Family Pictures

Since it had been a few years since we had been altogether we thought we'd take a big family picture. Lauren brought her camera and they turned out so good! The weather held off and it was just cloudy so we took pictures Thanksgiving day before we stuffed our faces the rest of the day. I love these pictures so much.

Lauren even grabbed a picture of Makenna with the hamster Lily.

Thanksgiving

We hosted Thanksgiving this year and it was so much fun having everyone stay for a couple of days! Makenna loved having everyone celebrate her birthday dinner the night before, Thanksgiving was full of food games, TV, crafts and shopping. Friday Grandma/Grandpa/Andrea had to leave but the rest of us went to the Hot Springs and Saturday we went to the movies and saw The Grinch. It was so nice being together.

 We could not get enough of Maelie and her sweet smiles and squishiness!

 Lauren had brought blue hair dye to put in the boys hair and they thought that was the coolest thing ever.

 It even snowed and these three had a great time playing in it!

Makenna's Birthday

Makenna turned 10! How is this even possible? She is growing up so fast. Her birthday this year landed on the day before Thanksgiving. We went and got donuts in the morning and that afternoon I took the kids to Arts on Fire. The kids could pick out one piece of pottery to paint and we leave it their for the place to put it in the fire/glaze. They each picked an animal (Makenna chose a fox, Chase a moose and Caleb a dog). They had so much fun and all did an excellent job.

 We hosted Thanksgiving at our house with my family this year so Makenna was super excited to have family there for dinner. We love you so much Makenna and are so glad you're part of our family!

Steve's Birthday and Some Random

I've got some random pictures that I want to add. The kids were looking super cute one Sunday before church so I took this one.

 A boy scout stand-up has been in front of the grocery store for a couple of weeks and Caleb has wanted his picture taken in front of it...

 President Trump came to Bozeman November 3 and I really wanted to see Air Force One. So we knew that his speech was at 12:30 so at 11:30 Makenna, Caleb and I went to the baseball fields which are right next to the airport runway to wait. Steve was giving me a bad time that we probably wouldn't see it and he chose not to come. I knew we hadn't missed it since their were a bunch of other people at the baseball fields too, some with big nice cameras and their were policemen driving all around along with a helicopter circling the valley. At about 12:15 in came Air Force One. It was pretty cool and such a big airplane. We didn't see the president but I'd say seeing the airplane was pretty cool too! And we got to brag to Steve afterwards!

This was our entertainment while waiting for the airplane.

 We also got our first good snow storm the first part of November-good enough to make a snowman.

 I took the kids one Saturday to the YMCA for the family Pound class. Pound is exercising to music using drumsticks and the kids loved it!

And the Birthday Boy, this is the only picture I took of Steve. On his birthday Utah State was playing Montana State in basketball here in Bozeman so we had to go. We were all wearing our Aggie shirts except Caleb whose wearing his MSU shirt(I couldn't find his USU shirt that day) It was so fun being together and cheering on the Aggies.