Family Pictures

My sister-in-law, Jana, took some family pictures for us over Thanksgiving. She did an awesome job. Oh and I can't decide which family one to put on the wall, so if you have an opinion please let me know. Warning: there are a lot of pictures.

Gobble Gobble!

We spent the week at my parents. The kids had so much fun playing with cousins, they were sad to see them leave. During the week we made homemade ravioli, which was fun and super easy. We also made apple juice a couple of times. We picked apples and the kids found a huge pile of leaves that grandpa had raked up. The kids loved jumping in but their favorite part was being thrown in.

Me, my sisters, sister-in-law, and mom went and did a little shopping on black friday. We mostly went to Kohl's, we had a bunch of coupons so we went through the line almost 30 times and saved a ton of money.

I would have to say that the best part of the week was watching Marshall impersonating animals, he does a mean T-Rex. I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe.

Ella making pilgrims hats with Lilly and Aunt Janet.

Picking apples for the juice.

The kids spotted the big pile of leaves.

Uncle Marshall did lots of airplane rides, dad helped as well.

Before and After

We have been wanting a new TV for a while but needed a new TV stand for it. So we decided to buy an old dresser and refinish it. Dave helped me a lot. He took the top drawers out and made it so we had somewhere to put all our electronics. He did a great job.

Before

After

Trick-or-Treat

I think the kids had the best Halloween ever. They were both so fun to watch. Tanner wasn't sold on dressing up the first time but after he realized that his costume meant candy he was all over it. He ended up loving his costume and was very protective of it, especially his hat. We had a ward trunk-or-treat, went to Dave's work for trick-or-treating and went door to door trick-or-treating on Halloween with cousins.

At the ward party they had a place set up and a photographer to take pictures.

Tanner was Tweedle dee from Alice in Wonderland.

Ella was Rapunzel, of course.

We let Dave lead the kids to help keep them under control, he also gave each of the kids a garden light to carry. The kids were all hard core and didn't want to stop.

Grandma and Grandpa Kemps

We don't usually go to Utah in the fall but it was beautiful and we had so much fun doing all the Halloween activities. We went to Gardner Village, Cornbelly's, fishing, played with cousins, and played a lot at grandma's house.

Ella with her cousin, Sarah. If these two lived closer I think they would be great friends. They really got along great.

Waiting for his scooter ride, I just loved that he was holding Dave's hand.

We jumped on grandma's trampoline a lot.

Took many rides on the grandpa's scooter. Tanner, of course, called it a motorcycle.

Cornbellys, this place was amazing. My kids had as much fun there as they did at Disneyland. So much to do and perfect for kids. Tanner is jumping on the big pillows with his cousin Caden.

This slide was a big slide and you went fast. That's why I look scared, I was worried about stopping at the end.

Bouncing horses, I thought I was going to pee my pants. It was so funny to watch Dave. Make the picture bigger, I think he enjoyed it more than Tanner.

We went to this little pound that is filled with fish. You could throw in fish food and the fish went crazy. It was pretty easy to catch a fish, the kids loved it.