Thankful

I have a lot to be thankful for this year. Always at the top of my list is my 3 kids and wonderful husband. Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! We love you!

This was the first Thanksgiving we have spent without family. We had a fun day though and invited Jamie and Mike over for the Thanksgiving feast. Loved having them over!

Dough Fun

Addie went over to play at her friend Kieralyn's and had a blast! (Ben and I went and saw New Moon, Thanks Jamie) Below is some pics Jamie sent me of the girls making jewelry out of dough. Addie thought is was so cool!

Such a Boy!

I let the kids do some painting the other day. Brayden came up to me a little later and said, "Mom, I know how I can make it dry faster, use a blowing iron!" He is such a boy! Whereas my girls can name every kind of make-up and hair tool out there. :)

Barbie.com

Cambrie and Addison love to play Barbie.com. I often find them at the computer singing to all of the songs. Should I be proud my girls can sing "Oops I Did it Again" and "I'm a Barbie Girl"????

First Things First

This was my kids first thing in the morning on Saturday, even before breakfast! I can't tell you how many gloves and snow boots I helped take on and off ALL day long! We squeezed a movie at the dollar theater in the middle of all the snow play. We went and saw G-force, cute movie. Then it was back out in the snow until it was dark.

Love of the Game

Brayden LOVES basketball!

(below a sweaty Brayden, his coach played him almost the entire game last Tuesday)

He has improved a tremendous amount from the beginning of the season. He used to be the non-aggressive kid who stayed around the half court line whenever he played. Now he is learning to be aggressive and is an awesome defender. He also has one of the best shots on the team. He throws swishes from way outside the key! I am so proud of him! He is a lot of fun to watch! Right now he is playing in Bountiful and the season ends in 3 weeks. We signed him up for another season here in Farmington and Ben is going to be his coach. Ben is really excited to coach Brayden's team.

The lighting is really bad in the gym and my pics came out really grainy and blurry so I decided to go for the vintage look.

Go #26!

Spoken

These are some saying I can count on hearing several times throughout the day from my kids.

Brayden:

• "No way!"
• "That's so cool!"
• "Ahh, come on!"

Cambrie:

• "True."
• "Hello!" (Spoken hel-LOo,)
• "I know." Ex. Cambrie I think you are the sweetest girl ever! her response, "I know"
  

Addison:

• "Oh my goodness!"
• "Sweet Momma!"
• "Oh brother!"

How to Respond???

Tonight as I was putting Addie to bed I mentioned to her that I wanted her to stay in her bed all night long and not come and get in bed with me. She responded, "But you like to snuggle up to me." What do you say to that?!

Another fun Addie fact. When I asked her what her favorite color was she responded, "Yellow, rainbow, purple, pink, sparkly, and normal."

Star Student

Cambrie is star student this week in her 2nd grade class.

She got to bring home the teacher's special stuffed dinosaur for the week. She also got to take in some pictures of herself to hang on the wall all week. On the weekly newsletter us parents get it reads:

Cambrie's favorite food is watermelon. Her favorite movie is Sleeping Beauty. Her favorite colors are pink and yellow. Her favorite book is Berenstain Bear books. When she grows up she wants to be a mom and a teacher. Cambrie is a sweet and helpful addition to our class!

I love this girl! She is a Star! I got a call a week ago from the office saying that Cambrie had made the 200's list. Which means she did something spectacular at school. She brought home a note saying that she made the list because everyday after school she shut all the computers down in her teacher's classroom without even being asked and helped her teacher pick up the classroom. :)

Eyes

I love looking at the color of people's eyes! I think everyone is so different and unique. So... here's a little game for you. Can you guess who's eye is who? (Ben, Brayden, Cambrie, Addie, and me)

#1

#2
#3
#4#5

3 months later

My plastic surgeon told me that my wound would look totally different in 3 months. Well it's been 3 months. And I have gone from this:

From this:

and this:To this:and this:

So it is slowly healing! :)

It is starting to go down a little in size as the muscle shrinks. It's funny (gross to Ben) when I flex my calf muscle now my relocated calf muscle/lump on top of my leg sinks in on the right and flexes up on the left and gets totally hard. When I am relaxed it is soft and gushy to push. I still don't have feeling in most of my leg down to my ankle but that ok. No pain now either. :) I can bend my knee now just beyond 90 degrees which is a huge improvement. I can walk now without a limp another huge plus. My skin graft site where they removed the skin is still bright red but all the scabs are gone now. You can see where they peeled off two different slices of skin off my thigh.

It's so nice to feel back to normal again and to put this series of surgeries behind me!

Love Taget

I LOVE 90% off clearance at Target! I got so much fun Halloween stuff for pretty much nothing including costumes, decorations, and napkins. I got some fun fall decorations too. My grand total for everything was under $5.00!

I love awesome deals.... now if Black Friday would just hurry up and get here! :)

It is Fall!

When I took Addie to go see the creek the wind was blowing and leaves were falling everywhere. Addie looked at me and said, "Mom it IS fall!"

Friends

Sweet Friends and Precious Memories

(There is something about this picture I just love! Maybe it's making me think back to my great friends when I was younger)

Little Sister Big Teacher

I love watching Cambrie teach Addison things she has learned at school. Addie really looks up to Cambrie. For a while Cambrie has been teaching Addie Spanish. I never thought anything was clicking until I heard Addie this morning count in Spanish to the number 12. I am so grateful that these two girls have each other. It's just one of those moments as a parent that makes you smile.