Happy Holidays from Halloween-now

Wow, I have a lot to catch up on!  We are doing wonderful!  I was just telling Ryan the other day that I am very content with where we are at right now.  I still want a baby a ton but Cowboy, our new puppy, is keeping me busy :). 

October:

We were able to get a chance to meet with a beautiful girl who wanted to meet us to see if we might be the parents to her cute little boy on the way.  I was so nervous I lost 10 lbs the week before our meeting!!

We met and really fell in love with her and her baby.  The agency said they normally don't let you meet unless they decide first that you are going to be the parents...but she wanted to meet which I don't blame her at all.  I would want to too if I was in her shoes. The agency allowed the visit because she was only interested in us and had only emailed us.   She was so adorable.  I still get a little sad just typing about it.  She decided to go in another direction.  We don't know if she picked someone else or if she decided to keep her baby.  Either way it was part of our adoption journey and really opened our eyes.  Ryan was SOOO excited to have a boy!  We had a lot of sleepless nights just day dreaming of being parents.  It was so neat to finally have those feeling with Ryan.  It made us a lot closer and made us realize that Heavenly Father does have a plan for us.  Overall, I am thankful for the opportunity and not for one second was I upset with this birth mother.  She showed courage and love.  We wish her the best of luck for the future. 

Halloween:

Our friends begged us to have the party this year again even though neither of us really wanted to have it at our house. I'm glad we did though because, like always, it was tons of fun! Preston and Megan came finally this year, he always has to work, their costume was the best!

Halloween Pyramid Game

Crystal's cute puddings

                                  

Mr. Potato Head

Hawaiin Punch aka Jackie and John

She painted his stomach!  I thought it was so good.

Megan and Preston, Preston is the dude that is in prison right now with tatts all over his face.

Matt and Morgan



Holly and Jon Waitress and Cook

Whit, Aftyn, and wendy

Mr. and Mrs Potato head, Thanks Krest for letting us use your costumes!

Crystal and Rj came as a bra :)

                                  

Edward and Jacob haha

Park City Haunted Tour:

Crystal had me and Jackie buy tickets off of City Deals for this Park City Haunted Tour.  It was actually a lot of fun other than RJ's driving scared us all to death :) You just walk around old main street and hear stories about how they think Park City is haunted. 

This building is an old hotel that was in business a couple of times but 3x they have had different owners because the owners get so freaked out about what goes on inside.  It has sat empty for the last 4 years because no one wants it.

 Fishing with Jackie, Rylan, and John:

We have gotten so much use out of the fishing pond. I was working one day and Jackie text me if I knew where any fishing ponds were because John and Rylan had never been fishing. I was like "Hello! Jackie we have one up at the cabin!" They came up and had so much fun. Rylan is seriously the cutest kid ever!

He caught this catepillar and John and Ryan were so mean and used it as bait :(

Klint and BJ also were there!

Boondocks

Ryan was working late one Friday night so I invited Rylan and Alex and Jackie to Boondocks.  Rylan and Alex loved playing together.  They loved the volcanoe that blew up fire at the mini golf...Rylan stood really far away from it. When the fire came up Alex would say, "Holy Freakin Cow!"

Alex's hair in the morning

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Ryan's Birthday

For Ryan's birthday we did something a little different than we usually do (we usually celebrate it during the Halloween party).  We bought some pumpkins from Brother Sill in our ward and had Ryan's family over and all carved pumpkins.  It was sooo much fun.  I feel bad because he wasn't super excited with the presents I got him.  He already has everything he wants!!  I got him ear plugs for skeet shooting, gun cleaning kit (which I guess he already has), but he was super excited about his fly fishing pole case we got at Cabellas the day of his birthday.  He loves that store.  I love how pationate he is about fishing.  He goes at least 3 times a week.  Like I said earlier, we are so happy right now in our lives, I don't think I have seen Ryan more happy...he always is super happy usually but for some reason the past six months we both are just really happy, it's hard to explain. 

Kelle and Aimee

Derek and date

Erin

All Ryan wanted to do on his birthday was to go to Cabela's

Cabella's fish tank...fish tanks are also Ryan's favorite thing lately. 

Ryan's new fish tank and LBH wanting dinner

Hunting

I bought a deer hunting tag so that Ryan could go hunting for his first time.  My family is REALLY into hunting so when I married Ryan they could NOT believe that he didn't have his hunting license.  He is now signed up to take it with Jayden, Klint, and Kresta!  We didn't get a deer but we were there when Jon got his deer.

November:

I had surgery.  It is supposed to help us get pregnant.  We will see if it works.  If not, we are still on the adoption list.  I have so many friends and family that came and took care of me.  I guess I was pretty loopy.  I'm all better now and feel really good! 

We got an addition to our family !!! 

Meet COWBOY:

We got him the day before Thanksgiving.  I had been looking at dogs for a couple of weeks at adoption agencies and the pound etc.  I found Cowboy on ksl and fell in love with him.  I went and looked at him and loved him even more.  Then Ryan and I went and looked at another dog and she was not the right dog for us!  So that night the people called us again about Cowboy and they lived in Morgan and so I begged Ryan if we could go and just "Look" at him on the way to the cabin.  He said sure...then I asked if we could get some dog food just in case to take up to the cabin....haha he realized that there was probably no hope and that we were going to get him if we got food, collar, and a leash :) 

Even though Ryan doesn't admit it and says he is my dog...he feel in love with him.  I could tell the moment he saw him.  He is such a good puppy.  He is a German Short Hair/Border Collie mix.  We were going to call him Burton and call him Burt for short, then Boots because he has boots but it reminded Ryan of Dora and Boots...we finally picked Cowboy!! 

About Cowboy:

-He loved his squeeky football the best

-He loves his cousins Missy and Brownie

-He crawls all over...I seriously need to record it because it's hilarious.  It's a full on army crawl

-He wants to be friends with the cats but they are being a little snobby right now

-He thinks the Vacuum is hurting us because he barks and attacks it

-He loves "Going to work with dad" days

-He LOVES naps with us

Puppy's first night at the cabin

He is asleep under the covers!



If we lay down he will stop playing and come nap by us

He LOVES his toys

Thanksgiving

We slept over at the cabin Thanksgiving eve so we could be there for the annual skeet shooting contest.  Kresta won for the girls and BJ won for the boys.  It was tons of fun.  Kresta, Treasure, and Rielee were all new this year so it was fun that they actually came out this year!!

Then we went down to spend the day with the Jones'.  It was at Shelly and Ron's this year.  It was delicious!  Bronson and Abby and Jamie and Daniel were there too with their kids.  Cowboy came and had his first accident!  Shelly said we are even now because Cowboy peed on her carpet and before my mission we went horseback riding and she was laughing so hard she peed her pants on the saddle :) haha

Cowboy and Henrie

Then that night we went up to the cabin again for Pie.  The next day we went and cut our christmas tree down.  It is perfect other then it curves at the top..so much that we can't put our star on it.  I love getting our own trees though because they aren't perfect! 

Alex and Krew came and kept yelling up the mountain to check on us and to tell us to be safe

 Then on Saturday we went snowboarding with the whole family at Wolf Creek.  We all got season passes up there.  It is going to be so fun.  Even if it's only two lifts!  It was still super fun!  Otis was so adorable.  He loved it.  He was about as wide as he was tall with all of his winter clothes on. 

Happy Holidays!!