BUSY BEES!

Lately we have been so busy, we are never home (I know you all know the feeling). Here are a few things we have been doing! Putting up our Christmas tree!

We went to Declo for Thanksgiving. The kids got to go play in the snow with Uncle Shawn.

The kids were learning about the letter "H" in preschool this week! Monday they had crazy hair day! Gracie loved hers but Gid was a little concerned he would look like a girl with blue in his hair but he loved it!

We got to meet Shawn's "friend" that is a "girl" Sam. Way cute and the kids loved her. She even laughed things off when Brian and Travis put Gracie asking them if they liked to kiss. Ha Ha.

Sledding!

Best buddies. I love this picture!

One of all the snow bunnies!

Halle just wanted to jump, to cute!

You want me to do what?

Cheese!

Trying to keep her hat on her "fat head"

We celebrated Brian's 32nd birthday. Boy I am married to an old man!

Ok, not the cutest picture put funny story. The kids were playing in the bedroom the other day and had the door closed. I went to check on them and heard gracie say "Halle, feet on the wall, now hold still, dont move and dont breathe." Kinda made me nervous so I went in and saw this. They were playing "x-ray". Gracie had a role reversal and was the x-ray tech and Halle must have swallowed the nail. ha ha!

We went to the library to meet Curious George. When we got up there Halle, Gid and Choloe all freaked out and started screaming. Hence, the brave one got her picture with Curious George! Later Gid and Halle both wanted to go back, to late!

For preschool for Thanksgiving the kids made pilgrim hats. They sure love their teachers!

Getty up cow-girl.

Darling Hogan!

Our cute kids,

More fun cousin time!

I just love this one!

Darling!

Uncle Chubby being so great letting Gracie drip (err... do) his hair. What a sport!

Gid went out before preschool one morning and shoveled the snow, even though it was just a skiff, I could not talk him out of it, he did the whole pad in 10 minutes! What a great worker!

Halle our princess and Hogan our pippi! This one is for you Trav!

Halle loves Berkley. Gracie loves her more though. She wanted to take Berkley for show and tell for preschool when they were supposed to bring something they were grateful for.

Halloween

You would think I would have figured out how this blogger uploads pictures by now but I have not. I guess these will be in reverse. This is snow white helping me clean the house.

Indian Hogan!

Have I mentioned I miss this kid?

Berkley as a purple kitty (sorry about the shadow).

Halle and Chloe (devilrina)

What a beauty!

Pippi Longstocking! So dang cute and way easy and cheap. Thanks to Becki for the awesome idea! Grace loved it!

Pippi complete with Mr. Nelson. She told me she did not want to wear the eye patch because it made her look like a boy so I only had her wear it for pictures!

Fireman Gid. Yup same as last year. He wants to be a fireman when he grow up with his dad. He told me he will just stay in the fire truck though. Ha Ha.

Our three darlings! Sure love these kids.

OUR HAPPENINGS!

We let the kids paint pumpkins instead of carving (so they can do the work instead of me and Brian). Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Taylor for the pumpkins!

Gracie Did 4 diffrent faces on her pumpkin, one on each corner (er side). It looked awesome!

Halle's was very colorful!

We went to the pumpkin walk this year. This is Halle as Snow White (incidentally what she was for Halloweeen).

Gracerella!

Gid wanted to take a picture, this is is handy work. Good thing there is a strap on the camera!

Yoda Gid. To to cute

One of the pumpkin walk scenes. Since Gid and Grace have been thing 1 and thing 2 twice for halloween we took a picutre with Thing 1 and 2.

Gracie got a new dance costume! The total cost of this darling outfit....$2.00.

Best buddies, Hal and Hogan! We sure miss having this little guy around.

We Survived Jackson

We took a family vacation to Jackson this year! This is a trip the kids wanted to take and earned their star stickers for. 3 days, many hours in Sally, 1 pulled fire alarm and 1 stomach flu later I am glad to say we did survive! A family picture with some kind of waterfall in the background.

That mischevious grin says it all.

Another fun family picture with Halle doing everything but looking at the camera.

We saw a black bear!

A lot of buffalo. Most of them walking down the road!

This deer was by Sally at the motel when we were loading up one morning

A big bull. We did not hear a lot of them bugle-ing but it was awesome anyways

This is one of my fav's, check out the rack with all the cows surrounding him. These elk were just hanging out at the lodge. They were EVERYWHERE!

um, this would be the culprit of the pulling of the fire alarm. First night in the motel, the whole family in swimsuits and Grace did ANOTHER dumb dumb. Luckily we were next to the office and I had to run over and admit that my daughter pulled the fire alarm before the fire dept was called. I have to say they were super nice. She learned another lesson though. Even Halle would walk by a fire alarm after that and tell Grace "we no pull that Grace". The stomach flu was my dear husband. Luckily he picked it up as we got to the motel one night and it was gone the next morning. Poor guy.

This one crossed the road in front of us. It was a fun trip. Just need to go when it is warmer so we can get out and hike a bit.