ELF ON THE SHELF

While I was at the expo, the kids decided to decorate the house for Christmas...TWO WEEKS earlier than normal!  Boston loves Christmas but he especially loves the Elf On the Shelf!

I came home from the expo and he had made this costume for himself.

 He also made this Elf at my mom's house.  He wanted my Grandma Betty to have an Elf On the Shelf.  I thought it was so cute.  He told my mom she was going to have to move it every night since it wasn't a "real" elf.

 Gentry and I went to the new Hunger Games movie Mocking Jay.  Not my type of movie, but Gentry loved it.  I was super excited because I won TWO prizes!  Dinner for two at Texas Roadhouse and a red hat! Wahoo!  The tickets were $20 each and it was for a Huntsman Cancer donation.  Each movie ticket came with a raffle ticket and then you could buy extra tickets for $2.  I had $2 in my pocket so I bought an extra raffle ticket.  Luckily I won!

 Did I mention that Boston LOVES Christmas?  He even got Frannie dressed up as a reindeer!  I don't know how much she loves the costume though:)

 We found this letter to Santa in the mailbox.  I loved it.

 Connor is still on his mission so Boston made this for him.

 Boston is trying to prove to me  that he can take care of rats.

 On Thanksgiving Boston made this card for me.  It made me cry.  He is such a sweet kid!

 We spent Thanksgiving at Gentry's parents house and then went to see Big Hero 6.  It was a cute movie, and a fun Thanksgiving!

 Boston decided to make his own rat and taped a tail on his Zu Zu pet.  He told me he named it Walnut.  I told him that was actually an Acorn on his back but he said "That's ok I'll still call him Walnut."   I cracked up!

EXPO EXPO EXPO

This was our expo set up.  We did two shows in a row, one weekend after the next.  To say we were tired would be an understatement.  But I loved the way the booth turned out!

The first expo we did was the Pinners Conference.  It did really well!  The second expo was the Salt Lake City Annual Christmas Gift Expo.  It turned out really well too!

Happy 15 Anniversary!

So I think when we thought about our 15 year anniversary, we thought we would be on a beach somewhere exciting.  Unfortunately with work that didn't happen.  We spent dinner at Texas Roadhouse, and the rest of the night shopping at Costco and packing a trailer for the expo.  Next year we will have to go somewhere exciting.

Alyssa is a TEENAGER!!!

I can't believe it!  I have a teenager!  Where does time go???

Both Gentry and I had to work on Alyssa's birthday so the week before I took her to lunch and shopping for her birthday.  She picked Chick-fil-a for lunch of course!

 Gentry went to grab her breakfast on her birthday and she seemed to love everything she got. (She picked it all out:)

 Both Gentry and I were trying to get home as  soon as possible.  We had rented a bouncy house for her friends so the kids played in that all day.  Her friend Ellie and her friends mom Emily took Alyssa out to lunch at the Training Table.  I thought that was so nice of them. Alyssa had fun with that too.

 I didn't get a picture with all of the kids from the party but I got a few of them in the shot:)

Happy Birthday Alyssa!! We love you!!

Happy Halloween!

This year I helped out at the kids school for their Halloween Party.  One of the games was wrapping each other up like a mummy with toilet paper.

 They did a bunch of fun games.  I was in charge of a doughnut eating game, and instead of tying it on a string the kids just had to eat it off a plate with no hands.

 We went Trunk Or Treating with Adrienne's kids at their church.  That was the first time we had ever done that!  It was such nice weather!!

Alyssa went trick or treating with her friends.  She dressed up in her cheer uniform and went as a cheerleader.  We didn't get a picture of her cause she was gone all day with friends.

Catch Up Week.

So it's been the busiest year I can remember....

Somehow I found time to go on a gameshow.  I had the chance to win $35,000...but I can't tell you whether I won or not.  I can say that I scored an awesome t-shirt and cup though!

 Ryan Bullock is one of our attorneys for Beddy's...and they invited us to go to see Jim Gaffigan.  Ryan forgot he was going to be out of town and so Katie invited Adrienne as her date.  I about peed my pants laughing.  I loved it!!

 It was a fun date night with Gentry :)

 We had 7th row seats.  I loved how close we were!

 We went to dinner at Blue Lemon before the show.  We got there plenty early so we had lots of time to visit!  I was worried I would fall asleep because the show didn't even start til 9:30...but I stayed awake, and I loved every minute.  Even the guy who opened for Jim was hilarious!

TOUCH DOWN WEEK!

This was an exciting week for both Boston and Brock!  They both got their first touchdowns!!

Boston decided to play flag football this year.  It's been really fun because Gentry has helped coach with Matt.  The kids are all having fun being on the same team.

 Boston ran in his first touchdown!  He's been really good at getting peoples' flags!  They have a pretty good team and have won lots of games!

 Uncle Matt is the head coach, Gentry is the assistant coach and Max, Porter, Jett, Tyson and several other friends are on the team!  It's been really fun!

Brock is on an A2 team, which has been hard because they've been playing almost all A1 teams.  They've lost every game so far.  It's been a bummer.  Brock has still been playing really well though!

He got his first TWO touchdowns against Herriman.  The score was 26-13, and we lost again.  It was still fun watching Brock score.

 Brock also had some really good passes and fumble recoveries too!

We have loved watching our boys play football!