Holiday Fun

We had a great Christmas and enjoyed getting to spend time with family and friends. It was especially good because Jake got most of the week off to be home with us. (Hopefully he will be coming back to a job in the Salt Lake Valley soon.) The kids got lots of presents and are happily playing with them, almost to the point of forgoing food and sleep. Guess thats a good thing though, it means they got what they wanted. We have been abundantly blessed this year, we love all of our family and friends and hope that the coming year brings much love, happiness and well being.

Look at those two kids!!

I had the idea of posting our wedding announcement picture and the one that we just had taken together the first time that I saw the new pic. It has just taken me a while to dig out the old one and get it scanned into the computer so I could. When I look at the old picture I really see two kids I can't believe that we have been married for 13 and 1/2 years...

Vernal

My whole family (well except Rhett's family in Texas, wish you could have come) went to Vernal on Saturday to decorate Trisha's grave for Christmas. It was freezing cold, so cold that the kids didn't even want to decorate the little tree. But it was good to go as a family and do it together. Then we went to both my Grandparents houses to visit. My Grandma T made wonderful homemade chicken noodle soup and rolls for us and it was good to visit with them. She gave me the recipe for the rolls and I am going to try and attempt them for my family. (I'll let you know how that turns out)

This is what happens when you let Jake help...

We decorated a gingerbread house last night for FHE, this was the first time I can remember that Jake has been home to help with the decorating (we usually do this during the day when he is at work, can you imagine why?) Even though everyone was a total mess we had a great time. I don't think that I will ever forger this night. And I don't know what that is on Jake I think it might be frosting on the lens of the camera!!! But as you can see we did get the house decorated, even Abbie helped, it was really cute. Sometimes she used frosting as the glue and sometime she sucked on the candy then put it on the house. And she put every piece on the one side of the roof. No one is going to be eating this house..

Family Pics--a got a copy!!

I have a digital copy of our family picture that I can post FINALLY. I would have had them sooner if I had gotten my act together and ordered my pictures sooner. Anyway here are some others we took that day. I will be posting more on my other site later when I get the whole shoot on disk, these are the ones that we ordered but there were so many cute ones that I will put them up when I have them.

Family Pics

On Saturday we drove to Morgan to have our family pictures taken by Jake's cousin Amanda. She does a great job, can't wait to see them all. I got a small (very small) sneak peak that night after we had taken them and they look fantastic. I will post some on here as soon as I can. We froze trying to take some outside (at least it wasn't snowing when we were trying to take them) but it was totally worth it seeing the results. Then we had to go indoors to finish because we all had red noses. Can't wait to get them ordered.

Living Planet Aquarium

I promised the kids that while Lexie was off track we could do some fun day trips, well this is Lexie's last week of being off track and we hadn't managed to have any "fun days". So today we decided to go to the Living Planet Aquarium, we have been there before and its fun, only pretty small I wish that there was more to it. They did have a new part that we hadn't seen before so that was good. Lexie and Ashton really like the jellyfish because they changed colors with the lights in the tank.


Abbie had a great time running all around saying "fish", but she was scared of the rays and didn't like the play part very much once she inadvertently put her hand on a pretend crab on the rock. She didn't want to go into any of the caves after that.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween, the kids had lots of fun trick-or-treating. Even Abbie figured out that candy was the reward for going to a bunch of strange people's doors and she was all for that. Here a pic of the kiddod on their way to Ashton's preschool party that was Friday.
Halloween night at my parents house, with their cousin Zach. (Josh wanted nothing to do with pictures)
And Abbie being adorable...

Lifting Burdens

I found this great video on the church's website...Lifting Burdens

Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to get some pumpkins tonight. We tried a new farm and had a great time. They had a great selection of pumpkins to choose from and they had free tractor rides and a small, but fun, corn maze for the kids. I have bought veggies from them at the farmers market in Herriman so when I saw that they were doing a pumpkin patch this year I want to try it. I will definitely go back next year. I also can't believe that we could be outside in the evening (it was 5:30) and not need coats or even long sleeves to be comfortable, what a difference from past years when it has been to cold to have very much fun. Abbie loved the tractor ride, she didn't want to get off.

And the kids enjoyed the corn maze, even if Mom and especially Dad could see over the tops of some of the stalks.
The kids loved the display tractors too.