Grandma Sally's Tree

  Since Skylar and Megan are down Grandma Sally invited the kiddos up to decorate her tree.  The kids had so much fun decorating and getting more playtime in with their cousins.  Keagan was even more excited she got to help Grammy Sally bake cookies.

 Keagan loved Grandma's Santa

Thanksgiving

  We had the best Thanksgiving this year!!!  We had a double Thanksgiving, we got to spend it with the Wards and the Tarbets!
  First up was Matt and Heathers house for the Ward Family Thanksgiving.  The kids LOVED that Grandpa Vance literally played Monopoly with them for 4 hours!!!  The food was great and even better Heather made a ham (Zach and I are not turkey lovers so we were secretly dreading two turkey dinners).  It was a pretty quite Thanksgiving for the Ward family but it was great.  Seriously, the morning could not have went any worse for me; I was having the worse hair day (I mean I know that is not the end of the world but we all want to look nice for family get togethers and it just wasn't happening), I promptly upon arriving spilled shrimp juice all over my sweater and everything that could go wrong with my banana pie literally did!!!  The back of our suburban ended up with the 1st attempts filling and when I went to grab my crust and pour the 2nd attempts filling in I caught a very cute little friend licking the inside of it ; ).  So we had cream pie filling in a cup!!!  But the rest of the day went up from there.

 Justice and Kabree joined in too

 Grandma JoAnn and Heather working hard in the kitchen

 I think Libby got a hold of my camera!?!

 Zach carving away

 Grandpa Vance and Grandma JoAnn in their new Thanksgiving bibs made by Grandma Jane

 Kiki wouldn't leave Jabba alone!!!

 Shay and Libby

  Second house of the day Grandpa Gary's and Grandma Sally's for the Tarbet Thanksgiving.  Skylar and Megan drove all day but you would never have known because their kiddos were just as happy as could be.  The kids had so much fun playing together and seriously laughed and giggled the whole night.  Dinner was of coarse yummy and but seriously us adults visited and laughed just as hard as the kids did.  Such a perfect way to end Thanksgiving!!! 

Lynden, Paisley, Thayer and Kabree

Seriously these kids played and laughed so hard!!!

 Kiki, Grandpa Gary and Wade

Therin

Hot Tubing

  What better way to enjoy Thanksgiving break than to do some hot tubing!  Us adults learned that we let the kids have their go at it, bath them, start a movie and then us adults get our turn.  It's much more enjoyable for everyone that way.

Baking Pies

  We had the Best Thanksgiving break!!! This year we got off the whole week!!!  It was just what this family needed....some family time!!!  Monday Hanna, Justice and MaKaydee joined us for baking pies.  I let the kiddos fill their pies with jam or pie filling.  They all decided they LOVED making the pies but would rather eat cookies ; )!

Happy Birthday Cleo!!!

  We can't believe our gentle giant is 1 already!!!!  Who would have ever pictured us with a giant dog in our house!!!  Sometimes we still can't believe we did it but once you have met Cleo you would understand why!!  She is our sweet, silly, lovey fur baby!!!  It has been so much fun to watch her grow! 

 We of coarse had to celebrate Cleo's birthday!  We got her a McDonalds cheese burger and celebrated with Heather and her kiddos (and new fur baby) joining us for cupcakes!!!  Cleo was very excited about all of it and especially her new friend Jabba.

 Her first day home with us!!!

6 Months

Cleo is always trying to find loop holes to the no dogs on the new couches rule!!!

Leaning doesn't count right?

Don't we all feel like this on our period ladies?!?

When she got told to stop barking, she is a very sensitive puppy

 Cleo was so excited for Libby to bring her a present

 Everyone was excited to meet Heathers newest fur baby Jabba