It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like....

The kids decorated all by themselves. Can you tell?

Thankful

This Thanksgiving was nice and low key. Nick wanted a Ham and so we made that and some funeral potatoes. Keena joined us and brought lovely rolls and green beans. She also came prepared with some fun activity for the kids. She made a turkey and the kids wrote what they were thankful for for on each of the feathers. So cute!

Ryan was thankful for school, food, Thanksgiving, toys, Crayola, and family.
Drew was thankful for animals, Christmas, family, and toys.
Liv was thankful for cereal, and princesses.

I'm so thankful for Family, health, shelter, food, a job, my beautiful kids. Life is amazing and hard and everything in between. I'm thankful for the Lord and his gift to me of this life and these children! I'm thankful for a loving husband who loves me unconditionally and I love him. We are surely blessed!

Jubilee Of Trees

This year the Jubilee Of Trees was great! I actually had a hard time choosing a favorite! Here we are in front of the Horton tree (which was Drew's 1 of 3 favorites).



While at the Jubilee we visited Santa. (Doesn't his bench look a little too much like a bed?) I was a little disturbed by the fact he was a little creepy. Oh well. Picture done.



This year certainly was a great one! Thanks Keena for helping me wrangle the kids!

Pioche

Such a cute little town. I was sad we didn't get to stay for very long. It was great seeing family and getting some fun pictures!

What Happens When...

Liv gets a hold of the camera!






(This is only 3 out of 12!)

Dragons!

Meet Night Fury. Quick as a flash and silent. May get you with a fireball as he flashes by.


Meet Gronkle. He is a bit slower than Night Fury but makes up for his slowness with a quick witted joke or distracting tuck and roll!


We are still working on Training Our Dragons!!

Hunger Games

I bought The Hunger Games the day it came out. I was hooked from the very beginning. Suzanne Collins wrote a brilliant novel that will soon be coming to the big screen. I must admit I'm nervous. It is such a heavy book with violence, and theme and yet Collins writes past those and focus' on characters. This is a gem of a fan based made film. I can only hope the actual movie can catch a little of this!

Cookie!

Every year we decorate Halloween cookies. This year was no exception! Behold the cookies!

Llama Face!

Our neighbor happens to have a llama and he brought him by today. Makes for a fun photo op!

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

This was a wonderful Halloween! We spent the day working, getting the kids ready and Trick or Treating! We went to the Mall for easy quick candy, and the kids had fun. While there we saw the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile so of course I had to catch a quick picture!



The kids loved their costumes and had fun posing for pictures.




Nick's costume was an actual carved pumpkin and he camped out on the bench in the front and scared unsuspecting Trick or Treaters. We only had a few but they were good scares! I'm sure he'll do it again next year!


Hope your Halloween was great!

Drew

Drew's Preschool had a Halloween Party on Wednesday. He is so cute in his class and he loves it so it is definitely a win!

Liv

We seem to be seeing a lot of this lately....




Hopefully the terrible two's will go away quickly!

Surprise!

This was left on the couch the other day....
















Would you eat spider eggs?

Trunk Or Treat

We ventured out to a Trunk or Treat on Monday and were surprised by all the people there! The kids were so excited to try out their costumes and I was happy to be able to get pictures!

Cupcake Cannon

CUPCAKE CANNON from kamp grizzly on Vimeo.

If you are going to waste a perfectly good cupcake do it with style!

10-10-10

This is a once in a lifetime experience! Here we are at 10/10/10 so to celebrate here are 10 things you need to know about me (or not know but now you get too!)

1~ I'm allergic to shellfish. Makes my throat and ears itch.
2~ I'm obsessed with hardcover books! I got my kindle and LOVE it but there is nothing as beautiful as a Hardcover book sitting on my shelf!
3~ I have a TON of new songs on on my Itunes and I won't listen to any others until I have listened to EVERY last song on the dumb thing! I'm so weird!
4~ I had my first book review posted on novelreaction and am so excited to do more! Thanks Jessica (and P.S. Happy Birthday on this marvelous day!)
5~ I'm obsessed with Halloween and yet have no desire to decorate for it.
6~ My favorite color is Grey.
7~ I think I'm addicted to candy.
8~ I REALLY wanted a Baby Ruth yesterday but could not for the life of me find one!
9~ I like making lists A lot!
10~ Happy 10/10/10!! It has been Amazing since I was able to video chat with my parents and the kids were besides themselves with joy!

Tis The Season!

If I Were...

If I were a month, I’d be October. Fall is coming and with that Halloween, with pumpkins and children all dressed up.

*Halloween 2009

If I were a day of the week, I’d be Saturday. Time off with the ones I love doing...

*June 2010

If I were a time of day, I’d be 9:00 p.m. Kids should be in bed and just off to dreamland.

*Ryan 3 weeks old 2004

If I were a planet, I’d be Saturn. Who doesn't love Saturn?


If I were a sea animal, I’d be a Jellyfish. So ethereal and unearthly. Fascinating.


If I were a direction, I’d be North.


If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a favorite chair.

*March 2010

If I were a liquid , I’d be Hot Chocolate


If I were a gemstone, I’d be a Natural Alexanderite


If I were a flower, I’d be a Peony


If I were a fruit, I’d be a Pineapple


If I were you I would repost this and give others a look into your mind!

Where has time gone

Where have I been? Well lets see....

~Kids are in school
~Working (trying to be full time)
~Sister has baby
~Parents Enter MTC
~Parents fly to Russia (Still no word from them yet)
~Parades
~Concerts
~Sleep

Sorry I haven't posted. I know there is much to talk about but the camera seems to be left when we do happen to do something.

First Day

Ryan is now officially a 1st Grader! He loves school but was most excited to eat school lunch!

Wedding

My big bro was lucky enough to find a great woman to marry! They had a Willy Wonka Themed Wedding w/ chocolate fountains, candy, and lots of color! Congrats you two! (Sorry not many pictures I had to play mom/babysitter that evening.)


The happy family


Cousins at the Candy Bar


Bob, Malea, and Mina modeling the Chocolate Buffet


Ryan and Liv getting their groove on

It's My Party...

26. I feel old and yet so young. I'm only 26 for crying out loud! But with that said having 3 kids sure makes me feel older and wiser too. So for my party I wanted to do something fun. One thing I've always wanted to do is have a pie fight. So on the eve of my 26th birthday 6 fun loving adults had a all out pie fight!

Here is the lovely group before the fun began...


While they were singing happy birthday Nick snuck up behind me and pied me right in my ear and the side of my face! It was so unexpected and hilarious and disgusting that I couldn't help but wipe some off my face and get him back. Let the pie fight begin! (We didn't get many pictures since our photographer was distracted by Liv screaming since her parents were fighting)







After the adult pie fight Ryan, Drew, Alayna, and Alexis had their own pie fight! They loved it!