Heart Happy

Two stories that touched me in the past two days...

As I mentioned before I've been so impressed with the story of the Nielson family who were in the tragic plane crash in Arizona leaving husband and wife badly burned and requiring months and months of treatment. They had a fund raiser concert for them last weekend in AZ featuring these two sweeties...Stephanie Nielson's daughters...I read on her blog that she sang this to her children at night. I think this is a new favorite lullaby :) And the older one's name is Claire...my favorite name for a girl.

http://www.eastvalleyproductions.com/player.cfm?media=/movies/Nie/Glendhill

I watched yesterday's Oprah about children who've done incredible things. They told the story of the little 9-year old boy who marched into the Olympic stadium with the Chinese athletes this summer. His school was demolished during the massive earthquake earlier this year. Many of the students in his school were killed. This little boy escaped and then went back in to help save two of his classmates. Later when asked why he did it, he simply said he was the hall monitor and he just needed to do his job.

How I wish I was more like a little child...

Love Him

In twenty years, I'm not going to remember what my house looked like today...how clean it was, how decorated it was or how my coffee table was being used. What I'm going to remember are moments like these...




















































...and the pure joy on my little boy's face. I was in our bedroom doing something and heard the squeals and belly laughs coming from Peyton. McKay had propped our very dented/played on coffee table up to the fireplace and was driving Peyt's cars down it...much to his delight. It turned out to be a highlight of our week! This child brings so much joy to my life. No words can really blurt it all out...

I finally read through some of the entries about Christian and Stephanie Nielson...talk about putting your life into perspective. What an incredible journey they've been through. I was deeply touched and will keep my thoughts with them. www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com

"Happy Day"

Sorry for blog slacking. Whenever I know I need to post a video it takes me forever because my computer is so slow and I don't want to do it...ANYWAY...here's something cute Peyton's been doing. He hit his newfound attitude stage about 18 months. It's been fun. When he gets really mad/sad I tell him to be a "happy boy". Somehow he got "happy day" out of that and will usually say it when you tell him to be happy. The video shows a few of his words thanks to my continuous prodding and repeating...so sorry about that!

This month has been busy and it's part of my slacking. I'm the primary chorister and it's the program this next week...also hosted a little party at my house, was in charge of a super Saturday craft, yada yada. I'll try to make more visits this week.

Thank You!

I have to say thanks to all my cute friends who came to the party tonight! It turned out great thanks to all of you! I was a little nervous because the party I did a few years ago didn't go as great as I'd hoped...but this one was so fun! So many of my cute neighbor friends came over...thanks girls! And I had a lot of friends who made the drive from various parts of Utah County to come...you girls are awesome! For all my neighbor friends...every six months someone needs to host one of these so we can always have some cute shoes to wear :) Any volunteers for next time? I'll get you Amy's info! Anyway...thanks again. I had a very fun night! I'll try and take pics of the cute stuff I got and post them.

Grateful for "Don"

There needs to be more Dons in the world...

I was stuck on the side of the freeway with a blown out tire. Luckily I felt it happen and quickly veered off the road. Could have been a disaster. Prayer answered #1.

Called McKay immediately and he said he'd be right there. Prayer answered #2.

As I'm getting the spare tire out and ready, Don shows up. Prayer answered #3.

He's driving a big construction/utility truck and offers to help. He checks the tire as McKay shows up and still continues to help. We realize there's a big gash in the tire (which by the way...if you know your tires are bad already, just get them changed!) He pulls his truck in front of our jeep and gets his air pump ready. In a matter of minutes, he has our car jacked up, tire changed and safely on, air in the spare tire etc. etc. etc. He was our good Samaritan. He did a job in five minutes when it would have taken McKay 30-40 with the lousy wrench and jack the car manufacturers give...not to mention greasy, dirty work clothes afterward. So thank you for being my answered prayer today Don.

Maybe all of us (myself with the finger pointed deepest) should find our own good Samaritan moments...I know people need our help!

P.S. - Love to see any of you who can come to the shoe/scentsy party tomorrow night. Should be fun! 6:30-8 p.m.

It's a PARTY!

I'm excited about the upcoming Sole Desires (cute shoes!) and Scentsy (yummy candles!) party I'm having! Here's the info...

Wednesday, October 8th
6:30 - 8 p.m.
My House - leave your email as a comment if you need address/directions

These companies both have great products and I'm really excited to have them over. Sole Desires has tons of cute shoes for women and children (even cute boy CHURCH shoes!!! So hard to find sometimes :) Scentsy also has a lot of fun new things including plug-in scents and car fresheners! Everyone is welcome and I hope to see you there! There will be at least five different kinds of cookies to eat too :)

SYTYCD and Grandma Shoell's Bday

Had SO much fun Tuesday night at the show. It was awesome. Dance=chills for me. Had them the whole night!















This was about as good as it got as far as pictures of the show. We had pretty good seats thought and saw everything really well!















Mom, me and Chels. Love my family so much! Thanks Mom for the yummy dinner at Ruby Tuesday's before!















Mom and me.















Chels and me. Thanks girls for an awesome night that I will never forget! Next up was Grandma Shoell's 80th birthday celebration. Stupid me...I didn't even get a picture of her. I'm too occupied getting pictures of Peyton all the time! We love her so much though and appreciate everything she means to the family!















Peyt and Alaynah playing in Grandma's playhouse. It's so cute...I'll post pics sometime of it. These two are so good together and I know love each other :) It's her bday on Monday and we're going to her party tomorrow! Yeah!















Peyt LOVES the phone...caught this at the right moment :)
















Grandma has so many fun toys at her house including this car. Peyt LOVES cars!















All the kids getting ready to surprise Grandma Shoell!




















We started teasing Peyt by tying one balloon to his pants...he ended up with several! He was a good sport though.

Happy BDAY to my amazing sister in law Melissa TODAY! She's such a wonderful, cute, smart, mature person and we love having her in the family. I LOVE dance and she's been a dancer her whole life so it's fun to talk to her about it...along with many of our other shared loves including SHOPPING! Love you Melis!

Update

I used to be so good at updating this a few times a week. Lately it's been about once a week. I'll try to be better :) We've had a fun couple of weeks! I got to go to dinner a few times with a few different groups of friends. Birthdays are the best! On Saturday I had fun up at the outlets in Park City with my sisters Melissa and Ashley. The boys cut wood for my in-laws at their property in Coleville (I think that's how you spell it) so we decided to go shopping while they worked! I found some cute things for Peyt and I and even a few shirts for McKay. We came back that afternoon and Wayne and Pam made us all a delicious dutch oven dinner to celebrate my, Melissa and Alaynah's bdays!















It's been fun because my friend Sarah has been in town so we've gotten everyone together a few times to hang out. The first picture is from our dinner at Texas Road House...yum! I love that place. The pictures below are from our park adventure today. Steph told us about a fun, old park in Alpine. It had some fun toys...but Peyt just likes to RUN away from me and go everywhere and anywhere. He's really hard to take anywhere with open spaces and moving vehicles :) We managed though and it was fun to get together. Our friend Christina came who I hadn't seen for years! It was really fun to see her. Thanks everyone for a fun afternoon. Tonight I get to go to the So You Think You Can Dance show and I'm SO excited. I'll write about it soon!

Birthdays...

I must admit I love birthdays. But honestly it's much more than mine. I've always been so grateful that every person on this planet has a day of their own to be recognized. I look forward to family birthdays and especially my own children (well, right now, child). Anyway, today has been a wonderful day and I have to thank so many of you for nice notes, texts, phone calls, gifts etc. THANK YOU! So blessed :) Funny thing though. I had to get a new SIM card for my phone and lost almost everyone's numbers. So I did get a few texts from people and I don't recognize the numbers because I could just look for your name in my phone :) So if you texted me today, leave a comment so I know who those lovely people were. I'm guessing it was my family, and I think I recognized a few numbers...duh...look what cells phones do to us! Few pics below from today. I CAN'T believe how big Peyt looks in that picture. He's my big boy!

McKay and I also had a fun date Saturday night at Tucanos followed by The Dark Knight...it was a dark movie just like everyone told me...oh well. Thanks babe for all you did for my bday and all you do for me everyday! When we bought our house there were three cabinets in our kitchen that bugged me...REALLY bugged me. McKay let us redo all of the cabinets and I'm really happy with how they turned out. LOVE YOU!

Fun Find and Peyton...

I saw this at IKEA a week or so ago with Lisa and thought it was cute...she had thought it was about $40 so I decided to think about it. We went back there today and guess what...$15! I was so excited. Peyton absolutely loves cars so I know he'll love driving them around on it. Now I just need a playroom in the basement to put it in :)















You can just call Peyt Mr. destruction. It does not take long for him to pull things out and make a mess. I can't do the dishes with him awake because he takes the silverware out as soon as I put it in. Good thing I love him so much :) I wanted to write down a few things he's saying right now...

Mom (I love it when he says mama)
Dad
Papa
Car
Goggie (Dog)
Cookie
Cheese (one of his favorite foods)
Treat
Duck
Ball
Gabage (dirty diapers :)

This is SUCH a fun age because he's starting to repeat a lot of what he hears. The words above he's just mastered so you can understand them every time :) So awesome to be a Mom to him.















Also just thought I'd post this picture of my girlfriends at Beth's shower. I LOVE these girls. It's fun as we get older and make our own little families how we can look back at so many memories we've had and just laugh. I have funny/crazy/wonderful memories with each one of these girls and I'm so glad we keep in touch!