Gobble Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We have had such a fun week here at our house! Grandpa and Grandma Monson and Uncles Jon and Dave came and we have had a blast! Thanksgiving was delicious. My Mom and I spent a lot of time in the kitchen getting the dinner ready and it was great to learn from her how she makes all the traditional Turkey day meals. The boys have LOVED all the attention, and have had plenty of spoiling! There have been lots of games played, trips to the park, late night movies, lots of wrestling and a trip to an old western town with a stunt show and a yummy cowboy dinner. Grandma and Grandpa bought a early Christmas present for Thatcher and Taggy, it is a mini-jumping castle for the backyard! (Thanks Mom and Dad!) They LOVE it. It is so fun to watch them bouncing all over the place. The other night I was severely out numbered as the testosterone took over and all the 'boys' had a wrestling match in the living room. I will say that I beat my 16 year-old-football-playing brother at a arm wrestling match...looks like carrying 25 lbs. babies around all day does pay off! It has been such a fun little vacation and it will be hard to get back on schedule next week, good thing will still have two more days to spend playing and enjoying every ones company! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for all the fun! It has been a blast!

Thankful Tom

It was a tradition in my family to make a shoe box turkey (called Thankful Tom) and 'stuff' him with little notes of what we were thankful for. Then at Thanksgiving dinner my Dad would read all the notes and we would guess who wrote them. It was a fun tradition. Well last night for FHE we had a little lesson about being thankful and then made our Thankful Tom. Thatcher has been having a hard time letting go of the whole Halloween concept, so I have been talking about turkeys a lot lately, but I don't think he knew what a turkey looked like until last night! He now is going around saying, 'ahhhh scary turkey!'...I keep having to remind him that turkeys are not scary and Halloween is over! I told him that turkeys are not scary, they are funny...which he replied, 'no mommy, turkeys are not funny.' Alright, I stand corrected. We are excited to stuff Thankful Tom with all things we are grateful for!


Thatcher having a 'gobbly' time!


Todd helping Thatcher color a picture of what he is thankful for...


The finished product.

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This is Halloween, This is Halloween!!!

We had a great Halloween! This year was so fun because Thatcher understood what was going on. All I have heard for the past couple weeks is 'I want Halloween!'. He was VERY into all the decorations and kept asking me about 'scary pumpkins' and 'ghosts' and 'witches'. He was so excited to carve jack-o-lanterns! It was really cute. This year Thatcher and Taggart went as Nemo and Squirt (the turtle) from Finding Nemo (one of Thatcher's favorites). I know I am a little bias, but they were so cute. Our Halloween festivities started Tuesday with playgroup at Lacey's house. The kids all dressed in their costumes and went trick-or-treating inside to various doors where the moms were behind passing out candy. On Halloween we went to Story Time at the library where all the kids were in costume and then had a little parade and party. Last night Thatcher was SO excited for trick-or-treating and had a lot of fun getting candy. Taggy was really good the whole time, just hanging out in the stroller (he was probably wondering what the heck was going on!). It was a fun filled day! Our ward Halloween party isn't until tomorrow night...so Halloween isn't even over for us! Thatcher is so happy!

This video isn't great quality, but it is really cute.