Thanksgiving 2009

Nothing says Thanksgiving like spending it on the local indian reservation at the casino's all you can eat buffet...

This year we were not able to travel to Idaho so we went to the Hon-dah Casino conference center to eat our feast with some friends. The food was good, the kids were not! Matt felt really ripped off when he was only able to finnish one plate before he had to start chasing Jacks around the room.

But it was all made better when he became the MVP at the Woodland Lake Turkey Bowl!!! (Your welcome Matt!)

Since it was such a nice day we took the kids to the park. Jemma's first time down the slide...

Apparently she was not impressed.

Since we were home by 2pm and had nothing else planned we decided to put our Christmas tree up. The boys were really excited and were quite helpful in touching absolutely every ornament we own...but it was fun and nothing was destroyed (yet). (You can see how Matt was barely able to contain his enthusiasm)
Jemma also helped by trying to eat our garland.

Halloween

We started our Halloween off by carving these 2 huge pumpkins...
Unfortunetly, we left them outside the night before and they froze...so the carving had to wait until they thawed.

We headed to our ward Trunk-or-Treat first, then dashed home for a quick break before heading out.

Bennett was obviously Spiderman (So sad about this) We wanted him to be a cute furry animal again, but I guess he's grown out of that stage already.

Jacks was the dragon. Like every event in our lives, he forgot that we are the coolest parents for letting him go out and collect candy from strangers. He instead chose to focus on the fact that we were forcing him to eat dinner. (Which turned out to be candy since we went to Trunk-or-Treat before) (I guess we can't win them all)
Bennett and his carved pumpkin.

Jemma...Cute...I know.

She looks like she's already on a sugar high.

I Love Peanut Butter

Apparently peanut butter IS a mother's magic tool.
Bubble gum is now officially banned! Why he decided to rub it around in his eyeball is beyond me.

I included this picture of Jemma because 1. Michelle made such a cute bow and tutu for her (Thanks!) and 2. She's currently not on my bad list for mistreating gum.

Idaho Trip

We also did a little picnicing...(fast-food style)

A little playground playing...

(And when did Rigby Park take out all the fun, dangerous stuff like the witch hat ride and the merry-go-round. I use to have so much fun in elementary school defying death at every recess.)

A little pumpkin picking in grandpa's garden...

And a little apple picking from Great-Aunt Susan's neighbor's tree.

It was definetly worth the 15 hours it took us to drive home.

Ethan's B-Day

Also, while we were up in Idaho, we celebrated Ethan's Birthday (a week early)
He got a million Transformers' and a few Spidermans'

He was one happy boy!

Grandma Betty was able to come to the party also, I think she forgot what kind of noise 8 great-grand children can make!

Happy 4th Birthday Eth-man!

Annual '09 Yellowstone Trip

Every year since Matt and I have been married we take a trip up to Yellowstone Park. And every year it gets colder and colder. It was FREEZING up there! But the boys loved it and so did Jemma and I. And the sun ended up peeking out for 2 minutes during the 10 hours we were there.


Since it was cold and rainy we thought the animals would be in hiding, but we were lucky.

We got our buffalo picture, and our elk picture, and our hot pot picture. After we did those things Ethan declared it was time to find the bears. We weren't so lucky in that department, but the boys settled for a stuffed bear from the Old Faithful Gift Shop.

Next year I think I'm going to insist we go earlier in the season so we don't have to shiver through our pictures. Ethan looks a tad cold in this one.

It Made Me Laugh

2 Things this morning made me laugh:

Bennett came in asking, "Can you come cut the crap?"
"What"
"Come cut the crap!"
"I don't know what your talking about."
"Come, I'll show you!"
"Oh! You meant will I cut the crust."
"Yeah!"

Later on Bennett was asking me a million questions. I guess Jacks decided to save me from having to answer anymore because he walked over, put his little hand over Bennett's mouth, peered into his face with a big grin and said, "Shhhh. Quiet Bement"
(That's how he pronounces Bennett's name)

Something Fun

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Pigtails

Jemma's first pigtails.

This simple milestone might not seem like much to most, but for me it's HUGE! My nieces can attest to my MANY failed attempts on their hair.

Happy Campers

Matt took both boys camping last Friday...

They were back home within 4 hours.