Thanksgiving 2011

We spent a week in Utah for Thanksgiving. We LOVE being with our family!! We caught a bug somewhere along the way and shared it with ALL the Seamons', SO SORRY! It was still a good trip over all.

The first half of the week we were in Grantsville with the Olivers. Kyla , John and Leo had lots of fun playing with their cousins.

Great Grandma "reading" to the kids on her kindle... My techy grandma! :)

Gingerbread houses. Some of the candy made it on the houses... Johnny was so patient waiting for the frosting to dry, but as soon as it was dry he munched his whole house. :)



The second half of the week we spent playing at Grandma Seamons' house, MORE COUSINS! Leo loves swings!



Whose grown up girl is this?!



J- Dude climbing.



Maeli and Wilson, they are just 3 months apart.



Kyla with Grandma Cooper and the kitty, Ky was in heaven!



Cutie girls! Ellie and Kyla.

SNOW!

It snowed here on Friday night. Steve thinks it is WAY TO EARLY for snow! The kids and I are OK with it, as long as we are warm...

Either way, it is pretty!

The pumpkins side with Steve, too early...



Snow man Leo! He has been singing "once there was a snowman" all day...



Johnny didn't take long to find the sleds!



Our gentle slope in the back yard is perfect for them!



All four on one...



Happy happy kids! :)

Kitchen Remodel

This is what our kitchen looked like when we bought the house.

This is what it looked like a month later... the first time we painted.

I loved my green kitchen! I love green! Steve has actually banned me from buying any more green shirts... what am I going to wear today, let's see, green, green or... yep green.

So although I still love green, I am over the green walls in my kitchen. I have been wanting to paint for awhile but it is such a pain and Steve was still ok with the paint which meant I would be doing the painting, so I put it off. And now we have a new baby so there was no way it was getting done. UNTIL... Steve found a fabulous deal on a sliding glass door. He had been wanting to put one in the dinning room. So he took out the door and window and put in the slider. He was done with the project and ready to paint with the old color, when I threw him for a loop... new paint please.

Goodbye yellow and green...

It took us awhile to decide on paint, we had to pull in help from outside. THANKS AMY!! I owe Amy BIG TIME not only did she help choose the paint, she also did most of the painting by herself. Every time I picked up a paint brush Maeli would start crying... Steve says I paid Mae to save me from painting... :)

So THANKS to Amy, it turned out so great! I LOVE it!!



But wait something is missing... This is what happens when Steve and I are being impulsive on the same day. Yep, he took out a wall. And since there was already a hole in the ceiling he put in the new lighting he had been planning on doing. I wish we would have taken the wall out 6 years ago! It is so nice! It means we had to get a new counter too, darn. ;) That is still 3 weeks out though, more pics when that is done.

So goodbye wall...



The dinning area, awesome!




The white from the living room goes into the dinning area now.



FABULOUS!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

We started our Halloween weekend Friday night with some FUN Halloween food. Monster eyes, mummy hot dogs and spider jello!

"Velociraptor!"



One of the many spider floating around our house now... Yikes!



Sweetness.



Miss Maeli's Halloween cuteness!



Saturday night was our ward's trunk or treat. Ky dressed up as a "princess riding a unicorn," Johnny was superman, again, yeah for last year's costumes! I just love his serious crime fighting expression. And Leo was "superman Leo!" Which meant he wore his superman shirt and his "L" cape.


Sunday we carved pumpkins. Steve and John did cars, Ramone and Lightning. Ky did a bat and Leo did a cool face. I am so traditional but no one wanted triangle eyes and a tooth smile on their pumpkin this year...



Super cool!



Maeli and mom. We didn't carve pumpkins we just showed up and looked cute... :)




Kyla dressed up as Little Mermaid for her school Halloween party and trick or treating.

We had a fabulous Halloween and the kids got enough candy to last them to Easter... unless their sugar tooth mommy gets a hold of it. :)

Soup-er Man!

Yesterday we had soup for lunch. About halfway through the meal as Johnny was discussing the soup, soup, soup. Leo pipped up with "Leo, Superman!!"

Hehehe!!

More smiles from Maeli!

Maeli is growing up... She goo's and talks and smiles with us now, we all love it! Ky and John were discussing how unfair it is that they have to go to school and miss out on Mae's smiles... :)

I love her sweet cheeks!

Such a beautiful girl!

October Fun!

I LOVE fall! I love the colors and the smells. I love pumpkins and Halloween and the treats! I love it all! I love it a little less than I used to because I am a wimp about the cold and fall means winter is coming... :) But still, I love it!

We have had some fun with some costumes and dress ups.

Miss Ky.

The boys went to a costume birthday party.

Miss Mae was our super cute baby ballerina!

Leo decided he was done being a fireman... looks just like Johnny at 2 years old, same costume too... maybe it is the costume?!

Sweetness!

Flowers

"I pick flowers, you!"

You picked flowers for me?

"HUH!"

Leo picked me some flowers!

His blanket is tied on superman style, not sure why he didn't just wear his cape... but all day yesterday he was blanket superman!

2 months!

Maeli turned 2 months old yesterday! She had her well child check, she is now 11 lbs and 23 inches, up 3 lbs and 3 inches from her birth weight. I thought she was so huge... not so much! :) She is still a little little miss.

She got shots and thanks to her mom's faulty memory and bad luck she didn't get any pain medicine until hours later... I forgot to take the medicine with us and then the one I bought while out didn't have the dropper... poor girl!!

Yea, the meds kicked in! Happy smiley girl!

She smiles the most when she is in this swing... Although she did smile at her grandpa while he was here!

Maeli's Blessing

Maeli was blessed yesterday. Our first to be blessed at church, the first 3 were at grandma's houses in Ut... It was a beautiful day THANKS to those who came!

Mae's expression cracks me up... "What is all this?!"

Steve's talented mother made Maeli's gorgeous blessing dress.


Mae's was lucky to have all 4 of her grandma's here!! AND her 2 grandpas!!


4 generations: Great Grandma Grover, Me and Maeli and Grandma Oliver


GRANDPARENTS are the BEST!!

My FOUR munchkins!


Ky and Grandma Seamons


Steve's 4 generation picture: Great Grandma Cooper, Steve and Mae, and Grandma Seamons.



MORE grandparents!!


Beautiful girl!