Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope that you all have a wonderful holiday and that you get to eat lots of pies, turkey, and food!

Fun pictures by the pond.

One of the better pictures...almost everyone is looking (CHARLOTTE!!! ha ha)

I loved Charlotte looking out at the water.

Mike, Kecia, London, Cade and Cole came!

Mike's family came out to Utah for Thanksgiving! They were able to come and visit us for one night before heading out to Kecia's sister in Pleasant View for the actual Thanksgiving holiday. We had such a fun time and are grateful they took time out to just visit us. We love them so much and I know Charlotte and Jack had an especially fun time. Here are some pictures of the 24 hours they were here!!!

I seriously love this shot...just a candid shot of how much fun Cade, London and Cole have together.

Cole was so funny. He told us that Charlotte is his best friend, that he wants a gas tank (Charlotte's g-tube) and Charlotte's walker. He says the funniest things!!! What a crack up.

Kecia doing the motherly thing and playing with the kids at the park.

We tried to get this family shot for them...but all chaos broke loose! The camera lost battery, kids wanted to climb trees and it was way too bright. But thought it was funny anyway!

Mike carrying CHARLOTTE to the car. She really warmed up to him.

Mike and Jack.

Charlotte and Cade.

Charlotte just climbed right up to Cade on the LoveSac and snuggled up.

Charlotte pretending to sleep!

Charlotte took a real liking to all the kids, especially Cade. She would let him hold her. I nice break for me! But she followed Cole around and played with London too. It was so nice to have cousins for her to play with and that they wanted to be with her. I can't wait until Becky's kids come and play with Charlotte too.

Gotta add some funny photos.

I do not know how London can make that face! I am not that coordinated.

Mmmm. Food.

This one is of Charlotte eating whipped cream from a can!

Jack's first time in the exersaucer.

I can't believe Jack is stable enough to get into the exersaucer. Of course he just sits there but he looks so good! Yay for you Jack!

Charlotte's Thanksgiving School Feast!

Charlotte's school had a Thanksgiving Feast on the last day of school before the Thanksgiving holiday. The week before we learned all about the foods we ate, turkeys, read stories etc. so that we could prepare them for this upcoming Thanksgiving.

All the kids about to enjoy the food.

Charlotte made this pilgrim hat. She also mad an Indian/Turkey one and a necklace. She looked so cute!

Charlotte ate the mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, beans, roll and turkey! Some more than others but she tried them all.

Charlotte giving hugs!

Don't you wish that BOTH kiddies will look at the camera?

Family Picture

I decided to post "the one" as our header! Hope you all like it.

Dave, Stacy and Emily

My oldest brother, Dave, called me on Tuesday night and said that he and Stacy (his wife) were coming to Utah. They said they just decided to do it spur of the moment. They took Emily (who is 3 weeks older than Jack) so that she can meet Stacy's parents who live in Orem. Her parents aren't able to travel far anymore so they wanted to come out to see them. How awesome! So, Dave and Stacy and Emily came up on Friday afternoon. We were able to see each other for a few hours and of course enjoy a nice dinner at Olive Garden! YUMMY. I just love that place. I'm sad that they weren't here for a longer amount of time but am so grateful they traveled up here 2 hours by car for a 3 1/2 hour visit. I am so thankful for my brother Dave. He was in Iraq in 2007. He served in the hospital as an Army Dr. I am so proud of him. I honor him and am so thankful that he has survived the many dangers and close calls that he endured (and I literally mean close calls). He is such a great brother. All of my siblings are amazing to me and I am thankful for each and every one of them. I'm one lucky girl to have 5 incredible siblings.

Another family photo (not the one I was talking about! lol). Yay!

Me and Dave!

Needed to have a funny picture, right?

Jack and Dave. Dave was amazed how big Jack was. Had to hand him off to Wade cause he was such a "tank"!

Me and Emily. She's so cute!

She gives these cute facial expressions! They're so funny. Here's one of them : )

And of course, Charlotte had to immediately get close to Emily. Another baby doll to play with.

I forgot to get Jack and Emily together and of course one of Stacy. But at least I've got these ones.

Family Picture Day!

Yay for us! After a disappointing appointment at the Wal-ma-part's Picture Me Photo studio, we decided instead of paying 20 bucks for a family picture that we didn't like at all, we'd go out and try it on our own. For free. Granted, we don't have the best camera (maybe Santa will get one for me!) but we did it anyway. And with Wade's great remote control skills, we got a lot of family pictures! This picture, of course, didn't work out. But out of the 50 we have ONE AWESOME picture!!! (well, the best one that the kids looked okaaaaay in) I'll post that one later. Until then, you get this not so great one. ha ha ha ha. Just makes me laugh everytime I see it. And we took about 10 of them until we decided to check on the pictures. Don't we feel silly?!!

More cute pics of Charlotte

So, Charlotte decided that she wanted to get in this box! She was meticulously peeling the packing tape off of it. And then she was telling me she wanted to get in. I think she was remembering her time with Ma pushing her around in a box. It was funny. Charlotte's been doing incredible things lately. Today, she was standing next to me when we were in sacrament meeting and then all of a sudden I looked over at her and she got herself up on the pew all by herself! She's been getting up on the couch today several times as well. Go Charlotte! She's really progressing. And Jack, he's just as cute as ever! Can't believe he's 3 1/2 months old.