Thanksgiving 2008

We had a really good Thanksgiving this year. We were able to have an early Thanksgiving with the Buckley's and then we went with my family on Thanksgiving day. I didn't get any pictures on my camera of my mom's family but I will get some to post later.

After dinner we made gingerbread houses to donate to the festival of tree's. I have never made gingerbread houses before and I loved it. We had a lot of fun doing this.

We let the little kids make small ones to take to the hospital to all the little kids there. Lauryn absolutely LOVED it and wanted to keep making them all night. She did such a good job with hers.

Braxton liked it too. He was so cute while he was doing it because he really concentrated on getting the candies to stick to the frosting. I can't believe he actually did it and didn't just eat all the candy.

Here are their final products. Thanks for the fun activity Grandma B.

Snowbird

This last weekend we went to snowbird with TJ's family. It was so fun to just hang out and play games while the kids all played together and ran wild. As you can see from the picture above the boys were entertained with their video games a lot of the time. TJ was in heaven when he got to play Halo with the guys.

This was our 2nd time playing guitar hero and I loved it. It was so much fun and I think we both did pretty good for never playing it. I want it for my house! he he

This phone kept Braxton entertained while we played guitar hero. He loved the buttons on it.

Just a classic Lauryn pose! I love this girl!

Lauryn and her cousin Kira getting ready to go to sleep together. They are such good friends.

Cute little Braxton all ready for bed.

My sister in law and I found these nails while we were doing the grocery shopping and thought that they would be a fun thing to do with our girls. They absolutely loved them and they look so dang cute with them on. Lauryn still has hers on.

The good old game room. The kids (and TJ) LOVED this game room. They had such a blast putting the money in the games and actually getting to play the games. It was hard to get them to leave.

Daddy giving Lauryn driving lessons.

The 2 troubles playing on the snowmobiling game. This is Braxton's cousin Taevyn. They are 4 months apart and they are constantly getting into trouble together. Therefore Grandma has named them trouble 1 and trouble 2.

Kira and Lauryn together again. I am so grateful Kira is there to play with Lauryn. She's so great!

They of course went swimming every day and have such a fun time. Here are the 3 big girl cousins swimming together.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa B for the fun time at snowbird every year! Your the greatest!

It's A...

This may be a big shock to some of you because I had my doctor check a couple weeks ago and she thought it was a boy. But as you can see it has changed into a girl! This happened to us with Braxton too and I was holding onto hope that I would still get my girl. I am so excited I can't even believe it. Let me just say, I think I am the happiest person EVER right now. TJ's still a little shocked! Yay!

This is what Lauryn thinks of it all!

Halloween

Here are some pictures from Halloween. While I was editing these photos all of my pictures on my memory card got deleted somehow so I guess this is all I have from Halloween. Anyways every year I take my kids up to my mom's house on Halloween to take pictures in the leaves in their costumes. Then they always play in them for ever afterwords and have a blast.

This is my cute nephew Lincoln. He was a pea pod. SO CUTE!

This is Lauryn's favorite thing, playing in Grammy's tree. Here she is flying like a witch. She is so funny to me because she has to pose for every picture. She chose this pose all on her own.

Here is my sweet little bat. He was scared to death up there. My sister Jani was holding on to him the whole time but I was lucky to get him to hold up his arm and smile for one second and actually get it on camera.

We went to visit my grandma and grandpa to show them the kids costumes. I wish I still had my pictures of them with my grandparents but they got deleted. Here they are sitting on their porch getting ready to yell trick-or-treat.

Braxton absolutely LOVED trick-or-treating this year. A while ago we rented a Winnie-the-pooh Halloween movie and he has been so excited ever since to go trick-or-treating. I have never seen him so excited about something. I could hardly keep up with my kids this year because they were running from house to house. After ever couple houses he would run up and show me his stash and then run off again. He was in HEAVEN!

Lauryn was such a big girl this year. She left with us but I didn't see her for about half of the night because she was off running (I couldn't keep up) with her older cousins that we go with most years. After about half of the time we were out there she got tired of running and me and her just went for the rest of the time. It was so fun to be with her. I couldn't get very many pictures of her but she loved it and got a pretty good amount of candy cause she just kept on going. We were out longer than we have ever been with her.

On Halloween night we always go back to TJ's sisters house to eat and watch a scary movie. It is such a fun tradition that we always look forward to. I can't believe how big Lauryn is getting and how much she is changing. The big kids always come home from trick-or-treating and dump their candy out on the floor and have a big candy swap. Lauryn was in on it and she thought it was great (she totally got ripped off but it's part of learning right?). We had such a great Halloween and I am loving the holidays with my kids as they get older. Happy Halloween!