A quick catch up!

Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving was great! Shera and Ben and their boys came to our house for a week. This "lush" is Cannon (Shera's kid). He topped off the evening with a drink! haha!

My dad and his wife came over for dinner also.

I had to have a kid stand next to my beautiful, perfectly done, turkey, so I could appreciate it forever and ever. So Brig got the honor.

Dave cut the turkey, and ate 1/3 or it as he did so.

For a Personal Progress goal, Avory helped plan out the details of Thanksgiving dinner, and set the table. So we had to get a picture!

My pies turned out beautifully too. Avory is making the green bean casserole, an essential part of any good Mormon Thanksgiving dinner. (She looks thrilled!)

The kids took over the camera one day and captured these wonderful pictures of me and Shera! Nice, hah?

My Birthday: I turned 33 years old this year. (Not 6, as the candles portray!) Shera made me this fabulous mint ice cream cake to enjoy.

Halloween Night: Avory went as a girl from the 80's with her best friend Rylee Spencer. It was scary how much she looked like me in the 80's. It was easy to do their hair! It all came back to me....hair spray, tease, hair spray, and more hair spray!

Kelton was to cool to dress up as anything. So he just spiked his hair and put orange coloring in it!

Brynn-ie was a hobo. She reminded me of Pig Pen from Charilie Brown.

Brigham made an excellent mummy! He really got into it.

And Payton was the Little Mermaid. She made the perfect Ariel!

FHE: Pumpkin Carving!

Here's some fun pumpkin carving pictures. Here's Kelton intensely working on his carving. I was cleaning out a closet, thus the crap in the background. It looks like he's in a closet or something.

Here's Avory going at it.

Brynn and Brig, finished results.
The little girls were so proud!

So here's were it got a little gross. You have to take puke pictures of the guts.

After we were all grossed out about getting the pumpkin guts that close to our mouth, Dave had to go and eat some of it. He's SO weird and gross!

And what FHE isn't complete without the treats, made by Brig! Yummy!

My Girls Get Away

These are just some fun pictures of me and my 3 best friends, Kati Morris, Crissy Spencer, and Kylee Wilcox. Every year for Crissy's birthday, we get away for a weekend at the beach.

This year the weather was SO beautiful! (Poor Kati got cut out of this picture!) I'm trying to take the picture and still be in it. haha!

Maybe it was a bit windy, that's all.

This picture is of me in my new long hair. I found a clip-in hair piece (Jessica Simpson) that gives me my dream long locks of hair! I'm so excited!

The Great Wolf Lodge

Our family just got back from a FAB-U-LOUS time at the Great Wolf Lodge up in Centrailia, WA!It was all decked out for Halloween, thus the cemetry in the background. Kelton looks really excited, doesn't he!

Kelton cheezing out in front of the waterslides.

We had so much fun with the kids, swimming, riding on giant snakes (above), water-sliding, and hanging out with our friends!

Here's me and Avory posing for the camera, getting ready to go mess up our make-up and hair.

These are our husbands. They had too much fun going down this tube slide. The more weight the faster they went. Dave isn't in this picture....but he was on that ride plenty of times!

Here's my girls on our last day, taken some more pictures. The waterpark is right behind us in a seperate room.

Anyway, it was way fun!

Camping at Indian Henry

I love camping with my family. We had such a nice time together. The weather was PERFECT and I can't say enough good things about this camp ground, called Indian Henry, that we love to stay at. It's on the Upper Clackamas River in the Mt. Hood National Forest.

S'mores are a MAJOR tradition when camping, in our family. Avory created the BIG s'more. She ate it all too. I think Brig and Kelton ate 4 or 5 that night. That's the good thing about camping. You're always so hungry, everything tastes really good, and you go burn it off right after eating!

Brynn, Brig and Dave posing for pictures while hiking.

The kids found this fort already made down by the river.

Dave's eyes are dreamy.....as you can tell by the expression on my face....haha! (Love my camping face! :b)

Brig and Avory are my daring kids. They jumped off this rock into freezing water a few times. Notice in the background that the older boys behind them never jump! hahah! Kelton chose not to jump this day, but wants me to let everyone know that he did the next day.....LOL!

"Go Avory!"

Payton loved finding pretty rocks in the water. All of them were to special to leave there too. (Oye!)

A picture of my "Gang."

Me doing some cooking around the camp fire.

Dave is pretending to watch the coals in the barbaque next to him. He had a good book with him on this trip, the last of a triology. He never put the stupid thing down. Me and the kids harassed him the whole time about never doing anything with us, because he was reading. He gave me the "evil eye" as I took the picture. LOL! Isn't he scary?


Next time we go, we hope some of our friends or family can come with us! (Hunting pictures to follow this blog next week! )

PS- Happy 30th birthday Diane....you're getting so old!

My baby turns 4 years old!

My little Payton is growing up! She was so excited about her birhday! She thinks 4 is so big! I told her 4 year olds don't suck on their fingers, trying to get her to stop that habbit. (So far it hasn't worked.) I'd have to say that I'm a little happy my kids are growing up! I love the freedom that comes from all my kids being potty trained, talking, not having to take snacks, strollers, and diapers with us everywhere, and kids going to school during the day! Such a happy time in my life. Hehe!

Payton had this cool princess cake, and as my sister Maren said...."Yes, Payton, dreams really do come true!" She loved the cake!

Present time! (I could of fixed her hair before pictures, I guess.)

Oh good she loved it! Happy day!

I survived Girl's Camp 2008!

These are my Beavercreek girls! We had a good time this year. Lots of fun and very little drama! Always a good thing. Megan and I voted ourselves the HOTTEST camp leaders up at Camp Melacoma. We played make-up and hair one day while the girls were in certification. It was fun!

I tried archery. Look at that form! Too bad I couldn't hit the target!

Here is Avory's hair and McKenna Fox's hair before our skit. It had nothing to do with the skit. They just thought it was fun! Cool aye?

Bishop's Day: We had a hula hoop contest. I didn't do to bad! I still got it!
So we did have a little drama....oh no! A SNAKE! Scary! Taking a picture of her crying made her laugh though! haha!
Only one minor injury.....what?....it's okay......it's just a little flesh wound! haha! (It's not real. It was for 1st aid certification.)

So glad I'm done with camp. Now I can focus on the rest of my summer!