This Thanksgiving...

...I'm thankful for My Family,

my beautiful kids,

my incredible man,

who keeps my life fun and full, my partner in crime...

I'm grateful for sunny park days in November,

my parents,

being my kids human-jungle-gym,

great extended family and awesome food,

A passsionate husband,

who couldn't get the Thanksgiving Bronco's game on cable so watched it on his phone ;)


Pretty much, I'm grateful for my incredible life.

I have alot to be thankful for.

There are a million things I could say that I didn't even begin to talk about, and a million ways I can expound on what I did talk about. I'm so grateful for my family and the principles we are founded on. Our family wouldn't be half of what it is without our faith and commitment to eachother and being a family for eternity.

So this Thanksgiving, though there are a million things that I am truly grateful for. My focus is on my family and the sanity, through insanity, that they provide. I love you Babe, your more than incredible. You seriously keep me together. My little Ashlynn, Taidan, and Brynlee...the world can't measure how amazing and special you are. You are my life, my loves. I adore you, and I'm always, always going to be here for you.

Mommy Taider Date...

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs!

Mommy and Taidan had a date this month. We invited Grandma Kiki to come!

It was Taidan's first movie...and it was so fun.

We were literally the only people in the theater. So when the movie was over and Taidan wanted to run down by the screen and dance...we did!

It's a dark video, but what you can see is cute...I love Taidan's flashing Spiderman shoes.

Boo-boo's got a boo-boo!

Poor Brynie-Boo

Brynlee got in her first fight...(with a desk)

Brynlee lost.

It was our first time in the emergency room with any of our kids,

Mommy was a mess...

fortunately

Brynlee was so tough!

She got an ankle bracelet and a little yellow duckie with flowers on it

enter the doctor and nurse...

After a horrible and sad fight,

Brynlee got 3 big, stitches on her beautiful little face.

Contrary to my belief,

the stitches didn't slow Brynlee down...

in fact she tackled Taidan, brow first, as soon as she got back home from the hospital!

The next day, somehow...

Still mostly smiles.

We're so proud of our tough little baby!

FINALLY...

...after weeks of anticipation, It's Halloween!

Princess Jasmine, Spiderman, and Snow White

Ashlynn and Grandma KiKi

Grandpa Ric and Brynlee

TRUNK-or-treating!

Paca, (we think) & Mimi.

Time to Trick-or-Treat!

For Brynlee trick-or-treating was all new...

The kids scored tons of candy
I love Ashlynnn's victorious "yes!"

pArTy tiMe!

Ashlynn came back from

Trick-or-Treating to find a party waiting for her!

Ashlynn wanted to design her 'big girl' cake herself.

She picked the design, the colors, and the flavors...

she did a great job it was delicious!

This is her first look at her masterpiece

Happy Birthday 4 year old!

You are a dream come true. We are honored to be your parents.

You are such an amazing person, we love you Princess!

girl's night out...

...Thriller

My Mom, Kirsten, treated me to the Barney Girl's Halloween tradition.

it was at the amazing outdoor ampitheater Tuachan

The Girls

Allie Berry, Kim Berry, Kirsten Martin, and

Me, Gabi Smith, Sydney Berry, Melinda Barney

Leah couldn't make it,

but her go go girl get-up deserved face time ;)

curtain call was set to, what else...

THRILLER

loved the show

one of the best parts were these gnarly zombies

creeping and crawling all over everyone!

Gabi and Syd especially loved this zombie...mom was less of a fan.

mmmm...bloody

yuck

don't you love the one eating my aunt kim?!

posing with one of our favorite acts of the night...

Lorena Bobbit!

no boys, that's not a peace sign...it's scissors

The Pumpkin Patch

Stahley's Farm!

With the Barney Family

...pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins

Mimi and all the kids on the 'hay' ride to the pumpkin patch

Grandpa Ric and Brynlee

time to play

uh-oh, the barrel ride...don't worry, this years ride was accident free ;)

Stahley's had slides, sandboxes, cow and bull tire swings,
a petting zoo, a corn maze, barrel rides, and a pumpkin patch...
our group did it all!

Taidan...

doing one of the things Taidan does best ;)

Ashlynn on the corn slides

We had a blast!

Hiking the Narrows

The St. George Narrows, that is.

First Stop, my favorite part...

The Picnic!

Brian could hardley wait to get going,

he had to practice his skills while we finished up.

Next Up, the St. George Narrows!

This natural crack in the rock is so skinny

we didn't even make it all the way through with the kids...

and I barely made it past the beginning with my pregger belly.

The narrows open up into caves and other

amazing formations as you get further & further in.

These pictures are at the beginning of the narrows.

We take the kids hiking and climbing alot and they are SO good at it,

but sometimes my heart still gets stuck somewhere in my throat...

moments like this one with Taidan.

Brynlee and Mommy!

Best Friends

Brian and Brynlee

I love the picture with Brian's

arms out and Brynlee running full speed to get him!

King of the Hill, and his beautiful princesses

Last stop before heading back was this

old house built into a cave

By the end of our hike all the kids were

happy, tired, and red cheeked!