Savannah's dance!

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Lyla comes to play! Part 2

Here are some of the pictures from today.

Lyla saying Hi to Sophie

Savannah playing peek-a-boo in the closet

Lyla watching Savannah be silly

Happy girl!

Savannah watching Lyla

Coloring, they both loved it! Savannah colored more on Lyla's paper than on her own.

Lyla comes to play!

Savannah's friend Lyla came over to play today. They played together so much better than I had expected. It was so cute watching them color together and share toys. My favorite part was when Lyla chased Savannah around trying to tickle her. Savannah finally figured out how to say Lyla.

Lyla Tickles Savannah.

Savannah's first attempt to say Lyla.

Attempt #2

ZOO!

On the train that goes through the park. Savannah thought it was the coolest thing!

Mom took Savannah and me to the zoo last month. We had a blast. It was the perfect day to go too because it had just started cooling off outside so the animals were out and playing. We even saw the lions wrestling.

Savannah found this little photo spot and didn't want to leave

Dinosaur

All tuckered out!
(This should be after the animal board and the tunnel, but the pictures are all out of
order and I'm done messing with it.)

This board made the animal noises, she kept going behind the board to try to find the animals.

Savannah climbing in the prairie dog tunnel. This was snapped right before she slide and did a full circle.

Waiting for the Seal's show to start.

Halloween

Unfortunately Savannah and I were both sick on Halloween. But we went to the Halloween party at my Mom's church the week before and had fun at the trunk-or-treat. So at least I feel like Savannah got a little taste of trick-or-treating.

 I made Savannah a little Owl costume for halloween. She was super cute in it. Unfortunately I only made a half mask because at church halloween parties they have asked us not to have masks. So you miss out on the big owl eyes.

 Savannah waiting with Daddy for the kids to come out and trunk-or-treat.

Had to take several pictures before I could get a picture of both of them looking at me.

 Chris got a little too excited about halloween and decided the kids needed full size candy bars and Jones sodas...at least he was excited about something.

Max and Savannah after the trunk-or-treat eating some of their candy.

Savannah tried to follow Max around all night, Max didn't even seem to notice her.

Savannah put a half eatin' sucker and a piece of ice in her Halloween bag...boy was that fun to find later. She only really cared about the suckers so I got all the chocolate :D

At the Chilly Cook Off another one of our friends Emily and her twin daughters, Riley and Keagan were there too. Riley is developmentally at about the level of a 6 month old. Riley had a Halloween bag sitting below her and Savannah thought she had dropped it so Savannah picked it up and tried to hand it back to her. But Riley didn't try to grab it. Confused Savannah put the bag back on the ground, Riley's hand was in a fist so Savannah gave her knuckles and walked away. Riley just grinned! It was SOOO cute.

COLD!

Brr!!! It's finally starting to get cold. Had my first cup of Hot Chocolate for the season today. I LOVE hot chocolate. My favorite is from scratch. A recipe found on the Hersey's Cocoa box:
1 cup of Milk
2 TBSP cocoa
2 TBSP sugar
some vanilla extract
and a dash of salt

YUM!

Got to go shopping. I haven't bought winter clothes for Savannah yet, because in Texas you never know when it will finally decide to get cold and I didn't want to buy them too early and have them out grow them before she could wear them. She doesn't even have a pair of closed toed shoes :-S But this shouldn't be an issue. I LOVE shopping for Savannah. I wish shopping for me was soooo stinkin easy. She doesn't have to try anything on, I know size 24month fits and I know which colors to avoid...her hair makes it a little tough just because some colors and her hair are not meant to be friends.

Marriage Article

I just had to read this article for my Family 160 class and thought I would share. The website has other neat articles and resources for marriage as well.
The article starts a little ways down the page. Look for INTENTIONAL MARRIAGE: YOUR RITUALS WILL SET YOU FREE

No answers

Go figure. Chris just called me as he was leaving the Dr. office. He felt that the doctor was no help at all. The doctor didn't really help answer any of his questions. His nurse however was much more helpful. She was actually a police officer with the city before and had to be medically separated because of an injury to her shoulder. She answered a lot of Chris's question and even gave him some advice about what he needed to do at work...once again we are on hold. He will start the paper work, etc for medical separation at which point a medical board will ask him a bunch of questions, his doctor a bunch of questions and then decide if he should be medically released. We've been told once he starts the process they have 90 days to make a decision...which may mean I won't get to Idaho in time to start school :(

In Limbo, again

Once again we have found ourselves in limbo, hopefully we will have some answers tomorrow when Chris sees the Dr. In June Chris hurt his knee when a man he arrested decided to fight him. (Don't worry Chris won, and by won I mean the guy went to jail). Well he's been having problems with his knee ever since. Just the last two months it has gotten really bad. Chris RARELY complains about his knee hurting him, even though I know that a majority of the time it is bothering him. SO when he was complaining about it every 5 minutes I knew something was up. He finally decided to go back in to the Dr and see what happened. LONG LONG story short after a few x-rays they found the problem and it was worse than they thought. The Dr. basically told him that if he continued being a police officer that he would likely be done in 10 years and would probably not be able to walk at that point. Tomorrow he meets with an orthopedic specialist who will probably tell him he needs to have a knee replacement. I will let you know more tomorrow...We have been talking about the possibility of moving back out to Rexburg to finish school. He would like to get a degree in Biology and then go on to Medical school, everything is up in the air so who knows...

Graduating in April...maybe???

Graduating in April…maybe???

I have been in school for an eternity way too long. The online program offered through BYU-Idaho is great, except that it is a long, slow process, that could quite possibility kill me. I have 12 credits left; count them, 12 that’s a semester’s worth. For some people it’s closer to half a semester. Unfortunately only 6 of those credits will be available online next semester…and they haven’t told me yet when the remaining 6 will be available… Since January 2008 I have taken 2-3 credits a semester…the program is set up for people who have left school and later decide to come back, the problem is that most of them have not even finished their general courses and so the majority of the classes available are lower level classes (which I have finished). You are probably wondering how in the world I will graduate in April, simple. I will move to Rexburg, and take the 2 classes not available online through the continuing education classes available on campus in the evenings. AND THAT my friends would be amazing. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to graduate before Baby Armstrong #2 comes along.