Happy Birthday Mom

Today is a wonderful woman's Birthday. It is my Mom's Birthday. She will be a great old age of wonderful. My mom doesn't like her picture taken so I don't have very many of them and the ones I do have are taken by Ty-kell. But I do love this picture because she is working on Autori's blessing dress. She is always thinking of others and doing amazing things. I appriciate how wonderful she is, and how willing she is to help others. She serves everyone and is always helping and never saying no.

I miss her so much and wish we were closer. I love that we have been able to grow together as mother and daughter, and have a wonderful relationship. Happy Birthday Mom. Enjoy your day. You deserve a day for you more than just once a year.

Thanksgiving 2012

This Thanksgiving was so great. We went over to my grandparents house and had a delious meal... Then we read some books with the kids and did some activities.

We read a book about Thelonious the Turkey and made turkey hats.

Then we read a book about a bear giving thanks and we made thankful trees. I didn't get any pictures of that.

This was Autori's first Thanksgiving, she was such a good girl until the end and then she was ready to go, partly because I forgot to pack rice cereal for her.

After our meal... Aunt Diane and Beaux and Rainey came and joined us for games. It was a lot of fun!

Ran out of Diapers

So we only had one diaper left and it wasn't bedtime so we had to be creative.

 Autori is sporting a Wal-mart original. I know I couldn't stop laughing. She has a cloth diaper underneath, but I didn't have anything to protect us from getting peed on.

Halloween

We did three Halloween things this year. We went to the cubscout Halloween party. This is the picture Tyrone took of the kids he told them to say Argh, and this is what we got I think it is the funniest picture.

 This Autori's costume she was a parrot to go with the pirates. We didn't get a good picture of all three of them together. The pirates wouldn't stay still enough.

They had a donut eating contest.

 

Autori was a good sport all the way around. She was quite tired for the cubscout Halloween party. She knows how to party!

 

 

Then we went to boo at the zoo on Saturday... The kids had so much fun! I love the tradition, even though it is a crazy experience.

 

Then we did the wards Trunk-or-Treating the kids had a blast, and got lots of candy! They of course filled up a bag for the halloween witch and got books.

Okay this picture makes me laugh because, I told Ty-kell to smile. This is what I got. Before I took the picture I kept saying to "Ty-kell smile for real.... Like this" and I would show him. And he said he was. I guess he is just going through the weird stage of smiling weird for the camera.

We carved pumpkins Tuesday night. The cute faces my mom sent are on the back.