Annual Thanksgiving Turkeys

A few years ago I started something that I didn't think would actually continue, but now my kids won't let me forget....no matter how much I want them to. :) Just kidding, it's fun, just a lot of work. I make sugar cookie dough and we make sugar cookie turkeys for Thanksgiving. I make many different colors of frosting and we frost our turkeys. So fun!!!

This is serious business!

Aren't they so cute? You can see each individual personality in the turkey each person makes.

Finished products

And hooray! I don't have to make sugar cookies until next Thanksgiving!!! :)

At the Lake

In late October we went for a drive and ended up at one of our favorite local lakes. It was cool, but fine with a jacket. The evening light made everything look so pretty. We had fun throwing rocks into the lake and running races in the sand.

Of course we needed some pics!!

Here are our cute kids!! Getting soooo big!

The fam!

We had a lot of fun! Now we can't wait to go back when it's warm and sunny!!

Playing Catch Up #1

Okay, so how far behind am I if it's now January and I'm blogging about last Halloween??? Yeah. Really far behind. Call it a New Year's Resolution. I'm going to keep up on my blogging. Last October we went to the local pumpkin patch. So fun!!

I love this pic of my cute kids!!

I love it when strangers offer to take our family pic if we take theirs. You can see the very large pumpkin patch behind us. We got some really good ones. And we loved the hayride!

They have a lot of fun activities. The kids love this little train. Me.....not so much. It scares me to death! The teenagers that drive it go so fast and are crazy.

Yes, that is TJ and the kids (below) feeding a llama. They loved it.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

I promise I will do better this year!!

Brenden's Baptism

Brenden's Baptism!!!

Doesn't he look so handsome?

Brenden and Mom

Brenden and TJ

I don't know what was so funny, but the picture sure turned out cute because of it!

Congratulations Brenden! We are so proud of you! You are a wonderful kid. You are smart, loving, happy, and so fun to have in our family. We love you!

Alyssa Rides A Bike!!!

Yay!!! Alyssa can ride her bike without training wheels!

All thanks to Justin, of course! I didn't do one thing. He ran up and down with her for.....

ONE DAY!

Yep, she had it (pretty much) after one day!

Good job Alyssa!

Thanks Justin! Now Kate has a little more room in the trailer when we go for bike rides. So fun!

Summer Vacations! (aka Picture Overload)

Bear Lake with Justin's Family

The lake is really full this year so you can walk out forever and still touch. The kids loved it!

We couldn't get them out of the water...especially this one (see below)

I keep telling her she's a mermaid. She LOVES the water!

Ahhhhhhh!!!! Sticky Monster! I seriously just had to take her to the spigot and give her a bath. She loved every bite though!

Jackson with Monica's Family

Out on the boat....love it!

Driving the boat with Grandpa. So fun!

The little team! Luckily we didn't get dunked because Alyssa (can you see her face???) would have freaked.

The bigger team did get dunked but had a blast.

TJ got to surf!!! Thanks to Uncle Logan he was able to have fun surfing behind Tyson and Lyndsey's boat. He loved it, thanks Uncle Logan!!!

And thanks to Uncle Dustin, Brenden got to surf as well!! You can't tell, but he really was having fun! Thanks Uncle Dustin!!!

This was definitely a highlight! Future dentist Uncle Logan did his first extraction and pulled out Brenden's first tooth on his 8th Birthday!! What a birthday present, right??? He was SO happy!!

TJ and Justin went fishing, of course, and caught another 20 fish or so! That is the best fishing spot!

I could look at this picture all day, I love it!!!

I love this one too! What a sweetheart. She is quite the trooper. She Loves camping and the water! She has no fear and will jump into that freezing water and swim away.

My sweetie! Love you!!

Are there water princesses?? I think so!

The swimmers.

As you can see we had a lot of fun this summer. Lots of sun and water (once July finally came)! Thanks to our families for some fun vacations!! Hopefully we can do it all again next year!

Here is a video of TJ and Logan surfing. Sorry it's sideways.