Happy Turkey Lurkey Day

The day of giving thanks was a success.

Mmmm... two thumbs up to my madre's food.

It makes me fat just thinking about it.

But it was a good time and I'm glad to be home...

where it isn't quite as cold and my kids sleep through the night.

We attempted family pics in Randolph but it wasn't a huge success for a few reasons:

A) It was butt cold.

(That probably doesn't make sense b/c when is your butt cold?)

B) Koy is 3 and getting him to pay attention to something for .0000000001 of a second is literally impossible.

C) We do not photograph well. Really. We have practice sessions and pep talks

but still nothing works. Every time we have pictures done, we swear that next time we'll try harder to look normal and it doesn't work.

So kudos to Denise for taking pics of us.

And one last note-

This is Justin's last week in his 20's.

And my funeral is planned for Saturday b/c

he's going to kill me for making that public.

One minute...

One minute Koy's being so nice and sharing a treat

with his little brother.

You take your eye off the kid for one minute

to use the bathroom... or something...

and you come back to find

the little man being pulled around

with "Rapunzel's hair."

Spoooky....

The title of this has nothing really to do with the post.

Halloween was a good one around these parts...

Koy got to spend most of the day with his besties-

Kayden and Morgan.

We went Trick or Treating on Main

and got some goods.

We ran into Bell and her mother-

"Sister Garbanaughty." :)

Went around the "hood" and got a few more goodies

and then hit

Dr. Doug's house for their chili and hot dogs.

So fun. We've never missed a year seeing

Doug and Melody on Halloween...

so that's about the only tradition we've got going on here.

It was a good day though and it was so fun to see Koy actually be excited about it.

We made it to the Pumpkin Walk a couple of times this year.

If you live close to Cache Valley, you need to go.

They usually have some amazing scenes, you get a free cookie

at the end and

the best part is that it's FREE!

The dragon... I mean dinosaur with wings and his

skeleton side-kick.

Strike a pose-

Cheese!

Fwee

Every morning for a month Koy would wake up and say,

"It's my birthday!"

So finally, after many days of disappointment, it was his

BIRTHDAY!

Our super hero is 3!

We can't believe it!

We promised that on his birthday we would have balloons for him when he woke up.

He was so excited.

(So were we! Birthdays are fun!)

This pic makes me laugh.

It makes me think of an old man.

He really is talking on the phone to his cousins.

He loves to talk on the phone... and just talk in general.

He wanted to ride a horse for his birthday, so Justin took him for a ride.

I just thought this was cute...

Haley, Wes, Troy, Denise and G'ma and G'pa came for a party.

That was better than gifts

and the ugly cake.

I gave up after I used spray food coloring

on the fondant.

I wouldn't recommend it.

Especially b/c a blue mist was on EVERYTHING

and we blew blue boogers for a week.

Happy birthday Koy boy.

We love you!

This Little Peanut...

Can you believe that this little guy is

6... errrr... uh... 7 months old now?

(This pic was taken at 6 months with the intention of

an update on his life but I never got around to it.)

He's currently in the 8th percentile for weight.

I think he's average for height and

above average for cute.

We like him-

a lot!

(And love him lots too!)

Great Grandma

My grandma was up north for a few days so we

met her and my mom at the lake for a quick visit.

It was fun. We went to the park and played.

Threw rocks in the lake and had lunch.

I decided this toy is something every adult

needs in their back yard.

It makes you feel young again.

It would be a good thing to have on your birthday to

counter-act the "another year older" feeling...

at least until you let go and your back is out of place and

you have blisters on your hands.

Koy and I had fun though.

Joy School

Koy has been doing Joy School with some of our neighbors.

He loves it.

Here is his first day of school.

They made caramel apples at school one day and then Koy wanted me to take tons of pictures of him.