Monday, December 28, 2009

Bad Blogger...

Or just a busy one! We've moved to Utah one month ago and it has been crazy! This is a picture of the cute little house in an area called Sugarhouse that we are temporarily staying in until we can find one to buy...

A lot has happened since we've moved too! We moved into our place on a Tuesday- November 24. My 24th birthday was the next day. Just a small celebration, afterall, we didn't have any friends yet to invite over anyways. I actually forgot it was my birthday until people called to wish me a happy one. Dan took me out for Mexican and got me a cheesecake- he knows how to keep me happy.


Right after Thanksgiving, my sister's family and my parents came for a quick visit- yup, we'd been living in our place for less than a week, but somehow we managed to kind of organize things enough for guests. Jenna and Lucy loved getting to see their cousins Mikayla, Tyler and Audrey. They stayed in our playroom, which has a slide. They. were. excited.




And of course, you can't see Grandma and Grandpa without going to Wendy's for some chicken nuggets and a frosty.


We also went to Temple Square with my parents to see the lights. It is really an amazing sight. If you've never gone- GO.

All this time, Lucy is just getting cuter and cuter. She loves people and loves to smile and laugh, just like this...




And Jenna keeps learning more and more! I am always so amazed at what she says or does. Jenna loves to sing and dance and is really great at it.
Here she is dancing to "Popcorn Popping"




One of her favorite songs is "I see the Moon." She's kind of singing it here, but believe me, she can do it even better than this-

If you don't know the words-

I see the moon, the moon sees me, down through the leaves of the old oak tree. Please let the moon that shines on me, shine on the ones I love. Over the mountains over the sea, that's where my true love's waiting for me. Please let the moon that shines on me, shine on the ones I love.




There is so much more to share, so keep looking for more posts. They're coming, I promise!

Friday, December 11, 2009

Vote for Jenna

Okay, okay, I know that I totally owe a big, fat, huge post with tons of pictures and videos of my darling children. I will once I get back home to all my pictures, I promise. But right now I am asking for your help. Dan entered us in a contest to win a season pass to Hogle Zoo- which we now only live a couple of miles away from. We really want to win and there are a couple other pictures with lots of votes, so click on the link to the left and go register and vote for Jenna! You can vote once every day. Do it! PLEASE!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

So....

We're moving to Utah- like ASAP. Dan got a job and starts the 16th of this month. More details to come. We are really excited though! It is kind of bittersweet too. We love Reno!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Halloween and Haircuts

I hope everyone had a happy Halloween! This year, Jenna was three different things- an elephant for the ward trunk-or-treat, a lion the day before Halloween, and she got both costumes dirty so she ended up going trick or treating as a ballerina. Oh well. At least we only spent $5 on all the costumes combined... The last post has a picture of Jenna as the elephant, here are the other two-


I don't know why she likes to have the bucket on her head so much.



Our little lion.


Pretty ballerina!

Grandpa Orrell and Jenna

This is of Jenna trick-or-treating. It's hard to hear her say "Trick or treat", but she was so cute!



Uncle Brian, Jenna and Heidi



Lastly, I gave Jenna a haircut on Sunday. It was really scraggly in the back. Here are a couple of her feeding her baby and showing off her new haircut.





And I just needed to put a picture of cute little Lucy in this post!



Something that Jenna really likes to do is sing and lead music. It is hilarious!

Yes, she's wearing my sweater in this one.




And apparently, this is how she practices in the morning...



Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Chili Cook-off and Crazy Kids

Hello! It's been a little while, so we thought we would update the world to what's new... not too much. I suppose that's why we haven't put anything up here for a while. It's a good thing we have such cute girls, or we would never post anything on here!

So, we both have rewards programs on our credit cards. To make it worthwhile, we use our credit cards a lot and pay it off every week (otherwise, it isn't worthwhile at all, because you accumulate debt!). So our points have just been adding up, and Dan finally used his for something... a bike trailer. I told him he could use it while the weather was still good, but come Christmas, it's going under the tree with a bow on it. That's how we're getting Christmas presents this year, while money is tight. Anyways, Jenna loves the trailer- she calls it her "bike-car".


Jenna trying out her new "bike car"

Jenna really loves her animals. She talks to them all the time. In fact she even thinks they get her up in the morning...

And Jenna's latest trick.
We had our ward Chili Cook-off/Trunk-or-Treat last weekend. Jenna was an elephant and Lucy was a giraffe. I just love my little animals!

Our ward activities director had made a really cool golden "bowl of chili" for the first place chili winner. She asked Dan to make a little base for it, so that it looked like a real trophy. It was so cool! You know you wish you had it displayed in your house...




What is this picture of random stuff? Well let me tell you... Jenna sleeps in her big girl bed all the time now. This means she has full access to her room. The other day before she went down for her nap (yes, she was still in her p.j.s), I was sitting in the office with her and she tried to put a pencil down the top of her footie pajamas and said "pocket". So I fished the pencil out. Well Dan put her down for her nap. After her nap, I went to get her because she was crying and she normally doesn't cry when she wakes up- she just plays. Well, I came in and asked her what was wrong and she said "owies" and touched her leg. All of this is what I found inside her pajamas. This also means that she fell asleep with at least all those pens and crayons in there, because she had to get them from the office since there aren't any in her room. Is my daughter going to be a kleptomaniac, putting things in her "pocket"?


Jenna and cousin Ellie playing at Grandma's house. They are so cute!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

baby.abram.

So, I took some pictures of a super cute baby and forgot to post it over here.  But go see his picture.  CUTE!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009