Park City Reminiscing--March 2009 trip

Since our trip was short, we jam packed it full of fun. It was so relaxing and beautiful. Tyler and I had a pretty good snowball fight. We also had fun making snow angels, skiing, getting cozy with the "wildlife" haha, and swimming at our really cool hotel.

Okay, so we stayed at an awesome hotel called the Newpark Resort that was much cheaper than any other place ,and it was so cool. It was luxury!! We were so impressed with our find that we had to show it off. We would highly reccommend it if you are looking for a good place to stay. Please indulge us with these videos. haha. We also had a funny mishap you will see if you watch.

My Husband *insert lovey dovey sigh here, heehee*

Ok---so I feel the need to brag for a minute. My wonderful husband is very modest. He is SO good at SO many things. I honestly don't know how I got so lucky.

They always told us in young womens to think of qualities that you want your future husband to have and then look at your list and realize that you need to have those things yourself if you want someone like that to be attracted to you. So, for example, if you want a husband that is smart, funny, handsome, understanding, has a testimony, worthy to go to the temple, good cook, athletic, artistic, good people person, humble, has good hygeine, etc....(trust me my list was pretty lofty..heehee), then you better look at that list and try to have or develop those qualities yourself. Well, I can tell you that my "PERFECT Husband/Dream Man" list was pretty lengthy...and I definitely did not have all of the qualities on my list myself. Somehow, I got extremely blessed because Tyler honestly does have all of my 'Dream Man' qualities. I cannot believe how lucky I am. I seriously married up! Woo-whoo. :) I am one happy woman.

Not only does Tyler have the qualities that were the most fundamental on my list and the very most important to me (ie-a strong testimony that the church is true, spiritual worthy priesthood holder, great with kids/good father, treat women with respect/gentleman, smart, strong, handsome, funny and fun, someone I can be myself around/feel comfortable with, caring, loyal, provider, a good friend), but ALSO he has some of the BONUS qualities like: he is strong--he's got some nice guns ;), musical--he is so good at the guitar and piano, artistic--he is great at photography, drawing and painting, graphic design/photoshop stuff, video editing, cooking--yes, you read correctly, my husband is actually a really good cook! and he is good at ironing too double bonus!!! he is so sweet and will help me around the house with things like laundry and ironing--my LEAST favorite chores!!!, he is good with finances and knowing how to be wise with our money, he is great with directions--something I seriously struggle with, knowledgeable with electronics, and pretty much anything I ever have a question on. I am SO grateful to have him as my partner for eternity. Thank you for being my perfect husband Tyler. I truly do love you with all of my heart!

Which brings me to the reason I was thinking about his awesomeness---One of his many skills that was a BIG bonus is he is an AWESOME skiier--both water and snow.

He is actually VERY good at both. I am SO impressed by his abilities---it usually makes me swoon to think about it. :) Back in February, Tyler and I took a nice little trip to Park City. It was my Christmas present to him because he deserved a little ski trip since he had only gone a few times since we've been married. So I think I mentioned a little bit about it...but I never got to post any pictures and I found them now--so here is a little blast from the past. Thank you to "Grams and Grampy (and Uncle Brian)" for watching Sarah so we could enjoy our first trip away from her.

One of my favorite things!

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Originally uploaded by I am Tyler

One of the best parts of being a mom is the snuggles. They melt my heart!

What We've Been Up To...for the past three months....again

Sorry our blogging has been pretty non existent lately. Does anyone even check our blog anymore?

Here are a few things that have happened in the past 3 and a half months:

1.) New Calling--twice! I moved from Nursery Worker to Primary Secretary to Young Women 2nd Counselor. Woo-whoo!

2.) Trip to So Cal for Grammie's Surprise 80th Birthday and belated celebration of Grandpa Brown's too *along with a fun trip to Knott's Berry Farm, Seaworld, and visits with family! It was so good to see everyone!

3.) Our Backyard got put in and we like it!

4.) Tyler's birthday along with a celebratory ranch trip

5.) Our First trip away from Sarah---Park City ski trip

 THE SARAH UPDATE: 

Our little sweetie is growing up so fast. 

She loves to say daddy, outside, fish, quack, woof woof (while chasing down any dog she sees), shoes, cheese, hi, yes, and her all time favorite word---NO! 

She loves to be outside and she loves animals. 

She also likes to be silly and make people happy. She will tickle people and say "tickle tickle." 

She likes to try to jump and say "ump." 

She makes us so happy. We pretty much think she is the cutest girl in the world and recently we were validated by a few strangers. A lady came up to us in Panera and told us that she wanted us to try out this new diaper technology and give her some testimonials if we would be willing to. She said that Sarah was one of the cutest kids she had ever seen and that she sees a LOT of kids. Also, I was in Walmart and a guy came up to me and said that Sarah was so cute and would she be interested in possibly being in a Gerbers commercial. He took my information and said he would be in contact for an audition for her. I took these as huge validations that I do indeed have the cutest little girl in the world! :) but I didn't need them to tell me so....

At Sarah's last doctor's appointment we were advised to get her a kid potty so she could become comfortable around it. She has proceeded to stand in it, take it apart, sit on it with her clothes on, and put her toys in it. haha! Whenever Tyler or I go to the bathroom she says potty and comes running in with us to play on her potty. I am afraid she may have become a little TOO comfortable with her potty, but it makes us smile anyway and she is definitely not scared of it so that's good. Hopefully soon she will be using it too. We sure are ready for that, but it will probably be a little while still...unless she is a child prodigy...which she could be. She is a smart cookie. :)

Sarah also was so cute at hunting for Easter eggs. It was AWESOME. I will put pictures up soon as soon as I download them onto the computer. 

Also, congrats to Jason (Tyler's brother) who got his mission call to El Salvador, San Salvador (East I think??). Tyler will be happy to have someone to habla espanol with all the time. Woo-whoo. That will be awesome. 

And...lastly, I hope that my brother, John, and sister-in-law, Lisa, are having fun on their foreign adventures. John is in Mozambique teaching AIDS and HIV prevention and Lisa is in Jerusalem on her third study abroad. I am so jealous, but hope they are having tons of fun! Love you guys.

And if you made it to the end of this post---congratulations! You read a short novel. :) Pictures will be coming soon!

Katie's slideshow below!!

Alright so Katie made this slideshow last night and spent tons of time writing what each picture was about - then we found out you can't see her comments - BUT if you click on the slideshow you can see all of the pictures and see what Katie wrote. Does that make sense? 

Just click on the slideshow - you'll see.

The Last Four Months in A Few Pictures

Happy New Year!!! (a little late)

At this moment I am reminded of one of my favorite comedians, Brian Reagan, when he talks about buying a card for an "old" baby because time passed you by and you can't buy the "new baby" card anymore..because now the baby is 12 years old. haha....

Well, I feel that way because I kinda let time slip me by....with blogging. Sorry to anyone who has actually been checking our blog the last 2 months for updates, only to have the same old turkey post load on their screen.

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At first, I didn't post because we were too busy creating memories to post about.  

Then, I neglected our blog because I had soo many memories to post about that I felt daunted by the task at hand. 

Then, I didn't post because I was busy with Christmas, Sarah's birthday, and packing for vacations. Then, I didn't post because I was thouroughly enjoying vacationing and getting some rays in tropical paradise. 

Then, I didn't blog because I was busy unpacking and recovering from vacation. 

And now......finally....I have resolved get with the times and give you our update. 

Better late than never, right?

I am going to go ahead and post what I remember in pictures because that will just be easier.

Since we have so many pictures I am going to load them in a slideshow....so just scroll over the picture to read the caption I wrote about each  shot if you are interested. Thanks!

Turkey Time!!!!!!

For Family Home Evening last week we had our first annual Turkey Off! It was a ton of fun.

It was my week for the lesson, so I decided (in honor of the holiday this month) to have a lesson on gratitude and President Monson's talk from General Conference, Finding Joy in the Journey. I loved hearing this talk when he first gave it at conference, and it was equally great to study this talk again for Family Home Evening. President Thomas S. Monson truly is a prophet of God. One quote from his talk that we loved and wanted to share is the following:

"Said one well-known author: “Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend . . . when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us [happiness]—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.”"

This quote helps me realize that even though bad stuff will happen in my life, if I focus on the positive and remember to be thankful for my blessings, I can still be happy. I am really grateful for that and for the joy we can experience here on earth.

And speaking of joy...after our lesson we had some joyful activities going on. heehee We decided to have a TURKEY OFF for our fun family activity and we went into separate rooms to secretly create our own "gratitude turkeys." Which are now up for public vote. So.....without further ado, PLEASE cast your vote as to which gratitude turkey is the WINNER of the first annual FOOTE FAMILY TURKEY OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which turkey do you think is the BEST???

VOTE NOW!!!

DO IT!!!

We know ...it's hard to choose because they all 3 look so amazing.

Vote for your favorite. :)

All the cool kids are doing it.

Number 1 (this is a tracing of Sarah's cute little hand, not an easy feat I might add)

Number 2

Number 2 (cool view of beak . . . not too shabby eh? Not that I am trying to sway the vote)

Number 3 (I would like you all to know that this is hand drawn, not printed or purchased, can we say skills? I think so)

As I said, it is not going to be an easy choice, so think it through and choose wisely.

Now it is up to you, the voting public. So let's get out the vote!

Danny Gans - Las Vegas' Entertainer of the Year

So, in case you couldn't tell from the title of this post . . . Tyler took me to Phantom as he promised he would for our anniversary. . . or maybe not. . . but I am still hoping :)


Actually, we went and saw Danny Gans for a fun date night. It was awesome!!!


Danny Gans has got some mad skills with his impersonations. We both really liked his Frank Sinatra, John Mayer, and Michael Buble. He was way good, and he sounded completely different from one song to the next. It was impressive!!! He even did a pretty good Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Cosby.


We totally got hooked up with these tickets (which was nice, and why we felt comfortable splurging on a Shirley Temple . . . which was good . . . ) thanks to my awesome husband! Free tickets are a very nice thing, let's just say, in Tyler's words "we know a guy who knows a guy" or something like that. Anyway the show was totally fun.

Not only did we get some free tickets we got to sit in the box at the back of the theater. It was totally awesome! We were lucky for once! (honestly we have really bad luck a lot of the time, we just have to laugh at the bad stuff that happens!) But this time we totally lucked out, we got this little room thing in the back with actual chairs and LEG ROOM and a little table for our drink, and it was SOOOO NICE! It made the show that much better.

Thank you Mom and Dad for watching Sarah so last minute for us!!!!!

Anyway, if you are in town and looking for a great show, Danny Gans is not a bad way to go! But he is only here until November, and then who knows what he is doing.





This is the view from our awesome box seats!!!!!






This is me enjoying the box, pretty good eh? Tyler thinks we should try to buy the wallpaper from them when they close in November! I am thinking not.







Tyler told me to write that he is showing just how big our box was . . . but in fact, he is doing the YMCA and mocking about 300 drunk people!!! haha!!!






I couldn't post about Danny Gans without posting this picture of the ugliest shoes in the world. When Tyler was in line for our beverage he saw these shoes and let's just say I am glad his phone has a camera.