Thanksgiving

This is Damon's preschool friends. They all came over for a "Thanksgiving Feast".
The kids made these feather headbands and the mom's got to wear these awesome pilgrim hats.
We spent Thanksgiving day at our house and had lots of family members from both sides share the day with us. It was all so yummy and we had a great time together.
We ended the meal with a little sparkling grape juice.

Andy and Ari

On the Saturday before Thanksgiving Andy and Ari got hitched. It was such a fun day. We got to enjoy the Temple, and Temple square. We ate a really yummy breakfast in the Joseph Smith building and then went to Thanksgiving Point later in the day for dinner and dancing. It was lots of fun. They are back from their honeymoon and have the pleasure (I'm sure) of living with us for a few weeks. I hope they are enjoying being here as much as I enjoy having them here.
Damon had a lot of fun playing around outside. It was a really nice day.
Aren't they so cute?!!

Puppy!

Our dog Terk is a daddy to this cute little puppy. There was only one, which is a bummer, but he is sure cute.
Damon took this picture and was pretty proud of it. It is too close for comfort so I made it small, but I wanted to post it because he did such a good job.

Primary Talent Show

At our Primary Talent Show last night the bishop asked Tyler to help them with their skit, but wouldn't tell him what he had to do. Here he is as their table. The characters ended up getting mad and left Tyler with cups on his back.
Here he is trying to get them off and about a half a second later they are spilling all over his neck. It was funny. I wish I had a picture of that.
Damon was very excited to play basketball for his talent. He went downstairs to practice a lot this week. He was so funny. It was really cute. If anyone is looking for a great primary activity have a talent show. It was so cute and funny. The kids do most of the work. We just bought pizza and soda, and made some rice crispey treats. The prep, planning, and clean up was really minimal and it turned out really great. The kids were so cute and excited about their skills. We had all kinds of things. From teaching us how to draw a rose, a drumer, jokes, singing, piano, etc. Oh, and of course a lesson in shooting a basketball from my favorite little buddy.

Worms!

This last weekend my dad came to our house while Tyler worked and I took Hunter's Safety, yup Tyler finally got me to take it. I was less than excited. I will post pictures of that later. I will also put up some pictures of my house after Tyler paints it. That was our deal. He has to paint our house since I took the class. I hate painting and I needed something out of the deal. Anyway, my dad and Taylor came over to babysit for us. It was fun to see them and so nice of them to help us out. I came home for lunch as they were getting home from the park. Damon was so excited to show me this worm they dug up. He was a little scared of them when he was little, so he was very proud of himself. At first I thought he was putting on a good show and trying to be brave, but he was really into the worm. Not afraid at all. He is really turning into a typical, bug loving, dirt digging, messy little boy.

Friends

We had lots of fun visiting with our friends from Wisconsin. Tara, Jocelyn, and Carter came to see us last week. Damon was so excited before they got here, but then he acted a little silly. I think he got shy. He hasn't seen his buddy Jocelyn (except on their blog) for almost a year.
Here is a cute picture of Damon and Jocelyn. We are always making them sit together in pictures. We keep waiting for them to one day not agree to it. Hopefully they will always be friends.

We love Halloween

Here are a few pictures of our fun Halloween. We had a lot of different places to go. Damon was so excited to be Spiderman. He hasn't ever really had an opinion before (I think I talked him out of something last year, so I guess we will say this is the first year he picked what he wanted to be.) These pictures weren't all taken on the same day, however you will notice Damon is Spiderman in every one. He practially wore out his costume before Halloween.

Here is Damon at a party at the library.

I made Tyler help us carve pumpkins this year. He usually tries to get out of it. He ended up doing most of the work. No wonder he avoids it. Damon picked a hard pattern and wanted Daddy to help him. I guess you can't really see it in this picture, but it was a bunch of little monsters. It turned out really good.

This is Damon's preschool class. They had a little party and the moms were all feeling very safe. We had Superman, Batman, and Spiderman all under one roof.

Our ward had a trunk-or-treat. Tyler handed out the candy while Damon and I went to all the cars. Then we went back to our trunk and Damon had just as much fun passing out candy to all the kids. It was a lot of fun and we, errrrr Damon got some really good candy.

We made a stop at the mall to see Rainbow Bright, a.k.a. my sister Lori.