Christmas before Thanksgiving

And the stockings were hung . . . before Thanksgiving. LOL This is the first year EVER that we have put up our decorations before Thanksgiving. The kids are soo excited and love this season. I do too.

We still have our pumpkins around from Halloween. Kohlton thought this was funny! It makes for quite the picture. Christmas and Halloween.

Kandis and Kurt have spent my last two birthday's buying me my nativity set. Kandis was soo exited to put it up today. I love it.

Kelsie really wanted lights on the house this year and she was able to "sweet talk" Kurt and I into putting them up. We are feeling very festive. We listened to Christmas Music all day today. We decorated the whole house. Maybe this year we can relax a little and enjoy the season. I will take some pictures at night for you all to see.

Where's the Beef?

Every year we raise a couple of Beef in Andy and Dad's Pasture out back. This year we got two Hefer's. But one really wasn't a Hefer it was a Martin. Soo, Andy named this year's beef Martin and Fartin'. If you don't know what a Martin is you can ask me or ask someone else because I am not going to tell you on this blog. Here is the first Beef after Kurt, Andy, Dad and Denis killed it. Kohlton watched the whole thing this year and is in the Red Coat and Andy is driving the 'ol John Deer. The boyz do an Awesome job!

Here is Kurt washing it down with Andy's qinked up hose. It was a little cold last weekend. This year we are taking our Beef to Jason Astle to cut up. This will be the first year that we haven't cut it up ourselves. The Beef is at Jason's curing right now, we will let you know how it turns out.

TAG 10 Years Ago

A tag from Jill:
**5 things I was doing 10 years ago**
1. Teaching SPED Preschool
2. Living in Burley
3. Had 2 Girls 3 and 11.
4. Young Women's
5. Turning 30. (Oh no does that give away my age today?)
**5 things to do on my list today** (we'll say tomorrow since today is practically over)
1. Teach School
2. Do Paperwork
3. Young Women's Combined and Pres. Meeting.
4. VOTE
5. Take Kohlton to Valley Voices
**5 snacks I enjoy**
1. Tomatoes (Plain, V-8, Salsa, Soup, you name it)
2. Rainbow Licorice
3. Extreme Sweet and Sour Patch Kids
4. Crystal Light
5. 5 Lush Gum
**5 things I would do if I were a millionare**
1. Pay off Bills and own everything I have.
2. Pay for my kids college and missions.
3. Build a Barn and have animals.
4. Give it away.
5. Buy new 4-Wheelers and Snowmachines for my family.
**5 places I've lived**
1. Torrington Wyoming
2. Fairview Wyoming
3. Logan Ut
4. Rexburg ID
5. Burley ID
**5 jobs I've had**
1. Waitressing
2. Regular Ed. Preschool Teacher
3. SPED Teacher
4. Austism Group Home
5. Bernina in Logan
**I Tag**
1. Melissa
2. Storme
3. Bridgette
4. Sherry
5. Millie
Rules: Each person answers the questions themselves. At the end, tag 5 people and post their names

Halloween Night

Halloween was Great! Kohlton ended up missing Halloween at School and the day prior due to an absessed tooth. The antibiotics kicked in Halloween afternoon and he will get into Dr. Hammond on Wednesday afternoon to have it pulled. Ouch! He has been a sick little boy. Kandis' missionary Chris entered the MTC on Wednesday and she has been a little lost with out e-mails and someone to go to lunch with. Needless to say she has been at home and leaning on me (her mother) and family. We went 4-Wheeling the other day and found these spooks at a bridge, I thought they looked eventful!

We went to the Box-H Trunk-R-Treat and Melissa brought all the decorations. This is the back of the van. There is Kenna, Kelsie and Kandis in the swivel seats facing backward and Kohlton and Austin. She is hiding her eyes because she didn't want her picture taken. We gave away over 500 pieces of candy and had to turn children away. Notice the bowl fulls of candy in the back that all the kids are chowing down on.

This is Kandis and Kohlton in their Halloween get-up. Kandis is the princess and Kohlton is her knight in shinning armour. He told her when Chris was getting ready to leave, "I will rescue you from your emotional 'imagination'." Ha, Ha we laughed and laughed. His face is a little swollen on the left side.

This is Kelsie, Kenna and Kandis on Halloween Night. Kelsie is a "Munchkin" from the Wizard of OZ. Kenna is Chris' little sister and has begun to hang out at our house since Chris left. She is a 50's girl. She is a year younger than Kelsie. Her name fits right into our family with the K.