27 Already

 Casey is getting up there. He is now 27 years old.  Since we have the cruise coming up we didn't do much for his birthday.  I decided to put 27 different memories into 27 different balloons, that way he would have something to open on his birthday.  I know cheesy, but it was fun.  I put candy into most of them and boy did Tylee love helping dad pick them out.  I did buy a cake for him... I didn't really think about how much cake that was for just 3 of us. 

We leave for the cruise in a couple days and we are so excited!! Getting sad to leave Tylee, but the vacation is much needed.

Happy Thanksgiving

Tylee wondering what in the world Grandma Ann is doing... Yeah Grandma Ann  moves so fast I could only get a blurred vision of her.

This year we had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I was assigned to bring a Vege tray... BORING!!! So I talked Casey into letting me make some pie.  Boy was that a good and bad idea, bad only because I probably ate 1400 calories in just the pie, and good because they were utterly delicious.  I will just take a second to brag about how amazing they turned out.  I made a banana cream pie (my personal favorite) and a chocolate peanut butter cream pie (Casey's favorite).  I will gladly take the first place ribbon for the BEST pie!

Tylee and Mommy

We met up with Casey's family at the church as usual.  Tylee was very naughty a lot of the time.  She didn't even want to play with any of the cousins or Grandma Ann.  It may have just been too many people for her at one time.  After we finished eating she started warming up and being her fun little self.  Grandma Ann got the kids to play some bingo together and Uncle Kayden was so sweat to play with Tylee.

Kayden helping Tylee play bingo... He helped her win a fun little snoopy dog.

Of course my favorite part of Thanksgiving is the Black Friday shopping.  It is tradition to go shopping with some of Casey's brothers and sisters.  Since all the stores opened at 10:00 p.m. on Thursday we decided to start our shopping earlier as well.  We jumped in the car and headed up to Park City with the gang at about 8:30.  Got up to the outlets just in time to storm into the Nike Outlet as the doors swung open.  I wasn't too impressed with the selection this year.  I couldn't find anything I wanted to buy, but luckily Casey was able to find some clothes and a new pair of shoes. 

We typically shop until 8:00 a.m. and end our night/morning with a delightful breakfast at Jerramiah's, but we had party pooper's this year.  We only made it until 3:00 a.m. before most people were ready to be done.  Angie was such a trooper for braving the shopping even in her current health!  We had a blast.  We ended up looking through the ads again, and found that Best Buy still had a camera that we wanted, so Friday night at 9:00 p.m. we set out again with the Muirbrooks and Jared.... it totally topped the midnight madness.

I am so grateful for our family!  Only 6 more days and we are off on our Disney Cruise. YAY!!!

Beautiful Thing Called Life

It has been so long since I have blogged I am having a hard time deciding where to begin.

First of all Casey and I both have new jobs.  The sales job Casey had this last year just was not working out, so he went back to Marketstar.  He is now on the Google team.  I am excited to get their health benefits again.  I have missed having such great health insurance.  As for me I finally finished my schooling and now have a Medical Transcription job working from home.  I absolutely love it!!

Tylee has grown so much since my last post.  She is now 19th months and 27 pounds.  It is crazy to think that we have had her for over a year now.  Time goes by way too fast.  She is saying a few words, mostly it is just gibber jabber.  I know she thinks she is telling us very important things.  She often talks and then grabs your face and turns it towards her to make sure you are paying attention to every word.  She has definitely learned how to push my buttons and that scars me to death.  She loves to dance.  She starts shaking her booty and jumping around any time music comes on.

I had a hard time getting into Halloween this year.  Ty is supposed to be a little fairy, I could not get her to hold still for me to get a good picture of her.... and I was too worn out to push it.  We spent the day at my mom's making carmel apples and visiting.  I had to work that night so we rushed over to Casey's mom's and had dinner.  He stayed while I came home to work.  Normally I would have been bummed about working, but since Halloween didn't excite me this year, I was happy to come home and get some alone time. ha ha.

I think the craziest thing that has happened since my last post is we found out my mom is pregnant.  She is due in May.  They claim it was an accident, but that is something we will never know for sure!