Mouth of Babes: 11/25

We didn't see the kiddos last week because of the Boise Temple Dedication so we were bracing for a rough one today...and it was.

Brother Guymon's fan club. Seriously.

From the mouth of our babes...

P: (After the prayer) Oh I forgot that Jesus died for us...that makes me so sad! 

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K: (Pointing to the boy pouting in the corner) Hey! What's wrong with this kid!?

P: I don't know...let's cheer him up! 

(P danced and tried to make him laugh and her and K ended up giving him 1 of their M&M's.)

P: We did it! We cheered him up! 

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C: (Holding her drawing.) Mom, look what the boy teacher helped me draw!

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P: I went to Disney World for 9 days!

K: I went to Disney World, too!

P: Uhh, are you sure? I didn't see you there...

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(After we had a few pouting kids...)

Nephi: Gosh, I guess we are all just having a rainy day. 

P: Well, I'm not having a rainy day!!!! 

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Primary Chorister: What's coming up soon?!

Kids: Christmas!

Primary Chorister: And what is Christmas about?

K: Presents! And Toys! 

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(K sneezes) 

K: Sorry for sneezing and coughing so much.

Mallory: That's okay--just cover your mouth. 

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(K was picking her nose all day)

K: MY NOSE HURTS!

Mallory: Well stop picking your nose! 

The Birthday Boy

Happy 26th Birthday to this guy...

Nephi is honestly the coolest person I know. 

Here are a few of my favorite things about him:

He is the nicest most kind man I have ever met. 

His dimples...he has 3 of them in his face. I can't wait till our babies come out with his dimples. And eyes. And huge baby head. I am just hoping they aren't 10 lbs...

His dance moves. 

His teaching skills. He knows how to adjust teaching to peoples needs. Wish I saw him as a missionary.

His random skills. He is great at editing videos, playing guitar, piano, and any other instrument, or random game or useless knowledge of random facts. He's got skills. 

He is really good at staying level headed in a crisis. 

He makes me smile and laugh, a lot.

We celebrated his birthday on Friday with his parents and Neal & Angie. We went and saw Lincoln (great movie) had dinner, opened presents and ate cake! Nephi got a gun from his parents and could not have been happier. Best present ever. 

Turkey burger sliders for dinner! They are his favorite. 

4 layer chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting. Note to self: Never make again. It was too rich for everyone to eat and they hardly ate it and left me with a whole cake. Next year, we will have Jello.  But, it tasted amazing. I liked it.

So glad you were born Phee-Phi! 

A Guymon Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the Guymon clan. That morning we woke up and watched the Macy's Day Parade (my family tradition). This year, Nephi's birthday happened to fall on Thanksgiving but we celebrated the next day, BUT wanted to do a little celebrating by making him breakfast.

Yep, that was his breakfast. Nephi rather have this than a home-made breakfast any day. He's really too easy sometimes. We spent the rest of the morning laying around and I made some food for the party, including this snazzy trifle. Turned out pretty good and it was really easy. Check out the recipe. 

We headed over to family party later that afternoon. It's a tradition in their family to have dinner and a ping-pong tournament at Danny & Devrie's home. We had a great meal, played a bajillion rounds of this game (so fun--highly recommend playing it), spent a lot of time talking and laughing and then of course fit in some shopping. 

Last year I went out for black friday with Nephi's aunt and cousins but this year Angie, Caitlin and I went out and had a very successful trip.

We have so much to be grateful for. Nephi and I will often just sit back and realize how much we truly have. We've been married for a year and a half and have learned and grown so much together. We live in a beautiful home, go to a great ward, and have good jobs. We've been blessed financially with everything we need and have had the chance to serve and help others. We live close to a temple and both have a quality education. We both have wonderful families who bless our lives near, and far. And of course we have the Gospel that obviously is the reason for all the blessings listed above.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Guilty as Charged

But why are we guilty as charged? Well, we would have to take you to back to the start of the weekend...

On Friday I spent the day in Jackson for work. We are having an event out there in February and we had to do a quick site-visit. We drove the company Subaru and within the first 15 minutes on the road, this happened.

Yikes! I was bending over to get something out of my purse and heard the noise and looked up to see this! Bah...oh well. Nothing we can do about it! And no, this was not the crime we committed.

I got home and Nephi and I headed out for a great date night to the Festival of Trees. Every year the community hosts this event and all the proceeds go towards a charity of choice. They have raffle tickets, treats, crafts, and trees for sale! Not to mention the prime entertainment...13 year old girls trying to harmonize was the highlight of our evening.

Afterwards we headed to Denny's for dinner (random) and ended our evening watching a made for TV, Christmas movie on Netflix. (Nephi's choice. I swear.) BUT, that isn't the crime we are guilty of, believe it or not.

Saturday morning Nephi headed to work and I got up and cleaned before I had the ladies over for a visiting teaching brunch. While cleaning, I blasted Christmas music.

Are you one of those people that hates on people who are already listening to Christmas music? I hope not. Because I am pretty sure that listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving does not mean you don't love Thanksgiving or that you aren't grateful--pretty sure commercialism takes care of that. 

No crime here.

We are excited to start playing Christmas music around, especially because...

WE ARE GOING TO AZ FOR CHRISTMAS!!

Yep, booked our flights this weekend. Originally we planned to stay here but some things got moved around so I finally decided to look at flights and it all worked out for us to leave on the 23rd and fly back on the 27th. We could not be more excited! I love Christmas in AZ and we can't wait to see my family!

Nephi came home from work and we headed to the gym and then ran some errands and I got this new lipstick. I've been looking everywhere for a dark burgendy for fall and I love it.

 We came home and he napped while I worked on this wreath for the door. My mom gave me the wreath on the left for Halloween decor but decided to re-purpose it for Christmas! Like it? So easy. I didn't even look at a tutorial. I just wrapped it around. It took about an hour but it was cheap and simple.

Is it a crime to craft while your hubby is napping?? OF COURSE NOT.

Now, to the scene of the crime.

 Yep, we saw Breaking Dawn. Guilty. As. Charged.

From the Mouths of Babes

Anyone know that video the church put out "From the Mouths of Babes"? My family LOVES that video and after teaching primary a few years ago for my first time, I can see why this video was made. Kids are SO funny!

We currently teach in the primary 4 year-olds that turned 5 this year. We've been in this calling since September and love it so much. We honestly look forward to going to church, and coming home exhausted. Our class started off with 4 cute girls and has evolved into 2 boys and 7 girls. We die over them. They are cute and not those snotty nose kids that you are scared to touch. If you hang out with us, then you have already heard of the kids because we always talk about them. Dear Bishop, don't release us!

Since they say so many funny things to entertain us, we thought we would share the wealth by blogging every Sunday with our very own "From the Mouth of Babes". Hope you enjoy!

K: You better watch out for my brother. He'll punch you in the face.
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P: Guess what?! My Grandma is on a cruise....she has a new boyfriend.
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K: Hurry up, hurry up! Cause it's fast Sunday!
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K: Why is that boy crying? (Pointing at the sunbeam crying during his primary talk.)

Nephi: I don't think he likes talking in front of people.

K: I think he needs a dog.
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Mallory: Alright everyone, what are you going to tell your parents you learned today?

Everyone: Read your scriptures! Go to church! Be reverent! 

K: (Raises her hand) Can I tell my parents something else? 

Mallory: Uhhhh....

P: Can I tell my parents, what's up dude!?!
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D: I just need to check if the licorice is GLUTEN FREE!!
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Nephi: They are going to pick me to go up there.

A: No, you're not going to get picked. You're a teacher!

Nephi: Yeah, yeah I am going to get picked.

A: NO! You're not! Your head is TOO BIG!
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D: What's your name again?

Nephi: Brother Guymon

D: Oh yeah...I call you Brother Dixon.
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Mallory: (Handing out candy) You get, what you get...

K: And you don't throw a fit!
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(After Nephi does magic for the kids)

P: You're terrific!

Nephi: No, you're terrific!

P: Well...I am half princess, half cowgirl...
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(About the watch "Finding Faith in Christ" video clip)

P: Oh, I have seen this before. It makes water come out of my eyes!
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Stay tuned every Sunday for more funnies!! 

October Update

October came and went faster than I expected. We had a great month and I am going to spare you a lengthy blog post and share with you a few snippets with the photos we took! (Grateful for my iPhone.)

 Nephi gave me my flu shot! I haven't had one in years but decided to take the plunge and haven't had any bad side effects. 

 Of course we had General Conference. This was my favorite spin-off out of all of them. Classic. (Our thoughts on missionary work.)

 Nephi's Grandpa passed away on October 9th. The funeral was that next weekend and Nephi gave a great talk at the funeral. I also got to meet the Richin's side and that was so great. This was the first death that Nephi and I have gone through as a married couple and it was a good experience for us to learn from each other. Nephi was very close to his Grandpa. In fact, the day before he followed a prompting to go visit him--so grateful for the Gospel! It's been a while since I have attended a funeral and it was a beautiful funeral and the family paid a great tribute to him .

 Of course we had to carve pumpkins! We went on a big group date to the pumpkin patch with some friends and picked up pumpkins to carve.

Here are the pumpkins! I carved the "G" and Nephi carved the Gangnam Style guy to your right of the "G". It won for the "Stupidest" and I won "The Most Creative". HA! Pretty sure those awards should have be reversed.

 My family came in town for a few days! My Aunt Jeni was visiting the states from South Africa and I haven't seen her in years! She also hasn't met Nephi yet so they took a few days to come visit us. We went to Yellowstone, Snake Bite (of course), and visited campus. It was so great to have her here as well as my Mom, Dad, and Jack (our family dog)! It is always hard to see them go, especially since we are not coming home for the holidays this year. I am so grateful for them!

 And...they brought this! We have been saving up all year to buy a new car and we finally did! We set a goal to buy it in September but ended up purchasing in October. AZ had way more choices so we bought it there and then my Dad drove it up. He also did all the negotiating and research on the car which was a huge burden lifted off of us--thanks, Dad! It's a 2006 Mazda 3 with only 75k miles on it. It will be Nephi's car that he uses to commute back and forth to Rexburg. Yes, I am a little jealous. Don't worry--Nephi detailed my car so I would feel like I got a new car too :) Anyway-feels good to have our first "big" purchase under our belts and done! We bought it in cash and now we are looking to replenish the savings account...anyone wanna buy Nephi's Jeep?! It's going on Craigslist this week!

 Home decor--per usual. My dad built me this valance! I've been wanting one for a long time and I love it. I covered it with fabric, which was a lot harder than I expected. (Don't judge my imperfections.) But I really like it and it completed that room. I still have to fix up a few things throughout the house before we do a "house tour", but it's happening. Soon.

 Date nights! We've still manage to fit in our date nights every week. We are officially over the year and 1/2 mark but feel like we've been married forever! (In a good way.) We love our little adventures and definitely don't have enough time together but we make it work.

 Halloween is a HUGE deal where I work. Each department had a theme and decorated and we had kids walking through all day trick-or-treating. Our area was a forest so we had a "Girls Camp". It was a fun day!

We've been seeing some movies with friends lately, of course. We went and saw Pitch Perfect with the Cook's and LOVED IT! I even bought one of the sound tracks on our way home. Ha! It's a great song to work out to.

 I'm currently living "carb-free" and trying to find ways to enjoy food without getting bored! Hence, I use spaghetti squash for just about everything. This meal with chicken sausage, spinach, onions, peppers, and marinara sauce was divine! I highly recommend it.

 We went to the YURT! Yes, that is what it is called. Had a nice night stay at this yurt in Harriman Park with our good friends, the Hendersons. We had a blast! The next day we hiked around and visited Mesa Falls and a few other places along the way. We will definitely be returning! Who wants to come?

 This is the inside. It stayed toasty :)

 Our candlelit dinner..very primitive...not. I am working my way up to actual camping.

 I won $20 for the weight loss challenge at work! Woo!

Had a "Smith Family" early Thanksgiving. Sheridan won't be in town for Thanksgiving so we had it early. We won't be making it home to AZ for Thanksgiving (or Christmas) this year. Work for me is too demanding to leave for an extended amount of time but I am going to really embrace the holidays this year and Nephi and I are excited to start our own family traditions! I am so glad that Sheridan and Caitlin live here. We've got half the kids in Idaho now! Now we just need to get the other 3 here! :) 

And of course--our church calling. We missed two Sunday's in a row and realized how much we LOVE our kiddos! Today we taught them about Christ and spent some time explaining the resurrection. We told them to draw a picture of it and this is what one girl drew--me! See the resemblance?

The nice thing is that they love us, too! Their parents have been telling us that they talk about us all the time and hated the sub they had (we secretly loved to hear that). We look forward to seeing them every week. Stay tuned for our new blog series "From the Mouth of Babes".

Sorry this did turn into a long post...oh well!