The Whatcott's: 2009

Hard at Work!!

So Blair and I got our Christmas presents early from my parents this year because they were in town for my brothers wedding in November. I was so excited this year with what we got. One of our presents was a Christmas puzzle. Since I was little, every year my parents would get out our family Christmas puzzle on Dec. 1st. We would keep it on a table and the whole family whenever we would have time would sit down and find some pieces to put it all together. It is one of my many memories and traditions we had as a family. Well my parents got each of us kids our own puzzle to start the tradition with our families. I was SO excited. Blair and I started it before I went to Missouri and we have the whole boarder done and some of the middle. We still have a ways to go on it but I'm excited to have it completed. Its a Thomas Kinkade picture and its called "The Night Before Christmas."

Yay!! Its So PRETTY

Trip to Missouri!!! :)

So this past week I went to Missouri to help Heidi get settled in. We have had a lot of fun getting everything together. Last night we went to the Gallatin's Wrestling match. It was SO much fun and actually really intense. Haha I took some video clips but they are not down loading on this so I will have to try later and post them. It has been really cold and cloudy and actually it has snowed a couple of times. I have never been outside when snow was coming down so that was a good experience. I miss Blair a TON!! We havent been separated since his mission, but I go home tomorrow and am so excited about that. It has been a great week!! Lots of antique shopping....well scoping haha because I don't have any money. Haha Anyways I hope you all enjoy!! :)

This is Sterling. He was wrestling in at 125 lbs. He did awesome and YES he WON!!

This is Peter. He was wrestling in at 130 lbs and he WON as well!!! I am so proud of these boys.

All of us girls that went to the wrestling match!!

Oh my CUTE parents!!! My mom and her snow hat haha. She is so stinking cute

Baby Emme!!! She is such a pill!! love this girl to DEATH

Lauren, Sabrina, and Cari!! I cant believe how old all of the girls are getting.

LIFE....

Im just sitting here thinking about a lot of things so I figured I would jot it all down. A lot is going on with in our lives and it is all so hard to take it all in and know that its for the best. As a lot of you know my parents live in Missouri. They have lived there for three and a half years now and they are loving it. It was really hard for me at first when they left but I got used to the fact that life is like that sometimes and when people have a strong prompting then they need to go with it even if they don't want to sometimes. I know it was really hard for my parents to leave a lot of there family here in AZ. I also know that they felt it was important to move to Gallatin Missouri. They have done wonderful things there and for that town. Well I got used to them there and I was ok because I had all of my sisters here except one that lived in Missouri as well. So about 2 months ago my sister Michelle and her family moved there. Things weren't going good for them here and there business was struggling. They needed and felt like going there would be the best thing. It was really hard for me to see them go. I love there girls and I hope even tho there is distance I can still be close to there heart.....Next Thursday Heidi and Brad are moving there. When I think about that I start to cry....Blair and I are really close to them. We hangout a lot with them. Honestly.....THIS is hard...I get the honor of being able to drive with them when they move and also stay a week and help them get settled. Heidi is one of my best friends and she has done SO much for me in my life. I know that family is important now....growing up you take that all for granted. I know that even tho half of my family is in Missouri I can still move on and when I see them it will be such a joy. Life is hard sometimes....but if it wasn't then it wouldn't be a "test" for us. I just made up my mind that I will have a smile on my face when they take me to the airport in Kansas City Missouri to leave back home to AZ....Because I know that everything happens for a reason. I love my family...."Even tho the branches on our family tree grow apart, we are all from the same roots." :) Love you all....

Halloween Night!!

OK Halloween Night was a lot of fun! we went to Blair's parents because there block always has a lot of fun stuff going on. The people in the corner did a big show about the Coppa Cabana. It was amazing! Also the people right across the street had a bright yellow Camero just like the one in Transformers! They also had this giant statue of Optimus Prime! Haha it was pretty cool! Jenny and Brian and there family came to check it all out and ended up having a really fun time.

Korben and Kaler

Blair and I were boring and didnt dress up!!

Baby Tallie!! So cute I wanted to eat her up!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Alright!! We had a lot of fun on Halloween!! The Friday before Blair and I went to my nephew Mason and Jaylen's Halloween parade at there school. They looked so cute in their costumes along with all the other kids. Here are some of my favorites.

This is Jaylen!! He was a firefighter

This is Mason! He was a ghost.

This is MARIO!!! haha this was one of my favorites! He was not shy at all, he waved to the whole crowd!!

PIMP DADDY!! haha

This is Chips Ahoy!!!

Amazing AMY!!!!

All of us went and saw Amy perform at Chandler Gilbert Community College. She is on scholarship for her beautiful singing voice. So for sisters night we decided to all go and support!! We had a lot of fun watching her sing...even tho she was nervous she did an AWESOME job!! Love you Amy!!!

Us girls after the concert!! Laura (Soon to be new addition to the family) Heidi, Amy, Heather, Jenny, Wendy, and Me!!

Im so SAD!!! The video isnt working :( im sorry mom i will try it again later.

Liesl's Baby shower!!!

It was SO fun having another baby shower for a friend!! Liesl got a ton of fun stuff and things that she will most definitely need. I decorated the shower for her but silly me didn't take any pictures of it. A lot of people came to celebrate for baby Koston!! I am so excited for him to come to earth!! Haha it will be so fun to see who he looks like. Im sure he will be chunky ,tall, and healthy. Liesl was a bundle of joy in her baby pictures and Brian is very tall. Liesl just looked so cute with her belly. I am so thankful for her and the opportunity to be her friend and celebrate this with her. Love ya girl!!!

My sweet sisters came!! Heather made Liesl her present and it was so adorable. She made her baby shoes and one-z with little animals she embroider on.

All the girls!!! Amanda, Hayley, Sydney, Liesl, Katie, Me, Tiffany!!

"Daddy is my SUPER HERO!!"

I'm sure Brian loves that!!

This is a sign I had made for Koston's baby room!! It matches perfectly which I am so happy about because I was nervous it wouldn't flow right with the rest of his room and other decor.

Baby...NIXON!! He is so stinking cute. I wanted to chew his nose off the whole time. He looks like a little man already.

And....PRINCESS SAYLOR!! She always is so fashionable I LOVE it. Amanda makes all of her bows, bracelets, etc. All these girls and there babies...when is it my turn!! Hahah no...its fun being with just Blair for right now. I'm excited to have kids someday and be a mom but for now I'm content. I never will just be with Blair ever again so we arnt in any rush... :)

Will's Wedding!!!

Will got married!!! YAY haha! Blair doesn't really have any friends that have gotten married yet so it was fun to seeing Will tie the knot!!

This is Blair and I at the Luncheon.

This is Blake Butcher, Preston Hancock, and Blair. Blake and Blair were Will's groomsman.

Sea WOrLd!!!!

I love this pitures!! He is sooooo handsome

Flamingos!!!

This was such a cute show!! I loved the dolphins!

Beluga Whale

Polar Bear

Shamu hats!!!

Whit and I at the beach!! I love her!!

We had a really good time. The weather was so nice and cool. its always sad coming back from vaccation and stepping back into the real world. I love San Diego!!

FOurth Of JuLY PicTuRes!!

Dean and Laura

Beautiful Fireworks

Blair and I at the Breakfast on Saturday morning!!

Blair stepped on a nail... :( so sad!!

Brad and Heidi and there family....

I love him... :)

WE ARE BACK!!!

So I know it has been forever since I have blogged about anything going on, but we just got our computer back from being fixed. YAY!!! It felt like it was broken FOREVER. Not much is new... I am still working the same old job and Blair is just working out and waiting for school and baseball to start. We are happy as can be!!! Over the holiday we went up to Heber with about every other person from Mesa and Gilbert. At least it felt like that....the roads were packed!!! It took us 4 hours to get there...way to long of a drive. After that I thought to my self.... I NEVER WANT TO DRIVE TO MISSOURI haha. OH mom before you get to sad that I said that...of course I would drive to see you and dad....but not anytime soon haha. Flying sounds way more appealing. Heber was alot of fun tho. We went with Heidi and Brad and Dean and Laura. We stayed in Heidi and Brads toy hauler that was really nice and roomy and... just had a great time. We had a little incident that made it so Blair and I couldn't go to the parade on Saturday morning....Blair was hiking the mountain with my nephew Mason and stepped on a huge rusty nail!!! Thank GOODNESS he had his tetanus shot already because I was freaking out thinking his foot was going to have to get cut off. It was pretty painful for him but he was a trooper and acted tuff. :) Saturday night we had a great time watching fireworks. They honestly were amazing. It felt like they were right above us and we were in the front row. The grand finale was amazing but me and Blair were so focused on it that we forgot to tape it ha ha. I for sure would go again but maybe not stay as long as we did. We had a great time together. I will post pictures later because its not working.... :( love you all!!!

VeGaS BaBy....!!!

Blair and I recently flew to Vegas two weekends ago to see his brother Jordan pitch. It was so much fun being with all the family. It was a fun surprise when Blair's mom texts me and told me that she bought us tickets to fly out after Blair's game. It wasn't complete without us there :) I packed the bags and surprised Blair at his game by telling him we are going to the airport right now!!! haha it was a lot of fun. Jordan pitched very well. We stayed at a nice Hotel that had a HUGE fish tank in it. I seriously want one in my home someday....with the mermaids and all haha. So what I am saying is it was a great short trip. oh PS....I died my hair dark. I was over the blond even tho i am a "dirty blond" i just wasn't feeling the whole maintenance thing. I know i will still have to dye it dark but i think i can go longer with it like this. Its a fun change...beats the black i had my senior year.. haha that was scary!!!