Montana was Great Again!

Our Thanksgiving was such a blast. We headed to Montana and entered a winter wonderland! I love Tom's parents home. They have the wood stove so it's nice and cozy. They also have these nice big windows to look out over the fields of snow. I would say it snowed 90 percent of the time we were there. But it was the picture book snow, light fluttery snow. It's really picture perfect. Just to snuggle up on the couch, with the wood stove burning and a mug of cocoa.....we loved it.

We played lots of games and the women did crafts. We took family pictures. Thanksgiving night we stayed up all night playing games and then headed to Walmart then on to Target and Best Buy for Black Friday deals. I was low on sleep but well worth it!

I posted many pictures some I took some Samantha took.

Tom's whole family. So awesome!

Trey and cousin Nora swinging. These two are just a few months apart in age and good little buddies

Papa (Tom's Dad) He is goofy but mostly the best grandpa ever. Our kids adore him!

One of the newest additions to the family - McKay

Nora being photographed by Samantha

A view from inside the house, so lovely. I love this large great room!

All the dads making a huge snowman

The finished snowman

The little boy cousins playing on their daddies' lap tops

Tom and the boys

Seth

The boys playing in the snow

Tom , Sadie and I

Some of the girls and Cash. Leah (in the purple) celebrated her 9th birthday on Thanksgiving. She got matching Pjs for herself and her doll from grandma

Tom and his siblings. Tom is second oldest.

Darling girls!

Sadie loving the sledding. She definitely is a December baby.

Sledding

Chip, Melissa and Cash (Their other son was already asleep)

All the grandkids!

I love Roadshows

The secret is out. I do love Roadshows. This year was the second year in a row that Tom and I had the delightful opportunity of working on the ward roadshow. This year's format was a little different. It was a 24 hour roadshow which means writing the script, rehearsal and performance all in 24 hours. We combined with the 6th ward. Friday night Tom and I wrote the script while Bonnie from the other ward wrote silly lyrics to Deck the Halls and Popcorn Popping. The storyline was based on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It was fun and the cast was great!!

Brotherly Love II

Brotherly Love

Brothers! So awesome. Best of friends and worst of enemies. Just minutes before this picture they were fighting and balling like babies. Now they sit happily watching Sonic, their fave right now. I love when they make up and decide it's more fun to be pals.

Birthday Follow Up

Seth getting ready to blast his Transformer pinata.

Happy Birthday Seth. He loved having all his cousins at the party. Thank you for coming especially those who traveled extra far. Seth felt very loved!!

Holding Out

I have had these pictures in my hot little hands for almost 2 months now. I love them! My sis in law, Kyla, took these before they moved to Pennsylvania. I have just been cherishing them, trying to decide how to display them in our home, and cherishing them some more. Anyways I finally felt like it was time to reveal them to the blog world.









I still have more pictures that I'm using on our Christmas card that I haven't revealed so watch for our card in the mail!!

What We're Up To

Today is such a special day it's birthday time for you.....Today is the much anticipated birthday of Seth. He's 5. We had a ring count down and everything. He can't wait for 4 pm for his party.
Happy Birthday Seth!

Other happenings. I checked our camera and found some photos the kids took. Here is Samantha playing with her cousin Leah.

I took this picture of Sadie, showing her new moves of standing up by herself.

Cute & cute
If you notice Seth is missing a tooth. His side front tooth was dead and pretty much crumbled so he had to have it removed. Because he did a great job at the dentist Tom bought him this racetrack. hours of fun.

The boys eating pizza in the Suburban. Hot n' Ready got to love it.

As promised

The kids in costume. So fun, so adorable.

Only bought one out of the four costumes. Lovin' that. We went to the trick or treat at the mall. We beat the rush by going in the back door. It was great ! In and out in 20 mins.

At the neighbor's house.

Seth's preschool singing Halloween songs

This picture was taken the day before, actually two days before Halloween. Here in Utah we all celebrated Halloween on Saturday the 30th. Saturday it rained.