1/2 Birthday Party!

Admiring his Balloons

Uncle Trevie and Grandpa Feller

The Boys

After his cupcake, it's all over his eye and nose!

"eating"/playing with his cupcake

Presents from grandma and granda

1/2 cupcake

1/2 potato 1/2 enchilada soup

River with grandma Foscarini

I know what you are thinking...why in the world would you through a 1/2 birthday party? My answer: River has changed so much in just 6 months and I feel that it needs to be recognized. I know that he is spoiled, but I will do fun things like this for him because I only have him to fuss over :) I'm sure things will be different when I have more kids, but for now...let's Celebrate!! Grandma Foscarini just happened to be in town for the Party :) Everything at the party was "half" themed. The balloons Grandma Foscarini brought were half blue half white, the soup we ate was half potato half enchilada thanks to Grandma Feller, the cupcakes were also half blue half white :) River had gifts to open and got to "eat" a cupcake, really none of it ended up in his mouth. It was a lot of fun and we played a round of apples to apples after the wonderful dinner. Happy 1/2 Birthday River! I love you mucho mucho!!

River got 2 books, Cookies, and Tickets to Elmo on Ice!

Goldsmith Co. Giveaway!

We are doing a giveaway on nicolehill.blogspot.com who we are now sponsoring! You can win this beautiful necklace by just leaving a comment that rhymes under the giveaway...I hope you win! You can enter until Sunday I believe. While you are there click on the Goldsmith Co. Jewelers logo on the left to check out our new site! Good luck :)

My Baby can read...I hope :)

Studying hard :)

This pic makes me laugh because this is his typical face

Watching his Reading Video

Trevor was talking to me the other day about this system that taught babies how to read. I was curious and was asking more about it, finally I asked "where did you see this?" He sheepishly answered "an infomercial" I immediately made fun of him and told him how dumb that was. He convinced me to look it up online and see for myself these babies reading, so finally I did. I have to say I was completely convinced within 15 mins. and found myself filling out the credit card information before I even knew what happened! haha. It is a series of videos, books and flashcard with words and then a picture of whatever the word is. They slowly graduate to harder videos, books and flashcards. It probably sounds really dumb, but I have been having River watch the beginners video for about a week now and I really think it is going to work! You have to check it out, it's called My baby can read, google it and watch the videos of these little babies reading and recognizing words. It's pretty cool, and I figure if nothing else it will introduce him to learning at a young age. I am not a good or fast reader so hopefully this will help River get a kick start on reading. I will let you know how it goes, but I feel like it is going pretty good thus far!

This is Halloween...Halloween...Halloween!

Pooped after all the Fun :)

Grandpa and Riv seeing what goodies River got

River's Loot (Grandma gave him to cute black kitty)

Cheyenne, Ava, River and I

Elmo and Crazy Mommy

He was all hyped up and ready to go

Time for Trick or Treating!

At the store

My Cute Boys

River experienced his First Halloween! We met up with Cheyenne, Tyson and Ava and we went Trick or Treating in my parents neighborhood. I know that River is only 6 months old and can't even eat candy, let alone has any idea of what is going on, but I don't think that is what it's all about anyway. We just had a good time seeing all my neighbors that I grew up with and getting to dress Riv up in his cute costume. My sweet neighbors spoiled River with way to much candy. I can not tell you how much River LOVED being Elmo, it is the strangest thing to me that he is so obsessed with him! He just laughed and smiled when anyone would say "Look it's Elmo!" he is just so cute :) Before we went Trick or Treating at night we stopped by the store because every year downtown Provo does a Trick or Treat at all the shops, it is very popular, so we stopped by as a practice run :) I hope you all had a great Halloween! What did you end up doing?

Happy Halloween!

His Candy Stash

Pumpkin Land!

Back in the day (Tate, Chelan, Me, & Trev)...and the tradition lives on :)

Pumpkins and more Pumpkins

The one Riv picked out

Riv and Casper the Ghost

Freezing our tails off in the corn maze

Grandma and Riv

All bundled up!

ELMO!

Riv's reaction to seeing Elmo

Pumpkin Land is somewhat of a tradition in my family. I remember always loving going when I was little. My Mom and I thought it would be fun to start the tradition with River. It was so much fun to see how excited he got by all the pumpkins, but he was thrilled when he saw the inflated Elmo! Other then the fact that it was absolutely FREEZING it was really fun! It had snowed for the first time just a few days before and man it was cold. River had his hat, coat and mittens on to keep him warm, but I forgot his blankie so his legs got pretty cold :( After the pumpkin land we went out for lunch to Pho noodle house. I had never been there and I have to say it was excellent! If you haven't been it is kind of new and it is on State street. Very Yummy!

*Many new post below, Sorry I got really behind and now it's catch up time.

Halloween Party 09

Jello shots with Lemon Juice for the Losers of the Game

Meredith, Devin, and Cheyenne

Kade and Megan

Ava... the cutest bumble bee Ever

This is his "I'm very Tired!" face.

Poor Kade and Megan were the only ones that dressed up too... Sorry guys :(

Tony was a nerd... again.

The Pumpkin Eater and her Pumpkin!

Well we held our Halloween party again. It was off to a pretty slow start, almost everyone couldn't come until later in the night. Which was fine with us, by the end of the night we had a good crowd and played games and ate yummy treats! We played Catch Phrase, girls against guys and whoever lost had to do a jello shot with very sour lemon juice in it. Unfortunately the girls lost. It was a lot of fun and I love the chance to get to just get together with a bunch of good friends! :) Attendees: Trevor, Mom and Dad, Kade, Megan, Brie and Drew, Eric and Lara, Cheyenne and Ava, & Meredith and Devin. Thanks all for coming it is always great to see you all. Let's do it again next year!

Jewels, Jewels and more Jewels

I love that I get to look at beautiful jewels all day long! I really do enjoy my job. I get to meet so many great people and all of them have a different story of how they met and how their wedding is going to be. I really love it, but who wouldn't?! If you want to read about some of their stories check out Goldsmith Company's Blog.