I am a child of God

I just love this girl! She was going to sing Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree but I guess she changed her mind.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone...and happy day for me! I'm so happy to have my desktop back! (Thanks Trav!)

This is Sophie's first Thanksgiving! So much fun! She is such a cute little girl and we love her so much! She is now 6 weeks old...time is going by so fast!
Anne was so happy that she got to play with her cousins today. This is them taking a "nap" on the stairs after dinner...but Anne wouldn't lay back down when I wanted to take the picture.

Dan decided to come with us even though he just got off a night shift and had to work again tonight...it was great to have him there with us! (I took photos of everyone else that was there for dinner but didn't realize until after that Dan had the camera on a "fancy" setting and they didn't turn out well...sigh!)

These are the little turkeys I made for the kids out of children's gloves. I got the idea from Studio5. Then we sent the kids outside to use them...ha, ha!

And these photos are from earlier this week. We had a really good snow storm (which caused the power to go out and our church was even cancelled) and Anne just HAD to play outside.

Thanks mom and dad for an excellent dinner! It was great! Just wish Jess could have been there with her family so we could have all been together...maybe someday!

Halloween Fun!

Anne had so much fun with Halloween this year...however, Mommy didn't really get into it so Anne had a makeshift costume and Sophie wore one borrowed from a friend in the ward. However, I think they still looked cute...don't you? We went to the ward Trunk or Treat on Friday. So much fun! Daddy took Anne around to the cars for candy while Sophie "helped" mommy pass out treats at our car.

Saturday we took the girls around our neighborhood for Trick or Treating...in the rain! Anne was wet after because she wouldn't stay under the umbrella with me (Sophie stayed nice and dry) but still had fun! I didn't get any photos of the during part but here is Anne after in all of her soaking wet glory! We went around with Ian, Anne's next door neighbor friend, and his parents. It was fun! While Ian would say "Trick or Treat" at the door, Anne would say "Merry Christmas!!!" Kid after my own heart!

Here is all of Anne's "loot"! She got way more than I had anticipated between the two days!

We all drank some hot chocolate to get us warm again.

And then Anne passed out the candy to the kids that came to our house. She would put the candy in each of their bags/buckets and say "One for you, one for you..." Daddy had to convince her it was OK to give each kid a couple.

Next year hopefully I'll be more in the Halloween spirit (decorate the house, get real costumes for the kids, etc) but all in all, I think Anne had fun and that is all that matters!