Christmas

 My kids love the scratch art

 Hope really doesn't play with any toys except stuffed animals. This penguin is too cute.

 Tymber's bear

 family game

 headphones

 tablets

Santa got the girls an off brand of a tablet this year for Christmas. They were really excited. Especially Hope and Tymber because they really had no clue what they were getting. The look on Tymbers face was priceless when she figured out what she was opening. Christmas was great this year. My parents always come down Christmas eve and eat dinner with us and spend the night. We got up about seven Christmas morning to see what Santa had left. Opened gifts and made breakfast. We have always gone to my families in the afternoon. This year because we went to Caralyns for Thanksgiving and also had a family get together a week before Christmas we stayed home. Honestly we were all really excited because we have never spent the whole day home before. It was a really kicked back day and we just ate left overs and the kids played on their tablets all day. We also got some family games and movies so we watched tv played games and relaxed. I didn't feel good at all Christmas day and slept  part of the day so I was glad we got to stay home.

18

This incredibly beautiful daughter of mine turned 18 on December 1st. As much as I would love to turn back time I also love watching the woman she is becoming.I honestly think she has taught me far more than I have taught her.She is such a warm sweet person both inside and out. She has a lot of passion and drive. She is a hard worker and sure is not the shy little girl who used to cry when any man would try to talk to her, or even look at her.She is confident, warm, funny, witty, charming, kind hearted, a great big sister, a HUGE flirt, a little conceited (cough, cough). loves to sing, loves kids, and most importantly a Daughter of a King. She has such a strong testimony and blows me away with her knowledge of the gospel. She knows exactly who and what she is.

she has applied to BYU-I. The one and only school she has chosen to attend. Many people will think it is crazy she only applied to one college, but it is where she has always wanted to go to school. She told me if she doesn't get accepted then she will work full time and then put her papers in to serve a mission when she is 19. She plans on going into elementary education, has planned on it since she was about 10. Her mind has never wavered on that. She is even tossing the idea around of special education. She has worked with the special education kids for the past two trimesters and loves them. She also teaches preschool age kids after school each day and is crazy about them. She always comes home and talks about "her kids" how "her kids" did this or that or how cute they are. Any educational decision she makes will be a great one. Any child would be blessed to eventually have her as a teacher. She will be an amazing mother and wife one day.

Her birthday fell on a Saturday and I asked her how she wanted to spend her day. imagine my surprise when she said with me. This child of mine didn't choose to spend the day with friends or have a party. We began the day with hash-browns and orange juice from Mcdonalds  Then we went to the Blackfoot School of Massage Therapy and had massages done. Because this is a school they are only 25.00 each. With my birthday so close to hers we justified the present to ourselves. Then we brought the girls home lunch and left for Idaho Falls to Christmas shop. We spent most of the day shopping, and treated ourselves to lunch at Garcia's. We shopped a lot and had fun. By the time we got home we were to tired to do anything else so we watched movies. What a fun day.

How blessed I am to have this sweet spirit sent into our family. Thank you Autumn for being such a fun and wonderful daughter. I look forward to the new phase of your life.

Sadie's

Autumn asked her friend Austin to Sadies this year. At school he is known as Sasquatch. He is pretty funny. The other couple was Autumn's friend Christy and Beano. His name is Constantine but everyone calls him Beano. They went bowling and then went to Wal-mart and played games (what can I say we live in a small town and all the kids do it). Then they came here and carved pumpkins and I fixed Chicken noodle soup and Autumn made rolls  Christy brought apple juice and ice cream. Then they played wacky six and went to the dance. On a funny side note they were playing Wacky Six and Hope was watching.. She pipes up... "it's a good thing Autumn doesn't have wacky gas tonight". Everyone about died laughing. What she really meant was  laughing gas. Autumn went to the dentist the other day and got laughing gas, so instead of saying laughing gas she called it wacky gas. Out of the mouth of little sisters.

Halloween

 Tymber Raccoon, his face kind of broke off.

 Autumns face and skeleton. It is kind of hard to tell but the guy is looking in a mirror and sees a skeleton as the reflection.

 Hope's monster, she carved most of it herself.

 My niece McKinnley, she is a handful but so stinking cute.

 My new nephew Easton. He is almost 3 months and so fun. What a cutie.

 Rycker my nephew, this lil guy is such a monster, his costume fits him well.

 Kaycie and Hope. Hope is Ms. Spider

Easton and Autumn.


We again went o Rick an Caralyns for Halloween. Caralyn always feeds us soup and rolls. It was an unbelievably beautiful night. Over 60 degrees and no wind. I honestly can't remember a nicer Halloween. Especially because we had snow a few days ago. I felt really bad, Tymber was sick all day so she had to stay home. Rich also didn't feel well so he stayed home with her. I love going out in Rick and Caralyn's neighborhood. After a while the little kids were getting tired and Hope didn't have very much candy. We had only gone a few blocks so Autumn and I took off with her and went quite a few more places. I was really glad we did. The next day  went and bought Tymber some candy.

Hope

Sometimes she is just a pill when taking her picture. She has a tendency to over pose. But when you are as cute as she is it's easy to get away with it. I wish I would have had a Book of Mormon available when we took her baptism pictures.