Let it Snow!!!!!

In the off season David has collected 5 new to us snowmobiles. We were able to take out the big ones a few weeks ago. Today was the first time we were able to try out the baby ones. They are 120's meant for kids. It didn't stop David from getting on one and trying it out

Dallen had some fun. He really got a feel for it. This is his first time driving himself he has been on back for the past two years.

I hope we did not drive too many of the neighbors crazy on a Sunday morning.

Happy Thanksgiving

This thanksgiving was a fun one. We figured we would start the day with a photo shoot. This year is going to be our last with my dad so we took a Thompson Family Photo Boys in Blue Girls in Red. I do not have those photos. I had Danny take a family photo of us with my camera.

Family Photos are always a challenge. The more kids you have the more challenging they are. With five kids I hoped we could get at least one good Photo. I am narrowing down the only 3 good ones. That is 3 out of 70 that almost look good. Here are the bloopers. I will make a Christmas card out of the good one.

The end

Young Women Christmas presents

Next Years (2011) Young Women's Theme is the 13th Article of Faith. We were just put in as a new presidency and the first question was what will we give the girls as Christmas Gifts. I opened my mouth and suggested a Scrabble tile necklace with word art from the 13th Article of Faith. The art above is what I came up with. I totally copied the idea from something I saw. It was a hard learning curve to figure out how to do it. I could not do it in photoshop because I could not get the fonts to look right. I did some research and found out fonts were vector based and i needed to use a program that was. I used inkscape and it all came together. I will post the necklaces once I finish one. IT looks better than the photo. I had to enlarge it so you can see it on the photo and in the process lost some letters. The tiles are only one inch.

Fall is here and you know what that means.

Leaves

The kids spent the afternoon Raking the leaves and playing in them.

They became scarecrows.

Dallen covered in leaves.

It was a fun afternoon. Even the dog had a great afternoon.

pumpkins

I found a great deal on Pumpkins this year. Winco had them for 8cents a pound. I took a huge one in to the store to see how much it weighted but the problem was the scale only went up to 30 LB. That meant they could only charge me for a 30LB pumpkin. What a deal $2.40 each. I called David and got the OK to buy 7.

Courtney always looks cute doing anything.

Dallen thinks it is gross

Derek worked so hard on getting his guts out.

Marissa took the time to do things right. The only problem with getting huge pumpkins is that they are thick and hard to carve. David even used a shovel to get the guts out. They all turned out cute.