well, now that thanksgiving is over, we are settling into the holiday season... we had a great laugh when clint emailed this to us. click here to see just how excited the kids are for the holidays!
we had a wonderful, quieter than usual, thanksgiving with my parents and little sister samantha. lots of delicious food and relaxation. we have so much to be thankful for, we really are so blessed... i'm grateful for a holiday to remind us! happy thanksgiving to all.
today was the day...cuyler finally left the MTC for mongolia! he has been in the MTC since the 5th of september, and i think he was really ready to go! we went and stood on the hill and waved as his van drove past on their way to the airport. it was literally only a second as they honked and we all screamed and waved...we really didn't even get a good look at him, but nonetheless he saw us and the sign and balloons...etc. later tonight we talked to him on the phone for a bit during his layover in LA...he sounded great... a bit nervous maybe, but very excited to get there.
we miss you uncle cuyler...but can't wait to hear about your adventures in outer mongolia!
Here are the highlights of the past month... all the many things that have been going on and are to blame for my major blogging break.....no, i haven't been reading the twilight series...they are still sitting on my shelf unopened...i still don't have the courage to let my life come to a screeching halt just yet...
Halloween the boys got to dress up for school andthey had a fun parade we got to go watch. ethan (peter pan..with a dagger that daddy made that morning) loved watching the parade and cameron loved showing savanna (tinkerbell) off to all his friends. we went to help in cameron's class andthenspent thenight trick-or-treatingin our neighborhoodandgrandma's.
clint and I went to a super fun party with some friends the weekend before halloween... it was a load of fun and laughs! oh and thanks for the pics, sandee! Sick Kids the kids all had a tough battle with some icky virus and savvy had 2 ear infections this month. one week cameron missed 3 days of school and really wasn't feeling too well. but, cameron being the nurturer that he is, went out of his way to take care of me. i went to pick up barrett from school and came home to this on my bed. cameron met me at the door and told me that he thought ethan fell asleep on my bed and i needed to go check on him, but really he had made me lunch, "because I haven't seen you eat lunch yet today, mom". cameron really is a sensitive and thoughtful little man.
Teething and Playing
check out those babies comin' in! we also can't play hard enough with this little doll. she loves to play peek-a-boo, so big, pat-a-cake, so much..etc. she also gives the yummiest hugs and kisses. she is still army crawling all over the place and once in a while she'll crawl on all fours. she also just started pulling herself up to standing...yikes! get ready for some bumps and bruises...
Barrett turned NINE!! holy cow, we have a nine-year old...and what a handsome one! i cannot believe nine years ago we had our first child! it feels like only yesterday, yet i do feel a lot older now than i did then! as new parents, i think we have so much to learn and the first child is our guinea pig. barrett wasn't an easy infant and definitely forced us to learn many things from the very beginning. i am grateful for that, he really helped us adjust quickly to all that being a parent entails...and we are still learning lots with him. barrett is a great student and is loving third grade. barrett is anenergeticandinquisitiveboy.he loves learning about everything!he absolutely loves readingright nowand speeds through a book about every day. barrett is growing like a weed...most people cannot believe he is only 9!he is going to be taller than me any day. he is a great bigbrother and reallytries to dowhat is right.barrett had a great birthday. he is really enjoying his new mountain bike, since his last one he got when he turned 5! he had a fun, spooky halloween party with a bunch of friends. we sure love you barrett...thanks for keeping us laughing and learning! Fall Days and Friends i love fall.i love the colors, smells, weather, food... it is quite possiblymy favorite season. this fallhas been especially long and beautiful....we have tried to enjoy these beautiful days by gettingoutside...but alas, as it is starting to really turn colder, i am wishing we would have spent moretime outdoors this past month.
A weekend in one of our favorite places....Cache Valley seriously, in my book, there are few places as beautiful as cache valley, especially in the fall. we went up to see old friends and visit grandpa and grandma barrett and i think we hit the timing just right for those fall leaves. it was beautiful! we had a nice time and hauled off a bunch of stuff for the grandparents... we love and miss that place.
A Week of Fun in Sunny California
we had a blast in the OC. we spent many fun filled relaxing days at Disney and a day at the beach. It was a lot of fun to be there with many of my siblings and parents. We really just love this place. our little ethan had a blast and went on every ride he was tall enough for without hesitation...splash mountain was his favorite, but he also loved tower of terror, space mountain, big thunder railroad, star tours, the matterhorn...the list goes on and on! check out ethan's "thumbs up" in the tower of terror picture...it was hilarious! i love watching the kids enjoy disney the first time they are old enough to really enjoy it. we all had a great time and lots of fun! here are some slide shows of our fun week and a cool video of barrett and cameron who were chosen to train as jedi's and got to fight darth vader and darth mal at the same time! they had a blast!
