Shane has been studying A LOT, and by the end of the day all three boys are ready to release some of their built up energy. Here they are wrestling around with each other. I can't wait until the boys get a little bit older so that they can take their daddy down. Shane and i wrestle around once in awhile when he needs to release energy and it is tiring! Of course i always win (my brother was a wrestler so i know the moves, people underestimate me), but it takes all the energy out of me. :)
Oh my gosh! Preparing for c-section.
Here is Gavin after all the food was eaten. He zonked out big time!
Here is Erik and Shane playing the Wii. They had tons of fun playing this and they played it a lot. We also played A LOT of card games: phase 10, speed, JEN, golf. We listened to Christmas music a lot, watched the Macy's Day Parade, and of course we watched Football! It really has been a fun Thanksgiving for us.
Here are Tanner and McCoy playing together.
Here is Holly. She was very tired in this picture! How could you not be after eating more than your body can handle?!
Here is Shane and Gavin raking leaves. On the side of our house we have tons of trees so we get bombarded with a lot of them.. After Shane raked up all the leaves we took a step back to look at our yard and it was already looking like we needed to rake AGAIN! When the wind blew, it seriously looked like it was raining leaves in our backyard. They would come down and hit us in the face. It was kind of funny.
While Shane finished raking, Auntie Holly, Gavin and I went to the store to buy everything for our Turkey Dinner! We went to Whole Foods Store because my grocery store didn't have a spice that i needed. They just put in a Whole Foods Store here that is about 5 minutes from our house. Oh my gosh...if you haven't been you need to go. They have food that they set out, sort of like a buffet style(Bob, you might like this one), and the food looked so dang GOOD. Plus, i have heard great things about it. They have every kind of food that you need that you usually cannot find in the grocery store. I guess there specialty is organic foods. They had lots of appetizers sitting out, which was definitely a plus.
HAHA! Here is a picture of Tanner watching Shane and Gavin rake the leaves from off our sun porch. He likes to press his lips up against the screen door and this is what it looks like from the other side! It was hilarious!
We did it. We put up our Christmas tree. It is our first artificial Christmas Tree. We just couldn't help ourselves. We wanted to get that Holiday feeling in our home. Never in my life have we put up the Christmas tree this early. All growing up my family never put up the tree until about December 12. Then when Shane and i got married we started putting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving because it's been a tradition with Shane's family lately to go chop down our own tree, which is tons of fun. And now, yesterday, which is about a week before Thanksgiving Day, we proudly put it up. We listened to Christmas music while doing it and Gavin was so excited to hang up his ornaments that he decorated. We will only be gone for about a week and a half for Christmas, so we will get plenty of time to enjoy our tree!
We had CHiNeSe food for dinner last night. I love chinese. Anyway, there were some ReD hot chili PePPeRS in the kung pao ChiCkeN, but you don't eat them of course, unless you feel like being adventurous. Gavin wanted one. I told him that they are HoT and that he wouldn't like it, but he insisted on trying it. You have to learn by experience, so we let him TrY it. He suDdeNly realized that his mouth was on FiRe. He used his sweater and tried wiping it off his mouth, which obviously doesn't work. He kept saying, "MOM! Help me!" So, i gave him a glass of milk which helps it to cool off better than water does. He was fine about 15 minutes later, but he did have a very uNpLeaSanT experience.
After church i went to get Gavin out of Moonbeams and he usually gets all upset at me because he doesn't want to leave. Well, last Sunday was a nice surprise. I went in the room and as soon as he saw me he ran to me and said "hi mommy!" It was so sweet. Then as i buckled him in his seat he said, "i had fun mom." Life is good when my kids are happy. :)
It's bathtime. Tanner has a whale hanging out of his mouth. He always hangs onto things with his mouth if his hands are unavailable.
Gavin and Tanner love bathtime. They have so much fun. They have their squirty animals that they love playing with. Gavin loves squirting Tanner in the face with water. I have to make him stop though because it can be too much! :) Tanner loves the water though, so he doesn't mind so much. They just get along so well with each other.
Gavin and i decorated some christmas ornaments yesterday. He is so proud of his ornaments.
The leaves have started falling in our yard. As you can see. Our trees are still in the process of changing color. Some are still green, i can't believe it.
Well, our weekend and this coming week is going to be pretty uneventful. This weekend Shane and i have been busy-Shane has been studying for finals and i have been preparing to give the lesson in Relief Society! Here is a picture of Gavin walking around with his "blanky" over his head. He is like Linus on Charlie Brown. He will not let go of his blanky. I am not sure why he does it, but it is so funny. I will be doing something and i look over and there he is walking around with his blanket over his head....he walks around like he can see. Here is a funny story.... Everytime Gavin puts his own underwear on he always put the back end in the front and the front of the underwear in the back. It is so funny because he looks like he has one huge wedgy.
I checked on the boys today and they(Gavin) took off Gavin's mattress and were using it as a slide. They thought it was so funny, Tanner especially. He was cracking up. It was so funny.
Talking on the phone.
Climbing the stairs.
Gavin is explaining to me how hungry he is.
Yesterday Tanner and Gavin got into the lotion and Tanner had it plastered all over his hair and he had it all around his mouth because he was trying to eat it.
Trying to get some books out of the bookshelf
Tanner is trying to feed Gavin a sock.
Okay, so, Shane went to Target today to get some things and came home with these pajamas for me. Surprise! Shane has always said that if these ever came in his size then he would get a pair. He didn't even know that they came in adult sizes, so when he saw them he was thrilled and wanted to live vicariously through me since he can't have any. Very cute. I am thrilled(can you sense the sarcasm?). The feet are twice my size, the upper body fits big, and the legs fit snug. Yes, they are comfortable, but no, i do not want to go around wearing these pajamas. I know my mom is going to get a kick out of this. She will either laugh histerically, or she will think i look so cute and tell me to keep them. I am sorry to all of you who think i should wear them around, they just aren't me. They are comfortable, but i don't like looking like i am a 4 year old. :) Gavin really liked seeing me in these pajamas. He was excited and wanted to get his pajamas on too. Maybe, for him, we can have a pajama night together every once in awhile. :)
Playing in the leaves on Halloween Day
On halloween day, while Tanner took his nap, Gavin and i went outside and played in the leaves. He loved it. I loved it too because it was about 67 degrees that day! Soooo nice! We also carved pumpkins, made caramel apples, and went trick or treating, of course. We went trick or treating in our neighborhood and it was so much fun. One of our neighbors went all out and made their own little haunted house in their backyard. It was cool. Another house gave us king size snicker bars. Nice!
