Give Thanks!

We had such a good Thanksgiving. My sister was in town from Washington so my other sister offered to take pictures of the whole family. I then made her take a quick photo of us, thanks Heather! She has such a nice camera and takes such good pictures. I didn't really want to do a lot of family pictures this year, since I am prego and all. In this picture I don't really look pregnant, just like I've gained 30 pounds! But that's ok. Anyway, back to Thanksgiving. We went up to my mom's and had a delicious dinner, I think the best dinner yet! All the food was so yummy, and there were so many people! My family has gotten so big. Then we went to Jamie's parent's house. There we had round two of delicious meals. Jamie's brother is always such a good cook and loves to help prepare Thanksgiving dinner. This holiday just seems to get better every year, we truly are so blessed! I am so thankful for all of our family and friends, love you all!

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Halloween

This was another good Halloween for us, it seemed to last a really long time though! But that's ok. We had a fun activity at our ward where the girls got to play lots of games and decorate cookies. Then we got to go to my mom and dad's wards party. There the girls had so much fun. This was Abi's first real experience with trick or treating, rather trunk or treating. She couldn't believe that we just kept going from car to car and kept getting more candy! This Holiday was perfect for Abi. Then we went trick or treating, it was raining for part of the time, but the girls didn't seem to mind. No matter how heavy Abi's bag got she was not going to let Jamie or me carry (or as she probably imagined steal) her bag. Then on the actual day of Halloween we put on the costumes one last time, well except for Abi because I was tired of hand washing the costume! Then we went up to my mom's and the kids helped her make popcorn balls. I think I am now officially sick of candy, I have pretty much eaten all of the good candy out of my kids buckets so now they are left with the stuff I won't steal. Can anyone explain to me why I wouldn't eat an entire candy bar but have no problem eating fun size after fun size after fun size! Sarah wanted to be a witch, Abi got the hand me down from Sarah. It is an elephant, she didn't really like having the hat on so this is how the costume looked in most of the pictures. Grace wanted to be a tiger. When I first started looking for costumes for Grace all I could find was tiger costumes for toddlers. But finally I found one in her size!

Soccer

Soccer has begun! This is Sarah's first year playing soccer. She has been so patient watching Grace and now it is finally her turn too! She is so excited, even if her shirt fits like a nightgown.

Here is Grace getting ready for her first game. She is now playing with goalies this year, she is doing such a great job, we are so proud of her!

And here is their biggest cheerleader! She has been good to wait until after the games to go on the slides. It is hard every week when we have to walk by the slides to get to the soccer games.

Bees

So this summer we had a little bit of a bee problem. First it was Abi, I thought to myself when it happened, of course it is Abi. None of my kids have ever been stung by a bee, but of course poor Abi did! It also happened right before bedtime, so I was worried to put her to bed in case she was allergic, like her dad. So I went and got her some benadryl and watched her and she was fine. Her eye did swell, but other than that she was fine. I couldn't get a very good picture of her, but you might be able to see some swelling in her left eye. Then my sweet Sarah, I don't know if she was doing something to get stung or not because she got 3 bee stings in one week. It got so bad that she didn't want to go outside, she was too afraid of getting stung! One was on her hand, the other two were by her eyes. Needless to say we got some new bee traps/spray and had someone come spray! I guess I also took this picture after sarah had a pb&j, I'm such a good mom not to even clean the face!