Family Pictures

My awesome nephew Noah took our family pictures this year. Here's a few of my favorites:

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we drove down to Thatcher to be with Dave & Becki's family. Paul, Tara, Anna, and Jason all joined us, too. It was a full house and we had so much fun staying up late and playing all day. We forgot our camera (of course!), but I got some shots with my cell phone.

The girls prepared some of the food at the high school's culinary kitchen. I've never seen such a big mixer in my life!

Hailey and Jack were inseperable!

Ty was the master of doing the dishes.

Tara and Noah

Becki goes all out when it comes to Thanksgiving pies

Boys Weekend + Girls Weekend

Granna and Papa came down for Veteran's Day weekend. The boys had planned a two-day motorcycle adventure around southern Arizona. They left with few plans, no reservations, and no worries.

Just look at these tough guys:

The O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ

The girls spent the weekend quilting, playing at the park, eating out, and playing with the kiddos.

Granna spoiled these guys!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! We had an interesting night. Elliot seemed to be over whatever bug made him sick the night of the trunk-or-treat. This time, is was Jack that threw up just a couple house before we headed out for the evening. Lovely. We had a busy beginning of the week and just didn't get around to carving our pumpkin until Thursday dinner time. We decided to do it really fast before trick-or-treating. Well, the pumpkin was supposed to still be in the back of the truck, but when I looked it wasn't there. I figured it must have fallen out on the road somewhere along 67th ave. (It's a long and embarrassing story about me forgetting to put the tailgate up after throwing a bunch of groceries in the back...yes, I definitely saw my yogurt flying out when I looked in my rear view mirror.) I hadn't realized that I'd lost our pumpkin, too. By now it was too late, so we just didn't say anything to the kids and somehow they forgot about it.

So we headed out to get candy with our sick Dracula, Jake the Pirate, and Sleeping Beauty.

Twenty Eight

Last week, I turned 28. Birthdays are great days to think about your life - where you've been and where you're going. I feel so blessed and so complete. It's a wonderful feeling. Heavenly Father has given me and husband and three children and a home and there is nothing else I want or need. It was a definitely a day of counting my blessings.

I took the twins to Firehouse Subs for lunch and to get my free birthday sub!

A pan of birthday brownies did the trick for dessert that night.

Trunk-or-Treat

Tonight was the ward trunk-or-treat. Here are the kids all ready to go. Unfortunately, Elliot threw up about five minutes before this picture was taken. We didn't stay at the activity long, but we still had fun.

Jake the Neverland Pirate, Dracula, and Sleeping Beauty

Happy Fall

We wore long sleeve shirts today! Fall is finally here.