Walk Through Bethlehem

A christian church nearby does a fantastic
"Walk Through Bethlehem"
This is one of our favorite Christmas traditions.

paying taxes

live nativity with real animals

spinning rope

lots of animals

making candles

and candle holders

a clay dog

lots of yummy smells

writing in hebrew

story time

Loved our walk through Bethlehem!

Zion & Dam Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving break, we flew to Vegas
and stayed with Grandma & Grandpa in St. George.
There are countless things to see and do there.

Zion National Park is beautiful!

Hoover Dam is amazing!
We thought it was hilarious that they said "dam" before everything.

Standing in two states - Arizona & Nevada

Grandma & Grandpa have a miniature
golf course in their back yard

B & K playing Spades with their uncles

Grandpa scooping up homemade frostys

Kurt challenged Aunt Steph & I
to a push-up contest - I lost:)

Sawyer & Justin

There is a great swimming pool around the block - we went twice

Jeff LOVES the slide

The things you can do with cushions...

Playing Snatch

Nightly sleepover with the cousins

Turkey Dinner

How thankful we are for our incredible family
and our endless blessings!

Sweeter:)

Nick spent Saturday morning peeling sweet potatoes for pie.
He loved every minute of it and peeled 5 pounds of potatoes discovering the "milk" in some and the shapes of others:)
What a sweet boy!

Sweet

In April I planted a few sweet potatoes.

October came and still no potatoes. I called Bill Curlee, the gardening expert. Who knew those sweet things grew under the ground and I wouldn't be able to see them:) I was beyond excited when I started digging and found beautiful sweet potatoes,
it was like discovering gold!

My boys are not as fond of sweet potatoes as I am. However, they love pumpkin pie. So I made a sweet potato pie (and didn't tell them). They liked it better than the pumpkin.

Today I dug up the rest of the potatoes - aren't they beautiful!
Oh the things I can make...

Happy Halloween

Obviously a lot of thought went into costumes this year.
The boys dug through the orange tote
and this is what they came up with...

The never ending sugar fest - ahhhhhhh!

Jeff LOVES Halloween and discovered
"boo" bubbles to accompany the dry ice bombs.

Trunk-or-Treat entertainment

The weekend has come to an end - back to reality...