Took forever again....

So I'm late again as always but oh well. Just not much in a blogging mood lately. Well of course the latest happenings are Christmas, new years, Going to Washington, and coming back home. It was all pretty fun. I started out making a lot of treats for Christmas. trying my hand at fudge, caramels, and English toffee. And they all turned out great i was really surprised and happy! i had decided that from now on i will start a new tradition where we do Christmas's around the world. It was fun. One night we did France. Pierre Noel Came to our house. We laid out our shoes and woke up in the morning to find them filled with little toys and treats. Mady loved hers and found it as soon as she got up. :) Then one night we did Germany. We invited my family over for that. We did an advent calender and tried our hand at ginger bread houses. It was also really fun. We also did another day. I be live it was japan. you clean the house really well in preparation for Christmas. Sorry i didn't take any pictures ahaha. Then we had the huntsman Christmas party at my mom on Christmas eve. Then stayed up late playing games and having fun. We spent the night at my parents and woke up for Christmas the next morning. Mady loved it. The only problem was after she opened a few gifts she wasn't interested in opening any others she just wanted to play haha I've learned my lesson. Get her less things :) then we had the murri Christmas party which as always was a blast. then we made the journey to Washington the next morning. We drove to Utah and then flew to Seattle then drove from Seattle to Custer. It was long but it was nice to see all of johns family. We had fun. Played games, went five pin bowling in Canada, and just enjoyed each others company. It would have been a lot more pleasant if Mady hadn't gotten sick. I don't know what it is about Washington but we always end up getting sick with one thing or another. Poor girl had a fever fro more than 3 days (First time ever getting a fever). I'm pretty sure she had a sore throat and just was not a very happy girl. She felt better about the second day we got home. It was nice to have my little girl back to normal. I wasn't a big fan when she was so grumpy, but i don't know too many people that are happy when they are sick :) Then after a while we went to my parents to watch the final college football game. It was really fun and we found out how much Mady really loves popcorn :) She's worse than her parents :) Speaking of Mady.... and speaking of speaking and Mady. She had started to say her first words. She has babbled out a bunch of gibberish for a long time and she understands what i say very well. She just doesn't feel like talking. finally she decided to. Her first words are...(Well they are more like phrases)..... Thank you, Here you go, Uh-oh, I did it! That's pretty much it so far but its pretty darn cute. Well enjoy some pics and i will hopefully post again soon :)

I Know It's About Time :)

So i haven't posted for a long time. Its been the same ol same ol at our house except for the very very fun week of thanksgiving. It was so fun having the family all together again! :) Here are some pics :)




















So Mady has been growing by leaps and bounds haha well not physically really just developmently. She still won't say any words but she talks your ear off. She loves talking on the phone even if her phone is just her hand. She loves to run around with her fingers in her ears and also learned how to jump haha kind of.She also loves to color :). she loves to dance and sing and when she doesn't get her way she is the queen of tantrums... ok ok hold your comments i know where she gets it :) Although i'm pretty sure i didn't mutilate myself for fun. Mady will hit her head against anything in a tantrum; tile, doors, walls, couches, people. One time I gave her the wrong wii remote so she threw it and it didn't go very far so it hit her in the head. It hurt her so she decided to grab that remote and continue to slam it into her head. ...... uh so dramatic. She is getting a bunch of teeth and is such a grump continues to wake up in the middle of the night screaming and i don't know why... i hope its just because of all her new teeth coming in. Well that's about it for us i'll try and post my new recipies i'm going to try. Homemade caramel, english tofee, and fudge mmmmmm mmmmm :)

New shutterfly post :)

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New diet..... woohoo :)

so i've started a new diet and plan to stick with it. It is a diet for women with pcos, pretty much a diabetic diet. I can't have anything white, white bread, white rice, tortillas ect. instead i have to have whole wheat :( blah but oh well. I also can't have any sugar or snack foods. so pretty much i'm living of proteins like nuts eggs and meat. And i can also have as many veggies and fruits as i want besides the good ones like potatoes and corn. I started it on saturday and it is really hard when your husband takes a big bite into pizza :( or on fast sunday feeding your little one goldfish and you know you can't have them and not because it's fast sunday :) it was even worse when she kept offering them to me :) so for saturday dinner i made burritos with whole wheat tortillas, brown rice, black beans and some cilantro and other stuff. They were actually really good. Sunday i made a beef thingamajig in the crockpot that you put over egg noodles. it was pretty good too. Now i'm enjoying a smoothie of fruit and ice for breakfast. If anyone would like to try this diet with me i will post the recipies for you. I'm going to go till thanksgiving and see if i lose a pound. If i do i'll keep going if not i'll.... ah who knows...
well wish me luck i'll need all i can get.