Four Little Indians

This year I am thankful for my family without a doubt! My four beautiful children are happy and healthy. Their strong little bodies can run and play, so much so that I can barely keep up with them, and a husband who is loving and kind and is seriously the best dad around. We are spending Thanksgiving with my in laws today, who would you believe, are cooking the ENTIRE dinner themselves without help from anyone? (if you actually know them, you would not find this surprising at all). So with all my free time today, I decided to tell my children about the first Thanksgiving dinner, you know the one about the pilgrims and the Indians? In honor of this story we made paper Indian hats to wear to dinner this afternoon, they drew little pictures on the hats to tell the story, my kids love a project!




We also went to the park that is conveniently located in my backyard, another thing to be thankful for, we took the dogs and ran and played in the chilly sunshine on this beautiful Thanksgiving afternoon.



We've just arrived home and are getting ready to head out the door to dinner, this is where I've just found Greyson, he's tired and says he'd like to take his nap in the dog bed with Daisy. Man, I love this little redhead!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody, and a big shout out to the herd down in St. George, don't party too hard without us!

A Family Day

Last month we took the kids on the frontrunner train to SLC to spend the day. We try to do this at least once a year, I highly recommend this activity as it is inexpensive and very entertaining for the kiddos. Jer took the day off work so we caught a late morning train.
We had a great time on the train, this year the twins were old enough to walk around themselves, so we all got a chance to ride on the top level. We then transferred to the trax to Gateway, and spent an hour or so at the planetarium. The kids loved the moon, mars, and especially loved being meteorologists (notice the twins totally mesmerized by the boys on the TV).


They all got to pick out something fun from the planetarium gift shop, I personally liked these giant bug eyes, but the twins decided on something else.

We grabbed lunch at Skybox, and then hit an afternoon movie "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs" James did amazingly well, considering his current phobia of theaters. The movie was actually very cute, I wasn't nearly as disappointed in it as I thought I would be (I don't get out to see movies very often, and am always a little sad I'm not seeing what I really want instead of a kid's movie).

We topped the evening off with the kids running around in the water feature, it was COLD but nobody seemed to mind, Addison was having the time of her life running around with her brothers, she's always so happy when she can keep up with them, (isn't that wiener dog sweater the cutest??!!)


This is a picture of some JAZZ basketball player and his car, Jer was very impressed, as was the crowd following him around, must suck to be famous sometimes.

We caught the train home just as the sun was setting, by the time we all got home everybody fell happily into bed fast asleep....just how I like them.

Park It

Our latest foray into nature ended again, as usual, with wet dirty children, and dogs. Oh well such is life, at least they had fun. I highly recommend this park if you live anywhere north of SLC.


Bues Park is not too far up the canyon and allows dogs, although I'm not sure if they really want them swimming in the lake, don't worry Oakley loves to swim in the direction of the ducks and geese, but she minds very well and always comes back when called. I wish we could say the same for Daisy, that tiny, weenie of ours would devour and entire goose if I let her near one. Beautiful day, beautiful family! (If I'm allowed to say so myself!)

Here We Are To Save The Day....

Halloween comes....Halloween goes. Here are a few highlights. The kids were all exceptionally "super" this year. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Supergirl, take your pick, we've got them all!








Jack is convinced that he is actually Spiderman, "it's just nobody really thinks it's true" "but, I'm pretty sure I am....I just can't figure out how to shoot webs yet!"

Missed nap, chocolate covered dinner, 8 blocks in shiny red shoes = one unhappy little superhero.