Our long Weekend

Included: Playing football, eating lots of great food (twice)...

Snapping some family photos...

Showing school spirit while watching more football...


Hanging with cousins...


and watching more football.

We had a great Thanksgiving. It was busy. I wasn't able to do everything I wanted to do. But it was awesome. Hope yours was great.

Woops,

I forgot to post pictures of Peyton's big day. So here is the birthday boy enjoying his special day.

Houndstooth Love

Last night I was scouring the internet for 2 large houndstooth fabric covered buttons. I came up with nothing. I got close but I didn't find exactly what I was looking for. I got a great new jacket that has a pattern similair to houndstooth so I made myself a black beanie with a brim. Then for detail I just had to have two houndstooth buttons to finish it off with. Well, I ended up just attaching some white buttons instead. But while looking for those buttons I found other beauties that I wish I had. I am kind of obsessed with this print. I wish I had all of these items. Especially the shoes. The shoes. I have to have those shoes!

A Blustery Day

There is a great park here with a lake to walk around and lots of forest. The kids love it and I enjoy the walk around the lake. This day we decided to go even though it was pretty chilly and windy. It was even windier here but the park was empty (probobly due to weather) so we had it all to ourselves.

Halloween 2009

Our Halloween was fun. We had three days of dressing up and trick or treating. Thursday was our ward Trunk or Treat, Friday Josh's work had a trick or treating and fun activities to do and Saturday was the actual day of trick or treating house to house. The kids had a good time dressing up and being adored. I also enjoy it. I am not being adored, I enjoy that my kids are being adored. Don't you? Here is a sampling of our three days.

Paige's face is so funny in this one.

Doing the ring toss at the ward party.

I love and hate this picture. She's so stinkin cute but she looks really grown up here.

Our new playground

We spent a good two hours this morning playing in the snow. I finally talked to kids into going inside when my toes were about to fall off. We enjoyed some hot cocoa inside afterwards. It was a great time.

Paige took samples of the snow in different parts of the yard. I told her to stay away from the place the dogs use as their toilet. She did.

First of the Season

What first of the season, you ask? First snow of course! As Josh and I were getting the kids ready for bed we got word that it was snowing outside. We all jumped up and grabbed our jackets as fast as we could to run outside with no shoes on to see it. And yes, it was snowing and snowing good.

Josh was giddy, the kids were excited to hold it in snowball form (Paige liked to eat it), Siri was in heaven prancing around the yard trying to catch it in her mouth, and I stood back and enjoyed the moment. Yes I was excited about the snow, but I was more glad to just enjoy the pure happiness that everyone felt for that moment. So here it is being documented, not only the first snow but this moment of happiness. After all, isn't that the whole goal of this blog?