Happy Birthday to Dave!

The big 26. He is finally as old as I am ( for a couple months)

We went to a thanksgiving with Dave's family. Josh, Dave's brother in law, smoked a turkey. It was DELISH. Then we had a Thanksgiving at my brother's house. Marcia got an awesome pottery barn setup. It was so fancy:) Here are all the cutie grandkids. And this is how we kept them sitting for the picture.

We went to see Tiana try on her wedding dress it is BEAUTIFUL! And No I won't show a picture of it. But to keep Sam and Jensen from putting sticky hands on everything in a pristine bridal store we had to shove snack and goodie one after another ant them:)

We saw the Santaquin parade of lights then waited in line to see Santa. We told Jensen if he sat on Santa's lap he would get candy so he did pretty well. Santa asked what do you want for Christmas - Jensen said Candy.

Lily on the other hand- I'm just glad Marybeth got the picture:)

Jensen found my christmas return labels.
I sewed a dragon and couple of other patches on Jensen's coat. He loves his dragon coat!

Dave decided he wanted a nice hot chocolate to leave the house with in the cold winter mornings. Se we bought a little coffee maker with a timer. It works pretty good. Needless to say our hot coca consumption has gone up dramatically. And my friend Herm, Shani, I mean Shannon came for a visit. It was so fun to see her and meet her husband.

And anyone that actually had the time/stupidity to read the whole blog here is a little treat. We took the Barrand fam photo over the weekend. Here is the rough draft. http://warnerphoto.blogspot.com/2008/11/star-wars-mix-up.html

WOW We switched from Comcast to Qwest for phone/ Internet service this week to save money. The end result was a week and a half with out Internet. I hadn't realized how often I use the Internet for EVERYTHING. My bill paying schedule is all wonky now, I'm way behind on email, not to mention blogging. Do you know how often during the day you go to the computer just to look something up. I apparently do it all the time because I felt completely lost with out the ability to look up if that guy in Fringe really is the same guy in The Lord of the Rings movie. Any way here is me catching up.

It has been gorgeous weather here in Colorado. Most of the days it doesn't drop below 50. It has been so nice to have an extension of summer. It did snow one morning only to have melted away by the afternoon. We took advantage and went and played in the snow while we could. WE BOUGHT A VAN!!!My parents were nice enough o let us borrow one of their cars but when it needed expensive repairs we sprung for the van. It is a Toyota Sienna. I often have a hard time finding it in the parking lot because Every 4th van in a beige Toyota Sienna.

What do you get when you mix adorable kids and messy cookies?

And what do you get when you mix a strawberry jelly face and playing in the dirt?

(Lily still eats the dirt- even after a yummy lunch:)

Dave was really tired and tried to go to bed early. The kids wanted to help him relax.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN-HOORAY FOR FALL!

We have had fun the last week playing in leaves,

Carving pumpkins, -Dave carved Jensen a "Percy the train" pumpkin

And dressing up as "robots. If you can't surmise from the pics I'm Princess Leia, Dave is Han Solo and the kids are R2-D2 and C3Po.

Dave built me a picnic table for our backyard. It will be really nice to sit on while watching the kids play. I love my handy mandy:)

And Jensen helped. He had to be hammering or using his screwdriver right where daddy was working the whole time.

Typical of me when I keep putting something off it keeps building up and intimidating me so much I don't want to catch up:) So here are some pictures from our "girls weekend" where Celeste and Tiana came out. It was really nice and I love my sisters!

Hiding in the store's dressing room.



Yup I'm IN the locker
Tiana and Preston
Every day since we went to the Natural History Museum, he says at least 5 times each day "I saw a bear!"

Check out Dave's high jump:) I'm so white trash I let my kids play outside in thier diapers:)

Keep Bryce in your prayers.

My brother Bryce just went through some pretty crazy neck surgery. Please keep him in your prayers.

Dave's Family came in to town!

It was really nice to see his parents,who live in Illinois, we don't get to see them very often. It was nice to hang out with them and just talk.

Dave's sister Marybeth and her family came out too. Jensen had so much fun playing with his cousins. He is still saying "Hailey Wyatt" every day. We all went to the aquarium. My dad volunteer dives on the weekends. It was really fun watching the fish attacking him.

Lily was really cute pointing out the fish.
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INSERTION!!!!

I cut off Lily's baby mullet. I debated for a long time to do it or not. I finally did it and I AM SO HAPPY!________________________________________________________
We ate at great Mexican food place afterwards.
Jensen loves dip. Salsa dip is a bit different though.

We celebrated Josh's birthday by eating cake and playing mini golf. We only made it through a couple of holes before the kids lost all their balls and their clubs.
I ambitiously started carving out a place in the rocks to plant a garden. I LOVE MOVING ROCKS. Psst -Really I don't:)

The kids were nicely playing peekaboo and tickling each other until I turned the camera on- Then Jensen yanked on her arm until she cried:)