Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we got to eat Turkey with Mema and Papa! Of course it was yummy and filling. The next day we woke up early and drove up the Flagstaff to play in the snow with Grandma and Grandpa and the rest of the family.
It was a white weekend.

 Thanks Uncle Sean for making this huge snowman!

 Here is Hunter's snow man he made!

 Lucy and Gracie were having fun making snow angels.

 We loved to snuggle on the couch at night and watch Christmas movies. The girls loved this night when we watched Santa Paws. The teenagers wouldn't tell you the same story. They tried to get rid of the movie.

 The pond froze. The kids loved walking around on it. It was fun to slide on the parts not covered with snow.

Hunter kept standing under these icicles and trying to knock them down. Travis had to knock them off so Hunter didn't kill himself.

It takes a while to get everything ready to go and the girls were antsy to leave. They kept trying to come out in their clothes.

Hunter had the perfect snowflake on his head. We tried to get a picture of it, but as you can see it didn't really work that well.

Hunter loved the snow. It was hard to keep inside. Well I guess it is always hard to keep inside. He is an outdoorsy guy!

Here is all of us that were up there except Candice's family. It was a fun weekend!!

Family Fun

 A couple of weekends ago we had a fun weekend. We went to Gracie's Hubbard swim school party. We watch Finding Nemo while swimming. It was fun! After that we walked over to Bass Pro Shop to meet Santa. I know a bit early, but we don't really make over there that often so we decided now or never! It is pretty neat there this time of year. Check it out if you haven't.

My kids stand in this order quite often. I love it. They stair step down!!

My Baby is 4

Gracie is now 4 years old. She is such a sweet girl. I love having her home all day long with me. I would be so lonely without her. She is so funny while I do just about anything she is there to talk and talk. She talks about anything and everything. She is my only child that likes to talk on the phone. She will talk a half an hour on the phone with her best friend and cousin AJ! We had a FHE Party at the park again like last year. She really wanted to do it again. We are so thankful to have our sweet girl!

FHE

 We had a fun FHE last night. We made pumpkin cookies. I won't post the link that I got them from because they didn't taste very good. The kids don't care, but I am all about how things taste. I am going to try again with a better recipe and if it turns out I will post that.

They even make Frankenstein!!

These are they pumpkins they made. They had a blast making them. They got to bring them in their lunches today.

10 years old on 10-10-10

My Tyler had his 10th birthday this month. His bday was 10/10/10! How cool is that. We went up the cabin to party! He help decorate his cake. In case you can't tell that is the death star and lots of other Star wars things on there.

Daddy's Bday Hike

 For Travis's Birthday we went Hiking! It was a really nice day. We only made it a mile into the hike before the kids were done.
We used the burb as camera stand to snap this picture so it is a bit off.

We got to play in a creek. The water was so cold, but a warm day needs that to cool off.

Happy Trails!

All of the kids swam in it except Tyler. He only get up to his knees. Gracie was the first to dive in. Hunter couldn't let his little sister show him up so him and Lucy jump all the way in next.

On into September

It is lonely here tonight. Travis is on his second long weekend of wood badge training. I miss talking to him after the kids go to bed. I should go to bed myself, but it is always hard when he is gone. I have to get up early and go to cub scout training in the morning. Yippy!!
On another note I have been wanting to tell you all about Gracie and her swim lessons. I won a free month for the Hubbard Family Swim School off of I Heart Mesa Blog It has been great. Gracie is now going across the pool on her back(Lucy can't even do that yet). She was swimming ok before she started, but they have really stepped her up to the next level. I would really recommend them. They have been great.

My new calling is keeping me busy in a fun way. I am really enjoy being Hunters Den Mother. He is such a fun guy. He is just eating up all this scouting stuff. There are only three boys in the group right now. I am liking those numbers. It will jump a lot next year. I think there are like 10 boys turning 8 next year. That should be interesting!!