Last week, I made a SuperMan/Batman and Supergirl/Crown capes for Riley and Sunny at Enrichment. They were going to be for Christmas, but when Riley and Sunny found where I had hid them, I realized that they would not make it until Christmas! So, ever since then, they have worn these capes and pretended to be super heros all over the place! At least the 4 hours I spent on them has not gone to waist! Don't they look SO cute in these capes?
I am doing the private thing on my blog this weekend, so if I haven't gotten your email address so that I can add you, please leave a comment with your email address, or email me at suzukiviolin at hotmail.com. I don't want to leave anyone out, so please leave the email address!
Don't feel wierd leaving your email address if we haven't talked for a while, and you just like to check up on our family! I don't want to leave anyone out! Well, I want to leave the wierdo people out I guess!
Thanks,
Andrea
YEP, I have decided to go Private with my family blog because there are just TOO many wierdo people out there and I need to protect my family. Last night there was a thing about blogs and how other people can steal your family pictures and do wierd things with them, so the private issue is pretty much a must!
Please: a. Leave a comment on this post with your email address
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So that I can invite you to my family blog!!! I would love to have everyone be invited that wants to continue to see my blog and my cute family grow up-just not the wierdo people!
I will officially go private in 2 weeks, so don't forget to leave me your email address; even if you think I have it!
Love, Andrea
We had a great Halloween this year!
It was quite a busy day between visiting all of our family, Cornbellies, trick or treating and a friend party, but it was so much fun. Regan took the kids around to get candy, and Ellie and I stayed home giving the candy away. Too bad we only had about 25 kids come to our house though! Anyway, we went to a friend party, put the kids to sleep at their house, and watched a scary movie together (We watched Taking Lives from Cleanflicks!)
My mom and dad took us to Cornbellies on Halloween and it was so much fun! I think the funniest thing about the whole activity was Riley being so scared of the huge lizzard (kind of like a spook alley inside) and not wanting to go in it again, and Sunny going through it 3 times with my dad because she loved it so much! Wow-they are so different from each other!
There were so many fun activities to do and we had so much fun hanging out with Grammy and Grampy at Cornbellies and Halloween!
Thanks Mom and Dad-you are so awesome!
We went to a place in Utah county called Pumpkin Land with Regan's mom and Grandma last week. It was a fun little Garden store full of pumpkins and activities. The only bad thing about the day was that there were a lot of gross mice! I have taught my little 4 year old to be afraid of mice because when he saw a mouse, he started to scream and was running away from it!
We have had a busy October! Between visiting the Witches at Gardner Village, parties at school, dressing up in costumes and carving pumpkins, we have had a fun month! Sunny had her Joy school Halloween Party last week and it was so cute to get all of the kids together and get a picture of them in their cute costumes! While we were carving pumpkins, Sunny wanted to keep eating the seeds, even if they were still attached to the slimy part! YUCK!
We have had a busy October! Between visiting the Witches at Gardner Village, parties at school, dressing up in costumes and carving pumpkins, we have had a fun month! Sunny had her Joy school Halloween Party last week and it was so cute to get all of the kids together and get a picture of them in their cute costumes! While we were carving pumpkins, Sunny wanted to keep eating the seeds, even if they were still attached to the slimy part! YUCK!
My friend Danielle took our family pictures and Elle's baby pictures and they turned out SO cute! I actually had tears in my eyes when I saw the picture of Riley, Sunny and Elle sitting so close together! I kept on thinking, Regan and I made these beautiful children-and that is what they all are: BEAUTIFUL!
Here is a picture of my little Diva...Sunny! She is so funny, cute, dramatic and she is a parrot (copies everything anyone says). This shirt she is wearing says "Mom is my Stylist". That is exactly how I feel every morning. After the kids are out of the bathtub, I have to figure out what they all will wear for the day, get them dressed, comb through hair, style the hair, spray the hair, get the shoes on etc. Fortunatly for me, I absolutly love to do hair even though I am not that great at it. That is why it is wonderful that Riley has beautiful locks of curls and now I will have 2 girls hair to do with matching bows!!!
A few months ago, Regan was out of town, and I was left home alone with the kids. When this happens, I sometimes can freak myself out at any kind of sound that they house makes. This particular night, I thought I heard something and started hypervenalating. The 1st thing that came into my mind was a new primary song that Riley has been learning. It instantly comforted me and I was able to go back to sleep without being scared.
I am thankful for the peace that the gospel gives me and the strength that I have because of the knowledge that I have. I am far from perfect--there are still so many things that I am working on daily as a mother, as a wife, as a friend and as an individual, but as I am working through those, I feel like I can grow and grow because of that peace the gospel gives me.
Here are the lyrics to the Primary Song that comforted me so much that night!
If the Savior stood beside me, would I do the things I do?
Would I think of His commandments and try harder to be true?
Would I follow His example? Would I live more righteously,
If I could see the Savior standing nigh, watching over me?
If the Savior stood beside me, would I say the things I say?
Would my words be true and kind if He were never far away?
Would I try to share the gospel? Would I speak more reverently
If I could see the Savior standing nigh, watching over me?
If the Savior stood beside me, would my thoughts be clean and pure?
Would His presence give me strength and hope, and courage to endure?
Would His counsel guide my actions? Would I choose more worthily
If I could see the Savior standing nigh, watching over me?
He is always near me, though I do not see Him there
And because He loves me dearly, I am in His watchful care
So I'll be the kind of person that I know I'd like to be
If I could see the Savior standing nigh, watching over me.
My family decided spur of the moment to take a long weekend vacation to Midway since the kids had school off. Midway is by Heber, just up from Provo Canyon. It was such an awesome weekend, but unfortunatly, Regan didn't go with us because he was working and spending time with his brother who was in town. Anyway, my parents rented a condo in the Zermatt Resort in Midway which was awesome!! The kids did a lot of swimming, we went to Park City, we did the Zip Line at the Olympic Park (which I was extremely scared to do, but I did it and it was so amazing!), the family swam in the Crater at the homestead, we went to an awesome diner in Oakley, played games, watched movies and had a fun time with each other!
Thanks mom and dad for always having fun things planned for our family! I have so many amazing memories of family trips all because of my mom and dad. Riley and Sunny absolutly love spending time with my siblings, and this weekend was no exception!
Call me crazy, but I just think I have the cutest kids in the whole entire world! Am I just a little bias...probably, but common, they are just super cute!!!!
Grandma Fackrell sent the kids this fun Halloween Craft and we had fun putting it together last night! The little Halloween kids are so cute and this was a fun craft to do. Thanks LeeAnn!
Last Saturday, we received the news that Regan's Grandpa who lives in Wyoming passed away while hearding cattle on the mountain side. He was 86 years old and you might ask, why was he hearding cattle at his age? Well, that is exactly the kind of person he was...never wanting to stop working and always living life doing what he loved, farming. I think if he had his choice, this is how he would have wanted to leave this earth.
We packed all 3 kids in the car on Tuesday morning and drove 8 hours to the great town of Burlington, Wyoming. I still am in amazement of how Ellie did in the car both ways. She slept most of the way and was so good-come on, she is only 2 1/2 weeks old! Anyway, it was great to be at Grandma's house all week and spend so much time with Regan's family. Regan and his brother spoke at their Grandpa's funeral and afterwards, people said it was the funniest funeral they had ever been to. More like a celebration of life than a mourning. I played a piece on my violin called Ashokan's Farewell and it was perfect for his Grandpa. A westerny, twangy piece that suited him very well.
We came home on Saturday and braved the scary Wyoming roads. There was a point where Regan and I were just driving along at the speed limit when all of a sudden, we started sliding all over the road. WE had hit a patch of black ice which we obvoiuslly couldn't see, and fortuanatly, Regan pulled out of it calmly and didn't jerk the wheel, otherwise we would have flipped our car! It was so scary and so needless to say, we were so grateful to be home and to be safe!
Here is the mother coming out of me, but honestly, it really made me just think-it is not worth going fast or trying to get to your destination fast when the weather is bad, and now that it is snowing in Utah today, it really makes me want to drive so safe and slow since I have 3 little ones with me!
Anyway, we are glad that we had such a great weekend being with family this week and reflecting back to the life of Ferrel Riley. He is the reason why we named our little boy Riley. He was such a hard worker and a great guy!
While we were there, we went to Cody for a day to visit the Buffalo Bill Museum! WOW-it had 5 museums all together and the kids loved it. Here are some pictures of our trip!
My little Sunny LOVES to Dress up so when we were at my parents house for General Conference last weekend, let's just say she was in heaven when Chrissy showed her the bin of old Halloween Costumes! This year for Halloween she will be Cinderella which comes to no surprise since she is going through a Disney Princess obsession lately!
