November brought us the first good snow storm of the year. There is just something so fun and almost magic about the first snow if the year. We were lucky that it came on a day that we had nothing going on. We were able to spend the whole day playing in it, until we were so cold we had to retreat in doors for some hot coco just long enough to get all toasty and then back out for some more fun.
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| Ellie loved sampling the fluffy white snow. |
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| As always Hudson had to come up with ways to make the sledding a little more exciting. He built some pretty good ramps, and had some pretty good wrecks. Even Ellie enjoyed going over the ramps he made. |
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| Autumn loved sledding, and true to her nature was not scared a bit. |
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| The next day I had fun dressing the girls in their cute snowflake dresses. |
A magical thing happened on Monday. Jake had the day off for Veterans Day which would normally be awesome, except for the fact that I would still be trapped at home watching my daycare kids. I was pretty sad until....I got a text message saying that they would not be coming! So we threw the kids in the car and headed out for a day of fun. Our first stop was a trip to MARS.....
Then we stopped off at the Moon.....
Actually, we just enjoyed a trip to the planetarium, but it was so much fun. The kids loved the exhibits and the star show on the universe left Hudson and Ellie mesmerizer with a million more interesting space facts.
After the planetarium we headed over to Scheels to let the kids ride the ferris wheel. Autumn was too small to ride so she and I got to watch the others go around and around. I think Jake was the most scared out of the three. It was such a fun day to spend together. We were so lucky to have it work out for Jake and I to both be free on the same day.
Before we knew it Thanksgiving was here. The Palmer s came up to our house to share the holiday with us in hopes that Aunt Liz would have little Afton in time for them to see her before they headed back down to Blanding, but babies are never convenient and she decided to come just two days after they left.
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| Liz was such a good sport to come stay at our house and sleep on an air mattress even though she was just about to pop. |
We were lucky to have Teal come up a few days early. The kids loved playing with her almost as much as I did. She and I had a pie fest where we made almost as many pies as we had people for dinner. Its a Palmer family must! We also got pretty excited to deep fry a turkey for the first time. The boys headed out fishing and left the frying to us.
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| One night Teal and I went out for some girl time and did a little shopping. She helped me pick out my fist pair of skinny jeans and this cute sweater. We liked it so much we both got one. Wish I had a pic of her in it too! |
We burned off some of our Turkey dinner with our EPIC game of soccer. Most of calories that were burned off were from laughing so hard, because we were all pretty terrible.
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| Even Autumn played. |
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| We all felt pretty lazy after a day of soccer and turkey.....and lots and lots of pie! |
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| Hudson preformed a Thanksgiving program at preschool. He said he was thankful for the whole world and his family. We sure have a lot to be thankful for this year. Too much to express really. I am especially thankful for the fact that Jake was able to get a job he loves that brought us back to Utah where we could spend time with so much of our family. We sure have some wonderful people we are related too. I'm especially fond of the sweet bald guy and the three little monsters I get to be with everyday! |
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| We are so thankful our sweet little Afton got here safe and sound, and we are so happy for Cam and Liz. They are going to be awesome parents. |
