Thanksgiving Weekend 2007

We had a good thanksgiving weekend the best part was just being together and relaxing. Okay I know that most people love thanksgiving but I am just not one of those people. I usually want to go somewhere so there is more to Thanksgiving than just a dinner. But this year we relunctantly stayed home and I must say it ended up being pretty great. A lot of down time with a few activities in between. Thanksgiving day... dinner of course, football, bad mitten, pie, more football, games. The rest of the weekend kangaroo zoo, BYU-UTAH football game, lights at temple square, naps, hot chocloate, hot tubbin and on Sunday we got out the Christmas decorations and turned on some Christmas tunes..! That was fun.. the kids were so excited.. I think that is the best part of Thanksgiving as Ellie says it so well "When Thanksgiving is over it's time for Christmas". I LOVE Christmas! I think I need to create other traditions for Thanksgiving weekend other than the dinner and I will like it better. Maybe I will follow in the footsteps of this year.. it was a success. I think I will trade the Kangaroo zoo in for a great movie though. So Happy Holiday Season everyone that great time of the year is finally upon us.

Thanksgiving food yummers.. look at that cute pie crust
compliments of the chef (sister in law michelle).

Canyon, Ellie and Lucy lovin the lights.

Beautiful lights..

Our little tree for the season.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving To all....
I'm thankful I didn't have to get my turkey this way!
and for lots of other things too.. like this long
weekend coming up!

lucy found her toes

lucy has found her toes...I think they are her favorite 10 new things. It is so cute to see her completely entertained by them. She prefers them over any toy... for now a least. She is 5 months this week, growing up so fast.. I'm not sure how I feel about that. It makes me a little sad.

fall swing

I usually have the November glums right about now... dark to early.. not a lot to do outside due
to cold weather and NO snow... but.. thanks to this nice weather this first part of November has been pretty good. Working in the yard, bike rides, and the swing of course. I guess we are just trying to soak up the golden sun rays before the November glums set in, they are coming I know sad but true. I guess the good side to it is the glums leave and the beautiful powdery white snow comes falling in. Here are some pictures of us enjoying sunny beautiful no glum days.

boo!

(our these my children ?)

We had a fun Halloween!

- carved some pumpkins
- created some porch decor
- trick or treating
- spook alley in old farm shed ooooooh... spooky..
- and finally dinner and shane's special halloween brew you can have fun with it for hours.
(dry ice and dish soap).

Boo! Canyon was a vampire quite possibly inspired by Edward.
When he got home from trick o treating he was very good at organizing
all of his candy in a long line.. 10 butterfingers, 4 red suckers, 6 nerds ect.
I used to do that when I was little..so it was cute to see his strategies to see how
much candy he really did have, and it was a lot!! I think he might need some help
to finish it off.

Ellie was Phocohantus she was quick to correct anyone
her called her an Indian by informing them that she was
phocohantus and phocohantus is a princess. I dont think
she wanted to ruin her reputation around the neighborhood
by not being a princess.

Lucy had her first Halloween and her first Cold at the
same time..poor lucy.. I guess she was a little
coughing mouse.

our porch decor. canyon and ellie thought
these were so funny. ooooh so scary I'm
surprised we got any trick o treaters!

Giddy Up

We went to the hee haw farms this weekend the
highlights....

The line to ride the ponies was to long. Shane convinced Ellie that riding Canyon down the slide would be just as much fun. (I think it was)

The biggest pig ever eating a pumpkin. Pretty gross super entertaining.

The country bumpkin tin train ride.. the kids were so happy look at there faces you would think that it was the best day of their lives. Even when they got the ghetto carts with no animal heads. (sorry about the random boy)

Lucy had fun too, well at least I think she did.

We took home some pumpkins to carve.. what
a fun harvest fall day.

make over

I thought I needed a blog make over... so
well I changed it all up.

cabin fever

We went to the cabin this weekend. It's so nice
to go down there and get away from it all and relax.
We went on nature walks, did some four wheeling, watched movies
took long naps, and ate a ton of good food. The kids found a
chimpmunk tail that Tex the dog bit off the poor little fella when
chasing it. They thought that it was a super cool treasure to find.
I think only because they diddn't witness the tragedy (last picture on the end).
We got to wake up Sunday morning to a snowy day.. good for snowballs
and apple juice slushes!

My 2 favorite boys at the cabin.
I liked this picture of them.

little toes with a giant laugh

Lucy had her first giant laugh last night! Sure
she has had mini half almost laughs in the past, but
this one was an out right giggle. Her laugh made all
of us laugh so hard..it filled the house with delightfulness.
I forgot how amazing that first laugh is... especially such a giant
laugh out of such a little girl..! It was a fun night.

lucy's blessing day

We had Lucy's blessing on Sunday. She was an older blessing
baby I know at 4 months to the day...but we were waiting trying
to get the yard done for the after party. We got it done whew!! that
was a lot of work..
(okay mostly for Shane..but I did do this lovely path)

So after Lucy's blessing, I am pretty sure there is something
to blessing a baby while they are still a newborn. They are
not as aware of things and they sleep. Lucy was a happy
little girl all day until the blessing began of course.
I don't know if it was being surrounded by all those manly faces,
or maybe she doesn't like being the center of attention.. but
whatever it was.. she did not like it. She did not like it so much that
she went into a sad crying spell. Poor Shane could hardly get any
words out. To hard to concentrate with crying penetrating his ears
I suppose. So the blessing ended quickly...quite possibly the quickest
on record. But I like to think that the Heavens know all that we wanted
to say and she is is blessed with all of those things too.

Once her blessing was over she was on
her best behavior for the rest of the day.
We love you little Lucy! Happy blessing day.

favorite fall lunches

One of my favorite things to do lately is meet Shane
in provo canyon for some yummy lunches, when the weather is nice.
It is so pretty right now that lunch is usually followed by a quick
photo shoot. Ellie is usually the star of the photo shoot when she
comes. Lucy is too sleepy and Shane and I aren't as cute.

ellie aspen

These are some more pictures from
the photo shoot with Allison.
I love how these turned out!

Lucy

We were lucky to have Aunt Allison do a photo shoot
of Lucy and Ellie. She is such a incredible photographer!
There were so many good pictures these are just a few.
Thanks Allison

Sundance

Shane and I went to Sundance this weekend to celebrate our 10 year
anniversary!! I cant believe it has been that long. In some ways it seems
like we met just yesterday and other times like I have known him forever.
I think mostly it feels super crazy to be old enough to be married that long.
But here I am after after 10 years of marriage and 3 kids later... I cant imagine
it any other way... or any better...Thanks to Shane for being such an incredible
person to share the last 10 years of my life with.. with many more to come!!

Lucy blessed us with her presence for the celebration... to young to
leave behind. She was great and it was fun to have some alone
time with her. She loved the leaves!!

Me and Lucy

We spent some time doing a photo shoot..

these are some of Shane's. This is my once
a year photo I like to get of me in the fall.

Fall Soccer

Soccer is in full swing Canyon and Ellie are both playing this year.

Because this is Ellie's first year lets do a recap.
Ellie is the only girl on the team she was a little or
a lot disappointed. No girls no pick ball or pink shoes.
How would this end??

• Game 1 ... new to the game, the excitement kicks into full gear there is no stopping her she scores her first goal....... yah Ellie....
• Game 2... A boy pushes Ellie down and steals the ball.. she was sad.. She said "I hate it when boys beat me."
  
• Game 3... she gets pushed down again ... but she gets up goes after that boy and gets the ball back she yells "Im brave mom, and I beat boys she gives us the thumbs up"
• Game 4... lots of ballerina spins.. twirling hair... more thumbs up.... and a few kicks in between maybe the excitement of soccer is wearing off...

The rest of the season it yet to be determined... but if she has
learned to get up after boys push her down, I say the
season has been a success.

Here's my little soccer girl!

She spends a lot of time on the field giving the thumbs up nearly every time she kicks the ball.. while she poses of course.. It's funny and yet so endearing.

This is what she does the rest of the time. (actually playing)

Love those beautiful mountain skies. I must say we have great views at our soccer games!

Canyon has become a lot more determined this year. It is fun to watch him zoom around the soccer field guarding the goal and taking it up the field.

cute little eyes

I know I know.... a lot of pictures of Lucy
but I loved this one her eyes looked so
cute!!
This picture was taken at her first parade!!
right before all the sirens and honks put
her to sleep.