Chapter 1:

Amy & Rob's Wedding

Meet Amy and Rob!

Amy and Rob Miller were married

December 5, 2009. It was a beautiful

wedding and as always fun to gather

together with the family and friends.

What a Beautiful Bride!

The classic Trey look......Happy!
The kids were angels on our flight out there.
I could not have asked for better behavior
from both kids! They were amazing!

Happy kids + well behaved kids = Happy Parents!

(thanks to addie our fantastic little photographer

to capture this moment.)

Just being on a plane gets this little girl

through the 2+ hour flight! She loved being

able to look out the window and see clouds,

open and shut the windows covers, sit in her

very own seat, buckle her own seat belt, put

down her very own tray to eat on....etc.

You get the picture!

It's been way too long and unfortunately i can't put up pics right now or i would. However, I just had to update the blog. So here goes a little checklist update:

1.Fly home for Ty's sisters wedding....

Check.

2. Stay in Southern Utah with family for the month of december....

Check.

3. Miss out on a huge snow storm back home in Iowa....

Score!

4. Addie and Trey having fun with their grandparents....

Check.

5. Trey's two front teeth coming in....

ouch.

6. Hang out with my sister for the weekend...

Can't wait.

7. Finishing Addies christmas dress...

UGH. (giving me nothing but problems)!

8. Sewing with my mom...

Check. :)

9. Surrounded by beautiful Mountains...

Check.

10. Missing my Hubby....

Check. check. check. :(

Mall of America

2 Moms

3 kids

1 Mall of America

What were we thinking????

We made it! The 4 hour car ride went very

well the kids were great. The outlets we stopped

at on our way there were a hit. First stop in

Minneapolis was IKEA....okay Amazing store...

loved it. Spent as long as the kids would let us.

You'd think we'd be tired by now but we just had to

go to the mall before we checked in to our hotel.

Danna and Adalee

So we ate the Rainforest Cafe in the Mall.
Addie loved all the jungle animals that would
"come to life" every 10 minutes and the
big fish tank we got to sit by as we ate our dinner!
After dinner we check in our hotel and survived our
sleepless night between the kids taking turns
waking up at random times during the night. ugh.
Good timing for our next day at the mall right?
Sleep deprived Mothers+sleep deprived children+ Mall of America= A LOT OF PATIENTS!
However I have to say looking back on it all the
kids were very good and cooperated well.

LEGO LAND....need i say more

she was hooked.

Addies first theme park ride! Blue skidoo.

Addie actually took this picture! I was being "brave"

to stand by the big shark tank to get a picture. She wouldn't let

me take her picture by the tank because she was scared

so I asked her if she wanted to take mine

by the tank and to my surprise she did so this was the outcome.

she did a pretty good job i think.

He was my little trooper. Although he was

naughty during the night, he made up for it at the

mall and took all his naps (good naps) in his car seat in the stroller

while we shopped and walked around. Thank you Trey.

This was so fun. The Mall has a huge aquarium on the lower

level that has huge underwater tunnel so you can watch

the fish/sharks/sting rays swim right over you.

Addie loved watching the big sharks swim over her

and the black and white polka dot sting ray swim right

up the glass in front of her.

This was at the end of our underwater adventure. She got

to play more before it was mom's turn to play aka shop!

We had to take turns all day!

My friend and I were under the impression that there was just one giant

roller coaster in the mall only to find out that

there is a whole theme park in the middle of the mall.

The mall was 4 levels high with just about any store you

could imagine...even a dollar tree!! we thought that was funny!

Over all we had a fabulous/exhausting time! I will go back!

Halloween 2009

"Gimmie some ones!"

(sorry only people in my family will understand that phrase or think its funny! Basically I used to call

M&M's "ones" when I was little because when ever some one offered them to me they

would say, "do you want one" so i associated them as "Ones!")

....Happy Halloween! Here are our cute

little M&M's!

Treyster, our plump little peanut M&M!

And Addie girl, our slender plain blue M&M!

Grandpa and Grandma Hansen treated the kids with gift cards to "Old McDonald"(as Addie calls it). Since they couldn't be here to take them Tyler and I took them the night before Halloween for dinner. Addie loved her Happy Meal and Trey loved being around all the food! He actually stole a nugget out of Addie's hand when she wasn't looking...it was hilarious!

And here's the stash of the night!

We tried training Addie all day to pick only Gold shiny packages with red writing on them.(twix). Guess our training didn't work so well as she came home with only 3! Shucks.

Over all we had a great halloween and enjoyed a wonderful dinner and talent show at our ward party then topped off the night with some cold Trunk-or-Treating! Addie had a blast and made sure she and Daddy went to every car. She didn't miss a single one!

A New Tradition

Last year we ate soup out of a pumpkin on

Halloween night. I thought it was so fun I

decided to do it again this year. The best part

about it was Addie was able to join in the

fun of "gutting" out the pumpkins to help prepare

them for our fun dinner!

Ready to dive in! Notice the spoon...she did not

like getting her hands in that slimey gooey pumpkin

stuff!

This is how it starts

cut the pumpkins in half

Clean them out
Enjoy an appetizer while your waiting for dinner....yummy roasted pumpkin seeds!

And soup is on! We did cauliflower soup with a little orange coloring for the full festive look! Addie sure loved eating her soup out of her pumpkin.

Sneak peak at our Family Pics

Had to throw this one in...gotta love those candid shots!

Another wonderful photo session done by my good friend Danna! It's so hard to pick!

Why pay the money when.....

You can make it yourself!

My poor candles have been bare this season because

i'm too cheap to go out and buy candle wreaths until the

end of the season when they go majorly on sale...

I was explaining this to my mom when she said,

"why don't you just make your own!"...DUH!

So....

Heres what Addie and I did this morning/afternoon together!

Our very own Candle wreath and I love it!

All you need:

*Some wire

*Fresh picked Fall colored leaves

*Candle to put it around

Just string on the wire a lot of fun leaves to your desired length

and waa laa a beautiful festive candle wreath!

The best thing is Addie and I could do this together.

We spent the morning collecting leaves in a brown paper

bag. Addie absolutely loved going outside and helping

me pick leaves of all different colors. Then when little

brother went down for his nap she helped me string

on the leaves onto the wire while picking out what leaf

we would do next!