Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year!!  Here is our Thanksgiving tree that we made with the boys.  We made lots of leaves completely full of things that we are thankful for.  It was fun for all of us to make and think about how many blessings we have been given. 

Thanksgiving morning, the boys had a lot of fun coloring and decorating little Thanksgiving turkeys!  Love these little cuties!

We are so blessed to have had 2 Thanksgiving dinners this year.  First we celebrated at Paul’s Mom’s house!!  So much fun hanging out with Paul’s side of the family!  The boys always love to see their cousins!  The dinner was amazing!!  And we definitely ate way too much!!

Then we celebrated Thanksgiving at my Mom’s house.  On Thanksgiving, right before we headed to my Mom’s house, the basement started flooding.  So Paul stayed to figure that out while I headed with the boys to my Moms.  We packed overnight clothes since we had no idea how long we would need to stay there before Paul had everything fixed.  Poor Paul.. that is such a stressful thing to happen on Thanksgiving.  But nevertheless, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at my Moms.  Again, we stuffed ourselves silly with absolutely delicious food. 

The boys were so excited to light the fire with Grandma. 

So glad that at least Paul made it up to enjoy a little bit of Thanksgiving dinner with us. 

We ended up sleeping over at my Mom’s that night.  The next morning we all went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point.  We have a pass there and the kids LOVE it there.. it was especially fun to go with Grandma.  Thanks Mama!!

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!  We are thankful for all of you!

Garth Brooks with my Mama!! YAY!

YUP.. IT IS TRUE.. MY MOM AND I GOT TO GO TO A GARTH BROOKS CONCERT BABY!  So I don’t think you understand how this has been my life long dream.  I remember listening to Garth Brooks my whole life and I LOVE his music.  Being there at this concert was seriously life changing..it was absolutely amazing and I never wanted it to end.  And it was so much fun being there with my Mama.  So grateful that we could share this experience together!  Now I am already planning our next Garth Brooks Concert..haha.  SO!MUCH!FUN!

 

Thanks so much Mom and Garth for such an amazing night! 

Halloween 2015

I love Halloween so much!  It has always been one of my most favorite holidays.. and with kids.. it is just so much fun!!  We had a blast this last Halloween season.

There is an amazing house just a couple of minutes from us that puts on an amazing Halloween light show every year.  This is our third year in a row going and my kids love it so much.  Owen and Paul stayed home so that Owen could get so sleep on time.  The family that puts it on also serves hot chocolate and popcorn.  So fun!  Porter and Kaden were so cute this year and danced their hearts out on the grass to the music.  It was cute because Porter is getting a little older and I could tell that he was a little more self conscious and looked around to make sure no one was watching.. but he still danced!  So cute!!

Our ward put on a super fun trunk or treat for the kids!!  There were some pretty amazing decorated trunks.  The boys loved trick or treating there.  Here are our cute little power dino rangers all ready for candy collecting!!

Then we had a yummy hotdog dinner and the boys played some fun games.

Then a couple of days later, my Dad invited us over to his ward Halloween party.  We had the most tastiest soup and chili that I have ever had.  It was amazing.  They also had lots of fun activities and games for the kids and it was great spending some time with my Dad!

They had this awesome Dinosaur that danced around with the kids at the end of the evening.  The boys thought this was the most amazing thing ever!!!!

Thanks so much Dad for inviting us!  We had such a wonderful evening with you!! 

Then it was time for Halloween night.  The kids were so incredibly excited to go trick or treating they could hardly stand it. We had my sister Donna, her husband Geoff and their little daughter Anja, and Paul’s Mom Cheryl over for a little dinner.  They boys were excited to have pumpkin shaped pizza..haha.

Here we are all ready for some trick or treating!

And we were off!!  This was Anja’s first time trick or treating!!  So  fun!

Everyone had a wonderful time trick or treating and the boys were so excited about all of their candy!  Sugar high for weeks!

 

WE HOPE THAT EVERYONE HAD A VERY HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!