MOVING DAY!!

YAY we signed on our house on Friday, get the keys today and move SATURDAY! Cant wait. Its finally here. I'm so excited for all the cleaning and packing and painting and unpacking, which is weird usually you would dread all that but I havent seen all our things that are in the storage unit for 10 months and its going to be like Christmas again! And it will be so fun to set up house and get everything extremely ORGANIZED! OH how I love organization, and decoration!! So much fun ahead of us. Yesterday we attended our new ward and LOVED it. When we were looking at houses, we found a few that we just loved...and I mean loved like I was hugging the cabinets and the mantle loved. Love like Stephen peed out back to mark his territory loved! Those homes didnt work out and we were crushed, but then this house came along. We liked the layout we loved the dark cherry hardwood floors we liked the fireplace/mantle we loved the backyard the office the bedrooms the bonus room....on paper it was perfect. I loved it, but our Realtor was worried when we werent hugging appliances and planning the future childrens bedroom designs. I felt like it was THE house but I didnt feel the same love and affection for it as I had for some others. But it was home, we bought it. Well, as soon as we walked into church yesterday....I got the feeling. The 'this is exactly where we are supposed to be' feeling. It took until I walked into the Lords house for me to feel the affection. I immediately wanted to hug the walls:) But dont worry...Stephen did NOT feel the need to pee out back to mark his territory! Haha but really, we couldnt be more thrilled and excited for all this change that is coming our way. I know we will learn and grow immensely while we are in this area and I believe we will do great things. Wish us luck!!

Here it is, all the times we've gone and forgot the camera... Here is a phone pic...better pictures to follow!

Picture catch up time!!

One of our many attempts at making Gluten Free Bread...It tasted real good but its not QUITE right yet...

OOOooooOO La La! Botanical Gardens

The group!

We had the best time ever!

Just a little project! It got all stretched out and too big so I sewed in the sides then made a cute flower out of the excess fabric:) Somethin to keep me busy.

Hinder got to visit uncle Stephen at the fire station! So much fun:)

Somebody got a new WEDDING RING!! Yay! Almost the same exact one (for half the $$!)

Fun in St. George UT for my cousins wedding!

Stephen hanging off a cliff... NBD haha

Halloween!! Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone from Anchorman

Hot Tubbing in the rain

Stephen and I had a great week! We found out my sister Ainslee is having a baby BOY and his brothers wife is having (triplets) TWO BOYS AND A GIRL!! Super exciting. Last Saturday we had a fun date night which included a trip to the botanical gardens with Ryan and Dani Lee and some friends of theirs! It was a lot of fun, and so beautiful. This weekend, Friday we were able to go to the annual Live Nativity that our ward puts on and it was glorious as always. It is so neat to see the whole community (LDS or not) come out and celebrate the birth of Christ. Then Saturday we were able to spend time with my best friend Camber and her boyfriend Andrew, we were both going to come up with great ideas and then do everything and we got together and ended up spending most of the night sitting in the hot tub in the rain and it was so wonderful. Sometimes just sitting, relaxing and talking can be the best date idea. It was great getting to know Andrew better seeing as their dating is getting more and more serious:) Today in church we were teaching our sunbeams the lesson and we were talking about Nephi and his family being in the wilderness living in tents for a long long time and said "imagine if you had to live in a tent in the middle of no where?" and one little girl goes "you mean like a Hobo?" HAHAHA it was hilarious. I love teaching those darn 4 year olds, what will they come up with next? Anyway, Our camera is full of fun pictures we would love to share but we lost the USB cord...so this is the info post and the next one will be the slide show post! I hope everyone is having a fabulous week as well, counting down the days till Christmas!! Have a safe and happy holiday.

Oh and this coming weekend we get to attend 3 Christmas parties! Should be wayyy too much fun. Merry Christmas everyone!

Funny moments

Its Saturday and I just got home from work and he says to me....

Stephen: Hey Sidnee, remember our Halloween party last year when we made those black cup cakes and put so much food coloring in them that it turned our pee green?

Sidnee: Haha, yeah?

Stephen: Wasn't that so funny!?

Oh my darling. If I could get but a glimps inside that beautiful mind or yours.

I love you baby.

Thanks-christmas Eve

This year we were able to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my side of the family. We had such a great time, I was so grateful the roads cleared up so all the fam could make it to boise! Everyone arrived wednesday evening, we got to go over to Stephens parents house to see Nathan and Sherry (who are expecting Trips) and their two beautiful spunky 2 & 3 year old girls! I painted their fingers and toes, they were in love. Here is the spunkerino herself Hazel Dawn(3)...




And Here is Kendall Lynn(6)


Its just expected of me now...and I'm ok with that! At least they love me. Then Stephen read stories to all the little ones before it was time to go. We have Clair Christine(2), Stephen Wayne(26), Hazel Dawn(3), Jaxon T(4), and Kendall Lynn(6)


We had such a great time with them! Then we went to my moms house where Ainslee, Brad, Kylee, JJ and babe on the way had already arrived in their brand new mini van! I tried not to make too much fun over the mini van my sister swore she would never own! Haha. Then I gave pedicures and the rest of the gang showed up later that night... Riley, Destry and baby Hinder then Mallory, Don and Mazie (who is their hyper puppy). Thanksgiving day was packed fulll! We woke up and had a beautiful breakfast courtesy of my wonderful hubby, then got ready and took some family pictures, came home and ate a fabulous feast. Destry was so creative this year, she had all of us fill out a little survey about the holidays and the family and put all our answers on our place mats so we could read each others answers! It was very fun to read what everyone had to say about favorite memories and hobbies and such. Her and Riley also gathered pictures of all of us and made us into little pilgrims it was hilarious. So thoughtful! Thank you again for taking the time to make our place settings so fun! Earlier this year we decided as a family to do the gift exchange over thanksgiving since we wouldnt be together for christmas. I'm so glad we did, it was great to see them open presents and brought an even better spirit of gratitude to our thanksgiving weekend. The best part was watching the kids. They are so easily distracted! Next year I think we'll just get hinder and big bouquet of balloons! He is so dang funny. Later that night I gave Riley a pedicure and while he was busy playing card games I painted his toes hot pink with snowflakes and he had no idea till I was almost done! It was so hilarious! And I also put snowflakes on Hinders toes. He was so still, he loves his toes. He kept wanting the balloon to be tied to his big toe. Haha. Kylees nails were decked out in pink and purple and flowers and snowflakes! It was such a fun weekend, I didnt take many pictures at all! Sad. Even sadder having to end the weekend with a loss from BSU, but it made for an extra thing to have to be gratful for...and that is a 33 game winning streak! It had to end sometime. I still love my broncos, I just wish they would have played better. Anyway... I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. The countdown begins for CHRISTMAS! Cant wait.

Girls who marry their dads...

I love my dad. It took until this weekend to realize just how much! For any of you who know my dad, will know him as either a mans man kinda scary or intimidating or you'll refer to the soft, gentle sensitive Ray. Over the years we have come to lovingly refer to him as accident prone. A few of my favorites have been the many motorcycle accidents, the one last year where he walked into a tree branch and poked out his eye, Halloween 2006 when he fell off the roof while building our house, the one when I came home from school to him changing out the garbage disposal under the sink and it fell on his head...I got to rush him to the ER that time, the list could seriously go on and on! Well this weekend my dear husband joined the club. He has been roofing houses for 14 years now, working with lots of power tools including nail guns...but this day in particular he got a little too comfortable with that nail gun. He was sitting down shingling and went to scoot forward to do the next square and set his nail gun on his lap. When he went to grab it off his lap he grabbed the trigger and shot himself in the leg!! The nail he shot was no regular nail either, it was made for roofing and had the texture spike things on it so when he went to pull it out of his leg....it didnt come so easily. I'm so proud of him he yanked that thing out of there all by himself! OUCH!! Poor guy. He just ripped it out and kept shingling though so I guess it wasn't too bad. Then I made him go get a tetanus shot..apparently the last tetanus shot he had was in 2002 when he fell off a roof on to staples that went through his hand! I fell in love with an accident prone man, now I must live with the consequences! Haha So later that night we were talking with my parents and my mom said, "I guess its true what they say, girls really do marry their dads" and I told her, "I knew that this morning when he was singing Taylor Swift songs...today was a fairytale no less" haha!!! He knew every word. I dont even know all the words! I think its adorable. Then my dad goes, "Oh yeah I love that song" it was hilarious! I love my Husband so much, and my dad so much more than I thought! I'm so lucky to have such sensitive and thoughtful men in my life. Even if we spend half our lives in the Emergency room:)


The Wound...luckily he took it right in the quad so it got all meat no bones or eyes or anything. Interestingly, when he took off his shorts he had 2 holes in his shorts and one in his leg but none in the G's! They remained holy without holes.


One happy camper...I got him a get well balloon and cold stone. Then we watched a football game Trojans vs Ducks..actually a good game even tho ducks won..while i rubbed his back and hands and feet then we went to haunted world and screamed our heads off then finished the night at Ihop. I cant remember the last time we stayed out till 1 A.M.! So much fun.

I love you baby.
Happy Halloween everyone!

Forgetful Nancy...

W A N T E D



My sweet, sweet husband has misplaced his wedding ring! And he is devastated...okay maybe not devastated but he feels horrible! Apparently he took it roofing, took it off and put it somewhere in the truck and it has disappeared. The truck has been searched thoroughly and it is simply gone. He seems to forget things pretty frequently. I lovingly refer to him as Nancy when he tells me he's misplaced things :) Haha Poor guy, poor ring! It never stood a chance! I'm actually pretty proud he kept it a whole 14 months! If anyone comes across it laying in a ditch or street corner, you know who to contact. And as for us, we get to go ring shopping again! For a much, much cheeper ring for stephen this time :) I love you baby.