Home Stuff

For my Birthday, we got an electric fireplace. It looks so nice in our livingroom and makes the room feel much larger. I have been promising pictures of this to my parents, so here you go :). Below is Jayden and one of his creations. He is still very busy and building with anything and everything he can find.

Vienna, Austria

I had the opportunity to go to Austria for a week on a work assignment. Below are some pictures I took, it was a beautiful place with a ton of history. I only wish that I had had time to explore more, all shops closed at 6:00, so that made it difficult to do much shopping, but it was great! It was also the coldest weather they had experienced all year, it was usually approximately 10 degrees farenheight on our way to work. I added the picture above and can't change the order. This picture is from the subway stop on our way to work. It is insteresting because the new and old are so mingled together (the old building right above).

This is an old Chapel called Stephensplats (spelling could be wrong). It was beautiful inside and out.

This is a street that we walked down on our way to dinner, they were so narrow, but all of them were lined with neat little shops.

This is a 300 year old building iwth a modern front on it, apparnetly now it is an apartment building. There were tons of beautiful old buildings around, many of them had huge doors, we assume for carriages at one point?!?

A street view.

We went to the Vienna International Center, were several world organizations are housed. This is a picture of the circle of flags from all of the collaborating countries.

A cool building.

A street view.

Another cool building, they were all over.

A statue of Mozart in the part that we walked through every morning.

Some buildings.

Eddie joe's Graduation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to my wonderful husband, he graduated with his Bachelors Degree in Construction Management today. I am so proud of you!! Eddie joe with his sisters: Amanda, Katie, and Rosemary.
Being silly.

Eddie joe with his dad, Tony.

Eddie joe with his mom, Vicki.

Eddie joe, with Jayden.

Eddie joe walking up the aisle.

Us! (Jayden was being honery)

Christmas with Eddie joe's Family

While Eddie joe's family was in town for the graduation today, we also celebrated Christmas with them. Jayden got a toy guitar from Grandpa Tony and Linda and a toy engine to work on. He also got several cars to play with. Grandma Vicki got him a remote control car and Auntie Amanda got him a drum set and a remote control spider (for his B-day).

Jayden driving the remote control car, Brad and Amanda in the background.

Katie and I.

Eddie joe, Vicki and Rosemary cutting the cake.

Brad and Amanda.

Tony, Jayden, and Linda.

Driving the new car.

Playing the drums.

Halloween

Halloween was fun this year because Jayden is old enough to be involved and excited about things. We bought him a small pumpkin, and it was the hardest pumpkin we had ever seen. There was no way to carve it, so Eddie joe pulled out the drill. It was really the only option. Then Jayden colored some hair on the pumpkin, and eventually Eddie joe made one just like Jayden's. I carved a Sponge Bob Square Pants pumpkin, it turned out ok. He loves power tools, but not flying pumpkin pieces.

Working on the pupkins.

Eddie joe and Jayden's matching pumpkins.

Here are all of the pumpkins, and my boys.

Jayden getting dressed up. We only went around the block once and a little on the next street. He ended up with his pumpkin full and then half over again. We don't get too many trick or treaters in our neighborhood, so people just gave huge handfulls (I found myself doing the same thing). We had fun.

Pumpkin Patch

This year we took a family trip to Mcalls Pumpkin Patch. Despite the fact that it was windy, we had a great time. We took a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick our pumpkins and did some of the other attractions they had to offer. Between the wind and the fact that Jayden had finally overcome the flu the day before, we only lasted about 5 hours, but we will definitely go back next year. Jayden and I on the Hayride (see, it was windy).

Jayden and his funny face (we were on our way out at this point).

Jayden got to ride the pedal cars, he thought it was soo much fun. Eddie joe didn't wait in line to ride the adult ones, but he did decide he needs one for himself.

Our pumpkins!

It's REALLY hard to find the perfect pumpking when there are soooooo many to choose from. O, and then once you pick one or two, you have to carry them back to the tractor :). It was a lot of fun.

Jayden's favorite part of the entire thing was not the farm animals, the jump house, or the pumpkin patch, but the cow train. He went on it three times.

Fall Fun

Jayden and his friend Corina at the ward halloween part. They are best buds (Corina's mom watches Jayden for us).

Jayden is a cowboy this year for halloween.

Grandma Louisa sent Jayden this hug box of candy. He was thrilled!

Nap Time!!!

Scooter time. Eddie joe and Jayden took their scooters to the park. Jayden thought it was soooo cool that they could ride scooters together. Only Eddie joe would still have his childhood scooter, they are too cute!

Jayden found roller blades at the second hand store that we absolutely had to have. After the first go he hasn't been too interested in getting back on them, so we will try again next year (thank goodness, he's still too small for these).