The Duet

The kids wanted to sing a lovely song for us. Tanner is Sabrinnas little shadow. Monkey see Monkey do. My friend Raelene and I thought they were pretty funny/cute during their performance.

Cowboy Christmas!

Sabrinna has been in a dance class for the last year or so. Today she had her winter performance at the cities "Cowboy Christmas".  It was adorable to see the girls up there doing there routine. They were all so distracted by the audience they missed alot of there steps. I think it made the performance all the more fun to watch.

Conquered!

Tanner is such a boy! I was doing laundry one week and I put all the laundry on the couches to fold at one time. Well Tanner decided to dump the majority of the cloths on the floor and drive over them with the 4wheeler. He was so excited when he would make it to the top of the pile. He would then back up the 4wheeler and do it again. What a stinker!!!

Trunk- or -Treat

Our ward had there trunk-or-treat this last weekend. They had a chili cook off, games for the kids, a maze to walk through, and then the trunk-or treat. The kids had a great time going around collecting candy.

Sabrinna was a southern bell or Charlotte from Princess and the Frog.

After a 10 minute battle to get Tanners monkey costume on we were able to get a family picture. He was not happy! Even milk did little to appease him.

Once the hat came off he was better. I gave him a banana and he started to bit it trying to get it open. To bad I didn't get that on camera. It was hilarious!

Our decorated trunk. Spiders and pumpkins!!! Nothing special but the kids had fun helping me get it ready.

Tanners CANDY!!!

Sabrinna and her spoils!

The kids had a great time at the activity. It was fun to take them around and dress them up!

Peek- a -Boo

Where are the kids?

Peeeeeeek-

a- BOO

The kids have always loved to play in the pillows on our bed. I finally decided to document them playing! They have me cover them up with the pillows, then count to ten and go look for them. Hum.... I wonder where they are?

This ones for you Steve!

Like Father Like Son!

Visitors!

Last week my parents, sister, and nephew came out from Utah to visit for a couple days. We had a wonderful time! We went to the ZOO, Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, did some shopping and hung out. I was so glad they could come visit!

At the Entrance of the Zoo

Tegan is trying to kill the giraffe.

We were super close to the tiger but could not get a good picture.

I have been the the Zoo 4 times now and this is the first time I have ever seen the bears. They were very active, walking around and eating. It was an amazing sight. I would not want to come against one of those in the wild!

Sabrinna and I feeding the birds!

papa and the kids

The Family!! (notice Tanner and the bag of Cheetos. He loves those things and would not put the bag down.)

Playing in the sand box

Tegan and Sabrinna with balls in their shirts. They thought this was the funnest thing!

Playing in the rocks at Garden of the God!

Sabrinna's first time to carve a pumpkin! She wanted to see the 'slimy' stuff inside.

Its a little blurry but these are the finished results!

At the top of Pikes Peak

I believe you can see 5 states from up on top. maybe its 4?!?!?

It was really windy and Tanner would not sit up so we could get a family picture! its kinds of funny!!

The highest point!!!

Over all we had a wonderful time. We did some fun things and saw some amazing sights! Thanks for coming to visit!

Overload

I have not blogged much this month so there are a lot of new posts. Enjoy!

Tanner-Man

Tanner loves to play with his sister. He likes the dress ups, kitchen set, and babies. You name it he will play with it. Sabrinna has quite the collection of necklaces. Tanner will come in all the time and show me his latest pick. This was too cute not to take a picture of. A very manly builder!

One morning Tanner had his current baby for the day. I look over to see what he is doing and find him putting the baby in the drawer and saying "Nigh Night". The baby stayed there all day!!

It still makes me laugh!!!I love that kid!

Tanner also likes my camera. I think I deleted almost 50 pictures off my camera today. Most of them were blurry and you couldn't tell what he was taking a picture of. These were two of my favorites, the stairs and a picture of my feet while I am getting ready. Perspective of a 2 year old!

Sabrinna's 4

We finally got to celebrate Sabrinnas birthday. She has asked for months when her birthday was. The morning of I let her open the gift from her Dad. He sent it to her from Afghanistan. She has loved the jewelry box!!!!

These are the gifts she got from all of the family. Of course she loved the new toys!!!

She wanted a ballerina themed birthday party this year. This is the cake I made for her.

Sabrinna opening gifts at her party.

A picture with a couple of friends that came to her party. We played some ballerina games and ate the ballerina slippers. She loved the party and after wards was going around the house say "I'm 4, I'm 4." She didn't think she had turned 4 until we had her party even though her real birthday was earlier in the week.

A little bit of everything!

I have been so busy lately that the blog has taken a back seat. Here is a sample of a few things we have done over the last month.

Sabrinna got my camera one morning and took this picture of Tanner. I was a little slow to go get him. He does not look to happy. Pour boy a cup of milk will make it all better!

We keep our balls and other toys in this big tub in the backyard. The two of them decided they wanted to try and see if they both fit. Tight squeeze!

The kids have taken to fighting A LOT lately. Mostly later in the day when we all start get hungry and tired. I felt a nice change would be to go to that park for a picnic. The kids had a great time and it helped limit the fighting for the day. As you can see Sabrinna brought her baby and diaper bag along. These two go everywhere with us. Today they came to the store and her baby sat in the shopping cart. Its funny to watch peoples reactions to seeing a stuffed bear in the shopping cart seat. Some say how cute and others look at you like your crazy or something. Ultimately all that matters is what Sabrinna thinks! And she thinks she is being a good mom taking care of her baby!

Steve loves pears! So I took on the big job of canning some for our food storage. It was a lot of work but I actually enjoyed doing it. In all we got 28 quarts plus a few pears to eat. They were very good and super juicy!

Kellie Got Married!

While we were in Utah we had the great privilege to attend Kellie's wedding. Kellie and Steve were extremely happy and beaming with joy. They had a lot of great support from family and friends. What a joyous time!!!! We are excited for them as they start out together. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Hansen!!!