Splish Splash

Elora loves bath time lately, now that she takes them in the big kid tub. Whenever the boys are taking baths or showers this is her new thing. She stands next to the tub just waiting till I put her in. I love her cute little bum.

She gets me soaked because she thinks splashing is the coolest thing.

Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving at Jon's parents' house. There was so much yummy food and the kids just love getting together with their cousins. I am thankful for all of my wonderful blessings. My children and husband, our home and neighborhood, health, Jon's job and the ability to stay home with my kids, extended family, knowing the gospel, living in the USA and our freedoms, good food always at our table, and friends. My list could really go on and on but those are just a few that I am so grateful for.

I just wanted to post this picture of Grandpa holding Elora on Thanksgiving. Notice she is sleeping, she never lets him hold her without totally screaming. She wasn't too happy when she woke up. Such a rare picture I thought I better post it.

Christmas is coming!!!

I am so excited for Christmas to come. I love this time of year. I love the decorations, the music, the goodies and the smells. I was really trying to wait to change my blog until after Thanksgiving but, oh who cares, I AM READY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

Reflections 2008

Tyler entered a contest at school called Reflections. It is put on by the National PTA and there are several different areas that you can enter in. Tyler chose to enter the Visual Arts category and submitted a drawing. The topic had to be WOW! To me that was a hard topic to draw but he came up with this picture all on his own. It is a picture of a Navy ship and on the back he wrote..."Wow!, my 89 year old Great Grandpa served in the Navy during 3 wars. WWII, The Korean War and the Vietnam War." His drawing was chosen for his age group from our school to move on to the district level to compete with all the schools in our district. I am so proud of him and his very special talent. He loves to draw and now he is showing his friends how to draw ships. What a sweet boy. He is growing up too fast.

Chemtrails

This topic has been bothering me for weeks now . These are Chem trails, really I am not sure what they are for or what they do but I do know that it is strange and definitely not normal. Here in Utah the air quality has been awful and it is usually the day after I spot these chem trails. Believe me they are completely different than just contrails(water vapor from engines). We have seen airplanes leaving contrails fly right after the airplanes leaving chem trails and the contrails dissipate quickly, the chem trails don't. They last all day, I noticed one for 8 hours. After a few hours they look just like clouds. What in the heck are we breathing. Below is a link that shows other pictures of chem trails and talks about them too. It makes me sick and I thought you should know.

http://imageevent.com/firesat/strangedaysstrangeskies?z=3&c=4&n=1&m=-1&w=4&x=0&p=14

Our Growing Baby @ 9 Months

Elora is 9 months old today and she is just turning into the cutest, sweetest little girl. She so much fun and is learning so much lately. She crawls, pulls herself up, says DaDa and MaMa and my favorite is when she claps her hands. She weighs only 15.3 lbs (10%) and is 28.5" in length (75%). She is long and lean but a very healthy little girl. She is our little angel and we are so grateful to have her.

Already loving books.
Just too cute!

Are these all MY toys?

Disney on Ice

Our good friends, The Kendell's, won tickets to Disney on Ice(100 Years of Magic) and were so nice to share them with us. We had tons of fun especially since we just got back from Disneyland a couple of weeks ago. The best part was that we were in the second row and were able to see everything so well, one reason why I took so many pictures. I just love everything Disney right now and I am so glad that my kids will have these awesome memories. Thanks again Sumer and Kevin!

Aunt Becky's visit

While Aunt Becky was here visiting from California we all went to the Provo Canyon. We had a good time until Tyler jumped in the water after a toy and got soaked. I of course didn't bring extra clothes since it is winter and who would want to get in the water? It figures that Tyler would be the one. We decided to stay because Aunt Jen had an extra pair of sweats and water shoes so it was still fun and we didn't have to leave.

In front of Bridal Veil Falls

Grandpa and the cousins monkeying around.

The boys didn't want Becky to leave so they came up with this plan to tape her to a chair so that she had to stay. Jon is the one that gave the boys Duct Tape.

The day before this, Degan told Becky that he wished that she could stay forever then after a couple of seconds he said..."he'll miss you"as if she was going to stay, Becky asked..."who will miss me?", Degan then said..."Uncle Sergio". It was pretty cute.

We do miss you Beck, it was fun having you.

Helena and Antonio

The newest members of our family came in October. My Aunt Cookie had Antonio on October 23 and my sister Amy had Helena on October 29. They are so precious and I am thankful they are here and healthy.

Antonio
Helena

We just found out the other night that Jon's sister Tara is pregnant. That will make 10 nieces and nephews. We can't wait.

Halloween 2008

What happened to October? It came and went so fast. On Halloween morning, I found Elora standing up in her crib for the first time. She seemed so proud of herself so I had to go grab the camera.

I did it!!! I'm a big girl now.

Tyler the Clone Trooper, Degan the Lion (he was supposed to be the Power Ranger that I bought him) and Elora the Ladybug. It was smart that Degan wore the lion costume. It was way warmer.

Degan and Elora

We decided to have Elora be a bug for Halloween because of the pic tails that we could stick straight up to look like antennae. Our friends the Kendell's let us borrow this cute ladybug costume. Thanks guys.

This is Tyler with "Frankenstein". Our neighbor is about 6'7" and on Halloween he wore these shoes that added a few more inches. Tyler is a pretty tall 8 year old but he looks so tiny next to Mike. What fun neighbors.

Some More Cute Hair!