Family pictures

We did family pictures this November (2013).  I thought about having some with all the pretty fall leaves but then decided to just do something different!  I love all the different backgrounds, it's exactly what I was looking for.  I love how they turned out, but mostly I love that they are over!

 My cute little family

My favorite picture of ALL time! 

 Cameron doesn't take a bad picture!  He is so handsome and is photogenic.  

 Sweet Mackenzie gets so shy and doesn't want to smile.  She also gets a little bit of the sassy attitude like I am not going to stand her and do what you tell me to do (she made several escapes and ran as fast as she could).  A few times I was standing behind the photographer making silly faces, jumping up and down, making funny noises and she just looked at me like I was crazy most of the time. 

 I love this picture of daddy and the kids....such a good picture of everyone.  Too bad I couldn't be photo-shopped in there :)

Hillarious!

Snow much fun!

Winter is here!  It's Mackenzie's first time to play in the snow.  She had lots of fun...for about 15 minutes and then she realized her hands were freezing!

Cameron wanted to help daddy shovel the snow and work.  After Jeremy ran the snow blower he said he needed to "sweep up all the snow daddy didn't get with the blower".

Why not take a drive on the newly scraped sidewalks.  I had to get them unstuck when he went driving around on the snow...guess this truck isn't 4 wheel drive :)

the cutest little snow angels.  They had to come in and have "hot cocoa" Cameron's favorite drink!

Thanksgiving 2013

This year the thing I am most thankful for are these two people (and maybe the photo bomber too).  I feel so grateful and blessed to have them for my parents.  It's a blessing my dad is still here, alive, and doing as well as he is after having open heart surgery a month before.  My parents are the best examples of everything!  So this Thanksgiving was a little different, but also a little better.  We were still able to have it at my parents' house, but we insisted that we all bring the food.  Although we "made" my mom cook the turkey lol.  The day seemed to have more meaning to it and we were all a little more thankful on this day of Thanksgiving!

Cameron loves his cousins.  He was so excited to play games with them.  Sometimes it's hard being the youngest cousins!

Mackenzie's favorite part of dinner is always eating the olives off of her fingers.

We were all glad Janessa drove up from Dixie for the weekend.

we went around and said some things we were thankful for.  Like I said I am thankful for my dad.  I am thankful for the gospel in my life and for miricals and blessings our family has received!

Nobody was thankful for my rolls I made!  I pretty much ruined Thanksgiving dinner.  They sucked!  My first time trying to make rolls on the day that the roll is the most important thing (ok second most important) at dinner!  I ran a race that morning with my friend and came home to make the rolls.  I had plenty of time for them to rise, but after several hours they weren't rising, after sitting the pans on heating pads and cranking the heat in the house they still weren't rising.  I gave up and baked them anyway.  They sucked.  I guess I killed the yeast with too hot of water. 

My mom had the table decorated so cute, as usual, and the name plate/nut cups had cute cake ball turkeys in them.

Mackenzie ate olives for dinner :)

I love these two pictures....especially the bottom one :)

After dinner we all went out to help clean up some leaves and put out Christmas lights since my dad can't do any of that himself this year!  It was so nice to have so much help and get it done quick.  Cameron was so cute, he didn't want to play, he wanted to help.  So he raked leaves and helped carry the lights to put up.  He is such a hard worker and knows all about service at his age. 

The night before we decorated sugar cookies.  The kids made turkeys.  It's always a fun activity and so fun to watch them decorate with so much stuff they can't even see the cookie!