Thanksgiving was great and we had lots of fun, which I will post about soon, but for now I will just post this.
The result of an impact with a deer
Luckily only the car and the deer were injured and since it happened about 200 miles from home we were grateful the car was drivable.
The boys have many cousins on my side of the family, but none on Steve's side, until now. Cousin S came 9 days early and my sister-in-law had the easiest of deliveries. No fair! Cousin S is a beautiful boy and my boys are excited to have another cousin.
Just hours old. Isn't he cute?
Boy #2 loves to pretend to be an animal. Some days he is a kitty cat and other days he is a dog. Over the summer my good friend from high school came for a visit. She brought her dog and the dog's large crate. Boy #2 loved her dog and the crate. More recently boy #2 put on his too small doggy costume and hung out with the family dog.
Don't you love the panting tongues?
Which is the real dog?
A few weeks ago we had an overnight trip to Goblin Valley. We took the boys there last year and we had such a great time. This time we traveled with my brother and three of my nieces. Even though the trip there was filled with unexpected obstacles, such as not finding a camping spot since it was so crowded, overhearing some campers say they had seen two rattlesnakes, driving 30 miles back to Green River to sleep, and boy #1 throwing up half the night, it was still fun. Here are the pictures to prove it.
Boy #2 with his cousins
The boys and lots of goblins
A picture of my brother who is constantly taking pictures
Me and boy #1
We went on the Little Wild Horse hike and boy #2 kept finding what he called shelter
The hike had some cool rock formations
Boy #1 hanging out in the rock holes
There were lots of cool, narrow passages during the hike
I love to dress up with my kids for Halloween. Some years are better than others, but this year was fun. Even the husband dressed up, which doesn't always happen.
I guess we need someone else in our family so we can have a scarecrow
The tinman out trick or treating with friends
The lion is practicing his roar
Boy #1 was too cool to be the tinman for the school parade so he was a Star Wars clone character
Last week boy #1 woke up complaining that he didn't want to go to school. Of course, he went and when he came home he told me he was so glad he went because they learned to do this with starburst candies. Isn't school great.
My in-laws recently moved from Oregon to Utah and we are happy to have them so close. Right now they are very close since they are residing in our guest room. We will miss our built in babysitters when they move out. We celebrated my mother-in-law's birthday last week. I made Cafe Rio pork salad and peanut butter chocolate cupcakes. Suzy and Jared came for dinner and we had a fun evening. Happy Birthday, Joyce!
The birthday girl
Boy #1 took several pictures of grandma's loot
Grandpa enjoying a cupcake
