Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Grandma Helen's house. The food was great, the weather was warm and the kids got to ride horses.

I love this time of year.

Who did This?

So Wednesday morning, Tyler wakes up and looks out our bedroom window....and chuckles. Then he says..."oh, you've got to see this." So, I knew it wasn't supposed to snow...but thought oh no, how deep is it. "Oh it's not snow," he says. So I peek out the window and see all this toilet paper.

I was shocked. We haven't hit the teen years, or even the pre-teen years yet with our kids...so who would have done this? So we all took a guess. I think it was Garret, Brayden thinks it was Chelsey and Tyler thinks it was one of his scouts.

So time for confessions.....anyone?

So Saturday was a really big day for us....but I don't have any photos to share.

Brayden played his first basketball game of the new season. His team is actually the Jazz, which he loves. Anyway, he put that ball in the basket four different times during the game. WooHoo! This is much improvement compared to last year. He was one proud, happy kid. His next game is this Saturday at 9:00 at the Rec Center for you grandmas out there.

Later that same day...we decided to back to the rec center for swimming. We haven't been since August....we sort of wore that place out during summer. Well, since that time, Spencer has grown enough to go down the big slides at the pool. This was a BIG thing for him since he has been eating his heart out over those slides for a year and a half now. He would measure himself against the "big enough" line almost every time. And now the rec center is once again our very best friend and Spencer begs EVERY single night to go back (which is not so cool).

Leaves at Grandpa Brinkerhoff's House

Today, right after school, we went up to my parent's house to play in the leaves. My kids love, love to jump in huge piles of leaves...and my parents have the best back yard for this. I love this tradition...as a child, I walked past my Grandmother's house from the bus stop everyday. She had a huge tree in her front yard and in the fall, my sister and I were known to stay at her house for hours, making houses out of her leaves.

My kids also have a new reason to enjoy Grandma's house. Grandpa and Grandma have a new puppy! They decided that poor Chelsey is way too lonely with all of her siblings out of the nest....and so they got her a dog. My cousin Wesley has full-blooded collies and was nice enough to give his favorite aunt a free one. This is big news...because my parents have quite the anti-pet personalities. Chelsey named the cute pup Fergie...and she really is very adorable.