House full of Turkeys :)

This Thanksgiving was bittersweet. I love Holidays... BUT our family was missed. VERY much missed. :) We were 'volunteered' to do a turkey for the wards' thanksgiving. FIRST time for everything right?! It was really fun makin the turkey and actually having our house smell like, well... Turkey. We were proud of our little bird and how well it turned out :) Too bad we had a small turn out to our ward's Thanksgiving... (hope it's not because they found out who was makin turkey ! ) Nonetheless, we made the best of it and enjoyed the thanksgiving day parade, spending time with friends and looking at the Black friday ads, and standing in line AT FREAKING MIDNIGHT at TOYS R US !!! Now, THAT'S one for the books people.

Wes and our little bird friend

Paisley and Kate! What would we do without those two silly turkeys!

Here's what we're THANKFUL for this THANKSGIVING.




Watching the DORA float on the Thanksgiving parade :)

LASTLY, it was the very end of the day and we realized we didnt have anyone take a picture of our little family. Thanks to the self timer on my camera, we got one. (Despite the awkward crop job.)

WE ARE THANKFUL FOR SO MANY THINGS AT THIS WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR. MAY YOUR DAYS BE MERRY AND BRIGHT ,
LOVE, THE WRIGHT'S


PS. Happy Black Friday!
It was my first time EVER going out into the madness, and from here on out I will be doing it every YEAR!

Laughing is healthy.

Today, I was practically at my wits end with Paisley. She really IS great, but today she was extra naughty. But why why WHY, must she say the funniest things to make me laugh while I'm trying to be SERIOUS with her ? ? ?

Here's some things she said today that had me in stitches... (and sometimes I forget how funny something was unless I write it down... ) Hence, this post.

*Today we are at Wal- Mart and Paisley decides to "run amuck" of course. I'm trying to pay the lady and Paisley gets quiet, and she "toots." As if no one heard it, she announced at the top of her lungs "TOOOTED" and then she laughed to herself. ha ha.

*Tonight we are having dinner. I didn't forget that Paisley isn't a fan of BROCCOLI, but Im trying to believe that maybe one day she'll like it. (high hopes, I know.) So she eats the broccoli, makes a nauseous face, spits it out, quickly changes her face to a happy one then looks at me, and says ' I LIKE IT' !

*Today at the gym I was getting my stuff out of the locker and then I put Paisley's jacket on that she had ripped off. I'm not paying attention to the half nude woman beside me, but Paisley noticed her underwear AND reported " PANTIES.... pretty !! ". I had to laugh. Good thing she's so observant, right?

*Paisley sometimes will call you "guy" or "girl" if she doesn't know your name. Today at the gym, in the LADIES locker room, she called a lady "GUY"... uh, oops?! The "guy" was indeed a lady. I just pretended like I didn't hear her and HOPED the guy/lady didn't hear it!

*As I told Paisley it was time to go to bed, she looks me in the eye, get "this" close to my face, points her little finger and says "MINUTES". Once again, I had to laugh. And she won. I gave her more "minutes".

I know I need to be more of a "stickler" a lot of the time. But sometimes, I'm okay with just laughing instead.

HOPE YOUR DAY IS GREAT! HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!
ps. IM COOKING A TURKEY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, SOOOO.... WISH ME LUCK!

Thursday night we went out for a yummy dinner downtown.

Then we headed to stand in line for the.........


And we live in NEBRASKA... so...we uh, FROZE our little behinds OFF !!! It was so much fun playing cards, laughing at the psycho's that surrounded us, snacking, drinkin hot chocolate trying to stay warm, and trying to avoid the news crews that were there(because we're too old and mature for that!! haha)




I just have to add that we LOVED THE MOVIE!!!!!!! IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER THAN I had anticipated. And thank you JACOB for being so ATTRACTIVE. I had no idea I liked you so much until I saw this movie!! That's all I want to say about the movie, otherwise I could just go on and on.

THANKS GIRLS FOR THE AWESOME TIME!!! AND GOOD JOB TRACI ON PARALLEL PARKING DOWNTOWN AND NOT HITTING ANY CARS :) i absolutely could not have done it!

A surprise visit from Aunt Sandy and Andrew...

Aunt Sandy and Andrew paid us a special surprise visit this weekend!!!!!! They came all the way from Jersey! Can you even believe how LUCKY we are!!!! It was a really quick trip, but nothing has ever been MORE worth it!!!! They heard how amazing Granite City (wes's resturaunt) was and made a trip all the way to lincoln NE just to try it!!! WOWWWZAA!!!

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SURPRISE!!!!!!

Aunt Sandy + Andrew = WES'S SISTERS; HEIDI AND AUBREY!!!!!

can you even believe how different they look without their disguises???!!!???

This was the ULTIMATE SECRET I'VE EVER HAD TO KEEP FROM WES!!!! I knew a month ago that they were coming out to surprise him and I didn't so much as breathe a word!!!!!!

Aren't their disguises FANTASTIC!!! ??? !!!! We made sure that Wes was their waiter for the night. He even bumped in to the girls before they sat down to their table and didn't even RECOGNIZE them !!!!!! Aubrey's character was 'ANDREW' and she/he simply had the hood jacket over the head and an i pod going with headphones, who was texting the whole time. Typical THUG teenager. And with Heidi layin' on her best "jersey" accent and sayin hilarious things like "andrew, put ya damn cell phone down and tell the man what ya want to drink." ---- she had me rollin', and she had WES COMPLETELY SOLD!!!!!!!!hahaha. He even talked to them for a bit when they sat down and took their drink order. It wasnt until after he brought the drinks and they started to order that he started to figure it out!!! It was HILARIOUS. They pulled it off so well!!! It went off without a hitch! it was absolutely PERFECT!!! And it made Wes's entire year!!!!!

here we are at the resturaunt after he figured it out!!!

Aubrey and Paisley

Paisley wanting to be in disguise !here's one that the self timer on the camera got of us! ( i look like a dragon lady with my neck looking weird) BUT, whatever, i think it's a great shot of everyone else!!
what a great time. Next time we want you longer, but we LOVED EVERY SECOND WITH YOU!!!!!!!!
TILL NEXT TIME

WES, ASH AND PAIZERS :)

ps. Heidi, we need some of your pics, because these are the only ones from my camera. i know you got some good ones :)
love ya!

Just thinking...

how quickly time seems to go. It's Paisley's BIRTHDAY TODAY and she's TWO ! It's crazy, sometimes I feel like I BLINKED and my newborn turned 2 !!! Other days I feel like we've had her and known her for such a long time! MAN, WE LOVE HER!








This year Paisley and her friend Kate had a combined lollipop party for their birthday! (their birthdays are just a few days apart!) It turned out super cute and we had so much fun! It was funny because they knew it was their party and im pretty sure they LIVED IT UP! thanks to all our friends and family for thinking of Paisley's birthday :) WE love you!




Paisley had BIRTHDAY PANCAKES WITH SPRINKLES for Breakfast and then she opened a couple presents. She loved opening the gifts and thought they were great!
We took a couple of birthday pictures and then went to play at McDonalds!! What a day!

Paisley is such a sweet and special, spicy and spunky, perfect for US, little girl!

We LOVE our PAISLEY MAY !!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY POOPERS!
Love Always,
Mom & Dad :) :)

HALLOWEEN...




This Halloween was so SPOOK-TACULAR ! Paisley had a blast! She's been saying "witches", "ghosts", and "spooky" for weeks now :) IT's been really fun. The highlight this past week was having my MOM here for all of it! We decided to go to the PUMPKIN PATCH on HALLOWEEN morning and we had a great time!







We also carved pumpkins in our jammies. Paisley loved the pumpkin seeds :) She also had her own little tiny pumpkin that was so cute!








We went trick or treating in a nice neighborhood and enjoyed the weather and looking at all the nice houses :) The street reminded me of disneyland!!! IT had that halloween MAGIC :)Paisley and her bff Kate were absolutely"BOOTIFUL" in their costumes; PUNK ROCKER AND A PRINCESS. It was hilarious to watch as they ran up to each door and said "candy" !!! It was the funnest night EVER !! I decided that we're going to go trick or treating every year at this same place; and my mom is going to come out too because she LOVED it that much! (YESSSSS!!!!)

pS. does this house not look like THE HAUNTED MANSION!!!????!!! IT WAS SO COOL :) we had to get a group shot! Matt and Traci are always a hit with Paisley! (matt even carried Paisley's wand the whole night)!
















wes had to work that night :( BUT we made up for it by having dessert at his restaurant :) Notice that paisley is COMPLETELY OUT! She was sound asleep in my lap :) This rarely happens. She must have been exhausted from all the partying that night!

we are just loving fall...
it's perfect. if ONLY it could just STAY like THIS ...... FOR-EV-ER! It's like I always say to Wes:"Fall weather in Nebraska reminds me of Christmas in Az, and WINTER in Nebraska reminds me, of... well, HELL." But let's just not go there, m'kay?!

SOOOOO.... in the meantime, we will be LIVING & LOVING every second we get of FALL...

But, PLEASE, for the love- DON'T GO TOO SOON :)