We have had such a great week this week! I love being with my family it's the greatest! As some of you know, we usually have Thanksgiving in AZ! My entire family from UT usually go down to the warm weather and we have Thanksgiving at my Mom and Dad's house in AZ... Well this year my family came to all of us Utahans... They were hear for a week and it was so much fun!
The reason they came up here this year rather then us all heading down there to enjoy the 80° Turkey Day weather was because my cousin Ethan got Baptized!
It was a very special day!! Here is Ethan and Matt before his baptism...
And Ethan and Noah after wards....
Noah was so cute during the meeting! He was so into it!! After Ethan was confirmed a member of the church and received the Holy Ghost he shook all the mens hands that were in the priesthood circle... Noah jumped right up and shook Ethan's hand too! It was so sweet!!
All the kids that were there to support Ethan...
And a quick family picture! Ü
We had Thanksgiving Dinner at my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Bobbie's house in Cedar City...
Here are the girlies...
Jaxin, Maci and Aubrianna
And the smelly boys! haha!
Stockton, Ethan and Trevor
I think they're ready to eat, what would you say?! Ü
I think that would be a YES!! Crazy face Jaxin!! haha!
Grandma tried to take a picture of Kernan and this is what she got... I think it's cool! Doesn't it look like he's holding a small cup of Pepsi?!
Bobbi and Grandma...
Mom and Lori brought a couple craft things for the kids to do... Here is Jaxin showing us the Pilgrim hat she made...
Here Chase is working hard on his Turkey....
Like Father, Like Son... Notice the tongue?!
Not sure what this look is about... He has the greatest facial expressions!!
Maci gives the Pilgrim Hat a thumbs up!
Showing off his creations...
And showing us his dirty hands after trying to stuff the entire Pilgrim Hat into his mouth! Didn't work out so well! hehe...
This is Friday night at my Grandma and Grandpa's house... The kids look like they're at the movies! Guess that will have to do, since we didn't make it to a movie this year like we do every year!! Bummer....
Then on Saturday morning before my family headed back home, we went to the mall to get our annual "Cousin Santa Picture"!
Kernan has been so excited to see Santa this year! He's been asking me for the past two weeks if he could go tell Santa what he wanted yet! On Thanksgiving he asked and I told him not yet, just a few more days, and he freaked out!! So I showed him Santa in the Macy's Parade and told him he couldn't go see Santa because he had to be in the parade so he wasn't there yet... Then he calmed down!
It's so fun when they get to the age of really believing in him and excited to see him!! I love it!
Here he is waiting to give him his list... He has 3 things on it and he'll tell you what they are if you ask!
Standing by one of Santa's soldiers....
This Santa was adorable! He really talked to the kids and joked with them!
Here he's reading Ethan's list... And what a list it is!! He has 61 things on his list this year!! Santa told him that he'd need to bring a double decker bus just to bring him all that's on there! Ü
Maci was waiting and waiting for him to finish looking at Ethan's LONG list so that he could check hers out!!
Kernan's turn to give him his list!!
I just love this picture!! The magic of Christmas in a child's eyes is the BEST!!
So here we are again, trying to figure out how we're all going to fit in this picture!! We do this every year! And this year we had two missing... Our missionaries!
Almost got it...
I'm not sure what Santa said, but he had us all laughing! Even Kernan! It was so cute!
And finally our
SANTA PICTURE 2009
My favorite yet I think!! My Uncle Jeff's family like the Y (ewww) and our family obviously like the U! It just so happened that they were playing each other yesterday so we decided to wear our shirts in our Santa picture this year... And I love it!! Ü
I liked this "old school" look to so I put both! Ü
Kernan wasn't ready to say goodbye after wards... He wanted one more hug! And he TOLD Santa what he wanted rather then him reading his list... He wants 1. A Bumblebee Racetrack (Transformers) 2. LOTS of Transformer Cars for the racetrack and 3. New train tracks for his Choo-Choo
After Santa my family got in the car to head home... We had to have a picture of us all in our UTAH stuff before they headed out....
It was a great week!! I love my family and am SO VERY THANKFUL FOR THEM ALL!! I love to spend time with them and just enjoy each others company!
Now it's time to get the Christmas decorations up! We're headed home for Christmas this year too! We're all excited about that! Plus we get to talk to my Brother on Christmas!! Yay!!
So I have a few posts that I'm behind on that I'll be posting later this week, so check back!!
Hope you're Thanksgiving was wonderful, and remember to not just be Thankful one day a year, but be Thankful everyday!! Ü
The reason they came up here this year rather then us all heading down there to enjoy the 80° Turkey Day weather was because my cousin Ethan got Baptized!
It was a very special day!! Here is Ethan and Matt before his baptism...
And Ethan and Noah after wards....
Noah was so cute during the meeting! He was so into it!! After Ethan was confirmed a member of the church and received the Holy Ghost he shook all the mens hands that were in the priesthood circle... Noah jumped right up and shook Ethan's hand too! It was so sweet!!
All the kids that were there to support Ethan...
And a quick family picture! Ü
We had Thanksgiving Dinner at my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Bobbie's house in Cedar City...
Here are the girlies...
Jaxin, Maci and Aubrianna
And the smelly boys! haha!
Stockton, Ethan and Trevor
I think they're ready to eat, what would you say?! Ü
I think that would be a YES!! Crazy face Jaxin!! haha!
Grandma tried to take a picture of Kernan and this is what she got... I think it's cool! Doesn't it look like he's holding a small cup of Pepsi?!
Bobbi and Grandma...
Mom and Lori brought a couple craft things for the kids to do... Here is Jaxin showing us the Pilgrim hat she made...
Here Chase is working hard on his Turkey....
Like Father, Like Son... Notice the tongue?!
Not sure what this look is about... He has the greatest facial expressions!!
Maci gives the Pilgrim Hat a thumbs up!
Showing off his creations...
And showing us his dirty hands after trying to stuff the entire Pilgrim Hat into his mouth! Didn't work out so well! hehe...
This is Friday night at my Grandma and Grandpa's house... The kids look like they're at the movies! Guess that will have to do, since we didn't make it to a movie this year like we do every year!! Bummer....
Then on Saturday morning before my family headed back home, we went to the mall to get our annual "Cousin Santa Picture"!
Kernan has been so excited to see Santa this year! He's been asking me for the past two weeks if he could go tell Santa what he wanted yet! On Thanksgiving he asked and I told him not yet, just a few more days, and he freaked out!! So I showed him Santa in the Macy's Parade and told him he couldn't go see Santa because he had to be in the parade so he wasn't there yet... Then he calmed down!
It's so fun when they get to the age of really believing in him and excited to see him!! I love it!
Here he is waiting to give him his list... He has 3 things on it and he'll tell you what they are if you ask!
Standing by one of Santa's soldiers....
This Santa was adorable! He really talked to the kids and joked with them!
Here he's reading Ethan's list... And what a list it is!! He has 61 things on his list this year!! Santa told him that he'd need to bring a double decker bus just to bring him all that's on there! Ü
Maci was waiting and waiting for him to finish looking at Ethan's LONG list so that he could check hers out!!
Kernan's turn to give him his list!!
I just love this picture!! The magic of Christmas in a child's eyes is the BEST!!
So here we are again, trying to figure out how we're all going to fit in this picture!! We do this every year! And this year we had two missing... Our missionaries!
Almost got it...
I'm not sure what Santa said, but he had us all laughing! Even Kernan! It was so cute!
And finally our
SANTA PICTURE 2009
My favorite yet I think!! My Uncle Jeff's family like the Y (ewww) and our family obviously like the U! It just so happened that they were playing each other yesterday so we decided to wear our shirts in our Santa picture this year... And I love it!! Ü
I liked this "old school" look to so I put both! Ü
Kernan wasn't ready to say goodbye after wards... He wanted one more hug! And he TOLD Santa what he wanted rather then him reading his list... He wants 1. A Bumblebee Racetrack (Transformers) 2. LOTS of Transformer Cars for the racetrack and 3. New train tracks for his Choo-Choo
After Santa my family got in the car to head home... We had to have a picture of us all in our UTAH stuff before they headed out....
It was a great week!! I love my family and am SO VERY THANKFUL FOR THEM ALL!! I love to spend time with them and just enjoy each others company!
Now it's time to get the Christmas decorations up! We're headed home for Christmas this year too! We're all excited about that! Plus we get to talk to my Brother on Christmas!! Yay!!
So I have a few posts that I'm behind on that I'll be posting later this week, so check back!!
Hope you're Thanksgiving was wonderful, and remember to not just be Thankful one day a year, but be Thankful everyday!! Ü
5 comments:
Great post Jessica! And to think we came, had fun, shopped, ate, had more fun, and it didnt even SNOW! Yippee! A successful trip all the way around I'd say! Has Maci figured out how many days till she's at Grandma's house? Can't wait! Love you all and am very thankful for you even though you live too far away! ;)
great pics and what a fun time you must have had! I love that you had the kids making goodies. :)
So cute!!! I wish we could of come with you guys. Rachel called me but I didn't get the message till it was to late. We took Chase today to see Santa and he had a fit. He wouldn't even look at him. Maybe we will have to go again with your two and show him what a great job Kernan does so he will go up to him! Last year we had the same problem.
hahaha, that was a good one. I'm sad I missed the baptism, but congrats!! I love the Cousin PIx, hysterical. Rivalries. When you get here, I'll only have 1 class!! Yahoo. I have 2 finals and a midterm (worth 1800 pts)on the 19th.
Such great pictures! Jessica you look so skinny! Woot-woot! I love that picture of your sister holding her plate. Maci has doe eyes and Kernan is hilarious!
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