November

So for the month of November we didn't do much, except Thanksgiving weekend. I didn't get that many pictures of Thanksgiving. We had Thanksgiving at my parents AKA where we are living too. All of us sisters were together this year.

 Shelby dressed for Thanksgiving day!

 Holly isn't dressed for Thanksgiving day! She watched Disney movies in the morning!  BUM

After Thanksgiving dinner-We had to take a sisters picture!

Thanksgiving was pretty relaxing.  Chris and I made one of the turkeys which was fun to do.  Then after dinner we looked at Black Friday ads.  Denise and I were planning on going to Walmart at 10pm.  Nicole and Jason decided to go with us.  I'm glad they came with us, because they helped us get everything on our list.  Black Friday was absolutely crazy down in Idaho Falls.  Denise and I did pretty good and got everything we wanted, even Nicole got some stuff. 

Then Saturday night us girls had a GNO to go see Breaking Dawn and we wore our shirts that my Dad got us.  That was a fun night out!

Here's a little bit of snow that we have had so far.  Other than that-we haven't had hardly any snow yet, which is very uncommon for Rexburg. I'm ok with that though!!!  The coldest it's been during the day was about 19 degrees.

We will see what the next couple months have in store for us for weather!!!

October

I've been slacking on my Blog.  I have been posting my pictures on Facebook, but I still want to keep up with my blog too.  I haven't taken a ton of pictures since we moved here, but I will try and do better!! 

First I wanted to post all the Halloween fun we had.

I took the kids to a Pumpkin patch down the street.  I pulled them in the wagon and then we got our pumpkins and didn't have room in the wagon, I know smart thinking huh!  So the guy their drove the kids back to the house with our pumpkins too.  They had so much fun picking out their own pumpkins.
Then we carved the pumpkins a couple days later. I got the kit with the designs in it.  Carson did a great ghost.

 Holly did a scary face!

 Even Shelby got a pumpkin that Chris carved for her.  She liked it!

 Chris did a flying eyeball-if you can't tell what it is.

 I did a spider-it's behind Shelby pumpkin!

Then it was Halloween and trunk or treat at the church building with the family and all the cousins.

The kids were cold, but at least it wasn't snowing.  We went around Denise's block after the Trunk or Treat.  They got lots of candy and had fun.  If you can't tell from the pictures: Holly was Cleopatra, Carson-Spiderman, and Shelby was a chicken. 
So that was our Halloween fun and the end of October.

We moved to Idaho!!

We now live in Rexburg Idaho.  Chris and Holly have been in Idaho for a month and now we are all finally together.  It has been a long and stressful move with lots of trials, tribulations, and tears.  It was a difficult decision for us and we miss our friends and family in Oregon. However, we are excited about our new life in Rexburg and look forward to making a life here for ourselves.  Today I went to our new ward for the first time.  It is very crowded and I can't be late to church anymore or else you have to hang out in the foyer.  We got here on Monday Oct. 3rd in the afternoon. I have been working non-stop with unpacking, organizing, and cleaning.  We had some friends come and visit from Oregon already and that was nice to visit with them and take a break from unpacking.  Chris and I took the kids out for custard on Sat. night and a college kid in a red neon backed into my car in the parking lot.  Seriously-already!!! One more thing I have to deal with.  I know things will settle down here and become more like home for us.  Right now I still feel like I'm on vacation visiting my parents-but reality hasn't sunk in yet.  I look forward to enjoying the Fall season here-there are a lot of fun family things to do here.  I plan on finding a couple days of work and hopefully I can find something right in Rexburg. 
Thank you to all who helped with our move.  We love you all and want to keep in touch with all our friends and family in Oregon and everywhere.  Please keep in touch-best place to reach us is on facebook.  I know that this was the right move for our family even though it is hard.  Heavenly Father has a plan for all of us and I want to make sure I'm living my life the way he would want me too. 
Big Hugs from the Hickman Family
3135 S 1400 W
Rexburg, ID 83440
(541) 817-3318 my cell

Shelby's Birthday

On Saturday we had a Birthday party for Shelby.  Chris and Holly were here from Idaho and we had friends and family over.  I can't believe Shelby is already a year old.  She was having fun, but she doesn't just dive into things. She has to test it out first and see if this is ok.  At first she wouldn't eat her cupcake.  I would post videos if Blogger wasn't so slow and take forever to post.  So for now I just have pictures to post.   

 Shelby is testing it out first.  Look at that concentrating face.

"So I have frosting on my face-so what.  What are you going to do about it?"

So now she likes it-but doesn't want me to take a picture of her eating her cupcake!

Since today is her Birthday.  After dinner we played music and danced.  Shelby loves to dance.  It was really cute.  Then I took Carson and Shelby to the park and let Shelby swing again. She seemed to like that on Monday.  So-I thought I would go swing again.  Then it was bedtime.  She was worn out after all this fun!

Shelby swinging

I haven't really had a chance to take Shelby to a playground until yesterday. This was her first experience swinging. At first she kindof laughed/cried. Then she started laughing and liked it. She's so funny because she doesn't like to be tossed in the air or played with like that. She's still my serious girl.

Going cellular

So I just got a DROID and this is so cool that I can do everything through my phone. I'm writing a post on my phone. I love technology. I think I will be a lot better about email, my blog, facebook. I just had to try this out.

Updated pictures

These pictures turned out really cute.  Soozee and Amy took all the kids to Sears to have portraits done.