First Thanksgiving

It was Emma's first Thanksgiving! I can't believe she's getting so big. I forgot to take pictures during the dinner so I took some afterwards while we were relaxing and playing the Wii. She's been getting teeth lately so she's had the runny nose and some crankiness. Plus we've finally moved her into Madelyn's room and that has been a little hard on her (and our sleep). Overall though she is a pretty happy baby!

We had a small Thanksgiving, just my parents and Dustin my nephew came over to our house. It was nice and easygoing. After dinner we got my parents on the Wii for the first time and though I'm sure my dad won't admit it, I think he liked it! It was nice to have Dustin there. I don't get to see him real often since he's older and going to college. He sure has grown up to be a handsome, intelligent, responsible, and overall great nephew! I'm so proud of you and love you Dustin! After we played the Wii we played a board game with the kids and then we played Phase 10 for a little while. Chad, who complained about hating card games, won! Later we went to Chad's mom and dad's house for some pie. It was a pretty relaxing day!

Thanksgiving Program

Here is Ethan in his preschool Thanksgiving program from a week ago. They had the parents come for a Thanksgiving feast and the preschool kids preformed some songs for us. He did a great job and the food was great!

School Picture

Here's Madelyn's school picture. She looks so cute. Katie came over and did her hair for me since I was gone to St. George. She's growing so fast and I can't believe she's going to be baptized in January. She's our headstrong, intelligent, sassy, independent, spirited, and talented girl. Love you Maddie!

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Treadmill

Treadmill
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This is how I feel!

I HATE TO EXERCISE!

I really do. I'd almost rather stick needles in my eye than exercise for exercise sake. I wish so bad that I loved it.....but I don't, not even a little bit. I don't even get that exercise high that most people talk about. And yes I have done it for extended periods of time and I still don't get the exercise high. I just feel dead tired always! Sure I might feel a tiny bit good about my accomplishment but it is totally trumped by my hatred of exercising. I'm ranting about this because I just finished exercising. I'm trying to lose the last little bit of baby fat and so I've made a goal to get on the treadmill 3 times a week for only thirty minutes (nothing I know for all the diehards) and I have to drag myself onto the beast and mentally say to myself, "one more step, one more step". Did I mention how much I hate doing it??! Okay enough ranting. I know I am blessed to have a healthy body!

I'm a Wannabe....

Photographer!

Since I bought a digital SLR camera a few years ago, we've decided that I can take the kids pictures...no more expensive studios. Too bad I don't know what I'm doing! I love taking pictures and I've gotten a few good ones but I am such a beginner it's sad. I need to take a class, read a book, or something but I can never find the time.

Ethan is way overdue for his pictures so we went today but we probably waited a little too long. They say dawn and dusk are best but it got a little too dark. Here are a few but I think we'll try again tomorrow. At least it didn't cost anything but a little time.