Happy Thanksgiving!

From our family to Yours.... We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Spent with loved ones and filled with love and fun memories! Much Love, :)

Family Pictures

Hannah's 1st Field Trip~ The ZOO

Hannah just couldn't wait for her 1st bus ride to the Zoo!! Every day she would ask is it Zoo day yet.... it couldn't come quick enough for both of us :) I was excited for her too. So excited that I decided I would be a chaperone, and go with her. So we packed our lunch and waited and waited in the classroom waiting for the bus to show up. It was LATE and trying to get kindergarteners to understand time is not easy but her teacher did a great job at keeping them all occupied. We found out that the bus was late due to the Highway Patrol stoping it for a inspection. Needless to say we had a very safe bus. Fall time is a great time to go to the Zoo. The animals were very active, it's not crowded and the weather couldn't have been better. Hannah's class later in the week did a Zoo day, where each child dressed up like their favorite animal and told some facts about that animal. Hannah picked an elephant. So she colored some paper plates and I stitched them onto a head band. She refused to let me make her a nose though.

Julia turned 10 this week. 10!! I can't believe it.... She wanted to have a friend party so she invited 10 friends to come for a costume party. EVERY ONE came! We had a full house. But she had a lot of fun. They played some fun games, decorated cupcakes and danced. We went as a family to have dinner and help her celebrate a little more.

We also had our family pictures taken. My family came from St. George, and Vegas to have them done. It was fun to spend time with every one. And the pictures turned our wonderful. Thanks to Suzanne Southam and her wonderful talent of capturing my children so beautifully.

Fun in the Sun

We went as a family to Kennecott Copper Mine one Sunday afternoon. Maia went there on a field trip a few weeks earlier and I hadn't been for many many years. So I packed them all in the car and 15 minutes later we were there. Jeremy and Jonathan couldn't get over the X-Large trucks and how small they looked. Jonathan's only reaction was "Wow" , "Wow"

It was a very very windy day!

Jonathan loved all the trucks and tractor models in the cases and kept saying "out, out" he just wanted so badly to play with them. Checking out all the different minerals and rocks through the binoculars.

My 3 beauties.

Jonathan new summer love is corn on the cob. He wasn't too sure about picking it up to eat it. So he tried using his fork. It just ended up frustrating him though, and he finnaly dived right in.

Swimming in the lake at Day Break. It's a great place to go. The kids love playing in the water, I can sit on the beach with real sand, and soak up the sun. Jonathan likes to wade his feet in the water and play in the muddy wet sand. It's only 10 minutes from our home so we pack a lunch or dinner and than play in the sand and water til the sun goes down. It may not be the REAL beach but it works for now! :)

Weeding the flower beds

Jonathan here with Annie our dog. She is so good with him and the Girls. She wants to get out and play. Instead Jonathan just ran up and down the fence line while Annie followed him. Too funny!

Jeremy and I have decided this summer that, if the Girls do something wrong that their punishment is weeding the flower beds. It's worked pretty well. It's amazing how many hours of weeding they can rack up in an afternoon. On the up side to that our flower beds look pretty good. Thanks Girls for keeping up on those pesty weeds!

They don't get too much done with all the bug collecting and friends that like to drop by.

Jonathan even likes to get in there and help. We have to keep the bugs away from him though. They think he's sweet. Than he ends up with swollen eyes! See below pics

Playing in the water

The kids love the neighborhood water park. Just a short drive and they can spend the day playing in the water. And the best part.... it's free!

Julia, Maia and Hannah think this is the coolest water fiture. They call

it the egg. And their favorite part about it is they can breathe under it!

Mowas, Bubbas, Wawa, Kaaka....New words!

Jonathan's favorite things..... the lawn mower, bubbles, vaccume, water, water hose, playing in the water, making a mess in the water. What a big helper!

Jonathan and I were out enjoying the nice summer evening, when a misquito bit him right on his eye brow. It made his eye swell shut for three days, darn bugs. Day one after bite.

Day two after bite