Snow and skiing

Most of you know that in my college days I was a professional ski instructor. Well now that I am back in Utah and I have a willing mother in law I am a ski instructor once again. I will be teaching skiing at The Canyons with my mom. I will be teaching just one day a week (a nice break). I was on snow on Tuesday for the first time. I was afraid I had forgotten everything but it all came back. Justin and I will be able to actually do some skiing this year. Between his rec club that he takes and the passes that I get we might get some really good days on the hill. It will be really fun to teach Makayla how to ski, she asks me constantly about her skis!

I wish it looked like this. Maybe after this snow storm this weekend!

Crazy Black Friday Shoppers

Yep I am one of the crazy people that likes no loves to shop on Black Friday. It isn't the shopping or the great deals (which I do love) but the excitement and thrill of the adventure. I am a stay at home mom and this is one of the few things that I can do with little fear of getting hurt and still having that rush of adrenaline. So this year I was at it again only some how my sisters and mom decided to come along too and it did not take too much prodding and poking. But instead of the normal 2:00 am wake up we pulled an all nighter. This was awesome; normally I can't sleep anyway because I am so consumed with the excitement of possible near tramplings or fists and elbows flying or vicious words being said. But with the all nighter I don't have to try to fall asleep to just wake up in a few hours. I would highly recommend the all nighter method of Black Friday. So we hit the Mod Bod sale at midnight- it was fun and I love it when people get upset and crazy at the cutters (life really doesn't change from 1st grade). We got some great deals and we were in the right spot for the line so we really didn't wait that long. We then headed to the mall because it opened at midnight. I got some great deals on clothes. I got Christmas pj's for $4 normally $12. That was the steal of the night. If anyone can do better then that I would like to know. We all had a great time just being silly and laughing the entire time with each other. One of the other reasons I love shopping on Black Friday is that my family is sleeping and I don't have to worry or feel guilty or hurry to get back, it is awesome. So after killing time at the mall and recharging our batteries with a Dr. Pepper we headed to Kohl's. I like to hit Kohl's every year because all the toys are 50% off. Now here is the trick have a list of everything that you want split up with your friends or family and is someone sees anyone's items they grab it. You can ditch the doubles later or buy two if it is that good of deal there are always birthdays that come up the rest of the year. Let's just say there were some angry folks at Kohl's because again like last year they didn't open the side door when they opened the front doors. This is when the excitement happens. People are swearing and pounding on the doors Mob mentality is great!!! So they eventually let us in but we all grab our stuff and I head over to the check out at customer service which is always faster then the other lines. We get out and head over to Target wait in line for the hour before it opens. This was well worth the wait because the security guys were just funny to watch. This guy has a reflector jacket and shiny ( I mean he polishes them every night shiny and they are his pride and joy shiny) shoes which helped with his credibility with the line people. He even kicked a lady out of line (her husband was there still holding their spot) that stepped off the side walk and went to the bathroom. He even threatened to have her removed for trespassing. We all tried to vouch for her but the crazy security guy wouldn't have any of it. So they opened the doors and we dashed through Target like crazy women on a mission. We checked out at the pharmacy and we were out of there in 15 minutes. I would say we had a very successful shopping day no NIGHT!!! Hope you all had as much fun as we did!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with lots of family. My siblings from Idaho came down and we had a wonderful time. We have so much to be thankful for and I love Thangsgiving for the opportunity to reflect on our many blessings. Grandma and Grandpa Whitaker came up from St. George it was such a pleasure having them with us. Since they are getting old it is hard for them to travel and be away from home. I enjoyed just being around them. I love to watch Grandpa work the man never stops he kind of reminds me of the energizer bunny. We had a great time eating and shopping and playing guitar hero. The shopping experience deserves its own post check back soon for the post.

Halloween, at last!

One of the kids spilled some M&M's ("emmeems" pronunciation by Mak) so they were all laying on the floor eating them off the floor.

We had a great time trick or treating. The kids were cute and it was fun to have the grandparents stop by for the fun. I love seeing all the kids from the 'hood all dressed up. The boys won yet another contest, The Cutest Boy Costume Contest at the ward Truck or Treat. Makayla was a beautiful princess and my prince frogs will have to wait a LOT longer to be turned into a prince.

This is a special shout out to all the Pimps in the 'hood.

Pumpkin carving

We carved and painted pumpkins the kids had a lot of fun. Their pumpkins turned out really cute. Makayla helped pulling out the pumpkin seeds with Justin. The boys decided to help me and try to sneek a few into their mouth gooey gung and all.


The future band of KISS- they have some of the makeup down!!


Makayla loved her odd shaped pumpkin so much it had to be displayed in the house!

Yep, those are power tools. Every year he pulls out some sort of power tool, maybe it makes the whole experience more manly. I must not give him enough jobs at home!
We are no expert carvers (like our friends the Carron's) but we have a good time and I love to eat the pumpkin seeds after.

Pumpkin Picking at HeeHaw Farms

Because I am dumb and have wasted lots of time trying to figure out how to add a slide show to my post here it is. You have to left click and then click on view in new window to see the pictures in the slide show. If any one out there is smarter then me (that is a lot of you) help me to correct this problem.

Early October at Thanksigiving Point

In early October we went to the farm at Thanksgiving Point with Dallin, Parker, Landon and Staci. The kids had a great time this is just a little clip of the kids dancing. Don't worry it just happens to be a dancing saloon.

Here are a few fun pics of the kids, great fall pictures.

Keagan absolutely loves the camera so the majority of photos of the "boys" happen to be Keagan.

Kaiden just doesn't let me get any good pictures of him. So he gets a blurry one, maybe that will teach him!