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Christmas Trees

I was hoping that putting up the Christmas decorations would get me in the spirit of Christmas but so far no luck so I thought we would go check out the trees at the college, and go to the Planetarium show about the Christmas star. That should get us in the Christmas spirit right!?! I am the last to say that I am ready for some snow! I think that will be the key to making it feel more like Christmas. For now, I guess all of my tactics will just have to do. We will decorate a gingerbread house for FHE and I am banking on that to get me a little closer. For now Bah hum bug!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving this year was with my Mom's side of the family. Since we were gathering as a larger group we decided to hold it at Gringos. It turned out very nice and it was fun seeing the family again. Gigi and Shaylee meeting for the first time. Rico, Scott, Brandon and Logan eating the grub. Mom, Dad, Aunt Evelyn and Mark(y)--we used to call him Marky as kids so I have a hard time not saying that now that he is an adult. Aunt Pat's Family and Gigi Kelli, Shane, Shaylee and my kids with Aunt Gail's family in the background.

Water is Blind

We had a Thanksgiving dinner Sunday with Scott's family and Grandma Ricks was filling Brigham's glass with water. He looked into his glass and said "water is blind" and Grandma and I both looked at him and asked why and he said "because you can't see it" I guess that makes perfect sense to a three year old. I got a kick out of it.

3 Year Old Dilemas

Brigham came to me today with a big dilema. "I can't draw" he says with a very defeated tone. So I proceed to tell him I would teach him how to draw. His picture of choice was a person with a backpack on so I showed him how if you use shapes and lines and put them together it will create a person. He makes an attempt (see the scribbles)comes back, not too happy once again. We go over the concept again. This time we draw Briggy with his underwear on since that is all I see anymore (I can't keep clothes on the kid). He does not like that I drew the undies but oh well. A few hours pass and Briggy finally gets a picture he is proud of. (I did help him a little but it didn't seem to phase him) He drew the shoe laces all by himself. Good Job Briggy!

I am officially counting down my days until the Celine Dion Concert next Friday in SLC. Last year at the company Christmas party a few of us were talking about how fun it would be to have a girls weekend and go. Darci bought tickets a few days later and Ashley, Kassie, Darci and I are lucky to get to go. Darci and Kassie just had babies so we decided to bring our husbands along so they could babysit. (How thoughtful are we). I am still leaving my kids home (with supervision) so that we can get some Christmas shopping done without having to hide toys under a coat when the kids are with us.

Halloween

Here are the pictures of our Halloween fun. We started out the day at Haylee's classroom party. We made fun skeleton cupcakes to bring for all of the kids the night before. All of the kids in Haylee's class looked so cute! We decided to make life easy and go to the ward trunk-or-treat and then just visit the Grandparents and call it a day. Luckily we didn't have any other lavish plans because Brigham ended up throwing up at my parents house (sorry Mom). We went straight home and I spent the rest of the evening, all through the night dealing with Brigham and Haylee throwing up all night. Scott left on a campout to go hunting today so I was stuck with trying to be with both of them at once. It is hard to cuddle two kids who want their mommy. I would spend a little time with one wait til the other wined and go be with them and played musical kids all day. Needless to say, I am exhausted and still get to put a few hours of work in yet tonight. Ugh! Hope everyone else had a better Halloween. P.S.-Over eating on candy was not a factor in their being sick. The poor kids haven't even touched their buckets yet. I will keep my fingers crossed that the rest of us don't end up sick.