Gingerbread Houses...

The Christmas craft of the day was making gingerbread houses with some cute girlies! Garrett's preschool teacher was sick today, so Amber and her kids came over and we had a great time. Kids played, we chatted (that's the best part), and we made a great gingerbread house!

Isn't it cute? They did a great job!


They sure do enjoy being silly together.


The best part of making the house is eating the candy...I think some of it made it onto the house!

Popcorn and Cranberries

The project of the day to help us get in the holiday spirit is stringing cranberries and popcorn for our tree. We still haven't been able to set it up, we were sick for the weekend and haven't been able to do it yet-hopefully Sunday will be the day!

Do you have an 'outie' or an 'innie'?

What makes it an 'outie' or an 'innie' ? Is it genetic? Is it something the doctor can influence when you are born? Does it in any way indicate intelligence?? Just wondering...

Count for our family: Adam-innie, Bekki-innie, Dallin-both (half in half out), Garrett-outie

SOOOO what does that say about us?

Ten things I am thankful for:

1. My husband and my two special boys.
2. The great home I live in and wonderful neighbors.
3. Terrific friends.
4. I've always had plenty (clothing, food, shelter...).
5. A rich heritage.
6. A car that runs (today...)
7. Running water.
8. Microwave cooking.
9. Nights we spend together as a family.
10. The gospel of Jesus Christ

Five things Dallin is thankful for:

1. Daddy
2. Mommy
3. Parker
4. Logan (the enormous dog we are sitting)
5. Garrett

Three things Garret is Thankful for...

1. Mom
2. The Holy Ghost
3. His teacher

It's TURKEY day!

We had turkeys for dinner! They were literally invited to share the day with us and have dinner. We had our Thanksgiving feast with my Uncle Doug and Aunt Julie and their family and various others. Caleb, their 14 yr old son is the pet lover of the family. He traded a neighbor some of his pet quail for these two turkeys.

Dallin had a blast teasing them. If he stood too close they would ruffle their feathers...

Then start to walk after him...

And then they would chase him around the yard! He had a great time! Garrett on the other hand was terrified! Hope you had a happy Turkey day!

A little about me...(thanks to Leslie)

Okay, so I stole this idea from her blog, very cute, creative, very Leslie.

1-your worst habit? Eating after 8pm.
2- your best feature? I always thought I had pretty buff arms...
3- what you like most about your spouse? When he is the life of the party.
4- if you could travel anywhere, where would it be? I can't wait to visit our friends in China.
5- what do you admire most in a dear friend you have? Leslie's creative genius and Jodi's ability to play with her children for HOURS.

It's a horse of course!

Our good friends are away for the holiday and we offered to house their dog-I mean horse-while they are away. After a rough start, Logan (the mastiff) and parker get along great!

They gave Kevin a run for his money playing tug-o-war!


Logan is sooooo big and lazy he won't even stand up to drink or eat-he lies down to do it! That's his favorite position lying on the floor, or on your feet, or in the middle of all the action. He's such a couch potato, but he doesn't want to miss anything fun!


Logan is a little taller than parker, and outweighs him by about 30 lbs. but Parker is faster and definitely the one in charge! Watch out Parker, Logan is only 7mo. old and only half grown!

Colleen Riley

A special lady I look forward to getting to know! I hear she can do just about anything including make stained glass windows and shoe horses (the latter being very high on my dad's 'gotta-have-it' list).

My dad's sweetie. Yeah, it's a little surprising to me and my siblings, but we've delt with it (over long phone conversations in which we thoroughly reprimanded my dad for not preparing us before dropping this bomb!) and are eager to meet her. She sounds like a super lady and makes my dad very happy.

She will be joining our family January 20th! But first, after all the drama, she is going to come meet us! I feel a little bad for her-we were really scary at first with all the screaming and the yelling and the crying and the "What is he thinking!?!" dialogue. Hopefully she isn't too terrified-we really are a nice family once we get past the cloak and dagger and actually talk to each other (vicious poke to my dad's ribs on that one). We are getting together in SLC December 17th to get to know each other! I'm excited!!

Only Garrett

So today Garrett is a frog...he changes from kitten to doggie to horsie or whatever he fancies for the day.

I think he's beginning to have a little identity crisis, because today he was very confused. I asked him what he was and he said "Frog-ribbet". "How cute", I replied "What color are you?". "Blue" he said (he is always blue). "Wow!" I exclaimed, "What's your name?" With resounding confidence he replied, "Donald Duck".

HEEE HEE HEEE! That's a good one!

The Return of Mrs. Garrett!

Okay, so the last time we were in Wyoming, Garrett's girl cousins dressed him up like a girl and called him Mrs. Garrett. The kid can't get it out of his head! When someone asks him his name he says "Mrs. Garrett"! It's funny to me, but Adam is a little upset by it! Well, we had almost cured him of saying "Mrs. Garrett" when one Sunday evening he decided it was time to revive her.....

Ain't he cute??!?


I expected a mess in the bathroom, but he put everything back so carefully, I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't seen his face.

Halloween Hooplah!

Scary Katie witch!



Mmmmm Punkin guts!


Katie's creation-a monster with a witch inside


Kevin's creation...a spooky spider.