9/11

 

Today is the 14th anniversary of when the Twin Towers in New York were hit. I can't believe that it's been that long, sometimes only seems like it happened yesterday.

I had written down my feelings years ago in my personal journal about this day, but I wanted to write them down here again reflecting back on that day. I want my kids to know where I was and feeling the day it happened.

I'm not very good at words, so here goes.

Valentine's Day

This year for Valentine's Day we actually got to go out. We don't usually go out but this year we wanted to.

It was somewhat last minute. We didn't have a babysitter lined up nor did we have a place we were going to yet.

I think at about 3 Matt decided we were going out, and I mentioned we didn't have a babysitter and it was too late to get one. So we decided to go out later than we normally would have, so that Scott could stay home with the girls.

We got the girls ready for bed and all Scott had to do was put them to bed. We found a restaurant around the corner just in case there was an emergency we would only be a couple mins away.

We went to a Teppanyaki restaurant that also served sushi. When we got there was a line, of course because it's Valentine's Day. We saw a couple spots open at the bar sat down. Easy! We enjoyed some yummy sushi and had a great conversation.

Sushi sampler

ps. the kids survived and were asleep when we got home.

Christmas 2014

Christmas this year was a lot of fun! Jen and Greg and their kids came into town to celebrate this year. It's also Zoey's first Christmas! Oh and Papa Earl was here as well.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve this year was at Rick and Shellie's house. Rick read the traditional Christmas story from Luke. Grammy read her new Christmas book for the year. And of course the opening of the Christmas PJ's which I think is the highlight for the kids!

putting on the pj's

 

Halloween 2011

For Halloween this year we attended our Ward Fall Festival on Friday the 28th and invited our neighbor and her son with us. It was a pretty good turn out. People had signed up to bring soups cornbread and desserts and they were very yummy! There were a few activity booths that some of the families put together that were fun for the kids. It was fun to see who had dressed up! I of course did dress up.

I'm a dork! haha

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we spent it with my mom's side of the family. We went down to my aunt's house in Tucson and had an untraditional thanksgiving meal. It was a combination of Mexican and traditional (turkey, mashed potatoes). It was a lot of fun to talk to my Tias and my cousins. Since being down there my aunt Maggie has enlisted me to help her redecorate her living room. Yea!! I'm so excited. Scott and I will back in Tucson during Spring Break, but for now here are a few pictures that I took.

Halloween

We had 3 days of Halloween festivities this year. First we attended our ward Fall Festival. It was a lot of fun to play the games and see who dressed up as what.

Scott ready to go!

Mother's Day

Mother's day this year was very good to me. :)

My mother in law gave me a gift certificate to a nail salon, the same one that matt got me a gift certificate for on Valentine's Day, which I still haven't used.

Saturday - Matt took us out to dinner as a family. I got to pick of course, and I choose Applebee's because I really wanted their Maple Blondie Brownie. yum! (sorry no pictures, forgot the camera)

Sunday - Matt made dinner. Again I got to choose what to eat. The menu was Filet Mingon, ranch flavored mashed potatoes and sauteed asparagus. I received a pretty bouquet of flowers, which Scott picked out.

Matt plating dinner.

Dinner, yummy!!

Dessert, my favorite, cheesecake!!

A little slideshow of my bouquet. ( I was playing w/ my camera again)

Valentines

Wow, it's been a while since I last posted.

I thought that since it's Valentine's day I would post something.

Last night Matt and I enjoyed the company of our friends Megan and Jeremy and Scott got to play with Adie. He has been bugging me about playing w/ her. So they finally got to play. We ate some pizza and played several rounds of Taboo while being a referee when the kids got out of hand. It was a lot of fun. (sorry no pictures)


This morning I found an envelope on the dresser with my name on it. I honestly was not expecting anything from Matt, being poor and all. But to my surprise I found a gift card to a nail salon! Whoo Hoo!! I haven't had a pedicure, I mean a professional one, in months! I in return gave him a big Reese's Peanut Butter Heart, reese's are his favs. He was very happy and eat the whole thing right after church. He gave me a bite before he finished it off.

That's all I got for now. I will try to be better a posting, I'm starting to slack off. I will post back soon with news about Matt and his job situation. :)

Christmas 2009

Finally I'm sitting down to post about our Christmas holiday, better late than never. I wanted to make sure that I had out pictures loaded onto the computer but I've been using my mother-in-law's camera and can't find her usb connection. I guess I will be taking the camera into walgreens and making a cd, so this post will be pictureless for now.

Our Christmas was quite and small. This is how it went.

Christmas Eve Eve (23rd)

Every year for as long as I can remember my grandma has always had a Christmas Eve party at her house with the entire family. I mean the entire family. This includes my immediate family and my grandma's extended family. Last year was the first year that my grandma moved it to the 23rd, this was done b/c now all of her nieces and nephews have grandchildren and want to spend the traditional Christmas Eve with them. So Christmas Eve Eve was born. Dinner is always mexican and followed by a White Elephant gift exchange. Now mind you my family is somewhat unorthodox when it comes to the white elephant. We see a lot of weird and interesting items. This year we had an Obama decorative plate to a pair of boxers that said naughty or nice with smurfs on it. It was a very fun evening and we got to see people that we don't always get around to seeing throughout the year.

Christmas Eve (24th)

For Christmas Eve we spent time with Matt's family at his brother's house. Christmas Eve with the Sovereign's is a favorite things dinner followed by a short reading from the Bible of the Christmas story and a short story read by Grammy.

Favorite Things dinner, you might be wondering what is that. Well let me tell you. It literal means bring your favorite thing to eat for dinner. It's a potluck of sorts with all kinds of things. We honestly don't know what will show up, but it's fun. This year we had pizza, ribs, chips & salsa, candy bars, salad . . . the list goes on, but I won't list them all fof the sake of those reading this.

After dinner my brother-in-law read the Christmas story from the bible and explained the meaning of Christmas. He always does such a good job to where the kids understand it. Then after he was done, the kids got to open their christmas pj's. No Christmas Eve is complete with out the pj's. Thanks aunt Shelly for buying them. Once the kids had settled down it was Grammy's turn to read her story. She always gets the new Christmas book from Deseret Book and reads. This year it was I heard the Bells on Christmas Day. This book told the story of how the hymn I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day came to be. It was a wonderful story.

Christmas Day (25th)

This year we spent Christmas morning and day with Matt's family, normally after opening presents with Matt's family we would head over to my Dad's. But this year my Dad decided to take my younger brother's on a cruise for Christmas, don't think he is unfair he did that with us older kids when we were in high school. We woke up and of course Scott was really excited to open his gifts. So at about 8:30 -9 we sat down to open our presents. After presents we had breakfast, which was cinnamon rolls and milk. yummy.

Later at around 5 we had dinner. This year we had standing rib, rolls, broccoli wild rice casserole and a bunch of other yummy stuff. With our bellies full of good food we lounged about. Some us played games and then eventually we all ended up in the family room wathching Wolverine.

We had a fun time. Sorry this was so long, I hope you enjoyed reading it. I will be posting the pictures soon.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas . . .

Today for family night we finally decorated our christmas tree!! We had fun, and it only took us about an hour. Check out our pretty tree! (excuse the quality of the pictures, my camera is still having issues and so I took the pictures w/ my phone.)

Thanksgiving Weekend

Now that Thanksgiving is over I thought that I would post about it. Here's how it went. (sorry no pictures, my camera is having issues)

Day 1 - Woke up got dressed, opened the bathroom door to a very anxious 5 year old wanting to go play with his cousins. Of course I was not ready to go. Turned on the tv to the Macy's day parade to have him watch it. He really was not interested in watching it b/c he was asking me about every 5 mins if I was ready to go. That kid has a one track mind. Matt headed out to play some football with some friends and had fun. At about 10 am I was finally ready to go and so I gathered my items for the dish I was assigned, mashed potatoes, very easy to do. :) We got to my brother-in -laws house and hung out with everyone. Matt's sister was in town with her family and so that was fun to see her baby. By 1:30 pm everything was done, both turkeys cooked and all the sides dishes prepped, we actaully sat down to eat around 2:15 ish. It was nice to have an early dinner/lunch whatever you want to call it. By the time the evening rolled around everyone was ready for pie. yummy.

Day 2 - I had to go into to work. Bleh. :( But after I got home we headed back over to my brother-in-laws house to hang out some more. I was helping my niece with a murder mystery puzzle, which is tradition. Had fun and talked.

Day 3- Saturday, I ran a few errands, and got my Christmas cards mailed out. I can't believe that I got them out as early as I did. Go me! So if you gave me your address expect one in the mail very soon. :) I made some more clips for my Etsy store, I hope to have those listed soon, I just need to find a camera to borrow. Then at about 5:30 we headed back to my bro-in-laws for dinner. My niece and I worked more on the puzzle, but unfortunately we did not finish it, but did make a lot of progress on it.

Over all we had a great weekend and spent time with our family.

Fall/Halloween 09

We have been busy this last week. It all started on Friday the 23rd with our new ward's Halloween Carnival. We got dressed played some fun games ate some good chili and hung out w/ great people. Then on Monday night we had family night at Mother Nature's Farm, where Scott got to decorate his own pumpkin. There was a fun hay maze, a bounce house and a hay ride.

Then on Friday the 30th we were invited to our old ward's Halloween party and had a blast with some old friends. We ate yummy food, not so good for you, roasted marshmallows and just had a great time. Halloween night I took Scott trick-o-treating around the neighborhood, then Megan, Jeremy and Adie stopped by and we did some more trick-o-treating and had a great time.

I've posted some pictures below. Enjoy!

9/11 Anniversary

Today is the 8th anniversary of those who lost their lives to a terriorist attact in New York. I remember that day as if it were yesterday.

I was getting ready for school that morning and listening to the radio. When one of the DJ's said that an airplane had crashed into a building. I totally thought he was joking when he said and then it wasn't brought up again until I was on my way to school. Then said that another airplane hit another building. I didn't fully comprehend what happened until I walked into the institute building. This is where I found a few of my friends and a couple of teachers staring at the tv as the 2 buildings were being shown on fire. What!? What is going on? My friend proceeded to tell me that the 2 airplanes were hijacked and were purposely crashed into the Trade Tower buildings.

Why would anyone want to do such a horrible thing? Terriorist who hate us and our country, that's who!

That day I went to my first class, which happened to be american history, and my teacher told us to go find a tv on campus and count that as class and to write down our feelings of this day. So I went back to the institute building and sat in a vigil around the tv w/ my friends and fellow students, until it was time for me to go to work.

I get to work and my supervisor was shocked b/c she thought that someone had called me to tell me not to come in. I said no. Well she said go home and come in sat to make up my time. So I did just that and sat in front of the tv yet again this time w/ my aunt and grandparents, who I was living with at that time.

It was a very sad day for everyone, and I hope that we can all remember them today and honor them, as they were innocent bystanders to a horrific act of violence.

Easter

Easter Sunday was a very nice relaxing day to spend with family. It was also the blessing day for our nephew Ryder. Since church starts at 8 am for JD and Allison instead of having an Easter dinner we decided to have an Easter brunch after church for the blessing celebration. It was quite a spread and wish I had taken a picture before we all dug in. Since no picture I will describe to you what we had. We had an egg casserole, which was very tasty that I had 2 helpings, muffins, fancy french toast and a lemon blueberry crumb coffee cake, and huge bowl of fruit.

2008 Recap

Well another year has come and gone. I just wanted to give you a flashback of the highlights of 2008 that happened to us or that we took part of.

Jan- My brother getting married in St George.

March - Charlotte Wolfley's blessing on Easter Sunday.

May - Our first Disneyland trip as a family for Scott's 4th birthday over the Memorial Weekend.

June - Celebrating Matt's brother JD and wife's sealing.

July - Celebrating the 4th of July with our friends Daniel and Joyce and their little girl Charlotte.

Aug - Celebrating 5 years of marriage. Going to the Phoenix cooks with my parents to sell and promote their Vanilla Company.

Sept - My grandma's 70 birthday party.

Oct - being a part of our ward Halloween party and having a fun time with friends.

Nov - Thanksgiving with family.

Dec - Going to see Twilight, celebrating mine and Matt's birthday's. Matt's graduation from ASU and of course Christmas with our families.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I wanted to wish everyone a very

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Okay so we had a very busy holiday break, and not mention my internet was not working AGAIN! I've had bad luck with the land line internet since we've moved into our apartment. But that is beside the point. So one to parts two and three of our Christmas.

Christmas Eve was done with the Sovereign's and Company. Christmas Eve dinner in the Sovereign Family is called Favorties Thing dinner. Everyone is supposed to bring their favorite thing to eat. This year I didn't b/c I wasn't planning on going, that was until my Grandma changed her party to the night before. But I didn't need to bring anything anyway because we had more than enough food to feed an army, well so it seemed. Once we had stuffed our faces with good food my brother-in-law Rick read the Christmas story from the scriptures and then my mother-in-law read the new christmas story that came out called The Miracle of the Wooden Shoes. A really good story by the way I highly recommend that you read it if you haven't done so. Then after the stories the kids got to open their Christmas pjs. Very Cute! Thanks Aunt Shellie!

Christmas Eve Eve

Last night was the annual Elsberry/Fuller Christmas party. It is always held my Grandma and Grandpa's house. This year was a little different. Because of conflicting schedules for Christmas Eve and my grandma wanting everyone to be there decided to have it on the 23rd. Yes the 23rd hence the title Christmas Eve Eve. This way everyone that wanted to be there could be there. We always have mexican food, Yummy! and a white elephant gift exchange. In our family the white elephant usually has a lot of gag gifts, but some good ones usually find their way in and they become the hot ticket items. This year we had 2 favorites and they were a bubble foot bath and a George Foreman Grill, a small one of course. There is a rule, that a favorite item can not be traded more than 3 times. So here is what happened. Starting with the bubble bath, Ricky opened it up first, then my aunt Julie wanted but in the end my cousin Ryan and his wife, Susan ended up with it. Now the grill, again Ricky started out with it then, Ryan got, then it ended up with my cousin Chad and his wife Ashley. It was a lot funnier in person trust me. Poor Ricky, kept getting jipped. It made for a fun evening, catching up with family that we don't see on a normal day to day basis. Enjoy the pictures that I have posted. This is only part one, more to come later.

Christmas Enrichment Night

Last night was our annual Christmas Enrichment. This year I am part of the Enrichment Committee and was part of the planning that went into the evening. We had a great turn out and everyone enjoyed each other's company. We had a display of fun and inexpensive gift ideas. We had a soup bar where some of the ladies volunteered to bring in different soups for us to enjoy. Very Yummy! 

Thanksgiving Day

I'm a little late in posting what happened on Thanksgiving, but unfortunately I had to be at work on Friday morning. Ugh. So this is what happened at the Sovereign Family Thanksgiving.

Matt when to play football with some men in the ward at about 8am. Not a big turn out from what he said. He came home and then we headed out to his parents house. (Oh, just a side note it had been raining since Wed night.) Once we arrived Matt dropped us off and then headed out to meet his friends for another football game. So I settled in to read a book and Scott headed into the play room to play with the toys at Grammy's house. My mother in law pretty much had everything ready to go. So I didn't do much but peal potatoes. Then Matt came back and got cleaned up. We took a family picture for our Christmas card. Yup, it's that time of year again, so if I have your address you will be getting one.