I guess the long drive from Idaho to Arizona made Laun a little loopy or he just likes to make his hair crazy to get a good laugh from the kids:)
We left Idaho at 3am this morning and got to Show Low at 5:30pm. Then Laun left for a deer hunt. The boys and I are staying at Jennette’s house.
Today is Porter’s last day at the Preston, Idaho Head Start Preschool. We are moving and then he will go to preschool in Utah. He will miss his friends and teachers. I have enjoyed volunteering so often in the classroom. This is precious time to me.
Should one eat a donut as big as their noggin? Clayton thinks so. He earned a treat from the Stokes bakery as a school award. He picked out the biggest donut he could find:)
The boys got to sit on Santa’s lap at the Ward Christmas Party tonight.
Porter asked for a tool shop.
Clayton asked for a remote control car.
It is beginning to look like Christmas at our house. We have the lights up, so maybe it is time to take down the fall leaves in the window.
I am barely over a month away from having this sweet little girl!
This picture was taken two days ago on Saturday from the upstairs bedroom.
Today it looks like this:
I had a doctor appointment today and the baby is looking good. I also told Cecelia Benson (who owns the Benson home) that we will be moving out in January. The heating bill is just too expensive. The home is over 100 years old and it has a hard time retaining heat. The heating bill is around $700 a month! I won’t miss the home that much, but I will miss the yard/land horribly.
The upper level of the house has 3 rooms. They remind me of the three bears…one room is small, one is medium and one is large. Laun is doing the painting prep work on the medium room today and his little helpers are close by.
The shape of the ceiling is so old school.
This is the large room. I was told that Ezra Taft Benson and his brothers all slept in this room. We use it as the toy room. It has a big pillar in the middle of the room and two windows.
The closet is where we store dress-ups and the other door is the entrance into the bedroom.
The smallest room is just full of our storage.
Clayton and Porter love climbing trees.
They refer to the trees as their clubhouses.
I love how Porter is sprawled out like a cat on the tree.
My little monkeys:
We hosted Thanksgiving this year and we had plenty of family come, 22 people total!
The guests were:
Brandon Hall’s family
Andrew Turley’s family
Laura and Justin
Justin’s sister Brittany (she came after Thanksgiving for the weekend)
Rachel
Liz and Grady (Liz even cut and colored my hair while she was here)
Unfortunately, this is the only picture I took of Thanksgiving Day (the girl cousins). I didn’t get a single picture of our amazing feast, bummer. To give myself some credit though, I got my prego body out of bed at 4:30am to prepare and get the turkey in the oven. I may not have gotten a picture, but thanks to all of Jenette’s advice, my first turkey turned out awesome. Laun smoked a turkey in the ground and when we got up this morning it was rotten. It smelt horrible, it must not have stayed hot enough. I think this is the only cooking fail Laun has ever had and Andy, Laun and I got a good laugh from it. At least we had two turkeys to start with:) Brandon’s family and Liz and Grady left tonight, but the rest stayed for the holiday weekend.
Me, Rachel, Laura, Liz
Thanksgiving weekend was great, too.
Porter helped to feed Josiah. I love how Porter’s mouth is wide open even though Josiah is the one eating:)
We did tin foil dinners and everyone made their own to their liking.
I can’t decide which family picture I like best, so I included them all.
Laun cooking the tin foil dinners.
I love how often we have campfires at our house.
Clayton with Uncle Andy
Porter and Avery
The foil dinners blend in pretty well with the ash/coals.
Andy’s family
Clayton, Rachel, Brittany, Justin and Laura
Let the dispersing and eating began…
Then we made caramel apples, which was so fun.
This day we went to most of the Napoleon Dynamite movie sites.
Tina the llama lives very close to our house.
Napoleon and Kip’s home
Some of the stores you see in the movie.
Pedro’s home
And the high school where so much of the movie takes place.
We had to visit Caspers for Ice Cream before the last of the family headed home.
Thanksgiving turned out great and now this prego lady is tired out. I am due in a little over a month.
