Non stop

This picture just makes me laugh. Yesterday after church Brenner was running around, one shoe, one sleeve over his hand, tie flying, and it just cracks me up that he is non stop. Always! Love you Baby!

Turkey Play Day

The kids love having friends over to play. So we did an extra fun turkey themed play day on Friday. Kyler invited Dallin Carson, Lexi invited Breklyn Bingham, and Porter invited Ben Reynaud. For an after school snack they made turkey apples with feathers made out of gumdrops, marshmallows, raisins, bananas and grapes. Brenner got in on the action too and was up on the table sampling all those fun goodies!










There was also sugar cookie decorating, art projects and mini pizzas for dinner.





And of course wrestling. I've come to the conclusion it's impossible for boys NOT to have a little wild, rambunctious fun in there too!



Brenner found Ben's sunglasses and thought he was pretty sneaky trying them on! He cracks me up.


All in all it was a fun day!

Peek-A-Boo

Just cute pictures of Brenner playing Peek-a-Boo. He is so funny and keeps me laughing all day. What joy to have a little boy!

Hagdalena Magdalena

Porter has the best bus driver that teaches them songs on the way to school. She asks them sometimes to draw pictures of their songs and so this is Porter's version of Hagdalena Magdalena. Love it!

Cheer Camp

Lexi was so excited to go to Cheer Camp last week and learn a dance and some cheers and then perform at halftime at a Girl's Basketball game last week. She did a great job and loved every minute of it.



Lexi D. and Lexi R.

The Harlem Ambassadors came and did an assembly for the elementary and middle schools that day and were at the game to do a few tricks after the little cheerleaders did their thing. Kyler was mesmerized and has been dribbling a basketball ever since. He got his picture by one of them that was out walking around before we left. That's one tall dude!

Thankful

So in the Spirit of Thanksgiving we made our Thankful Tree last week for Family Home Evening. It was really fun. The kids were bitten by the thankful bug and could not stop thinking of and writing down their blessings (...it could be that bedtime was looming so they wanted to keep going, but we'll think it was that their little hearts were overflowing with gratitude)! We kept writing for an hour and it was so fun to hear the blessings they were thankful for... big things like Family, Church, and the Book of Mormon, down to every day things like numbers, candy, and bugs. They were so sweet to each other and we were all feeling a wonderful Spirit in our home as we thought of our very many blessings.

It's nice to walk past and see all those blessings up on the wall and we'll keep adding leaves to our tree until Thanksgiving Day. And then of course I'll save those cute little leaves with their handwriting in page protectors for future years when I miss those little hands writing what was in these tender young hearts.



I have to show this Thanksgiving Advent Calendar I made because I am so excited about it! (Lots of inspiration from Here, here and Here.) It was a lot of hours of cutting out pieces of felt and gluing and sewing them together but was very fun to make, my kids love it and I love it and we're excited to use it year after year with This Idea in each pocket. I've also seen where you can put these 30 thankful activities in a jar here and do one each day. Cute!



I think a fun thing to take Visiting Teaching this time of year is a Harvest Blessing Mix, easy to throw together and it looks cute in bags with a bow!

I also want to share our new favorite whole-wheat bread recipe. It can be made in just a little over ONE HOUR from start to finish! It is wonderful and fast and works everytime. I double it to get 4 loaves, and we always eat one whole loaf as soon as it is out of the oven. Mmmm! Dave comments over and over how good it is every time I make it, so it is definitely a keeper and my favorite bread recipe yet.

One more thing, I've been trying to make more time to read and I love it. I take it in little snatches when I can, mostly after the kids are in bed instead of finishing the laundry, but I look forward to it all day. I just finished this book, "These Is My Words, diary of Sarah Agnes Prine 1881-1901" and it was really good. If any of you have read a good book lately I would love to hear!

Porter draws the BEST pictures for me every morning before Kindergarten.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

Mad

Porter was mad at me one morning, I can't remember what I wouldn't let him have that he wanted and so he said he was going to write all the people in our family and circle the names of the ones he liked and cross out the ones he didn't. This is what I saw on the table.
I'm happy to say he forgave me and next wrote one with everyone circle, even Mom.

Messy

The kids were having Jello for an after school snack and one of them gave Brenner some jello and wow did he make a mess without eating much.I had to include this picture for documentation of that double tooth he has. When it was coming in I didn't know if it was one or two, and it turned out to be a double tooth. The dentist said it is rare but it seems everyone I talk to has had a child with one too!

Funny

This is what happens to decorations at our house. It made me laugh.

Meteor Shower

I just want to remember this. One night Dave said earth was passing through the tail of Haley's comet and wondered if I wanted to get up at 3:30am and go outside to watch the meteor shower. One of the kids was up at 3am anyway so after walking Porter back to bed Dave and I bundled up and went out on the driveway to watch. It was freezing cold so we only stayed outside about 10 minutes. I saw 2 shooting stars and Dave saw 6! I loved that he did that with me. I love him.

Little Helper

We made sugar cookies one Sunday after church. I have 4 great little helpers in the kitchen. Brenner stayed to help with coloring the frosting. Can you tell?

Good Kids

The kids are getting to be good little readers, writers and artists. I loved one night after putting Brenner to bed when I came out to seethem all ready for bed and writing away in a row on the bean bag. What good kids!


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