Holes

So little miss Aurora has a new favorite pass time, and it's digging! There are currently 6 holes in our backyard this one being the biggest. The other day as Kyle and I were leaving we noticed another fairly large hole, and a giant rock sitting next to it. A couple days later we noticed she had moved the rock into the hole, and then the next day we noticed she had started covering up the hole withe rock inside, lol, silly girl! Oh well, we keep filling them and she keeps digging them, it's a never ending cycle! We are planning on planting some sod soon to see if that helps, we'll see, finger's crossed!

St. Patrick's Day

Kyle ended up having a mock congress simulation on St. Patrick's Day, so we couldn't do a party like Kyle wanted. But I still wanted to make it a special day for him so I got up early and surprised him with green eggs and bacon!

Kyle's 24th Birthday Extravaganza!

So this year I wanted Kyle's birthday to be special since we don't know where Bill and Kirstie will be for his 25th b-day. Kyle requested it be a "Dr. Who" themed party. Unfortunately Dr. Who isn't too big in the U.S. like it is in the U.K. so finding decorations was near impossible unless I wanted to pay $30+ just in shipping to get things shipped from the U.K., so that was a no go. So I got blue streamers and blue and white star balloons, and printed off some poster pictures of Doctor Who themed scenes...It worked out quite well =]

Kirstie made an amazing Tardis cake!! Which helped tie everything together. It was so cool Kyle didn't even want to eat it!

We had homemade fish and chips, and of course a Doctor Who themed party wouldn't be complete without trying the famed fish fingers and custard! I tried it first and it surprisingly wasn't too terrible, I wouldn't go as far to say it was good combo though, haha. After some persuading Kyle tried it too, and we actually have video of that!

All and all the party was a success we managed to get David's family hooked on Doctor Who as well as Bill and the kids muahahaha!

After throwing the superbowl party and Kyle's birthday party, we have discovered we LOVE throwing parties, even with all the stress and prep. Although I told Kyle not to expect much for his 25th b-day next year, because I think this years will be pretty hard to out do =]

Some pictures...

Some of the decorations

The awesome cake my amazing sister-in-law Kirstie made =]

Putting the candles in

hehe I promise you the cake wasn't on fire, but man that's alot of candles to light! ;-)

Kyle blew them all out in one go

Victory dance

Romney Rally

So on Febuary 16th Kyle and I took a spur of the moment trip to Boise, to go to a Mitt Romney rally. It was so much fun! On our way out of Eastern Idaho we stopped in Blackfoot and picked up a half gallon of A&W Rootbeer, to drink during our trip, this is the second time we've done this...I think it might have to be a new tradition.

We arrived in Boise at around 8:30-9 at night, we checked into our hotel room and walked to a nearby restaurant (sticking to our rule of not eating anywhere we can eat in the Rexburg/Idaho Falls area.) We had a yummy dinner and went to bed around 11. We woke up at 7:30 and enjoyed a yummy continental breakfast, then headed out to the outlet mall to do some shopping! We came back and got ready for the rally and checked out of the hotel. We were only about 30 minutes, even though were shooting for being there an hour early. We got a spot to the left of the stage, which wasn't terrible, but not the best either. He was about 40 minutes late due to interviews with the news stations, it was well worth the wait though! He was really inspiring and really got the crowd going! Afterwards Kyle and I even got to shake his hand!! It was so so much fun! I am really glad we went!

Waiting

Romney!

I took this right before Kyle and I shook his hand!

After the rally we went to a burger/vegetarian place called The Boise Fry Co. It was pretty cool they had about seven different potatoes to choose from and different cuts for each kind, and then they had two different kinds of hamburgers to choose from buffalo or regular. I loved the fries (I can't remember what kind I got, but they were tasty!) Wasn't as huge of a fan as Kyle was on the burger, which Kyle thought was amazing, but all in all it was pretty good!

We stopped at the outlets once more to go to the stores we didn't have a chance to before and then headed home.

It was a super fun trip and a much needed get-a-way!

Mischief Managed

I was sitting on the couch downstairs finishing up a quiz for my Child Development quiz, when all the sudden the girls' come running down the stairs, past the couch, and I hear the baby gate open and shut with a clang, I turn around to see Sequoyah sitting on the side of the gate that I'm on and hear Aurora jump up and grab something off the counter, I jumped up to go see what she had gotten, she panicked and tried to swallow whatever it was whole, started choking on it, I tried to pry it out of her mouth causing her to try to swallow it faster, thus choking more, so then I stopped trying to get it, she finally managed to swallow it, upon further investigation of the kitchen, I found out it was a whole slice of pizza she managed to swallow without chewing!

So back to the beginning of the story I'm pretty sure Quoyah and Aurora went upstairs to "discuss" how/who was going to try and get a piece of yumminess on the counter, and they succeeded, thusly saying "mischief managed."

(I do not envy the tummy ache Aurora will probably have later)

Aurora goes to the groomers!

So yesterday we took Aurora to Petsmart to get groomed! This was her first time going to a professional. The lady said that she did really good! And that she was quite the talker! She said Aurora talked when she was being bathed, when she was being brushed, when she was getting nails trimmed, even when they were brushing her teeth!

She also did Sequoyah a few weeks ago, and said that Aurora definitely makes up for how quiet Sequoyah is!

Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures, because they were all done when we got there, even though we got there 20minutes early in hopes to see how she was doing. Oh well!

Worse than a newborn...almost

So for the past week little miss Aurora hasn't been wanting to sleep at night, which equals no sleep for Kyle or I either. I'll explain...

She'll be sleeping down stairs, then when we go upstairs to go to bed, all of the sudden she'll start whining and whining and whining.

Step 1: run her back down stairs, to see if she has to go to the bathroom again

Step 2: check to see if she has water

Step 3: try and ignore here whining

Step 4: We can't

Step 5: try and put them in the kennel...She starts barking and whining even louder

Step 6: let them out and give them a rawhide

Step 7: take rawhide away cause Aurora starts growling and barking at Sequoyah, because she's paranoid of Sequoyah taking it away from her, even though she's in the depths of under our bed.

Step 8: Give Aurora her favorite ball and listen to squoosha squoosha squoosha, and deal with the bed rocking for the rest of the night cause of her head hitting the bottom of bed from playing with the ball.

Repeat Step 1 two-three times throughout the night

This has basically been our nights for the past week with a few variations, but pretty much lots of whining, and no idea why...

Although last night she only woke up once and went right back to sleep after taking her potty! So hopefully that continues because getting only 3-5 hours of sleep a night is not fun!