Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point...

Here are a bunch of animals...ha ha ha...or should I say family! We had a fun family night out with Grandma Nettie, Grandpa Randy, Uncle Brian and Aunt Ashley. We first had some yummy chili and cornbread and then we headed off to Thanksgiving Point. We ended up doing the Cornbelly's actvities.

Here is our little Big Horned Sheep.
Aunt Ashley and Uncle Brian
This was hilarious. The family is always intrigued with Alayna's ability to be a good leader and director. Or in other words...bossy, in a nice way of course! But this was a tractor that she insisted on driving us all...the funny part was she went to each of us individually instructing us where to sit and to "Sit Down!" We just had to laugh at our little boss.
Here we are trying to stay warm while watching the Pig Races.

Oh...a family picture...don't those snow bunnies look so happy?

This was a riot! Alayna was making snow corn angels. It really was so adorable.

There was a huge hay stack with tons of different wild slides that we went down. Jake LOVED the slides! The entire way down you could hear him say, "Weee - Weee." So cute!

We had to take a large group picture of course! If you can't tell it was FREEZING!! It was a super fun night for all. After we left Jared and I were so COLD and FREEZING we stopped at Maverick for some good ole gas station Hot Chocolate! We lucked out any hot drink size .99 cents! Oh, we had hoped it would be SO tasty...but it was so gross! Oh, well it was hot and it thawed our hands. Thanks for all the fun, Sukers!

Joy School yet again...

Well, last week I forgot to take pictures of my cute Joy School kiddos. Last week was a raging success. We learned about food from the earth and where we get it. So we made homemade butter and whole wheat bread. It was a HUGE success, because of a great recipe! (Thanks Emily!!) I sent mini loaves home with all the kiddos and they got to try their yummy homemade butter.
This week we learned about who we share the earth with and about going GREEN! Yeah, it's never to early to teach kids about recycling. (Don't think I'm over the top, it was just a cute activity!)

Here is Alayna showing off her picture of who she shares the earth with.

Olivia and Alayna showing their "I can Recycle" plates.

We also made animal hand puppets. She was super excited about her silly bunny puppet. It was cute, because we then sand, "Old McDonald had a Farm." It made for another successful Joy School day. Next week is our Halloween Party! Fun.

What kids must think...

Kids must think that life just isn't fair! Late Saturday night the upstairs and the downstairs tenants decided to make a run to the new Iceberg in Herriman. So we returned with yummy shakes and the best onion rings. As we gathered around the table enjoying our late night treat and enjoying the peace and quiet of sleeping children, a child woke up and caught us! We all sat their silently, looking around at our somewhat rebellious behavior, wondering how it might look to him. Conner was struck with a little "That's not fair!" in his eyes, but he didn't say anything. He just walked past us as we were struck with almost embarrassment. We felt so bad having him have to watch us enjoying life so much, and knowing that he couldn't change his lot. He had to go back to bed. He didn't say anything. Shandra and I said, "Conner, we will save some for you tomorrow!" We new it was an empty promise, but we felt it needed to be said. He lingered at the top of the stairs as we talked and laughed.
Watching him watch us from up above, down on our little party, I had to snap a picture to document my childhood memories of the unfair lifestyles between parents and kids. I have SO many clear memories of the "kid table" and the "adult table." The "munchie runs" to the store for just the Uncles and Aunts...and not the kids. I can't forget the kid cereal and the dad cereal, the kid popcicles and dad popcicles! There were so many, I can't list them all!
For those of you who know my personality you wouldn't be surprised that by my very young age of 4 or 5 I'd hold such feelings, that "Life is unfair for kids and parents can do so much more!" But let me tell you, I still am enjoying the fact that as a mom I can eat sugar cereal anytime I want!
Anyways, this was a fun moment for me to remember how it feels to be a kid. I hope that I have learned to include the kids on some of our super fun adult parties. The second best part of the night was we introduced "Ticket to Ride-Europe" to Todd. It was a fun competitive game (for us all but Todd) to try and win, Shan came out the winner - but Jared's streak of the "longest train ever!" has continued about 8 times now! I lost so bad I couldn't even be upset. Either way, it made for a great relaxing night!