Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! Ours was GREAT! We spent the day at my Grandma Pollock's house. It was a HUGE crowd! Everyone was there except Chet & Jamie's family. We usually are not that lucky to get everyone from the family there together, but we came VERY close this year. We had the usual huge Thanksgiving dinner. Then the kids played with toys, while the adults played games. And Abby was so good to take a nap! The following day TeJay had the day off!! It was wonderful to get to spend some family time with him. Nate insisted that since Thanksgiving was over that we HAD to put up the Christmas Tree. Usually I wait until after his birthday, but he wouldn't let that happen! So Saturday was spent "decking the halls". I think that Nate and Emma think the sooner they decorate, the sooner Christmas will be here. It just means more work for Mom as she tries to keep the curious Mr. Parker out of the ornaments and the train. Allready most of the ornaments have been moved to higher ground just out of reach.

Emma put on the Angel topper for this yearThe finished Beauty!

The real reason (I think) that Nate counldn't wait! THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN!! They have played with it every night since. Chirstmas wouldn't be complete in our house with the train!
WE ARE READY FOR SANTA NOW! Guess I'd better get shopping!

Last Ride of the Season

Over the weekend, TeJay and Nate took their last motorcycle ride of the season. They went to Saint George with TeJay's dad, and they had a lot of fun. They left Saturday afternoon, and came back Sunday night. We told Nate that it would be a really long ride for him, but he insisted that he REALLY wanted to go, and he would be good. And he was!!! On the way to Saint George they only stopped ONCE, and Nate never complained! He said his backside was a little sore though. They saw trains in Milford, and I'm a little surprised that they didn't bring back any train pictures,because Nate LOVES trains. He even has a "Train Scrapbook" that he cuts out pictures of trains that he finds in the newspaper, or anywhere to glue into his scrapbook. TeJay and Nate have helmets with CB radios inside so that they can talk to each other, and both listen to the radio. Along the ride, Nate asked TeJay to turn off the radio so that they could take turns singing their own songs. What a great idea for a road trip.

TeJay's photo class

Last week TeJay finished a photo class he was taking at UVSC. It was really good for him, although we missed him on Tuesday nights. But I love the pictures he can take now! Maybe I can have GREAT pictures of my kids without going to Kiddie Kandids. I wanted to share some of the pictures that he took for his class, because I think they are awsome! WAY TO GO SWEETHEART!

Rain drops

Snow Fall (this one won the weekly prize in class)

Emma - she LOVES to pose

Our little brown eyed boy - Nate ( I just love this one)

A little Harley chrome

Take the Twilight Quiz

Here are the results for the quiz I took on which Twilight character I am! I'm REALLY pleased to be Esme! She has it all together. She has a family, and a great guy! I couldn't want more! Ohhhh, WAIT!! I have a family, and a great guy!!!!

Read the books! They're GREAT!

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Halloween

Ok, so it's a week later, and I'm FINALLY getting to Halloween pictures. It was a great Halloween for our family. Nate loved doing a parade at school, and having a party.

He's the cute little train engineer in the middle. He came into the room with his arms "chugging" and kept doing it all day, that he wore his costume. Nate loves EVERYTHING about trains.

The yummy & delicious pea pod, Abby

The loveable, huggable teddy bear, Parker

The very polite Princess Emma

The whole gang before Trunk-or-Treat

That night we went "Trunk or Treating" with the ward. I love it because I don't have to answer my door ALL night long, as trick-or-treaters come and go. It's just done all in one stop. Nate and Emma loved trunk-or-treating. As they were getting ready for bed that night I overheard them talking about how they couldn't wait for Halloween to come again next year.

Another good read

Oh my Gosh!!! I finished the third book in the Fitzwilliam Darcy trilogy by Pamela Aidan yesterday. And it HAS to be on my top 5 favorite books! I LOVED IT!!!! But then again I love almost everything about Pride and Prejudice. The first book (An assembly such as this) was good, the 2nd (Duty and desire) isn't worth your time. It has absolutely nothing about Darcy and Elizabeth toghter, and let's face it -that's what I want! And the third (These Three Remain) has all the GOOD stuff! It covers the time period of when Darcy proposes and is rejected all the way to the end. After reading it, now I just want to sit down and watch the whole 5 hour A&E Pride and Prejudice. I guess I better get started.