Thanksgiving Point

Since I didn't think to take any pictures over thanksgiving I thought I post some pictures of our trip to Thanksgiving Point the week before! My brother in law works there and has so graciously gotten us a membership passes, which is fabulous! Thanks John!This is at the Dinosaur Museum at the sand and water table. Brynlee thought is was really fun the flip the sand everywhere. Needless to say both she and Jake had sand from head to toe!

Gracie with her Cousin Marin. I'm pretty sure we could have stayed there all day and the kids would have been happy.

Behind bars in Farm Country!

I had never actually seen a white goose before... and it was Huge! You can see by my dorky smile I thought it was neat:)

The pony ride... despite her look in the picture Gracie really did like this part

A very friendly cow!

Notice Gracie running away... she really thought the animals were cool until the calf "mooed" at her when she was about 2 inches from it's face... I guess I don't blame her the "moo" was quite loud and unexpected!

Brynlee on the other hand never got sick of the animals. I wish we had video camera with us. Everytime we got close to an animals she'd get almost gidy but a little nervous at the same time which resulted in this funny dance and odd squeal!

It was a fun night and I'm sure we'll be back soon!

A Walk Down Memory Lane

I'm dedicating this post to all my RC 305 roomies! A couple of weekends ago I had a chance to meet a couple of high school friends in Rexburg for a little reunion and we had a blast! Since I was in Rexburg couldn't resist going to see good ol' Royal Crest. Upon pulling into the parking lot and seeing our old apartment a flood of memories came back. Late night dance parties, double bubble chewing contests, secret food stealers, bad milk, boyfriends and fiances, and Lots and Lots of good times and laughing! It was seriously one of the best years of my life... Thanks for all the Great memories girls!!! Let's have a reunion!

New Couches!

We were very grateful when we got married that my parents had just remodeled their house, because that meant we got all their old furniture! Therefore we haven't had to buy any of our own furniture... until now. The couches we got from my parents have been good to us, but they were starting to get pretty worn and when Gracie decided to tear a hole in one of them we decided it was time. We found a great place in Provo that sells scratch and dent furniture and found these couches there for and unbelieveable price that we just couldn't pass up! The only thing wrong was a little 2 in. scratch on the wood of the sofa, which with a little stain you can't tell at all! While they are a little more "formal" than what I had envisioned, we just couldn't pass up such a good deal! What do you think!?!

"Tick or Tweet"

We had a fun Halloween this year. It was the first year Gracie really got into it. It only took one house giving her candy for her to catch on and run from house to house saying "tick or tweet" I think that it was one of the best nights of her life! Brynlee on the other hand still could care less, but she really enjoyed wearing her fairy costume, Thanks Grandma Smith!

Gracie LOVED her fairy wings... however if you asked her she was a "butterfy"

These were my finger breadsticks that we had along with some tortilla soup, they were a big hit!

Brynlee and Gracie's favorite part of the night was of course enjoying the fruits of their labor, needless to say bedtime was a little difficult!

Pumpkin Carving Skills

This was my attempt to be creative... but of course what's the point when Jake always out does every one...
Here is Jake's "Napoleon Dynamite" pumpkin...he's got some sweet pumpkin carving skills:)

Gracie and Brynlee had a good time too

They both thought that the "guts" tasted good!

Tag... Your it!

I guess I'm "it"! I get to share 6 quirky, interesting, uninteresting, weird, silly, or whatever you want to call them, things about myself. So here I go!
1. I'm a complete scaredy cat. I HATE scary movies or scary movie previews for that matter! I can't even watch Law and Order without being paranoid the next day that something bad is going to happen to me. When I was younger I would pretend that I was sick and make my mom or dad come pick me up if anyone started telling ghost stories. I guess I just have a Wild imagination!
2. When I was 12 I had eye surgery to correct a problem... however it created another problem, when ever I look to the side I see double!
3. Like Krista, I'm a crier. All I have to do is see someone else crying and it gets me going. I also "cry" when I laugh and I don't even have to be laughing hard, and also when the sun in bright... I guess I must have overproductive tear ducts!:)
4. In high school I went on a 30 mile backpacking trip with all of the scouts in our ward. My dad was the bishop at the time so he was there to supervise. Looking back on it I bet all those boys were probably annoyed that I was there. I had fun though and I'd like to do it again, this time with Jake.
5. I absolutely hate raw onions or mustard.
6. I tied for 3rd place with my little sister Claire in the "Santaquin Orchard Days" 5K race this summer. We even got a medal to share (Claire let me keep it though!) it is the only medal I ever won in my entire life!:)

Well there you go I hope you enjoyed it:) Now I'm tagging Chloe, Camille, Mom, April S, Cindy C., and Jake S:) Have Fun!!

"Punkin" Patch

Gracie has been very excited about "punkins" lately. Every time she see one she yells "Punkins, Yeah Punkins" and claps her hands. So we were very excited to take her to the local pumpkin patch and couldn't wait to see her reaction to all the many pumpkins to choose from. Unfortunately everyone in Santaquin and the surrounding areas decided to go the same night we did so we had to wait in line for almost an hour for the hay ride to take us out to the patch. So by the time we got the pumpkin patch it was about 30 degrees colder and so dark we couldn't see any of the pumpkins! Gracie and Brynlee were freezing cold, Gracie kept falling down into the mud because she couldn't see anything, Brynlee's shoe kept falling off sending Jake into an immediate search and rescue shoe mission in the dark, and in the middle of it all my shoe broke which make it very difficult to scale the uneven muddy ground! Needless to say it was not the trip I had envisioned! However, amazingly enough we all came out smiling and already making plans for how we will do it next year!

Waiting for the hayride to take us to the Pumpkin patch

Thanks for the Treats Grandma!!!

The girls were very excited to get a package from Grandma Bennion with yummy Halloween treats and stickers inside. Gracie had a fabulous time making her sticker page. She kept pulling the stickers off and putting them back on until there were only pieces and parts of cats, spiders and candy corns scattered across the paper, but she was sure proud of her masterpiece!

Brynlee bit into those Sixlets right then and there and was furious we I tried to get the plastic off for her! YUM YUM