Thanksgiving

Holy smokes it feels like I haven't made a post forever!!! I can't believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone already. Before we know it we will be saying that about Christmas. I Really don't have much to say about Thanksgiving other than it was great, had fun just hanging out with family, good food, YUMMY pies, lots of cooking, lots of dirty dishes, lots of KIDS, Salty Banana pancakes(Thanks Kat they were great), gained at least 5 lbs, Christian lost McQueen, the boys playing with the cats, 4 wheelers, the Motorcycle, late nights, early mornings. Over all FUN FUN !!!

Yes Cooper is sticking his fork up his nose.

Thanksgiving wouldn't have been the same with this sweet little boy! Dutch and Karen giving the motorbike a try.
The kids kept on sneaking into the paper cups. Building towers with these cups entertained these guys for quite sometime.

Last week when we were driving to photo class this is what we saw. It was so breath taking we had to stop and capture the moment.

Assignment #2 & #3

This week our assignment is HDR pictures. If you don't know what

an HDR picture is you need to google it and check them out. There

are some out there that are pretty dang amazing. Here are a few

of mine. I will add the rest when I finish them up.

Photo class has been quite interesting. I really have been enjoying

the assignments, but our teacher is a little bit on the crazy side.

Last week our assignment was still life again but using different

lighting. I didn't really get in to it all too much. I just don't see

myself taking pictures in the dark with only one light on. Its just

not something that is practical. Although it was good for me to

see the ways light can add different effects to your subject.

Double Dose of Dog Dewormer.....

Apparently Cooper likes Dog Dewormer. YUM YUM!!!



Here is the story....

Today most of my time was spent in the kitchen cleaning. While I was scrubbing out my refrigerator (which by the way was disgusting) I put the garbage can next to the fridge so I could chuck all of the gross food in it.

Last winter we got a parvo shot and some dewormer from the vet to give to our dog. The job never got done, and this stuff has been in our fridge for over a year.

So today when cleaning out the fridge I put the dewormer in the garbage can. I never saw Cooper get it out of the garbage, but he came into to kitchen with all this white stuff all over his face, and he was holding the dewormer syringe. Yes it was completely gone.

The Idaho Poison Control number is 1-800-222-1222. No worries, they actually give kids the same kind of medicine if they have pin worms or tapeworms. The amount that was in the syringe was a double dose for his weight and age. I haven't noticed any side affects so I am sure he is okay.

Today it started snowing and the flake were huge and so I was going to take a picture of them. Well we got side tracked and this is what I got a picture of instead. Faith and Cooper were helping me take the picture. Faith thought that is would be a better idea to take a picture of her. So I tried but every time I would try to take her picture she would look into the hole of an orange paint roller. (Do you love the Peanut Butter all over her face??)

This is the real picture I was trying to get.

Happy Halloween

Halloween is alway so crazy at our house. The kids get so excited that they are bouncing off the walls before they even eat any candy. Quincey and Gracie are being a little bit more careful with how much candy they actually eat tonight, because last year Quincey learned the hard way! (We all know to much candy will make you throw up.) Hopefully this year we won't be having any of that. These pictures are not as great as I would have hoped for but we were running late for the trunk or treat, and by the time we got home I was not about to take pictures.

Another great Halloween over with, and more candy than we know what to do with!

Happy Halloween...

Testing the Limits

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I was having one of those mom moments the other day, so I sent Faith and Cooper outside to play. Lately these two can go from one end of my house to the next and destroy everything in sight. It doesn't take them more than about 10 minutes!!! Apparently it the same outside. Yikes they are driving me CRAZY! I always have to remember to look at them while they are sleeping so that I can remember how cute and nice they really can be.

I Love You Faith & Cooper!!!

Class assignment

Some friends and I have been taking a photo class and I thought I would post our first assignment. The actual assignment was to shoot still life pictures. At first I was having a hard time thinking of things to photograph but it got easier each time. Anyways so here they are.

Happy Birthday Nate!!

For Nate's birthday we spent a couple of days in Ketchum, Idaho.

On Saturday a guide took us out to the Big Wood River and taught

us a little bit about fly fishing. Not only did we have a blast, I think

fly fishing is going to be a new hobby for us. It is going to take alot

of practice for me to get it down, but Nate was fishing like a pro.

Total fish caught: 9 (Nate 8 & Kd 1)

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I LOVE CHOCOLATE

I think this picture tells it all!!!!

I LOVE MY HAT!

Today the kids and I spent most of the day cleaning out

drawers and closets, you know getting rid of the summer

stuff and making sure they each have enough winter stuff.

As you can see Cooper found his winter hat and had to wear

it all day he even had to wear it while he was eating lunch.

(Oh and by the way YES he is still wearing his pajamas)

#2 Lip Repair

Here are a few pictures from Gracie's last surgery. When we were at the hospital and I was taking pictures Gracie said,

"Mom are you going to put those on your blog"

I said, "do you want me too"

then she shook her head yes and got that embarrassed look she gets.

Gracie is so brave, whenever we get to the hospital for a surgery she is always so calm and we never hear a complaint or a cry from her. We are so happy that Grace is getting close to being done with all her surgery's.

The first 2 pictures are before surgery. Before surgery she always gets evaluated and they make sure she is healthy enough to get the surgery done. Then we go to the surgery waiting room. It has lots of things for the kids to do, color, play toys, read, watch TV, make a doll, pretty much anything you want to do you can do it.

The next two pictures are murals on the wall in the surgery waiting room.

When she gets to go home she always chooses a wagon to ride out in.