Happy Thanksgiving!!

Well Thanksgiving came quickly this year, man how time flies. We had a great holiday though and enjoyed lots of family. Jon's grandma, aunt and uncle came up from Elmo, Utah and stayed for the weekend, it was so fun to spend Thanksgiving with them.

First these are a few photos that make me smile. Nixon reading a book on Jon.
Then Nixon reading a book on Gauge.

Poor Gauge is now a horse in Nixon's mind. Whenever he is lying down anywhere Nixon rushes over and sits on him. We are trying to stop him from jumping up and down on him too... it's a challenge:) Darby on the other hand runs away when Nixon rushes towards her, she isn't stupid.

Nixon is always getting out my pots and pans put this particular day he decided it was big enough to sit in. What a goofy kid.

Then we made him do the monkey .. we are bad parents:)

Nixon LOVES to ride in the Jimmy. We don't do it very often but when we do he gets to sit up front and he likes to hold your hand while you drive. It's adorable!!! This is Nixon wanting to go on a ride.. and decked out in his cameo!!

"Hey" he says, "Let's go"

So NOW, Thanksgiving day!! When we got to Grammy's Nixon just wanted to go outside, in the cold??? We got a ball and playing pass while we waited for assignments from the boss (Grammy).

Nixon is actually a really good thrower, I think it's because last summer when he was just a young lad he watched his daddy play softball three nights a week...

Then we found the riding lawn mower and he thought this was a rocket ship.. or could have been.

Jon had gotten up that morning and went and played Turkey Bowl with some of his friends and Cam. They are crazy, it was freezin' at 9 am. But they had a lot of fun.

Jon took Tanner out back and played some football at home so we could watch and cheer. Nixon of course had to be out there playing too... SOOOO helpful.

Pass!!!

I made this craft for the kids.. how cute are they?? We set them on each place at the dinner table. Katie helped me for a few minutes but it turned out to not be such a great "craft" really but they looked cute and tasted good. They are marshmallows dipped in chocolate then on a cookie and a little yellow frosting to make the hat complete.

This is the Yummy Turkey that we ate... my mouth waters just thinking about it:) Kirt also deep fried a turkey this year, it was really good and really interesting to watch the process. So we were well fed!

Here are Jim and Kirt lowering the turkey in.

Uncle Jim, he is the nicest guy you will ever know!

Here is Nixon having dinner a little early because he was READY for a nap.

He wanted to feed me too.. since the dogs weren't there.

Marsha is making the gravy... yum gravy. AND Pompa is carving the turkey.

More turkey carving.

Here is Granny, ready to play some cards after dinner:)

Relaxing after eating SOOO much.

Karen got a new tree Thanksgiving weekend and Nixon thought Santa had come early as he played and played in the box.

In and out he went.

An elf visited Nixon to tell him to be a good boy before Christmas for Santa:)

Thank you Santa's Elf.. :)

GO UTES!!

It was that time of year when the University of Utah played BYU. I of course am a big U fan and the rest of Jon's family are Y fans. This makes for a very trying time for me when we sit down to watch the game ALL together. This year was no fun for me. I mean really the game was at the Y and the ref's were wearing white and blue stripes, seriously it was awful. I held my tongue though, for the most part, but inside I must say was NOT pretty:) But I took picture before the game so that is why I am smiling.

Pompa and Nixon, he was trying to get Nixon over to the DARK side.

Go Utes!!! Nixon had a U sweatshirt too but I forgot to take a picture when he was all decked out in gear.

And of course don't forget Garret who wanted his picture taken too, cute boy!

The First Snow and The Monkey...

This is my favorite face... what a little stinker! This is early in the morning and he is so funny in the mornings.

Nixon has been climbing on EVERYTHING lately and he is getting pretty good at being a monkey and getting into trouble. He found out he can climb on his little table and see himself in the mirror. He thinks he is pretty cool.

This is the same morning... now he is climbing on the oven. TROUBLE!

He steps on the drawer handle and then climbs up and can open the oven if I am not watching.

Then it's off to the dump truck to ride around the living room.

Nixon got his shots on Friday and on Saturday starting have a runny nose and can't breath very well... I hate when my little guy is sick. Jon took a picture of them together and it makes me sad to look at that poor sick boy. He doesn't look very well, does he? Thank goodness he is feeling better finally today!

Last weekend it snowed for the first time... it was light but OH so pretty.

I LOVE the snow and it's about that time with Thanksgiving around the corner.

Raking Leaves Again and Again...

The leaves are softly falling down
They make a carpet on the ground
Then swish the wind comes blowing by
and send them dancing in the sky

We have been raking up leaves a lot lately and Nixon LOVES it!

But if the pile is too big he won't walk through it... who knew you could be picky about a leaf pile:)

Nixon could stay outside ALL day if only I would let him.

How cute is this boy???

We saw a BIG deer in the backyard. It was SO pretty and awesome to see it up close.

We have had a few fires since it is warming up. Nixon wasn't so sure about it, he wanted to touch it. But when I told him it was hot, he tried to blow it out:)

Nana came to visit us a few weekends ago. She cut ALL our hair and we went shopping and just had a lot fun.

Thanks Nana for visiting us, we love you!

Again the leaves... man oh man they never stop. Here is Nixon "helping" by giving Daddy a leaf:)

Nixon's turn with the rake.

I gave Nixon a bucket and told him to pick up the leaves, it was SO funny to watch him carry it around and put leaves, rocks, berries pretty much anything into the bucket.

Checking out his loot.

Then of course he had to stomp it down in the bucket. What a funny boy!