Thanksgiving Part 2

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went to the lake to feed the fish. I remember doing this as a kid and I always loved it. The huge, nasty carp are so facinating to watch.

Finley started out the activity sleeping.

Once she woke up though, she quickly figured things out.

Finley, Josh, Charlie, Isaac and Sareny. Such cute cousins!

While at the lake, we saw two separate herds of bighorn sheep come to drink. Despite growing up in the desert, I've almost never seen a bighorn sheep in the wild, so this was pretty cool.

Joshie and his mama.

Finney and her Grammy.

We took the chance to take a few photos. I love this one!

Sareny with her favorite person in the whole world.

Jake Jeffrey and Joshua Jake.

This is one of my favorites too. So sweet!

A rare picture of me...

Cute little Charlie.

Tia Lexi is so good with all of the kids.

Finley learning the ever popular 1, 2, 3, jump trick that kids love so much.

Thanksgiving part 1

We spent Thanksgiving in Overton. The kids always have so much fun with Grammy Jo and Bampa and their cousin Joshie. Finley loves her Grammy, and it was kind of nice for me to have her being clingy to someone else for a change! No pictures of actual turkey day, but we did, of course, have a nice feast.

Grammy pulled out their marble run game one evening, and the kids thought it was the coolest thing ever!

Fin sporting her usual "suspicious" face she gets when someone other than me holds her.

I think Bampa's Ranger is their all-time favorite thing to do there. Bampa always takes them on long rides, and they totally love it.

A Milestone

Sareny has her first loose tooth, and she is pretty excited. When I was little, my mom made me a special pillow with a pocket in it to put my tooth in, which the tooth fairy exchanged for money. That makes way more sense to me than sticking your tooth underneath your pillow, where it would surely get lost. Last night I made Sareny her very own little tooth pillow so we will be ready when the moment arrives.

Random Cuteness

The three of them piled onto the rocking horse the other day, and I thought it was pretty silly.

Sareny's school invited families to join them for a Thanksgiving lunch. The food was pretty nasty, but the kids were so cute! I had no idea the kindergartners would all be dressed up and I didn't bring my camera, so I had to get some pictures of my little pilgrim later on at home.

I wonder if the Mayflower pilgrims had some similar moves?

Finley is always poking her little tongue out. I love it!

For Comedic Relief...

Who says she doesn't have hair??

A fun day

One day last week, I took Isaac and Finley to Chick Fil-a for lunch and to play around in the play area. They were having so much fun, we ended up staying there for almost 2 hours!

There was a little boy there who asked Isaac if he would be his friend, and Isaac said, "Yes!" They played together and had a lot of fun. I love how kids can be instant best friends--I think it's one of the ways we need to try and be more like them.

When we got home, the kids rode bikes for a while.

Isaac is getting so good at doing the pedals!

I love when they play well together.

Isn't she just the sweetest? Her dimple makes me happy.

I hope when my kids are older they will remember that they had a mom who took time from her busy schedule to do fun things with them. I remember my own mom taking us on picnics to the park, and swimming at the Overton pool. Too often, I'm afraid, I do find myself saying, "Not right now, Mommy's busy." I know there are things that need to get done; I just want them to remember the good times too!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year! Grammy Jo and Bampa came to visit, and we had a lot of fun with them. We carved pumpkins.

Finley loved wearing the tiara Grammy Jo had brought for them to wear. She would squank if you tried to take it off of her.

I made the headless horseman pumpkin. Apparently we didn't get any finished pictures of the pumpkins.

We took our little princesses and knight to the trunk or treat at the church. They looked so cute! Grammy brought real tiaras that the prom queen at their high school will wear for Sareny and Finley to wear with their costumes.

Sareny plays with a little girl named Lisa every day at school, and we invited her family to come to the trunk or treat. I was glad they decided to come!

Sareny was a beautiful princess.

Isaac was a dashing knight.

I named Finley "Princess Grumpy-pants," because we took them to get their pictures taken, and she would not smile for anything. She was adorable anyway though.

Every year, I work so hard on elaborate costumes that only get worn once for a few hours, so this year I got smart and took them to get their pictures taken earlier on Saturday at JC Penney. Those pictures turned out really cute, and I'm glad we did that. Unfortunately, I can't post the pictures from that photo shoot here, but if you want to look at them, go to https://www.smilesbywire.com/home.asp?AC=LTPP0040108400JCP and enter customer name Hillari Fallstrom.

Preschool fieldtrip to the Farm!

Last week we went to Tolmachoff farms for Isaac's preschool fieldtrip. He is in the same class Sareny was in last year, and it has been fun seeing him learning and doing the same things she did just a year ago. We had a lot of fun at the farm. Isaac enjoyed grinding corn and feeding it to the chickens.

Finley and Isaac both loved digging around in the corn sandbox.

If it involves climbing and clambering, Finley will head for it, so of course she loved the slide.

Isaac really liked the corn maze. It was a mini-maze that only took about 5 minutes, and when we came out he asked if we could do it again, so we did. He was so cute!

We had a great time, and best of all, Isaac didn't get lost this year.

Here is his class with a couple of younger siblings thrown in. There is only one other little boy in his class, and Carter didn't make it to the fieldtrip, so he is surrounded by girls. He doesn't seem to notice or care, but I guess he's pretty used to it around our house. :)