Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Well, yesterday. We went up to my aunt Marcia's house for dinner this year. She is the BEST cook! Her food is always delicious. There's always good company too. They have a putting green in their backyard and Park was having lots of fun putting around with Daddy.We took these family pictures for Scott's family calendar this year. I think this is the best one, and it wasn't even photoshopped!
After Marcia's we went to Grandma Chamberlain's house for pie. Kaylene was awesome and made banana cream, just because I asked for it! Thanks, Kaylene. We had a great time just chatting and getting to know Emily's Mom and brother (who is a fabulous violinist/fiddler). We are thankful to have family so close! We are especially grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ that gives us guidance and direction in our lives every day. Especially with all that goes on in the world, the gospel has brought us so much peace. We are very blessed!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PARK!

Park joined our family two years ago, yesterday at 4:05 p.m. His sweet disposition has been a great addition to our family. We love you, Park!
His party was really low-key. He had an awesome racecar cake and Grandma Chamberlain came, as well as Uncle Ross, Aunt Emily, Uncle Ned and Aunt Rachel.
Park got a bunch of cars and a couple of board books. He wouldn't even come and eat cake and ice cream because he was too busy playing with his cars.
Who needs cousins or friends for a party when you have uncles Ross and Ned?
Yes, the frosting on the cake turned teeth blue. Although it doesn't help that all Annicka ate was the frosting.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNICKA!

Four years ago yesterday at 8:24 a.m. a beautiful little girl was born into our family. Annie, we just want you to know how much we love you, and how glad we are that you are part of our family!I would have posted yesterday, but it was a crazy day trying to get things done and then cleaned up afterwards. So here are a select few of the pictures that we took yesterday at Annie's party.
Aunt Emily made Annicka's birthday cakes for her. Thanks, again, Emily! It was that much less I had to worry about and they turned out beautifully. Annie loved the real flowers on it.Tricky Aunt Emily gave her trick candles and it took blowing them out several times before they quit!

Getting Birthday kisses from Grandma Chamberlain.

Crazy Uncle Rob.
Even crazier Uncle Ross and Aunt Emily
Cousin Carter...he's SO mad!
Birthday presents! Oh, the excitement!

Out with the Old, In with the New

Well, yesterday we officially sold Scott's Grand Prix. Today we found a Kia Sedona for what we think is a great deal.It's a 2004 and has 36K miles on it. Thanks to Scott's job we were able to find a dealership in Ogden that had one and we were able to make an offer and had it accepted over the phone. They were trying to sell it for $12000. We said we could pay $8000 cash, out the door. And they did it! There's something to be said about buying large items when the economy is slow. When we got there this morning to go buy it we found that it had no seats and instead there was a wheelchair lift on it. They were as surprised as we were and they said they would get seats put in on Monday. We took the van home today and they'll deliver the seats on Monday to Scott's work. They still only charged us the $8000 so we were HAPPY!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The kids had a great day yesterday. In the morning they got to go trick-or-treating at aunt Maureen's work with their cousin Aaron. As you can see, Park was superman and Annicka was a fairy princess.



Last night they got to go trick-or-treating with their cousins, Mason, Matthew, Carter and Avery and uncle Rob and aunt Lori. As well as uncle Ned and aunt Rachel. They had lots of fun. It was surprisingly warm (for Halloween) despite the rain.

OUCH!

So, we were driving in the car on Sunday over to Grandma Chamberlain's house for her birthday. We were trying to decide what Annicka should say for her Primary program in a few weeks. Her part is "I am trying to be like Jesus by...(fill in the blank)". So I asked her, "Annie, what do you do to be like Jesus?" Her very matter-of-fact reply was, "I don't want to talk to you right now, mommy." OUCH!

Cornbelly's Maze

Well, yesterday Annicka had her first field trip! We went to Cornbelly's Maze at Thanksgiving Point. The kids had a BLAST. All for $3 a child we got to go on a "cow-ride", play on all kinds of playground equipment, including a giant jumping pillow, play in a "corn box" (which was basically a sandbox but instead of sand it was full of corn), do a corn maze (which we ended up skipping due to lack of time) and pick their own pumpkin from the patch to take home. We even took our neighbor Sam with us. He had a blast too.Here they are at the entrance.
All the kids from the preschool group, including everyone's siblings.
Annicka and Park with their pumpkins.

The "cow-ride".
The giant jumping pillow.
Playing on a train.