I love Thanksgiving!

I know that this might not hear this to often, but Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It's so nice to be able to spend time with family and talk the day away, while you can hear the kids laughing and playing in the next room. The food is always so fun to eat. I love to eat every ones dishes. This year my soon to be sister in law made buttermilk pie. It was her grandmother's recipe. It was sooo good.
Scott and I have the best families. Every year they make sure that they have Thanksgiving at two different times so we can go to both! Ya, TWO THANKSGIVINGS! What could be better then that!

Adoption Meetings

Sometimes we get to go to fun adoption meetings. They try to have a few that the whole family can go to. This one that we went to was at Boondocks. We had so much fun. First we got to look at children who are legally free for adoption through the adoption exchange. It was good to hear about some other options that we have. Then we got to go and play at Boondocks. It was a fun day. It was so nice to meet families that have adopted children and see how happy they all are. Tyler had so much fun their. We played games and he hit the jack pot on a game and won over 400 tickets. I was laughing because it reminds me of a "Vegas" for kids. Then after he picked out his prizes, (a stuffed dog, a pellet gun, and a ring for his cousin Kaitlyn) they took his picture to put up on the wall and gave him a free t-shirt. He was on top of the world. Then we got to play Lazer tag. Something that Scott and I love to do. Our team won! It was a great way to spend a Saturday.

I love Fall!

This fall has been the best! It actually has lasted for a while this year. The colors have been amazing. I love that Tyler loves to play in the leaves with his cousins. They worked so hard raking up the leaves and then the piles are destroyed in seconds. You got to miss being a kid! What a blast!

Look What I Won!

It was our anniversary. I can't believe that it has been 16 years. We wanted to get away, but it had to be just for a night because we had an adoption home study the following day. So I got us an awesome room for the night. It had a huge jetted tub in the room, a sauna, a huge plasma T.V. It was so nice to get away for the night. Scott got me a massage at the spa in the morning.
OK we really didn't win the Corvette. It's Scott's dad's new toy. When we told him that we were leaving for the night he said, "Come and take the Vet!" Scott was really hesitant at first and said he would talk to me about it. Of coarse I told him that I wanted to take the Vet. It was so fun to drive in. You don't even use a key to start it. You just push a button. It's the cutest car that I have ever been in. It gets going fast. It was actually my favorite part of the trip, except for being alone with Scott. When we had to take it back to his dad I felt a little sad. I didn't realize how much you could love a car.

NY Yankees

You could say that Scott is the biggest Yankee fan ever. He loves to watch all of the games. This year he was so excited. He just knew that they were going to win the world series. (#27) So on the big game night he let Tyler stay up to watch the game. It was a school night but it would be Tyler's first time to see the Yankees win the world series.
The next morning Scott made Tyler breakfast before school. And of coarse he made him N. Y. pancakes.

Trick or Treat

I love Halloween. It is a fun time of year where you can pretend to be anything. This year Tyler wanted to be something different. Something that no one else his age would be. He decided to be a spartan.
For Halloween this year I decided to let Tyler and his Cousin Kaitlyn have a Halloween Party. I thought it would be fun for them especially with our ward splitting recently. So Tyler and Kaitlyn and I sat down and planned out the party. We decided that it would be fun to make a monster, touching, operating table. We used a pumpkin for the head (of coarse we put a mask on it). The inside of the pumpkin was the brains. Then we cut squash to make the arms, carrots for the fingers, a balloon for the heart, spaghetti for the intestines, jello for the guts, and apples for the knees.
The next things that we decided to do was ghost bowling, mummy wrap, and musical chairs.
We were lucky enough to get some help setting everything up form Tyler's best friend Azlynn and her little sister Brielle, and then the party began. 20 kids showed up. It was quite the party! We had a ton of fun.
On Halloween we had fun also. We went "trunk or treating" and then we went "trick or treating". Of coarse we went to Grandma's for homemade soup! Then we went to Ty's other grandma and grandpa's house. By time we were ready to leave Tyler was exhausted. He fell asleep in the car on the way home.