Funny Stuff

For the triplets birthday this year, Brooke got some window markers. The kids have had so much fun drawing pictures all over every window in the house. (It is also a pain to clean up!) One day I was getting laundry out of the girls' room and I found this on the window:

If you can't see what it says, it says, "Please let me out Mom. Please!" Haha!!!!!!
I almost died laughing when I read it. The girls told me that Aspen wrote it when she was up in her room for a time out! Cracks me up! I promise she wasn't in there more than 10 minutes! :)

Jumping Jacks

As a reward to our kids for finishing 1st Nephi, we took them to Jumping Jacks to play! They had a great time! Dave and I even took turns playing with them. They are so excited to read the scriptures to get their rewards. I hope this will get them in the habit of reading scriptures everyday and then learning to love reading the scriptures for the pure joy it gives.

As a side note, I didn't think Jumping Jacks was worth the money. There is one really cool slide and one obstacle course and the rest are basically the same thing- small slides. Oh well, the kids had fun!

Thanksgiving

We had a really yummy Thanksgiving with the Grants this year! Watching the parade, searching through ads, making crafts with the kids, cooking food, eating food, playing games, and all the other wonderful things we do on Thanksgiving Day! It is so nice to have a day to be thankful all day! I know we should do this every day, but we don't. So it is nice to be mindful of our blessings all day on Thanksgiving.



(Don't you love the kids in their turkey hats?)

Dave and I also went to the store at midnight looking for one particular thing. It was crazy and I don't think we will ever do that again! Especially since we ended up getting what we wanted online! But it was nice to spend some time alone with hubby. We don't get to do that too often.

Snow

This is the most snow we have had this year and it's only a few inches! We aren't even going to have a white Christmas. :( But the kids had a good time in it!

My Blessings

Here are five of my greatest blessings:




Aren't they so stinking cute? They keep me extremely busy and drive me crazy sometimes but I wouldn't trade them for anything!

Thankful

Our family has been so blessed this year. Our biggest blessing being baby Alex. For FHE we made our list of things that we are thankful for and hung it up in our kitchen for us to see all the time. We also challenged our kids to thank Heavenly Father in their prayers for at least 3 things from that list. It has been a good way to remind the kids that everything we have comes from Him.

(Do you see the number 2? That is Owen's contribution. I asked him for one and he would say "one". So I'd say, "What are you thankful for?" And he would say "two". So we are thankful for the number 2. Hehe.)

Excited and Not Excited!

I am really excited for Christmas this year! We have a new child in our family! It's always fun to add one more stocking to the mix. I am listening to music and watching movies, but I am not excited to put up my decorations this year. Usually I want to put up the tree as soon as Halloween is over. I think it is because I am terrified of what Owen will do to it this year. I can see him pulling the tree right over on top of him. I guess we'll see.

The kids are way excited. They couldn't wait until next week to make their Christmas chains.