It's a...

BOY!

Yea!

Baby John will be here in April. Now he just needs a middle name.

Thanksgiving!

Guacy insisted on hosting Thanksgiving and having a super fancy tabel. It actually looked really nice.

This is me holding vivi before Guacy yelled at me for letting her suck on my neckolace.

This is Biza, Helen, and Sam.

This is a Turkey cookie Samuel and I made over at Tami Gemmell's home. Guacy came too. We had a nice visit.

Samuel was so cute holding on for dear life, to Helen, as they swung in the hamic at Guacy's.

Some new pictures

This is a picture of samuel. He was not being very photogenic!

This is Samuel sitting with santa. He was so cute. He gave him a big hug. We took this picture with a couple days before Thanksgiving when there was no line!

This is our family picture for this year. It's not as formal as we would have liked it, but it was our favorite out of a the bunch. It doesn't help that Samuel was eating.

This is a picture we took of Samuel earlier this year smiling in his Sunday clothes!

Thanksgiving with the Ely's

All of my sisters and their families came to our house for Thanksgiving. It was a hectic, but fun weekend. Cooking was an all day affair on Saturday, and my oven caught on fire at one point. I didn't see it. I was in the back with Rebekah doing her hair. It was so bad that they took all the kids out of the house and were running around looking for Bekah and me. Jacob had to use the fire extinguisher to get it out. I still have the task of cleaning up the last of the oven mess tomorrow. Joe, Nancy's husband, was nice enough to clean up a big part of it, and he washed all the dishes. Fabulous man!

Here is the best picture of the Holt kids. They were really uncooperative by this point!

Lizzie didn't want her picture taken anymore.

All the cousins. This is really the best picture of them all. I still have to use gimp to clean up the picture. We were going to take pictures outside, but the day just got to crazy, and we had to take them inside when it was completely dark.

Uncle Toufik and Simeon. He is my oldest sister Ali's husband.

Eating Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday.

Cousin Ayden

My sister is here with her boys. One of them was born November 5th. Elizabeth loves babies, so she is excited baby Ayden is here.

Thanks Gramma Nancy!!

First of all, happy Birthday JoJo. You're are the big 4 today! Congratulations.

Here's Travis' idea of fun constructive play w/Dad. I guess his father did this kind of stuff to him as a child.

The boys (all 3) are trapped under Tracker's crib. On all sides. He put the rail down, and then stuck their big toy box in the way of the other opening, and put the lid against the wall, against the toy box so there was no way for them to push it away.

They actually dealt w/it rather well. Trayton was positive the whole time, and Tracker didn't even know what was going on. Tustin was the only one who seemed to not like it. And they eventually got out by themselves! I don't know how, but they got out.

Tracker was doing this all by himself the other day as we were sitting at the table. I know he's seen Trayton do it before, but I think Tracker brought it up all on his own!

Silly boys!

Trayton wanted to say thank you to Gramma Nancy for the package we just picked up today. He loves the monkey and named it George. But we already have an acutal "Curious George", so now we have two George monkeys. Confusing.

He also got 2 books, 2 movies & a growing crab that is incubating in some water right now.

Thank you Gramma Nancy. We love you so much! XXOOXXOOXXOO

Jojo is 4

We had Joseph's birthday party last Saturday. There is a little boy down the street that shares Trayton's birthday and we decided to just do one party for the both of them. It was fun and I got to make two cakes. My kitchen was a complete disaster when I was done. So now Joseph is 4!

This is after the party when everyone was playing behind our house. I don't know what Simeon was doing, but it was so funny looking. He's our future body builder.


Blowing out the candles. This is one of my favorite cakes I've made so far. The dirt for the tractor was crushed teddy grahams, and it looked like real dirt. So fun!


Joseph is amazed with every present he gets. We got him a cap gun and wrapped the caps up separately. He had this expression on his face even though he had no clue what he had gotten. Too funny! We gave him a dragon last Saturday, and he has slept with it every night since then. He loves dragons and dinosaurs now.

The cake

Playing pin the tail on the donkey. This is Randi, the mother of Timmy, who shares Trayton's birthday.