Gingerbread House Festival

These are a couple of the amazing gingerbread houses that we saw at the Gingerbread House Festival at Thanksgiving Point.

Noah and Caleb decorating cookies.

We all agreed that this was the best part of the whole thing. On the way out the kids played in the leaves and you can see they had a great time.

Getting Old

Yesterday I turned 29. Even typing it makes my eyes roll. For the past several years my birthdays have been rather depressing (I suppose a lot of people feel that way)so, with much opposition from Ben, I try to act like it is any other day. Ben got me a KitchenAid mixer. When I asked for it, I didn't really think he would get it, but...SURPRISE!

One of Ben's grandmothers has Thanksgiving dinner on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, so we went up to Bountiful and were able to pick up Noah for dinner. I am not the one who dressed him in shorts...and that is all I will say about that.

Thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes!

Mommy's Little Helper

Hope really enjoys helping around the house.

She loves to shop - She gets that from her daddy. ;)

Doing laundry.....

And then folding the laundry.

Making food.....

And, of course, eating the food.

Messy Pumpkin

Noah drew a dragon breathing fire (with a little help from Ben) and Ben got out his Skil Saw. They had a good time, and even Muffin enjoyed watching. You can see his eyes glowing in the corner of the first picture.

Sasuke and the Bumble Bee

Noah was able to spend Halloween morning with us. He wore the Sasuke (a Naruto character) that Gma made for his birthday.

Happy Halloween!!!

Playing in the leaves with Caleb at Uncle Brian's house.


My nephew Caleb.


Trick-or-Treat at Dad's office.