Fun Times

Sadie turns 1

35 Reasons I Love My Man

Tom's birthday was Monday the 13th!
Happy Birthday!
Here are 35 reasons why I love my Man~

1. He's Worthy
2. He's strong
3. He does dishes
4. He eats "Phish food" ice cream with me
5. He's hot
6. He makes me laugh
7. I can be myself and he loves me
8. He listens to my ramblings
9. He can figure out how to fix anything
10. He's the father of our children
11. He's got great parents & siblings
12. He plays the wii with the kids
13. He does things I ask him to do
14. He's awesome at sports
15. He's tall
16. He works hard
17. He reads to the kids
18. He helps Samantha with her homework
19. He sings to the kids at bedtime
20. He sings in the church choir
21. He's very patient
22. He listens to my worries and fears
23. He listens to my joys and happiness
24. He's from Montana
25. He reads the scriptures
26. He's an awesome teacher
27.He has a great sense of humor
28. I feel safe with him
29. He plays silly games with the kids
30. He owns a slow plow truck named Gene
31. He warms up the car for me
32. He takes care of the children so I can go shopping
33. He serves
34. He takes all the herbal remedies I give him
35. Because he is who he is!

Oh Yeah, Little Hands

How quick I forget what fun Christmas trees are to little ones that crawl. She is into everything. Pulling things off the tree, clearing out cupboards and unraveling toilet paper. She was so darling checking out the Nativity. She got real close and looked it over touching all the figurines.

The advent calendar from Grama is a morning delight.

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!!