I'm originally from Washington state where I had hoped to return after college, but it wasn't meant to be (at least not yet). I came all the way to BYU in Utah to get my education and ended up finding Nathan, my husband, who is also from my hometown, and who I dated in high school. Why I had to come all this way beats me. I did finish my degree in Early childhood education in April 2000, however, we decided to start a family rather than have me teach. Kirsten was born in Feb. 2001, then Zachary in Nov. of 2002 and Caleb in Sept. 2006. Now my life is my family and my full time- lifetime job is wife and mother.
Well this picture is a little out of order, but as you can see the boys love to rough house with their Uncle Danny. However, we did manage to contain that energy until the end of the evening! Aunt Rachel and Danny invited us over to FHE and we had a great lesson on "Gratitude." Rachel taught about the meaning and shared the story, or rather Nathan butchered the story of the 10 lepers that Jesus healed...we all had a good laugh. Then we drew pictures of the things that we were grateful for...i.e. cars, houses, husbands helping around the house, our families, our pets... Then we put are grateful pumpkin pictures on the pumpkin patch poster. It was a very cute idea. Thank you Rachel and Danny for inviting us over. We then played a couple of games...we were taught a animal sign tag game, which the kids did better at remembering what they were than us parents and then played a roudy game of "Duck, Duck, Goose that I got too into and therefore took a break from when Ellie woke up. We were then all entertained by sweet little Ellie's cute smiles and attention. Zach and Caleb were trying to get her to smile by tickling her toes. Next was dessert. Rachel made these yummy pumpkin cookies! Everyone enjoyed them! Zach enjoyed them too...he just wasn't at all pleased that I made him pose for a picture when he could be eating. Caleb, of course didn't mind and just dug in!
Well this picture is a little out of order, but as you can see the boys love to rough house with their Uncle Danny. However, we did manage to contain that energy until the end of the evening!
Aunt Rachel and Danny invited us over to FHE and we had a great lesson on "Gratitude." Rachel taught about the meaning and shared the story, or rather Nathan butchered the story of the 10 lepers that Jesus healed...we all had a good laugh. Then we drew pictures of the things that we were grateful for...i.e. cars, houses, husbands helping around the house, our families, our pets...
Then we put are grateful pumpkin pictures on the pumpkin patch poster. It was a very cute idea. Thank you Rachel and Danny for inviting us over. We then played a couple of games...we were taught a animal sign tag game, which the kids did better at remembering what they were than us parents and then played a roudy game of "Duck, Duck, Goose that I got too into and therefore took a break from when Ellie woke up. 
We were then all entertained by sweet little Ellie's cute smiles and attention. Zach and Caleb were trying to get her to smile by tickling her toes.
Next was dessert. Rachel made these yummy pumpkin cookies! Everyone enjoyed them!
Zach enjoyed them too...he just wasn't at all pleased that I made him pose for a picture when he could be eating. Caleb, of course didn't mind and just dug in!
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