Over the River and Throught the Woods...

Thanksgiving at Grandma Lois'...The kids and I went up to Grandma's house on wednesday to help with all of the baking. We made salads and some pies and the best of all...homemade cinnamon rolls. Everyone helped out, we ate lunch, and Sam and Brinley played non stop with Jessy (Grandma's dog).

The cinnamon rolls just need to rise!

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving day was wonderful and I got so full. My eyes have always been bigger than my stomach. Grandma Lois is the best cook ever and Thanksgiving dinner was delicious! Christie came up too, but Brooke and Daniel was with Glen this year. I hate it when they are not there, it never seems right with them gone. Matt and Tami and their family were there too and best of all...Grandma Thompson. I love having Thanksgiving up in Huntsville.

Grandma Thompson had a birthday on Wednesday, November 26. She turned 96 years old. She is the greatest Grandma ever. When Christie and I were little, we were so lucky to spend a lot of time with her. She taught us how to bake, garden, sew, read, and a lot more. I remember spending my sick days with her too, when Mom was at work and I was too little to stay home alone. I remember one time while I was sick, Grandma made me a Christmas train with graham crackers and frosting, gumdrops, candy canes and swirling life savors. She always made me french toast in the morning because it was my favorite breakfast. Christie and I would sleep over at her house a lot too. She would bake goodies and then have us deliver them to neighbors. She taught us how to embroider, made us quilts, we even quilted with her. Even now that she is 96, she still keeps herself busy embroidering on pillow cases and making monkeys for all of her great grand children! The thing that she has cherished the most throughout the years is her family. I am so greatful for my Grandma, she is a great example to me and I love her so much!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

I can't believe that it is Christmas time...I am so excited, I love this time of year. I've been tagged by Julie Dillman and it is a Christmas edition, just in time to help us get into the spirit of Christmas.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? for Christmas presents, definately wrapping paper!
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial
3. When do you put up the tree? the weekend before Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down? the week inbetween Christmas and New Years
5. Do you like egg nog? not so much
6. Favorite gift received as a child? skis
7. Do you have a nativity scene? yes, a few. I am hoping to inherit a navitity scene that my Mom painted some day!
8. Hardest person to buy for? My Dad
9. Easiest person to buy for? Sam and Brinley
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I mail Christmas cards but not every year!
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? none
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A Wonderful Life
13.Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? my Mom's cinnamon rolls
15.Clear lights or colored on the tree? both...clear lights upstairs and multi lights downstairs
16. Favorite Christmas song? Have a Holly Jolly Christmas or When Christmas Comes to Town
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We travel to all of the Grandparents house
18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Yes
19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning
20. Most annoying thing about this time of year? none
21. Favorite ornament theme or color? I don't know, I love it all!
22. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? Turkey or Ham.
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? Everyone to be happy
24. Who is most likely to respond to this? Stephanie
25. Who is least likely to respond to this? I am not sure

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas season this year. One that is enjoyable and relaxing! I am sending this tag to Stephanie, Kim, Tiffany, Donita, Mom, Christie and Marla!

My Bowling Team...

This year I decided to join the bowling league that Kim and others in the neighborhood have been on. It has been so much fun. It is something that I look forward to every week. I have the most awesome team too...

Kim and Char

Here's the next one...Sweetheart Tag: Answer questions about your sweetheart.

1. What is your husbands name? Steve

2. How long have you guys been married? Eighteen years. Wow! It will be 19 in June

3. How long did you date? 1 1/2 years or so

4. How old is he? OLD...44

5. Who is taller? Steve

6. Who can sing best? Steve, although I am the one singing all of the time.

7. Who is smarter? Steve

8. Who does laundry? me, Steve is not allowed in the laundry room because he will wash things and then forget that they are there!!

9. Who pays the bills? Steve

10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Steve

11. Who mows the lawn? Me, I love to be outside mowing the lawn. It is a great job to get done, because when it is done, it always looks so pretty.

12. Who cooks dinner? me

13. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Steve

14. Who kissed who first? Steve kissed me first. I was just to shy!!

15. Who wears the pants? I am not sure about that one, we both take our turn.

I've been tagged...

Question and Answer: Answer the following questions with one word answers and one word
only! Then pass it on to seven others. Here are the questions:

1. Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Your hair color? red
4. Your mother? hard-worker
5. Your father? funny
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? nothing
8. Your dream/goal? marathon
9. The room you’re in? kitchen
10. Your hobby? nothing
11. Your fear? storms
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? home
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you’re not? mean
15. One of your wish-list items? new carpet
16. Where you grew up? Huntsville
17. The last thing you did? laughed
18. What are you wearing? p.j.s
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? fat
21. Your computer? on
22. Your mood? happy
23. Missing someone? yes
24. Your car? dirty
25. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? target
27. Your summer? short
28. Love someone? family
29. Your favorite color? yellow
30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? last week

Hazen Pictures

Lyndsie had Hazen pictures taken with the clearfield cheer squad. She looked so beautiful...I just loved how the pictures turned out.

Sam

Sam brings a smile to everyones face as soon as he wakes up...One morning, after we had been toilet papered, Sam came up into our room early and said to me, "Mom, I have bad news...we've been P.G.ed!" I thought that it was so funny because what he really meant to say was T.P.ed. When we finally all got up to look outside, he was the first one out the door willing to help clean it all up. And it wasn't his friends that did it!

A Favorite Quote

I love this quote out of the October Ensign, Visiting Teaching Message...

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind...We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith"Margaret D. Nadauld

Halloween Night!

Everyone had a fun Halloween Night. They met at our house to go trick R treating. We had Anakin, dead football players, ninja's, and Pam and Angela from the t.v. show "The Office". When everyone was in their costumes, we went over to the Jardine's house for a neighborhood get -together to enjoy hot soup before the big night. Lyndsie and her friends (Tenille, Allen, Dalen, and Jeremy) took Sam around, while Brin and Gracie and friends just took off, and Sydnie's group was so well organized that they had the whole night planned. They came to our house after to play games and watch a movie. It was a wild night!

Our dead football players...Lexi Syverson, Brielle, Brinley, and Grace.

Anakin...Sam

The four Ninja's...Bridgette, Sara, Sydnie and McKenna

The Office Employees...Tenille and Lyndsie Allen is dressed as a dead female cheerleader!

Adams Family Halloween Party

Every year, Steve and I host a pumpkin carving party with Steve's family. It has become a fun tradition where we all have a pumpkin to carve, dinner to eat, and a movie to watch. We have scary halloween music playing and the kids seem to have a good time. We started this clear back when Lyndsie was the only grandchild on that side and we have been doing it ever since. Now we have Ben and Deanne's kids, and Matthew that make it a lot more fun for everyone. Check out our pumpkins...

This is Sam's Batman Pumpkin, he wanted to carve this

because he knows Lyndsie loves Batman.

This is Brinley's

This is Sydnie's...Lyndsie chose not to do one his year.(I guess she thinks that she is too old)

this is Roxy, our chubby beagle, she is just waiting for someone to drop a piece of food or candy...she wants to celebrate the holiday too!

At the end of the party, everyone sits their pumpkins on our front porch and we take a picture of every family. It is fun to see these pictures from year to year!

P.S...the extra is Allen

A UEA Football Game

Janine planned a neighborhood football game...it was so fun. We had a large group show up and we played flag football. Sam had a good time and so did Brinley. Lyndsie came too, but she couldn't play because of her spranged ankle, so she was our photographer. When Sam heard what we were going to do, he got so excited and ran upstairs to get his football gear on. He came down with everything, including the helmet...He was ready!

This is Brad, trying on Sam's helmet. Funny!

Sam kept stealing my flag, he thought it was soooo funny!


Here is a picture of Lyndsie's beautiful ankle. Doesn't it look awful? It is going to take a long time to heal and in the meantime...let's hope she doesn't hurt anything else...Competition is just around the corner!!

Let It Snow?

Wow, it is October 12 and we have snow. I can't believe it...the weather in Utah is so unpredictable! It was a beautiful sight to look out and see everything covered in snow and we didn't just get a little...we probably got about 4 inches. Our poor trees have not recovered from last years early so storm. So I asked Brinley and Sam if they would like to go out and shake the branches a little so the tree wouldn't droop so much. And of course, their answer was YES. They did what I asked and then built the cutest snowman.

Lyndsie

Some pursue happiness, others create it!

We love you Lyndsie

I can't believe it!! Sam hurt himself again! He was jumping on the trampoline, did a front flip and hit the metal bar with his little mouth. He had three significant cuts and I knew that they needed to be stitched up. Yikes. Two were inside of his mouth and the other was acrossed his lip. When the doctor saw it, he wanted to send Sam to a plastic surgeon but then decided that he would do it himself. He wanted to stitch it without any numbing medicine because it tends to puff up the skin and so he numbed it with an ice cube. Sam did not like it, not one little bit...it hurt! He got 4 stitces without any numbing, he was so brave. We came back home and guess what? The stitches popped loose and Sam had to go back to the E.R. to get more stitches. What a sad day!!