All Moved in!

For those who don't know, Mick and I took over managing the apartments where we live. Our good friends and passed managers Melissa and Ryan got us the job. Its been great! We are now in a corner unit 2 bedroom DOWN STAIRS!!! I love being down stairs exceptionally with the kids. Our living room is a bit bigger then what it was but the bedrooms are a bit smaller. The kids love that though cause we told them we will get them bunk beds. We have a dish washer!!! I cant tell you how much I love it all ready.

Then the lovely storage room. I have no idea how we fit everything we did in to our apartment. About half of what was in there is now in the storage room. Its so nice to have space and closets in our place now. The tenant's have been really nice to me so far. No one has really called or asked for anything yet. A few came over to introduce them self's witch I thought was kinda cool.

I have never really had to move so I didn't really think how i would respond to it. We switched apartments from a 1br to a 2br when i was pg with skyla but we didn't have much and I don't remember it even being that big of a deal. This time I couldn't get things put away fast enough! I felt claustrophobic with things every where. Mick laughed at me cause I got everything put away (except pics hung up) on sat once we got it all down. Its nice cause it all ready feels like home.

Best part of the move........J.D!!! Our friend J.D was one of the few guys that came to help Mick move down the heavy furniture. J.D and Joe brought down our big couch, and with Mick and Derick helping they tried for about 10min to get the thing through the door. Our couch is cheap so it had some give. Mick finally gave the OK to just jam the things in and J.D went at it. He was yelling "Mother of peril" "COME on baby" "Go on GO" "GOOOOO" "Come on"...... I was in tears on the floor laughing like crazy!!! The best part was they got it thought the door and Mick looked at J.D and said "Man you sound like you were coaching a birth" J.D said " It felt like I was". We all started cracking up like crazy. I wish I would have wiped out the camera for that one. All night I kept giggling about it and once Mick caught on to why I was laughing we both just started cracking up. Even now I cant look at the couch with out smiling.

Thanks for all the help guys you are the best :)

All in all we are settled in and ready for the rest of this crazy month of events.

Snow Day

Saturday we took the kids up to a snow park in Strawberry. It was SO NICE!!! The weather was perfect, snow was great, the drive was even nice, and the view was amazing.


This snow park was a inter-tubing park and it had a big play area with these huge snow hills for the kids to play on.

Climbing the hill.....
Justin got up there no problem, Sky had a bit harder time and Justin had to hold her so she wouldn't fall.
She liked sliding down better anyways.
I asked her to make me a snow ball so I could take her pic, here is the pic I got......
Then i got this one right before she through it at me...... silly girl :)
Justin on top of the hill making snowballs

Had to eat some snow


My new favorite pic
See I was there too...... I have to tell you Justin took this pic and He did a really good job too.
Trying to make a snowman.........
Sky gave up and left Mick high and dry hehehe
Snow angles!
I have no idea what happened here..... He was digging in the snow then I looked again and he was like this hehehehe
Skyla having a blast going down the hill
Justin had a great time tubing too till the last run. The whole day he was going down on his butt and was fine. Mick and I were going down on our tummy's and thought it was way better. Well Mick talked Justin in to going down the last time on his tummy. He got about 6 feet down the mountain when he hit a bump and flipped completely over. He completely flew off the tub and in to the air. I was freaking out but the the second he hit the ground he jumped up and through his hands in the air to lets us know he was ok.
Poor guy had to walk a long way to get to the end of the run. He was ok and didn't even cry till he was sure no one but me would see (silly boy). His back and neck were a bit sore the rest if the day and he has some road rash on his tummy, but all in all he is fine and cant wait to go back next winter.

We had such a fun trip and the kids loved every min of it I think their first snow tip will be one they remember.

Can you guess who Skyla's New BFF is?

Ill give you a hint........


Got it?










Yep thats right my daughter is OBSESSEST with Michael Jackson!!
This is her favorite pic of him and its all so her fave song (Beat it)


He was a huge influence for me too when I was a kid. I remember being so excited for his new music and videos and its really neat to see Skyla be so in to it. I mean the girl can sing you songs if you ask her too and she can even copy some of the dance moves from his videos.

She got a new pet hermit crab and named him Michael. Its also really funny to hear her talk about him cause she just calles him "Michael" like their old friends. It is really cute. What made me want to tell you all about this was a comment about something skyla had said to my friend sarah on another post I left. This is the kind of things she says that have me cracking up.



"I forgot to tell you what Skyla said when I was teaching Joyschool last week. It was the day we celebrated her birthday so I made them muffins (I didn't have cake, but I put whipped cream on them to be frosting)...anyhow, she was saying that she is going to ask Santa for Michael for Christmas. I was confused "Michael who?" "Michael Jackson (duh). I am going to ask for him to come down from Heaven." It was really hard to keep a straight face...just so you're prepared. :)"

My daughter is one of a kind thats for sure :)

Sorry

I know my blog has been uneventful but our lives has not. To be honest I have just been lazy about blogging.

Ok so here are some new things going on with us.

Justin: Has been growing up like crazy lately. He is in to fixing his hair everyday now and making sure he looks "cool" for school. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact a girl in his class told him he was handsome and she kinda has a crush on him? hhhhhhmmmmmm I wonder? hehehe. Also he has lost his top front tooth and has the funniest cutest smile right now. He is also getting ready for baseball to start again and really excited to be in his Auntie Nene's (my sister Nicole) wedding.

Skyla: is a dancing and singing machine right now. She LOVES music and cant seem to get enough of it. She is having lots of fun in her dance class and is completely infatuated with Michel Jackson. She is doing wonderful in Joy school and talked about starting kindergarten everyday. She is also growing like crazy she is so tall its crazy.

Mick: is doing grate he is still working his butt off but hopefully that will change as we had a interview and might be the next Managers for the apartments where we live. Thanks to Melissa and Ryan for pushing for us we feel we pretty much have the job but are still waiting for a solid answer. As soon as we get it Mick is gong to look for a new job with normal hours. At least this way he will be home more and less stressed out.

Christal: is crazy!!!! The biggest thing for me right now is IM GOING BACK TO SCHOOL!! Im taking online classes to get my Associates in elementary education then I will go for my Bachelors in Liberal arts and look forward to the day that I will be a Kindergarten teacher. Im really excited/nerves and am looking forward to a new challenge. Im still dancing too and LOVE it Im also still working as a LPS at Justins school and helping out in his class 2 days a week. Im also helping with my little sisters wedding and planning a party for her (dont worrie im being nice and keeping it clean hehehe). Im also very happy for my Mom and Mike. They are getting my nephew Denny (my brothers little boy) my mom is in Montana right now picking him up. They get to foster him till all the court stuff is done then they are going to adopt him. I also got a new calling at church Im the 2nd counselor in the Young woman's presidency. So I now have ALLOT of things to do for church. The best part is being with these young women. These girls amaze me each and every day and I just love them to death.

Its a crazy busy time of life right now but SO MUCH good is coming out of it and i feel very blessed and loved. Life is good :)

Thanksgiving cooking day 3 (sorry a few days late)

So I forgot to take pics of all the good food I made, but lets just say it came out pretty good. Here is what the table looked like after we ate (some of the food is on the counter not in the pic). Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Cooking Day 2

Dinner rolls mmmmmm Yummy dinner rolls. It was really easy to make and it seemed to rise like it was supposed to. This recipe was nice cause it had instructions on how to make the recipe then refrigerator them for up to 24 hours. I'll take pic's of them when they are cook tomorrow and let you all know how they taste. If everything (even my apple pie) comes out good I'll post the recipes for you all.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I am so thankful this year for so many things, and very grateful to be able to cook a wonderful meal for my family tomorrow.


Here are the pics of my 24 yummmy dinner rolls.
Its days like this that make me we wish for a bigger fridge. Or the cooling drawers in the counter like what Martha Stewart has that would be nice.
Tomorrow I'll post pics of everything we have for Dinner! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Thanksgiving cooking Day 1

This year I decided to save us some money by making a few things for Thanksgiving dinner from scratch. I have just about everything on hand so I didn't have to spend much to get the rest of what I needed. OK and lets just face it homemade is MUCH better anyways. It might take all day to make but it sure does taste better. That and Justin is on vacation from school so I needed something to do :)

Well somethings take a few hours to make so I had to make a list of what needed to be done first and how many days before T-Day would I need to make them. Well Today was "PIE DAY" I made Pie crust from scratch for 4 Pie's!!!

1st up........Cherry Pie

I have never made a cherry pie before and after reading some recipes and comments it made me a tad nervous. Especially since my last 2 attempts at a apple pie didn't go so well. So I cheated a bit and got canned pie filling and took extra time with the crust to make it look pretty.


2nd............Apple pie (my nemesis!!!)


I have tried to make apple pie twice before and it came out like soup the first time, and the second didn't taste good at all and got tossed. This time I took my time! Wile the cherry pie was baking I cut up my apples and kept re-reading the recipe to make sure I didn't forget anything. Well it sure smells good and looks pretty good to if I do say so. On T-Day it will get topped with a Carmel pecan topping. YUMMMM! (cross your fingers for me cause if this one doesn't come out right I give up on apple pie)


3rd.......... Pumpkin Pie (by request of Justin)
Pumpkin Pie is Justin's favorite pie. I like it too so does Skyla (Mick's not a fan) but Justin could eat a whole one with no problem. SO I made him a pumpkin pie. The recipe I have for pumpkin pie make 2 pies so we gave one to our good friends the Becks. Tis the season of giving :)

Here is a pic of my 4 beauties.

O and I found something fun to do with the left over pie crust and pumpkin pie filling.........Mini pies! I have a small muffin pan and just took the leftover pumpkin pie filling (witch wasn't much) and the crust that got cut off the other pies and made these cute Pumpkin pie bit's. Hopefully this will keep the kids out of the other pies till Thanksgiving.
Tune in tomorrow I'll be making dinner rolls from scratch :)