Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here are a few things I'm thankful for:
Beautiful baby blue eyes...goofy baby smiles...

yummy food to eat with family and friends...
my sweet four-year-old...my cuddly one-year-old...

my inquisitive six-year-old...

my wonderful husband and best friend...

cute chubby little baby hands...

seeing the joy on my six-year-old's face when he gets to play Rock Band...

my wonderful family...

sweet baby cheeks...nephews that help take care of the little ones...

All these things and much, much more, and how thankful I am most of all to know that families are forever. What a great blessing it is just to know that! On a more serious note, Jason's Grandpa passed away last Saturday so we came over to Idaho a little early for the funeral. At the viewing, just seeing Jason's Grandma talk to her husband as he lay there and fix his hair into place the right way so sweetly just made me think of what tender feelings there are between husbands and wives. What a wonderful feeling it is to know that when someone we love passes on from this life, it's not the end, that we will see them again, that husband and wife will be reunited in such a sweet reunion in the next life because of the blessings of being sealed together forever in the temple. I feel so blessed to know of these truths.

Christmas Spirit

Rock Band

Jason's parents came to visit over Halloween weekend. We had a lot of fun visiting with them. Jason's dad brought Rock Band over and Jason, his brother Travis, and their dad had a fun time playing it. I played the guitar a few times and that was fun...then I attempted the drums...woah, not good. I stuck with the guitar. I thought I was getting really good at the guitar after a few songs so I tried Medium instead of easy...and...I got booed off the stage after like 10 seconds! Jason got pretty good at the drums. Later that night, the kids got to be the lead singers. The only song that they kind of knew was "Yellow Submarine." They were so cute singing along and sharing the microphones.


Last Halloween picture...I promise! I just forgot I had this one. It's of my kids and their cousins, Taydem, Taylyn and Talen all lined up and ready to Trick-or-Treat.

Family Prayer

This is what Gavin said to me yesterday.
"I actually had a good warm feeling in my heart yesternight before we said family prayer."
I thought, okay, even with all the craziness that goes on in this house, I must be doing at least some things right. And, that made me feel good.

A Conversation with Connor...

Connor and I were laying in bed the other night when our conversation when something like this:
Connor: "I did one bad thing today."
Mommy: "What's that?"
Connor: "I punched the baby."
Mommy: "Yeah, that's not good."
Connor: "But, I did one good thing today."
Mommy: "What's that?"
Connor: "I didn't punch him very hard."

Trunk-or-Treat

I'm posting this a little late, but here are a couple of pictures of the kids "trunk-or-treating" for Halloween.