Thanksgiving Pictures

I know it's after Christmas, but considering that I'm not really on the ball, I figured it was about time to post our Thanksgiving pictures. We spent Thanksgiving break in Orlando at Disney World. We met up with Jon's parents, 5 of Jon's siblings, their spouses, and their kids. We rented a 7 bedroom house for all of us. We went to Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. We took a TON of pictures that I'm sure most of you aren't interested in, but I am going to post some of them anyway in case Jon's family wants to copy them off my blog!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I woke up this morning at 7:30 to find EVERY present unwrapped! Yep, that's right, my kids got up at about 5am and unwrapped every present! Jon and I missed it all! It was so sad...I burst into tears. We explained to them that they were supposed to wait for us or wake us up! Anyway, now that I am over the shock, I can laugh about it! I talked to my dad and he said that we did that one Christmas when we were kids, so that made me feel a little better!

Santa Claus must be coming soon

Here's what I found hanging on the fridge this morning. Lindsay knows that Santa is supposed to come tonight.


In case you can't read it, it says
"Dear Santa,
I'm sorry for all the bad things I've done to Anna and the words that are unicsetibul (unacceptable) to my Mother. Please give me extra toys for Christmas.
Love Lindsay for Santa.
No more bad thing for Lindsay

I laughed really hard! She cracks me up!

Posting soon...

I know I totally need to update the blog, but this month has been crazy busy (I'm sure it has been for everyone)! As soon as I get a minute to breathe, I will be updating, but for right now, I have a million presents to wrap!

We went to Disney World last week. Here's a picture from Hollywood Studios.

Our first broken bone...

So far, none of our kids have broken any bones...until now. Joey, who is 13 months old, fell off a chair onto our tile floor. I guess his left leg took the whole fall because he has a slight fracture of his tibia. Of course this had to happen when Jon is out of town for a couple weeks. We spent 8 hours in the ER on Wednesday and then back to the hospital today to get a new cast. He seems to be feeling a lot better today. He is moving around and crawling as best as he can.

Christmas Trees!

Here are the pictures of my Christmas trees! If you know me, you know that my favorite color is purple. I've always wanted a purple tree, so this year we decorated one purple. The other one is a smaller tree and we decorated it with red and gold!

Anna is 3!

Anna turned 3 on Thanksgiving day. We were in Orlando with Jon's family, so she got lots of gifts and lots of attention! She loved her presents especially her Elmo toy from Uncle Brent and her princess dress/shoes from Uncle Kirk and Aunt Tanya.

Joey's Birthday in October

Joey turned 1 on October 22 and I am finally blogging it more than a month later!

Halloween!

We had a lot of fun for Halloween this year! Tyler dressed up like a vampire, Lindsay and Anna were Tinkerbell. I dressed Joey up as Piglet. Jon told me that I shouldn't have put him in a pink, pig outfit, but Piglet is a boy right?

Jon dressed up like a viking. I got a great deal on costumes this year, so I got two for me! For our ward Trunk or Treat, I went as a witch. Jon and I had an adult Halloween party at our house and for that, I dressed up as a pirate's wench. My parents were in town for Halloween, so my mom dressed up like a witch too.

On Halloween night, we went to the Fall Festival at the kids' school. Overall, it was busy and fun week and the kids got WAY too much candy. I have been very tempted to eat it all, but so far I have resisted. I haven't had any sugar since Jan. 5, 2009. I am trying my hardest to make it one year without any sugar. I just gotta make it through Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Carving pumpkins!