Happy Birthday Grandma Marge!

We ended up making a last minute trip to Idaho for a couple of days and got to go to dinner with Grandma Marge for her birthday. We are so happy that we still live close enough to spend special days with our families.

Josh's new talent...

What does Josh love most about his new snowboard?

It attracks all the neighbor girls...

Zack does such a great job on it!

Snow!

It snowed in Utah!! The boys were so excited to have snow. They got their sleds out and made snow angels all afternoon.

Thanksgiving feast

We had such a great Thanksgiving with our family here in our new house. We had so much great food. Kricket even broke in the stove by running the turkey over... =)

We may have set off the fire alarm a few times, but in the end, everything turned out delicious!

Thanks to Tom and Kricket (Annie of course)- Grandma Bonnie- and Grandpa Garth for coming to start off the first of many great holidays in our home...

Busy week...

The boys bathroom...

The master bedroom-(the pink spot on the comforter is from the camera.)

Zack and Bradley's airplane bedroom- it was painted sky blue at their request

This is Josh's cowboy bedroom- He was so excited to have his own room!

The week after we moved to our new house was a busy one. It was filled with making trips to Lowes, painting and hanging- lots of hanging... We pretty much worked around the clock for over a week in an attempt to have things put together for Lisa's family to come for Thanksgiving. Everyone pitched in and things came together well. We are very pleased with the how it turned out...

moving day

Zack was so grouchy the day we moved and did not want to be in this picture. I told him that if he didn't get in the picture I would paint his new bedroom pink- not blue like he had requested. Notice that he IS in the picture- but is NOT happy about it...

Moving day was stressful, but we had so much help from our families that we will pretty much owe them forever. Ryan's parents and brother Jeff spent the day helping make load after load into the trailer, and then drove down to Utah and helped us unload the trailer into the house. It was such a long day, but we were thrilled to be spending our first night in our new house...

Give Thanks...

Last night's family home evening consisted of a story from the Friend magazine telling of a boy who did secret santa projects each year for families in need. We talked of our own gratitude for what we have and how blessed we are. Zack thought for a moment and said, "mom- on Thanksgiving I was thankful for Jesus.... and pie." Could he be any more like his mother??