Monday, February 25, 2013

The Chair

  So my kid has 2 new favorite spots.  Parked right in front of the TV when Barney is on....
(she never moves from this spot until the last of the credits have rolled.  And only for Barney. I kid you not.)
And her chair.

So we got E this chair when she like 4 months because she wanted to be held all the time and I couldn't do anything and she was hitting the age where she would quickly outgrow those little bouncer thingys.  Plus the chair said it could "grow with them."  Whatever.  Anyway.  So once E was crawling and such we just stuck the chair in her room and haven't really thought about it since.
Now it is likely her favorite spot in the house.


If I can't find her I look in her room and she's sitting in her chair looking at books.  It's so funny I love it!

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Family Picture


Due September 17, 2013

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Beginning Of Us

I read a friend's blog about how they got together and I thought, "what a cute idea for Valentine's Day!"  Her's is obviously more relevant since it has ties to the actual day of February 14th, but what the heck.  I love telling our story and since we never "had the opportunity" to speak in church when we first moved to this ward a year and a half ago I didn't get a chance to tell it, so bear with/ humor me. :)

The short version of our story would be that we met in a singles ward.  The long version is a bit better in my personal opinion. :)
Our story begins in the fall of 2009.  My dear best friend Amy and I had some dear guy friends (Tyler being one of them) whom we liked to gather with and play games.  Our story would first begin with Monopoly, but I am forbidden to mention that period of our history, so suffice it to say...we don't play Monopoly anymore and have not played Monopoly since that certain time.
Anywhoo...a while later, a few of us were playing games one September Sunday and decided to attend ward prayer from our previous ward.  Our ward was recently split and my house and Tyler's house had sadly been annexed (it all ended up being a very good thing since several marriages happened from that event), but we loved our old bishop and they had great treats after ward prayer, so we decided to go to the "old ward."
Well as we were eating our dessert we were all discussing the possibility of driving to Las Vegas that upcoming weekend to do baptisms in the temple there.  Our old bishop overheard, and being a singles ward bishop he says to me and Tyler, "you're getting married in Vegas this weekend?" To which we replied, no, we were doing baptisms.  He then kept insisting that we were indeed getting married in Vegas that weekend and proceeded to tell us his plan.  He would transfer my records back into his ward, he would give me a temple recommend and bada-bing, bada-boom --  we could get married that weekend.  He even offered to pay for the ring, and the marriage license.  And I kid you not, he was serious.  Then the rest of the bishopric piped in and said they would buy Tyler's ring and the their wives were telling us their plans for the reception! I mean wow! Talk about feeling a bit overwhelmed and on the spot and basically everything else!  We finally were able to say, no, and quickly tried to escape, but before we hit the door the bishop stopped us and asked us to at least please pray about it! Ha! Tyler was my friend, and barely that at the time, I was not going to pray about it!  But did I?  Oddly, yes, but very, very VERY briefly.  And not quite how the bishop wanted me to.
So anyway, on our walk home from the church we were laughing about the how situation and decided we wanted revenge.  So, we spent time that night and the next day planning how we were going to get back at the bishop.
Well, Heavenly Father has his own sense of humor, because that next day I could not stop thinking of Tyler. I thought of him in class, at lunch, at study group, etc.  And I always kept feeling the spirit with each thought and I knew I needed to give this boy a chance to win my heart and that there was a good chance he would.
So, anyway, that night we found a $10 Wal-mart engagement ring and went over to the bishop's house and knocked hand in hand with big, goofy smiles on our faces.  The bishop's wife answered the door and said the bishop wasn't home yet but would be soon and to come in and sit down.  She was curious and a little hesitant to believe our story, but kept quiet until the bishop came home.  Well he walked in and saw us sitting all cozy on the couch and said, "oh my word! What have we here?"  To which we explained that we did as he suggested and we prayed about it and felt that it was indeed right for us to get married!  We weren't going to do it that weekend, but we had set a date in December and thanked him for bringing us together!  And what did he do?  He started crying!  Crying!  What!?  That was not in the plan!  We wanted to carry this out for a few days or something.  So we finally said that we were teasing we were just trying to get back at him.  He sat there for maybe 5 seconds. Maybe, and said "It'll happen."  We just laughed, but were told all night the wonderful qualities about the other person.
When we left that night I knew things had changed though.  Something had happened at the bishop's house and I was pretty sure knew Tyler knew it too.  That night as we were getting ready for bed I told my roommate "This is it.  I'm done.  I'm taken.  I'm going to marry Tyler Anderson.  I just know it."
Well the next day Tyler and I talked and "found out" that we liked each other.  A week later we were "officially"dating, and 3 months later (December! Haha!) we were engaged.  This May will be our three year anniversary (wahoo!) and we couldn't be happier!


I love you Babe! Happy Valentine's Day!

Saturday, February 9, 2013

My Daughter the Dog

So when my mom and I talk on the phone a good 95% of the time we note how similar Emma and Tilly (my parents' dog) are.  We don't know if it is the fact that they are 18 days apart or what, but they are definitely "bosom buddies," "two peas in a pod," (etc. etc.) or "partners in crime" as we commonly refer to them as. Similarities include:

1. Both hear the word "go for a ride" and immediately perk up, drop everything and come to you.

2. At least once a week, AT LEAST, both me and my mother are yelling at either Emma or Tilly to "get out of the garbage."  I kid you not, there have been times when I hear my mom yelling at Tilly to get out of the garbage and I look over at Emma and yell the same thing.

3.  They both kiss with their tongues hanging out.  Emma is good at giving kisses now, but we are trying to teach her to close her mouth or at least to keep her tongue in her mouth.  And Tilly being a dog will sometimes get adventurous and try to kiss you...differently.

4.  They both love going for walks...

...on a leash.
That would be my sister "guiding" my 1 year old around the house.  Last time she was up here she did a little experiment to see if Emma would walk (or rather crawl) with a leash.  Not only did Emma do it, she did it happily...like Tilly.

5.  They both like to eat off the floor.  Emma will purposefully throw food when she is "done" eating.  Then when we take her out of her high chair and put her on the floor she will crawl right to the food and start eating.  Sometimes she won't even pick it up with her fingers.  She will stick her mouth to the floor and try and lick it up.  I have a strange child.  I know.

6. They both love balloons.

I've semi-been trying to upload these videos for a while.  I mentioned them in a previous post (on accident...I kinda forgot the erase the text after the videos failed to upload).

Anywhoo, you get the point...they are basically best buds...

Since day 1 (well this picture is taken at 3 months, but you get the idea)

Saturday, February 2, 2013

In Other News...

After the many many weeks of applying and waiting for Post-Bacc Schools, we can finally say we know where we will be living in 3 months (ah!) from now.....




We are very excited and very scared at the same time!
Now the hard part...finding an apartment....using only the internet! :(