early turkey

We flew out to Utah the week before Thanksgiving for an Early Thanksgiving, with Mark's younger brother and his sweet wife. They were reunited in October after a probably too-long 6 month deployment. They were going early for a friend's wedding, so we took advantage and went out early as well. Glad we did! It was a lot of fun, and lots of toys and laughs and wrestle matches.. Unfortunately, these are the only pictures we got. Fortunately, they are of some pretty great people. :)

Oh good, she smiled after all!! 

rake 'em up

I'm a big believer in giving little people little jobs, like putting clothes away, helping me load/unload any sort of appliance, groceries, weed pulling, etc. So when we were going a little stir crazy from the coming cold weather, we dressed up and headed outside for some good old fashion yard clean up. The kids loved it. At first.

Look at these colors! So soft and mellow compared to Summer Brilliance.

Mont telling me he was too cold to rake any longer. Oh Mont, it is going to be a hard winter for you..

But he perked up enough for another moment before getting to go inside:

Quasimodo/Emmybowdo: Bows under hats don't work all that great I'm figuring out! ha ha 

But she still had enough 'umph' to take a chance to roar back to her Montster brother: