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Happy Thanksgiving!

I am so thankful for everything we have. We have a happy and healthy family. We have such wonderful extended families as well. We have a warm home and food and clothes. We have great friends and neighbors. We live in a great country. We have jobs.

I know this barely scratches the surface. One day a year is hardly adequate to express thanks for the many blessings we have in our lives.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Veteran's Day salute

Thank you to all our Veterans!

This morning as I was getting kids ready for school, I asked my 9 year old daughter if she was excited for the Veteran's Day program at school. She said she was and then added that they were even going to have a real live veterinarian speak.

I had to giggle a little.

Grass

Since we built our house 8 years ago, we've had a patch of weeds growing next to our driveway. We decided it was time to clean it up. We rolled out sod on it and made more yard. It will be so nice to have grass there next summer instead of weeds. Looks much better now.

Big zucchini

Our friend gave us 2 zucchini a couple of weeks ago. They were huge. The biggest one was 22" long and weighed in as 12 pounds. The kids thought is was funny to hold it treat it like a baby. I wouldn't have wanted to squeeze that size baby out.

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year.

Friday night, Ryan and I went to a Halloween costume party with several couples from our ward dinner group. It was a lot of fun. We had some dinner and then played 2 lies and a truth. We had some good laughs and got to know everybody a little better. We discovered that there are some pretty good liars in the group. After the party, a few of us ladies went to the Haunted Mill.

Aunt Jamima

Jack Sparrow and his girlfriend

MMA Fighters

Couple of goofy basketball players

Zorro & a gypsy

jailbird & Bob the Builder

Saturday, we took the kids to trunk or treat and then later after it got dark, we took them around to some of the neighbors and other people who don't do the trunk or treat thing. Then we came home and watched "Monsters vs. Aliens". We were all exhausted by the end of the day. It was a lot of fun though.

a stylin witch

A leopard

a dead pirate

one tired little leopard

Pigs

As of late, Bo has had an obsession with pigs. Not just pigs in general, but pigs doing things.

Yesterday, the wind was blowing outside and out of nowhere, he pipes up "It is colder than a pig on rollerskates." Don't know where that came from.

This morning as the kids were watching for the school bus, he grabbed my hand and said, "Mom, your hand is warmer than a pig making sunshine."

He is such a funny kid. I don't know where he comes up with a lot of stuff, but it sure is funny sometimes.

We'll see what he comes up with next.

Meadow Lake pics

A while back I posted about Bo making the hike at Meadow Lake. We have received some pictures from that campout and hike. Still so proud of him.

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Tauphus Park Zoo

Last week me and Raegan went to the zoo with a couple of our friends. After the zoo, we went to a little play area nearby and ate our lunch and let the kids play. We all had a great time.

It sure was nice being the one with the least number of kids there.

Camping with Oversons

A couple weeks ago, we went camping with our friends, the Oversons. We went to her parent's property that is on the way to Driggs. It was a beautiful spot and we had so much fun....once we got Raegan fed. She was a very grumpy girl until we ate dinner and realized that she was just hungry. She didn't tell us that though.

We had a great time riding four wheelers, playing some baseball and the kids loved climbing the trees. Some of us even snuck a nap in.

Thanks Overson's for the fun time!

We Remember

It's like buttah

I've been asked what Raegan does while the kids are at school. The 2 pictures below are just a couple of examples of what she has done with all her spare time.

On the first day of school she dumped her cold cereal all over the kitchen floor. While I proceeded to clean that mess up she went to the living room and emptied all my music out of the piano bench... alot of which was loose papers. That gave me a project to do of figuring out which songs each page goes to. That was fun! Then she headed downstairs to the playroom to empty the bookcase of all the kids books. Needless to say, she went down for a nap after that.

Yeah, it's butter.....all over the side of my cabinet.


Here are a couple of other pictures of things she has done in recent months.

She used up all my foundation on her face, hair, arms

She filled the bathtub to nearly overflowing when I

realized where the sound of water running was coming from.

But, how can you stay mad at such a cute little stinker.