November In Pictures

Katelyn received a letter in the mail from Grandma! She was so excited and the letter is with her "save" papers.

The girls had the day off for parent teacher conference! It was great until Mom had to watch Grey AND his three brothers. Then it was a little crazy, and Tween Livi had to go seek refuge in Mom's room for the day. I couldn't blame her! Both girls are doing amazingly well at school. They are smart and kind and wonderful.

Thing One and Thing Two.

KJ turned 14! I can hardly believe my luck to have this wonderful guy in our lives.

Benson thinks KJ is his personal climbing gym. And KJ almost always just let's him do his thing. What a kind brother!

Time Out For Women! Our favorite weekend. We had a ball and Trina and I laughed so hard. During one talk the speaker put up a washed out picture of a pioneer baby and I leaned over and said "Don't take this the wrong way, but that baby kind of looks like Lord Voldemort." Trina turned to me and said in her sweetest voice "I could NEVER take that the wrong way." I laughed for about a month about that one! I so love the wonderful women in my family.

Liv got really into building houses of cards and has amazing patience and resilience with it!

First dental check up for Benny! He was so cool with it all that I was amazed! And looked so darn cute.

Headed up to spend Thanksgiving week in Utah, since there was no school. Kate is a grandma's girl and loves those snuggles!

These two have such a bond. She has always taken such amazing care of him and he loves her so much in return.

KJ and I went up to Cedar City to meet the youth and tour the new Cedar City temple. Then we all went down to the St George temple to do baptisms for the dead. It was a great day -- to be with my boy, and with the youth.

Best good friends. And an apple.

Had lots of fun time with the cousins. That's our dear friend Shawna appreciating our "Super Cat." You might have thought he was Batman, but you would be wrong. Benny and Will had lots of fun playing together. Cute little guys!

Thanksgiving was so delicious!  Daddy made it up for a couple days. When Benson saw I was taking a picture, he had to hurry and pull up his foot so we could all admire his owie. He got it driving the wiggle car from the top of grandma's hill like a maniac. He loved every second doing that (even made it  down while drinking a can of diet coke once!) and he is really good at it, but it sure scares his mother!

Yum yum yum. Not to brag or anything, but our family can put on a meal!

Black Friday shopping was such a blast this year, and we really, seriously did shop until we dropped! This is Trina wedged into the back seat on the way home, not an inch to spare!

Grandma and Grandpa got the kids their first gingerbread house and oh boy, they loved it.

Even Benson decorated! He made one of the gingerbread men, which Liv pretty accurately nicknamed "zombie cookie." Kate made the other, and all three worked together really well on the roof.

Liv wants to go into business making hot pads, Grandma Sugar so kindly taught her how it is done. 

After a super busy, fun week, we came home and crashed. So fun to go and so nice to be home with Daddy and our own beds and a little routine again. 

We had our annual Christmas Kick-Off Family Home Evening. The kids really love this tradition and especially loved their Christmas PJ's this year. It was a great way to start our holiday season.

Lots of fun and lots of busy, and now --  on to December!