Happy Thanksgiving

Well here I am posting Thanksgiving quickly as I promised but did I take any pictures of Thanksgiving this year - of course not! Completely forgot and didn't even think about it until now wanting to post it. Boy have I lost my mind lately! Hopefully it comes back after this baby is born. So instead I thought I'd post some pictures that Brian has taken of the animals. It is really nice that they get along so well, it definitely helps out.

We found out not too long ago that Jesse our cat only has 50% kidney function. He had issues this past summer and we almost lost him but he recovered weighing all odds which was amazing - he only had 30% chance of surviving and he came through w/flying colors! But when we took him in to get him nudered they did the normal tests to be sure he was totally healthy to get it done the tests came back not so good. Basically they said he only had 50% chance of kidney function and that he won't live as long as most cats. But he is such a good cat and so strong that we should get a good amount of years out of him just not the normal amount. So we are thankful as a family to have whatever amount of time we have left w/him and that he is so good w/the dog and the kids. I can't believe the torture he puts up w/from Spencer - Some days are better than others but he can really get pretty rough w/Jesse. He is learning though and hopefully won't be so bad down the road when he understands better.

Just some of the things I am grateful for are:

Home
A happy family
Parents
Pregnancy
Yummy food

Transportation
Health
Abundance of friends
Neighbors
Kids
Service
Giving to others
Ice cream
Vacations
I love my husband
New baby on the way
Gospel

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are thinking about what your grateful for every day and never loosing sight of those things!

Thanksgiving already???

Well the time has just really got past me these days. And since today is Thanksgiving I thought I'd better catch up our blog so I can post our Thanksgiving festivities before Christmas ;-) No I promise I'll try and do that in the next few days! We're off to the Hirschi's house for Thanksgiving this year and will spend the day and night there w/all his family so it will be a nice relaxing visit this year! I'm so grateful for family that's close and family that's far, chocolate pie, health, turkey sandwiches, good friends, warm home, beautiful healthy children & some on the way, pictures, love, sacrifice, the gospel and of course my dear heavenly father! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and I hope you are all filled w/love, family and lots of good food!!!

Brian took Spencer fishing w/his dad, Brent & Gavin up at Hyrum dam just a couple weeks ago. They caught a lot of fish and Spencer LOVES doing those outdoor things w/his dad and I'm so grateful that Brian loves it too! Brooky was at school that morning so she missed out but she has lot's of other opportunities to go other times so it works out okay.

Since I'm a month late almost I thought I'd better post our Halloween pictures! So here you are! They had a great time since this year we decided to take a four wheeler w/a trailer hooked to it around the neighborhood - ya took 3 yrs to get smart! If anyone knows our house there's lot's of big hills so it worked out perfectly and I think we'll have to do it every year from now on! Spencer was so fun to watch this year b/c it was the first year he could run up to the house w/all the other kids w/out his parents and know what to do and get really excited about it! I can't believe how fast they grow. Brooklynn was a witch this year and Spencer was a Giraffe. Brian's sister & family, brother & his parents all joined us at our house this year and we had the famous chili in a pumpkin w/scones dinner! I love that tradition I made :) Hope you all had a fun and awesome Halloween too!