Happy Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Max was helping to "clean off" the beater.

Sydney was a good little helper with the potatoes

We enjoyed Thanksgiving at my mom's house. Kirk and Stacey and their family came, Tara flew up from AZ, Shelley and Brent and their kids came in from Kaysville. We were sure missing Andrea and Ron and their kids and Leslie and Jason and their kids, both of their families had to cancel at the last minute due to sickness and weather...we were pretty bummed by that! But we still had a very nice day.

Stacey and Kirk

Andrew

My beautiful Mom!
She is the best roll maker ever...seriously her rolls are the best!

Poor Raegan was sick! She had to just lay in a bedroom and watch movies all day. All that she was able to eat were grandma's rolls.

Tyler and Daddy
Of course Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without football. That is what these two guys watched all afternoon.

Tyler, Dylan, Kalli and Kassidy

Nicholas and Tyler.
Poor little Nicholas was not feeling well either.

Chad, Nicholas and Cassie

Me and my sister Tara

Aunt Tara and Sweet little Nicholas

Max found one of Grandpa's hats. He looked pretty cute in it!
We sure missed Grandpa...

Sydney was eagerly waiting for Dessert.

By the end of the night, Nicholas had thrown up and was feeling not good! He was so lethargic all he wanted to do was snuggle with mom. I didn't mind one bit. Him and I were both pretty tired from a great day with family. I have so much to be grateful for. So many blessings to count. I love, love, love my family!!!
Happy Holidays!

Guess What...

My Camera Got Fixed!!!

My camera lens was getting repaired and I have been with out it for four month. I just got it back which means I can update my life. Yeah!!!!

Nicholas keeps growing! He is the sweetest little guy, we adore this little man.

Nicholas is not very happy at this moment he is wanting his big, pregnant momma to pick him up! He loves to pat my belly.
(6 weeks till babies come)

Nicholas walks along furniture and is quite mobile and pretty fast too! I can't believe that he will be one next month, where has the time gone?

The last three nights we have spent at the church. Our ward's youth group performed an amazing musical written and directed by Daren Major. It was awesome. We have so much talent in our ward, I love it!

The girls love "baby Nick"! The minute we walk into the cultural hall he is always taken by one of the sweet young women in our ward. He loves it too. McKenna was playing with him making him look so cool with the sunglasses.

Handsome Andrew waiting for the show to begin.

We have 120 youth in our ward. It's such an awesome place to raise a family.

The story was all about Daniel and the Lion's Den, there were 21 songs sung. Raegan is the third "gospel singer" on the right.

After the show, Raegan and Rachael.

My sister Tara flew in this evening and was able to catch the last half of the show. She hasn't seen my kids for a quite a long time. Baby Nick was so tired, way past his bedtime!

Sydney, Sam, Raegan and The Bishop.

Trick or Treat

Max the Fireman, Andrew the Pirate, Tyler the Skeleton, Kalli the Cavegirl and McKenna the Fairy.

We made it through another Halloween. I really do love this time of year!! I love the weather, the excitement, the candy! Poor Sydney and Max were so sick. On Thursday Max had to miss out on his preschool party and on Friday Sydney had to miss out on her party/parade. It seems every year I have one down for the festivities.
I never did get a picture of Raegan. She was a dang cute hula dancer for school on Friday and then for trick or treating Saturday night she was "thing 2" and her friend Sam was "thing 1" from Dr. Seuss but none of those pictures turned out. In fact a lot of these pictures are blurry, sure can't wait to get my camera fixed.

Tyler and Trent were Skeletons

Nicholas, Kalli, Max, Andrew and Sydney

Cave girl Kalli

Our friends the Hatchs came and hung out Saturday night, we ate soup and rolls and the kids trick or treated. I was going to dress up as the Pilsbury Dough boy but it was so rainy I didn't was to ruin the chefs hat I borrowed...oh well.

It is tradition that every Kerby baby wears the Tigger costume their first Halloween. I love their little fat faces in it. Nicholas sure adores his Grandma Sharon.

Happy Halloween!

Scary...

SCARY...
Uncle Kirk eating Jalapeno peppers out of my mom's garden

We got together with Stacey, Kirk and the boys on Monday night at Grandma's for our tradition of carving pumpkins from Grandma Sharon's garden.

Travis, Dylan, Kalli, Tyler and Raegan eating pizza before the pumpkin carving began.

Raegan and Travis

Syd the Kid, Max and Dad

Aunt Stacey and Dylan carving their "Cheshire" pumpkin

Max is a HUGE Help...well Kind of

The final product!
Stacey and Kirk's pumpkin was a little scarier than ours. Our pumpkin reminded us of those shape toys that tupperware used to sell. The kids were thrilled.
Happy Halloween!

It's been a while...

It has been a while since I posted last...

Max fell asleep on my mom's kitchen floor while waiting for the brownies to be done. He slept here for about two hours...As my dad would say, "those with a clear conscience can sleep anywhere"!

My lens on my camera still has not gotten fixed! It's so frustrating. My mom lent me her camera for a while so I can at least update my blog again. I love my camera. But right now is not a great time for me to spend 200.00 for a new lens so it will have to wait. Life has been busy. Kids going a ton of different directions, Chad staying so busy that he barely has time to sleep and me just trying to figure out how I am going to make it through the holidays running kids and being pregnant with twins. Life is good and I would not want it any other way...well maybe a fixed camera and a car that was not in the shop...other than that all is great! So I will take more pictures and update my blog more frequently. I am so sad that this year we missed our annual drive through the canyon to take pictures in the fall leaves. We just ran out of time before all of those darn leaves fell off the trees. This year a whole of things are being put off...time and season for everything.

And he crawls...

Nicholas is crawling...my life is about to change!

Nicholas is 8 months old and is now officially mobile! He suddenly decided that he had places to go and things off the ground to eat.

And then there is Max.
Our mornings are absolutely crazy and this morning right before preschool, Max decided to use the markers...on his face.

We Love Max!

Max's First Day

Max had his first day at preschool.
He did awesome, no tears!!!

Cascade Springs

For Labor Day we took the kids on a drive up through the canyon and ended up at Cascade Springs. We took a picnic lunch and enjoyed the beautiful weather. (I love fall, it's my very favorite season of all and we got a small taste of it today)

Max was fascinated with all of the little waterfalls and springs.

Kalli and Tyler looking like typical brother and sister.
Kalli has such a unique style of her own.

Raegan posing by one of the many waterfalls.

Nicholas just being his pleasant wonderful self.

Andrew wanted a picture will all of the springs in the background.

The kids testing the water, it was cold. Raegan was extra annoying on this outing. She kept pretending to push everyone in and by the end I think she had gotten at least everyone in tears or else mad. So this is her being annoying, I had to catch this lovely face on camera. Love her!!!

The kids were pretty pooped out by the end.

This photo has absolutely nothing to do with Cascade Springs. Sydney has been wanting me to take a picture of her with her dog, Tumbles. She loves this dog. Chad hates the dog.