Oooh, Lights...

Last week we went with Adam, Bri, and Brody to see the lights at Temple Square. It was quite chilly! For future Temple Square light view excursions I highly recommend Thursday nights. It wasn't crowded which was nice!

Isaiah and Me...

Brody checking out the floating lights. (Man those are way cool!)

All of us...

Just horsing around!

Festival of Trees!

Earlier this week my mom and I went to the Festival of Trees to watch my younger brother Mathew play the Obo in the Jordan Youth Symphony. It was a group of students from 15 different schools. They were soooo good! He has come a long way since I heard him play in elementary school years ago!

After the performance my mom and I wandered around. The first time I went to the festival I don't remember the wreath section. I thought these were way cool!



This is my mom and me in front of one of my favorite wreaths.

If I was rich and buying a tree I would have bought this one for Isaiah :)...... Go Jazz!

This tree was really cool. It was done out of glass!! It was drawing quite a crowd and if I was giving awards it definitely would have received most unique.

Adam V this is for you... When I saw this I thought if you ever had a Christmas Village it would surely have Jeeps and trucks in the parking lot!

I thought this gingerbread house was fun. People are so creative!!

Making Room for Turkey!

To make room for our Thanksgiving feast Isaiah and I ran the Cottonwood Heights 5K Thanksgiving morning. We had a great time! We got some cool shirts (love the mustard color) and even got to wear cool racer numbers and put timing chips on our shoes like Olympic runners use!

Here is how we did:

Isaiah 23 minutes 31 seconds

Rosie 32 minutes 24 seconds

Isaiah did great! He ranked 83rd out of 500 men and I was 189 out of 500 women. I did ok despite the 4 hills they snuck into the course. The hills KILLED me and even though I didn't make it in under 30 minutes I'm just proud to say I didn't walk! We did beat the Cottonwood Heights mayor to the finish line and got a ribbon to prove it :)

So we are officially addicted to 5K's. If anyone is interested in doing them I highly recommend it. It is a great way to stay in shape and lots of fun!!

Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday. You get to spend time with family without all the stress of Christmas and finding the perfect gift. I love sitting back and thinking about all the things I'm grateful for like...

• Our jobs


• Great Families


• A nice warm home


• Food


• Adoption


• A freaking amazing Husband!

Usually we go down to my Uncles and spend Thanksgiving with my extended family running amuck in the country and four wheeling. We decided to stay here this Thanksgiving and just relax. We had dinner with my family Wednesday night and ate with Isaiah's on Thursday. All in all it was a great week!

3 New Little Buddies

Last Thursday I finally was able to get Becky, Leslie, and Bri together. They all have kids about the same age and I always tell them about eachother. I packed up my little Mazda Protege with two carseats and two pregnant Momma's (we found out Les and Bri have the same due date too!) and made the trek out to Stansbury. Props to Bri and Les for taking turns squishing in the middle between the carseats. (Man I should have taken some pictures of that!)


Here are a few pictures of the kids having fun...



Payton was a little shy at first but after he warmed up to the idea of two strange kids playing with his toys he had a great time!


Check out that smile!




Makayla was not the biggest fan of the boys (which is good. I'm hoping she won't like them until she's 21...or 22) She was a good sport and put up with them though :) (I know I'm biased but isn't my niece adorable?! I absolutely melt when she says Rosie too!)

Brody loved this jungle jim thing. It had a slide and places to climb on. What a face. Isn't this kid adorable?!

Payt and Brody were good buds. They had lots of fun together!

(doesn't Brody look like he is the 'look out'? We'll have to keep an eye on these two in the future. They could do a lot of mischief together :)

Makayla loves babies! She went to say hi to Cole and he grabbed her hair. No wonder she doesn't like boys :)

I tried to get Payton and Brody to both look at me and say CHEESE at the same time!

While one looked and said cheese the other looked away. This went on for a few pictures...

It was pretty funny!

I thought this was cute...


It was lots of fun to see these three kids play. It was fun to get my niece and two of my best friend's kids together having a good time. Hopefully Isaiah and I will get one of our own soon so we can do this more!!

Thanks Beck for letting us run amuck at your house!

Adoption 5K at Liberty Park

Yesterday Isaiah and I ran in the Adoption 5K at Liberty Park.

November is National Adoption month and Families Supporting Adoption organized the get together to help raise Adoption awareness locally.

It was beautiful yesterday and Isaiah and I were really excited to run. We've been running between 3 to 5 miles a week lately so the 3.1 miles in the 5K were a piece of cake!

I ran a 5K at work earlier this year and finished it around 36 minutes. Our goal was to complete this 5K in under 30 minutes.

Here's how we did:

Isaiah 27 minutes 25 seconds!
Rosie 29 minutes 18 seconds!

We were stoked to meet our goal. Next on our list - Cottonwood Heights Thanksgiving Day 5K.

I was so excited that they were selling shirts for $2.50!

It wasn't until on the way home I realized they sold us leftover shirts from last years 5K!!

We thought that was hilarious!

So that's how it works...

Like any couple who has tried to get pregnant Isaiah and I have received our fair share of advice - which I won't publish.

I feel this was the best advice of all... It just would have been helpful a few years ago :)

26 Years Ago...

In honor of my birthday (and the really cool scanner Isaiah bought me for my birthday) I thought a flashback was in order.



This is what I looked like 26 years ago...



I promise my parents really did like me. Apparently people didn't smile in pictures in the 1980's!


This is my cute Grandma Warenski holding me and my brother Brandon (aren't we adorable ?!)


When we were little we'd get our grandma's confused so we referred to her as "Grandma with the white hair."

So...what did I do for my birthday?

I like to keep things low key. Paris for breakfast, Italy for lunch, and Cafe Rio for dinner. JK.

On Saturday night my family went out to eat at one of my favorite places- Paradise Bakery.

(If you've never been there they have the most amazing sandwiches, cookies, and tomato soup).

My Aunt Renee (on the right) busted out a kazoo and as loud as she could 'kazooed' Happy Birthday to me. It was great!


My birthday started bright and early with a birthday text from Aunt Renee at 6AM (yikes) then Uncle B call me at 6:30AM to sing me an amazing Happy Birthday (he is a great singer)...a nice way to wake up but it would have been better around 8 ;)


I worked a half day where my team surprised me with cupcakes and another lovely rendition of Happy Birthday. (Thanks Team!)


I ate lunch with Isaiah then went shopping! I picked up the above mentioned scanner, which (drum role) scans photos, slides, and negatives! It totally rocks since we have hundreds of slides from when I was a kid.


Isaiah brought home Cafe Rio for dinner then treated me to a back massage and foot rub.


I can't forget the text, phone calls, and blog shout outs I got too. (I cried when I read them.

Thanks everyone for posting our adoption info. That is the best birthday present ever!)


Thanks everyone! It was a great b-day!


(PS...now that I have a scanner watch for more flashbacks...girl's camp, college, it's going to be fun :)