Teeth, Toes, Turkey and Traveling

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house yesterday. Good food and good company are always a fun combination. I didn't take any pictures though. While at my parents house, Randy was walking down the stairs while skyping with his sister and he totally slipped and fell down the stairs and hit his foot on the wall at the bottom. he was limping the rest of the night, so I knew something was wrong for sure. Randy is pretty tough and doesn't ever complain about physical ailments. I bet it was pretty funny to Paige, who got a front seat to see the whole thing on skype.

Randy also went out at 11:00 PM to start our black Friday shopping that started at midnight. He has the shopping down to a science. It is seriously so funny to hear the stories he tells. And the way he gets the items he wants is hilarious. Just ask him to tell you about black Friday tampons and you won't regret it. He got home from Wal-Mart with a whole bunch of stuff at about 2:45am and then decided to stay up till 5am to hit The Home Depot and sears. He is a WONDERFUL husband to brave the crowds and cold (about 8 degrees outside). THANK YOU RANDY!!! I feel much more prepared for Christmas now.

In other news, Tyler lost his first tooth this morning! He will be seven years old in less than a month. He was feeling pretty left out as his friends and cousins were all losing their teeth and he wasn't. The dentist told us it was unusual for him to lose the side front tooth first. I pulled it out for him because he kept complaining about how much it hurt and it was so loose I said "just let me tug on it once and if it doesn't come out, I won't do it again" So I pulled once and it came out. He got mad at me because he said it hurt and then I asked him "Is your tooth still there?" and he said "yeah." then I said "It can't be there, because it's in my hand. He was really surprised. It bled a lot though and I felt bad for him. I'm not sure what the going rate is for teeth these days. It has been a while since the tooth fairy has visited me, and I used to get 25cents for my teeth. I figure she should bring a dollar? I guess we will see tonight if I'm right.

We went to my little brother Ben's basketball game today at UVU. We attended the first game, but I forgot my camera that night. Ben is in the starting lineup and he plays really well; especially since it is his first year in college.

He fits in better with the college crowd than he did with his high school team. at 6'10" he still stands apart, but not as much as he used to.

I couldn't really get good pictures of him on the court. luckily he got to sit on the bench some. They were wasting the other team and the coach put in the second string.

Tyler "high fiving" the wolverine mascot.
Jake informed me at the last game that this was not, however a wolverine. He said that wolverine has metal coming out of his hands and that this was clearly a "bear". Obviously, this was my mistake. :)

The back of Grandma, Lily, and Papa's heads. Awesome.



This is Jacob's favorite spot of course.

My sister Michelle and her baby Sarah

Lily wasn't thrilled about taking this picture.

This is what Randy's foot/toe look like today. We're pretty sure he broke that middle toe. poor Randy. I hope it feels better soon.

I think that pretty much covers everything for the last two days. Happy Thanksgiving!

Love

Don't they just make you want to snuggle, tickle, giggle and hug them?!? I sure love these kiddos. Don't ask me how I got them all to smile, stand next to each other and look at the camera at the same time. For every 40 pictures taken, you are bound to get ONE that works.

Sometimes the more interesting pictures are the ones that don't work. Here are some of the MANY that didn't work.

I like free stuff

What can I say, I'm a sucker for "free" things. Shutterfly.com is a website I use regularly to make hardbound books and things to keep as mementos for our family.They are giving away 50 free holiday cards if I write about them on my little ol' blog. Yeah, you read that right...50 FREE CARDS! Pretty sweet deal.I personally like/use shutterfly for their hardbound books that you can see here I have made a cruise book, a kindergarten yearbook, a family abc book, etc. The kids love looking at these books all the time. I use them in church as quiet books as well. I also have a poster hanging on the boys' wall that I made at shutterfly. There Christmas cards are pretty cute. These are some of the holiday cards they have online that I like the best:
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they are really cool right? They have some great designs. I'm not sure which design I will use for my cards, but I can't go wrong with any of them.
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Adult Halloween Party

We went to the annual Arnold Halloween party again this year. Randy and I decided to go as Mary Poppins and Bert. We found 90% of our costumes at the D.I. I made a parrot at the bottom of an umbrella by using paper mache and then painted it to look like a bird. I made my hat out of baskets and flowers I found at the D.I. Bert and Mary. aka Randy and Heather

The "Yup Yups" aka Tina and Ryan

Pac-Man couple aka Alison and John
Awesome.

Wanda the drunk and Al Lubel (from our cruise ship) aka Wendy and Joe- the host couple

Sarah and Chuck (from the TV show Chuck) aka Rachelle and Steve Yes, Rachelle was packing a real gun. Freaking awesome.

Little red riding hood and the wolf aka Evelyn and Sebastian

The avatars aka Justin and Nancy

Yeah, they pretty much blew us out of the water for best costume. I couldn't believe she made nearly everything except for the wigs (which they braided themselves) and they bought the ears. Someday Randy and I will win best costume! We did get 2 of the 14 votes though, so that says something right?The desert I made. Chocolate niece with skulls and spider webs.

I took a couple of pictures after we got home. Yes, my eyelashes are falling off at this point, and half my makeup is smudged off.

Pretty sweet though right? Randy did not want to pose for a picture at 1:00 in the morning. Go figure.

Thanks Mom and Dad for watching the kids overnight for us! Especially since our sweet Lily Bean was throwing up and so sick. We love you!

I also need to thank my awesome friend Melissa for coming over and helping me do my retarded hair and attach that blasted basket to my head. She did a great job especially considering what she had to work with. Thanks Melissa!

Trunk or Treat pictures

We attended our ward trunk or treat last night. It was really fun and lily's costume was a big hit. Everybody loved it. Most everyone guessed what she was,but some weren't so sure. It was cold, but not as cold as last year (about 35 degrees last night). We had hot chocolate and doughnuts and had a great time looking at other people's costumes.

Jakey as..Spiderman!

Tyler...the green Power ranger.

Lily as...Cindy Lou Who

Spider-man, Cindy lou who, and a Green Power Ranger

Hanging out in the back of the van..I guess it has creepy looking lights from the camera flash.

Jakey Says...

We attended Regional conference today at the stake center. When Randy's dad Rick called to say hello, he was talking to Tyler and asked about who spoke in conference. Tyler told him that he drew a picture of president Uchtorf and Elder Nelson also spoke. when it was Jake's turn to talk to grandpa, he said "Hey grandpa, I watched President Monson-packer today!"

At least he was in the right ballpark right?

Cruise 2010 on the "Fun Ship"

We went on our 5 day cruise with 5 of our favorite couples and had a great time. I won't bore you with the details of everything that happened, but I did put most of our pictures on this post

we left the kiddos in the morning with Randy's parents.

The first night we stayed in New Orleans at a very old hotel in the French quarter. This is the surprise stain we found in the hall...yummy.Heading on to the ship.

Randy and the Mississippi river.

Me

all of us at the top of the ship while we left the port.

It was very windy.

Cha-Cha dance class

Justin and Nancy won "best dancer" medals.

Karaoke
Wendy and me playing shuffleboard

Love this picture at Karaoke on the formal night
no neck Randy
None of us can hide our awesomeness.Our AFP pose

All of us wore matching T-shirts in Key west. Don't look for me, I'm taking the picture.

We rented Scooters to drive around the city. 35 bucks for the day didn't seem too bad.

Our scooter gang.

snorkeling at the beach

cute cute girls and Justin.

nice wet spot Randy.

Justin and Randy in their t-shirts we made.

all the guys.

what's up with my legs. It's like I did an MC Escher picture all by myself.

Wendy and Joe in the coconut bras. Ryan in the back is my favorite though.

Randy singing Karaoke
Joe, Me, Evelyn, Sebastian, Randy.

Joe and Wendy singing

matchy matchy. We made the shirts with bleach pens.

I guess none of us can look at the camera at the same time without laughing.

The waiters dancing at dinner.
I think he is dancing.I'm not sure though.

Wendy before she got on stage for the hypnotist show.

Wendy up on stage drooling on that lady's leg..hahaha!

Justin made it up too. he fell off his chair..freaking awesome.

Wendy on our friend Leah from Idaho who we met on the ship.

my desert one day. Ice cram and pastry swan.

Wendy and Tina with the comedians from the ship

All of us with Al Lubel. I forgot to turn on the flash..oops.

hanging out and eating.

Justin and I were the only ones at our table who would try the escargot, this was my turn first. look how nervous he looks! he gave us quite a dramatic show of gagging and horrible facial expressions when he at his.

New Orleans street guy

Cemetery in New Orleans

Me with dead people...sweet.

airport coming home. We were so tired. It was a fun trip and we are glad to be home. I missed my babies too much to be gone longer. If you want to see what they did with Randy's parents while we were gone you can go here.