New Year Resolutions...

I need some help... one of my biggest New Year's Resolutions is food storage. I want to build up my food storage for the scary times. I am looking for any resources which will have good outlines of what I need to buy each month. I was getting handouts at church, but haven't lately. If anyone has any good resources (printouts, blogs, websites, handouts, ect) regarding food storage, please let me know! Thanks for your help!

Update...

Okay, so the lighting didn't work out...I really need to figure out what settings to use for sports...inside a gym...if anyone knows on the Canon Rebel XTI, let me know! :)

Mike played against the And 1 streetball team. He was soooo excited. Apparently, the And 1 team is pretty big. All the ballers where there like Highriser, Spider, ect. I'm not going to lie...I had no idea who they were until Mike showed me on the internet.

Kori, Emilee, Me and Scarlett at the Reb Christmas party

I promise, Scarlett does smile....just not for pictures!

She loves to cuddle with her little giraffe!

Mike was so proud of himself for wrapping her in a Vickings sweatshirt! Scarlett is like- get me out of this crap!

At her 4 month appointment...12 pounds 5 oz and 24 inches long. She has almost doubled her birth weight!

These are always fun....

No Joke People.

This how much it snowed and SCHOOL WAS CANCELLED!!! (These pictures were take at 8:00a.m.) If it was cancelled every time it snowed this much in Logan, we would have never been in school. PATHETIC. :) Watch out, it's mass hysteria in St. George, UT! You should have seen all the accidents on the way to work...

Thanksgiving...

Here is a long post of Thanksgiving. I just love Thanksgiving and seeing friends and family. There is sooooo much to be thankful- I could never write it all. I am especially thankful for my incredible friends and family!

Scarlett and Aunt Nattie

Scarlett and Britt

Scarlett lovin on Noelle. Aren't those droopy cheekies cute???

This was fun...Scarlett BLEW out on the way to Ogden the day after Thanksgiving. We had to stop and change her at the Cheveron in Brigham. Love those blow outs. Her little warm bunny suit is sooo cute!

Some of my best high school friends got together for a little Thanksgiving brunch. It was the first time some of the babies had seen each other! It was so fun to see the girls and all the babies.

Parker lovin on Evy...

Not easy getting all the babies to look at the camera....

Aren't they so cute? Parker (Britt's) Ellie (Alisha's) Evy (Bam's) Tyson (Alisha's) and Scarlett

Scarlett spending some time with her amazing great grandma

Mike and Grandma Gene

Ethan, Scarlett and Taiya - Ethan already likes Scarlett better than me. I was on the phone with Brooke one day and asked if Ethan wanted to talk to me. Brooke asked him, and he was dead serious and said, "No, I onnwy want to tawk to Scarwett." Hilarious.

Taiya's first cousin!!!Scarlett with her Aunt Brooke.

Scarlett and her sweet Great Grandma Shaw.

Scarlett with her Great Grandpa Shaw.

On our way up, we stopped and went out to dinner with the Morzelewskis. These girls are just soooo cute!

Lesson Learned.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. :) I am proud to say that the same smoker client just sat down at the picnic table, smoked, put it out and walked to the trash and threw his cigarette away. Almost a week later and he remembered! Good Job.

And I don't want everyone to think I'm really, really mean...I really did tell them nicely. So nicely that it was creepy. Those of you who know Kori, I did it Kori style. Creepy! :)

Seriously???

I'm sitting at my desk looking out the window at the beautiful fall day (yep, still fall in St. George) Two clients walk up. Scroungy, dirty, a guy and a girl. Both start huffing and puffing away at their cigarettes. Both sit down at the picnic table in front of my office and smoke for about 5 minutes. Both get up to leave. Both throw their cigarettes on the ground-in the grass, step on them and start walking into the front doors of our office. (Yes, this is the outside area that us caseworkers petitioned for so our clients and kids would have somewhere to have their supervised visits other than our dinky playroom). I think to myself....be appropriate and professional...be appropriate and professional...

I walk to the front office to the lobby area where there is a police officer waiting to be buzzed in and where the clients are just walking in. I approach them with a stern-trying to be nice smile. In my nice-but really not nice voice and tone of voice say..."Do you know what? We have children and families outside playing in that front area and eating on the picnic table everyday. It is not appropriate to smoke out there and then throw your cigarette on the ground-in the play area. I would appreciate it if you not litter anymore and go get your cigarettes and throw them in the trash. Littering is against the law and as I said before, children play out there. Thank you. "

Wide eyed and shocked, they said okay...went back outside...ruffled through the grass and the leaves...picked up their cigarettes and threw them away.

Wide eyed and shocked, the police officer looked at me with the look of-wow, they just got told.

But seriously people, how easy would it have been to just throw the dumb things in the garbage in the first place? Have respect. I was going to remind them of the law of no smoking within like 25 feet of a building, but I thought I would save that for another day. :)

Blessing Dress

Here are some darling pictures of my baby in her blessing dress. She is so stinking cute! She is so smiley and happy, I just love it! She is getting so big and I can't believe she is already 14 weeks! Of course Serena took and edited these picts! She is amazing...check out her blog!http://www.simplyserenityphotography.blogspot.com/

More Halloween Fun!

Here are a few more pictures from Halloween week! She is probably blind from all the pictures we took the week of Halloween. She was a pumpkin on Halloween! She looked so cute even though the outfit was huge on her!

Okay, so she looks scared to death in this picture! lol! It was a little awkward trying to get pictures of her...she kept moving around and bobbing her head...then she'd start to fall over! It was hilarious. Needless to say, we didn't get any great pictures in her pumpkin costume. :)

Scarlett and her daddy. Mike dressed up as a basketball player. Real creative.

Seriously, are those eyes not hilarious!!!

She was a chick on Wednesday for my work party. I think this was my favorite costume!Always has to have that binky close by!

October Fun

I LOVE October! I love the fall temperatures and the changing leaves, the candy corn and apple cider...and I LOVE Halloween! We had a great month and a lot of fun parties and activities. Here is the 17th and 18th of October. Scarlett was a bumble bee for two of our Halloween parties. She looked so cute! It was one of the costumes that actually fit her. I was pretty impressed with this $8 Wal-Mart buy!

Are these not the coolest costumes? I borrowed them from one of my Rebelettes. I forgot that the gorilla was so scary looking!

Korver and Scarlett

Looking hot guys!

Scarlett and Joselyn

Mike and I left Scarlett for the first time to go to the Smith's Halloween party. It was a way fun party, thanks Tawni and Jason-and thanks Joe and Kalli for the awesome costumes!

Mike carved this pumpkin for the party and he won the contest! He's quite the skilled pumpkin carver!

The funniest thing about the night was the Mike got PULLED OVER looking like this! We were in seperate cars and we were meeting in a church parking lot, so I was pulling in just as the cop flashed his lights at Mike. I couldn't help but start cracking up. I thought he was getting pulled over because he looked so creepy! But he was actually speeding. Luckily, he didn't get a ticket. Can you imagine what the police officer was thinking seeing Mike dressed like that? He even called back up! It was so funny.

Me, Serena and Tawni