THANKSgiving

Well this picture was intended to be the last picture for this blog but I guess it gets to be first, one of these days I will get it figured out. As the sun was setting this evening I had to take a picture. I thought that it looked beautiful. I am thankful for all of the beauty on this earth.

This picture was supposed to be my 2nd to last picture. This was Tate's excitement over Thanksgiving weekend besides my family visiting of course.

Here is a picture of us right before our wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Sorry McKay I didn't mean to cut off half of your head.

Here is a picture of Britnee, Grandpa, and Colton.

Colton, Uncle McKay, and Britnee. McKay and Tate were such good sports about wearing turkey hats. You had to know that the pictures would make it onto my blog! I am so thankful for all of my family! Tate's picture of the turkey hat is also supposed to be here but I don't know how to insert a picture into the middle of a blog any advice? Is it possible? Maybe I will have a random picture blog soon to post all of the picture that I have missed over the last year.

Here are Kelly and I posing in our almost matching striped sweaters. Aren't we cute?

And one little passionate picture to end with!

I really do love Thanksgiving time. I love that we take a little bit of extra time to think of all that we are grateful for. I feel so blessed in so many different ways. Especially when I take a few minutes to think of all of my blessing and all that I am thankful for ~ I can't help but smile!

Happy Birthday Lacee & McKay!

Lacee and McKay share the same birthday I just want to wish my favorite sister and one of my favorite brothers a Happy Birthday!

GO EAGLES!

Here are some pictures of me just a few years ago. These are from my senior year, I played on the girls basketball team and then cheered for the boys basketball team (way back then they were during different seasons). With my baby brother on the football team that is playing in the class B state championship this weekend I thought that these would be fun to look at!

GO BIG BLUE! I'm just working on my cheers. When I was in High School these cheer-leading uniforms were our favorite and brand new. When Lacee was in High School I saw the uniform in her bedroom (which was actually my bedroom ) and I asked her if they ever wore them but she said that they were the ugliest uniforms that they had! DEFENCE~EAGLES~DEFENCE (stomp, stomp). Are you all getting school spirit now? It should be fun to go watch the game and see a few people from the hometown. We will have to snuggle up in lots of blankets and drink hot chocolate to stay warm. My kids can hardly wait to watch Uncle Tate. Side-note~Last weekend Bostyn was here and Kelly asked her if he was her favorite Uncle and she said "No, Uncle Tate, Kelly is a girls name." I thought it was funny. She told him what she thought even though he is 6'5". Good luck Eagles! See you this weekend.

Why is this on my mantle?

Anyone who knows Kelly very well knows that he loves to tease. I guess this is his way of teasing me. I have put this skull away in the closet a dozen times and it always mysteriously ends up prominently on the mantle. The picture below is of the fireplace and mantle minus the skull. I didn't do the masonry or cut the mantle but I did stain it. My mom helped to stain our railing and then I was on my own. It wasn't as bad as I had anticipated and I am very pleased with the end results! I can hardly wait to hang stockings this year. Maybe I'll hang Kellys stocking from a tooth.

The next three pictures are from temple square in SLC when we were there a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful day.

Britnee, Jake, & Colton

We almost got everyone looking at the camera.

Now it works?

Taylor & BritneeMy Little Spooks
Britnee, Colton, Jake, & Taylor

Taylor Mae 10 mo.

For the past 5 days my pictures would not upload or I could get one uploaded and then a window would pop up and say "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" for some reason now it is working. Does anyone have an idea what was going on? Anyway here are some Halloween pictures. I will try to post more pictures of our trip to UT and maybe I will even put some pictures of the new house (that we have been living in for 3 months now) up, if my computer continues to cooperate with me. I hope that you all had a fun Halloween! Time for me to put the decorations away.

A picture is worth 1,000 words

1300 Miles

What do you find in your car after you drive nearly 1300 miles with 4 kids? Fast food wrappers? Random socks? Empty water bottles? How about when you go to clean it out 4 days after you are home you find a live snail with a crushed shell in between a bunch of papers. Any guesses who put it there? Anyone who knows my children at all can guess.

Well for some unknown reason I can't add any more pictures. Anyway we went to WY and UT over the weekend. It was Kelly's Grandpa Jenkins 90th birthday party. It was fun to visit his Grandparents and spend the weekend with his family. On Saturday night Susan, Patrica, and Sarah (Kelly's Mom and sisters) and Olivia and I went to Witches Night Out at Gardner Village in West Jordan (I think) I actually have no idea where I am when I am in UT. Gardner Village is such a fun place to shop I can hardly wait to go back someday. On Sunday we took the kids to Temple Square and watched the Joseph Smith movie. Somewhere along the line a snail was picked up and carefully placed in the car for me to find at a later date!

I have faster internet service so my blog might get updated more regularly now ~gasp~(if I figure out why it won't upload any more pictures). Nels already gave me free tech support THANK YOU. Apparently even if you only use the free support once in the free year they charge unbelievable amounts for their vast knowledge. I could pretty much buy a new computer for what they wanted to charge.