Happy Thanksgiving!!As we reflect on our past year we realize how much we have been blessed. We have so many things to be thankful for. Every day we thank our Father in Heaven for all he has given us, for family, friends, home, health, and most of all our Savior. I once heard a man say that he made a goal to every night to write down just a little from the days activites. As he did this he realized how in everyday the Lord had a hand in the events. His words made me realize how important it is to recognize our Savior in all we do. I am thankful for this time of year it lifts me up and gets me through my next year.
Getting dinner ready!

The kids making apple turkies.

They turned out just right. They lasted long enough for a picture and then they ate them.

Nathan taking a turn taking care of Maggie.

What beauties

Searching the adds getting ready for black Friday!

Mac had a great flag football season. We loved it! It only last a month and most of the games are on Saturday! Mac thought it was great, now he wants to throw the ball everywhere.

His team

Mac with his medal. Good ol' Ben always where Mac is. Don't you love the straw in his mouth.

New Moon Baby!!!! Nicole Larson had a hot chocolate bar at her house before we went to stand in line. That's right I said "Line!" People started lining up around seven! I know people started else where started lining up a lot earlier but this is Page people! It was great to get together and be silly not to mention the movie was great!

Standing in line! Lindsey and Angel showing off their shirts. Angel was sporting a Jacob shirt and we just pretended it was the only shirt she could find.

T.V. time with dad

Ben: Mom where does the rain come from?
Mom: The clouds.
Ben: No mom is comes from Jesus standing up there dumping water on us.
Mom: Oh really how do you know that?
Ben: I just know

He gives me a run for my money but is a light in my life that I feel blessed to have. What a good guy he is!

Our girl gets braces!! So Kev and I have decided that we feel older or maybe just grown up. Abi is old enough to get braces, WOW. She has done so well. She was so nervous but she really hasn't complained like she deserves to. Mostly Abi is just happy about everything including getting braces.

Balloon Regatta 2009 Oh how we love the Balloon Regatta. We love to wake up and drive around and see the wonderful balloons up against the beautiful landscape of Page.

It is fun to watch where they land. They land where ever they can.

This was also Mac's first flag football game. Kev is one of his coaches. Mac is loving it and he is doing well.

I think his favorite part of playing football is his mouth piece. His brother and sister are pretty jealous of it as well.

We were thrilled to have Danielle and Mom come for the big balloon glow. Mom took Abi and Danielle on a special trip to St. George to see a show at Toucan and then came back to Page for the Balloon Glow. I love this picture because it is the first picture of Mom with all her granddaughters

You know I had to include this picture. The night of the balloon glow was the big night for all Twilight fans in Page. Thats right they started selling New Moon premiere tickets. This is sweet Hannah Larson who sadly(J/K) is a Jacob Fan. Can you beleive that Jacob came to Page for the ticket sales!!!!!

The Balloon glow is wonderful!

The end of the night Grandma giving her baby a rub down.

Just for fun
Abi loves to dress her up and take pictures. Our little Maggie is patient she puts up with her mom and sister playing dress up.

Oh those beautiful smiles!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! We had a great Halloween. We started off the morning with homemade doughnuts. There is nothing like starting Halloween off with sugar.


MMM-MM-MMM GOOD!
Then we moved on to pumpkin carving.

This was the design that Mac and Ben came up with.

Abi carving her own.

She was happy with how it turned out.

They were the perfect touch to make the porch look ghoulish!

Then off to Tirck-or-Treat! Mac was the Incredible Hulk, and Ben was a frog (he didn't want to scare Maggie.)

Our girl who always has to be something scary. We saw these feather eye lashes and put together a costume around them. She was excited with how it turned out. She was so happy because a little boy turned to his mom as she walked by and said, "Mom she's scary." She cracks me up.

So this is Maggie's costume. A little shirt that says, "I love my Mummy." She was glad that was all we made her dress up in.

Our neighbor goes all out with the Halloween spirit. We knew it was time to start trick-or-treating when we started hearing the kids cry because they were scared of him. We figured Maggie wouldn't be going near him next year of for years to come so we took advantage now to get a picture.

All snuggled to go out with the kids to gather some candy. We had a fabulous Halloween.

Smiles that melt our hearts! She is so funny because she loves the fan. Whenever we turn on the fan she starts to smile.

Ben is a problem solver! The other day I was up stairs and Maggie was crying. I was in the middle of something and I couldn't get to her. All of a sudden I heard her stop crying I thought that was odd because she was hungry. I came down and Ben had given her a bottle nipple to suck on. She loved it! She won't take a binkie but she loved Ben's idea!!

Also the other day Ben and I went outside to tell Mac goodbye, well wouldn't you know we closed the door behind us and locked ourselves out. I was sick because Maggie was inside and I didn't have a key anywhere. I was on my way to the neighbors to call Kev and have him come home, if he could, to let us in. As I was getting crazy, my little man went to Kevs car got the keys and brought them to me. He is too smart he wasn't worried at all he couldn't understand why I was acting so crazy. What a great kid!

On my way to church, and I am lookin' good!!