Sledding!

Our first real snow didn't happen
until December this year.
I love fresh snow grass!

Q begged us to take him sledding!

His friend Caden came along
I love those smiles!

First hot chocolate of the season. YUM!

Tito!

 Ayzha came home from college and brought Tito.  She doesn't plan to take it back with her after Christmas.  Did we just inherit a cat?

He's a very handsome poser.

He had already taken over the house.

..and he's been very naughty!
There are ornaments all
around the house!
He knocks them off the tree,
pounces on them and dribbles
them around like a soccer ball.

We're afraid for Holly's fish.
and the ferrets!

So Blessed!

We have truly been blessed throughout the years.  When I think about all the good things in my life I feel joy!  The key to a happy life is being thankful for all that you have.  

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving
with our new step family!

I'm grateful for our sweet kids!

and sweet Ben who seems to always 
carve the turkey.

We went thrifting on Black Friday.
The Good Will Outlet is pretty wild.
We were waiting for new bins. 
Once in place, it was a feeding frenzy.

And we decorated for Christmas.

Harry Styles

This lucky girl got to go on a trip with
her dad to see HARRY STYLES!!!

Halloweek

Halloweek kicked off with a
 Murder Mystery Party for the girls.

Then pumpkin carving

A Halloween
carnival and trunk-or-treat.

Another Halloween parade

  the observed Halloween night, October 30 with Fishstick and Marshmallow

and fun scaring little kids during
Trick-or-treating.

October 31 was on a Sunday so we had a family Halloween movie night with Hubie Halloween.

Super Bowl Slaughter

Qyntn's team got absolutely slaughtered in the super bowl today.  They had beaten the other team in our first game of the season, so we kinda thought it would be an easy win.  The boys played hard, but it wasn't their day.  We all came fully prepared for the victory.  We had a banner for them to break through, we brought cowbells to up the noise, and silly string to celebrate at the end of the game.  Q handled the loss like a pro.  It was a great season.

We need to practice breaking through.
It was another fail.

Fall Athletics

Our fall athletic season has come to an end.

Reyn played in a feeder league for 
Timpanogos High School.
She has improved a lot!

Ben's team made it to the championship 
and lost in a close one.

Alyssa contributed a 4.0 to the
 academic state champion title!

After the final game, their coach resigned. 
It was a rough season.

Qyntn's layups improved a lot!

They went undefeated during the season.

Q earned the nickname "stone wall"
He played great defense..
pulled a lot of flags.

His soccer team was terrible
but he still had fun!

Next up, basketball, swim and club volleyball.