Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving at Grandpa Gary and Grandma Jeri's new house in Mapleton, UT. We were able to stay there Wednesday night until Saturday night. All of Jake's siblings were able to be there for the whole weekend too.   The weekend festivities consisted of Easton's blessing, basketball games, board/card games, decorating grandma's christmas tree, black friday shopping, eating yummy food and waxing...thanks to Sunny. 

Sunny convinced all of the guys to wax their noses and eyebrows. 

Jason blessed their little guy, Easton on Thanksgiving

Getting ready for the feast!

All 33 of us!

Family picture

Andy and Jake carving the turkey

Grandpa is still teaching Jake a thing or two about basketball!

Zach and Hailey

Zach loved playing on the playground.

Brooke and Jaylee

Thanksgiving

Zachy loved the mashed potatoes and gravy!

Halloween

For Halloween this year we took Indian Jones(Tyler), an Indian(Brooke), a hula girl/ fairy(Kennady) and a dinosaur (Zach) trick or trunking.  Our friends, the Tolmans, also invited us to a party at their house. Once again the kids came home with a TON of candy from the trunk of treat in Fairview. I am thinking that next year I will start taking them door to door around our neighborhood and make them work for their candy like I had to when I was a kid.

Good Bye Fall, Hello Winter

The seasons changing from fall to winter happened very abruptly this year.  October 3rd, Kennady was showing me how she could ride her bike without training wheels and on October 7th we were building snow forts! Gotta love it....or not!!

Elk Hunt

October started off as usual with the elk hunt.  Tyler was so excited to be able to go with Jake and his Uncle Danny.  On opening day they were hunting all day with no success and came home for a rest.  They decided late in the afternoon to go at it again and ended up getting a nice 6 x 6 bull elk just before dark, which meant they had a lot of work ahead of them to do in the dark.  They didn't get home until around 4 a.m. It was a long night for them AND me! Even though I worry most of hunting season I love that Tyler gets to spend this quality time with his dad and uncle.

Family pictures

This fall we got our family pictures done.  Victoria Hale did an amazing job! 

Tyler- 11 years old

Brooke-8 years old

Kennady- 5 years old

Zach- 18 months

This picture make me laugh! Zach was on his own agenda for most of the photo shoot.

Happy Birthday "T"!!

We were able to spend Tyler's 11th birthday in Utah and celebrate with family, since Danny and Cassie blessed their baby(Cooper) that weekend.

Grandpa and Grandma gave Tyler this amazing microscope kit.

Tyler spent a lot of time practicing on his new ripstick.

We all went to IHOP for Tyler's birthday breakfast. 

We took the cousins to a bounce house near Grandma
 and Grandpa's house for a couple of hours.

Kennady was having so much fun

Tyler and Kaden

This is Brooke coming down head first! Crazy lady:)

Zach loved this truck and slowly warmed up to the bounce houses.

Zach getting some snuggles from Grandma Jeri

Happy Birthday Tyler!! We LOVE you!