Thanksgiving Festivities

This year we really wanted to host Thanksgiving. We'd never done a turkey before and that was the main thing we were worried about. Well, coincidentally, I happened to buy one that didn't require a lot of work. The giblets and all the junk was already taken out. Sweeet. It cooked itself and even finished earlier than expected. Everything came together pretty nicely. We had our meal with my family and then later in the day went over to Larissa and Jake's house to spend time with the Cherry family and 8 pies.

It was actually a pretty relaxing day, which I hadn't really expected. That's probably why I don't have many pictures either cause I was chillin. I know I ate way too much pie, but you gotta try it all right?

I'm super excited for Christmas and hosting again.

We are a Jazz Family

We've been fortunate enough to be able to go to a few Jazz Basketball games lately. In late October, Carter and I went to one of the pre-season games. Carter heard a promotion on the radio that if you brought canned foods to a certain place they'd give you tickets. So we did! Then a couple weeks ago we were at the mall looking for some Jazz gear and they were running some awesome promotion at the sports store. If you spent a certain amount of money, they'd give you tickets to a game a few days later. We thought surely they'd be crappy tickets, but in fact they were like $130 per ticket! Score! So we totally did that deal and those seats were great. You could see the guys faces and everything was so much better. That game was crazy and had a double overtime. Very exciting. About a month ago we got tickets to go on a "Family Night" with Shelby, Steven and Kacey and we decided to take Savannah. In due time Cooper will be able to go. So we went to that game this Monday. Savannah had been sooo excited to go. She was talking about it all the time. It was her first game that she would remember; we took her twice when she was a baby. She enjoyed herself but towards the end was asking if it was time to go yet. And sorry, these pictures got all out of order; I haven't done them like this in awhile.

My parents watched Cooper for us on Monday, so we had to snap a picture of him in his gear before we left.

At the game.

She would clap when we made a basket, scream DEFENSE, and she was cheering for Paul Millsap. I'm guessing that's because at McDonalds their is a big cardboard cut out of him and we see it a lot (which is a sign that we need to frequent that place a lot less) and tell her it's Paul Millsap. Although, he is a great player and maybe she recognizes that. Maybe.

Aunt Kacey and Savannah. And Carter sneaking in there too.

At home watching the Jazz Game. Since we have tv now, we're able to watch the games and have caught most of them. Some of them have been so exciting lately that while we're trying to put the kids to bed we've got our tv on in our bedroom and are running in there every few minutes to check it out. Or we just DVR it, because DVR is the best thing ever.

This night they tried to serenade us during the game.

These were the awesome seats we had, although they don't seem that great in this picture. Just believe me. Best seats we've ever had; even a little better than our first date. Did you know that a Jazz game was our first date?! It was my first basketball game ever too. Now I love them.

I'm pretty sure this was our faces when we went into double overtime.

We're excited to watch and go to these games as a family for many years!

More movies

He is saying Spider in this one.

Ahhhh's on a pretend rock = Ariel impersonation

You'll probably need to pause the music at the bottom of the blog to be able to hear.

Pumpkin Picking

We went pumpkin picking at a local house a couple weeks ago. It was a small little patch, which was good for the kids. They really didn't seem all that interested in actually picking one for themselves. We ended up with 4 and carved one into a Cinderella slipper. But then it started growing something inside so I put it outside and then the rain got to it and now it is broken mush. I would say we're not huge on the whole decorating and carving pumpkins, but it was our first time to do it as a family, so maybe as the kids get older it will be funner.

Somebody's Four

Well, my babygirl is 4 today and that is beyond crazy. She had a fun party yesterday at my parents and then had one at our house tonight with the Cherry side. She was spoiled, like always. I think she was most excited about her new Tinkerbell movie. She started screaming and jumping up and down. Never seen that reaction before. She's been playing with her new toys all day.

Year three had lots of sass. I'm sure year four won't be any different. That's our girl! Gotta love her.

Mobile uploads from the last year or so.