12-0 Baby!!!

Last night was the Big Game, the Holy War. Well the Utes prevailed. And now we're headed to a BCS bowl game. Yeah!!! We had a fun time watching the game at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We love watching the game with the Truman's- that has become a tradition of sorts. Tim is neither a BYU or Utah fan, so this year he showed up wearing red, but underneath he wore his BYU wins t-shirt. HA!

This week was really nice for November. We tried to take advantage of that. These are a few pictures taken at the park. I love the way the playground is a light source for taking pictures- they are so bright and cheery. Thursday we went to the Zoo. When we left for the Zoo there wasn't a lick of wind, but at the Zoo there were 50 mph winds. Apparently they was canyon winds from Emigration and Parleys Canyons.

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Finally- a moment to myself...

yes, it is after 11:00 and the kids are finally asleep. Eva has not been sleeping very well, so I'm going to make this brief, or else I won't get any sleep. Lately, JJ has been into fishing. He makes the couch into a fishing boat, he'll get anything in sight and put it on his "boat". He also pretends to reel things in with his hanger (or fishing pole). JJ will play fishing for hours. And when he's not fishing he goes "campinger". He found a corner in our front room, fills it with pillows and all sorts of crazy objects and pretends to go to sleep- fake snore and all. Then he insists that you go campinger with him. It's fun for a little kid, but when you are about the size of the corner he's put you in, you loose the appeal. I love his imagination, so I roll with it as best I can. :) Well time for bed!!!

Go Utes!

Last week was very busy for me. I've been playing church volleyball, and our regional tournament was tuesday thru thursday. I'm sad to say that we lost, but we had so much fun. Spencer was kind enough to watch the kids every night. Thursday the Utes played TCU, and he took the kids out to Grandma and Grandpas house to watch the game. I got them dressed up in red, so those are the pictures for this week. Saturday we had Thanksgiving with the Pratt Fam. YUM! Thanks for all the hard work Shauna. The best part is we still have 3 more Thanksgiving dinners to come!

They all fall down!!!

We don't have a single tree in our backyard, however you wouldn't know that by the amount of leaves we get in our backyard. I hate cleaning up the leaves. But every fall I have to remind myself what a blessing they are. Our backyard is pleasant, even on the hottest days of summer, because of the abundance of shade. Not to mention what the trees do for the environment. This year was exciting because JJ enjoyed helping rake the leaves. It was fun to see him play in the leaves, despite the mess it made.

For Halloween we went trick or treating with cousin Lily. The kids had so much fun, I think the best part for them was yelling Trick or Treat.

Today we went to my families annual Halloween Party, which was also our monthly birthday party. October is especially heavy with birthdays, there are seven birthdays in October. So Happy Birthday to Jamie, Didi, Italia, Taylor, Emily, Mason, and Jon. For our October party we always dress up and the kids get to go trick or treating around Grandma's house. It's become a favorite family tradition. The kids got to wear their costumes early, JJ is a cowboy and Eva is an Indian.

JJ likes to share his toys with Eva- I was excited that I actually caught a picture of it.

This week Eva got her first ear infection, and as Spencer would say she "found her thumb", yep she's been sucking her thumb. I'm not at all surprised, she comes from a line of thumb suckers. Daddy was a thumb sucker, Mommy was a thumb sucker, and Brother is a thumb sucker. We started talking to JJ about not sucking his thumb, I guess we're laying the ground work for operation no more thumb. JJ has done so well with potty training, he hasn't had an accident in two weeks!!!

Evenful...

This week was very eventful, some things more exciting than others. Monday night we carved a pumpkin, that was fun, but Spencer ended up doing it all by himself. JJ doesn't really like to get messy, so he wouldn't help remove the insides of the pumpkin, he only wanted to help cut it. Tuesday I had a dental procedure done called an apicoectomy. What is an apicoectomy?
In this procedure, the endodontist opens the gum tissue near the tooth to see the underlying bone and to remove any inflamed or infected tissue. The very end of the root is also removed. I was out all day- thanks to Shauna for being with the kids! Part of my lip and chin are still numb- I'm not sure that is normal. Wednesday I went to my Mom's house, she's been helping me can food the last few years, she taught me how to can pears- yummy! Thursday the kids and I went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. That was so much fun and the weather was perfect. Friday we went to the Fire Station, that was fun- the fire fighters got a call just as our tour was ending, so we got to see them in action- pretty cool. This morning we went up to Snowbird and road the Tram, that was fun, but what I really enjoyed was seeing the fall leaves- so beautiful!!! I thought about a book JJ has called Frederick and how these mice store up food for winter. One of the mice stores up memories and he helped the other mice get through the cold, tough winter by describing to the others what he had seen and felt in the fall. So as we were driving down the canyon I took a picture to remind me.

First Snow, First Giggles!!!

This morning we woke up to the first snow of winter. Of course it was a lot less than fore casted. JJ had fun playing in it, but he was disappointed that it melted. I like the snow, I just don't like the 20 degree days, followed by inversion- not looking forward to that. When it snows I can't help but think that Christmas is upon us, and JJ's birthday. JJ will be turning 3 this years, my how time flies. Eva is getting so big. She started giggling this week. It is the cutest thing, I just laugh and laugh and she'll smile and eventually let out a giggle. I think my kiddos are so cute!!! Just look at those beautiful blue eyes. :)