Hahaha! k so this was taken Thanksgiving morning... Every time we watch it we laugh even harder! We had music going while we got the kids ready to go down to my dads house. I was in a silly mood and trying to get everyone in fun and happy moods too... so i was goofing off an Jake insisted to get it on camera. I'm surprised he held the camera still because he was laughing so hard. Anyways it just shows what a nutty person i am i guess? Well i hope it makes you smile too. If nothing else you'll feel better about your own dance moves lol.

Thanksgiving was great. It was really hard to have the first holiday without mom...Thanksgiving especially, because mom was the one who made all the delicious food! We did our best to pull it together and mom taught us well on how she made everything. It was pretty simple this year, just dinner, conversation, family and a bit of early Christmas music. I sure do love my family and I'm so thankful for my mom and all she taught me while she was here. I hope your thanksgiving's were wonderful and that you remembered to be thankful and grateful for what you do have because you never know when it'll be gone...

UPDATE!!! I've gotten so behind on my posts! I wanted to catch up because a lot of stuff has happened that i wanted to share. I just was gone for three months and so busy since I've been back that i hadn't had a chance til now. So this is about half way caught up.

This month my mother in law was married...again.
All the daughter in laws

Jake and i had a blast dancing! It had been so long since we'd had a chance to dance together, and the party definitely needed to be livened up!

Here's their cake...
This cute little thing is bailey, she's always so shy but i love her. And the girls looked so pretty! We got this cute little pic of our family.

We buried my mom in Monticello. It was a long drive, but so pretty! It definitely was difficult to do, but things went smoothing and a few of our relatives came down too. My dad's uncle performed the services, he is such a great man and that part was perfect....


Sadie was so sweet as she said goodbye to her mother. Her and my dad are handling things as well as they possibly could, and I'm sure the two of them will grow very close through the years. I love you guys.
My dad's uncle snapped this picture of whats left of our family. I love them so much and I'm grateful i still have them with me on this earth.

This is my nephew cooper, he was "planting this rose for his nanna". so sweet.

One thing that has happened since i last posted anything is, Jake's best friend returned from his mission! yay!
So...here are some pictures of his homecoming.


This sweet heart in the pink is katherine, Jake and i like her a lot...we hope she hang around. ;)

Jake and i finished out the soccer season, I missed almost every game though because i was helping my mom alot throught those few weeks...

Here are some pictures of Naomi that i had meant to put up months ago...

The last week of august we sold our teeny-tiny honda civic, and bought our trooper.
The civic was SO great on gas, and was a great car for us, but its so nice to have all that room! Our new car has been awesome so far and should be great in the snow this winter.

Back in August Demetri turned 3!!! I cant believe how fast my baby boy is shooting up and getting big. He says funny thing and has conversations with us now.

We had about 20 kids there, we played games, had cake, ice cream, party toys, prizes and water balloons!

I was proud of my painting. I painted this bean-bag-toss for the kids, it was a hit i think and the kids were pretty good at it.

Jake's little brother had a birthday too! He turned 8 this year, and was baptized shorty after. Good job chandler we're proud of you!