How do I look????

Mara loves to eat all by herself and usually gets fairly messy. But this one takes the cake!! I gave her a little pudding snack, and went about eating my own food and talking with my mom. Mara said to me "Hee go" which means "Here you go". So I turned around and found this face looking back at me!! It was the funniest thing! I love that kids can get so super messy and not realize that they have food all over their faces!!



On Saturday Xander helped my mom and I put christmas lights in the garden. Pat was such a great son in-law and put up the christmas lights on the house 2 weeks ago, but ran out of lights to do the garden. While cleaning the garage, my mom found a bag of lights so we did the rest! Xander was helping us hammer in some posts in the grass so we could string lights along the curbing. He had to go around hammering everything that he could find. Luckly it wasn't summer, or else all the bugs would have been in for it!!




Here is Mara and cousin Sawyer. Isn't Sawyer the sweetest thing! I am so jealous that she has red hair! Seeing my brother have a red headed child gives me hope that maybe I too could have one, someday!

What color are you????

You Are a Purple Crayon

Your world is colored in dreamy, divine, and classy colors. You hold yourself to a sky high standard, and you are always graceful. People envy, idolize, and copy you without realizing it. You are an icon for those who know you. And while it is hard to be a perfectionist, rest assured it's paying off! Your color wheel opposite is yellow. While yellow people may be wise, they lack the manners and class needed to impress you.

What Color Crayon Are You?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Happy Thanksgiving!! We had a really full day. Thanksgiving this year was at my mom's house (our house) so I have been cleaning for a few days. The night before we set up all the tables and got them ready to go. And I made my Mud Pies! They turned out really good for my first time making them :) In the morning we watched some of the Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was fun (Pat doesn't like parades, so he was somewhere else during that time LOL) I realized that I really want to go to New York and see Mary Poppins and Xanadu on Broadway!! Two shows that I grew up with!!! Around noon we started to get food going. (Our lunch was at 2) Karri was over and we were on potato duty. (we have been lucky for the past 4 years to get a BOX of potatoes from RC Willey every Thanksgiving, one of the small perks of Pat working there!) Xander wanted to help with the potatoes but didn't want his hands dirty. So we found some gloves and he was in charge of taking the potatoes that I had peeled and giving them to Karri to chop! He did a great job!




Here is Karri and I after eating! We were lucky to have dinner when we did. I was able to get Mara lunch at noon, and put her down for a nap. She missed Thanksgiving, but it was so nice not to have to worry about her :)



We had about 30 adults and 8 kids this year (which is small for my family) It was so fun to have a "kiddie table" Here is Luke, Max, Mariah and Xander! Luke and Mariah belong to my cousin Liz.



After dinner we went to visit with Pat's family and have desert. I am very lucky to have such a great mother in-law. She got a Banana Cream Pie just for me!!! YUMMMY :)
Pat's Aunt Kimbur and Uncle Kevin and family were in town from California. They have 3 kids that live here currently, and brought their other two with them. Their son Skyler "Red Shirts" for the BYU Football team! Anyway, we were all able to be together with them and his cousin Tera, her husband Ike and their little boy Dane. It is so great to have family close by and to be able to get together as often as we do :) We hung out for awhile, then came home and played Wii with Karri, Brent, Lisa, Mom and the kids. Max and Xander played baseball together! It was so funny! My mom grabbed Lisa's camera instead of hers (they have the same camera) and took pictures and video of them :) I will post them when I get them.

Then the kids decided to play "Hide & Seek". Their favorite place to hide is in the bathtub!! I don't know how Mara got in, they must have helped her LOL.



Overall it was a great Thanksgiving! I am so grateful for my family, especially my wonderful Husband. He loves me for who I am :) I love my kids and the smiles and trials they give me. I am thankful for the gospel in my life. I know that I could do better at some things, and am grateful for the knowledge that my Father in Heaven loves me and is watching out for me.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Wii

My mom decided to buy a Wii for her house, so that the whole family could play whenever we get together! She was able to get one last weekend, so during dinner we all made our own characters!

(Here is Xander's! He had to do it all by himself)

The first game of the night was bowling. JD, Chris, Mom and Xander all played! It was great to see Xander, and how excited he was to be playing again. (Pat's brother Ben has one and we were able to play when we went to Boise in September)

We even made a character for Grandma Joan (my grandmother) This is us playing doubles tennis! We played for a few rounds until she said that she wasn't feeling well. (she has a pacemaker) After she left that night, we looked in the instructions, and it said:

WARNING - Radio Frequency Interference

The Wii console and Wii Remote can emit radio waves that can affect the operation of nearby electronics, including cardiac pacemakers.

• Do not operate the Wii console or remote within 9 inches of a pacemaker
• If you have a pacemaker or other implanted medical device, do not use the Wii console or remote without first consulting your doctor or the manufacturer of your medical device.

We thought that was funny! We never would have thought that she shouldn't play! At least she got one game in! LOL

At least we had enough people that Pat could fill in for her :)

We have already purchased Star Wars Lego The Complete Saga, and Pat and I are almost 50% done! :)

Primary Program :)

Today was Xander's first Primary Program!! Throughout the year during primary he really wouldn't sing much. But over the past month he has starting singing at home, so it makes me happy that he is learning the songs. Pat and I are his Sunbeam teachers, so we had to sit on the stand with the class for the program. And since I was the song leader last year, I had to help our current leader with two songs that have parts. (I was lucky to be in the front, so all I had to do was turn around in my chair and lead!!!) Xander did awesome!! He was the only one in our class that said his part without any help. There were other kids that knew their parts, but just got nervous so they forgot what they were going to say. But Xander did a great job saying, "I can be like Jesus by saying prayers for others" He was so excited for the program, that when it was over he wanted to do it again :)

(in the picture, he is biting his bottom lip. It looks weird)

Pretty as a Princess!

Last Sunday when we had our family dinner, the girls (Mara and Conli) wanted to play dress-ups, like usual!! My mom remembered that she had purchased some other dresses, so we got them out and put them on the girls!!

They were so excited to wear the pretty dresses :)


Mara has started a new thing. She will lay down on the floor with her blanket over her head and say "mom, mom, mom" until I say "what?" she will then say "I seeping" When I say "you're sleeping?" she will say "no" then get up! Sometimes she would say "yah" and stay there!! She did this a lot the other day!

She has really started to get funny!

On Friday she was having a snack, I went to her and asked if I could have a kiss. She told me "No, eaing petzels"

Now that her vocabulary is growing, she is making sentences and is saying the cutest things :)

I love my little girl!

I Love Target!

In the past I have taken the kids to different photo studios. Last year I took them to WalMart because of the low prices of their packages. For the most recent pictures I decided to go back to Target. I took Xander there when he was 2, so it has been awhile. After the photo shoot I decided that I will always to to Target for pictures!!! They are great!! And this is why:

At WalMart the kids have to be sitting in all pictures, because they are up on a table. The camera is attached to a big contraption that is stuck to the ceiling, so the kids have to be in the right place at all times!! Now that is really not possible with kids, LOL Another thing is that they do take a bunch of each pose, but you have to decide right then and there if you like their smile, or look, and that is the ONE picture of that pose that they keep. They delete the others. So you end up having one pic of each pose to choose from, which is really lame. And the first picture that they take HAS TO BE the pic for their promo package (which is really cheap) but the first picture is not always the favorite!











Now at Target: The kids are on the ground, and that way they can be standing, sitting, lying down, or even sitting in a chair! The camera is free from cables, so that the photographer has it in their hands and can walk with it and get the good shots, whether they are close up or far away, or up high or down low! They take so many pictures!! Which is awesome, but sometimes harder to choose, LOL And you can pick whatever you want for your package, which I love. There is just so much freedom at Target and I love it! And if you want them to email you the pictures it is just 5 bucks! So of course I did it :)

So here are some of the highlights. I get the actual prints next week!! Yippee!!

Reasons why I like Disney!

For a few months I have known that there is going to be

a Disney Store in University Mall.

I am very excited about this!! It started out as a sign in the window of an old store saying "Disney Store coming soon!", then it was the big "box" around the front of the store that had a banner with Mickey Mouse, still saying "coming soon". It had been like that for a month or so (I really don't go to the mall very often) It was still like that last Tuesday.

When I went to the mall on Saturday this is what it looked like!!!!

I am so very excited!!!! There is finally a store front!!! I am just hoping that it will be open before Christmas. I have searched and can't find a opening date for the store :(

But when I do, I will post it!!







I just have to share these pictures. I absolutely LOVE THEM!!! They are by an artist named Annie Leibovitz. They are of famous people portraying Disney characters. She did these pictures for the

"Year of a Million Dreams"

promotion. It started out as just the first three pics.

(Cinderella, Alice and Prince Phillip)

I love the Cinderella, that is why I put it first, LOL.

Then yesterday my brother showed me the next group:

(The Blue Fairy, Arthur and Snow White)

If ever I get enough money I want to have these pics framed and displayed in my house. I love them all!!! They are so beautiful :)

If you click on them, you can see them big.

They all have sayings :)

This is Halloween!!!!

IT'S FINALLY HALLOWEEN!!

All of my costume prep has paid off :) I had decided to make Mara's costume, as this was the first time that I have sewn any type of clothing, it turned out awesome :) Now I have all the confidence in the world (when it comes to sewing) LOL

On Sunday my mom threw the

First Annual Ramey Halloween Party!!

She had fun decorations, treats, games and activities :) She was quite proud of herself!! Here are some pics of the party.

This is Max and Xander

(I think that spiderman was really popular this year)

Here are all the Grand kids

L to R: Mara, Xander, Sawyer, Max & Conli

The cute girls!!

Mara & Mana

My mom got a new camera and it takes the funnest pictures.

I am all sorts of jealous, mainly because our camera is broken :(

On Monday I took the kids to a Halloween Party that Lisa invited us to. It was at a church and there were a ton of little kids running around. But I got the best picture of Mara!! She loves that pumpkin bucket, and won't let go of it!! LOL

This was tonight before we went out Trick or Treating, which started with visiting Karri at Target and JD at FYE!

This is Mara and her cousin Maddox. He is 4 months old and the chubbiest thing ever!!! He is by far the cutest Pea Pod ever :)

Here is our Halloween family picture!!

My niece Addi!! She was Wonder Woman!!

(This pic is for you Chris!!!)

Wonder Woman and Black Spiderman!!

(too bad they exist in different universes, because they are best friends in this one)

Pre-School Time :)

Friday was Xander's first day of Pre-School :) He is going to the

Itty Bitty Bruin Pre-School at

Mountain View High School!!

(Pat's mother Tammy is a secretary there)

Xander was really excited to start school :) He goes every other day (some weeks m,w,f other weeks t,th) for a little over 2 hours. So far he has a great time.

Every kid in the class has a spotlight day. And of course Xander's was the first day of class :) So we made this poster about him.

The pics on the bottom are from Pat's toy magazines LOL