Love, Love, Love this time of year!

I love everything about Christmas- the smell, the songs, decorating my house, being with family, giving presents, snow...everything! Merry Christmas Everyone!

Giving Thanks!

Our Home Teachers brought us this treat for Thanksgiving! I just had to post it because it was darling and fun!! Cupcakes made to look like a Thanksgiving Dinner! YUMMY! YUMMY!

Then we headed off to Vegas for some warmth and fun! Mylee had fun spending time with her cousins! We had a blast attending UNLV basketball games, being with family and the warmth of Vegas!

Thought we could squeeze in a nap on Thanksgiving Day--NO WAY!

To much FUN!

Michelle cooked a wonderful dinner! We all pitched in a little! We had a great time!

So much to be thankful for this year! I love this time of year because it helps us reflect on the many blessings we have!

Fall Frolics and Halloween

Just getting caught up!!

We headed out to Tennessee this fall to help move Kev's brother back to Utah!

We did a little playing while we were there!

Dollywood of Course!

We hiked to the highest point in the Smoky Mountains called Clingmans Dome!

They have built a huge lookout point so you can see a great view!

Clingmans Dome!

The beautiful view! Fall was a perfect time to visit and see the beautiful colors!
My parents came along to help! It was fun to get to show them the things we love

about the south! They helped a lot to! And we got to stay in one of their time shares!

We loaded up the moving truck and Chris and Kevin took of on their long drive!

They drove 2 days and over 2,000 miles!!

We headed to Nashville for some sight seeing!

Lucky us we hopped on a plane to help make the trip to Utah faster

for Jenny and the boys!

Not to many days latter scary creatures stated showing up at our house!

This one was the cutest cat of all!

Mylee and Tryce were good sports!

We started a new tradition this year! We invited our whole neighborhood over

for hot dogs, hot chocolate and a spook alley by Dallon and friends!

It was a huge success! We served over 200 hot dogs!

Dallon's Spook alley was very FUN and scary! They would do a extreme version for older

kids and a mild one for the younger kids!!

Hopefully we can do it every year!

My beautiful friends Michelle and Becky who stopped by for the fun!!

Mylee Update!!

Mylee isn't scared of much--except going to nursery! Here she is running away from home, riding a pony by herself, doing gymnastics,

having me teach her how to ride a bike, and swimming like a fish!
She loves her siblings and all their friends!!

She is learning (slowly) to share with her cousins Noah and Boston, She loves to dance, and knows how to work her dad's ipod!!










She doesn't sleep much! She loves doing art work on my counter tops!!

But we love her because she keeps us smiling and laughing every minute!!

Ally Update

Ally is always begging me to give her a make over! Her friend was over and they were begging me again...so we did spa day!! From facials, to nails, toes and hair! They were refreshed and ready to put on a "rock concert" for Mylee and I!

Ally played soccer this fall again! But this year she really got into it! She was the high scorer on her team! It was amazing how aggressive she became! I'm sure it had nothing to do with the webkins I promised her if she scored a goal! (I forgot to take my camera to the games, so here she is in action in the back yard!)

When Ally is not busy playing soccer, getting make overs, playing with friends, or entertaining Mylee she is working hard in school! Below is a house she built for Ralph S. Mouse! She was into detailing the furniture!

At the local pumpkin patch!!
Ally loves her siblings and her cousins!

He did it again...

Kevin ran his 5th St. George Marathon! He did awesome of course! We love to cheer him on!Even though it was a rainy day he had a huge cheering section!


It rained the entire marathon but Kev kept on running and he even shaved time off from last year! He is an amazing athlete, father and husband!