Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving this year with my brother, Ryon, and his family in Hayden, Idaho.  We always have so much fun together.
This was the spread for our Thanksgiving feast - so yummy!

As usual, Nichole and I were the Thanksgiving cooks.

Ryon was busy cleaning out an elk head, though (so he wasn't being lazy while we were cooking!).  The kids found observing this activity to be quite fascinating, and a little gross.  They got to have the new experience on holding an eyeball - which is not something every kid gets to do on Thanksgiving!  This was truely a "Schofield-type" of activity for Thanksgiving.  :)
(I should probably mention that the elk head was NOT part of our dinner.)

Taylie and he cousin, Janna, with the beautiful pie they made.  They are turning into quite the little cooks!

Dinner Time!

Crashing with the cousins every night - so fun!

Cantus Winter Concert

Tylor and Taylie both participate in the Cantus Youth Choir, a community choir that is AMAZING!  They had their winter concert in December and did such a great job.

Sicily and Julianne (and Julianne's mom) came to see the concert.  Such sweet aunts to come support these kids!

So proud of these two!

Taylie singing

Tylor singing

Rub A Dub Dub!

I just love these cute little buddies!  :)

The Joy of Dixie Cups

     I was telling everyone before Christmas that the best gift to give their kids would be a big pack of Dixie cups.  Our little boys have kept themselves busy for hours building all kinds of towers out of cups.  This has become one of Ray's favorite activities!

"Tastes Like Ramen!"

     When our little Ray thinks that something he is eating or drinking is particularly delicious, he says, "Tastes like Ramen!"  I guess Ramen is the ultimate delicacy for this 2-year-old!  :)  He is about the cutest little thing ever!

Trick or Treat!

This was our scarey bunch ready to head out to get some goodies!  It was another fun Halloween!

None of us (including Tylor) quite knew what Tylor's costume was...  :)

Taylie as cotton candy

Coleton as his Uncle Jayson (BYU football player)

T.J. the ninja

This wasn't the costume we got for Jaymon this year, but as sometimes happens with 4-year-olds he changed his mind about what he wanted to be for Halloween, so we went with his dog costume from last year instead of his new one.  As long as he was happy and I didn't have to buy another costume (because that was not going to happen), it was all good!  Besides, Jaymon really does have a thing for dogs!  :)

Our little monkey, Ray

This is how you trick-or-treat in style!

Was this Taylor stealing candy from the kids?  I'm not really sure!  :)

Ray ate so much candy when he got home that I thought he was going to be sick!

T.J. and his haul.

Coleton and Jaymon - so proud of how much candy they could get.

Tylor had gone with a couple of friends and came home with the biggest pile of all.  Too bad he can't eat a lot of it due to the fact that he now has braces!  :)

 

 

 

Trunk-R-Treat

     I took the kids to a Trunk-R-Treat Halloween party a few days before Halloween.  It was a good chance to give their costumes a "trial run".  It was also fun to get out and do something with the kids that they enjoyed.

T.J. (ninja), Coleton (BYU football player), Tylor (box), Taylie (cotton candy), Ray (monkey). and Jaymon (dog)

Is this a cute little boy or what?!  :)

Ray and T.J.

This was my favorite part of the evening - watching big brother Tylor with his little buddy, Ray.  Melts a mother's heart!!  :)