Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great in our family. We were able to spend Sunday night with my brother's family, my Mom and my Aunt at my Mom's new condo. I'm so grateful that the move is mostly behind her now for her sake. I know that it's harder than I can comprehend to move from a place you've lived in for so long. Here's a picture taken at her condo of the Utah grandkids.


I'm glad that I was able to take the day off of work and spend the whole day with Matthew the day before Thanksgiving. Dave's parents were really nice and watched Allison for me so I could take Matthew to an eye appointment with a specialist and volunteer at his school without having to worry about her too. Matthew has one eye that is pretty much blind and he does need glasses, but there is no disease in his bad eye, which is definitely something to be grateful for. Matthew had a fun feast at school on Wednesday that I was able to help with and they all made cute costumes to wear. They all sat in a circle and told their teacher things that they were grateful for. It turns out, the things that they are grateful for are the same things that I'm grateful for: Family, friends, our country, a warm house, Jesus, a healthy body, and toys.

Matthew's class:
Matthew in his indian costume:

Thanksgiving morning I woke up early and went with some friends from my neighborhood and did a 5K. No, I didn't run...walked the whole thing, but it was really fun and helped me justify all the yummy Thanksgiving food. :) Dave's family was mostly out of town this year and my Mom went up to Bear Lake so we ended up going out to eat with Dave's parents and my brother & SIL. We then went up to their house for a little while.

I bought Allison a hat a few months ago and she FINALLY agreed to wear it on Thanksgiving. She also actually let me take a quick portrait of her in our garage right before we left for our Thanksgiving lunch. It was pretty tricky not to get the cars in her background, but it worked and she smiled!
I hope that you all have had a great Thanksgiving weekend (despite the crappy ending to the Utah/BYU game). I still say 'Go Utes!'

Halloween

I'm not much of a fan of Halloween for adults, but I love it for kids. Our kids had so much fun this year with a few Halloween parties and trick-or-treating. Matthew was in the parade at his school; I video taped it and was going to post it on this, but I still haven't downloaded it. I figured I better post Halloween without it since it's almost Thanksgiving. :)

Our street gets NO trick-or-treaters for Halloween. We know because we left full size candy bars on our doorstep this Halloween and they were all there when we got home. We went trick-or-treating with some neighborhood friends on their street and Allison was trying really hard to keep up with the bigger kids. She was running the whole time saying, 'Wait for me Emily!'. Emily is 8 and Allison adores her. Emily was really sweet and waited with her and when Emily was done, Allison was ready for more. Dave took her down another whole long street and she was still going strong. I think she could have done it all night. Matthew on the other hand was WAY too tired to keep going, even for candy.