Thanksgiving Week

Because of the outcome of the game on Saturday I just couldn't bring myself to post any pictures of the week we just had, a little to devastated by it all. (in reality I had the camera with me the whole weekend and didn't touch it once.)

So our fun week started Sunday after church and right after Claire's nap with the poor girl throwing up and not keeping anything down. We stayed home and tried to keep her comfy. She was fine by the next morning.

Wednesday we were givin' some blood to start out the giving spirit. I went to bed Tuesday night went to the gym Wednesday morning and ran two miles, walked quickly down the stairs, past the weight room and straight into the bathroom and into a stall to start the vomiting on my end. Don't worry I went past the weight room back up the stairs, back onto the track and ran other mile, ran down the stairs in the weight room and straight to the bathroom into the stall and decided maybe I should just go home and not finishing the pattern in the last 3 miles as I started in the first 3. Needless to say I was not giving blood that night, and was keeping my fingers crossed so I could eat our Thanksgiving feast the next day.

Sure enough I was great the next day a little dizzy from the lack of food I had the previous day, but made it up quickly.

Spent some great and much needed time with the family, eating talking, playing games, looking through the adds, looking online, talking to my sister and her husband in Australia, and then headed to the mall. The mall opened at 9:00 Thursday night, so some of the girls headed there. Then Toy R Us opened at midnight the BOYS went there, are you shocked because we were. We told them it might be crazy. And they thought the would be back by 1:00, we chuckled and they got back after 2:00. Then the ladies all spread out for Black Friday Madness. Kohl's, Wal-mart, Target, Bath and Body Works, Shoe Carnival, and more Kohl's. After everything was done at 6:30 in the morning we headed into IHOP for some much needed refueling. And then headed to various homes to sleep, mind you I got roped into playing two games a Phase Ten.

I got a call Friday after everything was done from Brandon telling me he was not doing so hot. So I headed over to grab Claire and let Brandon sleep.

Saturday we headed over to my sister, Dera's to watch the BYU vs. Utah game. Just so you know, I graduated from the U, so I support the team, but don't really know that much about football. I do talk a little trash to those BYU fans, because I know enough about football to know that when the score changes on the bottom of the screen someone did something great. (okay, okay, okay, I know more than that). After the game that really was exciting in the end, but a little disappointing, (depending on who you talk to), some of the ladies went and saw New Moon, and I have to say it was pretty good.

So all in all a great weekend minus the 24 hour bug that went around our small family, and the gym (he he he, just kidding I think I stayed away from most everyone) we had a great Thanksgiving week. Hope all yours were as great as ours was!

Seeing Red

S0 I decided to go for a change in color. I did red once and is washed out quick, this may do the same, but it is a fun change. Aren't we all in need of a change sometimes!

Happy Halloween

So the night before Halloween, I headed in to check on Claire. Her room as laminate flooring and can get cold, so I head in to make sure she is not freezing. Well Brandon had told me she had done this same thing to him a few days before and said he just laid her back down. She sat up in her bed when she heard me open the door and walk in, but she was still alseep, yup you heard right, still asleep. I headed for the camera. she of course was playing with her blanket, total habit for her.

After she had enough sitting, she just laid back down.

Now on To Halloween day, Claire was an adorable little Ladybug

We went to Great Gram and Gramps house to start out our night to show off and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa Carlson's to show them and Auntie Shan how cute those ladybugs really are. After showing off we headed to Grandma Vonnie's and Grandpa's for our fun Halloween party. We played a spoon game, where we had to get candy corn from a bowl to a cup on a spoon. Seeing as Claire is being a little bit sassy about learning to walk, I helped her out. I would hold her hand and the spoon and then help her dump it out. After she figured the game out...
she wanted to do it herself, so she would grab as many as her little hands could and then we would walk to the other side and she would dump them in. (she didn't even try to eat them, surprise, surprise)
Then of course we headed out to do some trick-or-treating. Here is the group that went out to "get candy, get candy, get candy" (Jerry Seinfeld stand-up act)
After that we played games and ate until after midnight. HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL!!!