Forava Moore

Change of plans

2011-05-24T10:54:00.003-06:00

Well friends we are not going to chiropractic school. I think we just thought "fine we got in, lets do it so our heads don't hurt anymore." However, we didn't feel great about it. So we have a few other plans up our sleeves. We will let you know in the near future what we decide. I guess this time I should make sure that is what we are going to do before I post it.

P.S we cruise in 39 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Team Aniston

2011-05-23T10:43:00.003-06:00

If you know me you know that I am a HUGE Friends fan. Ever since I was in the second grade my mom and I were watching friends. So of course I think Jennifer Aniston is beautiful. When the whole "Brad left Jen for Angelina" thing happened I was furious! Who would leave Jen for some gross tattooed, make out with her brother, lesbian only on Wednesdays girl! I really do not like her or Brad for that matter! Not only are they not married but I keep hearing that Brad and Angelina don't even live together anymore. She has a girlfriend that lives with her. Every time they are on the red carpet its such a sham! Blehhh I can't even watch a movie with her in it. Shes like a gross wanna be man. So what about you?? Team Aniston or Team Jolie?

Weird

2011-05-21T22:46:00.002-06:00

Ever since conference this past April I have made a goal to attend the temple once a week for a year. When I go I usually get into deep thought about what we are struggling with that week, what career path to take or things I need to work on. However, tonight when I attended I got into deep thought about what advise I am going to teach my teenagers to prepare for the temple. Really? I wont have a teenager for 11 years. I KEPT thinking of what I'm going to say to them to prepare for the temple. Advise that I wished I focused more on when I was a teen. I even came up with creative ideas on how to help them. So I hurried home and wrote it down in my journal to remember. It was weird though. It wasn't just for my children. It was for a group. My achievement day girls maybe? I had the whole talk done when the session was over. Tonight was definitely a different experience than what usually happens when I go.

Lets change things up

2011-05-19T11:44:00.004-06:00

So I have 3 guilty pleasures in life. Anything red velvet, anything cheesecake (put those together HEAVEN!) and the 3rd is celebrity gossip. I'm not exactly proud of this. However, I do know who's dating who and who's cheating who. I don't know why but I get into whats going on in the celeb world. So I thought why not share my thoughts on here and I want to hear YOUR thoughts. If you do not agree with my thoughts that I post that's OK I want to know what other people think about the subject. I know this is kinda silly but I thought it would be fun.

First things first. PIPA! I don't get it. Yes she is a pretty girl but I don't get why she is on the cover of every magazine. What's the big deal? She has a Tan and shes wearing makeup. I just don't get it. Thoughts?

2011-05-17T16:21:00.000-06:00

It's Monday

2011-05-16T11:59:00.002-06:00

Ava is throwing a tantrum as we speak she's in time out. Lots of laundry to do and not wanting to do it. Ava is still screaming. We are having company tonight so I need to clean. Ava is still screaming. Tanner is at work. Ava is still screaming. I thought we were done with the bad weather for good but today is a yucky day. Ava is still screaming.

Happy Monday!

It's official

2011-05-11T10:24:00.003-06:00

We are moving to L.A in August. Yesterday Tanner got accepted into SCU for chiropractic school. I'm not gonna lie this decision has not been very fun. For the majority of our marriage our decision was dental school. A few months ago we decided dental was not the way to go because it was not going to be something he loves to do. Then I asked him what about chiropractic school. After looking more into it we decided to go for it. Then the option of medical school in the Caribbean came into play. Tanner would want to go into dermatology. Yesterday we thought he couldn't get into medical school but a councilor from the school emailed him saying he could get in for winter semester, however the chances of him getting into a dermatology residency was very unlikely. Every time we kept coming back to chiropractic it just felt right. So after much stomach aches and nausea our final decision is Tanner is going to chiropractor school. Tanner feels really good about this. I feel really good about the decision but I have the flu so I could be feeling better. We are very happy tho. When we go down to California this summer we will be look at housing. I love that I know what our plan is. I have a time frame and that is all I wanted.

Stress?

2011-05-03T20:28:00.003-06:00

The past 3 days I have been stressed...apparently. I had no clue. Tanner was the one who had to tell me. I didn't believe him. Soo why do you ask? Well my handsome hubby graduated from Brigham Young University two weeks ago and now we have to make the final decisions on what career path he takes. This summer decides what we do for the rest of our life's. I hate that I don't know the specifics yet, maybe that's why I need a chill pill. I am very grateful for Tanners education and all the hard and extra science classes he took so we have lots of different paths we can take in the medical direction. Right now its between two careers and I hate that I don't know what it is yet. I'm scared that we are going to make the wrong decision. Responsibility is no fun.

He's cute

Thoughts

2011-04-27T19:19:00.003-06:00

I really need to work out. I have no excuses as to why I can't. My daughter will be 2 in June and I'm STILL not at my pre prego weight. You would think a cruise would motivate me to do it. I need a personal trainer. I had one in high school (not that I needed one because I played water polo, swim, tennis and ran ALL the time now I would LOVE to have that body back) However, I would feel silly to get a gym membership when we are trying to cut down costs. Wow sorry such a random boring post.

Here is something that you might enjoy.

One two three four five seeby eight nine ten TEN!

Mini golf, beautiful day and April fools

2011-04-01T22:32:00.003-06:00

Today was a really fun day. Tanner calls me up at about noon telling me "I want to take my ladies out". He ditched his class to take us Mini golfing...we had a blast! Ava was so funny....

I'm sure you can guess how the game went with Ava being in the way :)

Earlier in the day I found out on facebook that a girl in my ward was having twins. Of course she is not because it is April fools but if you saw her status and all the comments she put you would definitely have believed it. This also very believing because this pregnancy was a surprise (their little boy is about 7 months old). Then when she gets her ultra sound they tell her its a girl! She goes back few weeks later...nope its a boy. Who does that! What kind of Dr. would make that mistake even when she already has a boy! So this has been a fun pregnancy for her. Well today her husband gets on her facebook saying they are having twins. At first I didn't believe it but when people were saying "ya right April fools" he would reply with (on her facebook) "I guess I should have announced this tomorrow but it is true, I hope I can handle this. I am so excited but scared at the same time" Just comments like that got TONS of people thinking they were having twins. Well me being me, I was so excited for them. As we were playing outside today with our neighbors I was telling everyone! I was just so excited for them! Then I come on facebook tonight to find out it was not real.

Tj you did very well...bravo, bravo. Tara I am very sorry that you are going to have half our ward congratulating you on twins because of my big mouth :)

What a week!

2011-03-27T22:08:00.013-06:00

This week was very busy and I LOVED it! It makes me very happy when I have lots to do. Well it all started Tuesday morning when my mom flew into town :) She came for a Bon Jovi concert with her sisters. They are so funny. All 7 of them have LOVED John Bon Jovi forever. I think this was my moms 6th concert of his.

The next day my neighbor Lisa went to the hospital to get induced to have a her cute baby boy, so I had her daughter Evie (same age as Ava) for the next two days. They were so fun together. It was actually a lot easier to have both of them because they kept each other occupied. We went to the hospital a few times so Lisa could see Evie. Ava loves "Ebie"

Saturday was MeKells shower! Tanners cute cousin is getting married on April 29th (same day as the Royal Wedding) I threw her bridal shower. It was such a blast! Everything went perfect! We had it at their grandmas house. The theme was "For time and all eternity" also known as "Around the clock". The food was food through out the day.

Breakfast was stuffed crepes with homemade Buttermilk syrup.

Brunch was Mini Quiches. Lunch was chicken salad on white.

Dinner was chicken pineapple kabobs with dinner rolls that his grandma made AMAZING! I have yet to make really good dinner rolls.

Dessert was orange chocolate mousse

It was so cute when MeKell told us how she met Zack and how he proposed. She was smiling the whole time...awww love!

I wasn't very good at taking photos the whole time, so thees are not that great :(
MeKell got LOTS of great gifts. Great turn out about 24 people. The game we played was simple and I think people really liked it because it was not a "Typical" shower game. On everyone invitation they got a specific time of the day to buy a gift for MeKell. Example: Her cousin Tara had 12am so she got her late night snack food and a nightie :) So after MeKell opened presents everyone had to right down what time each person had. I did not tell before, so it was fun to see who was paying attention and who was not. The winner got a cute clock I found at Walmart.

Party Favors were fun to make. Cupcake in a Jar!

"Thank you for your Time"

Duckies want some num num's??

2011-03-23T15:00:00.008-06:00

"Ava do you want some num num's?" This is what I ask her every time I try to feed her. So when we were feeding the ducks today she kept asking the ducks "Duckies want some num num's?" It is such a beautiful day today. We met Tanner at the duck pool at BYU for lunch.

Teaching her how to feed the duckies.

Chasing the duckies

Trying to swim with the duckies

Up close with the duckies

Amazed by the duckies

I miss this girl

2011-03-11T14:44:00.003-07:00

Today is such a beautiful day outside. If this was exactly one year ago today I would be outside on the grass with Caroline and her cute kids. Spring coming just reminds me of them so much because that was when we became really close. All of us neighbors would go outside and get to know each other. I'm so bummed she lives in Florida now. I'm bummed their is dog poop on the grass so we can't sit their anymore. You would think the HOA would take care of that. I miss her kids not knowing how to knock on the door and just yelling "miss Alana, miss Alana, miss Alana" until I answered the door. It's also her husbands birthday today HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE!
Caroline- I was just looking at pics from your blog and you look AMAZING you did so good this pregnancy!! Caroline will be 37 weeks pregnant tomorrow :) Any day now Solomon Roy will be in this world!! haha I should probably be emailing her instead of letting everyone read this but I thought this would be more fun.
Caroline I miss you.

Fun weekend!

2011-03-07T14:01:00.003-07:00

Saturday night we planed going on a much need hubby and wife date. My sister and her hubby came down to watch Ava. I was looking forward to getting candy from the dollar store and going to the dollar movie to watch the new Harry Potter. Well Provo being Provo that did not happen. The theater was a joke. Every movie was sold out. I was SO looking forward to eating candy, watching the movie and holding the husbands hand. Luckily we had a back up plan. Our friends were hosting a game night at the club house but we turned down the invite because of our date. Well we called them up told them we were coming and had a blast. It was so fun. They have done this once before but with different people. They asked us to come again to "break the ice". I think they know I am an easy target for people to laugh at and Tanner is the one to egg it on :) The group are people in our ward. It's so fun to get to know people that you see every week but never really talk to them. I love our ward. I love this complex. There are so many fun people! So yes Saturday night was a success. Sunday was good as well. As we were leaving church a sister Adams came and said "Alana, do you know your daughter is special?" I'm thinking, Uh oh how should I take that? If its because of the red hair I'll fix it don't worry. "She is not like any other child. She is so funny, independent and knows what shes doing." Sister Adams is really nice and funny so I knew she was going to give Ava a complement. Yes that is our child though Miss Independent. I love that their is 100 kids in our ward and everyone just thinks Ava is hilarious. I don't think I will ever have to worry about her being a follower, she definitely is a leader.
When we got home from church Tanner wanted something delicious. He did not want dinner, he wanted sweets. So I made eclairs. I remember looking a recipes a while ago and wanting to try it. It was my first time ever making them but they turned out perfect! For the filling I put Vanilla pudding and Chocolate frosting for the top. This is something I will perfect in the future. Next time I want to put my chocolate orange mousse for the filling.

Just some blah blah blah

2011-03-03T20:52:00.004-07:00

Ava is down for the night and Tanner is in class. He is up in SLC again for class till 11 tonight but all other nights he works till 11 so its no difference for me. So how is everyone doing tonight? HA! Can you tell I have nothing to do right now :)

I'm throwing a bridal shower for Tanner's cousin MeKell. I'm so excited! She gets married on April 29 (same day as Prince William and Kate Middleton). So the shower will be some time early April.
My cousin and his wife had their baby yesterday. Carson MacKay Youd. (I love his name) Congratulations Cory and Kaitlyn!!

Here are some pics of the last few days.

Before the "the episode" at temple square, Ava had some fun.

In front of the statue of Joseph giving Emma funds to start The Relief Society.

Ava looks bummed posing in front of the Temple. Don't worry Ava you will get married in the San Diego Temple :)

She got in herself and wanted to drive. It's already starting...

Good day? Or day that needs to end?

2011-03-01T20:39:00.004-07:00

Tanner had to take a test at the BYU campus in SLC so we went with him! While he was taking his test I called up my fun cousin Megan to go to lunch, she goes to the U. We went to CPK. We had a great time. However, Ava spilt her apple juice all down her shirt and I did not bring an extra change of clothes (go me). So I took her shirt off and put her coat on with nothing under it (a little white trash, I'm not gunna lie). When I took Megan back to her place that was when I felt it. Yup the big . That means another month passing by with no fetus to greet us.
Anyway Tanner still had not called to say he was done so Ava and I walked around Temple square. It was such a beautiful day. We were having a great time until she saw it. The blue flowing paradise. The water fountain. Ava LOVES the water. She loves pools, baths, toilets ext... She immediately ran right to it and lifted her leg to get in. When I pulled her away she was SCREAMING hysterically. Now I know all kids have their moments and they are moody but I have never heard a child scream so loudly. I could not believe she was acting like this. She never acts like this. She screamed and screamed and screamed. There was kicking, laying on the ground screaming, hitting me screaming. Anything you can think of a toddler doing while throwing a tantrum, she was doing. Her screams were bouncing off the big, tall buildings. I tried to hurry to the car before the General Authority's came out of their office's to not only kick us out of temple square but kick us out of the church completely.
When we got home Tanner left for work and I put Ava down for nap :)
Tonight she threw another tantrum of not eating her dinner. I have made shepherds pie many times and she always eats it! I thought it was the terrible two's not the terrible 21 month's. I would show you pictures of the day but I can't find my phone.
Well I guess today was just another day for all moms out there.
I thought I was safe putting Ava to bed a little early tonight but she is crying. Got 2 go!

"Nemo Nemo Nemo"

2011-02-25T12:03:00.003-07:00

I hear this every day all day. Ava always wants to sit on our bed in the exact same spot and watch Finding Nemo. She knows when the scary parts are going to happen. She calls out for me right before they happen so I sit with her until the shark leaves. She laughs at the same spots in the movie. The movie just replays over and over. I love it because then I can do some things that I normally have to do when shes napping like, medical transcribing, loading unloading the dishwasher, sweep and mop. I need to be better at taking her outside to play. Its hard because there is a foot of snow on the ground right now. It's exciting that she likes characters from movies. The other day we went into the Disney store. She LOVED it. The floor was glittery, there was other kids in the store but most of all there was TONS of Bobbe's. Bobbe's are stuffed animals. She has been calling them that ever since she could talk. In the middle of the Disney store they have a huge tower of Bobbe's from all different characters. It was love at first sight. She was in heaven. She screamed, ran right up and grabbed 3 Mickeys. She loves Mickey because of Mickey Mouse Club house in the mornings on Disney. However, she would take her Bobbe's and run out of the store. Luckily the alarm did not go off but I did have some employees staring at me to make sure we were coming back :)

I loved Finding Nemo as well. I would quote the movie all the time. I would speak whale ALL the time. Now I wasn't 20 months old, I was a senior in high school (I was very mature). Even tho Finding Nemo is on all day everyday, it still cracks me up. That movie has great quotes.

Marlin: So, Mr. Turtle?
Crush: Whoa, Dude. Mister Turtle is my father. The name's Crush.

Lexi is here!

2011-02-24T12:03:00.003-07:00

Every Thursday I watch Lexi from about 11-1:30. I visit teach her mom and she needed someone to watch her every Thursday because she works just a couple hours at BYU. Lexi is by far the nicest, sweetest, easiest 4 year-old girl EVER! She is so polite and watches a movie the whole time. Ava gets VERY excited when she comes over. Ava copies Lexi on whatever she does, and Lexi shares her treats with Ava. They are very cute together.

Mood not so great.

2011-02-23T19:31:00.004-07:00

Do you ever just think of things that happen in the past and it just puts you in a bad mood? And if you relived that situation you would have told those people off?? Nope? Just me? Ok ok. I must be bored. I need to work on letting things go. I also doubt I would have told anyone off. I'm too chicken.

On a side note. I want my wedding pictures. I still have not gotten them from my photographer. I only have been married for almost 3 years. I have e-mailed him, called him NUMEROUS times and he will not get back to me. He is in California so the next time I am down there I am going where ever he works if I can get a hold of the address. My pictures are not on his website anymore. I'm hoping that he still has them and did not delete them. The pictures I have are what random people took of them at the wedding.

Yup that's about it. I do have one of us outside the temple but I don't have it on my computer. Now I'm in a bad mood again. I WANT MY PICTURES. It was the best day ever! I LOVED my wedding. I wouldn't have changed a thing! Well I would have definitely changed the photographer. It was such a blast but I will go into detail on another post when I'm not in a bad mood.

HGTV and Food Network

2011-02-23T10:16:00.006-07:00

After we put Ava down for the night, Tanner and I love to watch House Hunters on HGTV. Its fun to see which house he would pick and which one I would pick. Once that is over we flip on over to the food network and watch Chopped. We really enjoy that show. However my personal favorite is Cupcake wars. I love seeing all the different ideas people have for cupcakes. I may be watching too much HGTV because they have a Dream Home Giveaway every year. It started in January and ended on February 18. During those days you can enter online. So every day of putting both of our names in online I also may have had some stamps lying around so I mailed in 36 entries. Don't Judge me :)

The winner gets the Home in Stow, Vermont (worth 1.5 million)

You also get a 2011 GMC Acadia Denali

and 500,000 in cash :)
A girl can dream right? I think last year over 11 million people entered. So my chances are not so great :)

Lloyd: What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together?
Mary: Well, Lloyd, that's difficult to say. I mean, we don't really...
Lloyd: Hit me with it! Just give it to me straight! I came a long way just to see you, Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances?
Mary: Not good.
Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary: I'd say more like one out of a million.
[pause]
Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance... *YEAH!*

(Dumb and Dumber....great movie)

I am excited to see who wins tho. Its so fun to see peoples reaction and they get so happy! (It's live when when they go to the winners home).

Let me clear some things up

2011-02-22T14:02:00.003-07:00

I didn't mean to "brag" about going on a cruise. Especially in this tough economic times, I did not mean to say "ha ha we are going on a cruise nener nener". Trust me we are poor. I am only excited about the cruise because it is the perfect time to go.
1. We have not been on a real vacation since our honeymoon (3 years ago).

2. This summer will be the only time we will be able to go on a vacation like this. It is right after Tanner graduates and takes the DAT. Once he starts dental school we will not be able to go anywhere for 4 years.

3. We will keep having more kids. The more kids we have the harder to leave.

4. I won 2000 on the price is right, our tax return was very large and we do not have any high bills right now. (mortgage, expensive cars, multiple children).

I didn't like how the last post came off. I am very grateful that we are able to do this. I am more grateful that Tanner gets a break. He is amazing. He is non stop ALL the time. He has been non stop since we got married. When we both decided to have a baby right away he was so wonderful about the fact that he will have to work full time and go to school full time. He never complains about it, he just does it. I love him. I am excited that he gets to be done with BYU this April. I am excited he gets to have a fun relaxing vacation after the most stressful time (taking his finals, graduating, studying for the DAT, and taking the DAT).

Well I hope everyone is having a great day! Ava wont go down for a nap but she is being sweet :)

Last night Ava found my liquid eye liner. The day before I got very mad at her because she got into my (very expensive) MAC eye shadow powder and dumped it everywhere. When she came out with the liquid eye liner all over her face Tanner and I could not do anything but laugh. Maybe I should put my makeup in a place she can not reach :)

YAHOOOO!!!!

2011-02-10T16:57:00.004-07:00

Its official! We are going on a cruise!!! AHHHH I'm so excited!! Its a 7 Night Mexico Cruise. I know what your thinking Mexico? Really? Yes, we found a really great deal! Tanner and I have both been on cruses. I have been twice with my fam and once with him (honeymoon). He has been once with his fam and honeymoon. All were to Mexico. However, Tanner and I have never been on this ship or these ports. Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas. We were going to go to the Atlantas resort in the Bahamas but the total ended up being $3,800 (still a great deal for that) but we found this cruise that was half of the price. Oh I am just so excited. We are going with our friends Tommy and Lauren Barnum. If anyone else wants to come we would love it! The more friends the more fun!

I hate the cold. Its so depressing. This winter needs to end. Now I have a motivation to get me to loose weight! However, what if I get prego this month? Would I be showing by June? Would it be worth it to workout a ton to look good in a swim suite? What are your thoughts?

7 Night Mexico Cruise = $1600
Shopping for bathing suits and cover-ups = $100
Dreaming of laying out in the sun and getting out of cold Utah = Priceless.

Greens!

2011-02-04T12:13:00.003-07:00

Every morning we have our SUPER GREENS!! (if I say it exciting Ava get very excited)

Our SUPER GREENS smoothie today include:

Spinach
Avocado
Cucumber
Banana
Red Grapes
Tangerine
Barley Grass Powder
Chia seeds
Agave sweetener
water and ice (some people do apple juice for better taste but I just don't like the extra calories.)

When ever I'm at the store I always buy something different for that week. The new item this week was Tangerines. I did that instead of blueberry's which was in our drink last week. I don't love blueberry's or the taste of them but they have amazing antioxidants and they were on sale. I have been having a sore throat lately so I have been putting more Vitamin C in my drink.

I love this drink. I feel so great the rest of the day. I love that Ava loves it. I tore the top of her sippy cup for her to have it easily (its a thick drink). I never have to worry about her getting all of her nutrients because it has 12x the amount of vegetable severing that you need in a day.

Coming into the Schroeder/Moore family

2011-02-01T10:12:00.004-07:00

As most of you know Rita Schroeder past away Monday January 24. She had her funeral service yesterday January 31. Unfortunately Tanner and I could not attend funeral because it was in California and Tanner could not afford to miss school or work. From what we heard it was the best funeral that people have ever been too. I was not as close to Rita and her family like Tanner was. Let me just give you brief story of how I met the Schroeder family. Now just a little reminder to those who don't know me every well. I'm a little to insecure with myself. Also a little jealous. (Just ask Tanner)

It was the summer after my sophomore year in high school. I was attending the Rincon Valley Ward a lot because I made a lot of friends in that ward (one was my soon to be sister in law Michelle, but that's another story :) So now its time for young women's and the teacher decided to have class outside because it was beautiful day. As shes teaching I lean over to my friend and ask who is this teacher? (I knew almost everyone because the ward was still in my steak.) I did not know this teacher and I did not know her daughter helping her with the lesson or her other two daughters in the class. These girls were so pretty. They all looked so different from each other but they we're all so pretty. It was Rita teaching, her daughter Calee helping, Kristina and Brooke siting in the class. My friend gives me the update on this family. "They just moved from the other steak. They all have amazing voices. They are very smart. Kristina just got the Hinckley scholarship. Brooke is so funny. Calee is very talented." Oh is that all?

So as time goes by I became friends with Brooke. We hung out with the same friends and we also played tennis. I went over to her house one day and their was a picture of the family. I asked who this other girl was that I had never seen before. "Oh that's my oldest sister Nikki" Theres another one! Yup she was pretty, smart, a BYU cheerleader, and (at that time) had a gorgeous daughter (she has two gorgeous daughters now). Oh great could this family be anymore perfect!

A few years later I met the man of my dreams. Now me being me I still didn't get why he would be with me. I'm at his house looking at all pictures on the wall. There was a picture of Logan (Tanners twin brother) and this pretty girl at a school prom. "Hey that's Kristina Schroeder. You guys know the Schroeders?" Tanner filled me in. "Ya we grew up with the Schroeders. We hang out with the girls all the time. Our moms are best friends." Of course they are. Now Tanner or any of his brothers dated. They never really had girlfriends. As I'm staring at this picture I put it all together in my head in about 5 seconds. The Schroeder girls were all they knew. This is what I was being compared to. And there moms were best friends! I can not sing a tune. We all know I was not the best at grades in high school and I didn't make the cheer team in middle school let alone at BYU. Great. Tanner is going to think I'm such a loser.

Well 8 months later I tricked Tanner into marring me. Now that we we're married I could enjoy the Schroeder family without being scared out of mind that Tanner is going to run away to Vegas, marry Kristina and have the perfect IQ, singing, BYU Scholership kids. Now Tanner gets the red headed, can't sing a tune, insecure, bad spelling, bad handwriting genetics in his kids :)

I love the Schroeder family. I love that Rita was Tanners second mom. I love that Rita was the perfect best friend for my mother in law. I feel so privileged when I would ask my mother in law for her names to my wedding shower or baby shower it would only be Rita. I feel so lucky to have spent the last 3 Christmas Eves with Rita and her family. I love that she raised her girls to be so amazing that it scared other girls right out of their mind.

We love you Rita. You did good.

Christmas Devotional

2010-12-06T23:12:00.002-07:00

Sunday we had the wonderful opportunity to go to the Christmas devotional at the confrence center. The first presidency of the church spoke. It was amazing.
We went with our friends who live in Salt Lake because we had two extra tickets.
Thanks to Tanners uncle David we were able to get tickets. David is in charge of all the events that goes on in temple square. We were suppose to pick up our tickets at door 13. When we got to door 13 the lady was very rude to us and did not help us at all. Then we told her that David Miles told us to pick the tickets up here, her attitude changed. We didn't even need tickets to get in. Everytime we passed someone who asked for our tickets we just said David Miles and everyone was EXTRA nice and helped us to our seats. Later I found out that David is their boss. It made me laugh at how rude they were until we said his name. Our seats were amazing we were down front very close to the first presidency. I can not tell you how strong I felt the spirit. I sat there just wanting the Presidency to pour out knowledge on what I should be doing as a parent. As I was sitting there I got that feeling of "Ok take this in, how am I going to teach this to Ava and my other children." Gaining knowledge on Christ and the church not only helps me but I am doing it so I can teach my children. As we walked out of the confrence center I thought to myself "what did I get out of this? What do I need to do now?" The answer was so easy. President Thomas S. Monson said "Although it requires effort and planning, bringing the Spirit of Christ into our hearts and homes can be accomplished." I need to make Christmas traditions based around Christ. This was such a "DUH" moment for me because the past few weeks I have been thinking of traditions Tanner and I can start in our home. Everything I thought of was not based around Christ. Do any of you have any ideas of where we can start Christmas traditions based around Christ??

I loved the Christmas devotional. Seeing all the lights on temple square and the conference center decorated so pretty with the Christmas trees ahhhh so fun. Also the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing the Christmas songs was amazing to hear. One of the songs they sang was Oh Come all Ye Faithful. Wow. In the middle of the song they had the Orchestra get louder and louder then the Choir came in. WOW. We all got chills and started to cry (ok us girls did). You Tube it. Its good.

Festival of Trees

2010-12-05T14:00:00.005-07:00

Last night we went to the Festival of Trees at the South Town Expo Center in Sandy. It's a really BIG indoor center where they had TONS of Trees. You walk up and down isles of decorated trees that were sold at the auction a week earlier. They sell for thousands of dollars and every cent goes to the childrens hospital in Salt Lake.

It was so fun seeing all the different ways to decorate a tree. I was getting lots of ideas. Tanner saw what I was thinking and started to worry :)

Ava was so good the whole night. She just chilled in her stroller. The tree behind her was a Mickey Mouse themed tree.

There was a lot of BYU and UofU trees. They also would have one tree half decorated in BYU and the other half UofU. BYU was decorated WAY better than UofU :)

This tree was a fun Rock the Jukebox themed tree. They had some Twilight themed trees as well. They also had a big display of gingerbread houses. I think it was a competition (like what you see on Food Network) it was to crowded to get any pictures.

It was a perfect night. When we got home I made some scones and we watched a movie :)

Thanksgiving!!

2010-12-02T14:24:00.011-07:00

I have not yet posted about Thanksgiving yet because I did not have any pictures (I'm going to search for a new camera charger today). Luckily my wonderful cousin Nicole took lots of pictures. We spent Thanksgiving up at my sisters house. My parents came into town and a lot of my cousins came.

Ava got to spend lots of time with her 2nd cousins.

We had lots and lots of good food.

Can you tell we just got done eating. We watched friends as we waited for our stomachs to get ready for dessert. Perfect way to be lazy!

I made these chocolate cups with chocolate-orange mousse inside. These were SO fun to make and SOOO good!! I think I found my new favorite dessert. You know its good when you can see 5 extra lbs the next day :) I tried something new and put orange zest in my mousse. YUM! I recommend putting it in your mousse next time. Making the chocolate cups were so easy and fun! The strawberrys added a nice flavor with the chocolate (and who doesn't love a good strawberry.)

Later that night we went to Fast Track (I think thats what its called.)
Its an indoor race track. SOO FUN! You go VERY fast.
My cousins husband owns the one in SLC. So they closed it that night so it was just our family there racing. It was a blast! I think I got the slowest time, whoops!

Hope everyone had an AWESOME Thanksgiving!!!

Achievement Days

2010-11-30T23:57:00.002-07:00

Tonight we made an apron for our bishop! The girls used their hands and feet with paint to make reindeer. We also put together Christmas caroling booklets to take with us when we go caroling next achievement days. We will give Bishop the present when we carol at his home.

I love my calling. I love the girls. They are so fun.

However I had to be kinda stern with them tonight. They all must have came hyped up on sugar or something because they were running around the church like crazy (16 girls who are the ages of 8-11. That is a lot of hyper girls).

I brought them back into the room and lectured them on how to act in the church. After the lecture I felt so bad. I don't want to be one of THOSE leaders. The girls get so excited when we have achievement days. I don't want to be mean but I didn't know what else to do because it was getting a little out of hand. I hope they didn't go home bummed :(

(I'm so mad at my self for not taking pics of the activity. I totally forgot because we had a lot to do and very little time.)

FHE

2010-11-29T23:19:00.005-07:00

Tonight for family night we made a Christmas chain!

On each chain we put something that we would do that day for service.

Ava ended up dancing to the Christmas music we had playing.

After we went and got frozen yogurt.

Ava would only eat the yogurt if she was standing on the table.

She LOVED it.

I'm not sure why.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

(Ya I lost my camera charger so I'm using my phone for pics)

I'm so not good at this.

2010-11-27T17:49:00.004-07:00

Ya that whole 30 day blog thing did not work out to well. Sorry.

Just to update all of you on whats going on in our life:

Tanner is working hard everyday and night. He goes to school then to work. He is pre dental at BYU and works at the Temple in laundry at night. He is non stop go go go. If he is not in class he is in a classroom studying. Gosh I love him.

Ava will be 18 months on the 12th. That means its time for nursery! Wow that is so weird. She is so funny. She is always entertaining us.

I am at home with Ava. I am slowly getting my license to become a medical transcriber. I am able to do that from home to be with Ava.

As most of you know we have been trying for our second child. ITS SO FRUSTRATING!!! We arn't just not preventing getting pregnant, we are acctually trying. I calculate the days of when I would be ovulating and we try the most then. Then I have to wait a few weeks before I can take a test. Then of course I'm not pregnant so we have to wait a few moore weeks to try again so on and so on. We have been doing this for 5 months. I know thats not a very long time. For some people it takes years or some people can not have kids at all. Don't get me wrong I am very greatful for Ava and the fact we got prego with her our first try. However it is frustrating when you plan out the month of when you want to have your next but it's not working even 5 months down the road. So now we are in a completely diffrent season than when we wanted #2 to come.

I took a test this morning. When only one line appeared I was so mad I walked out of the bathroom and told Tanner this is the drugstores fault. What they do is somehow when you take the test you automatically become not pregnant, so you would have to keep trying and keep buying moore test. Yup thats what it is. I blame Walgreens.

Have any of you heard the Taylor Swift song "Never grow up" on her new album Speak now. If you have not please You tube it now. The first time I heard the song I could not stop crying. I don't want Ava to grow up. I don't want friends to be mean to her. I don't want her to go through hard teenage years. She IS going to grow up and go through hard times. I need to make sure I am always there. It scares me. It scares me that this cute little girl is going to come home from school one day crying because girls were mean to her. Or when she gets her heart broken.

I was thinking about this the other day. I have never had my heart broken. The only man who has ever had my heart has kept it safe. He is the only man I have ever loved. He is the only man I want to be in Ava's life. What happens when a stupid boy breaks her heart? What am I going to do? What if I don't know what to do because it has never happened to me? Ok its decided she is just never going to grow up. I have made the decision she is going to stay 18 months forever.

Day 1

2010-11-05T15:32:00.002-06:00

Today was a great day! Tanner had extra time between school and work so we went to the new river that BYU built on campus. It was really pretty! We walked the path while Ava tried to pick up every rock she found. It was such a nice day. Loved it.

For some reason the uploading photos isn't working...

I'm ganna do it!

2010-11-05T15:30:00.000-06:00

30 Day Blog Challenge:

Day 1 – A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.
Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today.
Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.
Day 4 – Your favorite photograph of your best friend.
Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago.
Day 6 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet.
Day 7 – Your dream wedding.
Day 8 – A song to match your mood.
Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased.
Day 10 – A photo of your favorite place to eat.
Day 11 – What’s in your makeup bag?
Day 12 – A photograph of the town you live in.
Day 13 – Your favorite musician and why?
Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to.
Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without.
Day 16 – Your celebrity crush.
Day 17 – A photo of you and your family.
Day 18 – Something you crave a lot.
Day 19 – Another picture of yourself.
Day 20 – The meaning behind your blog name.
Day 21 – A photo of something that makes you happy.
Day 22 – A letter to someone who has hurt you recently.
Day 23 – 15 facts about you.
Day 24 – A photo of something that means a lot to you.
Day 25 – What’s in your purse?
Day 26 – A photo of somewhere you’ve been to.
Day 27 – A picture of you last year and now and how have you changed since then?
Day 28 – Your favorite movie.
Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing.
Day 30 – A photograph of yourself today + three good things that have happened in the past.

I'm so bad a blogging but I hope that this gets me in the habit to blog every day!

Mood

2010-10-13T23:24:00.002-06:00

I have been in a mood lately and I don't know why.
I have been getting offended a lot eaiser and people have been annoying me, which makes me complain. I don't want to be like this. I feel bad for Tanner because he is the one who has to hear it. He's good about making me feel better tho.
Why am I in this rut? I've been like this for over a week now and I don't like it.
I'm not prego. I wish that were the case tho.

Our summer

2010-09-30T10:50:00.013-06:00

We went to Sea World!!
For my moms birthday

We weren't suppose to take the Star fish out of water. So after 16 takes of trying to get Ava to look at the camera that's when my dad saw the sign that we have to keep them in the water or they can't breath...whooops!

The dolphin show

We also went to the beach and had lots of bonfires!

"Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot Diggity Dog"

2010-09-30T10:23:00.002-06:00

Yes that's the song on the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Its kinda fun that Ava likes watching the Disney channel.
However it will get stuck in your head all day and every other song that's on after.

Handy Manny is now on. Fun fact he is the Voice of Fez on "That 70s Show".

Tanner is 24!

2010-07-11T21:06:00.002-06:00

Tanner had a birthday on Friday. Unfortunately it was not the best. Lets start off with how I had all day planed for Tanner but his school kinda got in the way. Tanner has been killing himself all week for a big test that he took on Saturday. He had that stress plus living in Provo dose not help. EVERYTHING is overly crowded. My mom (oh ya she was in town) watched Ava while we went to P.F Chang's. The hostess said the wait was going to be 20 min. 45 min later Tanner asked when we were going to be seated. The hostess was very rude and brushed Tanner off like he was nothing. So we went to In n out for dinner because we were going to be late for our movie if went to a sit down place. I grew up on In n out, I have never waited at the window as LONG as we did. We already had our order taken and paid for, it was just getting the food in our hands. Now that we are very frustrated we head to our movie. We get there a good 10 min before it starts to see Night and Day. SOLD OUT. Okay it wasn't even the opening weekend C'MON! So we ended up paying double to see Toy Story 3 in 3D. I don't like 3D movies. My eyes don't adjust to 3D, the glasses slip off my nose so its raw by the end of the movie and its WAY over priced.
The night got better as we g0t home. Ava was still awake for ice-cream cake and presents :)

Happy Birthday Tanner! Sorry not so great :(

Our home

2010-07-11T19:20:00.006-06:00

At 1670 Woodland Dr their lives a very happy family that loves their home. Thanks to Tanners parents who own the condo, we live in this 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath for dirt cheap. We love our complex the ward and especially our neighbors. We have the Shilligs who are LAME and moved a few weeks ago, but we did have a blast while they were here. They have the cutest little kids

Amy Lark

Molly Sue

Malachi

we had so much fun with them every day.
I am extra bummed that they moved because I would find myself outside talking to Caroline(their mom) and Lisa for hours. All we had to do was walk outside and then someone else would and then the 3rd person would hear us and there we are talking!
Shilligs you will be missed! (If you want to catch up more on the cute fam, her blog is to the right called shillig4family).

Thankfully I still have Lisa here. Lisa is my running partner, we go every morning at 7 and run 2.6 miles (she kicks my booty). She has a daughter who is 1 month younger than Ava. A lot of people in the ward get our family's confused because both Lisa and I have long blond hair, our daughters look similar and our husbands are tall.

Evy and Ava
Lisa also has a blog to the right "Wes, Lisa and baby Evy too".

We like our home :)

Blahhhh

2010-06-29T13:18:00.001-06:00

I really have so much to do today but I just don't want to. I'm so sleepy and I don't know why. Just thought I would share that with all of you :)

Fathers

2010-06-23T08:27:00.003-06:00

Well Fathers Day was last Sunday and I am just writing about it. Can you tell I'm on top of things...ya I'm good.

However I have been thinking about all the Fathers in my life lately. First I have my Dad,
We are very goofy together. Growing up, we always got along. We have our own inside jokes and our own games that we have been playing for years. Road trips were always the best when its just the two of us.
When he would "try" to be stern with me, I would just make a joke and he would start laughing (it was a great trick if I ever got in trouble). My dad has always worked so hard for me and my family.
I love my dad so much. He still calls me to make sure I'm happy when he knows I am. He would do anything for me.
It reminds me of when we met my parents in Vegas about a month ago. Dad, Tanner and I went to see Iron Man (mom wanted to stay at the hotel with Ava). While I was sitting in the theater between my dad and my husband I got the safest most calm feeling. "I am with the two men who love me most in this world. I could never be safer than sitting with them." I loved that feeling.
I'm so grateful that my dad LOVED Tanner when they first met. They both went to Brazil on their missions (they served in the same areas has well). They both are HUGE Raider fans. They both love the same kind of sandwiches and my dad loves that Tanner is Tall and athletic. I love and miss my Dad so much. He is a wonderful father.

Next we have Tanners dad Pat.

He is a wonderful father in-law. I don't like saying in-law, it sounds so not loving. The moore I am with Pat the moore I become comfortable with him as a dad. Pat is a wonderful example to us. He is always giving us advice on how to become better each day. I have never met anyone who has a stronger testimony of the Book of Mormon than him. He sets goals to finish it every 20 days and he does. He doesn't do this to boast about how many times he has read it. He does it because he learns something new each time. He then councils it with his family and gives new teachings as a patriarch of the family is suppose to do. He has given us all the challenge not to miss reading the Book of Mormon every day. Tanner and I have now taken this challenge seriously and have not missed a day. Even if its one verse or one chapter we will have the spirit and teachings each day. Pat also encourages us to go to the temple. He once told Tanner the only gift he wants is us going to the temple.
Pat is such an amazing example on what a husband and father should be. I couldn't have asked for a better role model for Tanner. I'm so grateful for Pat and all that he does for us.

Last but definitely not least is my father in heaven. I can't write this without tearing up. He has given me so much when at times I know I don't deserve it. I have a wonderful life with an amazing husband and a beautiful daughter. He has given me all the people in my life to teach me to become a better person. At times I find myself not showing enough gratitude as I should. I need to try harder each day so I can live with him again. He not only blesses me each day but he gave me his son Christ. That's how much he loves all of us. He gave us Christ so we can repent of all of our wrong doings and strive to live with him again. At times I think about our future children and how they are with him right now. How amazing it is that he is watching over and protecting us.

I am very lucky of all the fathers in my life.

Ava is 1 year old!

2010-06-16T11:40:00.004-06:00

The decorations!

Gotta love Costco

The cake that took Ava a while to dig into

Opening her presents. Lots of books

and clothes

that she can't get enough of apparently

We had a blast with Tanners parents. They stayed for the whole weekend and we did LOTS of stuff. Us girls went to the parade of homes while the boys stayed home to play wii (Pat ended up buying one for himself he liked it so much.) We did some shopping and Dyanna took us girls to lunch while the boys golfed. Later Pat took us to a Brazilian BBQ for Tanner and Logan's Birthday (not for another month but they wont see the boys then.) It was fun to see the Grandparents with Ava.

That would be Ava ready and waiting for the head bump that Pat is going to give her :)

Winter Wonderland?

2010-05-24T09:06:00.005-06:00

Yes it is snowing today! Now normally I would not be happy about this because its the end of May and Utah does not know it's seasons BUT I never got a picture of Ava in the snow for her first winter. So when It was dumping snow while I was out for my morning run, I decided to take advantage and get some sweet pics of Ava.

P.S Its still dumping snow as I speak

Mothers and Daughters

2010-05-16T21:40:00.003-06:00

I did not write on here on mothers day like I wanted to. I kept putting it off until now. I just got done reading Elder M. Russell Ballard's talk in the May conference issue of the Ensign. His talk was titled Mothers and Daughters. He talked about mothers to teach their daughters the way of the gospel not of the world. He talked about daughters to model after their mothers not celebrities. As I read on I couldn't help but start to cry, knowing that Ava is going to go through all that awful high school mess. My sweet little girl who fake coughs when someone else coughs. Who laughs so hard when you sneak up on her. Who gets so excited when daddy walks in the door. She is going to have to worry about "fitting in" and "if shes pretty enough" When I think back on my high school experience (ha it was like 2 years ago, I talk like I'm so old) I know I couldn't have done it with out my mom. In middle school I would sit on the edge of my bed and just cry because I thought I was fat and ugly. Every single time, my mom would sit right there with me to tell me how beautiful I was. She was by my side for every hard time. She always defended me, encouraged me, taught me what was right and always reminded me that I was the girl who was going to make the right choice. Elder Ballard spoke on how daughters are just like their mothers. "If the mothers are thrify so are the daughters. If the mothers are modest, so are the daughters. If the mother is wearing flip flops to sacrament meeting so are the daughters." When I read that I couldn't help but tear up again. Ava is going to look up to ME. Gosh that scares me so bad. While she is a teen I don't want her to be how I was. I don't want her to look in the mirror and feel ugly like I did. I don't want her to stress about boys, girlfriends or school dances. I don't want her to go through any of that. I want her to know that she IS the most beautiful girl in the world, I want her to know that she is an amazing creation from Heavenly Father and he loves her so much! She needs to know that there is so much more out there than celebrities and the latest trends. She needs to know that she is going to make an amazing wife and mother. The fact that I am the one teaching her all of this and so much more really scares me. How can I teach her to be so confident with herself when I'm not confident with myself? How can I teach her to love what she sees in the mirror when I know I didn't? I have to make a change now while shes still young. I have to love myself and only worry about what Christ thinks of me. I want to be there for Ava just like my mom was for me. I know Ava is going to be so much stronger than I was. She is closer to the last days, Heavenly Father knows that she is can take it. It's my job to just point her on the right path.

If you are a mother or a daughter I strongly suggest reading Elder Ballard's talk.
http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-6,00.html

21

2010-05-04T12:04:00.002-06:00

I'm all grown up! Well I like to think I am :)

I turned 21 on Saturday and it was a very good day...thanks to my amazing husband. Throughout the week he hid 21 reasons why he loved me through the house. It was very fun opening the cupboard or finding it on my pillow a new reason why he loved me. On Saturday I woke up to a dozen roses. One of the girls in Achievement days made me a cheesecake and brought it over in the afternoon. WOW! Let me just say that we barley touched my ice cream cake. That cheesecake was sooo good, and shes 9 years old! Tanner and I loved it! Later on we went to Macaroni Grill with Logan and Michelle. When we found out Ava was a girl we all went there to write down names on the table (they have crayons and let you draw on the table). So I thought it would be a good idea to go for my birthday to write down boys names for Logan and Michelle. As we were at dinner Michelle gave me the gift Dyanna got me (Michelle was down in SD a few weeks earlier so Dyanna gave to her to give to me). Again WOW! I LOVE IT! It is a long Brighton neck less with a charm of Ava's birthstone. This is the second neck less that she has given me that I just love! (First one was at my bridal shower, it was a heart that says Forever Moore on it...cried in front of about 50 people, half of which didn't even know why I was crying) anyway, Dyanna has done a very good job on the necklaces. Thanks FMIL!!!( favorite mother in law). When we were done with dinner we came back to our place to have ice cream cake and Tanner gave me his present. I opened a paper that had the Trump Tower Hotel in Las Vegas on it. Tanner talked with my parents and they helped out with a trip to Vegas this weekend...I'm so excited!! Nordstrom is right next to the Trump Tower so my sister got me a gift card there :) Can't wait for Vegas Thanks Tanner, Mom, Dad and Kyle!!

All around a very good birthday!

What a mess

2010-04-26T20:30:00.005-06:00

Ava likes to play?

and feed herself

She also helps with laundry

The day I have not been looking forward to...

2010-04-18T21:39:00.002-06:00

happened today.

Ever since Ava was born I have been so scared that she was going to choke on everything! When she started eating solid food, the bites I would give her where so small. I would see babies much younger than her that would be eating food of much bigger bites. I have definitely been over protective about this. I may not be the cleanest person but I sure vacuum all the time now that she crawls. I was so worried about her choking because I thought I was going to freak out and not focus on getting what was ever in her throt out. I always pictured the situation much worse because I would make it worse. I would be scared of hurting her throat or not reaching down far enough etc..

While I was doing the dishes I set Ava up in her high, cut up some bananas and placed them on her tray. While my back was to her I heard her making funny noises. I turned and notice her face was bright red and she was not just coughing it up, she was clearly choking. I calmly just reached my finger down her throat and pulled out a big clump of banana. She looked at me with her tearful eyes and started eating her bananas again.

I know this does not sound like a big deal but I'm sorta glad it happend. Of course I'm not glad that Ava started to choke but I am glad that I know I don't freak out. For 10 months I did not give myself enough credit. The way I took care of the choking hazard you would have thought that I have been doing it for years and I was on my 8th kid. I'm very happy that she's OK and it all went calmly.

Spring is in the air and babies are everywhere

2010-04-16T13:38:00.017-06:00

Ava has been making lots of new friends lately

She has friends that she shops with
Friends she shares toys with

Friends she has a picnic with.

But when the day is over, she likes to just be with her daddy

Ava is 10 months now. She has a wonderful personality and is smiling all the time. She is crawling everywhere and walking across the furniture.

long time no blog!

2010-02-15T05:23:00.003-07:00

Hey hey! Since about Christmas our computer stoped working very well. It's weird, it will let me read blogs but it won't let me sign in. it will let us go on facebook but it wont let us go on google. Luckily i just got my new phone, palm pixi, so i can do this at 5:30 am at work :). So whats new with the Moore's? Well first and foremost Ava is going to have a cousin! Yes that's right Michelle and Logan are going to have a baby! Ahhhh im so excited for them!! Her due date is in October! I want her to have a girl so i can give her lots and lots stuff that i already have but I also want her to have a boy because our brothers need someone to be a little rougher than a girl (and she will have lots of boy clothes when tanner and I have a boy. Its really about what I want right? ha ha jk) congrats guys!!!

Things in our home are busy busy busy. I started working at apx from 5-11am. Tanner takes Ava to his first two classes then i go and pick her up after work because he has labs that he can not take her to. Tanner goes straight to work after school and does not get home till about 9 at night. Oh the joys of going to school.

Ava is at such a cute stage, she laughs at everything. She just started to crawl it's so funny! We are trying to get her to eat solid foods but she just loves her bottle to much. She keeps us very entertained. I would put pics up but our computer wont let us and im typing this on my phone. but dont worry shes still bald and very cute!

So much to do in so much time?

2009-12-17T15:41:00.003-07:00

Today is one of those days where I have so much to do but I do NOT want to do it. We are leaving early Sunday morning to go home for Christmas!!! I can't believe Christmas Eve is exactly one week away...CRAZY! I still have a few more presents to buy. I better not be like this when I have 8 kids and can only go shopping when they are at school. I need to get my bum in gear and get all the shopping done early and not procrastinate like I am this year. I'm so excited to go home and see our family. We have the whole week planed and I'm sooo excited!!! But before any of that happens I need to start doing stuff to get ready to go. This will be Ava's first loooooong car trip...any suggestions on what to do so she will be good for that long of a drive?

Oh Martha! Oh Christmas! :)

2009-12-10T12:40:00.002-07:00

It has just been go go go lately...its been so fun! Every few days or so I have been working for Culinary Crafts. They are a catering company(the number one catering company in Utah). They are very busy now that it is the Christmas season. Whenever they call Tanner and I to work we always take it because it is GREAT flo and now that Christmas is here everyone could use some more of that. Also I have been doing a charity for Tanner's work. He works at APX and they are doing what is called Sub for Santa. Its for family's who do not have enough to give their children Santa presents. Apx gives each team a certain amount of money for each child. Then we go out and buy them clothes, shoes, books toys etc...(we have info on each child of what they like) Then the next night we wrapped the presents and take them to the homes. It was so great! Tanner and I want to do more charity this Christmas season. So what we are going to do is take the money we were going to spend on each other for Christmas and buy fabric to make blankets for the homeless people downtown (I think Tanner was really happy about this so he didn't have to worry about what to get me for Christmas). If you have any extra blankets that you would like to donate just let me know! The funny thing is my sister and her husband are collecting blankets from people also and we didn't tell each other we were doing this! (Must be a sister thing) OK I'm not going to type a long one like last time. So just let me know if you have blankets and/or coats that you would like to donate! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Oh boy!!

2009-12-01T12:28:00.002-07:00

Sorry I have not written in a while...I've been very busy and honestly I loved it!! I love it when I don't have down time (because I always do). Where do I start? Lets start on two Thursdays ago when New Moon came out. You should have saw the lines! It was crazy!!!! People were camping out the day before for the midnight showing!! Same with In N Out!! N E who...I was so excited to see it but walked out of there kind of disappointed. I think I'm the only person in the whole world who felt that way. The acting just did not do it for me. Also this was my first book to movie (I do not read at all). Jacob did have (don't tell Tanner I said this) the body well done. Edward was dreamy but I guess the way our minds picture things while we read are what we want to see. Oh and do not get me started on Kristen Stewart I do not like her in real life but as Bella I like her(her acting could use some work tho). I don't mean to complain about the movie I am very grateful that we were able to see. Tanner and I use lines from the movie all the time "Things are about to get very ugly" That would be Jacob to Alice...the whole theater was laughing when it was suppose to be serious.

The next day Friday night I asked Tanner what he wanted to do and he wanted to decorate for Christmas!!! I was so excited!!! So far its just been me decorating our home and holidays but this time he wanted to help! So we decorated(and when I say "we" I mean he got the tree out of storage and that was his decorating). Its probably a good thing he didn't really help because I am very picky about where everything goes. So now our home is all Christmas!!! I have the fire going, Christmas music playing and its cold outside! Ava even has her own little tree (it has pearls, I love pearls). I'll put pictures up soon.

The next morning (Saturday) I made 20 baked potatoes for a funeral in our ward. We had a huge bag that we got at Walmart for $2 so it was perfect when they needed someone for that. Then Tanner and I went to Walmart, Target and Mall. Later we met up with our friends Allison and Travis for bowling. They brought their nephews Ryan and Caleb who I feel so bad for. They come from a not strong family and are being put up for foster care. When I heard this my heart fell. These boys are so good and kind I feel so bad for them. Any way we are bowling and I find out that I am the worst bowler ever! Ryan the nine year old beat me! I'm not trying to brag but I use to go bowling all the time...over the summer that's all we did. I WAS GOOD! WHAT HAPPENED! So that is something I need to work on.

Now its Sunday...we had a great day at church and came home to lay around by the tree! Later that night Logan and Michelle came over to hang because they were leaving the next day to go home for Thanksgiving. Michelle and I LOVE playing Monopoly. Tanner plays with us too sometimes. Every time we play I win. It drives them crazy...well I'm sad to say that when shell and I played, I lost :( Michelle beat me. Tanner was so happy! What is this a husband that is happy his wife lost!! Michelle was pretty happy her self. I will get that winning streak back don't worry.

Monday comes WORST DAY EVER! Everything is going fine...I went shopping for the Thanksgiving food (money my mom gave me because they came up here). I decided to pick a few things up at the dollar store BIG MISTAKE (but I did find my stockings that are soo cute). As we are leaving the store I push a cart out of the way to get by then the worst thing happened, I hear a big BANG. Ava's car seat is flipped over on the floor with her under it (I still can not get that image out of my head) I screamed. Now the dollar store carts are a lot smaller than most carts. Her car seat slid right off unlike a normal cart would because they are bigger. I'm on the floor with Ava not knowing what to do. I'm rocking her trying to let her know that mom is here. I'm trying to get her to drink her bottle so she will stop screaming...I'm crying hysterically with a million thoughts going threw my head "internal bleeding, cracked scull, broken knee caps, something wrong with her spine". As this is going on people are stepping over me giving me dirty looks because I'm in there way. One lady came up and wanted to know how old Ava was and start a conversation. Do they not see that Ava is screaming and I'm freaking out on the floor in the middle of the dollar store!!!! Finally a man helped me out to my car he was really nice and calmed me down. As we drove away I called Tanner to tell him that I am taking her to the ER (OK i might have freaked out a little too much to take her to the ER but it seemed like she fell off a mountain and we have Medicaid so it covers everything! ) When I get there I'm telling the front desk girl what happened and I'm still balling! In the waiting room I'm still crying and Ava is cooing, sucking on her fingers and smiling at everyone in there. Almost everyone said "shes your first huh". Finlay after about two hours Ava got her CT scan to make sure her head was OK. She was perfect. Nothing was wrong with her and she was a hit!! The doctors and nurses loved her!! One nurse said"they are still talking about your daughter in radiology she is so cute" I was just so happy that everything was fine with her. I think that whole experience was Heavenly Father preparing me just in case nothing worse could happen to her.

Now its Thanksgiving. My parents and brother came in Wednesday night and stayed with us. Ashley and Rob came down for the night. It was so fun we ordered pizza, put together this new bouncy toy thing that my parents got for Ava (pictures will be up...she loves it)and played games. I started to make the pies and rolls the night before. Thanksgiving morning Dad Kyle and Tanner went to go bowling with my extended family while us girls were cooking at Ashley's house. The dinner turned out great! It was a great year to learn because my sister and I were cooking but my mom was there to help us if we had any questions ( she was to busy holding Ava). It was a good Thanksgiving but we missed our other family down in California, we are very excited to spend Christmas with them!

My dad took us to see The Blind Side Friday night IT WAS SO GOOD! I loved it! Before that we went to the Jordan River temple where my grandpa is a Sealer. We did sealing sessions with him but the cool thing was that I got to witness both of my grandpas being sealed to their parents in the same session. My grandpa Salisbury died two years ago and I did the Genealogy work for him so he can be together with his parents forever. We were waiting for my dad to come up because he wanted to be their. Also my grandpa king was sealed to his parents who past away years ago. That was a cool experience. Then Saturday morning my mom and I went shopping for Ava's Christmas dress. Ya we walked out of the mall with two dresses for her. Then Tanner Ava and I got our family Christmas pictures for a great price! It was so hard not buy all of them because Ava did so good! Then we went down to my grandpas house to watch the BYU vs Utah game. GO COUGARS!! I love BYU (not a fan of Max Hall tho). I'm happy my parents were able to come up for Thanksgiving we had a blast...oh and Michelle, Kyle beat me at Monopoly...again.

OK now that I have written a novel I will wrap this up. I am so Thankful for all that I have. On Sunday in church we sang "Because I have been given much" of course I started balling. Here are the words.

Because I have been given much, I too must give
Because of thy great bounty, Lord, each day I live
I shall divide my gifts from thee
With every brother that I see
Who has the need of help from me.

Because I have been sheltered, fed by thy good care.
I cannot see another’s lack and I not share
My glowing fire, my loaf of bread
My roof’s save shelter overhead
That he too might be comforted

Because I have been blessed by thy great love, dear Lord
I’ll share thy love again, according to thy word
I shall give love to those in need.
I’ll show love by word and deed
Thus shall my thanks be thanks indeed.

I have been given so much and I need to give more. I have been feeling guilty about that lately. This Christmas season Tanner and I want to do something special for the less fortunate. Wow sorry this was so long...Ill try to be better at just writing every day and not adding it up to one blog.

Team Jacob or Team Edward

2009-11-13T10:46:00.004-07:00

OK I am not a fan of reading. I never read any books in High School (thank you spark notes) I just didn't do it. When the book Twilight came out everyone was telling me I just had to read it. So I was into it about half way and I was bored so I stoped. I saw the movie and loved it! So when Ava was first born I read New Moon. I LOVED IT! I finished in like 2 days and then Eclipse in like 2 days and then Breaking Dawn in another 2 days. I think you see where I'm going with this. So now I am reading New Moon again to get ready for the movie that comes out next week!! Nordstroms is doing a special if you spend $50 you get a free ticket to see New Moon on Thursday night at 9:30 (before anyone else can). Thank you to my sister who dropped over $100 she got 2 tickets, she not being a fan of the whole Twilight saga gave them to me and I'm taking my husband :) Now these were not just paper tickets, they are in a new moon fun all around New Moon bag with a lanyard and a New Moon chocolate. That just made it that much better! You have to have the lanyard to get it in so you feel soo special :) ahhhh its still another 6 days till it comes out...this is taking forever!!!

Oh and I'm definitely team Edward!

Happy Birthday Ava

2009-11-12T10:44:00.004-07:00

Ava is five months today! Its so weird, time flew bye. I just took her home from the hospital she can't already be five months! She is the funniest baby ever. She can keep Tanner and I just laughing at her for hours. She has her two bottom teeth growing in and can roll around everywhere. She holds her own bottle and can chow it down fast! I dont want her to grow up but its fun to see all the things she can do! She loves her daddy, when he comes hom from work she gets so excited

Little Bites Catering

2009-11-10T10:53:00.003-07:00

So my sister and I are starting this catering company called Little Bites Catering. Its for small events such as baby showers, bridal showers, birthday party's, Christmas party's etc... We got our first event! Its a Christmas party on the 11th for 40 people. I'm so excited to start this up and get it going. I'm in the process of making the website and getting the news out there more. Little Bites Catering small events BIG results

Halloween

2009-11-02T13:11:00.003-07:00

It was Ava's first Halloween. She was a pumpkin! What other costume would be better for a chubby baby!! I'm so excited for when she can go trick or treating!!!

Oh Taylor

2009-10-13T18:45:00.003-06:00

If you can't already tell with my music on here I LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT! I love all her songs, i love her style and I love that she writes all her own music! There is not one Taylor Swift Song that i don't like. I loved her songs when I was single and I love her songs now that I'm married!! She is amazing!! So you couldn't believe how mad I was with that little stunt Kanye West pulled at the VMA's. I WAS SO TICKT!! Ughh I get mad just thinking about it. N E who she is great! I remember when I first heard her first song Tim McGraw. It was love at first hear. I don't even have a favorite song because I can't choose. So please listen to Taylor on my blog :) and if you have any requests I would be more than happy to put them on my music list!

Fall = Tanner hospitalized

2009-09-30T10:34:00.002-06:00

FALL IS HERE!!! You know what that means, not only are the leaves on the ground (I love crunching them) but the greatest fashion of the year is here!!! I just love it, I love the dark denim, the sweaters, the scarf’s and oh so much moore :). I would have to say Tanner is not fan about this. I wouldn’t be surprised if he took my wallet before he left for school. Don’t worry I always convince him to let me shop for one thing (which usually means 4). But the best part about fall means THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING!!! Oh I’m so excited!! I love it just love it!! I love the smells the family and the decoration. Halloween is my least favorite for decorations. I don’t like all the tacky spooky things. Maybe when Ava is older I’ll get into it more. Until then I just use the pretty fall pumpkins, leaves and the great smelling candles (I may or may not have gotten some yesterday, again tanner is not a fan). Before you know it Christmas will be here! Oh wow I just get so excited even thinking about it!! The shopping, the decorating, family it’s the best!!! That’s a whole other blog though. So what have we learned from this? I love the fall and Tanner is going to have a stroke every year. Well I’m off to kohl’s they are having a sale today, don’t worry I have a gift card :)

Some people dream of angles...I hold one in my arms

2009-09-16T20:32:00.003-06:00

My sweet baby is so sweet! Tanner and I can’t get enough of her! Let’s start from the beginning shall we? Well it all started when two people fell in love…Tanner and I got married in the San Diego Temple May 17 2008, four months later we conceived Ava (September 2nd to be exact). Now we didn’t think I would get pregnant so fast, so when I went into work one morning I was very emotional. Long story short I ended up yelling at my boss in a meeting stormed out and quit! While this was going on we were in the process of buying a house. We were getting an FHA loan. Well they saw I quit my job and we did not qualify because we did not have two incomes (smart move on my part). Now we don’t have health insurance because it was with the job I quit (again smart move on my part), hence the reason we went on Medicaid. Heavenly Father was really watching out for us and you will see why. I had a great pregnancy. I barley had morning sickness and when I did I just felt car sick. The funny thing that happened was when I would laugh so hard I would start crying! Now these weren’t little tears, I would start BALLING! My emotions were CRAZY! Anyone who was around me while I was pregnant saw this and of course it would happen while I was around large groups of people. N E who 9 months had passed and sweet baby Ava was still inside of me. Every week I would go in hoping I was dilated and every week I would come out disappointed. At 41 weeks my Dr. said I could either be induced or have a C-section. He said I would still have a high percentage of a caesarian because my cervices were so hard (sorry if this is TMI for anyone). Well I didn’t want to go through contractions or any pain if I didn’t have to of course and I wasn’t scared for a caesarian because my mom had them on all three of us and love it! So on Friday June 12th at 8 am I went into American Fork Hospital to have a baby. At 9:17 am Ava Lynn Moore was born. 8lbs 12oz 19in long. She was beautiful. She didn’t even cry when they pulled her out. The whole experience was wonderful!!! I didn’t feel a thing! I was up and going a day later. My recovery was very good and very fast. The reason Heavenly Father was watching out for us was because we had a healthy baby and because of Medicaid we didn’t pay a thing for the c-section. Normally with insurance it cost thousands and thousands of dollars. We have been very blessed and will be happy forever moore.

Genealogy

2009-09-11T11:17:00.001-06:00

Ya I said it GENEALOGY! Now if you are LDS you know that most of us run from this word but if you are not let me explain it a bit. In our church we do work for those who have passed away. This means we get their name and information to go to the temple as if it were them actually doing it. It gives the person who has died a chance to accept not only the gospel but what we have done for them. We do this for our relatives that have past away and keep going up generations until we can’t find anymore information. I have heard of people who have found there family tree all the way up to Adam and Eve (crazy). For example my grandfather died two years ago and he was not sealed in the temple with his parents but the rest of his brothers and sisters were because his niece did the temple work for them before my grandfather died. Now I found this out because the church has a new system that makes genealogy really easy. I have all the information and the approval now to take it to the temple and do the work. I’m so excited about this because he gets to be with all of his family for forever and ever!!! So all of my LDS bloggers I encourage all of you to do genealogy. Not only is it so easy to do but you feel great doing it. Now I keep going to my great grandparents and then my great great grandparents and then my great great great grandparents (I think you get the picture). I’m sorry if I confused everyone with this blog but I’m so excited about genealogy now!!!

Forava Moore

2009-09-08T13:48:00.001-06:00

I know I know, most of you are thinking I spelt it wrong but I didn’t. Forever Moore is something that my new family has been saying for a quite while now, when I came into the family I fell in love with it because it’s true. I am going to be a Moore for forever and I love it! The reason the title of my blog is Forava Moore is because my sister in law Michelle has Forever Moore as her blog and my mother in law has 4ever Moore as hers. Now that I have my beautiful baby Ava I thought it was appropriate to use Forava Moore. I hope the future Mrs Moores will do the same. Also you will find lots of misspelled words, incorrect grammar and just plain dumb things on my blogs, I apologies now.