My Cutie'pies

We got our family pictures back, and I quite love them.   I love pictures that show peoples true personalities not just the posed stuff, So I was really exited about these.   I had a hard time choosing my favorites to share, so I am sharing a LOT.  Thanks again Heather Cram =) 

We are dong good. We had a decent thanksgiving considering we were apart. Rye worked and me and the boys went to Rye's aunts and uncles. Everyone was there it was fun! We went to Utah that weekend. Rye's family had a not very good thanksgiving so we went home to have a Re-do thanksgiving with them. I sure love them! And was glad to get to spend a redo thanksgiving with them. I forgot my camera though.

Good news.... We are all the way done Christmas shopping!! Cool, Right? I LOVE Christmas!!

Holden's latest good stuff: Mom: Holden do you want some oatmeal for breakfast?? Holden: Ya, You got it Girlfriend! (He picked that up from Rye)

Deer are "Donkeys"

Jerky is "turkey"

He asked if Rye could be his mom because Rye has boobies to....(rye really liked that one haha)

He tells us all the time he loves us. The most common thing that comes out of his mouth is...."I sure love you mom/Knoxy/dad! I'm gonna keep you forever."

Knox is doing good, he is so handsome and has a huge personality!

Good Investment???

Were the Living scriptures a good investment???

I Think so!!

Before we even had Holden we got a knock at the door from a Living Scriptures salesmen. (you remember those??)  The church history movies.  Anyways, we had them growing up.  We were not aloud to watch TV until 6 pm on Sundays, but we could watch living scriptures.  So I can honestly say I learned and knew these amazing stories from watching these movies, and trust me we all watched them until we moved out!! Last time I went home my 18 year old brother was watching "He has Risen" haha!  So we of course had to purchase them from the salesman.  Rye was a little iffy....But he loves them. Our kids love them.  We have gotten one  a month for 4 years  now!!!  I remember thinking "Oh my gosh, we are going to be paying for these until Holden is 4 years old, what are we getting our selves into!!"  But time flys...holy cow....We have two left!!  People think they are a rip off, but when a  man is talking in your ward and tells about Nephi and your three year old is so exited telling the story to you as the  men tells it, or when you hear him tell a two year old he has a uncle Austin that is a missionary like Ammon, you are so grateful that it ended up being worth it!!  Cuz, them bad boys are pricey.  They wanted to watch one today, and I walked and saw them like this....Which is a huge NoNo.  (sitting on thee table)

So go and get them.  We use them for family home evening all the time.  Tonight we are using the one on pilgrams (William Bradford)

Good Daddy...

About a week ago Rye let us stay home (utah) for a few days.  He had told us he had a surprise for us when we got home.  Rye was at work everyday we were gone (15 hour days) and managed to build a huge sandbox for the boys.  So, if you do the math, he had to drive an hour to get railroad ties from the ranch, build the frame, go out into the middle of nowhere to find sand, shovel it into his truck. (he did have some guys help with that part) and finish the whole thing......He did all this in the nights while we were gone....and I should add he only gets from 4-5 hours of sleep every night, not to mention I know he has a lot going on in his life anyways. Can you say,

good daddy!!

The sand is wet in this picture but when we got home is looked perfect! It is the perfect sandbox sand, and the track hoe riding thing was given to Rye from a nice guy at work, and it is so neat!

We love you Rye. I hope these boys always know how much you love them too.  (Holden is rocking knox, haha even though Knox is almost his size!)

A Sneak peek!

I Love getting my kids' Pictures taken!  Believe it or not so does Rye, I think he likes scrapbooks, blogs, and family pictures more then I do.....or at least he is just super sweet =)  But Heather Cram (Giggles & Grins)  Took our family pictures, she does so good.  And posted our sneek peek, and I am SO exited to see the rest.  You can tell how hectic the shoot was (with my boys) by how spastic they look in the family picture. Heather is a trooper, cuz she made spastic look "GooD"  HAHA!  I think it will make for some good pictures.  I will post the rest when we get them.