Finally a few pictures

"She has a webbed thumb!"

Feast!

Dance Party

Just another afternoon at home

So for the last 3 hours I've been folding laundry and trying to post pictures. For some reason my NEW computer isn't cooperating. Anger! I will not give up hope though. I have a pretty clear schedule tomorrow, so I will spend all day on it :) Soon I am on my way soon to Burney to pick up perscriptions for Devon and Audrey who have Bronchitis. Our last few nights have been:

Troy: Is that Audrey coughing or Devon?

Brooke: Mumbling...."think Dev"

Troy: I'll go give him some cough medicine

Rolls out of bed to the icy tundra of our bedroom.

2 hrs later-

Brooke: Audrey is coughing

Troy: Mumbles

Brooke: I'll go give her some medicine

Almost suffers hypothermia by the time she's back in bed

45 minutes later:

Brooke: (She hasn't fallen back asleep yet) "Audrey's still coughing. I can't give her more medicine. Damn. (did you know middle-of-the-night swearing is okay? I don't think we're held accountable when we're incohereant, right?)

1 hour later when Brooke has just drifted back to sleep:

Devon: Mom?

Brooke: mumbles

Devon: Um, I can't sleep. My brain is all jumbly and I have mucus in my throat. (direct quote)

Brooke: (Trying to be good mom and acutally respond.) You can sleep on the sofa if you want

Devon: Okay.

1/2 hr later:

Devon: (coughing in my face) I have to use the bathroom

Brooke: I can only mutter "okay", while in my brain I am wanting to shake him and scream, "why did you have to come and wake me up to tell me you have to go to the bathroom?"

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

So that sums up the last couple of nights. So I am going to get some heavy duty cough medicine with Codine. I'm not sure who should take it, me or the kids?

more pictures!

Thanksgiving break fun!

Thanksgiving break was a lot of fun! I realized i should've taken more pictures, but i did get some cute ones! Audrey and Caitlin driving the fire truck at the park
Brooke-please explain why your son loves doing this?!

This is super cute, zoogie just went and layed down there! Happy A-bomb!
Cute lizzie at the park
The always crazy kids table! Looks like it was caitlin's night to get the rocking chair.. Audrey and me driving the train!

Thanks mom and dad for taking us to dinner and for treating us all over thanksgiving break! I'm excited to come back home in ONE week!! i know you guys feel the same way...right?!

This is pet attempt #2....two baby bunnies! A friend in the ward's 3 bunnies turned into 10....with another litter on the way! My friend THINKS they're both males, hopefully they're both the same, whatever they are! I will take them to a vet and just have them tell me for sure in a few months. I really, really don't want to end up with millions of rabbits! They will just be outside rabbits, in the summer we'll have to rig something up for them to survive. But I'm hoping they'll be low-maintence, fun pets for the kiddos.

A few pics...

Tonight when Rod got home from work we worked on the ol' Christmas Family picture. This one of the girls is cute...

It's definately better than this one...

After we finished the Christmas photo, we went to get a tree. Rod was going to just bring one home on his way home from work, but he had to hurry home before it got dark so we could have our photo shoot. Then we went all together to get the tree. I'm glad we did. The girls had a blast, and the tree place was really fun for them. There were lights all around, a huge fake snowman, and they loved looking at all the trees.

This isn't the tree we got, ours doesn't have dead spots...but this picture had Lizzie in it...

Caitlin hanging on the fence to the tree lot...



Rod & Lizzie.....


Anyway, that's the first week back of Christmas preps! We decorated inside, and it's starting to feel a little more like Christmas. The leaves on our trees are again covering the grass, and I actually had to wear long sleeves today. I even got to wear a scarf tonight at the tree farm!

This is our nativity that I'm so excited about! I've never had a nativity to display before, and the Willow Tree one that's really nice is crazy expensive. I found this one from christianbook.com for $30!! It's resin, so it doesn't break (at least not easily) and it looks awesome. Anyway, I'm really excited about it, so I had to post a picture..

some pictures....more to come