Thankful times.

Can I just say I love my sweet neighbor's the Budges! I was outside raking up the GAZILLION leaves in the front yard while Parker was outside playing with the older kids... and I look up the street and I see adorable Tyler and Josh coming towards me with their rakes in hand! Those cute little boys helped me rake my whole yard and fill up one empty black garbage can to the top! Little Ty is such a great worker.. it made my night! I of course had to give them a token for helping me out, so we sat down and enjoyed a big old cookie! I am so thankful for the chance to be surrounded by great family and friends. Parker is so lucky to be able to jump on his bike and ride to his Grandparent's or just play in the yard with all the kids. We have loved living here and we are so excited to be spending the holidays in a cute home... we have SO MUCH to be thankful for!

Halloween 2009

This year for Halloween, Parker was Commander Cody, a Star Wars character.. I never got a great picture of him sadly, so this will have to do! The past 3 or so years we have gone to my sister's house to trick or treat! Her neighborhood is filled with young families and a million kids and we LOVE spending the night with Aunt Wendy! We had a cute pumpkin pizza and some witches brew before we headed out.. and we even got to bring along my sister's new puppy Molly! I love spending time with Wendy and am so grateful for welcoming us to her home and sharing this night with me and Parker. Parker and I love you so very, very much!!

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Carving pumpkins with Granny

We decided to carve some more pumpkins tonight with Granny! Parker and I carved pumpkins a week ago with Aunt Wendy and her girls (I forgot to take pictures) but they have shriveled up.. so we carved some new ones for Halloween night! Parker loves being creative and likes to carve it all on his own.. he does a great job! Parker CANNOT wait for Halloween this year, usually he likes to just go to a few homes and then spends the majority of the time passing out candy.. but this year he said even if its snowing.. he is GOING! I am so thankful for times that I get to share with my mom. We had a good day today and a great night getting into the spirit of Halloween!! (as you can see my mom didn't want her pic taken, I told her tough.. its memories)

First sighting of that white stuff, snow.

Parker FREAKED out when he saw the first snow flake fall to the ground. This child LOVES winter.. sadly, his mother does not. This picture is when he was looking out his bedroom window watching the snow fall... and the other pictures are the drawing's he drew for me, trying to "sweeten" me up to let him go outside (it was 9:00pm.. freezing) so I caved, I let him take out the garbage! Love him.

2 little things that I enjoy...

The little things that I enjoy... hearing Parker read to me every night (always in his underwear..) and watching Parker love his best friend the cat, George. He talks to George as he plays his DSi, like George totally understands him, it is so cute and funny all at the same time.

Cake Pops and Scary Houses

Last night Parker and I went up to Nibley to go to dinner and make some cake pops with Jayme and Carson! (cake on a stick...how freaking cute is that!) They live right by this guy whose yard is AMAZING. It has giant spiders crawling on the roof of the house, and so many huge displays of amazing witches, scary skeletons, movie characters and more that are all motion censored! The guy takes cans of food for a food bank for donations (if you remember to bring some) and then you can walk all around looking at everything from 6 to 10pm every night! One of the local news stations either 2, 4,or 5 broadcasts the news from his house on Halloween night for the past few years.. I am telling ya, its worth the drive to go see!! We all had such a great night together, we took some pictures but its better in person... and some pics of the cake pops too! Enjoy!