Let it Snow

So, this is our deck. Our first years snow fall. Wasn't much, but it was snow. Yay, we love snow! Not enough to make Frosty though. Molly, was still excited to be able to get all her snow gear on and head outside.

This is our back yard. The barn came with the place. It's a great storage shed.

Foster at the Park

If you look close, you can see my refleciton in his eyes.

Not fond of Santa

We tried to convince Molly that Santa Clause was "Nice" but she wanted nothing to do with him. Even if it meant getting a candy cane out of it.

Not a very nice mom to laugh at her daughters sheer terror.

Wanting the candy cane, but not worth it to get close to Santa.

Finally stared Santa down as dad gave her the candy cane then ran back to mom. Poor thing. If only she knew what she could really get if she liked him.

Spaghetti Factory and Temple Square

Friday night we all met downtown to eat at the Spaghetti Factory and then see the lights at Temple Square. We were supposed to get family photos at Temple Square but some of us weren't quite prepared for the cold and hurried through seeing the lights then headed home. Maybe next time.

I think they're used to accommodating large groups.

Just one shot at the beauty of this place. They really know how to decorate for Christmas. They had some cool nativity scenes too.

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.