Sara and her kids brought a party to our house this week! Good thing I have Sara to bring me a party, present, and cake! I was starting to feel a little sad that I didn’t get any of that for my birthday, its tough being the mom sometimes, (ok lots of times!!) Having Sara close makes it a lot easier though! The kids blew out my candles and we had a great time!
We love our cousins!
I went out to water the horses and realized it was a beautiful day! I couldn’t let it pass with out getting out in it, so we went out and put the lights up on the house. I am still surprised at myself for doing it! Emma and I only each got shocked once! Claire bear got to tired and fell asleep working.
(I didn’t even have my coat on, it was like 45 degrees, heat wave!! ) We are so ready for Christmas! (and the weather is back to freezing again!)
Claire and I got a few Christmas decorations out this morning. She was so excited to get to play with the “activity.”
The kids love our fisher price Nativity that we got last year from Erica, it is darling. We are putting up the tree for family night tonight, its starting to look a lot like Christmas!
We traveled home from Washington Sunday, we did good, we only stopped twice, I am pretty sure that is a record! We did go to Sacrament meeting in Basin City and then left after that. The kids traveled pretty good. We had our eggs and toast for Sunday night dinner and I got a candle in my half eaten toast!
Ryan has to do the magic string trick every birthday. The kids love it!
We are not happy to be back to real life! No one wanted to get out of bed, but thankfully the bus was running on our schedule today!
While we were home we went to the football game. It was great! Our Connell Eagles were playing in the quarterfinals and they won! Next week they will play for the state championship for like the third year in a row. It was fun to see a few friends and be back cheering for the Eagles!
Why is it that the high school kids now days look SO young! Maybe its just me looking older?!
The cheerleaders were darling too, it was fun to hear some of the same cheers from back in my day. I love traditions like that! Hopefully they will be the state champs next week!
Claire and Brek had lots of fun at Grandma’s house. They were pretty much into everything! They figured out how to peel an orange and ate almost all of her cutie oranges and then put the stickers on themselves. They had a great time!
Lots and lots of playing!
We got to go home to Washington for Thanksgiving. I love to see the familiar sights and the kids get excited when we get to Grandma’s “town.”
The blue bridge and cable bridge.
I did really bad taking pictures while we were home, but I couldn’t resist taking pictures of the bridges! It just looks like home! We haven’t been to Washington since Christmas last year, we really need to go more often. It was a nice trip home.
Claire Bear LOVES nail polish!! The only bad part about it is trying to decide which color to wear……
Purple it is! What a girlie girl!
Claire and I created some Oreo turkeys last week. We had a Relief Society crafting day and I wanted to make these. Mom had found them a couple of years ago and they are so easy and fun for the kids especially. We used pink malt balls to make some “girl” turkeys this year.
We used them as place card holders at the crafting night. They are always a hit!
The crafting turned out ok. I have to admit I’m not much of a crafter anymore. I don’t like to do it like I used to. We had a great turnout though and lots of yummy food. We had everyone bring a chicken dish to taste. It was SO good. I was too busy to eat much of it though and I came home hungry, I really don’t like it when I do that! It is just to fun to visit and have fun with everyone. I really love our ward!
Ashley has got me all lined out on what I need to do before we can go to Washington.
I’m so lucky to have a personal secretary! She even made a key up in the corner so I would mark things down correctly. Now if I can just get it all done!! Thanks Ash, how do I get anything done with out you!
