It's time

I needed a recipe.  I thought it was on my food blog.  Geez, remember that adventure?  But it wasn't.  And then I remembered it was on my personal blog.  I could see the picture of Porter standing outside my itty bitty townhouse holding the chocolate muffin.  That's how I remembered where it was.  I came to this blog, scanned through and found the recipe.  Then I found myself scanning old posts, making pictures bigger, and being blown away at how faithfully I blogged, what I blogged about, and even the clever things I wrote!  This blog is an amazing piece of family history!  And so, I decided, it's time.  It's time to do it again.  Not for you, not for my mom, but for me.  A place I can write at the end of the day.  A place I can add pictures of my family.  A place I can come to and just feel like I'm doing something FOR ME.  Because let's be honest, at the end of each day, I'm exhausted and usually feeling guilty about the things I failed on.  And to be even more honest, I've been yearning for something to make me feel like an individual.  So, I think this is it.  Something that can make me feel like an individual and be fulfilling family history. So, here we go!

Last time I blogged was Paige's 3rd birthday!  What?!  Seriously! (She'll be 5 next month!)

So, at her birthday party in Draper, I was totally pregnant!  It's true.  Probably like 6-7 weeks at that point.  And I was sick.  I remember driving home from this lake after the party and feeling so sick.  I had no food in the car, I was dying and my mother in law wanted to make all these different stops on the way home.  I almost screamed, "I'm pregnant, please stop somewhere so I can buy a snack!"  But I didn't. I made it home.

That fall we did fun stuff for Halloween

In November we went to Draper for Thanksgiving, got a pedicure with my in laws, watched Paige dance at her ballet class for parents day, Paige got dental work done on her teeth, both Porter and Paige got notebooks from a primary activity and loved them, my baby belly started growing, Paige got a fairy set from her aunts, and the kids had a "sleepover" while we went Black Friday shopping. 

In December, we did A LOT. Family parties and get togethers. We saw Elsa and Santa Claus - who Porter was afraid of this year still. We saw cousins and made treats and had a great Christmas!

And I'll start with 2015 another post :)

October is gone!

I can't believe it's already November!  And there are way too many things for me to tell you about.  Really, these Eldridges did some pretty exciting things in October.

We carved our pumpkins.

We went to the American West Heritage Park for their Fall Festival.  We ate kettle corn, got old fashioned candy, played in some hay and walked through a corn maze.  It was a lot of fun!

Over James's fall break he had this idea to go camping.  I am a water-side, middle of the summer, kind of camper.  So I was very against this idea from the beginning.  But...I decided we could try it.  It was actually a lot of fun up until bedtime.  Finally about midnight, James said, "Do you want to take Paige home?"  I happily drove home with Paige and we each slept in our warm, comfortable beds.  Porter of course slept through her screaming in the tent and James said he slept through the night.  Awesome.

We've been doing lots of "art projects" lately.  This is painting with pudding!

Halloween....oh Halloween!!  I'm a little crazy and wanted to do as many trick or treating events as possible.  I just wanted to show off my kids cute costumes.  I made them myself - with a ton of help by my friend, Shalisha.  We went to a trick or treat at a grocery store the Saturday before Halloween.  Then on Halloween we went trick or treating to the mall, a retirement center, our church, and then to a few houses.  Ah!  We got so much candy.  And our kids were happy all day.  Each time Porter got one piece of candy, he would say, "Mom, I want more candy!" And Paige was determined to walk and hold her bucket all by herself.

My parents came for a night a few weekends ago.  It was a fast trip but it was nice to watch them play with my babies and treat us to Aggie ice cream comes.  It's the best ice cream around.  Promise.

And even though it's November...my really good friend Kim and her little family came to play today.  We were super laid back - ate pizza for lunch, walked to the park, played with our kids in the living room, and then made roasted chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner.  (It'll be on my food blog soon!)

OH! And did you know Home Depot does "kid workshops" every month?  We had no idea!  When James and Porter were there today Porter got an apron, and made and painted a Thanksgiving napkin holder.  It is adorable and he was VERY proud to show it to me!  Gosh I love him.  He really is such a sweet little boy who insists on pleasing those around me.

my new blog project

Remember when I said I was working on a blog project?
It was inspired by Caley Park.  She helped a lot with it!
And today is the BIG DEBUT!

Click on the photo or link to visit! willtherebefoodthere.blogspot.com

Enjoy! :)

If you hadn't noticed by the blog name...it's all about food.
Pretty appropriate coming from me, huh?