Horrible MOM

OK I am a horrible mom, or just horrible at taking memory pictures. I ALWAYS forget to take my camera with me whenever we are doing something memorable. So I'm just going to have to tell you about them because I don't have any pictures. On the second Sunday of every month we get together with Keldons family for birthdays (every month but Sept.). Well this month we also did Christmas. There are 3 families that wont be there for Christmas (including us) so we exchanged Christmas gifts from the kids. Each grandchild draws a name and they get a gift for their cousin. Jase gave to Bri and Zoe to Isabelle. Zoe got a hid-and-seek Care Bear and Jase got a spiderman book and a batman figure. All the grandkids were all in the living room with their parents (22 grandkids by the way). It was so much fun. We also did quilt squares to donate to an organization that puts the quilts together and gives one quilt to each family that has lost a soldier in the war. It was a lot of fun making those squares. And of course I don't have any pictures of them either.

On Monday for family night we decided to bundle up the kids (about 4 layers of cloths each) and took them up to Temple Square to look at the lights. Zoe looked like a big pink marshmallow connected to my side and Jase was bundled up in a blanket in the stroller. The lights were beautiful and they had many different nativity scenes. The most beautiful I thought was the one on the reflection pond. Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus were in the middle floating on the water. They were lit up by spotlights all around them. Their reflection could be seen as well as the Temple. It was so beautiful. The kids loved it. Even though it was very cold they had a lot of fun looking around at all the lights. I wish I could have remembered my camera because the pictures of how Zoe looked would have been great. She would barley move. She hates the cold, you can tell she was born in Florida.

Hopefully I'll be better with pictures and keep my camera on me. Wish me luck. I can't afford to keep missing out on these wonderful photo ops.

The start of Winter Times

It hasn't snowed too much here in Utah yet, so this was the first snow. I think it was in November. Not sure. So I let Jase and Zoe go out to play.


Zoe out in the snow marching around.


Jase making a snow castle.

I love the hair in this picture. All over the place.

Zoe figuring out the snow in her hands.

Jase decided to climb the tree. He didn't get too far.

After we played in the snow. I decided I needed to get a better snow suite for Zoe so this is what I got. Shes a big pink marshmallow.

Pumpkin carving and trick or treating

Sorry these are so late. This holiday season gets the best of me and I never seem to be able to get everything done I want to. So better late than never. For Halloween I love carving pumpkins so I think I carved 8 or so of them. Some were really big too. Then we took the kids trick or treating and even me and Keldon dressed up. It was a lot of fun and the kids loved it.


Zoe loved the gooey inside of the pumpkin. Jase decided that he really didn't want to carve any.


Sorry the pictures are sideways, it won't let me fix it. These are just 3 of the pumpkins we carved. And our family right before we went around for candy. If you can see all the pumpkins by us. I did all but one. Keldon was worried about putting any out early, he thought someone might come by and break them, well no one did, but we found we had one extra pumpkin that no one knows where it came from. Some one donated us a pumpkin so thank you to whoever it was.

Jase and Zoe by the skeleton me and Jase made and the pumpkins. The little pumpkins in front are the ones from my garden.