Kimberly Williams 11/7/2008

This weekend the kids and I went up to Salt Lake to see my brothers baby girl. She is THE smallest baby I have ever held (except for Kyler, who spent two weeks in the hospital!)-honestly the pictures make her look bigger than she is-and she looks small in the pictures!

Veteran's Day Program 11/6/2008

Today the third grade classes put on an AMAZING Veterans Day program! All who attended today's program must have walked away feeling proud to be an American! I know I did! I really wanted to get a class picture after the program-or even J with a bunch of his friends - but the lighting in the auditorium is horrible, and it was so hectic after - that this is all I got - stay tuned for posts of videos from the program!

Shoe Races 11/1/2008

Diamond H Carnival! 11/1/2008

Uncle Bill and Amy Hirschi have an AMAZING arena in New Harmony and had a more than generous carnival! As soon as we walked in the door they had a little fall set up that we sat on and took our picture-which they printed out and gave to us! Then at the next book the kids were all able to decorate a wooden picture frame and a canvas bag to store their goodies in! From there it was game after game-bowling, ring toss, cake walk, everything you can imagine-with GREAT prizes-such as cowboy hats, jump ropes, whistles,yo-yo's and much more!! Then on to the delicious funnel cake, snow cones, cotton candy, hamburgers and much more! Then we took the kids through the horse stalls to see all of the beautiful horses. Then we were off to race-barrel races on a stick horse- foot races where they took your shoes and put them at the end of the arena and the kids had to race to get their shoes, put them back on, and race back! Bill announced that the winner of the barrel race would win a horse-Jaden won that horse-although a stick horse-it is a horse!! We had such a GREAT time and the most AMAZING thing about today's adventure, it was ALL......FREE!!

I would like to send a HUGE thank you to Uncle Bill and Aunt Amy! We had a great time today and it was good to see everyone too!

Halloween!! Picture overload! 10/31/2008

This Halloween was a lot of fun! It was pretty much a week long celebration with the kids-from Koda's party on Wednesday, going to Thriller, then the J and Sis with their school parties on Friday, then Trick-or Treating! It has been a VERY busy week. Then after school yesterday I had planned to take the kids around to see all of the Grandparents we made it to G-ma & G-pa Johnson's, Aunt Wendy's, and G-pa Milne's. We didn't make it to Nan's or Gary's since we ran out of time-there just never seems to be enough time in the day!
We took the kids out trick-or treating like we always do, but decided to leave A at home to pass out candy. By the time we got home he had not had a single trick-or-treater come to the house-for the rest of the night the kids waited anxiously by the door ready to hand out candy. We had two groups come (they were actually together but half of the group was faster than the other) our ward did the trunk or treat-which I think is great for the really little kids, but my kids didn't want to do that at all! They said door to door is a lot more fun than trunk to trunk! I wish it was still the way it used to be growing up! We would have kids coming to our door until 10-10:30 at night NON-stop-not that I really knew that first hand because I was out getting pillow cases FILLED with candy! Aaahh the good ol'days...

~THRILLER~ 10/29/2008

I let Bailia walk around with my camera during intermission and these are a few of the shots that she got! Pretty good Sis! One of the other goblins took the camera to snap a shot with Bailia in it!

Last night we took the kids to Thriller out to Tuacahn and we all LOVED it! We actually had to leave early-being a school night with 3 acts left at 10:15 we figured it would be best to head home. We really wanted to stay to see the ending, but figured we wouldn't get home until midnight!

Crazy Hair and Star of the Week!! 10/29/2008

It is Red Ribbon Week at school this week. To make being drug free more exciting they have a different theme each day. Today was (as you can tell) Crazy Hair day! Jdog had a hard time at first, wondering if he should just take all of his ponies out, but decided it would be OK if people laughed! Bailia loved her wackiness! And Jada Mae looks very put together for being Crazy Hair!

So Matty has decided that the $100 Spaceman costume that he HAD TO HAVE is nothing compared to his AWESOME homemade $9 Super Fast Kid costume! So this Halloween as you see a SFK zoom by your house, know that there will be a BRAND NEW space costume on ebay for a great price!

The finished art work! 10/24/2008

Adam took the kids after school on Friday to pick up their finished pieces from Brushfire-I thought they turned out GREAT!!! Nice work kids!

San Fransisco!! 10/24/2008

I will post more when I get the pictures from Jen's camera too!

This is the view from our hotel room at the Four Seasons! Starting at 7am the church bell would ring every hour-I loved hearing it!

Jen and I on the Cable Car and on Fisherman's Wharf!

I was a little slow getting my camera out so I just got Gail's backside! But I did get a decent picture of Stacey!

So I decided to take my sister with me on the trip to San Fransisco that I won. I KNOW!! This is something that I never would have imagined myself doing. As most of you know I have NEVER left my kids and hubby-UNLESS I had to stay in the hospital overnight! Adam was the first to suggest taking my sis, then as the weeks went by I thought I might as well! So we went, we conquered, and we were SO glad to be home!!

San Fransisco is an interesting place-VERY dirty with a BAZILLION bums begging for money! Our first day there I had a man with no teeth, so drunk he could barley stand, grab my arm and ask me from the goodness of my heart to give him money! It is a city I really don't want to go back to, but I had a REALLY fun time and I am so thankful for the experience!

I must take a moment to THANK my awesome hubby! He was amazing this weekend! Taking care of the kids for three days is a LOT of work-especially if you are used to your wife doing most of the work. So thank you A for being such an AMAZING Daddy and WONDERFUL hubby! I would not have been able to leave our kids home without YOU! I love you!!

Koda Bear...10/23/2008