Loving their Daddy

And this is why I love him too!!! :0)

Trick o' Treat

I know this is late, but I just wanted to remember how fun our Halloween was.  Ariana dressed up like Tinkerbell and loved her wig.  Viggo was a little Ninja and he detested his head band.  The only way I got him to wear it was by distracting him.  I would place it on his head, and ask him if he wanted a fruit snack.  Yup fruit snacks made him forget that he had a headband on. 

 

I know this shot is blurry but I love it.  One of these days I am going to get an awesome camera and take beautiful pictures.  

My oh sooo tough boys

 

The girl pumpkin is suppose to represent Ariana's personality, and the big smiley one is suppose to represent Viggo.  Then David and I tried to do a bat symbol with the letter "E" for Ettinger.

 This is a pic of Irma and Raquel.  They are such good friends.  I have been so lucky in my life to have met and made such wonderful friends in my life.

 

I love this pic because one I think it's silly, andd two because you can almost tell that David actually is enjoying this pose.  Hmmmmmm......

 Another pic of my kids.  I can't help it.  I love what good little friends they are becoming.

 

She was soooo excited to go trick or treating :)

 

They just make my heart melt.  Don't get me wrong there are days they make me want to pull out my hair, but nothing brings me more joy than they do.

The two ninja's out trunk o' treating

 My David :0)

Thanksgiving

I don't know how I can describe in words how scared I was to ruin Thanksgiving.  The week before David helped me go through a mini trial run.  I roasted a turkey and made a few pie crusts to make sure that they would come out light and flaky.  Lets just say the trial run of the bird was not so good.  David and I cleaned out the turkey and we got a lot of stuff out, and we looked for the bag that everyone talks about but we could not find it so we assumed that it did not have one.  Well as I was cooking the bird I thought that it was cooking really fast.  The temperature on the thermometer said it was fully cooked a whole hour before it was suppose to be done.  Needless to say that as we cut the turkey we found the bag in the back, not in it's cavity!!! So I guess the steam from the bag was making it read a hire temperature than the actual bird really was.  So glad we trialed it a week before :/  Or else I would have presented a raw turkey.

David' sister Sara and her husband Kevin and their two "babies" Lucian and Gaia came up on Wednesday.  We decided that since David only got Thursday off that we would play all day Thursday and then have our Thanksgiving Friday night.   So we headed up to Sedona and went off roading.  It was fun......but was way too cold.  Seriously I never thought I would get feeling back in my hands.  We felt so bad that they trailed their off road vehicles behind them all the way from L.A.  It was sooo cold that it was fun but at the same time really uncomfortable.  Here are some pics from that.  

 

Getting the vehicles ready to go!!

  

I can't help it here are a few shots of my beautiful baby boy!!

 

He's been such a goof lately.  He likes to make us laugh by making funny faces :)

 

 

Viggo wouldn't look at the camera because he was too focused on Gaia who I didn't notice got cut out.

 Poor little Gaia got soooo cold

This is a good indicator showing how cold it was.  Ariana would have never buckled the hoodie if she weren't freezing cold for fear that it would make her outfit look funny.  She did not contest it once.
 

Yup we hit snow, and that's when we decided it was too cold to keep going.

After off roading we searched for a place to eat but it being Thanksgiving it was pretty hard.  We ended up eating at Dairy Queen, and yes even though we were all cold we all did eat ice cream.  If you know anything about the Ettinger's is that ice cream is always a must even when its cold. We got home just in time to meet David's other sister Leah who was coming into town with her adorable family.  It was so much fun having family in the home.  Ariana loves Ella and Maci, and they played so much that night, and then the next day they played non stop.  They were exhausted by the end of the night.  When family visits, it always makes David and I a little sad that we are not closer to everyone.  But Arizona has been good to us, so we can't complain too much.  I was so glad that David's sisters came up, they helped me cook all day.  Literally we cooked all day.  I think we started at 10:00 a.m and we cooked until about 6:00 p.m non-stop.

Seriously I have never cooked so much food in my life.  My feet hurt, and so did my back.  And then I was sore the next morning.  Sad but true :(   I am so sad that I didn't get more pics on Friday of the kids and everyone.  I just forgot to take pics with all the cooking we were doing.  But her are some that Sara took.  It was a fun Thanksgiving, but I am grateful that for Christmas my mom is doing the cooking :0)

Here are my nieces.  They are so adorable!! I love when Ariana gets cousin time.  Its wonderful!! And what I love most is how well they all get along.  They never fight,  they just play until they drop. 

My boy love's Sara and Kevin's dogs especially Lucian ( the big pitbull).  I wish I had video.  I feel so sad for him, because he still wakes up every morning asking for Lucian and walks around the house looking for him.  I don't know how much longer we are going to be able to avoid having a pet

Hosting Thanksgiving

Ahhhhh I am hosting Thanksgiving, and I am sooooo nervous.
I keep seeing myself like Chevy Chase taking out a gorgeous turkey only to see it deflate before my eyes. Will let you know how it all turned out. :0)

Primary Program Oct 2010

Ariana participated in her first primary program!!! She was wonderful. She had her part memorized and didn't need any help when she got up there to give her part. I loved that when she got up all you saw was her hand raise up to pull down the microphone, and you couldn't even see her as you heard her little voice say " yo se que vive mi salvador". I made all the girls these flowers for their hair and I made the boys little boutonnieres. It was such a fun day. I loved how Ariana would dance while she was singing. Seriously she would dance during all the songs. Luckily she just danced in her spot. Below are some pics that we took before. She is in a stage right now where she loves to be silly, and make silly faces. This is a really fun age.

I'm a Big Boy Now!!

Viggo has been announcing every time that he goes pee and poo poo's. And when he is bathing he asks to be taken out to go potty all the time. Can you tell how proud he is. I am not going to take his pampers away till he turns two. And then there is no going back. But for now I just want him to have fun thinking that the potty is fun, and come April we go into potty boot camp mode. No going out for a straight week until we get it down. Or two or three depending on how this method works with boys :/ I don't do the whole pull up thing. My relief society president from agua fria Lili Quintero taught me you just take the pampers away. For the first couple of days you run around cleaning up after their accidents but by day three they are almost as good as gold. At least Ariana was. And by the end of the week you got yourself a potty trained kid. This worked great with Ariana but she is a girl. We will find how long potty training boot camp goes for Viggo.

Project #1

We moved into our new home and realized that we were tired of our huge Ikea corner desk. It just took up way to much room. So we went to goodwill and looked for an old desk that we could fix up. And this is what we found. I loved it!!! All it needed was a fresh coat of paint and some new hardware. I loved the storage space on the side of it that had sliding drawers.

Here is my little helper. While Viggo sleeps we get to work.

Here is a fresh coat of paint, and it's new hardware.

It looks really purple here, but in my room it looks perfect. I wanted a pop of color to go against my light grey furniture. Project #1 is officially done.