Thanksgiving Break!
We had a relaxing and fun break. Let me tell you it was hard to get back into the swing of things yesterday!! Maddie missed school because she was supposedly sick and we ALL slept in this morning, so Morgan missed seminary! Hopefully by Friday we'll all be back to normal. I just wanted to highlight a few of our activities the past few days..

Maddie at her Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast:

Our Turkey's that were cooked on the Tragger Grill, YUM!!!
Partaking of our fabulous meal:


Continuing on with our tradition (as of last Thanksgiving) buying the 25 cent mustaches after seeing a movie...
Eating leftovers at Grandmas the day after Thanksgiving, hanging out with cousins, and squeezing into the linen closet that they used to hide in ten years ago... Sad how fast time goes. All five of these girls squeezed into the closet just to reminisce about the good old times!
Last Saturday we went with several families in our ward to go cut down a Christmas tree in the National Forest. This year there was so much snow!!! We loved it! We had a huge snowball fight, made snow angels, and got our tree. It was great, it even snowed while we were there. We were all soaking wet and tired when we got home.

Now I am surrounded by Christmas boxes, laundry, and a dirty house. Yikes!!! I got my work cut out for me this week. Hope everyone had a great and blessed holiday!!

Drivers Permit!

It's official!! We now have another driver in the house, well almost. Morgan got her drivers permit last Friday! Yikes!!! We have been driving only twice so far but it's definitely an experience. She did fine, it's me that was nervous. One hour done, only 49 more hours of practice to go! Washington State has some strict guidelines in order to get your license by the age of 16. She has to take drivers ed. She actually has to show proof of being in a drivers ed class just to get her permit. And then she has to have 50 hours of practice and have her permit for 6 months before she can get her license. Once she's 16 and passes the test she can only drive with immediate family members in her car, no friends, for 6 more months! Heck when I got my license I did none of that! Not even Drivers Ed! It will be a fun year!

Halloween!

I was so LAME at Halloween this year!!! We didn't get ANY pumpkins let alone carve any!! Actually none of my kids' even asked about pumpkins or carving except for Morgan! I didn't take too much time on my costumes, and I almost forgot to buy CANDY!!! I guess since we did it "Big" last year I kind of wanted it be low key this year. I think having it on Sunday also effected my lack of enthusiasm! We did dress up for our ward party/trick or treating but that was IT! No other parties or festivities except for that. We went trick or treating around our neighborhood with other ward families on Saturday night. I took the girls around with the Youngs, Dustins, and the Zundels. Maddie was a cat:

Brinley was Fancy Nancy:Brooklyn and her friend Elizabeth were Vampires:Mason went trick or treating with some of his friends' dressed as a BYU Fan. They had fun, it was nice weather (no rain) and loved their trading session. That's it! See what I said about LAME...Oh well there will be year's like this sometime. And the kids still had fun, heck the only thing they care about is the candy anyway!