Thanksgiving Weekend

We've had a lot going on the last week, so I decided to make a slide show of all the fun stuff that's been going on. First of all, Jayden's birthday was yesterday. He turned 8 years old. We got him a cake at Wal-Mart and we came home and sang Happy Birthday to him and he got to open the rest of his presents. He really liked the marbles that Nana and Papa Mike gave him, and after we set up the Christmas tree we played marbles and watched The Polar Express. We need to get him a marble bag, so in the meantime, while we are looking, he has his marbles in a plastic bag under his bed because Jacklyn and Addison keep stealing them. Jayden wanted me to tell everyone thanks for all of the birthday presents. He really liked everything that everyone gave him.

As for Thanksgiving weekend, as most of you know, we went up to Idaho and spent the weekend with Matt and Amber. It was a lot of fun. Amber and Matt made a really great Thanksgiving dinner, and all of us especially liked the fruit pizza made to look like a turkey. Very creative. Thanksgiving evening was spent bumming through the ads and just hanging out with everybody, then we woke up early to get in on all the Black Friday action. To make a long story short, we did lots of shopping, went to IHOPS, had a run with FAT MAN (Hahahaha), and came home for a nap. Later on, we went to watch New Moon in the theaters because Natalie was dying to see it, and we all made a deal that we would watch it together. So there I was watching Twilight, and Natalie would lean over to me and say, "Isn't Edward so hot?" Then I would have Amber lean into me and say, "Isn't Jacob so hot? Don't you just want to touch his chest?" Then Dad would let out a loud sigh every twenty minutes or so because he was watching a chick flick instead of an action movie. Fun times. Before the movie started, Dad kept saying we needed to switch our tickets and go see 2012, something with some action. I wouldn't have minded doing it, but I had told Natalie that we were all going to watch New Moon together, so that's what it ended up being. Then Saturday afternoon we came home. Thanks Matt and Amber for feeding us and letting us stay at your place.

We did have one more thing happen this week, and it was a very sad thing. Our cat, Tanner, died while we were up in Idaho. She wasn't doing too well a week before we left and Micah and I were wondering if she was going to make it through Thanksgiving weekend. We brought her in the house a week ago, because she had been missing for a few days and when she came home she looked really weak. Micah put her food dish and blanket inside the house by the door, but she wouldn't eat or drink anything. Micah did manage to get her to drink some water with a dropper but that was it. Three or four years ago she drank some stain remover fluid that fell behind the washing machine and leaked onto the floor, and her health was never the same after that. She was a really good cat. She would follow us around when we would go trick-or-treating or over the Nunn's house because Jacklyn likes to play there; and in the summer, when we would sleep out on the trampoline she would jump up onto the tramp with us and give us massages. We had a small funeral and had the kids say good-bye. I was sad. Tanner, you will be missed.

Change of plans, I will post the slide show on the next post because it's really late and I need to download all the pictures from the camera onto the computer, and it's just too much work for 11:30 at night. So I will post the slide show in the next day or two. Now I'm wondering why my time at the bottom of my blog is always off.

Halloween Pictures

The time has just flown by. I was going to take pictures of the kids in their Halloween costumes like I did last year, but we got so busy that we never got around to it, and now here it is the middle of November and I'm finally getting around to getting the few pictures that we had taken posted. Jacklyn was a witch for Halloween, which was really cute. Everyone in her class dressed up, including her bus driver and helper, and they took the above photo when they had their Halloween party. Jayden finally decided that he wanted to be a transformer for Halloween. His costume looked pretty cool. And Addison was, of course, the cutest baby alligator that you've ever seen. Halloween was on Saturday this year, as you all know, so we had all of parties on Friday. At 4:00 we had Micah's work party, which is really fun. They had a haunted alley and would go trick-or-treating to each cubicle, and then they had donuts and punch after wards. I dressed up this year with the kids, which they thought was pretty cool. I dressed up as Hermonie from Harry Potter. I wish I had taken my coat off for Micah's work picture, but we had just walked through the door and I wasn't expecting to be in it. I'll try to get some better pictures next year. Then at 6:00 we had the ward Trunk-or-Treat party. That was a lot of fun. Our relief Society president dressed up as Professor McGonagell, so we had to get a Harry Potter picture together. Micah had to work late, so he missed coming with us to the Trunk-or-Treat party with. He missed it last year because he had to work late, argh. Then on Saturday we all dressed up and did the real trick-or-treating around the neighbor. I was glad that the weather wasn't too bad. I remember when Jayden was a baby, and it snowed on Halloween. That was yucky. All right, with that said, it's time to start thinking about Thanksgiving and turkeys, and I hope everyone enjoys the few pictures that we had taken, and I will do better about taking pictures next year. Bye.

Pinewood Derby

So on Thursday we had the Pinewood Derby racing. We went down to the Church at 6:30 and they had a movie going about racing and how to build a car and stuff. Then they took all the kids into the gym where they had the racing set up. I had never seen the Pinewood Derby stuff before so this all new to me. They had four metal tracks where you would set you car and at the beginning of the race the track lifted up so your car would go. They had pins at the front and then someone would push a level and all the cars would go off at once. At the end of the race they had a board with digital numbers on it and when your car went across it posted your time. The guy had a computer that would keep track of all the times and the person with the best times after eight races was the winner. The kids were really excited to see this, especially Addison. He loved to watch the cars race. Jayden and Jacklyn both had cars but couldn't race theirs until the end because they aren't in Scouts. By the time it came for them to race, Jayden took off with friends and Addison was super excited to race Jayden's car. He waited in line with everybody and then when it was his turn he would step up on the chair and put his little car up and run to the end of the race to see how his car did. I couldn't believe how excited that little kid was for Pinewood Derby. It was really cute. After racing we chatted with everyone, had cookies, and went home. It was a really fun night, and all the kids enjoyed racing their cars.

Halloween Costumes

In September, we were walking home from picking up Jacklyn at her friend, Jenna's house, and Bro. Davis saw us and stopped to talk to us. He said that since Jayden is going to turn 8 in the next 60 days he was invited to the Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby. He also said he could build a car and race it if he wants to, but he can't race the car until the last 30 minutes, since he's not 8 and officially in Cub Scouts yet. Micah was pretty excited and took the kids home to show them the car kits he had stuffed in the closet. The kids were pretty excited, so the next night we had them build their cars. Micah said they had a blast painting their cars and decorating them with stickers. I actually didn't help them because I had an NEI class that night (Natural Eyesight Improvement). The kids now have their cars all done, and tomorrow night is the Pinewood Derby. They are pretty excited. I will have to write it down on the blog when we get done.

Now on to Halloween. I have been so busy this year with homework and getting kids to school that I haven't really had much time to think about Halloween costumes until a few days ago. I didn't want to wait until the last minute because everything gets picked over. So yesterday we went to the store and Jacklyn picked out a really cute witch costume. She really loves it. I will have to post pictures on the blog when it gets closer to Halloween. Addison is going to be an alligator again, because he's too young too care and he looks absolutely adorable in his alligator costume. Jayden wants to be Indiana Jones again. The problem is that when I bought his Indiana Jones costume last year I thought they measured the costumes according to regular clothes, but they didn't. A 6-8 is actually for a 4-5 year old, so the costume was small last year, and I know it is going to be way too small this year. We went to the mall today to see if anyone had an Indiana Jones costumes, but they didn't. I don't know why he has to pick the most complicated thing for Halloween. Then as we were leaving the mall he said that he wanted a costume that he had seen at Wal-Mart yesterday, so now I'm not sure what he wants to be. Now as for me, I decided that I am definitely dressing up for the Ward Halloween party this year. Last year I wanted to dress up as Harry Potter but I didn't decide that until a few days before the party and all the local stores were out of the Harry Potter ties and I didn't want to pay for express shipping, so I ended up not dressing up. This year though, I am prepared. I got my Harry Potter tie and I am going as Hermonie. I decided that the short hair and glasses just weren't working for me. It should be lots of fun. I will have to keep everyone posted on all the Fall and Halloween activities. Bye.

Summer 2009

School started a few weeks ago, as you all are aware, and so I thought I would do a slide show recapping all of the fun things that we did over the summer. I hope you enjoy.

P.S. My favorite picture is of Addison stealing Nana's pepsi. :)

What's going on in here?

The other day I came into the kitchen and saw Addison taking a big swig of milk from the milk jug. Apparently he was thirsty and decided to get into the fridge and get a drink of milk, and this is how I caught him. I thought he looked so cute that I decided to take a picture of him and post it on here. I wonder who he learned this from?

Summer Projects

I can't believe it has already been a month since I have posted anything on here. The last month of summer has just flown by, so now that I have a minute I am going to fill everyone in on what's been going on in the last month. First off, we had Eric and Liz's baby blessing at the first of August and the family: Mike, Nana, Natalie, Amber, and of course, baby Jeriah, came down and hung out at our house for a week. It was tons of fun. Amber posted a ton of pictures on her facebook page of all the activities that happened. (Amber, I still need to get those 4th of July pictures of Addison feeding the chickens the watermelon rhines from you and Dad.) While Mike and Mom were down here Mike changed the hose facet on the front of house. It use to be underneath our living room window where the sidewalk was and it was really annoying to have the hoses running across the sidewalk. So while Mike was here he filled up our old facet and installed a new one on the other side of the house. It looks really nice now. Mike also took out an old weed tree that had grow up around our gas pipe and that looks great too. I tried taking out before but was too scared that I would break the pipe. Thanks Mike for all the help and work you did while at our house. We appreciate it. Mom also helped us get our weedy garden under control and helped get more weed trees out from behind the shed. Also, while the family was down Mich sold his motorcycle and we bought some bricks to edge the pine trees that we have been wanting to do for a few years now but have just never had the money. We actually ended up doing a lot of projects while Mom and Mike were down. And just this week we got our redwood pole installed with our hanging flower basket on it. We put a solar light on top of it and it looks really nice. Thanks again Mom and Mike for all the help you did while you were down.

Another thing that has been going on in my life is that I decided to learn how to crochet. I had tried learning growing up but could never quite figure it out, so when Aunt Mary came and dropped off all of her sewing books that she didn't want anymore I decided to learn how to crochet. Mom found me some books on how to help me learn and a book on making rag rugs, which I had been wanting to make. I decided to start out with something simple, so I picked a hot pad pattern and have been working on it a little each night. I had to check out a few books at the library to help me but I am definitely starting to figure it out. All right, I think I've said enough so it's time to go. Everyone enjoy the rest of their summer vacation.