28 day Fitness Challenge

Landon and I are doing a 28 day fitness challenge. With how busy we are I have no idea how well we will do but I really want to try!

Barn Party

I wish I would have taken more pictures at the Barn Party we went to. It was a lot of fun! It was a Chili Cook-off and horse rides for the kids. My chili won! :) McKenna also got to ride a horse for her first time! It was a great night!

Morning of Service

Our Relief Society morning of service was wonderful!

Halloween

I had to work on Halloween! What are the odds? I was bummed to leave McKenna! PopPop watched her though and they had a fun time together! That was Larry's first time watching McKenna on his own.

I woke up early on Halloween and made cookies, and set the dough out to rise and decorated and cleaned for our Halloween party. After work I got home and made chili, apple pie, witches breadstick fingers and Carmel corn. My dad made homemade rootbeer and my mom brought more decorations and doughnuts. I made broomsticks out of Reese's and pretzels. It was fun!

The guys watched the ring while the girls greeted all the trick or treaters. We took McKenna trick or treating for her first time! We only went to our circle but she had a blast! Next year we will have to go longer!

A night of giving

Monday morning I woke up early and started on Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies to take around to families in our ward. 

We had two awesome visits! It's so fun to get to know other families better! We took dinner to one family and that was such a fun time and then after that we had a streak of awkward visits and one more fun one. Lol such is the way it works. In today's world people are baffled when those around them care!

Alex is a Teacher

We headed down to Pleasant Grove for Alex on Sunday. My dad made him a teacher. It was so nice to be there and see Dad, Landon and Hayden use their Priesthood. I'm so proud of Alex! He will be a great Teacher. 

It was wonderful to see Becki and to all be together as well. Grateful for these blessings in our lives of family, the gospel and the priesthood 

Monday with Grandma

My grandparents came down Sunday night and stayed in our home with us. It was wonderful to have them here.

My grandfather was asked to oversee the Monson Memorial Headstone placement on Monday morning so Grandma spent the day with McKenna and I. It was great to spend time catching up with Grandma. I have so much yet to learn from her.

Get to know you

We had the Elders Quorum Presidency over for a get-to-know-you party. We did a Hot Chocolate Bar. I am kicking myself now for not remembering to take any pictures. It was really fun decorating for it and all the treats were yummy. Everyone had a good time trying different types of hot chocolate, mix ins, all sorts of marshmallows and cookies to dip. 

It was our neighbors, the Vandusen's one year anniversary of being baptized and Steve is the secretary so Landon asked them to share their testimonies and then they were presented with a framed pic of the SLC temple with a saying on it. It was lovely.

It was fun getting to know everyone and it will be fun to all serve together.

October Fun

When I was in college my roommate and I had birthdays close together so since she lives in Utah now we were able to celebrate her birthday Saturday Night. They came over to our house and we ate salad, cheese bread and Sweet Home Chicago pizza pie. It was great! It's fun to have friends who last through our the years! Happy Birthday Jennifer!

Wheeler Farms

Saturday morning we went to Wheeler Farms with the Becknell Family. It was such a nice morning activity to do. The kids loved the ducks!

Grizzlies Hockey Game

We went to the Grizzlies Hockey Game with some friends in our ward. I visit teach and work out with Danae and her husband Buddy is investigating the church. They had extra tickets and so they invited us along. It was a blast. McKenna did really well too!

Family Pictures

A friend of ours in our ward is starting a new photography business and she offered to take our pics for free if we would allow her to use some of them for advertising. We have been trying to find time to do them for weeks now and finally found the time on Friday. Here is a sneak peak:

McKenna's Wellness Check

We skipped McKennas 1 year check up so here we are doing it at 14 months. She is doing great. Because she has been sick her weight dropped but he thinks it will come right back up again soon. He also said that her chompers are coming in and she is swelling, drooling and they are all white. So she will be teething hard core back in there for the next little bit. McKenna is in the fortieth percentile for her height and weight. However she is testing on an18-2 year old scale. So she is petite but smart. Lol he referred us to an allergist in case she gets a rash again. They like to wait until a baby is 2 to test for allergies but because she is so advanced in her eating and thinking he thinks she will be fine to test earlier. We will see how that goes. 

The first Vision

Landon and I have been very busy with our callings, family and missionary work but tonight didn't seem as busy. The missionaries came over for dinner and then they shared a message. During that message they asked if Landon and I would teach the first vision to them in 5 minutes. Landon said he didn't remember the first vision word for word let alone in English, so he taught leading up to the first vision and I taught the first vision. I have to tell you that the spirit was so strong that it completely consumed me. It re confirmed my testimony of the restored gospel. It hit me that I haven't quoted that experience for probably three years! I vowed to myself that I would not go another three years! 

Family Birthday Party

Because the Dr. Said McKenna wasn't contagious, we went straight from the Dr Office to meet Landon at church. Landon had meetings after church and so McKenna took a short nap. Once Landon got home we headed down to Payson to celebrate the October Birthdays: Ryan, me, Landon, Mom and TJ. I made mom a lemon strawberry poke cake and we also took cupcakes and I made a salad. 

All the food was really yummy but the best part was having all of our family together! Landon had never really experienced it before. It was a blast. Everyone was there but Diane and her family. It was fun! We had dinner, presents, dessert, visiting, games, a piñata and lots of laughing. Best present ever!

First Rash

On Landons Birthday, once we got back home, we realized that McKenna had a rash. I called TR and he said to put cortisone on it and if it didn't get any better then I should take her to theDr. So I did and she seemed to get a bit better. In the morning when she woke up though she was covered in the rash! So I rushed her to the Dr. Who gave her a steroid and tested her for strep. She was negative on the steep test but started responding to the steroid almost immediately. So the Dr. Said it was a topical allergic reaction and not something she ate. After describing McKennas day to him he said his guess would be she had an allergic reaction to cats.

Landon's Birthday

Landon's Birthday was a little crazy. I got up and made him breakfast and then ran to the store to pick up some cupcakes to give to him later, then we dropped McKenna off at Nana and Pop Pops and then Landon and I went to the Temple for our Road to Salvation day. That's when you spend the day in the temple.

We came out for lunch and the ward members who were there sang to Landon and we ate lunch and the cupcakes I had bought. Then we went back in the temple and worked. Right before one of our sessions Landon had a worker come and pull me out to talk with him. Landon felt that we should leave the temple and go to a baptism of a Less Active Members daughter. So, we left and headed to Deseret Book and bought Landon's CTR ring and a little gift for the daughter. After the baptism we went to pick up McKenna and Landon was surprised with a cake from his parents. So we ate dinner with them, ate cake and watched Utah play.

We then came home and Landon opened the rest of his presents. He got Iron Man 3 so we fell asleep watching that. Lol it's funny how birthdays change as you get older.

Change of Plans

We were suppose to go away for our Birthdays on Thursday morning but McKenna hadn't been feeling well and got much worse on my Birthday. By Thursday morning she was really sick. So we cancelled our trip and hung out with McKenna all day. On Friday McKenna was feeling a bit better so we decided to go out and celebrate our birthdays a little more. We went shopping and out to eat. I also started giving Landon his gifts on Thursday so each day he got a few more.

The Big 3-0

I woke up to find flowers from Landon on the table :) what a wonderful husband! I got McKenna ready and we went and met TR, Ashley and Trey at the Draper Library for cuddle time and then we went to the park. It was a fun morning.

In the afternoon my neighbor Tammie stopped by and brought me a little gift and visited for a while. She cheered me right up.

Landon came home early from work and took me to sushi for dinner and when I got back there was a surprise party for me with family and friends from college! It was so fun to see them and visit with them! I'm so thankful that landon and our parents put this party together! It was so great!

My last day in my 20's

My relief society presidency that I serve in brought me an incredible cake the day before my birthday. So, feeling a little down for getting older, I decided to embrace it. Landon left to an Elders Quorum Meeting and so I borrowed a chick flick from next door and McKenna and I watched that and ate cake in bed. Lol