Temple Trip and Trains

Last Monday night, Chloe and I picked up Jeff from work and went to Temple Square. Chloe has always loved temples so when she got to walk right up to one and touch it, she could hardly contain her excitement. She had to sit on every bench we found and go up each staircase. It took a while to walk around the temple, but it was wonderful to watch her eyes light up at each new corner. She also really liked riding on the "Choo-choo," aka Trax. It's a good thing we went last week because we would have been trudging through the snow if we waiting until today. YUCK!!! No, I love the cold because I get to wear warm clothes. But I also hate the cold. If I had to define my relationship with the cold, in Facebook terms, it would definitely be complicated! So, for this week's FHE, we went with some friends to see Toy Story 3. This was the first time we have taken Chloe to a movie theater and I must say I was really impressed with how well she did. Chloe is the best! Here are some fun pictures from our FHE and I can't wait to post cute Halloween pictures in a week!

She loved the water fountain!

A nice trip on Trax

A small glimpse of Eternity

The first, but not last, bench!

Witch-A-Palooza

Since Jeff hasn't come home much before Midnight this week, I've decided I am just going to have to live my life without him. So today, Chloe and I went with Lucy, Jackson, B, Grammy and Pampa to Witch-A-Palooz at Gardner Village. They have all of these crazy awesome displays of witches. If you find all of the witches, you can get a cookie. The kids loved it and we all had a good time. Chloe fit right in! She loves being a witch and carrying around her wand and wearing her hat. She is so adorable. Cousin Lucy is a peacock (I know, random, but that's what she decided on) and Jackson is a shark. I don't have any pictures of him in his costume because he was just way too hot in it! If you get the chance, go see the witches at Gardner Village! I'm excited for Halloween to come!

Lucy is waving HI, but the other two are in their own little worlds!

I love Chloe's wand!

It's a good thing there were cookies at the end or else we wouldn't have been able to keep the kids there as long as we did!

As I promised...

Ok, I finally got the CD of our family pictures and put them on my computer! Here they are...

Aren't we so cute? Anyway, I guess I can update a little more, since I'm already on. Life has been good! I have a job...I babysit a 9 month old boy named Ashton. Maybe you knew that..oh well. He comes over 4 times a week for 6-8 hours a day. It's nice because Chloe would rather play with him than me. I don't know what to do with myself.


A couple of weeks ago, Jeff was able to take the day off (shocker!) and we decided to go to the temple. As I was getting ready, Chloe decided to grab my flat iron, that was on, and burned her fingers. We ended up not going to the temple because she was so sad. That's why her fingers are bandaged in this picture...



That's really all that is going on in our life right now! I am very proud of myself and I must brag for a moment. I took Chloe and Ashton to the library today for story time. For those of you who are laughing at this insignificant event must not know me very well. I am very nervous taking my kid anywhere...so to take her AND another kid together was a big deal! It was fun but I am glad I only have Chloe!

Single Mom

For those of you who don't know anything about accountants, right now there is a big tax deadline September 15th. This means Jeff works all the time. Chloe only gets to see Jeff if he accidentally sleeps in. Last night he didn't get home until 11:15 pm. Since Chloe goes to bed at 7:00 pm, I decided I needed to come up with something more productive than watching pointless tv all night long. So I've taken up indexing. Indexing is where you download copies of different records (like censuses, war draft cards, etc.) and take important information from those documents and put them in the computer so people can search for their ancestors and have this information pop up. It is super easy! Last night, while I was watching/listening to Sweet Home Alabama and The Count of Monte Cristo, I indexed 420 names. Not bad for a first timer. Doing this helps me feel like I do more than teach Chloe her ABC's. Anyway, that's how I spend my time while Jeff is counting beans well into the night. On a lighter note, we are having family pictures tomorrow with my family and I am so excited. I can't remember the last time we had professional family portraits taken. It's only because there are grandchildren now! I will post some of those soon. While you wait, enjoy pictures of Chloe in a tutu!

Happy 3 year Anniversary Baby! You truly are the love of my life!

All Grown Up!

I can't believe how grown up my little Chloe is. She is so independent....and most of the time that means more work for me. For example, she has to feed herself and she LOVES yogurt. You can't even imagine the mess I have to clean up after every breakfast! But it is terribly difficult to get mad when you look at her pudgy cheeks drenched in peach yogurt! She also has to walk everywhere WITHOUT holding mom's hand. It takes us at least 10 minutes to walk down the walkway just to get to the pool. But once again, she is just too cute to get mad at. I do want to share my favorite recent Chloe story. We went last night to say one last good-bye to our friends Angie and Preston. They are on their way to Florida for schooling. Anyway, Angie's son gave a bag of cookies to Chloe to take on the road. I decided to let her hold them in the car but I was not going to open them. She had been in the car about 10 minutes when I had to stop to get gas. I turned the car off and turned around and Chloe had the biggest guilty chocolate grin you have ever seen. That little goob got the bag of cookies opened and was chowing down as fast as she could. I wish I could have gotten a picture of that smile! It was the best! Anyway, here are some updated pictures of my little one not being so little anymore!

Jeff is home...and studying?

For those of you who don't know, Jeff has finally started his real job with Ernst and Young. His first day was July 6th, but he had training in LA and actually flew out on the 5th. He stayed there until Friday night (the 10th), came home for 36 hours and then flew out for more training, to Chicago, until the 16th. Poor kid had a rough and boring time. He had meetings all day, a kind of crazy roommate in LA, and the hardest time getting to and from Chicago. Jeff's plane was scheduled to leave for Chicago on Sunday morning at 10. First it was delayed until 11:30...then 2:00...and then canceled all together. He then was put on standby for the 5:00 and 7:00 planes, but didn't make either of them. He finally managed to fly to Minneapolis (while his luggage flew to Chicago with out him) and stay the night there and fly out quite early to get to Chicago in time for meetings. I figured it was the Lord's way of making Jeff and Matt (the other new hire from Salt Lake) not have to work on Sunday. Then, to top off getting to Chicago, when Jeff opened his bag, he found out that his electric razor had been turned on and died and he didn't have his charger! He had a long week but about died when he tried to check in to the airport Friday night to get home just to find out that his itinerary had been canceled. Talk about heart attack! He wasn't very pleasant to anyone at that time, but they managed to get him on the overbooked flight anyway.
So, he did make it home and Chloe and I are very glad to see him. Don't get me wrong, we had a fantastic two weeks mooching off Mammy and Pampa and partying all the time with Lucy and Jack, but it was nice to sleep in our own beds with Daddy near by. Saturday morning we decided to go swimming at our complex's pool. Chloe loved it! She was so cute in her little swimming suit with her turtle floaty! But, now that Chloe is sleeping, Jeff has decided to STUDY! What the heck? He graduated in April, but here I am doing nothing because he has to study for his CPA exams. What is the world coming to? BORING!!! We are a lot closer to being real people then we have ever been in our lives but man is it boring. Good luck to those of you on your way to being grown ups...it stinks!

P.S. The new background is for my husband, Jeff! He told me that one of his conversations in Chicago turned to Twilight and Jeff told everyone that he was "Team Jacob." He really has no idea what he is talking about when he says that, but he loves to see the reactions of people around him. He is the funniest guy I know! I love him so much!!!