Giving Thanks

We made some Thankful turkeys this year. The kids wrote or drew what they were thankful for on the feathers.

 

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Packer's house in Rigby for Thanksgiving this year. We had such a fun time there. Grandma always has lots of fun things planned for the kids. They made these fun houses out of Rice Krispy treats.

Clara's held up strong against all the weight of the candy!

I spent a lot of time making these nifty advent calendars with my sisters. They were a lot of work, but I love how they all turned out!

That Saturday we went up near Kelly Canyon to find a Christmas tree. Triston and Connor came with us.

It was so fun to see a lot of snow! We didn't have sleds, but that didn't stop the kids from plopping on their bellies and sailing down the hill.

Our tree has two tops this year!

Photo Shoots

My sister, Jeni, is so nice to take some pictures of our family when I ask her to. She took some of the kids when we went to Utah in October and some family pictures on Thanksgiving. Here are some of my favorites.

Quinton turns 6!

Six sure seems old! I can't believe how big my little guy is. To celebrate, here are six things I love about Quinton:

1. He has the most incredible imagination ever. He can play for an hour with an orange without even batting an eye because he has some story going on with it. He makes up games to play with Clara and his friends all the time.
2. He is a loyal friend. Basically, he can beat on his brother and sister all he wants, but you'd better not mess with them!
3. He has the best laugh when he really thinks something is funny, or he's being tickled.
4. When he wants to be nice and helpful, he is such a sweetheart.
5. He puts his whole heart into pretty much anything he does. He is very passionate.
6. He is very thoughtful of others sometimes. He even saves his gumball that he gets in class on Fridays and splits it with his sister.

We celebrated his birthday a day early since there was no school or work due to Veteran's Day.

He got to eat his blue crepe breakfast on the couch while watching cartoons.

We opened presents early so he could play with them.

Here he is excavating his T-Rex that he got. (He's really into dinosaurs lately.)

We all took turns playing his new Super Mario game. 

Then we went to the Boise Zoo. It was just warm enough to still enjoy it, but we had the place pretty much to ourselves. It was a lot of fun.

They fed some meal worms to a sloth bear through that tube.

There's a fun prairie dog exhibit where the kids get to pop up from a tunnel.

Quinton wanted to spend some of his birthday money to buy food for the goats.

Guess who didn't like the goats?

Barry made Quinton's awesome cake this year. He used rice krispy treats and candy to make a volcano. And there are frightened sour patch people fleeing the scene!

This is a picture from a hiking trip he took with Dad on November 9th.

We're so glad to have Quinton. We love him lots! 

Uh-Oh...

Want to know one of my least favorite sounds? It's the sound of thousands of Cheerios steadily being dumped out onto the kitchen floor. This little man is starting to get a little mischievous around the house!

Trick or Treat

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. The kids are so excited to dress up and get candy, it's hard not to get excited along with them. The picture above was the only one I could get with them all looking at the camera nicely and I was sad to see it was blurry. That's usually how it goes taking pictures of these guys. 

Clara was a princess, Quinton a dragon, and Warren was a prince. Quinton and Clara celebrated at school and that evening we went to our ward party and trunk or treat. Then Barry took them out to some neighborhoods. Of course it rained for the first time in a while for the only hour they were out and about, but they still came back with a haul of good candy!

Carving Pumpkins

Pumpkin waffles for breakfast

Quinton with his friend Zannah. He loved parading around at school!

Mummy dogs for lunch.

They get pretty silly when taking pictures!