Thanksgiving

This time last year we spent Thanksgiving with Megan and Joe, Megan and I were uncomfortably pregnant. This year was a different story and we had so much fun in Idaho Falls...the babies loved playing together. Here is our Thanksgiving week in a snap shot.


The day before Thanksgiving Megan and the girls came over whilst everyone else was at work. We took an adventurous trip to WalMart and then made some Christmas Ornaments  with the kids (I will blog about those later...they turned out SUPER cute!)



Thanksgiving Day we went to Joe's sister's house and had a DELICIOUS feast. Lucas slept through dinner and woke up just in time for pie, fed to him by Papa. Apparently Lucas LOVES pumpkin pie!



We saved Lucas a bag of food to eat later. Here he is enjoying his first Thanksgiving meal. He may not look too happy, that's because I kept calling his name for a picture...he wanted to be left alone to eat!



 Us on Thanksgiving Day! Poor Lucas isn't smiling as much these days due to his sore gums :(



 These two are best buds, they were inseparable the whole week! Wherever Ellie goes Lucas is right behind her wishing he could walk too! When they saw each other the first day they crawled to each other, hugged and laughed! It was soo cute!
Many a bath was needed during the week, that was always an adventure left for Grammy!

Thanksgiving night Megan, Kathy and I ventured out for some Black Friday shopping. We went to WalMart, felt violated and left. Next we snuck into the middle of the line at Kohls tried on boots, couldn't find the end of the checkout line and left. Then we went to Old Navy, Megan tried on some jeans and realized saving $15 wasn't worth an hour wait in line. We got home at 2am...bought nothing, but had way too much fun! We decided that for Black Friday you gotta be all in or all out. Next year I think we will be all out. It was fun though!!

We had a fun week and were so grateful for the break from school and work. We can't wait until Christmas!

I am so grateful for my family, the Gospel and the many blessings we are given daily!

Thanksgiving Break!

We made many attempt to make it to California for Thanksgiving, but with the weather and the price of gas it just didn't work out. So we got spend Thanksgiving with Megan, Joe and our cutie Lula girl! Thursday afternoon we went to Willard UT and had our meal with them and Joe's sister and her family! They have 5 kids so it was busy and a lot of fun!

This little guy was full of energy! If he wasn't beating up his 8 year old brother he was climbing on Brett!!

Who do you think made it to the dinner table first? Joe? NOPE! Lula!! She was eating everything she could before the table was even done being set!

Yummy food!! Oh I made fudge to add to the festivities and it was a hit!! I think I will try toffee next!


Cute girls!

The view from Lestlie and Tim's house! Gorgeous!
We played some fun games Thanksgiving night and then headed down to SLC where we all stayed in the Marriot. We woke up Friday morning, had some breakfast and then headed to Gateway for some Black Friday shopping, surprisingly it was deserted! Lula had fun playing in kids sections of Barnes and Noble! We tried out The Fashion Place Mall which was a lot busier and somehow Lula ended up stealing some sunglasses from Eddie Bauer that we made Brett return!

Our shopping adventures weren't too successful as two pregnant women and a baby make for very tired shoppers! We went back to the hotel where Brett and Joe watched a football game (can't remember which one!) whilst Megan, Lula and I napped!

For dinner we went to Olive Garden and then headed to Temple Square to see the lights!

Daughter and Daddy admiring the lights!

Lula loved the statue of Jesus and kept saying "Ge!" when she saw him!

Forgot the flash so it isn't the greatest picture, but we had fun! How I ever survived those cold winters as a missionary on Temple Square I will never know! It was freezing!


We took Lula home for the night and she was super hyper! She loved our Christmas tree and gasped when we turned on the lights for her! She had fun taking things off the tree and putting them back on!

I gave Lula a bath, we said prayers and she took her self to her bed. We shut the door and she cried for about 3 mins which didn't make sense because she willing went there, but she was great after that! In the morning we found her upset because she had thrown her blanket and Mikey Mouse out of the crib, once she had them back and got into our bed she fell back asleep in between us! It was so nice!

When we left for SLC Sat morning she insisted on wearing her favorite hat! When we gave her back to Megan and Joe she looked like this...pooped! Poor Lula never gets naps when she's with us!!

After Megan and Joe left we went to see Shelley at her store and then headed to Bountiful where we had lunch with Grandma, Grandpa, Janna, Jason, Morgan and McKay. We had a lot of fun and I enjoyed meeting more of our family members!

After lunch we headed to Shelly and Kenny's to seem them and Maggie. We watched Stuart Little 2, The Blind Side, played Apples to Apples and ate pizza.

We had a great Thanksgiving week and got to spend it with some great people!

I am grateful for all we have been blessed with. We have wonderful family and friends and are so grateful for our growing little boy!

I've Got High Apple Pie In The Sky Hopes

For a while now I have had the domestic urge to learn how to make an apple pie so in preparation for Thanksgiving I did a trial run.

I found a recipe, gathered some Granny Smith apples and my matching bowl and set to work. It was a fairly simple recipe and I even made the pastry from scratch!

I was worried first of all that it would look awful, but secondly and even more so that it would taste awful, but neither were the case!

Brett, Heather, Gavin, Ashley and Cameron were my guinea pigs and I got thumbs up all around! Even I was impressed and I never congratulate myself on my cooking!! So now I am onto more pies, Chicken Pot Pie, Berry Pie, and maybe I'll try some Peach Pie who knows, but my new love is making pies!!

Please don't judge my ever growing chubbier face! Pregnancy is not being kind to me!!