Thanksgiving pics

 Kylie

 Jess and Zach

 Chris and Grandpa

 Randy and Cathy

 Kristi and Wendy

 Kylie, Jess, Cassie

 Jenny

Brent and Heidi

Thanksgiving 2010

Ella loved jumping off the little step at Cathy's house.  We had a great time with our Paulsen family in Richfield.

Ella playing in the snow 11/28/10

Tyler's Colonial Day at school

The week of Thanksgiving Tyler had Colonial Day at school.  I found some pants at Savers and cut them off and sewed elastic in them.  The socks are Chris' and the hat and shirt are from Savers.  His principal said he should have go a prize for having the best costume.

Sadies

Jenny Naisbitt asked Josh to Sadie Hawkins.  The theme was tie dye.  After the dance the group came back to our house to watch a movie.  Gotta love those late nights!

Owie

Saturday night I had the iron plugged and and Ella pulled it down on her.  Thank goodness it only got her hand.  She cried the rest of the night and kept trying to wipe off the pain.  It blistered pretty bad.  I felt soooo bad.  It is so awful to not be able to take pain away.  I went and got some essential oils to spray on it to help with the pain and infection.

Riding the rhino

Camping trip

We took Ella up to Monte Cristo and stayed the night.  The leaves are starting to turn colors and are soooo beautiful.  We borrowed a friends 4 wheeler and took Ella on rides through the mountain trails.  She loved playing in the dirt, throwing things into the fire pit...including herself...thankfully it was the day after we had used it and most of all she enjoyed being dirty! She didn't sleep hardly at all either because the heater turned off and it was cold or because she didn't like the play n pack.  I love love love the fall in Utah!

Ella has learned the "Hannah scum"

Ella has learned how to say no and to scum people off if she doesn't agree with what they say.  She has definitely learned this from Hannah....the original scummer offer!

Ella and I went on a walk this morning and saw a lone sunflower among tall grasses.  It was so beautiful standing tall and facing the sun.  I know I should say something profound about how the sunflowers always face the sun, but I'm just not cool enough!

Out to the garden again to pick more tomatoes for dinner.  Of course Ella finds a green one and starts taking bites out of it.  I hope she will always be this good eating her vegetables!

Ella and the binkies

Ella LOVES her binkies and I don't care.  As long as she doesn't take them to kindergarten I'll be fine.  Josh went to homecoming with Kara (from Northridge).  They went to the zoo for the day activity and ate at Roosters.  Saturday Chris, Ella, Jenny Stringham and I went to Centerville and picked apples, peaches and pears.  This is the first time I have ever canned pears.  Self reliance is FABULOUS!

First day of school 2010. Wow! I have a senior in high school and a 9th grader! They are getting so old.......but I'm not!