This Thanksgiving We're Thankful for...

Baby number 3!! May 12, 2012

Sold the house

Yes, it's true. We finally got our house sold and are so happy about it! We are still living with my parents and are in the process of finding a new home somewhere in this valley. It was a little sad to see our finally completed, cleaned home go to someone else, but it was definitely a relief to be done with it and not have to worry about going out there to work on it anymore. Thank you to all who have helped us with it: projects, babysitting, cleaning, praying for us, etc. It was a great blessing. And as depressing as it was to get a lot less out of it than hoped for, we are constantly reminded that we did a lot better than many who lost their homes; so we are grateful. It was just an unfortunate time to buy and sell in this market. We are excited to move to a new home that is closer to Chad's work and to family and friends! What a great Thanksgiving gift for us.

Happy Halloween

 We carved pumpkins for Family Home Evening the week before Halloween. We're not big into carving pumpkins. I have to drag Chad to do it each year because he hates the smell and feel of the pumpkin guts...

 ...but Jayci loved them! She played with them for a long time. And Cody mostly just watched. Chad's always the designated pumpkin carver.

 We ended up with two very simple pumpkin faces, but the kids were satisfied.

 Here's princess Cinderella. She loves dressing up like princesses on a daily basis. Probably no different than most 4 year olds.

 I thought her hair was pretty in a bun. We tried to make her look as much like Cinderella as we could with what we had.

Halloween morning she had a Halloween party for preschool. She had lots of fun.

 And here's my cute little skeleton. I'm not a big fan of skeletons, but this one was adorable! It was so funny to watch him run around in the dark with just his bones showing his cute little toddler run.

 He wasn't always happy to be wearing it :)

 Not really a matching pair, but cute, nonetheless. We just wear what people will lend us. Cheap, I know, but we're all happy.

 We went to Leslie's work at Jet Blue and her co-workers were so nice to give my kids candy and rave about how cute they were. Here's a clown on stilts that Jayci was so scared of. She wouldn't look up at him. Cody was very intrigued.

It was such a fun Halloween. We did just a little trick-or-treating around my parents' neighborhood and my in-laws neighborhood. It was so fun to watch Cody. He loved everything about it. The lights, the pumpkins, the costumes, and of course... the CANDY! He put each piece in his mouth right when he got it. If you don't know my Cody, you should, he's hilarious.

Just everyday life...

 Cody loves bugs... and so does his dad. So Chad often finds bugs and brings them in for Cody. One day it was a cat spider. Fortunately, he didn't take it inside because those are some huge spiders! Chad carried it to the porch and was playing with it with Cody. I looked it up online because my parents, brother, and I were all creeped out, but Chad was right, they are harmless.

 If only we had a super quality camera like most of my siblings...nonetheless, Chad's photography is quite impressive. He likes taking pictures of the kids...

 ...and these are priceless.

 Here's Jayci jumping on the trampoline!

 One day we used some apples from my mom's tree and painted stars. They didn't work real great, but the kids still had fun.

 And the chocolate lover licking the spoon after making something chocolatey