I need an updated picture on Nik to put on my wall so we went outside yesterday and took a few shots. He was a good sport and took some good pictures! Bet you can tell which poses were his idea!

We picked up a kids magazine from the grocery store last week. In it was a marshmallow man kinda like on Ghostbusters. The kids decided we needed to make shmarshmallow men! After a few days of reminding me to get marshmallows we had a blast making shmarshmallow (No typo, this is how Ariana says it!) men!

We used frosting to get them to stick together but some of them were so big they wouldn't stand up!

Nik did make some but then took them apart to give the other kids more marshmallows! Sometimes he can be such a Sweetie!!

The best part was eating them when we were done!!

Did you know that female turkeys cluck but they cannot gobble? Just an interesting second grade fact! 

Sunday we made our annual thankful turkeys. The kids had been asking when we were going to make them! I am glad they remember and like this tradition because I LOVE it!

I totally forgot to take pictures last night (What is wrong with me, right?!) so I took these tonight.

Britain- Love, Family, Mrs. Miller & School, Friends

Ariana- Bedtime snacks, Cartoons, Paisy & Siddy, Jane & Sarah (her bestest friends), Toys

Kalixta- Family, Holidays, Food, Friends

Zoe- Toilets, Family & Me, T.V. & Wii, Food & Candy

Nik- Maisy, House, Food, Family

Ammon- My Family, Uncles & Aunts, Food & Water, School & Teachers

Tori- Big Girl Food, Dogs, Family, Toys

Marie- Car, Ice Cream, Basketball, Family

Michelle- Health, Art, Jordan & Family, Faith

Jordan- Work, Temple, Michelle My Bell & Family, Nieces & Nephews

Marci- Working from Home, Sid-i-poo, My hubby Kenny, Health

Kenny- Nieces & Nephews, Family, Sid, Marci

Melissa- Gospel, Good Health, Adam & Kids, Family

So tell me….

What are YOU thankful for??

Adam took a group of young men to the Hill Aerospace Museum at the Hill Air Force Base up by Ogden. Nik tagged along and they had a great time.

They played a flying game.

There was lots of cool airplanes!

A seat out of an old airplane!

There was lots to see and all the boys had a good time!

Did you miss last week's recipe? I did too! I just had so many other fun things to post about, but it's back! These are Adam's new favorite cookie! Adam's job should have been a taste taster! He has a great sense of what tastes go together and all that foodie stuff! Sometimes it makes him hard to cook for but a fun challenge too. It is the best to find something that he really likes! He found this recipe the other day and loved it. I made it for him again today! That alone says how good they are!

$2 Cookies from Just That Good…..

Enjoy!!!!

School pictures came this week! I love cutting the pictures apart and writing on the back. I enjoy putting them into the piles to send to family. But most of all I love changing my wall!  Behind the current picture are all the past pictures so when I change the picture I get to look and all the past ones and see how my darlings have changed! Every time I get a lump in my throat. They grow so fast and I am so proud of each one!

Zoe 4th grade 9 years old!

Ammon 2nd grade 8 years old

Kalixta Kindergarten 5 years old

Britain Kindergarten 5 years old

Nobody blinked this year! I love how they all turned out!!

Friday night we got home late. I wanted all the kids to kneel down to say prayers before they got into their pj's. Everyone was ready but Kalixta was missing. We waited a minute or two and then I went downstairs to find her. She was curled up in bed already.

Me: "Kalixta come upstairs for prayers. Everyone is waiting!"

K: "I don't want to."

Me: "Why not?"

K: Grown ups pray too long!"

Me: "Oh, it's Zoe's turn to pray!"

K: "Okay!" And she jumped up and went upstairs!

Kalixta cracks me up all day long! She has the best one liners that she delivers with such an attitude that I laugh out loud! 

Britain is learning a lot at school. This morning's conversation was proof of that!

Every morning Adam reads an article in the Friend (a church magazine for kids) to the kids. There is a section called, "Trying to Be Like Jesus" where kids write letters to the magazine about how they try to be like Jesus and choose the right. Every time we read that section Adam tells the kids they should write a story to the Friend. Today was no exception. Ammon said he didn't have a story to write to which Britain added, "If I were to write a story it would be fiction and that wouldn't be right!"

Fiction?! I thought that was funny! She had to have learned that at school!

Adam sent this to me today with the subject "Who do YOU see in this clip?" I see me! I am so impatient with others I don't know! I want everything to be fair and get irritated when I have to wait too long or can't get what I need or have to drive behind "slow" drivers! It is a good reminder about what or who is really important!

Go do service today!! 

Jeff and Kylie drove here just for the Halloween weekend! We love having them here so much and miss them tons already! They are lots of fun and lots of help!

This is the second year they have been here for Halloween and I hope the tradition continues because I can't picture Halloween without them!

Monday morning was a sad morning since they left. The little girls stood at the door waving. We all miss them tons! Good thing they will be back soon! Last night Ammon slept with a ball Jeff won and left here for the kids. Tonight Ariana slept with it because it reminds her of Jeffy!

Thanks for coming Jeffy and Kylie! We love you!!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween! We had a blast, got lots of candy and made lots of memories!

Tori was a little devil girl!

Ariana was a nice baby tiger!. My Mom made this costume like 30 years ago! I love when my kids wear it! She loved getting candy. 

Marci did an amazing job on her make-up!

Britain was a pretty fairy!

Michelle did a fantastic job on her make-up!
 

Kalixta was a scary ghost! Marci changed a regular dress into a scary one! Michelle did her make-up too! She looked amazing!

Ammon was a skeleton WITH a cape! The cape is very important! 

Halloween was a gorgeous day! Sunny and warm! 

Zoe was Miss Piggy! She loved her costume and she looked good too!

Recognize the dress Donna?!

Nik choose to help Adam in the garage and then he went to a party. He is a little bummed today that he doesn't have any candy, but yesterday he had a lot of fun!

Jordan and Michelle looked amazing as this famous couple!  A few kids even wanted their autographs!

Jeff and Kylie drove up from CA just for the weekend! We love having them here! They looked great as Mario and Luigi!

We had a little graveyard in the front! This is Marcus The Carcass! 

Adam put this awesome ghost together with a skeleton head, cheese cloth, metal hanger and black light!

The front of our house! Spookyyyy!