randoms

Here are a bunch of random pictures from my phone!

We had a couple snowy days already and this is Buddy's new jacket...he wont go outside if its is to cold or snowing!

Khloe went to nursery for the first time 2 weeks ago! she loved/hated it!  

 She wanted her hair done like mine...so we put a foil on her pig tail...

Beautiful day at the park...

we made a trip to Pocatello to see my brother and Steve's parents, this was at the mall..she loved riding them!

On the last night there we went to tasty treat! They gave Khloe her own cone...bad idea but so much fun to see her eat it!

 HAHA khloe was "Smiling" this could be one of my favorite pictures of all time!

 precious picture of Khloe while she sleeps...her feet always hang out the side...I sure love that girl!

Pumpkin patch!

 Steve finally had 2 days off in a row! We decided to take advantage of it and head to the pumpkin patch. A friend of mine told me that there was a church that picked pumpkins and put them on their lawn.Great for little kids! So we loaded up in the car with flip flops and short sleeve shirts not expecting to head to an actual field! When we got to the church they only had maybe 20 pumpkins and they were pretty sad looking. At that point our options were pick sad pumpkins or go to Walmart...not really thrilled with either option we got online and found a pumpkin patch in Fort Collins and decided to go(not like going to Fort Collins is a rare occasion...)

This is Khloe's new smile..haha Say cheese and this is what you get!

 Im so glad we choose to go to the free pumpkin patch because Khloes favorite part was the dog who followed us, she could have cared less about picking a pumpkin!

Her other favorite part was the stupid dolls on the hay... we never got a picture of her looking at the camera..

this is how Khloe ended the afternoon...she couldn't bring the animals home...
We found 2 big pumpkins and 1 baby pumpkin, we are hoping Steve gets off in time to join us to color the pumpkins tonight!

Steves surprise party!

Ok... I'm officially the LAMEST person to throw a party! I forget my camera every time! I never go above and beyond on decorations...and this time was no exception....

Steve was promoted to a top store in the company last week! in fact it is in the top 10%!!! not of the state, region or even country but the world(yes they have pilots in Europe!) I could not be prouder of that man! He works so hard for our family! This past week he has done at least 14 hour days! poor guy! today is is his day off and he is only working 8 hours:-) that means we will get to see him at the dinner table tonight! A very exciting thing!!

So with all this going on his old store missed Steve so much that they wanted to throw him a party of we will miss you and Congratulations party! When i heard i wanted to help as much as i could! We got steve his favorite candies(M&M's) and a really yummy cake with balloons and a fun hat! i know kinda lame! One of his employees took pictures and I can't wait to see them! Ill post more about the party then!

Life at our house has been nothing short of crazy... last week I work 50 night house, did hair, had a very sick one year old and that one year old made me super sick! Steve had a BIG visit with corporate at work, this means we don't see him much:-(...My best friend and Khloes sitter was put on bed rest last week and steves hours are changing again...Meaning I am no longer working with Bill. I am incredibly sad about not working...It gave me something to do and look forward to. Honestly I have not been this happy since Khloe was born. But then I was watching Oprah(love OWN) and there was a mom who was saying she was struggling being a stay at home mom and then had an "aha" moment saying "I wanted kids, I tried to have kids, struggled to have kids and finally had kids but when my kids were here all I wanted to do was to go to work" Umm that is me in a nut shell after Khloe was here. She went on to say "Being a mom is my calling, making mac and cheese is part of my calling, the laundry, the cleaning, and poop is all part of my calling". and then today I read a quote by Majorie Pay Hinkley 

"We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. we have to decide what is important and them move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are."

And then it made sense(even though everyone has told me these things before), I need to simplify my life, make Khloe my number one priority, I don't need to prove anything to myself. And even though there is a lot that I don't like about being a stay at home mom there are a million GREAT things about being a stay at home mom..Getting to wake up and see Khloe in the morning, putting her to sleep every night, having the energy to take her to the park, doing family activities ect...And although i am still sad about not being able to work any more i have come to terms and couldn't be more excited to be at home with Khloe again...