Nate and Zach had tickets to the Jazz game, so the other kiddos and I headed down to the tree lighting at our city hall.  It was perfect – hot chocolate, cookies, the countdown to turn the lights on, a few carols with the big guy, and then he went back to the North Pole…

A favorite new tradition this year has been to pile into Dad's truck on Sunday evenings and drive through the neighborhood looking at Christmas lights!  Lousy pictures of a super fun thing.  

   The ladder was a huge [and dangerous] hit – (this is the face of a kid preparing to launch himself off of it!) Setting up the upstairs tree all by themselves this year!  And of course you have to lay under the tree to check out the lights… …must be something you just don't…

I did not realize when I offered to take my mom out for a birthday lunch that: 1. My kids got out early that Thursday so all of them would be joining us 2. The place I chose to take her to – while highly recommended – had no eat-in seating.   Gratefully, it was…

This after-church pic was to document the fact that this year in the primary program, nobody messed around with the kid next to them to the point their mother had to poke her head through the door that opens into the choir seats to tell them to stop, or picked their nose on the stand.…

He is pretty stinkin' awesome.  :)  He makes everyone around him smile.  Especially those grandkids, who barely give him room to breathe.  

First fire of the season… And last night with the cast on! (It is a testament to how much I dislike change that I was nostalgic to see that stinky thing go!!)

Blurry pictures from my phone of the school parade… since it was either that or miss the parade going back home to get my camera.         Brian McCann from the Atlanta Braves LOVED the parade, and John Stockton (who had a hard time finding shorts short enough to look like John Stockton) and our…

Even if your team totally loses.  :)

Meg got to wear her halloween costume to her music class a few days before halloween – and there was just no taking it off for the rest of the day.        The tutu was not conducive to napping, so we headed out to run errands instead…       It did seem appropriate…