Gingerbread house?

Not for Jett...

He made an outhouse. That is a moon on the door.

Sometimes I love that kids imagination!

A lovely visit

From Grandma and Aunt Syd occurred over the holiday weekend. They joined us for Thanksgiving, which I didn't get pictures of and we were lucky enough to help celebrate Grandmas' 84th birthday!

Enjoying the wonderful rendition of "Happy Birthday"

Only mom would suggest putting a dinosaur on Grandmas' cake.

As Grandma put it, "A bag full of hot air does the job"

We were glad that we got to spend a fun but short while with these two wonderful ladies. Come back anytime.

Next up to visit: Becky and John!!

Tough Guy

Jett had been taunting me to a wrestle.

Saying things like, "I'll show you things you haven't seen before" and "I will beat you so bad"

He ended up with a pink belly, begging me for mercy and he did utter the phrase, "Whoa I haven't seen that move before!"

He got a couple of good shots in, he did totally blindside me. Once! And it was only after the grumpy Pops told them to go to bed because I was getting them all worked up before bed and it was a school night, so I had stopped and turned my attention elsewhere when honestly he knocked me a good three feet sideways, it's a good thing there was a couch near by, Chris' shocked reaction was the only thing I saw because Jett took off running the other direction too fast.

This is Halloween

The Ninja (temporarily "DarthMal" which mom did an awesome face paint job) I will look for pictures.

The Double Trouble

I made Pops a Halloween costume because he is such a party pooper. ( I know he is not a "product" but...whatever

The Skekalen face. This is not the posed picture but I thought it was funny because she was wearing her glasses.

It was a rainy, cold, and windy Halloween night but they got a lot of sugar so all in all it was a success.

Fashionista?

Perhaps not

Mom let her dress herself.

Then they went out for errands.

What up hommies?

I threatened during conference. Like the tape says, "I can't keep my mouth shut"

It takes a couple of times for the message to sink in. "I can't shut up!"

Don't let those pitiful eyes fool you.

Pops is always having to one up mom so naturally on Wed he was transported from work to the E.R. by ambulance, for...getting old basically. He went in for a stress test the following day and he was in the healthiest he could be for his age group and has less than 1% chance of having a heart attack in the next year. So turns out it was gas. Just playing, but we have a year till he can scare mom again.

Happenings

On Friday mom had her gallbladder taken out. Everything went very well and she is recovering quite nicely. The kids were by themselves for about 5 hours until I got home from work, and surprisingly the house was not burnt down. Anyway mom is doing good, she has some lower back pain but she's been walking around and even went to the end of the block last night. She's also been sleeping good if dad can keep from snoring, well that and the drugs don't hurt.

Last night Rheanna came over while our husbands were at priesthood and she joined the kids and I in doing a craft sent to us by, "The Favorite"

An awesome shrinky dink tree!

Obviously dad didn't go and Rhea had a lot more fun than it looks like in this picture.

The finished product. It turned out really cute and it was a lot of fun to do.

Thank you again Aunt Syd, yes for those of you in denial accept it, she is the favorite.

Today during the first session I printed a bunch of Halloween pictures and we all colored. (It was either that or tape Jetts mouth shut like I threatened, which may not be so much as a threat during the second session.) We even got mom to join us for that and some orange chocolate chipped faced pancakes.

I took this picture with my phone and flipped it but it won't post correctly.

You get the idea.