November 30th, 2008

We had a great Thanksgiving this year! Omar’s family all came, and we had a blast. Lots of spending time together and dancing and motorcycle riding and eating way too much!

I was nervous about making the dinner, but it all turned out great. Well, other than the fact I forgot to make the stuffing, but life goes on!

Thanks for coming guys!

November 25th, 2008

When Isaiah wakes up in the morning the first thing he does is get into my sock drawer, pick out a pair or two, and ask me to put them on. Well, first he tries to do it by himself, but that doesn’t ever seem to work out for him.

Then he slips and slides around the house until I get him dressed. If he notices them once he’s dressed he’ll ask to put them back on.

And for the record, it’s not that cold in our house in the morning!

A couple of days ago, while crusing socked up, he climbed into my shoe rack and couldn’t get out. I don’t know what he thought he was doing, but it was so funny.

I know, I’m a mean mom, but I had to leave him stuck and angry and grab my camera. Notice the socks…

November 24th, 2008

Tonight we got to do one of my favorite family night activities. We have a tradition in our family to create these silly turkeys each year and write what we are thankful for on the feathers. It’s a fun reminder of our blessing to see these hanging there as we walk by. Plus I get to feel crafty for a day.

Helaman was thankful for fruit (he wanted to write every kind of fruit he could think of, but we summarized), Family Home Evening, beans (got me!), and penguins. We were naming all kinds of things, but out of everything we named (his bike, his family) he was most thankful for penguins!

We all collaborated on what we thought Isaiah was grateful for. We chose cookies (he’s a junk food addict after Amanda’s own heart), Helaman said fruit, I said family, and daddy said toys–which Helaman felt was necessary to specify as his mobile.

Omar was grateful for our family, our house, Christmas, and motorcycles.

As for me, it’s hard to choose, I am so blessed. I chose to talk about my boys (Helaman loves to talk about how I love all my boys), books, rain–oh how I miss rain, and the beautiful earth.

Anyway, it’s silly, but fun. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

November 7th, 2008

It’s been an exciting week or so. We went to Gridley for Halloween and had lots of fun seeing all of our family. It was a fast trip, and we didn’t get to see everyone we wanted to… but it was still fun. Helaman was a little sad to come back and kept telling us he wanted to live in Gridley forever. But, I think he’s okay because today he told me he wanted to live here forever. Fickle kid!

Here’s the pictures from some of our latest adventures, Halloween with the cousins, preschool, cold days, and playing at the park with some friends this morning.