Go Cougars!

This past Saturday, we took Landon to his first BYU Cougars football game. He LOVED it and we picked a great game to go to because the Cougs one by over 50!

Ryan’s brother Jared gave us the tickets and Landon enjoyed playing with him during the game.

The Cougars had just made a touchdown which caused Landon to make this face!

Happy BYU fans.

Jared and Landon “glowing” with happiness at the game.

I love this huggy picture.

Enjoying cotton candy.

This will probably be the last BYU game we get to go to with Ryan as a student. It was definitely a bittersweet game for us. Thanks to Jared and Ryan’s dad for giving us the tickets!  

Liebster Blog Award

I was given the Liebster Blog award by my friend Becca from If work permits.

She blogs about crafty things, her family, and always has cute pictures up. Becca has a great sense of humor and that is one of the main things I love about her blog. It always puts me in a good mood!

The Liebster blog award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. Liebster is a German word meaning dear, sweet, kind, nice, good, beloved, lovely, kindly, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing and welcome.

So now it's my turn to pick 5 people who I think deserve this award {with less than 200 followers}…which will be hard since all of you are so popular!

Drumroll please…..the award goes to:

1. Michelle at Michelle moments. I have no idea how to see how many followers she has! She is a dear friend and I have known her since third grade. We lived about a block and a half away from each other for most of our childhood and teenager-hood. Michelle was my maid of honor at my wedding. I love her blog because she depicts life as it CAN be…she’s always making the most of her life and enjoying every moment. I want to be more like her!

2. Christie at Christie and Josh. Christie and I met our freshman year of college at BYU. We had our first babies about a month apart and she is due for a boy this December! She was also a bridesmaid at my wedding. I love her and her family. Her blog shares what is most important to her, her family. Thanks, Christie, for sharing all the sweet things that happen in your life!

3. Domanique at Ballet Flats and Baseball Caps and http://Thesweetestplacecakery.blogspot.com. She is amazing with cakes and has a talent for crafty things. Plus she’s really funny! I have known Dom since high school and I have admired her ability to smile even through the hard times. Her blogs are great; they are about her family and her hobbies.

4. Jenny at The Teaching Studio - We Teach Piano. Jenny was my accompanist at BYU when I was taking voice lessons. Her blog is great for other music teachers or if you want to learn more about piano yourself. She includes activities that are especially wonderful for young kids. Thanks Jenny for helping me teach the youngsters!

5. Tatiana at Brazil Sweet  Meetings. Tatiana is pretty new to Utah from Brazil and we met in our ward in Provo. She makes these beautiful cakes that look like they will melt in your mouth AND she’s having a promotion this month! Check her out.

To keep this award going and pass it along to other new deserving blogs, the recipient must now recognize five other bloggers with less than 200 followers that have really stood out in the crowd.

The rules for the Liebster Award are:
1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.
2. Reveal your top five picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love too!

Thank you, amazing friends, for your fantastic blogs. I love reading them and I know everyone else will too!

Baby Dress-Up

 

I don’t really need to write anything…the pictures say it all. Thank you Boss for all the joy you bring us!

Pumpkin Patch!

 

This past Monday, we wanted to do something extra-fun before my mom returned to AZ. So we went to to Pumpkinland in Orem at the Vineyard Garden Center. What a blast!

First, they had pumpkins for sale and a whole platform of giant ones to take pictures with…

 

Then, we went through a corn maze and tried to find the secret room that had the magic beans. If we found it, we got free prizes, which turned out to be little Dum-Dum suckers. We found it after 15 minutes…haha.

We walked through a “gourd garden” where many gourds were growing from the gourd house in the rafters! Didn’t get a picture of that one.

We probably laughed the most while we were trying to get Landon to stick his head through the holes on these cutouts:

 Funny story – right before I snapped the picture, The Boss got his head pushed in the hole, except his head ended up hitting the wood instead of making it in the hole. He cracked up and so did we!

Then we got to visit the animals and play in the courtyard.

The Boss enjoyed running in the tubes…

The caterpillar was fun to pose with and ended our farm outing on a good note.

 

If you want to go yourself, check out the Vineyard site here.

Thanks for visiting and happy October!

Emily

Provo Farmer's Market

Today I went to the Farmer's Market to sell my hats and aprons and some flower hair clips.

It was my first day selling and it was a really beautiful day weather-wise. Unfortunately, I didn't sell as much as I was hoping. I did break even, so that's something! Vendors who had been there longer told me that it was just a really slow day so that made me feel better.


Here are a few pictures of my booth:

I definitely had a great time but I'm not sure if I want to do it again next week!

Thanks for reading!

Emily

Birthday Moments

So yesterday, Wednesday, was my 26th birthday. People asked me if I felt older yet. No way!

I had a great birthday. The Boss decided to wake me up extra early, like 3am early, to wish me a happy birthday and refused to go back to sleep unless I rocked and patted his back until my arm wanted to fall off. Finally around 6am he dropped off again. So I slept in to 9:10 (score!) but realized I needed to be at an appointment at 9:30 (oops). Then I proceeded to read a book at the appointment for about two hours, uninterrupted (almost).

Then my mom took The Boss and me to Noodles&Company (one of my very favorites!) where I got a free lunch for my birthday. 

Notice The Boss trying to get my mom to smile for the camera...

After lunch I hurried to play piano accompaniment for a friend who is taking voice lessons at BYU. She's got a great operatic voice and I love listening to her!

Then I taught piano lessons to a friend from my ward, who is also from Argentina.

Before dinner, I played with The Boss at the playground and then we went to the best pizza place EVER, The Slab. They make pizzas and divide them up into four portions. You can put whatever you want on a portion. My favorite is Rosemary Potato Bacon...yummy. We invited Ryan's siblings and had a little party there.

Ready to eat!

 

The Boss ate a whole slice by himself!

The whole group (minus Jessica who left early to work on a project) 

 Ryan the Lion and I rented the new X-Men to watch before we had people over for dessert. There were definitely some risque parts...bummer.

Once friends and family showed up at our apartment, we had fruit sorbets from Costco. The thing I love about these sorbets is they are in a coconut shell or a lemon peel or orange peel. This makes it SO much fun to eat.
 

Taylor (on the left by me) and I share a birthday!

Relighting Taylor's candle.

 

 

Ryan got me an adorable card that has five or so things that he will do for me, like massages, cleaning, etc. and then 10 little boxes that I can cross off once they are completed. He gave me the gift of himself for my birthday which means a lot to me.

I think I most enjoyed spending time with friends and family and hearing The Boss sing me "Happy Birffffday!"

Here's to another amazing year in my life!

Emily

New Hats!

We have been pretty busy around here lately, hence the lack of posts! I've been preparing for the Provo Farmer's Market by making hats and my mom is making little girl aprons that are adorable! I will post pictures about that later.

I have made these hats this week:

Raccoon!

My friend Rashel sporting her new purple Owl hat.

The Boss...in pajamas...rooting for BYU and picking his nose!

Go Cougars!

I will keep you updating on how things go at the Farmer's Market. Thanks for reading!

Emily

General Conference

I LOVE General Conference weekend. Whatever question I ask God on during Conference is answered.  Amazing!

For those who aren't familiar with General Conference, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a huge meeting that is broadcasted around the world and translated into almost every language. Church members watch this conference on Saturday and Sunday for four sessions, which are two hours each. The prophet of God, President Thomas S. Monson, speaks during this meeting and so do the apostles. They give talks about spiritual things. If you want answers to your life questions, I recommend listening to/watching  General Conference. For more information, check out this site: http://lds.org/?lang=eng


Landon enjoyed the prayers during Conference today and especially the music. He also enjoyed putting on my shoes and dancing on a box...

After Conference ended today, Landon practiced his facial expressions. Here is happy:

And here is his "funny" face...

 
And my personal favorite, the "angry" face:

Thank you Landon for bringing a smile to my face every single day! 


Emily