip the only down part of it before I left on vacation my brother could got really sick and was in the hospital and they didn't know what was wrong with him when we left so I was on my phone a lot and texting Lucy his wife to see what the new update was. He was told he had MS but then went to a neurologist the went over he's paper work and it said they suspect he has MS to make a long story short he is all better now he has all of his movement back in the left side of his body! OH and while we went fishing as a family Ben's dad appendix and burst and he didn't know it at the time he was just in a lot of pain so he insisted on taking the kids fishing but he couldn't do anything he just lade on the seat of his truck in pain. So we finally talked him into go to the emergency room the next day and they said if he would have waited on more day he would have died! It was a very eventful summer I hope you  enjoy the photos and the little captions!

Our fist Stetson hats we bought in Cody WY.



Playing at the park in Cody WY.



Paige helping clean up the nuts that spilled the we put in a feeder so we can watch the squeal's eat them in Great Grandma Wharton's back yard. Powlle WY



Paige playing with Conner her cousin Tyler and Rachel's kid and Ben's Aunt Carrie we love you guys cant waite to go back this summer.




Ben pushing Paige on our walk to medican wheel, their is still snow in July!




OH what a view but would not like to be hear in the winter!




Medicine Wheel at Big Horn Mt WY




Paige and Ben enjoying the views you can see for ever up there.





Paige and Ben (she is so cute!) having fun on our little lunch by the river at a camp ground in the Big Horn Mt




Every time I look at these photos it makes me think why do I live in Las Vegas? It's so pretty.




My fat baby oh so cute




Paige devouring our Elk sausage she was loving it!




Ben Fishing I was a good wife and let hem fish for a few hours while Paige and I got Eaton alive from mosquito's but it was a really pretty view.




Paige playing in the river She got all wet so I had to put her in her swimming suite later I should have done that first oh well




Oh my little cow girl! wearing Mommy's new hat.



Swinging with daddy out at Grandpa Hopkin farm



Ben got to dive this and was having so much fun he really want to be a farmer :)




Paige having fun in the tracker




The Hopkin Family Farm I love this view



The Best Birthday Gift!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

This year Ben decide to surprise me with a trip to see a play for my Birthday! Well it was kind of a surprise he had to ask me which one I wanted to go see, because they had Pride and Prejudice playing which is my favorite movie ever! But they did not have that play in September so we decided on Much Ado. Ben is not big on Birthdays so last year was not so good, but we've only been married 3 years so I guess were still learning right? Anyways We went to Alamo and spent the night Friday night and got up Saturday morning and left Paige with Connie and Adam (Thanks you guys for watching her for us!) This was the first time Ben and I have been away from Paige together at the same time since she was born. Our play started at 2pm UT time I had seen this play once before but it had been a really long time. We got to the play a little early so we decided to walk around campus to enjoy the weather it was so nice outside and so green. We ended up going into a building that had and an Art Gallery that was open it was fun to see all the art work and photography! The Play was excellent I loved it Ben had got us really good seats the 3rd row on the right hand side we were so close we could see one of the actors spit come out of his mouth when he talked! It was Awesome!

this is the website I got the photos from.
After the play we went and checked in at Abbeys Inn which was a really nice place for the price we got!
This is what our room looked like it was so nice and relaxing! If you ever want to stay in Ceder City I would recommend this place for sure! After we checked in we decide to go exploring the town since we both had not been there to much just to see my family and friends. We decided to take a drive around Ceder City and went threw the country side after that we decided to try to find Duck Creek, but we ended up going to Ceder Peaks which was fun and very Pretty!

Orange Ruffled Scoop Neck Dress

Orange Ruffled Scoop Neck DressI don’t know how they do it, but hear is a new dress from shabby apple that I love and the color grate for the fall! Another dress to put on my wish list!

Play House Dream!

So I found this really cool website called Knock-off Wood you guys should check this out. Oh all the thinks I could get my Ben to make and maybe I could try some things too! Hears the link. Oh and Reality hits you have to have a house to build a playhouse in the back yard :(. That's why I made Paige one for inside, oh well someday we'll have a house and live somewhere that its not 110 outside right?
OK Connie told me I put the wrong link so it is fixed now sorry :)

Paige's Tree House

So I have been working on this one for a while now before Christmas's I started this one cuz I didn't have my new sewing machine when I sewed the body together. I made this out of a king size flat sheet its the perfect size to go all the way around the card tale and you don't have to Finnish the edges because it done for you and it makes the best door opening as well. I'm not done with it, I still have to put tree branches going across it for the animals to sit on and I am going to put a stone fire place inside, its going to be really cute! Well I hope you like it Paige sure does.
Hear is a few links to help you out if you want to make one for your self. Click Hear and Hear Good luck!