Happy Anniversary, Jakey!

I can't believe we've been married for four years already! Where did the time go? I have had so much fun being married to you. You're the best husband in the world and I'm so glad I chose to marry you. Thanks for being so good to me and little Bridger. I love you so much!

Family Picture

We finally got a picture of our little family! We took it over Thanksgiving while we were up in Idaho with Jake's family. We took pictures of the whole Nielsen side (which I don't have yet, but I'll be sure to post them) and we took individual family pictures. Bridger is so cute in this picture! I love it!

Journal

If you are horrible at writing in your journal like I am, check out LDSjournal.com. My mother-in-law told me about it and I love it! I have actually started writing in a journal that I enjoy! I've done it for a whole week now! That doesn't sound like much but it's an accomplishment for me. It's online but if you want to print it out in a book format you can when you get enough pages written. I also started one for Bridger where I type about what he's been up to. It's really fun and I think he'll love to read it when he's older. (You have to be 13 years old though so I had to fib about his age.) Anyway, I just thought I'd share.

Ready for Christmas!

The Monday after Thanksgiving, Jake, Bridger, and I bought our Christmas tree and got it all decorated. It's always my favorite FHE of the year. Jake made a fire, we ate cinnamon toast and drank hot chocolate, listened to Christmas music, put up our Christmas lights, and decorated the tree all in time for Jake to make it to play tennis at Scott's by 9:00pm. Bridger loves the tree and luckily he is not interested in crawling or walking yet or he would eat it up!

Thanksgiving #2

We were lucky this year to be able to have TWO Thanksgiving dinners in a row! On Thanksgiving day Zach flew in and the next day we drove up to Idaho Falls to be with Jake's family. Everyone was there and Misty and Vernon hosted our Thanksgiving meal. It was fun to spend some time together again. While we were altogether we took family pictures too (which turned out to be so cute!). We also got to go to Eeva's blessing on Sunday before we came home. It was a great weekend! I just realized while I was going through my pictures that I didn't take very many. Whoops! Oh well, enjoy the few that I did take!

Jake holding Eeva

Papa making Bridger laugh

The cute Richmond family

Grandma, Misty, and Eeva

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving day! This year we had dinner with my mom's side of the family. The Smith family had grown so much that we have to have our dinner at a church building. The food was delicious and it was fun spending time with cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. I have always loved Thanksgiving! What could be better than sitting around with your family stuffing yourself silly with some of the best food in the world?

Me and Jake

Bridger just hanging out and chewing on his binkie

It was fun getting to spend time with my cousin/old roommate, Liz, and her cute kids!

My mom and Aunt Sandy

I tried to get everyone in one picture but I couldn't even fit everyone so here's about 3/4 of the group.

Meeting Eeva

Misty stopped by my parents house while she was in Salt Lake so Bridger and I could meet baby Eeva. (Jake already met her when he picked up Lynnadele from Idaho Falls just a few days after she was born). She is Bridger's first girl cousin on Jake's side of the family. We were so excited to meet her! She is adorable! She will have to be one tough little chick with four boy cousins and one more on the way!

Uncle Jake and Eeva

Eeva, Jake, Misty, and Bridger

Family Pictures

A few weeks ago we took some family pictures in my mom and dad's back yard. We didn't have any professional photographer take them, we just set up my mom's camera on a tripod and took a bunch of pictures. Then Barry doctored up the picture on his high-tech computer program and made it look just right. It turned out to be one of our best pictures ever! We're going to do it this way from now on. Goodbye expensive professional photographers!

The pictures below are taken on my camera so they're nothing special but turned out pretty cute. Some day I want to be a part of the D50 club!

Our little family

Bridger and Mommy

Daddy and Bridger

Grandpa making Bridger laugh

Brody and Corine's family

The original Hart family

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids

Happy Halloween!

Bridger had a wonderful time on his first Halloween! After our morning walk, we went over to Grandma Hart's to carve pumpkins. After a few hours we had only finished three pumpkins but they turned out great. Here they are:




We had a few left over from the party the week before but they were already rotting so they didn't look too great. My mom and dad bought me and Brooke a gingerbread haunted house and so we put that together after the pumpkins. It turned out pretty cute!




After dinner we went home and got ready for trick or treating. Jake and I were more excited than Bridger 'cause we were the ones who were going to eat all the candy! We stopped by Scott and Lori's for some yummy carmel apples, then we stopped at Cookie and Steve's but they weren't home. Next, we visited Great Grandma Donna and had some delicious apple crisp. Then we went to Great Grandma and Grandpa Smith's for some more treats! Grandma Smith couldn't recognize Jake in his Captain Jack costume. She was wondering what a crazy looking long haired woman was doing in their house holding Bridger. To finish the night off we went back to my mom and dad's and hung out for a while. Bridger had such a fun day and was all tuckered out by the end of the night. What a fun holiday!

Great Grandma Donna and Captain Bridger

I bought these silly Halloween binkies for Bridger. This one was hilarious!

Brooke and Emily as twinner zombies. Yikes!

Bridger fast asleep after his fun first Halloween

Harts' Halloween Party

Our annual Halloween party was on October 23rd this year at my parents' house. My mom, Brooke, and I had a fun time making Halloween treats and getting ready for the party. We love Halloween!

Almost everyone that came dressed up. There were some pretty awesome costumes this year! We also carved some sweet pumpkins! Here are some pictures from the party:

We had homemade root beer, little witch hats and brooms, fiber one monsters, sugar cookies, taco soup, chips and salsa, fruit, veggies, and it was all delicious!

I got this cute pirate costume for Bridger at Babies 'R' Us. Have you seen a cuter pirate?

Eliza as Tinkerbell, Grandma Donna as a Socialite, Mom and Dad as Peter Pan and a Sheriff, and Jake as Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp's got nothing on Jake!

Steve came as, well...Steve, Jake, Bridger and I were pirates, Zach was a gorilla (and scared little Ivy to death), Cookie was a bomber pilot, and Madie was the Devil.

Turk was there as Tobias from Arrested Development (even though he's never seen it--Barry and I decided that's who he was), Makenzie was a dentist, Barry was a pilot, Ivy was a fairy, Jessie was Taylor Swift with Jason as Kanye West (hilarious!), Driggs was a baby monkey, Whitney was a zebra, and Brooke didn't quite get her costume ready in time for the party but I'm sure it'll be awesome when she's finished.

We finished the night off by carving pumpkins. Thanks to everyone who came and made it a great party!

Smith Family Pumpkin Party

Every year my Grandma and Grandpa Smith have the whole family over for a pumpkin party. We have a yummy dinner, eat lots of desserts, drink hot chocolate, make s'mores, and pick out our pumpkins from Grandpa's pumpkin patch. It's always a blast and this year we had Brandy with us. Bridger loved it--at least the part he was awake for. What a great party! Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa!

Bridger in the pumpkin patch

Brody and Corine's family with Jake

Lori, Mom, and Blaine

Mommy and Bridger

Jakey, Bridger, and Brandy

Great Uncle Darrell, Grandma and Grandpa Smith

Brandy's visit

We've been so lucky to have Jake's family members visit one by one for the past couple of months. This past week Brandy came to Salt Lake for a scrapbooking convention and we got to have her stay at our house. We had fun going out to dinner, watching movies, going to the pumpkin party, and just hanging out. Here are a few pictures from her visit:

Brandy and Bridger

Here we are at the Smith family pumpkin party