Thanksgiving 2012

Before:

After:

We started a new tradition this year of growing a "Grateful Tree" during the month of November. Every night at dinner we each got to write something we were grateful for on a leaf and place it on the tree. The only rule was you couldn't write something that had already been pinned to the tree.
This year we were filled with gratitude for (in no particular order):

The Barn
Daina & Sarah (friends from the barn)
Dad
The Witches (imaginary practicing friends)
Heavenly Father
Golf
Brooklynn
Prayer
Happy little girls
Mesa
Mercy
1st time listening
Warm weather
Suzi
Down time
toothpaste that tastes good
milk
My bird (another imaginary practicing friend)
Forgiveness
kisses
the rain
mommy
my feet
getting better fast
hobbies
Big mermaids
time away from work
the Temple
Claire, Kennedy, and my books
Baby Blake

If you were the ocean and I was the sun
If the day made me heavy and gravity won
If I was the red and you were the blue
I could just fade into you
If you were a window and I was the rain
I’d pour myself out and wash off the pain
I’d fall like a tear so your light could shine through
Then I’d just fade into you


If I was a shadow and you were a street
The cobblestone midnight is where we first meet
Til the lights flickered out, we dance with the moon
Then I’d just fade into you


If I was just ashes and you were the ground
And under your willow they laid me down
There’ll be no trace that one was once two
After I fade into you

- Mazzy Star "Fade into You"

Brooklynn likes to dance like Olivia after every bedtime story . . .

my whole world.

This guy is darn stinkin' cute

Great babysitter. . .

"There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother." - Astrid Alauda

B's favorite things

My favorite part is that baby blake is swaddled. ;)

our own pumpkin