Saturday, November 29, 2008

I'm Thankful for...

Thanksgiving: a great reminder to take time and be grateful! We have so much to be thankful for in our family. We have a healthy, happy, beautiful family. We live in a fabulous place with wonderful friends as neighbors. We have the best families and in-laws (both of us) :0) We have the knowledge of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have food to eat and a warm bed (I'm much more grateful for that now then I ever have been). We have the blessing of an education. We have cars to drive and places to go in them. We have family less than 5 hours away in three directions. Carson is grateful that "we have snow!" Connor is grateful for a "snack." We have so much. In addition, we have all of you who are reading this. Thank you for blessing our lives! Happy Thanksgiving!

The Family and the Feast


The snowball fight (can you see the tiny snowball about to hit Kevin's back?)


Our fantastic neighborhood friends gave us this sled full of winter goodies including a snowball maker, a snow block maker (for the igloos the boys will live in if they are naughty), snowman mugs, hot chocolate and marshmallows, etc. All the good stuff we will need for a cozy winter!


Carson was a Native American for his Kindergarten's First Thanksgiving feast. They did a little presentation and then sat down to a great dinner!


Monday, November 17, 2008

Halloween and SNOW!

I forgot to upload pictures from Halloween so here are my cute little guys. We went to Heather's again for her annual Halloween party and we had a great time. Then we all went trick-or-treating and the boys loaded up on candy. Carson even had Heather hold his candy in his costume (which he ditched after 5 minutes) so he could refill at the last few stops! Even Connor held out like a trooper through each house (it was free candy, afterall).






We woke up yesterday to go to church and it was snowing! It didn't stick on the ground at all but it was fluttering beautifully all day. Then at about 3:00 it started sticking on the ground and just kept piling up! Carson and Connor called Grandma to tell her all about the exciting event! It is so beautiful and still so weird to know that it snows at our house! I keep thinking we are at the cabin or something. It will sink in once I start trying to drive in it...