Sad Panda

My Sweet Hubby works in the oil fields of North Dakota and has been gone for two week stints.  He just left yesterday for another two weeks!  Up to this point, Anson and I were going to stay here in Idaho and just visit the prairie lands of ND.  Turns out it's WAY too hard on Taylor to work his buns off all day and then come home to an empty house.  I'd say that's more than understandable and I wouldn't say it's been exactly fun for us.  Though it pains me to leave our house AGAIN, it's just not worth being away from Taylor--so to North Dakota we go!!

Yesterday morning before he left, he and Anson shared breakfast (french toast) and it was the sweetest sight! I just love my men!!  We were some sad panda's when we watched Taylor drive away, but he's securing a home in ND for us and we'll be together again soon enough!!  Can't wait!

Let me just say how grateful I am to have such a hard working Husband.  He really is pretty incredible.  To be willing to sacrifice so much to provide for our family is a quality in him that I admire A LOT!

All you need for Christmas is a penguin sweater and froggie boots!!

Thanksgiving

A few highlights from our Thanksgiving this year:  We got to spend it with the Ybarras (Auntie, Uncle and cousins) and my Grandparents!  There was delicious food and we experienced yams with caramelized pecans and marshmallows!  Holy yum!  We watched movies, laughed, ventured out to Walmart for black Friday and just enjoyed each other.  Hope everyone had an equally as happy Thanksgiving!

 

Take a bite out of crime!

I'm really grateful this Thanksgiving that Teton Valley has a very low crime rate, because if we had left our garage door open and the door into the house unlocked for two days almost anywhere else, we would have been cleaned out!!!!  Our neighbor dog ate some trash, but that was the extent of the damage!  Thank heavens!!!!  My Hubby was ready to rip my head off and then he realized that the garage didn't shut because he left the snow shovel in front of the censor--silly boy!!!

Thankful

I'm so thankful for my family--my wonderful Husband and my beautiful baby boy.

I'm thankful for each and every member of mine and Taylor's families.

I'm thankful for my wonderful friends.

I'm thankful for our home.

I'm thankful for clothes on our backs and for our health.

I'm thankful for freedom and for this breathtaking world we live in and even more grateful for the opportunity to go out and discover it.  

Karma

Anson is such a mild little boy and sometimes I brag about it (not to other Moms)-- I just get frustrated real easily when he's hard, because he is usually so easy going. Well, this week karma smacked me right in the face!  I'll show you says Karma!  We watched a lot of Yo Gabba Gabba! this week, because it couldn't be avoided.  We were out of town and therefore there was nothing else for Anson to do other than get into trouble (no child proofing), so to the front of the t.v. (portable dvd player) he went!  He turned into a devil child!  Temper tantrums like you wouldn't believe, destroying things just to make me mad, hitting and scratching me and very, very poor listening skills!  Time for a Yo Gabba Gabba fast!

He's lucky that he's cute, cause if he wasn't I'd have locked the door and thrown away the key!  Not really!  The t.v. has been off all day and he has already improved.  Crazy...

Sprechen Sie Deutsch

Our friend Spencer's family hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany a few years ago and they have remained friends since then.  We had the great oppurtunity to have Meita and her husband Bini come and stay with us for the weekend to wrap up their five week honeymoon traveling around America! Spencer, Tanner and Lindsay came too.  It was a great couple of days, jam packed with fun. Saturday we went fishing on the river, Anson was a champ and Sunday we went hiking up to the wind caves, which were so awesome and freezing!!  We got Anson to the entrance of the cave, but he wouldn't go further, because it was too cold. We ended the night with an awesome dinner and the Knotty Pine.  Also, Spencer Meita and Bini made us Eggs Benedict on Sunday morning... OH.MY.GOSH. It was that good!  We hope to have the chance to visit Meita and Bini in Germany in the near future!

 Also, Tanner and Spence thought it would be a good idea to take a shower under the waterfall naked.  Yep, that's sounds about right.

We got the greatest compliment too, they said coming to stay with us was the best part of their trip!  Come back anytime!!