Temple Square

The boys got an extra special treat over the Thanksgiving weekend. The Saturday after Thanksgiving we got to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa Tuft at Temple Square. They were so excited to see the lights this year. For some reason Ryan was especially interested in everything. He talked very loudly and excitedly about every color and size of tree he saw. They loved the "activities" (nativities) and the view of the Salt Lake Temple with the floating bubbles on the water (sorry, no picture). On the way back to the car, we saw some horse-drawn carriages waiting on the side of the road. Ryan didn't believe the horses were real until he actually saw one driving down the road. He was very pleased to see a real horse. The boys were also very excited to go out to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa. It was a lot of fun and reminded us of how close Christmas really is!




And yes, that is Matthew, a six-year-old, in the stroller. Although he did walk for some of it, he thought it would be great to be pushed around during certain parts. I don't know if you could call it lazy or just brilliant.

Thanksgiving

As always, I am late on posting things. Someday I will be on the ball, but I figure that may take awhile. So don't hold your breath. :)

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Tams for the weekend. There was lots of eating, playing, and all around good times. We spent some time looking at the Black Friday ads (and buying everything online instead of heading to the store!).

We built some Legos with Grandpa

And made the annual gingerbread houses

It was a very fun weekend and of course went by very quickly. We were very grateful to be with family and reflect upon the many, many blessings we have received from our Heavenly Father.

Halloween

October 30, 2010

The boys decided they wanted to be Jedis again this year for Halloween, which was great with me. I did make them some better robes this year, which turned out to be a good thing since they had Hallloween parties at school and went trick-or-treating in the rain.

Here they are before we headed out.

There was a light drizzle that wasn't too bad when we first went. We pretended that we had just landed on the planet Kamino to keep us going. We were almost done with the inner part of our block when it started to pour and got windy. Ryan was ready to go home at that point. Matthew didn't seem to care much and surprisingly Zach could have cared less. He was loving the rain. And he loved trick-or-treating. He never said the words, but when we were done with each house he would say, "Okay, next house. More canny." It was pretty funny.

The boys in action

Carving pumpkins

October 29, 2010

We didn't get pumpkins carved as early as usual this year, but it was fun all the same. Matthew drew his picture on his pumpkin and then we cut it open to start carving. He took out a few seeds and then decided he was done. Funny kid.

Ryan, on the other hand, couldn't get enough of the pumpkin guts. He thought they were great.

Zachary wasn't terribly interested this year, but he did like the finished products and was very particular about seeing where they were placed on the porch.

Girl-Trapped

Matthew came home from school one day and informed me that he had narrowly escaped being girl-trapped.



"Girl-trapped?" I asked.



"Yeah, you know. When you have to sit between two girls. But there was a boy who came and sat by me. A girl got boy-trapped though. She had to sit between two boys."



I'm glad Matthew averted such a disaster.