Our Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was with Jordan's family this year; we ate a lot, played some games, and went to see "Wreck-it Ralph".....it was a fun day!

  Our family.....minus Tate.  He wouldn't get in the picture

 Scoping out the ads...I've never even shopped black Friday, I just like looking at the deals

 I was shocked Marley ate a roll (and played with the rest), and Tate ate some turkey.  For them that's pretty good--Thanksgiving is basically pointless for my kids.  They both hate potatoes and gravy, don't usually eat meat unless it's a nugget, and don't eat stuffing or vegetables.

 Jordan holding Bergan for the first time....no really.  He doesn't do babies.  But he couldn't resist that cute chunk forever:)

This is what we did for "black Friday"... got out all the Christmas stuff!  The kids loved decorating the tree, even if most of my ornaments are within a one foot radius near the bottom.

Thankful Tree

Like most people, I want to teach my children to be thankful for the things they have.  So this year we started doing a "Thankful Tree" for the month of November, writing what we're thankful for each day.  I've made Jordan and I do it along with the kids.  But of course, Tate and Marley have some of the best answers.

 (friends)

 I mean, who isn't grateful for waves and kitties??

(mom and dad)

(Utah, our pet lizard)

Star Wars Halloween

Tate decided for some reason he wanted to be Darth Maul this year for Halloween.  And since this is probably the last year they will allow me to "match" them, Marley was Princess Leia.  We have usually gone to our parents homes the past few years, but Tate was so excited to go trick-or-treating with his friends, so we stayed home.  The kids loved it!

 At the ward trunk-or-treat.....our previous ward never did these so this was our first experience.  Fastest way to get some candy, and the fastest way to go through a huge bag of candy in like 10 minutes.  Craziness.

Carving pumpkins for family night....who am I kidding, we are terrible at doing family night.  This just happened to be on a Monday so I deemed it FHE.

We braved Gardner Village for the sole purpose of getting pictures with the witches.