Halloween

What a fun night. I think Halloween is as much fun for Casey and I as it is our kids. Jill came down with the boys and we met at grandpa and grandma house to start off the evening. We made our usual stops to Aunt Sylvia's house and out to Tammie's House(gma's friend). Then we came back out to Declo for our ward dinner and trunk or treat. This was our first trunk or treat and it was a big success with the kids. The babies were exhausted after the trunk or treat but the older kids weren't done so we went back to grandma's and the babies hung out with grandpa and grandma and we went trick or treating around grandma's neighborhood.

First major SNOW storm

Man the month of November was FULL of snow for us.

What a GIFT!

As I have written many times in the past, it's been real hard for me to blog since we haven't had a camera. There's been many times that we had decided to just buy something little that would do the trick. Every time we went to go do it SOMETHING else came up. The weekend before the GIFT came. Casey and I had found camera at costco with a $60 rebate making it a little over a $100. A little more than we wanted to spend but a good camera with a decent rebate. That weekend the alternator on our van went out. Bye bye camera. Guess what? A week or so later this BOX shows up completely unexpected. I open it and inside was this BEAUTIFUL to good to be true Cannon powershot sx20is. I was shocked to say the least. Inside was a note from our good friends the Perry's that said they knew that we had been without and they wanted give us this camera because they knew how hard it was on us to be without a camera with our kiddos growing and us not being able to capture these moments. Wow I am always happily humbled by the kindness and generosity show to us by our friends. THANK YOU will never be sufficient enough.

Since receiving my new "BABY". I have had a great time taking LOTS of pictures and figuring out all of it's features. I even spent an evening read over 90pgs in the manual. To bad I can't remember it anymore. Old ages stinks:P
Here's a few of my first random pictures.







The Kids and their FRIENDS~The Mowers came down for Elijah baptism Nov. So we went out to Minidoka Dam later that afternoon to hang out and have fun.

THANKSgiving!

Thanksgiving was wonderful this year. This happen to be the first year that my sister, Tamara and I were the hosts for our family for Thanksgiving. Dave was on call for work so our family went to Elko to spend Thanksgiving with them.
Tamara did such a great job of finding recipes that put a yummy spin to the traditional meals we always enjoy. It's was crazy, we used Tam's new wave oven, it cooked a frozen turkey in less than 3 hours and it was so good and moist.





The weather was COLD and snowy. With temps under 0 degrees. We spent the first few days inside playing a lot of wii games and board games. When it warmed up to 0 Degrees we ventured outside for a little sledding. The Spring Creek golf course just mins from Tam and Dave's place offers a mean hill for sledding.

















It was such a good weekend getting to hang out and spend Thanksgiving together. Addy spent most of the weekend holding Livy. They adore each other. Zyan absolutely loves Addy but has a hard time showing it kindly. He was rather rough with his love.