Riley..............Anything that has to do with STAR WARS!
Sunny..............Anything that has to do with Dollies!
Andrea.............Anything that has to do with Scrapbooking
{but if you want to get specific Santa, a CRICUT!}
The day finally came that I thought would never come!
My boy with the beautiful curly hair CUT IT!!!!
That's right-Riley cut his curls! For those of you who know my little boy and his beautiful curls, you can imagine how upset I am about this! I came downstairs and saw him watching TV and cutting his hair with not a care in the world. There was hair all over his shirt and curls all over the floor!
Okay, this was shocking! I asked him why he would do such a thing and he said, "because I wanted my hair to look like Jaxson's hair!" Jaxson is his best friend who lives across the street and has a buzz hair cut! Well buddy, ya got pretty darn close and if it weren't for me catching him when I did, it would have been just like Jaxson's!
I am definently NOT sharing a photo of this catastrophy because I am going to wait and hope and pray that the hair grows back as curls!!!!
I just can't believe it happened to me!
So my man is definently showing his handyman qualities lately! 2 weeks ago, Home Depot delivered a heap of wood (that is how I would describe it!). I called Regan to tell him that the wrong thing was delivered, and when he came home to see this heap of wood, he agreed that it did not look anything like a shed! Well, he started looking at the instruction BOOK, and took it one step at a time! Well, his determination paid off because he made this heap of wood into a SHED! It looks great and I am so proud that he did it!
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year and were able to celebrate with both of our families! Regan started out the morning with a Turkey Bowl with my brothers and his friends in the ward. We then went Regan's mom's house and had a delicious Thanksgiving Dinner with his family. From there, we went to my Grandma's Clubhouse and joined the other 45 people that were there! Riley and Sunny had a BLAST with all of those cousins and Regan and I were able to relax and talk to all of my family.
WOW-I have so much to be thankful for and the list definently starts with family!
My family is simply amazing. I think that is a great word to describe them because they are just always apart of my life and my families lives! Riley, Sunny and Elle are growing up knowing who their family is and interacts with them weekly. I couldn't ask for more than that because they feel of the love that my family has for them. They have uncles, aunts and grandparents who just love them so much and have so much fun with them. Riley started to cry on Thanksgiving night because he didn't want to leave my mom and dad's house. He told me that he just wanted to sleep at their house because he loves it there so much! Now if that doesn't show you how much he loves my family, I don't know what else could!
I am so grateful to be a wife to Regan and a mother to my 3 beautiful children. Everyday I look at our family picture and just think that I am seriously the luckiest person alive because I have them to live this life with! They make me smile, laugh and make this life so amazing! Heavenly Father has blessed me so much with a husband that works so hard at everything he does! This guy that I met 8 years ago never stops to amaze me. He is the smartest, most funny person I know!
I could go on and on with my blessings, but I will leave it with family! I am one blessed girl!
{Do you like Elle and Sunny's matching dresses? Get used to it girls, because when I see cute twinner dresses, you will be in them!}
My Friend Britta and I started this quilt last fall, and just finished it today! It did not take us a whole year to finish it, we just took a big break from it! We went to a quilt shop called Material Girls in South Jordan to get the material, then we got a cute quilt book from Pine Needles Quilt Shop at Gardner Village. I just love the end result because the fabric just makes it SO cute!
It was so much fun to do this project with Britta because I just loved talking to her about anything and everything while we were both getting frustrated together over the sewing machines, or running out of bobbin! I actually sewed my table cloth into the quilt, which was not fun unpicking!
Hope you like the cute quilt!!!
I didn't think that I was one of those crazy Twilight fans until I found myself in a theater full of women at midnight for the showing of TWILIGHT! As I looked around at a bunch of women dressed up in Prom dresses, I thought to myself, Yep, I am one of these obsessed mom's that just LOVES TWILIGHT! Why else would I be in a theater at midnight instead of my nice, warm, comfy bed?
The movie was AMAZING! When the movie got out at 2:15, there was already another line of people waiting to get in to the 2:40 movie and I wanted SO badley to join that line! I have never in my life wanted to see a movie again right after I had just seen it, but Twlight is another story! I was so into the movie that when it ended, I was left hanging...wanting more! How in the world can I wait for the next movie to come out?
Edward was awesome in the movie, and as I was lying in bed at 3 in the morning, I could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about Edward and Bella! I think I finally fell asleep around 4 am, and even in my dreams, I dreamed about Twilight!
WOW-if you haven't read the book, read it, then go see the movie! I want to have Regan read the book, then go with me, because it would be kind of hard to understand what is fully going on in this vampire movie if you hadn't read the book! (I feel like I am on Reading Rainbow trying to endorse a book!)
I absolutly HAD to blog about something that I watched on tv today while I was feeding my baby Ellie! I was watching an old episode of I Love Lucy and in it, Lucy had just had a new baby and wasn't getting any sleep. She told Ricky, her husband that she was having a hard time taking care of the baby and keeping up with all of the housework (they live in an apartment!) so in return, Ricky says that he will get Lucy a housekeeper to help her with the baby and housework so that she can get some more sleep!
Okay, what year was I love Lucy made in because in 2008, I personally don't know of any of my friends who have a housekeeper or a nanny to help out! And on top of this, I am 28, have 3 kids and try very hard to keep up on all of my housework, laundrey, violin lessons, preschool carpool, Joy school, food storage, grovery shopping, decorating, scrapbooking and cooking around my house! Lucy on the other hand was in her late 30's when she had her baby, lived in a small apartment, and still couldn't keep up with the demands of life!
Now whether this be just a television episode for enjoyment or not, I felt pretty good about myself for not having a housekeeper and doing things for my family myself! Watch out Lucy, because this mom can do more than you ever could!!!
Yes, that's right! Regan made these shelves in our garage all by himself! He watched a how to video online, bought the wood, and went to town on Saturday night making these shelves so that we can actually park 2 vehicles in our own garage without running over something!
I am very impressed with his handy skills because there is NO way I would ever be able to do something like this! This is just the 1st step to organizing our basement and eventually finishing it! Way to go Regan!!!
Some might call me crazy, but I have already decorated my whole house with Christmas! I absolutly LOVE Christmas time, so why not enjoy the Christmas trees and decorations a little longer? I haven't forgotten about Thanksgiving, but I just want to savor all of the Christmas stuff a little longer! Why do you think I have been listening to Christmas music on the radio since Halloween?
This is Elle's birth announcement that I haven't sent out in the mail yet! I am debating if I should just put it in our Christmas Cards in a few weeks! So, anyway, enjoy and thankyou Danielle! She is my friend who took our family pictures! Doesn't she do an amazing job?
My calling in my ward is the organist. Obviouslly my ward is dificient in piano/organ players because I am not that great of a pianist, let alone organist. Well anyway, today I was playing the organ in church and when it was time to play the introduction of the closing hymn, I went to play on the keys, but I could barely hear the notes coming out. I tried over and over, so finally I decided to press a button called tutti thinking that it would make the pedal louder! Boy did it make it louder!!!!
I woke up everyone in the congregation and probably a few people a few rooms down because that first note after I pushed the tutti button was SO LOUD!! The bishop even jumped up in his seat because it probably freaked him out hearing such a loud note in a sacrement meeting!
My face was SO red and afterwards, I think people were thinking, "is it appropriate to laugh right now or not?" Our dear Stake President was also sitting right in front of the organ, and I am wondering what he thought of this most embarrasing mistake!!
I guess it's like what my mom said. I am not getting paid to play the organ in church, all I can do is my very best, and if that means I have to wake a few people up in church every once and a while, I guess that is my best!
I am proud to announce that we have a baby who is sleeping through the whole entire night!!!! She is 7 weeks old! How lucky am I? I was having a very difficult time getting up a couple of times a night with Elle since I was getting a full nights sleep while I was pregnant and now that she is sleeping all night long, I now feel like a real person! No more sleep deprivation. It is a wonderful feeling to get some good sleep, and you really do take that for grated when you are getting good sleep!
Thank you baby Ellie for being such a wonderful baby and a super sleeper!
(We are going in for Ellie's 2 month appointment today even though she will be 2 months next week!) Let's see how much she has grown!
On Sunday, Regan blessed Elle Michelle Fackrell. It was so amazing to watch my husband bless our baby in church. I just feel so blessed to have a huband that is able to use his priesthood. This sacrement meeting was extra special for everyone who attended because it was also the Primary Program. Riley played a solo on his violin in front of the whole congregation. He played I am a Child Of God and he played it SO well! I couldn't believe that he didn't freak out under all of that pressure! He and I had a violin lesson everyday ever since Elle was born, and I even bribed him with a Walle Leapster Game if he memorized it; which he did!!! I couldn't have been a prouder mom with my baby being blessed and my little boy playing his violin!
Elle looked gorgeous in her blessing dress. My mom and I picked it out a few weeks earlier because that is my mom's tradition; buy the blessing dress. Anyway, we had everyone over to our home for dinner afterwards and it was great to see the family & friends support system we have.
I got the coolest picture of everyone who was in the circle blessing Elle! I got on top of our 2nd floor landing and took a picture of Regan, my dad, my brother and my new brother in law with Elle in the middle!
I am so grateful for a new little girl in our family!
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
b. Email me at suzukiviolin@hotmail.com with your email address
c. Facebook me with your email address
d. call me with your email address
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!
