Thankfull at Thanksgiving!

We had the pleasure this year to host Thanksgiving at our house. You may think we are weird but we LOVE to host at our house. Nate and I both love to get our house ready and decorate the table settings. I wished I would have taken pictures but I forgot, but our tables were pretty fantastic if I do say so my self! We had Nate's Sister, her hubby, Nate's brother, and my sister and her kids over for the big feast. Nate parents where supposed to come but his dad got sick so they weren't able to join us ( you where missed) Nate made an AMAZING turkey that he worked so hard on. He brimmed it for 24 hours before cooking it and it made it so juicy and delicious! While I made the stuffing, potatoes, gravy, and green bean casserole. Jo Dawn (Nate's sister) made the jello pudding, and their family tradition dish oyster casserole. I have yet to have tasted this dish in the 8 years that Nate and I have been together LOL. I was grateful to be surrounded by family. I am so extremely happy my sister was able to come out and spend a few days out here with me, I love her and she is my best friend! A few things I am thankful for in no particular order:

1. My family (my immediate and extended)
2. Our health
3. The Lord and his unconditional love for me!
4. The gospel
5.My home, and neighbors that surround us!
6.My beautiful kids
7. Our friends
8. laughter
9. Trials (they always make you stronger)
10. A warm bed to sleep in.

TWILIGHT!!!

I keep asking my self if it is weird for a 26 year old to be this interested in a book about vampires who sparkle and HOT boys who turn into werewolves!??!?! I have NEVER read a whole book front to back until i was introduced into the Twilight series! I absolutely loved all the book and have LOVED the movies! The week before New Moon came out my Mary Kay unit put together a party called Bella's birthday bash we brought clients and did Bella Makeovers on then and we had a Edward and Jacob look alike that you could get pictures with. It was lots of fun and I took my cute nieces Destiny and Kylie with me and they were in Heaven!! They thought they were so cool and I had to tell them a few time that they weren't meeting the REAL Edward. LOL The night was a blast.
So the next weekend came and I was so jealous that EVERYONE was going to see the new movie BUT me! I got a call Friday morning from Tiana saying I wasn't going to have the boys that day so in the spure of the moment I called my friend Jana and we went to see if we could get tickets and we DID :) we went to the show and I LOVED it! i am so excited to read the books again and wait for movie # 3 to come out! I know what you are all thinking I am such a nerd, but I don't care I LOVE TWILIGHT! LOL

Our Princess turns 3!!!!

The last 3 years have flown by I can't believe that my baby girl is 3! Abbie has been so excited to turn three for the last month she has been asking almost everyday if she gets to blow out her candles yet. So you can only imagine her excitement when the words YES came from my mouth! When we would ask her what she wanted for her birthday she would say "candles" LOL

We talked her into wanting a pink power wheels and so when the day came she was happy to see one in our front yard waiting for her. She loves her new car(new to her, LOVE ksl.com) the next day she asked if she could drive Skyler to school in her car I thought I was going to pee my pants from laughing so hard. To celebrate that day we planned on going to the Black Island Farm it is a farm with tons of fun activity's with a corn maze and a tractor/hay ride out to their HUG pumpkin patch, the weather was bad so we went a few days latter with some good friends of our the Greens it was tons of fun and we had a blast!

So if any of you know us you know that birthdays are a BIG deal in our house even Nate and I have a big deal on our birthdays, we kept thinking what can we do this year and Nate came up with a darling "LITTLE" idea. Since our kids were going to be Peter pan and Tinker Bell for Halloween we thought we could have a Neverland theme party, Nate took that idea and RAN with it! Nate always goes above and beyond and this was no exception he transformed our living room into Neverland it was AMAZING!!! The kids had lots of fun making wands, pirate hats, doing the pinata, and playing pin the hook on Captain Hook! It was lots of work for Nate to make the room he was up all night the night before but it looked so cool. I am grateful for a husband who has no limits and is spontaneous and crazy just like me! I love you Nate you are a great daddy and husband and we are so blessed to have you!

Nate drew all of the pictures on cardboard and then panted and cut then out.

Abbie I can't believe you are three, you will always be our princess and we are blessed to have such an amazing little girl in our family, you bring light into our lives everyday.

Some of Abbie's new interests are: She can sing her A,B,C's , She loves to play with her baby's her favorite food is yogurt, you can always find her dancing, her favorite playmate is her big brother, and she LOVES candy! LOL I only have one request for you Abbie PLEASE STOP GROWING!!! WE LOVE YOU!

Canning, canning and more canning!

This year was the first year I tried canning and I have loved it! My good friend Tiana is a pro and has taught me how to do it, I have canned 24 jars of peaches, 10 jars of salsa. 12 jars of spaghetti sauce, 4 jars of tomatoes and 12 jars of jam! That is what I took home mind you she did MUCH more! It was hard work but well worth it and we are enjoying the fruits of my labor. I am so great full for Tiana and her knowledge that she shares with me. It has been so much fun learning all these new and exciting things! She also has been the one to teach me to sow and make all sorts of crafty things! You are the best Tiana!

On a side note I was making a few important calls to some doctors this morning so I turned on Dora the Explorer for Levi and Abbie . Levi is one of Tianas boys that I watch during the week, this is how I found them watching it! LOL How cute are they! Abbie sure does love HER Levi!

The Zoo and Frightmares

I had my sweet twin nieces Kylie and Destiny this week and I decided to plane some fun stuff with them so on Thurs. my good friend Tiana invited us to go to the Zoo, she has a pass and we were the lucky guest! It was lots of fun the kids enjoyed seeing all the animals and I enjoyed seeing the baby Elephant oh my gosh it was so stinking cute! It was a cold day, so I made sure to bring hats and gloves for everyone I am happy I did because we would have froze other wise. LOL Thanks Tiana for the fun FREE day!

Look how cute that baby is!

FRIGHTMARES!

I think the girls favorite time of the week was Frightmares though! They had only been to Lagoon once and it was last year with us! They were so excited to go again this year and we were So excited to take them! We decided to make a whole day of it, we usually only go for about 3-4 hours since we have passes but we needed to get their moneys worth! :) We got there when they opened at 11:00 and left around 9:00 . It was honestly one of the funnest times we have had at Lagoon, the girls were big enough for EVERY ride! They were such good sports and went on everything except Kylie didn't do The Rocket she was a little to nervous for it!

These where the only two who dared to pose for a picture with these guys!!

For those of you who have never been to Lagoon at this time of year I totally recommend it, it is all decorated in Halloween stuff and at night the monsters and goblins come out! They also have a few haunted houses one is way to scary for kids, but Kylie went in one of the other ones with Nate and she wasn't scared. They have a little trick or treat house for the younger kids they can go in and people are dressed up and they trick or treat it is lots of fun for the kids!

This is in the Trick or treat house!

I love having the girls come to stay they are such a big help. I love them to death and sometimes forget they aren't my kids. LOL

Kylie and Abbie on the first ride of the day The Lady Bug Drop!

My sweetie heart waiting patiently while the big girls go on the Jet star.

On the train, at night is was chili!

Bear Lake

Nate's brother Aaron and his wife Lindsey came to visit in the beginning of September and we decided to take a quick trip to Bear Lake. It was going to be for my birthday! So we took Lindsey's parents camper down and stayed for two night WITHOUT kids!!!!! We really enjoyed ourselves, just hanging out and worrying about kids. :) We went to the beach and just played the first day then we rented a boat on the second day and that was way fun! We went out and played for four hours on the boat and that day the weather wasn't very good, the water was FREEZING but that didn't stop us! :) Here are a few pics of our fun weekend!

First day of school!

I can't believe the day has finally came, and Skyler started KINDERGARTEN! It was such a bitter sweet day for me! I was excited for him because he was so excited to go and I was sad because I wasn't ready to let him go! I thought he would be a little hesitant to have me leave but when we got to his school he was ready to rock and roll and said "see ya mom" I held in the tears until I got out side then I lost it and they began to flow and I couldn't stop! I love my little Sky and I am going to miss him every day! He is getting so big and more independant all the time! I wonder were the time went? Abbie is also having a hard time adjusting to the change she asks every morning "where is my guyer" (Skyler) It melts my heart every time! When I picked him up latter that day I asked how his day was and he told me all the stuff they did, then I said "did you miss me" and he said " No mom I was having to much fun to miss you" *tear*

I am so proud of you Skyler and wish you the BEST school year ever!