Friday at Kangaroo Zoo

Friday we had enough kids to go to Kangaroo Zoo and get a group rate. It was a great place to take the kids. A building full of blown up play things with slides and obstacle courses. It was great. Great idea Jess. The kids and adults had an awesome time.

Molly was forced the first few times to try the slides.

Not a big fan at first. Towards the end she was going down this big slide by herself, backwards, on her tummy.

Love her face of terror.

Thanksgiving

My sister and brother-in-law, Jessica and Brik, hosted Thanksgiving this year. There were something like 40 of us. All of our immediate family, minus Keith, and then a cousin and his wife and their 4 girls joined us. It was a big crowd, but tons of fun. Good thing her house was big enough to accommodate. Thanks Jess and Brik for putting such a nice feast together. And thanks for the help of everyone else.

A shot from above. Notice only one male helping? Is it like that everywhere? Just kidding guys!

A shot from below.....Ashley, Kennedy, Kassidy, Madison and Daryn.

Just relaxing after dinner. Getting ready for Christmas by watching "Elf". This wasn't even everyone.

More Park

Just more park pics. It was so pretty down here by this stream. Great photo opportunities.

Wednesday at the park

We have a cool castle park close to us, so Wednesday we took everyone to the park. We discovered this cool spot down from the park with forts.

Exploring

The fort

Tripped

Honda Dealership?

Nope, Just a day at the park in Utah! Funny huh! 5 Honda Odyssey's

Hole in Two

My very handy husband was building some shelves in our laundry room. He found the stud and drilled away. He then heard water and thought he must've, somehow, turned on the washing machine. He then realized water was dripping inside the wall. So, he immediately turned off the main water and cut through the wall to see the damage. Look closely at the two water lines and note, if one wanted to drill right in the middle of both, it would take some skill.........that's just it, my husband has skill. He managed to drill a hole in the middle of each line. Needless to say, we had no water until the next morning when he had to go to Home Depot and get the parts he needed to mend the problem. Thank goodness Home Depot is close. He got just what he needed with no plumbing experience needed. By noon, we had running water. He showered and then left the mess and went to work. At least we had water right? The Dean's were in town and came over for dinner and just happened to have access to dry wall, so James and Scott patched the wall after dinner. Now we just need to paint it.

Nice shot TEX!!!!

Foster

Just a couple pictures of Foster from this afternoon. He's getting so smiley.

Pumpkin Patch

We met Scott's sister, Amy here at this HUGE pumpkin patch. It was pretty funny when we showed up. There were probably only 20 pumpkins left in the "patch". Molly was so excited to be there and that was all that mattered.

Taking a big enough breath in to blow

Molly and her Daddy

She was pretty excited about getting to carry her own pumpkin.

Guess things are a bit picked over the day before Halloween.

So strong!

Molly and Aunt Amy. Thanks Amy for coming and participating in the holiday festivities.

Host and Hostess

My brother and his wife; Tim and Norma Jean

My sister-in-law is a famous cake maker. It's also very very tasty

This is my nephew Marcus. We celebrated his birthday which is Nov. 1.

Just another shot of the Obama's

Just a few more shots.

Niece, Marilyn Monroe aka Dallie

Niece, Madison the Witch

Our little bumble bee

Halloween

It was a bit of a drive, but we felt like we were finally close enough to go to my brother and sister-in-laws annual Halloween Party. We didn't have the costumes we really wanted, so we threw on a wig, colored our faces and said we were the Obama's in the 70's.

My sister, Rachel was bare foot and pregnant. Funny thing is.......she really is pregnant (only 17wks though)

The Johnson family; Mullet man, bare-foot and pregnant lady, and two kids in diapers.

Halloween in a Hotel

We tried to be as festive as possible in spite of our living conditions. We wanted to decorate, but didn't want to "clutter" the place. One pumpkin did the job.

Can you believe how much hair Molly is getting these days?



The knife looks a little dangerous. Thank you Hotel for supplying the great carving knife.

Molly was a little unsure about the slime inside the pumpkin. She made me do it.

The final product. Two darling pumpkins

Foster

I suppose some of you may want to see updated photos of Foster, so here ya go. We can't believe he's only 3 months. Seems like we've had him forever. He sure is smiling lots these days. He's such a happy boy and are still quite enamored by him. Thank goodness he is a good baby so I can get a few things done here and there.

Scott was getting ready to take him on a car ride so Molly and I could nap and he just started smiling. The boys needed some "boy time". Thank goodness because the girls needed some beauty sleep!

He sure is handsome, even if we have to say so ourselves.

Not quite as happy as he was in the car seat, but still adorable!

Temp Living Quarters

For 2 weeks, we checked into our "suite" at the extended stay hotel and resort. We weren't too far from the airport for a quick get-a-way if needs be. This was our temp housing before closing on our house.....(which is not put together yet so pictures are to come).

Spaghetti Dinner........we only cooked in once. The rest of the evenings were spent away so eating out was easiest. Molly and I always had breakfast and lunch there though.

We were sad to leave our conference/dining room table. This really wasn't too bad. Thank goodness we weren't there long and had other things to do.

Saying Goodbye

This is real. You're eyes aren't playing tricks on ya. We are updating our blog. Thanks everyone for being faithful in checking it and now finally seeing, we've gotten new posts. Needlessss to say, we've been a bit busy and unable to access the world wide web. Now we are back in full force. We'll try not to overwhelm everyone by posting everything in our lost time in one shot. We'll leave ya something to be excited for all week.

Let's see........so, we closed on our condo October 14, moved out the 12th and stayed with some awesome friends from then until October 23rd, when we made the drive to Utah with two cars and 2 kids. The night of the 18th, our truly missed friends threw a going away party for us. Thanks everyone for coming to support us, giving us cards, and just saying good-bye. We miss you all so much!

Me and great/best friend/ neighbor/ exercise partner, Cassidy. This is Hudson's mom for those of you who have not put the two of them together.

Debbie, Me, and Courtney. Both awesome/best friends.

Molly kissing Lindsay. We'll miss seeing Lindsay grow up.

Wonderful friends/ Sunday dinner hosts/ Hotel for the Walton's/ Hand and Foot players, James and Mindy Dean

Courtney's husband Russ and Scott

Hudson, Cassidy and Pete. That's Hudson "say cheese" face. Too cute.

Molly's best buddy, Hudson. They were like brother and sister........love/hate relationship. I so miss seeing them play/fight together and miss seeing him every morning. It was always fun to see what p.j's he picked out for himself when I would watch him in the mornings. WE MISS YOU HUDSON!!!!!!!!

Charley wasn't too happy about being in the picture. Charley, Molly and Payton. Good little pals. All born within 3 months of each other.