We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving, Alice, Barn Clean Up and Birthday

Susan, Shelly, Sharon and Grandma headed off to see Alice. Here are a few pictures they took.

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I had a great time with my preschoolers. We all dressed up like pilgrims or Indians and had a huge feast. Here are some pics of me and my kids.

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Here are some pictures that grandma took of Thanksgiving Dinner in Milford. I heard you guys had a great time. Maybe next time we'll be hangin' with you. This year I was in charge of my side of the family. It went really well.

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Grandma asked for a clean-up, so a clean-up we had. Thanks to all of you who showed up and participated in it. The lot looks so much bigger with things organized, hauled off, and burned. the food and the visiting was great too.

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for grandpa's birthday this year we had family over to our house for apple pie. I love that tradition. Happy memories came along with it. The next day we went to the cemetery with grandma and had cake and ice cream. Going to the cemetery is a happy time for us. Lots of smiles and stories.

I've tried to teach my children respect for others and objects/things. We were all minding our P's and Q's and until I look over at Jack, and he was riding grandpa's headstone line a bucking bull. I about died, in fear of what grandma would think. She simply smiled and said, "I be grandpa is looking down smiling right now. I bet he is happy that you guys are enjoying his birthday." I needed to hear that. Grandma is so loving and understanding. How grateful I am to be a part of this family. Thanks to all of you.

Bryce Canyon

Halloween 2009

Here is my little family! I know Lori told my how to turn the pics, but it won't work on my computer. You'll just have to turn your head (LOL) We had Little Red Riding Hood, Cowboy Casek, Mountain Lion Hunter Bo (who got attacked) and Ladybug Miley.






Halloween 2009

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We all met at Mom and Dad's and took pictures of the kids. Here is my Hunter Bo with Loni. My Cowboy Casek with Zombie Jase And my three little cuties (Casek, Miley, and Bo)

Above: Our girls - Kiley, Loni, and Miley

I let Bo dress up for Casek's Costume Parade on Friday. That day he wanted to be a cowboy.

Here are my kids carving Pumpkins. They had so much fun and I got lots of pics. Unfortunately, I was playing with my camera and deleted them all. Luckily I had emailed these four to mom, so I did have them. Miley loved it. She would dig in the pumpkin and try to eat the guts, then she would yell at the boys and the pumpkins. We had lots of fun (ecspecially with our powered pumpkin carvers)

Here is Miley digging in her pumpkin while cussing it.

Bo was such a critter. Those of you that know Bo well, know that he strips down to his underwear the minute we are home. It doesn't matter what time of day, if we are home he is in his underwear. He doesn't even mind to answer the door like that. He was pulling faces and having a blast carving the pumkins.

Casek had so much fun too. He is getting so big and hardly needed any help from his mom this year.

Casek's teacher (who we love) emailed some of the class pics she took of Casek and his class.

Here are all the little boys in the class (who had arrived back from lunch)

Here are the kids who were back for the party.
Some were a little late, so we didn't get one with the whole class, but almost. We had to talk the boys into letting the girls pose with them.




It was a great Halloween and we had lots of fun.

Deer Hunt/ Halloween

Here are some pics that I took at the Deer Hunt. We had such a great time with all of you up there. Thanks for coming up and sharing the weekend with us. These are some of my children's most favorite memories.

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My parents entered the MTC today. They will be there just 10 days and then are off to the Dominican Republic. I am so proud of them. This is something that they have wanted to do for as long as I can remember. Hopefully someday John and I will be able to do the same thing. Just 547 more days and we will have a great reuniting.

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This is what we all dressed up like for Halloween. We had a cowgirl, 2 bull riders, a tiger, a witch and a spider man.

Madison was a fairy princess for preschool. You have to love the changing of all the costumes. I think that is half the fun of Halloween....................................................................

I was in charge of a fund raiser for our school this year (last 3 years). It is a Spooktacular Fun Run/Walk. There is a Freaky 5K, a Monster Mile and a Spooky Sprint. L, H and C all one their age division for the mile and sprint. I was mighty proud of them.

Here we are running the mile.

L passed H at the finish line. H wasn't too thrilled by it, but was a good sport.

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We had fun carving pumpkins this year. Even little j took his turn. He hated the guts of the pumpkin. He would pull his hand out and say, "Ooooo."

Here are our results.