Thanksgiving

My crazy kids getting ready for friends to come over. They were so excited.

We had our friends Jessica, Jake and Callie over for Thanksgiving. Jake's sister, Becca, and her family came as well. It was a really nice day.

Here is Richard with Tatum and Bodey.

Warren, Becca, and Jake

Richard took a few pics. Here is one of Hannah and I that he took.

Our cute little Callie. She is a funny girl! We all LOVE her!

Jake and Becca, I think Callie tried to take this pic.

My silly Richard.

The kids did some dancing for us toward the end of the night. They were all so crazy, but the adults were extremely tired. I love the energy the kids have.

Richard went back to work photographing everyone and everything. Here are Jessica and Jake.

My Snow Village, one of my fav things of Christmas.

Our Christmas tree.

We had a really nice Thanksgiving. Though we missed our families we are so grateful to have great friends here to share Thanksgiving with.

I am thankful for Chris's new job, our new ward, and great new people around us. I am thankful for family, old friends, the gospel, health, and all the wonderful things the Lord has blessed me with. This is a wonderful country that allows us the freedoms we all deserve as children of God. What a blessed life we live! I am thankful for the relationship I have with Chris and the kids and how much we love and respect each other. I am most thankful that I will be with them for ETERNITY!

Sleepy girl

Hannah's hair

I have tried for months to get Hannah to let me do her hair, and we are finally getting there. Last night I braided it and she let me do it again today. I thought I'd take a pic of our success! Luckily she has beautiful curly hair so when I don't get to do it, she still looks really cute. But it's fun for me to style and play with it. :)

Oh, and I had to bribe her with chocolate, hence the messy face.

Richard's funny

Richard has been so funny lately that I thought I would share some of his stories.


Yesterday I cut his hair and Richard likes to take showers after a haircut, just like Dad. But he was showering and started singing, "I love to sing in the rain. I love to sing in the rain. I love to be in the rain." He sang this over and over. I thought it was so cute!


In the morning before this he was trying to convince Hannah to go downstairs with him. She was being scared so Richard said he would tell her a story. "Once upon a time there was a brave girl who lived in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Then she goed downstairs, then she was brave. The end." So funny and I'm really impressed that he remembers so well where he lives.


While Chris has been at the hospital Richard has really started to miss him the last few days. Each time we pass the hospital Richard waves and says hi to his Dad. Then he will tell me how much he loves and misses him.


This morning Richard wanted to be like Chris so he climbed up on the sink to get deodorant. He proceeded to put in on his arm pits. What a silly boy!