Our little dancer!

Makella has been taking dance classes with Tip tap toes (my sister in law). The dance studio is in our garage, so its pretty convenient! She has loved it though. She got to make some friends and was always excited to go. They had the recital at the beginning of december and she did such a great job. I would sometimes be able to watch her while she was having her dance class and she always seemed more interested in playing with her friends or watching herself in the mirror to really care about the actual dance. We werent sure if she would really even remember the dance once it came time for the recital. I wont go so far as to say that she will be a dancer when she grows up, but she did so good! I think she remembered pretty much all of it and all the little 3 year olds were so cute! She loved being on stage and wasnt scared or nervous at all. Im excited for her to do dance again starting in January! Here are some (alot) of pictures of her all dolled up in her dance costume! Enjoy!

Other happenings

We have been having a good time living up here and Idaho. I dont know if Im really used to it yet, but its been good so far. Jon has a really great schedule right now and is able to be home every afternoon and evening, plus he has sunday and monday off. So its really great! Makella is taking dance right now and Loves it! Plus, its in our garage, so it doesnt really get more convenient than that. *For those that dont know, there is a dance studio in the garage that my sister in law runs* There will be a recital in december and she will be super cute! She is also taking an amazing athletes class and learns how to play hockey, football, volleyball and everything else. She has had a lot of fun so far! Im trying to put in her as much stuff as I can right now instead of doing preschool because she already knows pretty much everything they learn in preschool and she has a whole other year and a half til kindergarten, so we will do preschool next year! Here she is in her little dance outfit!


They have a neat discovery kids museum down here and right now they are doing a free friday thing, so I decided to take the kids to it. It was just me and the kids, so it was a little crazy, but it was fun! Noah wished he could be out of the stroller a bit more, but there was a lot of people and he runs a little too fast for me. They had a green screen that you could play around with and makella thought it was pretty cool to see her body disappear! Her other favorite thing was a little pulley system that they sit on and then pull themselves up. She kept putting her hands up and pretending it was a roller coaster. It was pretty funny. She thought she was pretty strong when she pulled up herself and Noah at the same time.




We have also been enjoying the Great fall weather by playing in our leaves! Noah thought it was pretty great that we got to jump right in a huge pile of leaves! Makella did a great job of covering Jon too. He had to lay there for quite a long time til he was TOTALLY covered. Ive got such cute kids! its wonderful! I really really love this time of year, I wish it was like it all time! If it went straight from fall to spring and then back again...that would be ideal!








If you havent already noticed in my last posts, I dyed my hair! I have been wanting it to be darker for a long time, so I finally just gave in and did it! I really love it and am glad I did it! I went from this..(dont look too long at the really ugly picture):

To this:

Halloween!

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! We went to out ward Halloween thing on Friday and it wasn't that great for us, but makella had a good time and I guess that's all that matters! Then on Sunday we went and hung out with Aaron and Kelly. We had chili and cornbread and then did a little trick or treating down their street. Yeah we are probably bad for going on Sunday, but that's just how it worked out. Makella loved it and probably would have gone all night if we had let her. I really liked their costumes! We didn't really come up with them until the middle of the week (we are super indecisive), but they turned out really cute! Makella was a fairy, or a garden fairy as she had to point out to everyone, and Noah was a little biker boy! I made him a little leather vest and some leather chaps! It was so cute and easy! These pictures don't do it any justice though. I put a cool studded skull on his back and a couple tattoos on his arms...it was pretty cool! My camera was pretty messed up, so these are all I got on my camera. My sister in law has a lot more on hers, so Ill have to get those. It was just a fun family night and everyone had a great time and ate lots of candy! Happy Halloween!

Noahs Birthday!

Yeah I know…it was a month ago. I’ve had all kinds of things on my list and blogging was at the very bottom! But I finally have some time and I thought I would start off with my little boy! He is oh so wonderful! He turned one on the first and we had a little monster party! Noah has been such a wonderful part of our family. He is nothing like I thought he would be, but everything I wanted! He has white hair and blue eyes! I never thought I would get a blue eyed baby, so I was happily surprised! He is so happy and easy going! Since he was born he has always been able to make me smile! On bad days or in the middle of the night when he wouldn’t sleep and I was exhausted…I just had to look at him and it always made me feel better. He had little droopy cheeks that I loved and now he has this goofy grin and a goofy little walk and I just cant get enough of him! I just want him to stay little forever! He doesn’t really say any words yet, but he is so quick to figure things out! It doesn’t take him long to figure things out. Some of his favorite things are:

His bottle…He loves this thing and demands it regularly…I know he probably shouldn’t have it anymore, but Im a little stuck on how to do it. He seriously loves it!

His doggy…This was a stuffed animal that Makella got from Uncle Aaron and Aunt Kelly, but when Noah was really little, he saw it and immediately grabbed it and hugged it and loved it. From then on it was his and he sleeps with it every night! There are so many night when we check on him and he is snuggling with it. Its seriously cute!

He loves to climb…His biggest frustration is when he cant get up on something. He is forever finding ways to get on the table or the top of the couch, Im pretty sure it will only get worse as he gets older! Im a little scared!

He loves to be outside…Now that he has kinda gotten over the habit of eating rocks, I let him outside a bit more and he will wander around out there for as long as Ill let him.

Balls…we have a really big purple ball and he loves to grab it and carry it around. He also likes to try to lay on top of it. He hasn’t really been too successful with that, but trying is all the fun!

He loves me! Since this is my blog, I can write what I want and I totally know he loves me best! J He’s a momma’s boy and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Here are a few pictures from his first year! Love this boy to death!

Love you Noah! And just in case you didn’t think I put enough pictures in this post….here are just a few from his birthday party! Then I will be done, I promise :)

POST Graduation!

Its time for a little husband bragging! For the past 5 weeks Jon has been going through POST academy to become a correctional officer at the prison. He has worked so hard and has done so well! He was waking up at 5 everyday and not getting home until 5-6. Then he came home and was still a good dad and husband! Though, there were quite a few days when he came home and crashed on the couch! We are so proud of the hard work he did. He was chosen by his class to be the class president which also meant that he had to speak at graduation. So today he gave his speech and did such a great job! He spoke about the good experiences he had and the things he's learned, with a few jokes mixed in! He also received the highest award they have of Top student and got a nifty little plaque! Its neat to finally see him doing something that he loves to do! This is a really great first step and it gets his foot in the door for future opportunities. Plus, he looks really good in a uniform! The next adventure is me, my mom and sister in law are making a long trek to California to see my sister and her new baby that was born yesterday! Im so excited to be able to help her out and hold the sweet little girl!

Great Summer!

After almost 2 months of being homeless, Jon finally started his new job and we got to move into our place! We have been here for a little over a month and its great! This is where we live now!
And this is our backyard:Its really fantastic! We really like the little town we live in, its quiet and small and just close enough to stores and everything else we need. We feel so blessed to live in such a great place! I miss being able to see my friends every weekend, but we have been able to have lots of visitors already because of people driving through, which has been fun!
Jons job is going so great as well! He is going through the POST academy right now and is loving it! He graduates from that on Friday, so I will post more about that later! But here is a teaser picture of him in his uniform! He looks so good!Ive been trying to stay busy with some projects too! We finally got Noah a crib! He has never had a crib because we couldnt fit one in our last apartment, so he just slept in a portacrib. When we got up here, we got Makella's old crib and realized that some parts were missing, so I used that as an excuse to get a new one! I found a great deal on one and have been painting it black, I think I did a pretty good job on it. Definetaly not perfect, but thats ok, I love it! Here is the finished product, I think he likes it!
I've also been making a lot of these:


Im not sure why Im so obsessed with them, but its just fun to make them look pretty! Makella is loving her new house and loves being able to find roly polys all day long! She is going to primary in our new ward and loves it so much! She is always asking when we can go to church...probably because its basically the only time she gets to play with other kids! She's a little deprived...but she has been able to play with her cousin Malia a few times and she loves that. She will be taking dance from Kami this fall and is really looking forward to it!
Noah is getting bigger every day, he doesn't walk yet, but just this morning he took 2 1/2 steps! I think when he decides that he really wants to, he will just up and walk. He is a vampire baby and decided to get his eye teeth in before his front teeth, which I think are just starting to make their way down. He has a silly grin and is a pretty happy baby. He is totally a momma's boy and I love it! He also will climb up just about everything! We found him on top of our computer desk the other morning! His favorite thing is to climb up the slide and then slide down on his belly. He does it over and over. You can watch him here!
Overall, we are happy to be where we are at are looking forward to having lots of fun adventures here!