Our Thanksgiving!

First, I want to share a couple of art projects, I did with Ayla during November.

We did the hand turkeys!

Ayla traced her hand all by herself and I cut it out for her.

Ayla cut out 3 of the feathers on hers. She drew her wing and eye! I love where the eye is! It is so cute! I helped her cut and paste the rest.

Here she is holding them up!

This is the second turkey art project we did!

Grandma Perry bought a book that has patterns in it, so Ayla could do some holiday crafts. Ayla did a great job gluing hers together and tracing around the edges!

Then we hung them in the kitchen!

We had Thanksgiving at our house!

I of course made 2 Oreo pies and the candy yams!

Here is Ashlyn with her Daddy that morning!

Ayla of course got her rats out when people showed up!

Here is my sister-in-law, Suz and her family, Chris and Brooke with the rats!

I love how you can see my sister, Marion and Ashlyn in the background!

My Mom's brother, Ruel and my brother, Robert!

My Mom made the turkey!

I seriously think my Mom makes the best turkey! She cooks it all night and by morning it is falling apart! Oh and BTW, that is my brother's wife, Carolyn in the picture with my Mom!

Here is my aunt, Denise holding Ashlyn!

She is Ruel's wife.

Here is one of me with my girls!

Monty, Marion's husband!

I went to take a picture of everyone eating and my brother and Lane gave me thumbs up!

Lane gave me another one when I went to take a picture of him and my Mom!

Dad and uncle, Ernie!

I love my Dad's face in this picture! It makes me laugh! LOL!

Cute little Ashlyn...

sitting on her uncle, Chris's lap!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Good food!

Great company!

I do love having it at our house!

Breaking Dawn Party! The Last One. :(

The Friday before Thanksgiving, Ann had her annual Twilight Party! Of course, I went! Most of these pictures on this post, I took from Ann's blog. 

This was the final Twilight Party, seeing how it was the last movie to come out in the series. 

Breaking Dawn, Part 2!

This time I kept the cake simple. 

I wanted to come up with something that was different from the other Twilight cakes I have made. For each movie, I made a cake that was based off of what the books covers looked like. I had already done one for Breaking Dawn, Part One and I didn't want to make another cake based off of the book cover again.

We started the night off at Olive Garden!

Not the same picture BTW, notice Ann and Monica switched places!

After dinner, we went and saw the movie.

LOVE IT!

I love how they threw in the twist near the end of the movie!
I have never had a movie make me feel so low to the point I was starting to hate it and then in a split second make me laugh so hard that I had tears running down my face! It was EPIC! I have actually seen the movie twice now. I went with some fun women from my ward, last Saturday as well to see it!

After the movie, we all went to Ann's for the party! We always have such a great time talking and laughing together! We also enjoy all the goodies people bring!


Right before people started to leave we took some pictures.

My sister, Marion, me, Monica and Ann!

I am so glad my sister started to join us! She started to go to these parties on the 3rd movie, Eclipse.

Katie and Lindsey!

Wearing their Twilight shirts they had made. They wore those shirts at the very first party and they wore them for the last party.

This one is Ann and all her cousins that came.
Shauna, Megan, Ann, Melanie and Heather!

We always have such a great time when all these women get together!

It was so much fun!

I am just sad that all the movies are over. We now have to find something else to party about because we all agreed we love these parties!

What we did for Halloween!

Here is the last Halloween post! It is what we did for Halloween!

The Saturday before Halloween we went to my sister-in-law, Suz's ward party/Trunk or Treat! We really had a great time!

We first met up at Suz's home and went over to her church together!

This is what my kids were for Halloween. Ashlyn wore the puppy dog costume that Ayla wore her first two Halloweens. She filled it out better than Ayla did. She is much bigger than Ayla was at this age. I don't think she will be able to ware it another year, like Ayla did. And Ayla wanted to be Ariel again like she was last year! This made it super easy for me!

Here they are with Grandma, Perry!

She came too! Actually she came and picked us up and we car pooled over there.

They had the party first! 

We ate different soups and Chili. They had all kinds of yummy desserts!

Ayla watching Charlie Brown's "The Great Pumpkin." Halloween special with the other kids, eating a cookie!

Of course she got chocolate all over her mouth!

Happy girl!

My nice, Brooke was a Dalek from "Dr. Who!"

She actually won the most creative costume in the costume contest the had. Go Brooke!

They had the fishing game there!

Ayla with her bag of goodies she got from the fishing game!

Ashlyn sleeping on Grandma!

This is Kate and her husband! 

I sat next to her for most of the night. She was due any day. I loved her costume! It was hilarious! She won funniest costume, of course!

I don't know this guy but his costume was awesome, so I had to get his picture! He really looked like Wolverine!

After partying for a while they did the Trunk or Treat, so we went outside!

Ayla was really excited that we were able to go around twice to each of the cars!

Waiting her turn!

One of Ashy!

"Trunk or Treat!"

Happily showing her candy!

In the car ready to go home!

Suz has a couple in her ward that D.J. They had this trailer that looked like a stereo. They provided the music for the occasion! I thought it was pretty awesome!

We had a great time with Suz's ward! I am glad she invited us!

Now onto what we did on Halloween itself!

I did the same party, I did last year!

This time Ayla helped me draw the fish! 

I was really impressed with her sea horse! It is the pink one next to the orange one I drew. They are in the center!

We did ski balling ghost again!

I love how Ayla looks in this picture! I love that her and Ashlyn were both in their Halloween PJ's that morning!

And of course we did the pin the nose on the witch game! 

This was the 3rd year in a row we played this game.

After getting everything ready for the party I got Ashlyn in her Halloween outfit for the day!

It was the same outfit Ayla wore on her first Halloween!

The two girls together!

Lane was Freddy Kruger for Halloween!

This was taken when him, my Mom and my sister, Marion showed up for the night. 

We started the night off at a Trunk or Treat at my last ward! It was fun!

Then we game back home and the kids went Trick or Treating around our neighborhood.

Then we had our party!

We had  really good turn out!

The kids had a lot of fun!

Lane with his crazy glasses he got from the fishing game!

I have to say, I loved Amanda's, Jared's and their two little girl's costumes! I didn't get a picture of their girls because they were too busy playing and they had already had their costumes off. But one was a parrot and the other was a monkey. They were a family of pirates. I loved it! I love pirates!

We had a wonderful Halloween!

I just love holidays!

Update on this post!

Guess what I was able to get off my friend, Amanda's blog?

A picture of her girls in their costumes! Aren't their costumes amazing! Jared made the costumes! He is really talented!