Happy Thanksgiving!

Our family to yours. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend and Happy Thanksgiving. David is taking our picture. We had a fairly small group for dinner, but it more than doubled by desert.

Devon is 8 months now, he loves to feed himself, and notices if you have something that he doesn't have.

Devon loves sweet potatoes, and jello and turkey and stuffing and potatoes, he really enjoyed his dinner.

April is going along with her picture happy mom.

Here is Kirk carving our Turkey, it was so moist and delicious, we've practically eaten it to the bone, time for Turkey soup.

Kirk always makes orange rolls for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They are soooo good.

Aubrey makes this yummy sweet potato casserole with brown sugar and nuts for the topping. In the background is moms green jello.

Aubrey's plate full of Thanksgiving goodness.

Ashley's beauty salon is open....Kylee is getting her hair done.

Ashlynn after her makeover.

Sierra posing and Alanna shooting the picture, I wondered where my camera went.

Sierra, Tristen, Kylee and Kaleb playing an intense game of Guess Who?

We had two pumpkin pies, an apple pie, a cherry breeze pie and a chocolate cake. Kris and Jamie brought a pecan pie and a cherry pie....yum.

The kids are lined up in front of the pies, and can barely stand the wait. We had a fun day visiting with everyone and hope you all had a great Thanksgiving also.

Ashley and Graham move out!

Yes, this weekend our house grew a little more, Ashely and Graham found a really nice two bedroom, two bathroom apartment. It has a washer and dryer, dishwasher, microwave built in, and all only about a year old. The complex has an exercise room, and a heated pool. Alanna is so excited to have her own bathroom and she can't wait to move in to her new room.



Since I've been tagaged by Erica, I've been trying to think of things about me that are quirky and random, so here it goes:



1) I enjoy crossing the days off on the calender, it is very fufilling to see all the appointments or activities successfully completed. Along the same line, I'm a list maker, I love to make the list, then once again, cross off the completed chore or errand. Even if I already completed a certain task, I'll put it on my list, just so I can cross it off!



2) I'm a connisseur of fine french fries, actually, I'm addicted to them, they're like my crack(that's what I tell David). I know they're bad for me, but I love the hot, steamy, salty, goodness of those golden brown potato sticks. McDonalds beats all the rest, hands down.



3) I'm a bathroom reader, I always have a book I'm reading, just no one ever sees me reading them. I love my hour of total, uninterupted time to myself. I have this enormous basket filled with church magazines, word searches, and a variety of magazines along with my latest novel. It's awesome!



4) I can't cook if the counters are cluttered, if the sink has dishes in it, if the rug is askew or if there are any spots on the floor. It doesn't matter that by the end of me cooking, it will look that way, I can't explain it. If I'm going to wash dishes by hand, the left side is the hot soapy side, the right side is for rinsing, and then on to the right counter to dry, isn't that how everyone does it? You would think so, but such is not the case. Ask Aubrey how she does it.



5) I have to sleep by the door, even when we travel. I'm also a left sided sleeper, so sometimes that presents a problem if the bed is turned around and I'm forced to sleep on my right side.

6) I love to read cookbooks. I hate to cook, I like to imagine myself cooking all those yummy things, and "see my family enjoying thoses wonderful recipes", I'll make a menu and even buy the ingredients, but usually don't get around to cooking everything I planned. I have the most bizarre collection of condiments and spices for things I've never made. Maybe when my life settles down and I have more free time, I'll create some fabulous meals.

Since everyone except Jazmine and Jessica has been tagged, that's who I'm tagging. Write something funny or crazy about yourself.

I hope everyone has a fun Thanksgiving. We are cooking the big feast and Ashley and Graham will come for pie, but are going to his family for dinner, and Kris and Jamie are going to see her grandma who has cancer and is sick and her mother for dinner and then come her for pie and the whole gang will spend the night. Jamie and I and whoever else wants to, will go out on Friday morning EARLY!!! April, Damon and Ray and of course Devon will come for dinner and Davind and Aubrey and Alanna will be here. So we'll have 8 for dinner and 18 for pie! Love to you all.

My new kitchen

Here are my new appliances, the counters will be done next.

Alanna, as my own Vanna White.

Here is the finished kitchen, I love it! Next, we're painting the walls a warm taupe, and Kirk will put in recessed lights.

The Many Faces of Regen

This is Regen looking very somber. It's time for her three month picture with the bear. She is growing so fast. She is almost 12 pounds. She is long and thin.

This is Regen discovering her own reflection. She is starting to play on the floor a little bit more.

This is Regen concentrating on all the beautiful colors and crinkly sounds of the wrappers.

This is Regen sad. She likes to be held, alot. If she's not, this is what you get.

This is Regen very happy. We are having more of these happy faces the older she gets.

Devon is on the move!

Devon is a monkey, he loves to hang upside down and hold things with both his hands and feet. We all call him "Monkey". The other day Hailey tells Kirk that the monkey is outside by himself, Kirk says there isn't a monkey outside, and Hailey says yes there is...see and shows Kirk, Devon, and says see, the monkey is outside. Devon was sitting in his circle toy.

Devon has learned how to crawl, nothing and no one is safe now.

I apparently can't take my eyes off of Devon for a minute. He's everywhere. I turned around in the computer chair to check on Regen who was sitting in the high chair and turned back and there he was. The other day he was choking on his own sock that he pulled off his foot and shoved in his mouth and then couldn't pull it out. A couple weeks ago he ate the tag off of one of his blankets and was choking on it!

I was unloading the dishwasher the other morning and April came with Devon. She set him on the floor and I turned to talk with her and Alanna came around the corner and said "Devon!" and I turned around and this is what we saw.

Our Halloween Party

Here are the girls in their mustaches. They didn't want to wear costumes.

These are rice krispy mummies.

Aubrey and David wanted to throw a Halloween party for Alanna and some friends. We had the party on Saturday night. We played murder in the dark and Skeleton in the closet. David hid in the shower and around corners and scared us all. Aubrey had a good time creating the cupcakes.

The girls were pretty twisted in this game of Halloween Twister.

Some yummy looking treats.

Aubrey and David in the mummy wrap game.

Alanna is wrapping me up in toilet paper for the mummy wrap game, but Ashley and Graham won.

After about 10 trys Alanna finally got an apple.

Angie and Hannah are tied at the donut eating contest.

Halloween Party at Church

Mama Cat with Baby Regen Kitty, who doesn't look very happy about the whole thing.

Isn't he so cute.

Baby Devon as Baby Tiger.

Baby Regen as Baby Kitty.

Aubrey the Pirate, at our Ward Halloween Party.

Another trip to the Farm

We went to Tolmachoff farm on Saturday. Here is Kris and Jamie and all the kids. Go to their blog to see more pictures. The kids had so much fun.

They each picked a pumpkin, it took careful inspection and evaluation to find just the perfect one. They seem happy with their choice.

Tolmachoff Farms

Regens first pumpkin picture, she wasn't too thrilled with it, but how cute.

I tried to wake him up and he wouldn't, so I sat him here, and in his sleep he put his foot on top of this pumpkin, so cute.

It's like a ball pit, only filled with dry corn.

What an interesting sensation it was to step and roll around in dry corn.

Alanna chose this cute little pumpkin, she wants to draw a face on it.

Jesse chose this green and yellow gourd over a pumpkin, interesting huh?

I told them they could pick a little pumpkin or a gourd. They both chose a green and yellow gourd.

This is their version of a train ride, led by a tractor. There had to be at least 15 of these tin can things and he had them going in a circle and in the shape of an S for a little while, they loved it. Samantha would have nothing to do with it.

Devon loved turning the steering wheel, and he didn't even cry when the tractor started.

We had so much fun, and they had such cute ideas for picture taking and activities that we are going to bring the whole family in a couple of weeks. Kris and Jamies kids will love it here.

What a fun idea, riding bikes through a hay maze. Alanna is helping Samantha.

They had two of the cutest little black piglets. I couldn't get the kids to look up at me for anything, they wouldn't take their eyes off the little piggies.