Christmas Fun

Saturday we had a busy day of tons of fun Christmas activities. In the morning we went down town for a Christmas parade. It was a lot bigger than we had anticipated. Jensen said that his favorite part was the roller skaters and the drums. There were quite a few marching bands Jensen would yell and point out all the instruments he saw. Siesa liked the big balloons the best and the music as well. Then in the afternoon we went to cut down our Christmas tree. We also put up some Christmas lights on our house. Now we really have the Christmas spirit around here.

Christmas Greetings

Road Trip

We had a great Thanksgiving. We went on a trip to visit Derek’s Sister the Buhler family in Columbus Ohio. We left last Monday morning for the almost 600 mile drive (each way). The kids are great little travelers and we had a great time.


This is a replica of the Santa Maria (it was a lot smaller than I would have thought) there was also a statue of Christopher Columbus very fitting since we were in Columbus Ohio also a little odd since he never visited there oh well.

On Thursday we did the usual. We cooked a lot of yummy food and stuffed ourselves silly.

Don’t those pies look yummy! We made pumpkin, apple and chocolate

At the topiary garden

Walking around Ohio State to see where Clint goes to school. We stopped to feed the ducks.

It was a little cold. Bur!



Bath Time! What cute kids!

We drove home all day Saturday. We did spend a few hours in Lexington visiting a horse park and museum. Jensen and Siesa enjoyed seeing all the horses. There were all different types of horses. It was interesting to see and be able to compare them. Now I understand the difference between a race horse, work horse, etc. The museum had some interesting exhibits about the history of horses. It is amazing how long horses were used in society for so many different things and in just a relatively short time most people don’t even know how to ride a horse.

M&M’s - melts in your mouth, not in your hands

For some reason when it comes to Halloween costumes we always seem to go as food. What can I say, we like to eat around our place. And what's better than chocolate?

Saturday we went to our ward party and had a great time. We had a BBQ and trunk or treat. There were also small pumpkins to paint and trick or treat bags to make. Some people went all out for the car decorating and that was fun. Jensen enjoyed trick or treating but the whole time he kept asking if he could have a donut yet. There were some donuts in the church to eat after we went trick or treating. I guess he likes donuts more than the candy.

Happy Halloween!!

Family Pictures

We got family pictures taken his week and they turned out wonderful. I had the hardest time trying to decide what ones are my favorites because they are all so cute.

Happy Birthday Derek!

Jensen and I made birthday hats for him early that day. That was a fun craft project. We used almost a whole container of Elmer’s Glue on the four hats. Jensen also enjoyed using scissors to cut up the paper for the hats.

For dinner I made Chimichangas and of course we had cake and ice cream. Jensen was very excited all day(really all week for his birthday)when Derek walked in the door Jensen ran up to Derek and said “ daddy I’m making pizza” What?! I guess by the time Derek finally got home he was tired of this birthday and had moved on to bigger and better things like pretending to make pizza with corn and macaroni and cheese on top according to Jensen. Derek got a manly drill, a watch, socks, gift card to home depot, a shirt, a tie and ten new songs from i-tunes. For two hours Friday night we partied to music as Derek tried to pick his favorite ten songs. I must say it was definitely a flash back to the eighties.

Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to get some pumpkins for halloween. At the pumpkin patch there was a petting zoo(but you couldn't really touch the animals, go figure), we also went on a hay ride, looked at snakes and other reptiles and got the perfect pumpkins. The weather was perfect and we had a great time.