It's a Wonderful Life

We started off our Thanksgiving weekend with some good ol' mall arcade time.  Originally, we had planned to go bowling, but the bowling alley is lame here and doesn't have open bowling until 9:30 pm on some nights.  So we went to the arcade instead.  To be honest, the kids had just as much fun as they would have bowling, but for a fraction of the price :) Anna is really into getting pictures taken of her (she didn't stand a chance with a mom like me that takes pictures of her kids every time they move).  Whenever she sees the camera, she'll say cheese and then say, "I see. I see," insisting that I show her the picture.  I don't know if it's a girl/boy thing, but Jackson and Wyatt did not do this. So on Thanksgiving morning, Erik went to play in the ward "turkey bowl" while the kids and I had some chocolate chip pancakes and watched the Macy's Parade.  Seriously, I love that parade.  At least I love ...

I joined the gym on Tuesday.  With some changes that seem to happening at Erik's work (causing him to go in earlier and get home later), and Anna not taking consistent naps, plus it being too cold to take them in the jogger, I just didn't see another way of getting in a workout.  We've gone 3 times and the kids did great with the lady that works during the weekdays.  On Saturday however, I took Anna and Wyatt and the girl that worked in the child section was horrible.   I will definitely be sticking to the weekdays from now on. Erik and I went and saw Lincoln Friday night- it was amazing !  Seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen.  It was a much needed time away for the two of us as well.   Last night, we enjoyed a dutch oven cook out with our friends the Hambricks.  They have 3 boys, whom our boys love and Jake is in the bishopric with Erik, so I think they are going to become closer buds :) Today, we made it through ou...

So, life has been pretty busy around here (as I'm sure it is for most of us).  Coupled with our increase in stuff to do, I've also been feeling a need to be on "my screens" less.  I've always had a real love/hate relationship with blogs, facebook, pinterest, and whatever else is good in some ways but definitely bad when I use it too much.  So anyway, as a result of all this, my desire to blog for my own family record has gone way down.  But rather than feel guilty about it, I'm just going to give myself a free pass.  Here are the post titles that I was going to do and the pictures (in possibly random order).  Better than nothing right? :) Ch-ch-changes Our Week Election Day Loose Tooth Preschool at Gymnastics