Sad News

It has been a wonderful holiday season but right before Christmas we received the sad news that my Great Grandma Jolly passed away at the age of 102. I felt very lucky to have gotten to see her at Thanksgiving and that Hayden had a chance to meet her. As my relatives know she sure loves the little ones. She left a large posterity behind and we will miss her greatly. Her posterity includes 11 children, 62 grandchildren, 225 great-grandchildren, and 175 great-great grandchildren.
It is peaceful to know that families can be together forever and that she had a great Christmas reunion with those that had gone before her.

Here is a link to a cute article about her life.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7832331?source=email

I also went down to the funeral and enjoyed hearing the great stories about her. I have so many great ladies to look up to in my life.

He is Listening.

Sometimes I feel like Hayden really isn't listening to me or he doesn't understand what I'm asking him to do or not do. Well on Tuesday we were finishing up on all our Christmas decorations and I had put out Hayden's nativity scene which is the FisherPrice version he can play with. His favorite part of this nativity set so far is the donkey with the cart.
Well it was time to put Hayden to bed and I was walking down the hall and saw the little cart laying there. I turned to Hayden and said "Hayden will you go put this back by your Baby Jesus please". He took the cart and went toward the living room. I went to his room thinking I would find the cart in the middle of the living room floor. He came to his room and we read books and said prayers and he went to bed.
Tyler and I went back out to the living room to finish up with the decorating and this is what I found. Look closely. . .

He had put the cart back by Baby Jesus. Not the Baby Jesus I was thinking of (the FisherPrice version) but he did put it by Baby Jesus.

I just started laughing. It was a great reminder that he is listening and understanding the things I say to him. I guess he just has selective hearing. ;) He makes me smile and laugh and keeps me on my toes.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. We headed down to Sin City aka Las Vegas for a family reunion/thanksgiving extravaganza. :) We had so many family members there we had to have dinner at the church cultural hall. The food was great and the company even better. My Great Grandma Jolley was there. She is now 101 so it was cool to get a 5 generation picture with her.

We did the crazy black Friday shopping (only my brother and sister in law got up at 3:00 to go) the rest of us braved the crowds later in the day. We also did some humanitarian projects. This weekend we also celebrated my parents 30th Wedding Anniversary. I made them a slide show of pictures through the past 30 years (that ended up being an hour long) and we ordered take out from PF Chang's (since three toddlers didn't sound that fun to wrestle in the actual restaurant), and had a nice dinner with them to celebrate. My dad had rented out a 4 bedroom house that was way nice so we had nice table/dinning room to eat at. It was really nice to be with them. They are awesome parents. LOVE YOU GUYS!!! Here's to another 30 years.

My Little Tree Hugger

Hayden and I were getting the mail and just playing outside when he decided that he wanted to climb up this cute little tree. As he was playing on the tree I could see so many cute photos. Luckily Margaret (one of our neighbors) came outside and said let me watch him while you go grab your camera. So I ran upstairs and grabbed my camera. I'm so glad I did because I got some cute shots of him. He is such a little boy. (Broken bones to come from all the future tree climbing I'm sure.)

October in Reveiw

Well it has been a fun month and I can't believe we are already 9 days into November! Crazy! Since I haven't been that great about posting I thought I would do a reveiw of some fun things we did in October. We painted pumpkins.
We went to some Ute Games.
We decorated cookies and Haunted Shacks.
We went to BOO at the ZOO as Scooby DOO. (say that three times fast) I had forgotten about this handme down costume until after Yoda was ordered or he probably would have just been Scooby but he got to wear both so it was fun.

We dressed up as a family for Halloween and did the Trunk or Treat. Hayden and I stayed in the car and handed out the candy because he had ear infections and bronchitis. He was still happy and cute as ever as our little Yoda.
I hope all of you had a great October and that your November is going well. I can't believe it is alreayd time to start thinking about getting your Christmas shopping done. I love this time of Holidays, family get togethers and parties. Heres to a great Holiday Season.

If at first you don't succeed. . .

Well we decided that it was time to try and get a new family picture taken. Ty bought me a really nice camera for my birthday this year and so I was thinking that we would just try and have one of our friends take some pictures of us. Of course most things went wrong. . . my hair wouldn't do anything but limp and straight. I got up early to curl it and as you can see from the pictures I had zero cooperation. My hair wasn't the only thing that didn't want to cooperate, Hayden didn't really want to either. I think we were able to grab a couple cute pictures here and there. We also learned some things about photography (mainly we have alot to learn about photography, especially lighting).

TIME FLIES

Well I was just thinking that I can't believe that it is already October. I have no idea where the time went but it sure did go. I was just remembering how little Hayden was last year during Halloween and how cute he was in his little costume. So I had to make a little slide show of some of the October memories from last year. We aren't sure what Hayden is going to be this year for Halloween. So far Yoda has been suggested. What do you think? Do you have any cute ideas for a costume? Let me know.