Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving all! We are having our own little Thanksgiving today. We are eating and then painting our living room and just spending some quiet time together--and it is 61 today so we will go for a walk too.

We wanted to make a list for you all of 10 things we are thankful for:

1. Mom and Dad
2. Siblings
3. A good job that provides well for us
4. Heavenly Father (Isaac chose this one)
5. Membership in the church
6. Monkeys (Will chose this one)
7. The country we live in
8. A home to live in
9. The times we live in so we have all kinds of luxuries
10. Our super, awesome, exciting, argument free marriage--we'll let you decide which one of those adjectives might be an exaggeration.

Tell your family what you are thankful for today!

Uhh...we really are bad about birthdays

Happy (late) Birthday, Dad. You are certainly our favorite dad, and we're sorry we forgot you. We hope you had a great day and that you enjoyed all the people who did remember. Here's a picture of the children you have that did.

The reunion book

I am starting to make the book for the family reunion. I am wondering how big everyone wants the book to be. I can make a book up to 440 pages, which I think is ridiculously big. We have a ton of pictures so I'm wondering how many of them you actually want. I am willing to make it as big or as little as you would like. Also, I think I can find a way so that there are "contributors" so that you can get on and have some input. I see good and bad things about that. On the one hand, you all might want different things and I might get annoyed trying to please everyone ;). But on the other hand, it would be nice to not be responsible for guessing what everyone wants. Also, I thought it would be nice if everyone could write something brief about what their favorite thing/things about the reunion was and if you have some pictures that you really loved, if you would tell me so I can include them. Do you all want to contribute or do you want me to do it and then surprise you all? I can make it and then you can all preview it and let me know what changes you want...Hmmm. Leave comments and let me know.

I was just looking at the picture at the top of the blog, and started wondering. When was the last time that there wasn't someone in our family who was pregnant?

Halloween with Grandma

We had a great time with Grandma here on Halloween. We had a pizza dinner, then went out trick or treating with our very large group and got lots of candy! Everyone looked great in their costumes, Steven a chicken (We got a lot of comments about his costume), Yanina a witch, Nick a bee, Becca and Sarah were in Poodle Skirts, Gavin (Laura's Cousin) was an IRS agent, Jacob a vampire, Mariah was a random person, Noah I did not get a picture of was a bee also, and the rest of us...well we did not dress up. We were glad that everyone could come and join us for the night.

For Andy

Will was going to be a superhero (I thought) but he insistede on being a monkey for the second year in a row. It is fine by me as long as we get our money's worth from the monkey suit. The boys are trying to show you their muscles in the one picture and Eli is waving hello.

I'm very disapointed!

I think I've waited patiently long enough. I have been out here in the middle of nowhere checking all the blogs daily to see all of the Halloween pictures of cute nieces and nephews in costumes. Nothing. I expect you all to repent over this weekend, and have pictures up by the end of Sunday. A vos te digo tambien Laura. Ya es tiempo para que pongas algo en el blog.

Happy Belated Birthday!

I'm sure you all know by now that we are really, really bad at remembering birthdays. We are so sorry Ralph! We hope you have a great birthday.

Reunion Pictures

Did we ever get the photoshopped photos from the lady?

Voting time

Who's everyone voting for? Adrianne and I voted for Chuck Baldwin--we know there's no way he's going to win, but we are registered in Utah and they will select McCain regardless of what we do. We agree with the constitution party's position on most things. Are any of you in states where your vote actually means anything?