thanksgiving 2010...

Boy, it's nice to not travel for Thanksgiving and still get to see a lot of your family!
We actually had our family thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday due to scheduling issues on turkey day. John's parents were going to be serving dinner for branch members at the small branch they attend - so we decided to make it easy and just do it Weds.


We felt like we still needed to have turkey today, so we also had a small turkey feast for just our family. All the good stuff: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, home made rolls, red hot applesauce jello (that's the stuff!!), and pumpkin dessert. (Yeah yeah, those aren't recipes from weight watchers). Super yummy!!

While I was cooking this morning, I got out some stuff to have the kids make these super cute pilgrim hat treats. They really enjoyed making them but definitely enjoyed eating them more!



Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks Dan & Charity for having us over and thanks to everyone who made such yummy food! We are so thankful for our families and friends and love and miss you all!

halloween 2010...

Ok, I've put off doing a post for Halloween long enough. I didn't post pictures yet, because frankly, I don't have very many or good ones for that matter. We had our ward Trunk or Treat on the Friday before Halloween, and that night John and I came home completely sick with fevers and what turned out to be an all weekend lasting sickness. I didn't even get any pictures of our (John and mine) AWESOME costumes! I went as Medusa and John - a greek man that I turned to stone. Bummer! We didn't carve pumpkins (too sick), my kids hardly got a decent trick or treating - just 20 min. with a really sick Dad at the mall, and minimal pictures. I kept telling myself that I would dress them up in their costumes again and take some pictures - but it hasn't happened. I think since next week is Thanksgiving - that ship has sailed. Although our pumpkins are still on my dining room floor waiting to be carved...hmmm. So here's what I've got:

Can you tell what his costume is? I thought it was great!

The same monkey costume that I made for Zane at the same age.

My pretty princess. Still not sure if it was worth making, but it did turn out BEAUTIFUL!