Let it Snow!!

Yippee, we finally had a big snowstorm and to our good fortune, Erin and Abe were at our house!! So, while Erin and I made bushels of cookies, Abe and the kids created this snow basilisk. Although there did come a point where we had to abandon the kitchen to play in the snow ourselves.


Erin is bringing those menacing fangs to a sharp point.

Countdown to Christmas

Here's our Christmas countdown. I've given up on the paper chain. I'm not that good at planning a month in advance. With the socks, we can plan as we go and put our daily activities in each sock. Hope you're all having a great holiday!

Pearly Whites

Graysen went in to the orthodontist the other day to have his braces/appliance checked and look how things turned out! Doesn't he look handsome?

Thanksgiving

OK, finally getting around to posting about Thanksgiving. For some reason, things have just been nonstop since then and I find myself just crashing each night. So, better late than never, here are the pics of my roll making. Due to some sort of mental calculation error, I ended up baking 16 dozen rolls.

Naomi with her plate of dessert sitting next to her cousin, Stephanie. I'm pretty sure this plate has more food on it than her dinner plate did.

Here we are playing an intense game of Domino's. All except Gray, he looks far to confident doesn't he?

Reverse Engineering

Saturday we had a great study in reverse engineering as Graysen, Naomi and Gray's friend Brian took apart our broken computer monitor. They spent about an hour and a half with all sorts of screwdrivers and hammers. In the end it was a huge pile of wiring, and metal that filled two boxes. The kids loved it. Here are a few pictures.

Trick-or-Treat

For Halloween this year Gray was "monkey man" by day and some variation of the witch from the Wizard of Oz by night. The kids had a costume parade at school, but I missed getting a picture of Gray, he slipped right past me. Naomi was a witch all day then turned into a princess for trick-or-treating.

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween Recital

Last night Graysen, I mean Obi Wan Kenobi, had his Halloween Recital. Enjoy the show.


Here's a picture of him and his teacher, Kara.
Great job Gray!!

Interbike

Here are some photos of our trip to Vegas/Interbike at the end of September.




We always stop at the Chevron in Beaver. Funny, but it's the best gas station. As soon as you pull up to the pump someone is there to get your gas pumped and your window washed. And of course, the giant chair.

A bridge outside the Venetian.

The kids were given cowbells at a cyclocross race. Check out Gray's blog for more about racing.

I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but Gray is the only person on this ride. It was great, there were no lines at the Adventuredome (CircusCircus) and the kids just went on rides over and over. They loved it.

Someone in our family would be happy to eat at Wendy's for every meal.

This is the lobby of our hotel. The kids were so tired and ready to go home. I think that's where the smiles are coming from. They had just taken their last walk down The Boulevard. Naomi must have walked miles in those "flippy's", I was pretty impressed.

Autumn Drive

We spent conference weekend doing our annual leaf drive. We began going through Logan canyon, had a picnic on the beach at Bear Lake. It was super cold at the beach and we were the only people there, but it made it easier to convince the kids that we were supposed to be listening to conference. After lunch, we went on through Randolph then headed up to MonteCristo. After playing in the snow at MonteCristo (yes, the leaves were long gone) we dropped down into Eden and over the Ogden pass into North Ogden and home through Sardine canyon. The sun was just setting in Sardine and the leaves were gorgeous, so we got up the next morning and watched the sun rise. It's been a beautiful fall with the reds and yellows so deep in color.