My First Visit to Ikea

This past week I went to Ikea with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. I was curious what this huge store had to offer. We walked and shopped and ate, then it was time to go down stairs for more shopping. It was way past Alayna's nap time so here she is....

Aunt Tracy put the pillows around her and just kept walking. I cant believe she feel asleep. New meaning to shop until you "drop".

She slept all the way back to grandma's house.

Getting Ready for Christmas

Here are some of the activities we have been doing to get ready for Christmas. We picked up our tree on a Friday night, but didn't get to decorate it until Monday. We have rearranged the house, our office needed to be moved to make room for the new baby.

Alayna had more fun hanging the outside lights up than she did decorating the tree. She just watched a movie while we decorated the tree.

Of course there were sugar cookies that needed to be made. I needed a dozen cookies for the YW/YM mutual activity. So David and Alayna cut out the cookies, and the missionaries got to help frost the cookies when they came over for dinner.

Halloween Fun

I am finally posting our Halloween pictures and a few other pictures of Alayna

I didn't buy a costume this year, we had the cute dress and fairy wings. It made and easy costume.

A little fairy and a cute dog had a blast trick or treating on Halloween night.


Helping with chores around the house. We'll see if she still thinks it is as fun when she is eight?



Riding on Daddy, so much fun. And Alayna still has on her Pajama top because getting dressed is all about her deciding what to wear. I like what David told her last night, "You don't get a choice." That was after three no's to PJ's for bed.

Saturday Night Guest

Last night after I put Alayna in her bed, I was walking into our kitchen and this is what I saw....


I first screamed "David, there is a snake in the house!!" He is used to me yelling about crickets in the house all the time, just yesterday a cricket got washed with my towels. He was still alive. So the snake is a new critter to have in our house. How could it have gotten in? Well David got a stick and cornered the snake. I remembered that members of our ward have snakes. So I called (after taking some pictures). The brother was more than happy to come over and take the snake. David thought that it might be a rattlesnake because of how it was moving its tail, but we learned that it was a harmless king snake. Not so harmless to me to see something slither across the floor in the dark. I don't mind the lizards and frog in out backyard, but the thought of snakes in the house is too much. All night when I had to get up to go the the bathroom ( a few times at six months pregnant) I thought about snakes crawling on the floor. I don't feel safe in my house.