Everyday Moments November

Nana Manwill has been teaching the kids to play the piano. She comes over every Tuesday and they are doing great!

Math night at school - Spencer and I were both in charge of stuff and it was crazy but fun!

Reflections entries were also on display at Math Night. Both kids won awards.

Lucy even got two - one for each of her entries.

Spencer's brother, Dennis, and some of his family came for a short visit. The kids loved having them here.

Katie and I went to Pinners Conference for a day and had a great time!

These two are quite the pair!

Hanging out at Grandpa Mac's.

I loved this little outfit - it just screams '90s to me. :)

Shoe shopping with the big one. :)

Oh yeah! I need these shoes. Yeah right!

Ended up having the Relief Society activity at my house and it was lots of fun - a hot chocolate bar and social.

With my handsome man.

At Lucy's book club at the library.

My book club - at a hotel! It was fun and out of the ordinary.

Playing Star Wars with Daddy.

Fun, crazy kids!

Brave Daddy putting up Christmas lights.

At Boondocks for cousin Zach's birthday party.

She got a ton of tickets!

Playing air hockey with this cutie!

At a playgroup with her buddies. She's made some great friends at school.

Putting up our thankful tree.

I got to help out with the Thanksgiving celebration in kindergarten.

Bundled up at the park during the Turkey Bowl.

Decorating the table runner for Thanksgiving at Grandpa and Nana Mac's house.

Tada!

Fun stuff with whipped cream.

A whipped cream beard!

She loves her "meows."

First snow of the year.

We're expecting! Baby is due July 19.

Went up to Logan for the baby blessing of some family friends - the Gauses.

The kids loved reconnecting with their friends. :)

Trimming the Tree

 Our family's Black Friday tradition is to clean the house top to bottom and then decorate for Christmas.

This year we split it up a bit and did the basement on Wednesday and the rest on Friday.

It made for a less exhausting Friday and the kids had lots of fun decorating.

Everyday Moments October

This pretty well sums up how I feel about October. :)

October 1st I hosted BUNCO at my house. It was super fun!

The next day was a day off and we had the genius idea to go to Thanksgiving Point. So did everyone else! It was crowded but we got Sam to go on the rope bridge so that was a success.

It was cloudy and threatened rain so outside was a bit calmer.

My monkey!

It's funny how much my kids love teeter totters!

The next day Spencer and I attended the afternoon session of General Conference. It was great and historic - they announced 3 new apostles but we were late getting in so we missed it.

Church in our jammies!

Eliza hanging out with Mom at the school. She needed her backpack, just like big brother and sister.

Playing outside. :)

Eliza's hair is crazy. I found a new hairdo that keeps it a little bit in control.

Playing with her buddy Rory.

Shopping with Mom at Old Navy. She loved this "woof!"

I hosted book club this month.It was our 10th anniversary so I held a birthday party. :)

The stacks of books are all books we've read in the past.

Our turn to clean the church!

Hanging out at the Jordan River.

And playing on the playground.

My handsome boy.

My bats!

Eliza hanging out with her buddy Ella at the school playground after their big brothers went to school.

Feeding the ducks at Gardner Village after family pictures.

Cool wall at Gardner Village.

Every year they had a witch display there but this year the kids were more interested in the pirates.

Arg! Matey!

My witch and devil.

Her head didn't quite fit! 

Dentist appointment! Only 1 cavity between the three of them!

On our way back from visiting my grandparents, we decided to go out for dinner to Texas Roadhouse. It was delicious!

My latest crafty project. :)

Sometimes the cloud and the mountains are just amazing. I love the view out our back door.

Playing trains with Sam.

Lucy had her friend Brittany over for a play date and they had fun with the board games.

Lucy discovered Battleship and it's now her favorite game. 

Eliza sat on the potty for the first time! Yay! She's been gaining more words from her speech therapy and said "potty" so I sat her on it. It was adorable. Hopefully we'll get her potty trained soon.

Found this assignment of Sam's while volunteering in his class. Isn't it adorable?

Another night out - this time to Zupas. Man, I love that place!