COOKIE PARTIE FOR SANTA

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Every Christmas my sister-in-law Tamara has a super awesome cookie party were the kids make cookies for Santa it really sets the mood for Christmas and gets the kids amped for Santa to come.

cookie party

my brother came in town from Utah for thanksgiving. so i thought it would be fun to throw a cookie decorating party. Logan cracks me up because for him the object of the game was to see how much sugar he could pile on his cookie. Brigs the opposite he would rather it looked nice.

Thanks giving

sorry i am the worst blogger ever i have the hardest time trying so keep up. Anyway this is my thanksgiving. Sara Williams and I had been working hard for the Turkey trot this year and we didn't do to bad. we finished in about 55 min. I had never run a 10-k before so this was fun. I really liked it. my favorite picture is the one were i am running my fastest and the guy next to me is pushing his double stroller and not straining himself at all. Ha Ha!! I'm funny. we also had dinner at both in laws houses and made a couple trips to the park over our thanksgiving vacation.

BRIG’S BITHDAY PARTY

Two months ago I asked Brig what kind of birthday party he wanted for his 5th birthday and with out hesitation he told me that he wanted it at Home Depot. That got me thinking. I knew that they had some sort of craft day ever so often and I wondered if they would let me incorporate a party in to one of them some how. So I went down to The Home Depot and some how convinced them to do just that. On November 1st we threw Brig his very own Home depot birthday party. The kids made leaf presses and had cake in the brake room. It was actually fun and a 5 year old's dream come true.

Yes i did make the cake and yes it did take me 2 or 3 days. I'm awesome!!

I asked Brig what his favorite part was and he told me that it was the presents but I think that the fork lift was a close second.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIG!!!!

Halloween

This Halloween was so much fun. Brig and Logan crack me up! They always pick the funniest things to be on Halloween with the exception of Brig's second choice to be a halo character. They never have any kind of desire to be a super hero or anything a normal kid would want to be, but instead, opt for the more odd or creative out fit. If you know Brig and Logan at all you know that their dream is not to turn in to some supper cool power ranger when they get older but instead they dream about becoming a super street sweeper man , garbage man or like Brig's costume this year a Home Depot man who drives fork lifts and fixes things (his words not mine). Logan had me laughing the hole night. He INSISTED on being his favorite stuffed animal, his kitty for Halloween. A couple days before Katie was born I took Brig and Logan to Build a Bear and told them that they could pick any stuffed animal they wanted and told them that they could dress them in what ever they wanted. Logan picked out a kitty cat and wanted to dress it in a pink flowered rain jacket . I tried to talk him into the batman out fit or like Brig, he picked a good looking tool belt. But Logan loved that little rain jacket so much that I could see that I wasn’t going to win so I let him get it and now he caries that cat with its pink rain jacket everywhere! Its hilarious and I cant do a thing about it. He just loves his little kitty. So naturally, for Halloween, that’s exactly what he wanted to be. So, like good parents, we made it happen. But the funniest part of the night was that he wouldn’t talk he said that kitties don’t talk they just meow. So the whole night he just meowed when you asked him a question. What a good little actor! He staid in character the whole night. Katie hated her costume and was not amused with the whole Halloween celibration. I don’t blame her! That little lady bug outfit was so poofy that we had to take it of and put it back on every time we took her in and out of the car in order to get her seat belt on. Poor Katie! But she looked just adorable. I love that little Katie bug. I was a Halloween punk rocker and I had way too much fun with it. If it didn’t draw so much attention I would do my hair like that every day. Too bad I wasn’t 20 in the 1980’s that would have been so much fun. Kris was a matrix guy. He wasn’t in to the Halloween spirit like he usually has been but still he looked supper cute. Overall it was a good Halloween

Sarah palin and John Mccain

Kim Willis saw a picture of Kendra and Jessie and suggested that they just had to be John McCain and Sarah Palin for Halloween so Kendra took her advice and landed a second place in the costume contest that they entered.

Every Halloween my sister in law throws a big Halloween party and the decorations are amazing somehow she makes Halloween look elegant and pretty instead of gooly and horrid. It was such a blast.

KENDRA'S ENGAGED

Yes, I know it is fast for me too, but I am so happy for her. She is engaged to be married on the 24th of January 2009 to Jessie Pettit. She has known him for about five years and dated him for about 7 months before her mission. They wrote each other during her mission but "he was not waiting for her". But now they are in love. It's the kind of love that makes everyone around them either want to sigh at the passion they have for each other or throw up...either one of the two. Regardless, they are so happy and that makes me happy! Oh yeah she got engaged on Oct 15!!

PLEASE STOP GROWING!

Katie has gotten so big this month time is going crazy fast and i just want it to slow down a Little. I am just enjoying Katie's infancy more then i thought possible. in just the last 4 weeks she has learned to sit up crawl pull her self up and stand while holding on to the table and she can even take a step are two while she holds on to the edge of the couch. Holey cow can she just slow it down a little so i can enjoy her tininess just a little longer. she is just so much fun we love her so much!

KENDRAS HOME !!!!

Hermana Tropple returned from the Chile Orsonro mission on the 26th of September. I am so so exited that she is finally home it feels so good to have one of my best friends in the world home again i love her so much! when i saw her for the first time in a year and a half she gave me a hug and told me that it felt like she was only gone a week. I looked at her like she was crazy and said " um no it feels like you have been gone a year and a half" I just missed her so much we are definitely happy she is home!

TRAFFIC SCHOOL

You know you need a vacation when you come home from traffic school feeling refreshed.
I received a photo radar ticked for running a red light a couple mons. back and that meant that I had to go to a mandatory traffic survival school . Originally I wasn’t looking forward to going but afterwards a funny thing happened I felt so refreshed .for 4 hours on Tuesday and Thursday I was forced to sit and do nothing and that meant no cleaning no errands to run no babies crying and no kids wining it was blissful I definitely didn’t expect to feel this way about traffic school but I really do feel like a new woman. I don’t know maybe I should make running red lights a habit as safely as possible of course.

PINK DAY!!

Friday was pink day at Brigs school and Brig didn’t have a single pink thing in his closet so we got creative we painted his ctr ring pink and Kris drew a vacuum truck (street sweeper) which is his most favorite thing in the world , painted it pink and stuck it on his back. He thought he was such hot stuff it was hilarious. I have never seen him so proud of the way he looked.