Halloweens Past

I thought it would be fun to go through all my pictures and find all the Halloweens we have pictures of!!

I’ll start with some really old ones! 

I think I was seven in this picture…a Bride!   The crayon is a friend—Kirsten something—and the boys are my brothers.  I’m sure they will love that I posted this picture ;)

I hope my hubby doesn’t mind me posting this, but I love this picture of him as Dracula!

I can’t find any more of us as kids…so onto college!  My next door friend, Lauren, and I made a Graveyard cake {in the dorms} and we did one every year for three years after that!

In 2005 I was a pirate…arrrrr!

In 2006, I was working at Jamba Juice on campus and it was the only day we didn’t have to wear the annoying uniforms, so I dressed up!!  I meant to look like a gardener…but ended up looking more like a housewife.  My roomie took this pic when I was making dinner that night!

Scott and I were lame in 2007, we’d just gotten married and we lived in a basement apartment which meant we didn’t have any trick-or-treaters. We didn’t have any parties to go to and so we didn’t dress up.  We probably just came back from school and watched TV as usual.  We did go to a few really awesome haunted houses and such that year, however, so that gives up some cool points.  

In 2008 we were doctors and we didn’t really dress up Luke, so we just called him our little patient. 

In 2009, Scott and I dressed up as Jim & Pam from The Office.  We dressed up like they dressed up on the show…so Scott was a three-hole-punch version of Jim and I was a cat.  We decorated his office to be like The Office—even put a stapler in jello! 

In 2009, Luke was a frog:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2010, we were all cowboys/girl:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2011 (last year), Luke was a dinosaur and Scott and I wore these skeleton shirts that I made!

And this year we were all superheroes.  Luke doesn’t have a preference for specific ones…so he and Sam were just generic superheroes and Scott & I were Super Mom and Super Dad! 

More pictures of us later!

Happy Valentines Day!

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Wishing everyone a happy day
From ME to YOU!


I thought it would be fun to relay the story of our 1st Valentine's Day together, enjoy!

From My Journal 2.14.06 :

Happy Day! Today was so awesome! My best Vday for sure! I walked to class and was supposed to meet Scott at Devotional, but he didn't show at all, so i just did HW (Devo was boring) I got extra credit in my sewing lab for wearing pink ;) I cam home early--skipped my Family Life class. I had plans to go to Jen's to do laundry and play with Jack and Charlie. When I got home I said a quick Hi to Melissa and Rachel and then went into my room. My 1st thought was is this for me and who did this?! There were chocolate kisses strewn on the floor, there were DAISIES on my desk, a Valentine's Day balloon by my bed and a chocolate rose with a card on my bed!! I was giggling and letting out happy girly squeals. i L.O.V.E.D the card Scott wrote to me. I couldn't express my true excitement because it was so undescribably A-W-E-S-O-M-E!! I took pictures of everything! And then I had to hurry up and get ready to go to Jen's. I was there all afternoon [...some of this is summerized] Turns out I was over there way too long. I had to think of something to do for Scott still!! I decided to have Jen take me to the grocery store on the way home to pick up some candy and jumbo chocolate chips. My plan was good but i was running short on time! I got home and begged Melissa to make me cookie dough while I got ready. She made it into a giant heart-shaped cookie for me with my giant chocolate chips. I surrounded it with candy and decorated the pan a bit. On little heart-shaped pieces of paper, I wrote poems and mostly little things I'd do for Scott like wash his car, Give him [1] [2][3] chances to beat me at chess ;) [10] unearned padiddle kisses to mach my 10 earned ones. I had tons and tons and put them together hidden in a box of candy [...] I put stickers all over the box--some meant things. Like a carrot sticker just because I knew Scott doesn't like veggies, or a tennis sticker because he does like tennis. I had to call Scott and tell him I wasn't going to Institute with him because I wasn't home yet (even though I was) because I needed more time to get done with the gift and get beautiful for him. He came over at 8pm when he was finished and I had just finished getting ready. I pulled him into the kitchen to show him my surprise--and it was exactly that, a big surprise! I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting anything at all, but how could i give him nothing when he'd done so much for me this morning? He was really anxious to leave my apartment to take me on our date, so we went to his apartment to drop off his presents. He really didn't know I would give him anything and i loved to see him so happy and grateful. No one was there at the moment so we had a chance to be alone and steal some kisses. I really had no idea what Scott had planned to do with me tonight. He only said "We'll hang out" up to today. We got in the car and started driving. I was way hungry so I was thrilled when he told me we were going to TGIFridays. But I was nervous too because we really hadn't gone out to dinner together yet [...] It was such a good night. I love that I'm getting to know Scott more [...] What a GREAT day!!

From this date in my journal I kept the note he wrote and the balloon all folded up. So sentimental. It's so awesome that I kept a journal that year we dated. So many great memories. Hope you enjoyed it! Here's the pictures from that account:

Kisses on the floor

Daisies (my favorite)


The note:


The chocolate flower and balloon


My gift to Scott

A big heart shaped cookie, surrounded by Reese's and a sticker-covered box with more candy and a little coupon book I'd made for him with cheesy things

Then & Now

This was taken when Luke was 1 week old



This was taken when Luke was 1 year old

WRiTiNg Up a SToRM: 2008 Reflection

This year was a remarkable series of milestones and changes for Scott and my little family. It's incredible all that we've been through in such a short time! If we've learned one thing this entire year though, it's that we can do anything as long as we have each other and the Lord pulling us through.

Here's a summary of everything that happened in 2008:

JANUARY

January was all about the pregnancy. Hearing the baby's heartbeat and having it all truly confirmed to us at that first appointment.
We had our 16 week ultrasound--our first one (missed the other one because we found out right before Christmas and couldn't get in earlier than January) We found out we were having a boy! It was pretty incredible.

We also gave a 2 weeks notice to move out of our basement apartment in Springville and move into Wymount because I was sick of the commute with our particular school and work schedule.

FEBRUARY

We decided to avoid restaurants for Valentine's day and I made dinner at home instead. Scott put my present on the bed and I was so excited to get KissKiss pups that I didn't even realize there was a diamond necklace inside!!
I wear that necklace like every day

Toward the end of the month is when I really began to show signs of a pregnancy tummy.

We also got a new desktop computer.

MARCH

It's funny to note that I really don't have many pictures from March--funny that nothing ever exciting or otherwise happens in March.

But I did manage to hit up Color Me Mine for a girls night with Nikki and Lauren

APRIL

Scott and I walked together for Graduation. Bill and Brenda came to visit for the event and we had a good time shopping for baby stuff.


Scott started working at Cluster Resources.

We also shopped around a bit for houses.

MAY

My sister threw me a great baby shower and I was pleased that many of my good friends and family could come for it.


My brother Al, married his sweetheart, Stephanie, and it was good to see all my family.


Scott and I took an early Anniversary trip to Las Vegas and The Hoover Dam.


Scott turned 25.

JUNE

The house search renewed with a friend of Jen's, Joe Willis, who is an amazing Realtor. We found a bunch of prospects and put an offer on a house in Lehi.

The weeks of pregnancy are ticking towards the end...

I turned 22

JULY

The offer on the house we tried was rejected. We kept looking and put an offer another house--actually, in the same neighborhood as before.

This was the last pregnancy pic I took before Luke was born.


On July 16th I was out with my mom and my Realtor to look at some houses.
I had suspected that my water broke and I ended up going into the hospital to find out for sure. Sure enough it had and they kept me there. Scott joined me an hour or so later.


Lucas Scott was born July 17 shortly after 1am. We took him home on Friday night the 18th.

The offer on our house was accepted by some miracle and we found out the last day i was in the hospital! They wanted to push through the process fast so we would be moving in August--just a few weeks!


Scott and I celebrated out 1st wedding anniversary on the 28th. My mom stayed with Luke while we went to Outback Steakhouse and went to see The Dark Knight.
We came home and tried out the top layer from our wedding cake. No comment.

AUGUST

We moved into our new house


We made a trip to Orlando and Disney World with the Brown Family. Luke did great with the traveling. I was able to visit Nikki--who is interning there as a character.

SEPTEMBER

Luke starts smiling all the time now--especially when Daddy comes home

Luke finds his hands, starts the ever flowing drool, and starts getting the hang of toys.


Scott gave Luke and name and a blessing the last week in September


With his dad's help, Scott conquers the 9 foot weeds overtaking our yard.

OCTOBER

Luke likes playing on the floor now that he's gotten better at tummy time.


We bought an elliptical since our 6:30am morning runs were getting to dark and cold to go on.

Scott and I dressed up as doctors with our little patient for Halloween. Scott won the scariest office award for his work party.

We finally put Luke to sleep upstairs in his crib and started sleep training to get him to go more than 2 hours without waking up.

We finally got living room furniture. Goodbye air mattress.

NOVEMBER

Luke masters peek-a-boo on his own, starts liking bath time, and learns to roll over (and decides he likes sleeping on his tummy now).


Jen & Greg welcomed their 3rd boy into their family and named him Isaac.


I made an apple pie for Thanksgiving--which we spent at Scott's Grandparent's.

DECEMBER

Scott and I attempted our first family photo using the timer on our camera...needless to say it took a ton of shots to get one where we all look good--and even then I had to photoshop a "good" Luke with a "good" us for a doctored Christmas Family picture.

We also bought a big live tree this year--smelled a-mazing--it was about 8 feet tall--a major improvement from our 3 foot fake tree for our apartment last year!

We were excited to have my parents and my oldest brother Andrew stay at our house for Christmas--we were sad to see them go. We had a great Christmas--lots of fun presents, family, a huge dinner, and a nice long chat with Steve who is on a mission in Germany.

New Years Eve and New Years Day were complete with a stomach flu of sorts. I had it NY's Eve which was sad because we had to cancel on the dinner party we were invited to. NY's Day Scott came down with the bug and suffered all day long. We were a couple of sickies and pretty pathetic all day long.
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We've had quite the year, and I'm sure that 2009 will bring us many more adventures and memories as well. Happy Holidays!