Merry Christmas!

Well, it's been another wonderful Christmas! Kids are happy. Mom and dad are happy. What more could you ask for. Merry Christmas to all of our Family and Friends. We hope you had the best day ever.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Snuggle Bugs

For all of you who have seen Tommy Boy... Brothers don't shake hands, brothers got to hug. In this case snuggle. After dropping the girls off at school in the morning, the boys and I snuggled up in bed. When I saw Ryan and Drew like this, I just had to take a picture.

I Love to See the Temple

My cousin was married in the LA Temple last week. After we left his reception Brooke and I headed back to the temple with the kids, and my niece Hailey, to see the Christmas lights. It was so beautiful. My camera just doesn't do it justice. The kids loved it so much, that they didn't even want to leave. The last picture I love, because it has the American Flag in front of the Temple. I wish it showed up better.

Picture Madness

I took the kids to a nearby pond to take pictures. Getting pictures of four kids is hard enough, but a good photo, even harder. They are still cutie pies.

Christmas Craft

I was looking on the Internet at two peas in a bucket, which is a scrapbooking website that I go to for inspiration, and saw a wreath made out of scrap book paper. I loved it enough to give it a try, and this is the result. I love it! It is perfect above my fireplace. If you are interested in making it let me know, and I'll help direct you to the page.

Kira Turns 5

The past couple of weeks have been crazy busy. Starting out we had Kira's class Thanksgiving presentation. If you look above Kira's head you'll see a flower. On the left of the flower is a turkey with a green face, and yellow body. That's Kira's turkey. Immediately following she had a turkey feast and we celebrated her birthday party with her class. I kinda felt bad because there were other classes there, and only enough goodies for her class, but we were doing what her teacher requested. A child came up to me with his spanish speaking mother who basically pushed him up to me, and told him something I didn't understand. Then he proceeded to ask me for one of the goodie bags. Of course I was unable because I had only made enough for her class. I felt bad, but what can you do? Craziness though.

Then on Thanksgiving we went to the Sherratt gathering. There were about 50ish people there, and when we broke out in song for Kira, I think she was a little shocked, and overwhelmed. She got over it real quick, and headed outside to the big blowup bouncing tent slash slide thingy (the one's that people normally rent for birthday parties), and well she had a great time on that with all the other kids. Us adults even took it on at one point. It was so much fun, but my back hurt for a few days after that. Anyways, Kira is now 5 years old, and I just can't believe it. My adorable Kiki is growing up.

Family Home Evening

We had a spurt of the moment FHE pumking carving night. I was totally in the mood to try new soup recipes so we had dinner too. I made acorn squash bisque (which is basically baby food) it was delicious. I also made corn chowder from scratch as well, and a store bought ministrone. I think the ministrone was the most popular though. Mom Horspool/Grandma Kathy made her mouth watering cinnamon rolls. mmmmm... Amber brought her homemade applesauce, made with red hots I might add. It was all very tasty. A perfect fall combo. The dads did there usual. Yep! You guessed it...Monday Night Football, along with work related discussions. The usual. Then we moved on to what brought us all together in the first place.....PUMPKINS!

FHE CONTINUED...

Next...we carved, and gutted the pumkins. The kids loved the messy part. Then they separated the seeds, and we baked some to eat. I ended up separating the rest of the seeds later, after everyone was gone, and it took me 45minutes. Sheesh! I tried 3 new pumpkin seed recipes that I got online, but my favorite is still good old fashioned salted seeds. We ended up with a Brin-O-Lantern instead of Jack.

FHE CONTINUED CONTINUED...

Even Matt participated. He said it was the first time ever pumpkin carving. He did the advanced cartoon figure on the right. Pretty good. All-in-all we had a great time. I only wish everyone could be with us. Hope you all had a fun Halloween!

Missing?

I had no idea that this care bear wasn't one of our many care bear's. It wasn't till this morning when Caitlyn and Kira were arguing about who it belonged to that I found out that it's not ours. So, I'm going to nip this thing in the booty, and ask you. Is anyone missing this cute little care bear?

Pirates & Princesses

Tonight the kids and I went to a ward halloween activity. My pirates and princesses were the cutest of them all, and there was a lot of cuteness there. Trick-or-Treat countdown 4 days left.

Fast Asleep

It's friday night, and all, but one are fast asleep. The best part is, it's only 8:30pm. Ahhhh, this is nice. The funny thing is, Ryan was so tired that after he used the restroom, he got as far as the shoe cubies, wrapped himself in a nearby sheet, and drifted off to sleep. Now all I need is for Drew to go to sleep. Fat chance.

Ryan Got Stiches

I never thought I'd have to take a kid to the emergency room, or at least I hoped I wouldn't have to. Well, Ryan fell and hit his chin while trying to brush his teeth, and so to the ER we went. Brooke took him in, while I sat in the car with the kids. Two hours, six stiches, and a large bill later, and Ryan's as good as new. He's was so brave.
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Pumpkin Patch

My brother Jesse, the kids, and I decided we would get out of the house, and enjoy the beauty of this day at the pumpkin patch.