Our Thanksgiving!

Our Thanksgiving was soo much fun! The Sunday before Thankgiving we celebrated it with Colbys moms family. All her brothers came, It was awesome! Though, Thanksgiving isn't my favorite holiday, I enjoyed visiting with all her family! I just think they are great and awesome people to be around! Fawns mom and dad passed away in July and so they weren't there. But you could definitely feel the comfort of them being there still. So, we said a prayer and everyone began eating! Turkey, stuffing, fruit salads, cranberry sauce, corn.. you name it.. it was probably on the counter! After the dinner we all sat around and talked about the little ones until everyone left to go home. It was a great sunday!

Thanksgiving day

The day before Thanksgiving we traveled to price to see my dad and his wife Randi. Where we spent the night and celebrated Thanksgiving the next day. But the night before we were all sitting in the living room and all the kids were playing on the ground when I looked at my nephews shirt. On the front it said "shhh.... I have a secret." and on the back it said.." Im going to be a big brother".. I laughed and laughed because only my sister saw that I had noticed it. Then she went over to Eric and took him over to my dad. He read the shirt and didnt get it at first.. and then he caught on. It was awesome!! 2 new babies next year in my family are expected. Cody and Chandra due in Feb and Kayla and Kody due in July... The next morning we woke up and ate these awesome "sticky buns" that my step mom makes. They were simply amazing! After that we all started preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. We made all sorts of food again.! My grandma Nielson and my uncle John and his son showed up to celebrate with us. It was great to see them. I think we need to see them more often! After dinner we decided to play some games. Cover your Assets was the only one we played. and by golly  I thought I had the second game in the bank! Then low and behold Colby jumps out and beats us all!! After the games we decided to go to Wal Mart at 10 to do the whole "black friday" thing.. you talk about crazy! People in Price are interesting. I had a guy stare me down thinking was going to jump under the yellow plastic to steel his printer. Yea right.. The best thing about going that night was running into our good friends Brittany and Richard. It was funny to see them there, it was definitely crazy. Then.. 10 hit and everyone was going crazy grabbing things. Luckily everything I wanted wasnt even being touched.. so I grabbed the stuff we wanted and we checked out, got home and went to bed all before 10:30!
Friday morning we all decided we wanted to go to Provo and go shopping! It was sooo fun! We left about 8:30 because most of us could of cared less. I just wanted to buy jeans for me and clothes for Coy. and I got what I wanted. But... all the stores we went to looked like they had just been robbed! After lunch we went to Cabelas and shopped there a bit, then to Toys r Us we headed. We were there for like... 2 hours. It was insane. The shelves were basically bare! But we got Coy a book with the talking buttons on the side. He was soo happy. Unfortuneltly Eric, got sick so they didn't go to Cabelas or Toys R Us. Instead, they took a trip to the hospital. The poor little man had croup. After all the craziness Colby and I decided to head home from Provo. So after a 4 hour drive.. We were home! It was soo much fun. I cant wait for black friday next year. better start saving!

How we spent our Fall days!

Seems like we have been running everywhere lately. Coys first birthday was on August 28th 2011! What a blast. He was so spoiled with clothes and toys. We had cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and alot of friends came for his big day! The house was filled with laughter and happiness! We did a big BBQ and just hung out! He was scared to get into his cake after everyone screamed when he went to touch the candles, so he thought he was in trouble.. then I finally put his hand in it and he tore into it! It was alot of fun! Can't wait for next years!

 

After his first birthday our focus was on going to Boulder for the deer and elk hunt. While we were up there we celebrated Colbys 25th Birthday with Melt in your mouth cake and presents. He got binoculars and some coats and stuff. Id say it was a pretty good birthday to spend with family and close friends. He also got a deer on his birthday! Pretty good 4 point and I got a 3 by 4. As for the elk, no such luck. Them buggers are hard to find up there! But 2 weeks camping was awesome together! After the hunts we headed home and started planning our family pictures and Halloween! I was starting to get mad that the leaves were falling off the trees before I got the chance to take pictures in them. But luckily my mom took us to a place where we were able to take some pictures. They turned out pretty good I'd say!

Our Halloween was alot of fun for Coys first time! He was a Pilgram ghost. haha.. well technically he was just a ghost but the homemade outfit.. made him look like a Pilgram. It was pretty funny.  We took him out trick or treating and he loved it. He even said "boo!"