Hunting, Volcanoes, & Gingerbread houses!

Saturday Ty took Landen out "hunting". Ty really just wanted to scope out an area and shoot his bow at a target. Landen was so excited to go with him. He came home and said he had a lot of fun sitting in the trunk and watching dad. He also told me he got a chance to shoot the bow. I think we have another hunter on our hands! Porter was a little upset he didn't get to go, but I cured him of that and bored him to sleep shopping.

This afternoon the boys worked on making a volcano. Landen and Porter painted the volcano. After the paint dried Ty and Landen made it explode. They had a lot of fun doing it.

Tonight for family night we built our own gingerbread house. Last week for family night we went to the gingerbread festival at the Mormon Trail Center. They have all these amazing gingerbread houses that people have been working on for months. If we go again I'll take some pictures. If you are in Omaha this is definitely something worth seeing. Anyways, so we went the festival to get some ideas and this week we put our ideas together and came up with this. They boys had so much fun putting all the candy on it. This is something we will definitely do next year. Maybe in a few years we'll be brave enough to put our gingerbread house in the festival.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

At our house we have a tradition of everyone making their own pie! We do this the night before Thanksgiving, so this is Landen and Porter working on their chocolate pudding pie! It was delicious! They did a great job.

Landen and Hattie enjoying the Macy's Day Parade while mom was trying to get things ready to go.

This is how we started out our Thanksgiving playing football!! Well Ty played football. Landen played for a couple plays but then decided he was going to go "turkey hunting" with Porter a few other friends! We all had a lot of fun!

Another of our favorite traditions is decorating turkeys while waiting for our real turkey to cook. The boys had a blast making their turkeys. Landen said his turkey was a museum turkey. That why there is a "rope" in front of his turkey. Porter thought it was great that his marshmallows would just stick to the turkey. This year our turkeys were made out of caramel corn instead of rice crispies. They were really yummy!!

Porter ready to enjoy his Thanksgiving dinner!

After we finished eating we headed to the movie theaters and say Madagascar 2. Then off to our friends house for pie!

Landen, Sydaleigh, and Porter enjoying their pie!

Hattie had a great Thanksgiving!! She ate, slept, ate, slept, ate, slept, then was adored by 5 little girls who all wanted a turn holding her. They were so cute with her and I think she really enjoyed the attention she was getting from them.

We really did have a great Thanksgiving we are are so thankful to be a family! We have a lot of fun together and really enjoy being together. We are also so grateful for great friends that make us feel so welcomed! 2008 Thanksgiving was a great success!

Well Child Visits!!

Hattie had her 2 month check-up (crazy I know I can't believe she is 2 months already) yesterday. She weighs 11lbs 6 oz and is 22.5 inches long. She is such a good happy and healthy baby!! We love her so much!

Porter had his 18 month check-up today. He weighs 24 lbs!! Yeah!! He is finally putting more weight on so no more once a month weight checks. I can't remember what his height was, but he was in the 50 percentile so he was average. Weight he is still in the 25th, but he's steady and not dropping!! Oh it was music to my ears when they said he didn't have to come back until his 2 year check-up! (Porter is trying to get me to eat the pinto beans that he and Landen were playing in. Hence the reason he is opening his mouth.)

So if you were to come to our house today this is what you would find. 2 boys playing in a bucket of pinto beans. They love when we get these beans out to play in. It doesn't happen all the time it is a rare treat for the days that they are being extra good! They play for hours in these things and yes I do find them all over the place even after we think we clean them up, but they have so much fun and play so well with each other its worth it!! So if you ever have a desire to play in a bucket of beans come on over and they'll show you how much fun it is!!

We're Coming to Utah!

Yes its true we are making a trip back to Utah! But now for the bad news...we only get to come for the weekend. (To be honest we are really lucky we get to come at all because of Ty's schedule right now. So we'll take it.) We are coming back so we can bless Hattie at my parents ward so our families can be there and also Ty is going to be baptizing our nephew. So we have lots to do! We would love to be able to see everyone, but we know this won't be very possible because of the limited amount of time we will be there, but if you would like to come to Hattie's blessing and to a luncheon after, you are more than welcomed. Just e-mail me and let me know so we can plan on it and also so I can give you directions. We will be blessing her on the 7th of December. We would really love to see as many people as we can in the short time we are there so let us know!

Hats!

My boys love to wear hats! Landen really loves his new hat his Uncle Braxton gave him! They wanted me to take pictures of them in their hats. So here they are for all to enjoy!

Better Late then never!

Hattie is 7 weeks in this picture! She is growing like a weed! She is starting to smile and goo at you when you talk to her. She is such a great blessing in our home.


Landen and Porter taking the guts out of the pumpkin. We never did get a picture of the final product, but the boys thought it was a blast. We did it a few days after Halloween, because time just passed by way to fast. When Ty finished carving it they put a candle in it and took it into the closet so they could see it glow.


Mom and Hattie! She was a cat for Halloween. Landen thought since he was Batman and Porter was Superman she should be a superhero to so she was Cat women!

Superman and Batman made an appearance at our house this Halloween. They loved their costumes and I think Porter really thought he could fly. We went to the Ward Halloween party. We ate good chile, played lots of fun games, then went Trunk-r-treating. They both had a lot of fun and came home with way to much candy.

We're going private!

The world is getting crazier so we've decided to go private! If you'd like to see what we are up to please get us your e-mail address so we can add you! Hope everyone is having a great week!