Thanksgiving 2012

We had Thanksgiving at home (well-upstairs).  My mom had all these recipes that she wanted to do for Thanksgiving dinner.  So my dad and I each cooked a turkey.  Kim came with her family. My mom, Kim, and I rushed around the kitchen getting all the food ready. Chris helped make the gravy and carve the turkey.  I was so hungry after all the cooking.  The food was so good.  I really enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner.  Good job to my mom for finding some good recipes. 

After dinner and pumpkin pie-I had to leave to go to Walmart and do an early Black Friday shopping.  I just went to the Walmart in Rexburg this year. I got everything I wanted, but at the expense of pushing and shoving people out of my way, getting pushed down trying to grab a video game and having people reach over me.  I couldn't get back up because there were people over me.  I had to pull myself back up and push people.  I was pretty mad because no one helped me up or apologized. I was at Walmart for 4.5 hours.  Now I'm almost done with my Christmas shopping.    

Riley is 4mo old

Riley is 4mo old today.  She is growing up so fast.  She rolled over all by herself yesterday-11/1/12.  She weighs 14.5 lbs. and measures 26" in length.  She is such a happy baby.  She smiles all the time, laughs, makes all kinds of noises.  Her new thing is spitting and smiling with her tongue out.  She grabs for everything.  She loves to have her family around her.  If I leave her in her chair I have to leave the TV on so she can see the colors and hear it because she likes that when she's awake.  She's been sleeping through the night for about a month now.  However, last night she woke up at 4 AM to eat.  She's pretty calm, except when she gets gas bubbles and then she screams until I get her to burp or give her some Mylicon drops.  Poor baby-that's heart wrenching when that happens.  Now that Riley's a little bit older she is doing better with not being colic.  Riley is such a wonderful baby.  We love having her in our family.  Her siblings just adore her too.

Halloween

There was an owl in the tree at the trunk-or-treat. 

We took the kids to the trunk-or-treat at our Stake Center. It was for the entire stake and there was a pretty good turn out.  After that then we took the kids around my sister- Denise's neighborhood.  We just went around to about 10 houses and then we were done.  Shelby was a little scared once it got dark and there were some scary props out in people's yard.  After each house, Shelby would cry for her daddy to hold her hand.  It was cute.  The kids loved dressing up this year.  They got a lot of candy.  At my work they were paying kids a $1 per pound of candy and then sending it to our troops.  So-I went in today with 3 lbs. of candy.  It was a fun Halloween.  Maybe next year Chris and I will have a chance to dress up too.