Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day! We had a nice day. We started the morning off eating donuts and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving's Day Parade. Then the cooking began!!! Chad was in charge of the turkey and the stuffing - I love it! I was happy to be the assistant! I was also the baker. I made pumpkin and pecan pie - yummy!! We had our good friends, the Taylor Family, over for the feast. They brought some delicious food to share! It was a wonderful evening. The kids had fun playing with each other and watching movies. We finished off the evening by eating pie and watching Elf! We are thankful for our wonderful family and friends!!!!

Trevor gets a kick out of Soccer

Chad nicknamed Trevor "Ronaldo" this soccer season. Ronaldo is a professional soccer player who is awesome! Chad showed Trevor some YouTube videos of Ronaldo at the beginning of the soccer season. Ronaldo has amazing footwork. After Trevor saw the videos he went out in the backyard to try out what he had seen Ronaldo do. Trevor did really well. His little feet can move pretty quickly! Trevor is such a good little soccer player. As he plays you can see him figuring out how the play will pan out. He gets after the ball - you can see the determination in his face. We enjoy watching Trevor play. This year was his last year on the small field. Trevor is excited to play with the big boys next year. Trevor had the same coach for the last two years and the coach does a great job. We hope Trevor will still be on his team next year! Great job on another great season Trevor!

What Kaden has been up to!

The soccer season just ended and Kaden had a blast again! He was on the same team again this year - The Cobras. He had a really great coach that taught the boys well. Kaden improved a lot this season. At the beginning of the season he was a little timid about going into the pack to get the ball, but by the end he was finding his way in and taking the ball. He even scored two goals in the last game of the season. We had a lot of fun going to the games to cheer on Kaden! Great job Kaden!

What a great Halloween!

We had a lot of fun this Halloween! Our Halloween started on Friday afternoon. I picked the kids up from school and we headed over to Chad's office to go trick or treating, or work or treat as Kaden calls it! Chad's office goes all out. They have treat bags, cups with treats, snacks, drinks, and last but not least . . . trick or treating! It is fun to meet all of the people that Chad works with. You would think that after getting all that candy the boys would be done - oh, no! On Saturday we had more trick or treating fun. We went to the church at noon for a chili cook-off and trunk or treating. The kids loved seeing everyone's costumes! After the ward party we came home and made pizza. Our family tradition for Halloween is pizza for dinner, watching Charlie Brown and after trick or treating the boys can eat as much candy as they want! So far no one has gotten sick from over eating! This year we had our pizza after the boys went trick or treating. Chad tried to talk the boys out of going trick or treating in our neighborhood (cause you know they had enough candy already!), but the boys would have no part of it! Eating the pizza after was great because we were able to relax and enjoy the rest of our evening.



While the boys were out trick or treating Austin and I hung out on the porch to hand out candy. Austin had a ball sitting there with the bowl of candy talking up a storm. I tried to get a video, but as soon as he saw what I was doing he clammed up.



This is kind of fun. I have made one Halloween costume over the years. I made the puppy costume for Tanner when he was little. I used fake fur and a store bought pattern. I broke three needles before I was finished. It turned out cute and I decided never to do it again! So as a result I decided that each one of my children had to wear the costume once. Well, I am happy to report that all five boys have worn the costume!! I thought it would be fun to see them all together. I added their names just in case you couldn't tell the boys apart (some are pretty similar)!