Christmas Tree

Hyrum loves to help his dad and do projects.  Using the power drill is his absolute favorite, but a handsaw will do in this case.  

I love this picture of the girls.  My oldest and youngest babies with blue eyes.  Gabby is a wonderful sister.  She is always helpful and compassionate.  

Sharing wishes and dreams with Santa.

LaurieAnn is my sweet and sassy girl.

Hard to believe everyone is smiling without photoshop!  Just proves my kids are growing up.

Mayflower Ships

 The kids LOVE doing crafts during any free time they have.  We got the art supplies out and painted Mayflower ships to celebrate Thanksgiving-and keep them busy during the break. They painted the ocean with several colors of blue, white and gray.  They each painted the sky a different "time of day"  Then we added the handprints and sails. 

It is fun to watch them grow up and understand the beginnings of Thanksgiving more. Hyrum was very curious about Squanto and the Indians.  The girls are always thankful-especially Gabby.  She filled the Thanksgiving tree with leaves this year doing about 4x as many as everyone else.

Flyfishing Getup

Doug went fly fishing for the first time.  He turned to the pro with all the getup needed for the adventure-who else?  My dad.  

Muscle Man

Halloween and Pumpkin Carving

Halloween is was fun for the kids this year.  They loved shoveling the goop from their pumpkins and estimating how many seeds each pumpkin had inside.  (We never confirmed.)  

Gabby dressed up like a witch, Hyrum was a ghost, LaurieAnn was a princess-of course! 

And Eloise was a ladybug.

LaurieAnn is 4!

It was all princess at our house!  LaurieAnn turned four and was thrilled to have a celebration for herself.  She wanted a rainbow cake, so I made cupcakes with 6 different colors of batter and used skittles to make rainbows on the top.  They turned out cute.

She was thrilled with her new booster seat, so she can be a big girl and sit in the "way back" of the suburban.  She also loves her new fleece blanket to snuggle with at night that she got from Grandma.