Thankfuls 2010

I love November. I love the leaves, I love the time to think about life and recognize all the good in each day. I love trying to teach an attitude of gratitude as the prophet has asked us to do because it really makes life a little simpler and a lot happier when we are grateful.
This year instead of a huge sheet of butcher paper to write our thankfuls on,my wonderful husband created a kid's life size tree. Each night we put leaves on the tree for at least one thing for which we are grateful.
The tree looks a lot like something out of Dr. Suess's Whoville, because Emma and I cut the leaves...
We look forward to more days and more ways to be grateful for all that we already have and all that we enjoy from our Heavenly Father.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Fall Luncheon

We had a great time at Emma's preschool luncheon.
She had a blast singing her heart out for us. She also made the lovely macaroni necklace I am wearing. Thane loved being with his favorite people-Papa, Nana, and Daddy for lunch. We are so blessed to have grandparents for our babies that are so good to them and to us. We are so grateful for you Mom and Dad. Thanks for loving our kids so much and for being such a bright part of our family life. We love you and all the support you give us.



We love watching Emma sing as she is so focused and LOVES anything musical.
We have several more excerpts from the singing time but this one was pretty cute.
We love our Emmalicious!

Three little monkeys

My monkeys Emma and Thane LOVE to jump on the bed and sing the song about monkeys...Thane often sings the song all day long. We are due to have another little monkey on April 2nd 2011.

Emma has been telling me since Thane came home from the hospital that she wanted a baby sister too. She told me many times over the past year that she wanted to have a baby in the family again. I told her that she needed to talk to Heavenly Father about that because that is how it works for our family.

When we told her we were having a baby she was THRILLED!
She told me, (and everyone else she knows), that she wanted a baby sister. I again reminded her that it was for Heavenly Father to decide, and encouraged her to talk to him about what she wanted.

She told me, "It's ok mom, I already told him what I want and I will let Him decide."

While I was picking up my jaw from the floor with my hands, I said a silent prayer that she would be able to be happy when she finds out the gender of the baby-especially if it is a boy.

When she read the ultrasound picture last night she found out it was a b-o-y, she didn't pout or get sad. She just gave me and daddy a big hug. I was impressed.

She later told me, "Mom, maybe Heavenly Father will give us a baby sister after the baby brother."
I think I will let her dream for now.

For now we will take it one little monkey at a time. :)

There's no place like home.

Last year we dressed up in a theme as a family so we continued the idea this year and were characters from The Wizard of Oz for our church Halloween party. We had a good time getting ready and putting together our costumes. (Thanks again to Nana for sewing help with Emma's dress!)
Thane loved being the lion as growling and roaring are his forte-- (he just didn't love the pictures.) He loved chasing his tail. We were laughing so hard we cried because Thane was crawling everywhere trying to capture his tail. Too funny.

We spent Halloween with family celebrating Chris's birthday.

Apparently Spencer was bored...

The amazing Nana and Papa hosted a spooky good time!

Happy Birthday to the beloved old geezer Uncle Topher! He scared Thane pretty bad with his fake wrinkly face, magnifying glasses and short tight clothes . He really pulls off 70 pretty well.

This is the yummy birthday cake Steph created for Toph.

And of course the food and punch created by Nana. She made all kinds of fun for us!


Yummy treats

Mummy pizzas

mummy dogs

Nana made pumpkin shaped bread bowls even--they were so pretty and so tasty!

We had a really fun time last week. We love Uncle Topher and love spending time celebrating him on his day. The Halloween part was fun too-dressing up and being goofy. Thanks for your hard work Mom and Dad.