Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family.  My mom and Gary made us a delicious dinner and I made homemade mashed potatoes and a grape salad.  I was able to pick up my grandparents and bring them down to enjoy dinner with us and it was a wonderful moment when my grandpa realized who my mom was.  He started to cry and was so grateful for a moment of clarity (he has dementia and doesn't remember us very often). We laughed and visited and truly enjoyed our time together.  So grateful for a great family and making wonderful memories.

2014-15 School Pictures

Fall Ball Fun!

We have had a busy and fun November (who am I kidding, every month is busy!).  Rory and I got to go to a 60's themed costume party for his Sergeants 50th birthday.  I've never been to a costume party before that wasn't for Halloween, and it did not disappoint.  We danced, laughed and visited with friends for hours. 

A few days later I had a visit from one of my oldest and bestest friends Heather.  We met at the wave pool and were able to visit and catch up while the kids swam.  Sometimes all you need is a visit or talk with an old friend to make everything in life balanced again. 

Connor's traveling baseball team, the Sliderz had a baseball tournament in St. George, so we headed down for some warmer weather and baseball.  It was so beautiful down there and the weather was perfect.  While down there we celebrated Matthew's 3rd birthday.  Although we spent most of his birthday at the ball field he didn't mind, he played on the playground, in the drinking fountain and under the bleachers.  After baseball we went to dinner and had Coldstone cupcakes then went swimming back at the hotel.  Connor's team won 3 out of the 4 games and only allowed 13 runs the whole tournament (the lowest number of runs allowed out of every team), but they didn't make it to the championship.  Sunday we came home to the cold weather (boo!) and got ready to back to school and work. 

Little Mr. Matthew not only turned 3, but he also is fully potty trained.  Yay to no more diapers, EVER!  He's been in Early Intervention for his speech so the school district had a speech pathologist test him to see if he qualified for additional speech help.  He qualified so we wrote an IEP and Tuesday he began preschool at Wellington Elementary.  He was so excited to start school and use the Batman backpack Landon gave him.  I went to pick him up from school his first day and he was so disappointed he didn't get to ride the bus, it was so cute.   

Kinlee enjoying ice cream on our date

Matthew on his first day of school

 

11/18/14

Election Results

The election is over and we couldn't be more excited about the results!  Jeff Wood won Sheriff and we are so excited for the changes that will take place once he takes office January 1st.  Jeff and Emily are some of our dearest friends and we are so excited to begin this journey with them, and Kadee is excited because we won't have to move and dad will soon be off graveyards. 

Red Ribbon Week and Halloween!

We had a great time last week.  We got the walls up at the house and celebrated Red Ribbon Week and Halloween.  For Red Ribbon week the kids participated in Hat Day, Crazy Hair Day, and wear your costume to school day, which also happened to be Halloween.  They had a fun Halloween parade at school where they were able to parade through each classroom and show off their costumes.  They also went to a magic show drug free assembly that Connor really enjoyed.  On Halloween we went to trunk or treat and then went trick or treating all over town.  Kinlee loved trick or treating on "snob hill" and kept asking the next day if we could go back.  We bought Matthew a Buzz Lightyear costume that he wore to a Halloween party on Thursday, but refused to wear on Halloween, so he ended up being Captain America.  After trick or treating we went back to our house where the kids and their friends ate candy and watched Hocus Pocus.  It was such a fun week and the weather was beautiful. 

House update

We have a garage floor and basement floor and walls, yipee!  We also had our annual pumpkin carving at Derk and Deb's.  Connor was the only one to actually carve a pumpkin and I didn't even get a picture, but I got one of his awesome science project he did!  Kadee, Kinlee, and Matthew took the easy route and used stickers for their pumpkins, but they still turned out super cute!

Witchapalooza!

Our land before we started digging

Our big hole in the ground

We have had such a fun couple of weeks that I haven't taken the time to blog.  We started working on our house.  We have the walls of the basement and garage poured, window wells in, and will have basement/garage floors on Saturday.  It's been a fun, but already exhausting and expensive.

We took a break from house work and attended the Children's Justice Center Harvest Ball.  As you can see, Rory and I went as a cowboy/cowgirl.  It was a great night, we had dinner, visited with friends, and danced until our feet hurt.  All proceeds raised went to help fund the CJC, a group that helps care for kids in need.

Lastly,  Saturday we had a fun girls day to Gardner Village to Witchapalooza.  They have the most amazing shops there and there was so much I wanted to buy, but only ended up getting a pair of earrings and some hair bows for the girls.  We window shopped and checked out all the decorations and witches, then went to a lunch show called the lyin', the witch, and the warlock.  It was so cute and such a fun show!  Kadee loved it and loved having some mom time all to herself.  I sure do love spending time with that sweet girl and I love celebrating Halloween in all these fun ways.  While Kadee, Debbie, and I were at Gardner Village, Connor was camping/hunting with grandpa Derk and the boy cousins.  He hiked his little heart out.  He had such a wonderful time and was only a little disappointed that he had to come home a day earlier then the rest because I wouldn't let him miss school.  He can't wait until he's old enough to go hunting himself.