Weekend full of Thanks!!!

We had such a great Thanksgiving weekend!! I can't believe it went soooo fast though. Wednesday was spent decorating the Christmas tree and putting up our Christmas decorations. Thursday we spent at Trevors parents house and the kids all ended up sleeping over with all of the cousins, they had a great time! Friday we went to Wolf Mountain as a family and got our pictures taken for our ski passes. (Only a little bit of snow on those hills though, hopefully we'll get some soon so we can start skiing, the kids are so excited.) Friday night I went and saw Twilight for the first time, and must add how much I loved Edward!! It took me almost half way through the movie to get used to him though.
Saturday was our annual Gingerbread house making day at the Schencks! It was so much fun, and crazy-crazy as usual. That night Rylee and I went to the Nutcracker ballet and watched my niece,Journey, who was in it. It was so much fun sitting with Rylee instead of watching Rylee. This is the first year in several years that she didn't try out for a part. While the girls attended the ballet, Trevor took the boys to the Christmas parade in Ogden and to watch the fireworks and the Christmas village lights turn on! They had a great time also!!
Sunday was the usual church and then we had a Thanksgiving dinner together with just our family and talked about all the many things we have to be thankful for!! I am so Thankful for such a great weekend with Trevor and the kids!!!

Counting Down!!

I found this idea from a blog I love to follow and decided to add it to our Christmas traditions. I bought 25 Christmas bags from hobby lobby and put a fun activity or small treat in each bag. Then I numbered each bag from 25-1,tied them shut with a ribbon and hung the bags on the railing. Each day until Christmas we open one bag as a family(counting down from #25) and do the activity that is inside. Some of the ideas that are inside are: making cookies for Santa, reading the Christmas story out of the bible, going to see the Christmas lights,making a Christmas package for Trevor's missionary brother, and some just have a treat inside. The kids are so excited every night to open a bag and see what is in each bag!!

Free Glitter Graphics, Thanksgiving Glitter Graphics

LUCKY 7's TAG!!!!!!!

7 things I can't do...
1-keep my laundry caught up
2-give a talk or a lesson without sticking to my notes
3-make homemade rolls
4-jump on the trampoline without going to the bathroom first
5-read a book without getting totally obsessed with it
6-ignore my dirty house (unless I'm reading a good book!)
7-run long distances
(*I "can't" think of 7 things I can do!!)

7 things I can do...
1-do a toe touch as high as Rylee's
2-do math well
3-ski
4-remember dates and birth dates well
5-know what my blood sugar is without testing my blood
6-sew
7-ride big/scary rides at amusement parks
(*I "can" think of a lot of things I can't do!!!)

7 things I always eat...
1-chocolate covered cinnamon bears
2-diet coke
3-pizza
4-strawberries
5-milk duds
6-chicken (any kind)
7-cold cereal

7 things I always say...
1-"Oh my gosh!!"
2-"Are you serious??"/"Really??"
3-"Did you brush your teeth?"
4-"AWESOME!"
5-"How many AR points do you have?"
6-"DUDE!!"
7-"How was your day?"
(*Trevor wanted me to add "I'm too tired tonight"!!!!LOL!!)

7 people I tag...
1-Jeni P.
2-Kim R.
3-Ginger G.
4-Angela B.
5-Debbie A.
6-Stacy B.
7-Rylee

Savior of the World!!

Wednesday night, my neighbor Stephanie and I took our oldest kids(her oldest three and my oldest two) to the "Savior of the World" production at the Conference center in SLC. It was so good!! I was so excited to go, but anticipated another normal nativity type Christmas story about the birth of Jesus. It was nothing like I expected. It was so spiritual and I learned so much from it!! What a great way to kick off the true reason we celebrate this wonderful season!!

Falling, Falling,Falling...!!!

No, I'm not talking about the leaves, I'm talking about the gasoline prices!!! I filled my gas-guzzling SUV up today and paid half the price that I did for gas about 2-3 months ago!!!! OMG!!!! What a great feeling in not so great times!! I'll take it!! I think I'll take my $40.00 savings and spend it, not at Sam's or Walmart, but at some small little business that's struggling to make it in these scary times!! Or put it towards a sub-for-santa family that is really struggling in these rough times!! Anyway I'm so happy to see a relief at the pumps!!! Can they get any lower?? Yipee!!!

Merry Christmas...from Trans-Siberian Orchestra!!

Last night Trevor and I took River and Ryker to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert at the e-center. It was so amazing, what a great night we had. We weren't sure if they would do their regular Christmas songs, being so early in the season, but they did!!! It was so much fun. Ryker was so cute he would clap and cheer and really got in to it!! He was such a great concert goer, I couldn't believe it. We weren't sure how he would like it, but I'm so glad we took him because I had someone who would clap and cheer and be a dork with me!!!(Trevor and River are a little too cool to really get crazy!) We had a great time. So, Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy New Year, and any other holiday you'd like to celebrate at this time...from TSO!!!