Tuesday, December 7, 2010

November...

has come on gone in a blink of an eye...

Here's a quick recap...

*Mike came home from a 10 + day hunting trip in Colorado.  With a nice deer...
*I got a long awaited and much saved for present...a new camera!
*Finished up A's soccer season with a few good wins and it was super fun to watch them start playing as a team.
*My sweet S has turned 6.  WHAT?!?!?! 6 really?!?!
*The kids and I drove to UT for J's cardiac ablation (his heart procedure to get rid of his tachycardia)
*Raked and played in a huge amount of leaves from Grandma Clegg's front yard.
*Luis (our extra "child" who is now 19 and soon to go on his mission to Brazil) and I tackled the mission paper/Visa TO DO list.
*Saw Grandma and Grandpa Clegg's tombstone (they bought it and have it laid in their plots).
*Mike joined us in UT a day before J's procedure.
*We celebrated S's birthday.
*Spent two days at Primary Children's Hospital in SLC for J's procedure (which went perfectly); really felt the love of our Heavenly Father and His tender mercies.
*Had a fabulous early Thanksgiving in UT with Mike's family who is around.
*Traveled home in multiple snow storms (Mike drove the whole way).
*Spent two days unpacking (or NOT unpacking and just trying to recover) to prepare for our Thanksgiving guests...Chris, Vanessa, and their two little ones and Misty, Phil, and their two little ones.
*Did the Thanksgiving thing here: ate too much pie, stayed up too late to play games, watched fun movies, and enjoyed lots of time with family.  We were bummed that Chris and Vanessa had to leave early, due to their baby getting sick, but we are glad he is aright.
*Then, we recovered from Thanksgiving.

Here are the photos...
D loves to sleep with J and will sneak into his bed any chance he gets.  And he is not a good bed sharer...

 wahoo!!  I LOVE it!










Snow on our drive to UT, luckily, since I was sans Mike, it was just on the side and very pretty to look at, none on the roads.

D truly enjoying the fun of fall leaves

This is my nephew enjoying a snooze and some creamery ice-cream.

Love these guys!

Mike and Luis... I believe this is at around 1:00 a.m.  They had a really great time reading over all the mission stuff and talking.

Grandma Clegg made this birthday girl a very special cake, topped with marshmallows (her wish).

The reason for our UT trip.  After years of dealing with tachycardia for my oldest, he decided to have the ablation procedure done.  Here he is distracting himself before they take him to put him under.  Wii bowling.  Which after the Doc saw the vigor in which he bowled, she said that it was definitely on the list of activities he could not participate in for a week.



Her concentration while folding the napkins cracked me up. :)  She took her assignment VERY seriously.

Three days after J's heart procedure it snowed it UT.  He proceeded to have a snowball fight with his siblings, in which, I stood in the door and yelled repeatedly, "J, you can't run..." or "Don't throw THAT hard..."  etc.  He was feeling fine!  
Modern medicine is amazing.  and his doctor rules!!


We were greeted with MORE snow upon arriving home.

With all our little house guests coming I figured I needed to stock up.

Pie making.

Happy Thanksgiving!



These are our itouch/iphone junkies!

Coloring at the table...properly dressed and all! :)

You know you have kids when your living room decor consists of pet shops and stuffed animals.
They have since all been put back in their "proper" homes.  

Hope you all had a marvelous November!

Monday, November 29, 2010

Here is our October...in Photos, of course

Mike and I were just talking about how fast time has flown this fall.  It always does for us...  but We really have flown through our October and November.   Luckily, it has been full of good times, fun, blessings, and even a few little miracles.

So I am a month behind in photos...that is because November really FLEW by...but here is October...

We kicked off General Conference weekend with my nephew's bday party.  And a house full of family to enjoy.
Happy Birthday, D!


We have been having a lot of rain again, and I had to kick my kids outside to enjoy the sunshine, while we had it.  It was pathetic to hear them grumbling about going outside.  So they spent a LONG time out there...and had fun!

The three 3 year olds = 3 x the trouble.

D's Birthday present.  This makes me grin because J had the same clubs, only a 10 year older version when he was a baby.  LOVE it!

putting while Joseph was at his golf lessons.

Putting with his big brother.  D HAD to change his shirt before we left so he could be JUST like J.  Thank goodness for good big brothers to want to be like.

And the lesson.

Playing with some new lighting techniques on overcast days.  My sweet A is always a willing model!

THe sunset is coming back around to our deck view, and Mike has an obsession with me taking photos of our sunset.

My silly S!  

He is such a  HAM!!!

my table centerpiece, gourds spilling over!

Found D in J's bed again. 

After a TON of work we had our Sacrament Meeting Program.  It turned out great.  The kids did so so great!  And really, what is better than listening to children share what they have learned about Jesus and testifying of his life and his mission.

D decided to play peek a boo with me.  I won!

Our pumpkin patch adventure was VERY successful!

Yet another sunset.

photoshoot--A tiny little baby!

Photoshoot- One of our favorite friends!

my nephew--he is so so chubalicious!

My boy, all grown up and ready to go hunting with Dad.  He could only go, no shooting yet. THANK GOODNESS.  I was a little bit of a basket case as Mike left the house with one of my most prized possessions to go traipsing through the woods.  The came home all safe and sound, but J couldn't stop talking about hunting for about a week.

and still another sunset.

And that, my friends, is October for us!