The new addition, Christmas Eve, Christmas and the morning after

Okay, so there is a lot to write about. First things first.....we got our new addition on Dec. 11th! His name is Makita and he is a 5 year old Siberian male Husky. This is Scott's dream dog and it was love at first sight! Makita has been doing amazing and has been adjusting well to his new home. Lulu absolutely loves having a permanent friend around and they are always playing. You will see Makita is some pictures below. Welcome to the family Makita!!!!

Christmas Eve was so much fun! Scott and I headed over to his parent's house for our get together. We had a delicious dinner of soups and soup bowls with different kinds of salad. All the "kids" (Scott, me, Charley, Brandon and Stacy) sat at our own table and all of the adults sat at their table. Kind of funny we are still considered the "kids". haha Robyn put on a great program and we all were able to receive Richard Paul Evans book, "The Christmas Candle". If you haven't read it, I suggest you go and get it. After the program was done, Grandma Grable gave Gage and Carter their gifts to open. It was so much fun to watch both of these boys open their presents.

Carter opening his present. This is his first Christmas and Christmas Eve

Gage loved his Noah's Ark that Grandma gave him, but seriously who can pass up a chance to get inside the box it came from?????

What a prefect Christmas present.....Gage!

And of course, my husband can't be left out. He was my perfect Christmas present.

After leaving Robyn's house, Scott and I decided that we would start our own Christmas Eve tradition. We each got to open one present......

Of course Lulu and Makita pulled the candy cane bones out of their stocking.

Scott got the 2009 Office desk calendar

I got a bunch of hangers. I know you are thinking it is lame, but I really needed some nice wood hangers to match the others I have in the closet. Thanks Babe!!!!!

Christmas morning is finally here!!!!! The only thing I asked Scott for this year was to have the morning to ourselves. It was absolutely perfect (well minus the power going out for an hour or so)!!!! We woke up and he lit a fire in our fireplace, we made blueberry muffins and hot chocolate. Then we started opening presents! It was so relaxing and not rushed. I loved it. After the morning was over we left about 11:00 to start making the rounds. We stopped by my dad's and grandma's and then headed off to see Marley and Me with my mom. I loved the movie, but the ending was sad. You heard a lot of "sniffs" in the theatre. For the night we headed over to Scott's parent's house to open gifts and to talk to Trent. I am pretty sure Trent spent a good couple hours on the phone talking to all of us. He is doing great and we all miss him a lot. That was the last Christmas he will be gone for though......we can't wait for him to come home!

We had such a great Christmas and Scott and I are so unbelievably blessed! We have wonderful families and friends that are so generous with their time. Thank you for all that everyone does and has ever done for us. Thank you to Nick, Morgan and Kyle for calling to wish us a Merry Christmas....it was great to be able to talk to all of you. I hope everyone had a perfect day and was able to put all the worldliness aside and remember the real reason we celebrate CHRISTmas. We love you all.

My pretty stocking and it has a rose sticking out of it! Thanks Babe!!!

Scott opening his stocking

Lulu and Makita playing with the toys after opening their stocking

Emily got me this for Christmas. It is so pretty and works perfectly right above our table! She made it herself. She is so talented.
This picture must make the post. Charley and I have the same red shirt and we both wanted to wear it on Christmas....so we did. Aren't we just so lovely......

The morning after.......UGH. Fortunately I didn't have to go to work today, but my poor husband did. Scott came in and kissed me good-bye....I hear the garage door go up and then go down and then go up again. What??? So I got up and looked out the window and saw my poor husband trying to dig the car out. I jumped up and put on some sweats and shoes and out I went to help him. We got a ridiculous amount of snow and it took us a while to get the car dug out of the driveway and out of our circle!!!!! Looks like I won't be going anywhere today.

We are expecting.......

This may come as a surprise to everyone, it came as a surprise to us. In about 2 weeks, we will welcome a new member of our slowly growing Grable family. There seems to be a tradition of adoption in the Grable family and Scott and I felt that it would be appropriate to keep the tradition alive. The opportunity was right in front of our faces and we couldn't pass it up. We will be welcoming a 5 year old with the crispiest blue eyes you have ever seen. When you stare into his eyes, your heart immediately melts. When we get him, in about 2 weeks, we will post some pictures.

We are so excited!!!!

The Family Is Finally Complete

I am a little slow on getting this blog up and going. On November 1st the last Barton has finally entered into the blissful commitment called marriage. Kyle and Stacie were married in the Logan Temple Saturday morning and then had their reception in Ogden that evening. The Logan Temple is gorgeous and their sealing was amazing. I am so glad and grateful that I was able to experience and share in this time with them. Kyle and Stacie we love you and so glad you found each other!!!!

The happy couple!!!! Mr. and Mrs. Kyle and Stacie Barton

A couple of the sisters from both sides

The friends

Brother and sister!!!! Kyle how did you become the runt of our family? haha I am actually wearing heels.

While waiting for all the pictures to be taken, Morgan and I decided to have a skirt spinning competition. Enjoy

Fall has come and gone

Can you believe that fall has come and already gone? Spring and fall are my favorite seasons and I feel a little jipped this year. We have a lot of trees in our front yard and had a lot of beautiful colors to wake up to everyday. However, it definitely didn't last long enough. I had Scott take some pictures before all the leaves fell off and everything became covered with a blanket of white snow. Enjoy!!!!

Halloween

Scott and I had such a fantastic weekend. On Friday, we got such an awesome opportunity to hang out with our nephews while they went trick-or-treating at Scott's work. Little Carter was a lion, Gage was Indiana Jones and my handsome husband as Superman.

Here is a picture of the trio. This was the best one I could get. Gage was so anxious to run around and talk to everyone that I couldn't get a picture of him being still. Can you blame him though??? It is Halloween and people are handing candy out like crazy!

This is the cute little lion taking over for Scott. Maybe Scott will get replaced by Carter? He does look like he knows what he is doing.
This is me and my favorite little lion, Carter.
We finally got Gage to hold still...kind of. He didn't have his hat on in this picture though. Aren't they just adorable!!!!
This picture doesn't even need a caption. His face says it all.

After we hung out at Scott's work for a while, we all (Scott, me, Brandon, Charley and the boys) decided to go and get some lunch at the Olive Garden. What an adventure this was. Our waiter was quite interesting and did most of our ordering for us....basically told us what we were going to be eating for lunch and Gage decided it was a great time to start showing off by going through his vocab.

Here is Carter trying to make sure he gets those crayons in his mouth. Here was the highlight of our lunch experience. The two videos are of Gage talking. At first he is saying the word "sit" followed by the all-time classic "poop", "bat" and topped on with a very loud "Got" which stands for Scott.

Thanks Charley and Brandon for letting me hog your children for the afternoon. It is always a fun adventure when they are around.

For our nighttime activity, we headed up to Mike and Emily's for Gavin's 2nd birthday party. I have never seen a two-year old more excited about his "basketball hoop" than Gavin was. All we heard all night was "basethoop" and "basetball". This little kid had the coolest 2nd birthday party ever. Scott and I topped the night off with a self-inflating whoopie cushion and a remote control car.

All in all, we had a fabulous Halloween!!!!

Serving the Lord

As speculated, Scott and I met with a member of the bishopric on Sunday and received our callings. Any guesses.......... Well Scott and I were thinking maybe Young Men or Young Women and then started thinking we would get some sort of teaching callings. So, you are lookin at the new teachers for the junior primary. We will get to team teach (I am really excited about this), the 5-6 year old primary kids. We apparently will have 2 autistic children in the class and have been told that this is going to be a "challenging" calling.

Both Scott and I are really excited for our callings, because we know that it will definitly help us grow in the areas that we are weak. For example, I am sure to learn a lot of patience.

We can't wait to get started!!!!!

Here are the new teachers!!!! Scott says this calling will help me to not be "baby hungry" haha

A bit of a random post

Since I am so busy during the week with school and work, I haven't had time to dedicate to blogging. Tonight Scott went to the priesthood session of conference and then to hang out with his friends for a good ol' "boys" night. Therefore, that leaves me ample time to post a blog worthy blog.
I haven't had time to post the cutest picture of Lulu. She has learned that I quickly give in when she gives me the puppy eyes or walks over and lays her head on my lap. However, she hasn't figured out that this doesn't work very well with Scott. She wanted Scott to pay attention to her, but he was busy putting our spare room together.
About a week ago, I had the opportunity to throw my future sister-in-law a bridal shower. It turned out to be a great shower and she got some great gifts.
Stacie with the best mother-in-law she could ever hope for!!!! Stacie with the best grandma-in-law she could ever hope for!!!!Stacie with my cousin, Marie, me, my grandma and her friend Nicole. Okay, so my grandma is in pink and my cousin is in yellow.......where in the heck did I get all of my height from????Today is the first day (October 4th) that it was chilly enough to use our fireplace! My husband is so great and got a fire going for me. I think I spent the majority of my day sitting in our living room in front of the fire. It was so perfect!!!!

The beginning of the fire

Scott working on the fire

The finished product and view from the couch. It was the perfect Saturday!!!!