She's home and doing great!

MJ had a deformity in her feet. She has had it since she was little, but it has been getting worse over the years. So we finally went in and had it corrected before it got any worse. So now she has two green casts on her feet. She will be getting them taken off on Jan 28th. Lucky for her she is only going to miss two days of school because they are just about to go on Christmas break. She will be walking on them soon and for now she is getting spoiled rotten and loving every minute of it!

My Sister's Keeper

I just finished this book. Wow, what an amazing story and at the same time about the saddest thing I have ever read. I recommend this book, but have a box of Kleenex near by.

Where did my baby go?

What happened to my baby boy. He is all of the sudden a little boy, messy eater, into everything and loves to torture his sisters. Turning one the day after Christmas, time has just flown by!

and another Christmas quilt finished and ready to be mailed.

Tacos?

LL- Mom I don't like Tacos

Me- Good because we are having Taco soup and not Tacos

MJ- Mom, I love Tacos, because I am a Taco Master

Matt in South Korea

Matt flew to S. Korea for work and had about 1 hour to walk around and see the Korea around their hotel. Here are some of the pictures he took of his trip there. a park across from their hotel
view from the hotel

the luxurious toilet, it was heated and even had a dryer (I know that's gross)

Getting ready for the Holidays

Here are the cute Christmas outfits that Gma Pam got the kids.
I left the room for just a minute and came back to this, poor boy! He didn't even cry he was just trying to see the music to special agent oso.

Then it was MJ's turn

crazy boy

School Pictures

mess monster returns

Well, he is a cute monster!

Vacuum Woes!

So I was vacuuming the other day and all of the sudden I got something good, one of those loud clicking sounds (you know what I'm talking about). Then it kept going and going like it was bouncing around in the bag, when BANG! dirt started to shoot out of the filter. I thought oh great I broke it, then I though okay this is good I broke it (I have been wanting a new vacuum). I opened up the front to find a huge hole in the bag and the little plastic piece that I sucked up . To make a long story short, I changed the bag put the front back on and went back to vacuuming. Maybe I need to find a bigger piece of plastic to break the old beast.

Fall Fun!

Our neighbors sister crimped all the girls hair on Halloween. So we all got to re live the 80's for one night
MJ's class after the Halloween parade

waiting for the parade

LL's witch costume

this was her face every time she put her hand in the pumpkin

and MJ thought it was the coolest thing ever

jumping in leaf piles

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from our Princess, Good Witch and little Duck!
MJ's Tinkerbell pumpkin
LL's Butterfly pumpkin

Matt's self portrait pumpkin (that's what he said)

the Scarecrow we made for Grandma Pam

Jack's silly face pumpkin

and my Washington State Cougars Pumpkin

Falling Behind?!

Wow we have been super busy, Sorry! My Aunt Cozy flew out for a week and the night before I was cleaning and getting the kids ready for bed when my mom called and asked to talk to MJ, I thought okay, so I put it on speaker phone and she told MJ that there was a package on the front step. I thought she had tracked a package or something and opened the door and there was my mom standing on the front porch. I couldn't believe it and come to find out that everyone knew but me, my neighbors knew, the St Cyr's knew and almost everyone at Matt's work too. So to say the least I have been having a blast and sad that they had to go home. Aunt Cozy and us at Powers Pumpkin Farm
Grandma Pam and LL running out of the Teepee inside the big teepee's

G-ma and Jack

the yellow chicken they also had a pink, blue, black and white one

MJ, Megan, LL and Ryan being... um normal?

I enlisted the help of the neighbors kids to dig up our garden, they were looking for worms

by the handful to be exact!

MJ's cake and Party went really well

Matt won the ward chili cook off (he was very proud of his trophy)

LL jammed in the car with our corn stalks (she asked every minute if we could drop them off somewhere)

dancing at Strong National Museum of Play

Jack did not like Big Birds nest

shopping at Wegmans in the museum

sisters racing

postmaster MJ

Erie Canal

Chase Farms sitting on a giant pumpkin

Happy 5th Birthday MJ!

I still can't believe that I have a 5 year old. She has grown up so fast and is such a big help to me. Happy Birthday beautiful girl!!

MJ's spelling

MJ looks at me and says, "Mom, I know how to spell Peanut Butter... J I F... Peanut Butter" I laughed and said, "no honey that's just the brand it's called Jif. "

Prima Ballerina

I never thought I would have a Prima Ballerina, but I do!

apple picking/corn maze

We should be asking our neighbors if they are sick of us yet. But they keep coming back for more, or it's because they live next door and can't run away. We all went to The Apple Farm then to a corn maze. Where we got lost then ended up finding a lot of the clues to find our way out and giving up before the kids started eating the corn right from the stalks. I don't think Ryan liked us telling them to go into the scary old barn for a picture, he looks worried
corn maze

yes that is matt and I on a peddle bike and tricycle racing, don't you do that all the time?

9 months old

after eating our yummy cider donuts

apple picking

steph and LL

Brian and Megan getting the ones way up there in the trees

Matt and LL say, "Want one?".

Ice Blocking

Yes that is right! For everyone that doesn't know what Ice Blocking is... you sit on a block of ice and ride it down a hill. Yes we learned it in Idaho, but it is so much fun and we had to show our neighbors how it was done. Then we found out that Brian is crazier then we are on a block of ice and that Steph just doesn't do silly thing like that, okay she didn't say silly she said scary, but she did take all of our pictures for us.

We did tell him that the ice would be in blocks, so this just tells you about our friends and how much fun we had with them.
And you can't go ice blocking with out making a chain, which all of us ended up rolling down the hill

MJ's First Day of School

And I didn't even cry, it was hard not to follow the bus, but I kept really busy and we both made it through her first day with flying colors.

Our Vacation Out West

We had a blast on out vacation out west. We flew into SLC, Utah and then drove the next day to Las Vegas for Matt's younger brother's wedding (not by Elvis). The next day woke up and packed up and drove back to SLC, Utah stayed the night. Then got up the next morning and drove to Idaho Falls, Idaho and stayed 4 days. While there we saw Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, WY. After that we drove back down to Provo, Utah and visited BYU campus ran into Afton after her French test, had a mint chocolate brownie and then drove to Pleasant Grove and had a BBQ with some friends from Matt's High School years. Then we stayed two nights in SLC, Utah and went to Temple Square, had to die for Waffles and Frits at a little place in SLC with some Williamsburg/mission friends. Then got up way too early and came home were were we are still recovering.
Capitol Building in SLC

Temple Square

Great Friends, thanks again ladies

Matt and friends Thanks again Mike for hosting the BBQ

all the cute kids from the BBQ

Oh Maddox, we miss you already

LL on 4 wheeler

MJ on 4 wheeler

Yes that is me on a dirt bike

and Matt on the same one

Minnie LL

Rexburg Temple

Bar J Wranglers

Jeanne and Grandma Jorgensen in Jackson Hole

West Yellowstone after the park

Old Faithful

Hot pots

yes they are looking at the elk above

Visiting Grandpa Johns grave

the reception

Mark and Natalie sealed together

Aunt Jana doing her auntie job, well at least two are smiling

the start of our trip to Las Vegas (sorry that was our trip backwards) If you want to see more click here!

Fish Hatchery and Hike