Why oh why?

I ask myself why every time I make Peanut Butter Candy.

Why do I torture myself.

No, Not from depriving myself

from gorging!

I was only making them for Christmas plates for the neighbors

but something went wrong

when the store was out of carmel

and I was unable to finish all my treats.

I was left stranded with a huge plate of

PEANUT BUTTER CANDY.

I literally ate 5...

5 pieces of candy for BREAKFAST!

Oh, I better finish the Christmas plates fast

there are only 4 pieces left,

and yes, I blame the store that was out of the Carmel!

Oh Curry...

Curry. One little spice has completely controlled my life for the past 2 weeks.

I LOVE red chicken curry from the thai food place and I have been cooking a lot more these days so I figured I should try and cook something with curry in it.

NOT A GOOD IDEA!

Everything I have made has been gross, bland, and my house has smelled funky.

I don't know what I am doing!

Does anyone have a good curry recipe?

Could it just be the curry powder I am using?

Even the one recipe we had a couple of months ago that we liked, now is gross...

I did use different curry,

until I hear something encouraging I am giving up on the curry.

I will leave the curry cooking to the Thai food place for now.

HELP ME!

Off to SLC

We finally decided the world would not end if we left Beckham while we went to Utah. My sister Deena was kind, or should I say Crazy enough to take him for the weekend so we could have some alone time.

Beckham could have cared less... This is his sad face when we were saying good bye!

Me on the other hand, I was fighting the tears (no pictures allowed).

I was able to get my hair done. That my friend is a Christmas Miracle and a gift to everyone! After that, we were starving.

It was a toss up between P.F. Changes and... Chick Fil A!

After weeks of watching College football

we had to go with the chicken!

In fact, we ate, went shopping for a couple of hours, fought the traffic, and went back for more Chick Fil A! It was pretty funny, Aaron decided to go thru the drive thru and he jokingly said,"What if the same girl takes our order?" Sure enough it was the same girl. She had to of thought we were crazy or on our way to being on the Biggest Loser!

The shame was so worth it!

In the morning we woke up and headed to Park City for some more SHOPPING!!!

Tis the season.

After we were shopped out we headed back down the canyon and the snow was coming down. I should have taken pictures... Dang it!

It was a fun weekend. I am glad we took the opportunity to leave Beckham and have a little time to ourselves.

I was also really excited to come home to see Beckham!

Ever since our little trip, Beckham is much more excited to see his Dad.

I think he is punishing me....

Thanksgiving

We were able to spend Thanksgiving with my family in Twin Falls. It

is not very often we head that way so we TRIED to enjoy every minute of it. Beckham is such a good baby but for some reason when we stay somewhere other than our house, he will not sleep. This stresses me out... But we had a great time.

My brother in-law Josh is in a band and he just had these T-shirts made up so we were all lucky enough to get them.

The true highlight of the trip came at 1:00 in the morning when Beckham decided not to sleep. We ended up getting up and driving around Twin Falls so he would close his eyes, which he did, spoiled! But we checked out all the black Friday shoppers and ran back to my moms house and reported on how long the lines where getting.

I am so thankful for our families. They help us so much and they are a blast to hang out with!

My number one thing I am grateful for is Stacey

She is the type of best friend everyone would want. She has been there for me for the past 10 years. Good and Bad, it didn't matter, Stacey was right there beside me. She dropped everything when I decided we should go to the Fiesta Bowl at the last minute. We drove all night and she was sick. You never would have guessed. We had a blast!

I even talked her into running a couple of races with me this past summer. That's true friendship.

Stacey ended up having a stroke this past weekend, at a very young age. It hit me like a ton of bricks. My partner in crime was sent down to the University of Utah Hospital for some testing and I was relived to find out that she is going to be fine. REALLY scary non the less. She is having surgery today to fix the whole in her heart which caused the stroke. DR's say, she will be as good as new when they are done with her. I couldn't be more excited. I am now ready for her to come home and be back by all the people who love her.

Hurry home Stacey, We all LOVE YOU!

Could I really??

Aaron and I have planned a trip to Salt Lake for our 2nd anniversary, it never crossed my mind to leave Beckham. We even decided to go ahead and go to a Jazz game and stay until he got too tired... Well, after talking to my friend Amy, she has talked me into leaving him for the NIGHT. I have never left Beckham for longer than 5 hours, let alone a whole day, night, and most of the next day. To be honest, I haven't completely decided to leave him. It makes me nervous.

I have plenty of family who would take him

in fact my sister Deena, who watches him all the time for me,

has offered to even stay the night at my house so he will sleep better.

The time alone with Aaron would be amazing but,

I am not sure I could leave this little guy!

Oh, the decisions.

8 months

Well it has happened. Beckham is 8 months old and time is not slowing down.

Yesterday Beckham was laying on the floor and started to make

movements like he was going to crawl.

I know a lot of people think he should already be crawling but

I had to fight the little tears that started to swell up.

I am not ready

I want my little boy to stay little!

The list of things he LOVES

Water bottles

grunting

spitting out his pacifier

bouncing in his bouncer

looking at himself in the mirror

eating whatever it is you're eating

riding in the car

sleeping in his own bed and no where else

playing with his boy parts whenever his diaper is off

books

kisses

taking baths

and being around other little kids.

Stockings

One tradition I will pass on to my kids is enormous stockings at Christmas.

Stockings have always been the best part and the most exciting part of Christmas morning. Don't get me wrong we, my family, love everything about the holiday but there is just something amazing about all the little and BIG things you can find in one stocking.

This got me thinking.

Beck doesn't have his own stocking... Bah Humbugh

I has having a hard time deciding on whether or not I should make just Beckham a stocking

or

should we all get NEW stockings.

I felt a little bit of guilt thinking this way. MY MOM spent her time making Aaron and I our own stockings and they are great.

While this was on my mind, I ran downstairs and pulled out the box of Christmas decorations.

I quickly found the stockings and as I pulled out my stocking

a ton of memories can flooding back to me.

I will spare you all the long memories and just share one.

The one that made my decision on whether or not to make new stockings.

I believe I was about 5 or so, maybe younger, my Mom was getting ready to put all the stockings out for SANTA to come.

WELL, a mouse had ate a hole in MY stocking. I was so upset, I knew for sure that this was the end of Christmas for me. No stocking, NO PRESENTS.

For some reason my little Brother Jared had 2 stockings so my Mom said it would be okay if I used one of his...

I was completely beside myself. I just knew Santa was going to give JARED 2 stockings and I was to go without.

I guess it's true what they say about being BAD.

Anyway, after a long night of little to no sleep, Santa had come and I did in fact get my own stocking!

SO... I realized I really haven't had my OWN stocking in YEARS!

This is what I ended up with

We all got new stockings

Now my little family will have matching stockings and hopefully santa will still be good to me and pack that stocking full of fun little and BIG treasures!

(Thanks Deena for helping me sew, watch Beck, and pick out fabric)