A little update

So I know it has been a long time since I posted anything so I will play a little catch up... I know it is almost Christmas but I am finally putting some Thanksgiving pics up. We are all really excited for Christmas. We will be leaving for Gunnison on Christmas Eve. I hope I can get everything ready to go by then! I have been super busy working and getting ready for Christmas. I made tons of yummy treats this year... caramels, cho. covered pretzels (ok chocolate covered everything!), sugar cookies, our cute gingerbread house, and probably more to come. I think I go a little overboard. We also did tile throughout our house the end of Nov. It looks so awesome- I will try to post some pics of it sometime. We are hoping to paint in Jan.(we will see how that goes). Anyway here are a few random pics from the last month..

The boys chillin on a Sunday afternoon.
Gingi bread house

Beau's sugar crazed smile

Our gorgeous tree! We were lame this year and bought our tree at home depot. Believe it or not it is real , but it is so perfect it looks fake. It smells so good. Beau and I had a fun time decorating it while Luke napped. When he woke up all the ornaments on the bottom had to get put to the top, so it looks a little sad now but oh well. what ya gonna do!

Here are most of the boy cousins on the Blackwell side at Thanksgiving. I think just Luke is missing.. I will explain that one later.. Spencer (the one without pants) said " everybody close your eyes" right before this pic. so funny!

sorry its sideways.. here is Luke with his uncle Cory. If he looks a little tired it is because he woke up at 3 that morning and wouldn't go back to sleep. Normally, at home if he wakes up I can just let him cry until he lays back down and goes to sleep. Since we were at Grandma's and every bed and room in the house had somebody sleeping in it. I couldn't let him cry and wake up the whole house. So I had to get him out and try to get him to sleep. He laid in bed with me and basically just cried or beat me up the whole time. So we ended up in the bathroom because it was the only room I could contain him in and keep him from waking up everybody. He was being so wild and would not go back to sleep so we were up the whole time from 3 am and on. My mom got up at around 8 with him and let me go back to sleep and this pic is sometime around 9 or 10 when Cory put the sleeper hold on him and knocked him out for a few hours. Whew.. it is so fun to go home and see everybody, but man my kids do not do well getting out of their schedules.

Here is Beau at Thanksgiving dinner. He wanted the drumstick this year. He said he wanted meat with bones in it. And he did pretty well with it!

I've been tagged.. I tag Cassi and Julie. Answer in only one word.

1. Where is your cell phone? counter
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Your hair color? blonde
4. Your mother? Shelley
5. Your father? Kay
6. Your favorite thing? chocolate
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your dream/goal? happiness
9. The room you're in? living
10. Your hobby? decorating
11. Your fear? dark
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? here
13. Where were you last night? store
14. What you're not? perfect
15. One of your wish-list items? wardrobe
16. The last thing you did? lunch
17. Where you grew up? Marysvale
18. What are you wearing? red
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? nope
21. Your computer? Dell
22. Your mood? dandy
23. Missing someone? lots
24. Your car? Saturn
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? Target
27. Your summer? HOT!
28. Love someone? family
29. Favorite color? green
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? Sunday
32. Music? radio

Halloween!

Here's our Halloween costumes- in case you can't tell Beau is Batman, Luke is Robin, TJ is Joker, and I am Catwoman. Well mine and TJ's costumes were thrown together in about 10 minutes, but you get the idea. We had lots of fun. We went to our nephew Campbell's first birthday party and then went trick-or-treating of course.
Our spooky pumpkins

Ghost Beau! He moved right when I took the pic and it came out like this. Kinda creepy!

This is before we went out.

Batman and Robin

Cooper and Carter mummifying themselves

And this is the after trick-or-treating melt down.

October

Good old deer hunting!

Beau, TyAnn(cousin) , and Luke
Beau always talks a big game about shooting deer, but apparently a dead one freaks him out. He did not want anything to do with it.
TJ left me home to work and took the boys to his mom and dad's so he could go hunting with his pappy. He got a nice big 4 point with one shot. They left Gunnison at 5 am and the hunt was over by 8:30 am. There's no messin around with the Petersen boys. They had a fun trip, but I missed them a lot. It was too quiet around here without them.

A little update

So it has been a while since I posted anything... So we are all doing really good right now. Luke is finally walking everywhere! Yea that took forever. But he is doing really good. We are planning on moving on Sat the 24th. That is in about 9 days and I have packed about 6 boxes. Yikes!! I should really go pack right now... but I won't. We are still really excited to get into our new house, but I don't want to do the work to get everything in there and get our old place cleaned. I hate moving, but this will be a great move and I won't have to move again for quite a while! Anyway, my job is going really great. I didn't realize how much I missed doing hair. It's lots of fun to be at work. Well if anyone wants to come help us move you are more than welcome!!

The boys working hard washing the car

I don't think they were too much help, but they had fun!
Here is a picture of our house! We drove by it last night and saw the sold sign and we were so excited. We still have to do the inspection tomorrow, but it should go well.
SOLD!! Woo Hoo!

We got our house!

I got a call this morning and we found out the bank accepted our offer on the cute house we really, really wanted. We are super excited. It was a foreclosure in Coral Canyon. We will probably close at the end of October. We got everything we wanted including a home warranty, they are paying our closing costs, and money for repairs! We are so excited to finally own our own home. It feels like we have been renting forever. Yea!!!

So funny little story from yesterday. I don't know why but our boys room locks from the outside (apparently whoever lived here before us liked to lock their kids in their bedroom). Luke, Beau and I were in the boys bedroom. I was making Beau's bed and Beau decided to lock the door to keep Luke inside- only he locked all of us in their bedroom. It was around 4 o'clock and I was pretty bugged. I looked everywhere to find something to pick the lock, but I couldn't find anything. I gave up for a minute and decided to wait it out until TJ got home from work around 5:15. Then I realized I had left our front door open- so we climbed out the window, opened the gate and walked through our neighbor's yard (luckily we live on the end of the townhouse row- I don't think they would want us walking through their house!) And walked through our front door! Whew!!

Just a little update

Well life has been really great for us right now. We are so blessed and thankful for all that we have. Everything just works out as it should. Our old white car has had some issues and we thought it would cost a fortune to fix. It actually only cost about 150 to get it fixed. I was way happy about that. We had 3 offers on foreclosed houses in Coral Canyon in Washington, UT, and we just found out we didn't get the first one. We were 10 thousand under what it sold for. I look at it as a good thing because we bid 5 thousand more for the other 2 houses (they are all in the same neighborhood) and they weren't quite as nice. So we are hopeful we will get one of the other two. And we actually found out in only about 3 weeks. Which is really fast for a short sale- so I hear. Anyway if we get one of these houses it will be such a great deal and a great investment for us. We will have instant equity. Anyway and last Sunday I decided I wanted to start working again and by Tuesday I had a job! It's just at a Smartstyle salon in St. George. They are going to let me work a couple nights a week from 4-8. TJ will be able to watch the kids so I can work guilt free! And I have really missed doing hair so it will be fun to get back into it again! I start tonight and I'm pretty excited about it. It will be a nice little change of scenery for me. I love my boys so much, but I need a little time to myself sometimes too! Anyway, we are so blessed!

August Fun

Beau's Batman Party

Beau's birthday party was on Saturday. It was lots of fun. The kid got really spoiled once again. His Grandma Petersen gave him a Batman costume and he pretty much hasn't taken it off since he opened it. He is a little bit obsessed with Batman right now!

Beau's B-day!

Today is Beau's 4th birthday! He was so cute and fun today. I asked him where he wanted to eat for dinner and he really wanted to go to Applebee's. We haven't been there for about 2 years so I don't know how he remembers. I later found out it was because he really wanted a caramel apple and he thought that Applebee's would for sure have one of those. Luckily he wasn't too disappointed with his strawberry ice cream and his song from all the waitresses. I was a fun day. His Batman party is on Saturday so I will have to post some pics after that.

Working again!!

So I have been missing doing hair this past year or so and my mom made a plan for me! I am going to be working in Marysvale at Country Style(Kristi's shop) a couple days a month or more. I am going to start next weekend on the 15th and 16th of August. Hopefully I will have some appointments and people who want their hair done by me! I am really excited about it and hope it will work out. If anyone needs their hair done or knows someone who does please let me know!

New to Blogging!

Here is a picture of us at Zion National Park. We went on 2 short hikes with TJ's brother Brenten and his little family. We had tons of fun. We hiked to the lower Emerald Pool and to Weeping Rock. Beau did really good. He hiked most of the way. We only had to carry him for a few minutes. It is such a beautiful place!