Want To Hear My Greatest News Ever??

My best friend ever, who happens to be my sister, Lanece, is getting a baby just before Thanksgiving! I'm going down to Vegas during Thanksgiving weekend to be with her through her experience. It will be so fun to see this side of adoption. I have seen a mom place her baby before, so I know that side, and now I get to experience the other. How fun!!

With it being thankful month, I want to say that I am thankful to moms who know that the right thing to do is to give their baby a home with the love of a mother and a father, if they can't offer that themselves. If there weren't moms out there making these right choices, then good people like Lanece and Tyler who may not have babies another way, wouldn't get to experience the greatest part life; CHILDREN.

I'm also thankful that I have my 4 boys and their great dad to help me learn how to raise boys! I just don't know what life would be like without them. They are my life!

Good luck Tyler and Lanece. Our prayers are with you! We can't wait to meet little McD junior!

I've been tagged. This is weird, but ok. I will do it. Apparently it's suppose to be one word answers. I will try.

1. Where is your cell phone? Lovesac
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Your hair color? multi
4. Your mother? working
5. Your father? building
6. Your favorite thing? The Office
7. Your dream last night? None
8. Your dream/goal? Happiness
9. The room you're in? Family
10. Your hobby? Baking
11. Your fear? Pomegranates
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Bora Bora
13. Where were you last night? LDS family services
14. What you're not? Energetic
15. One of your wish list items? Weight loss
16. Where you grew up? Utah
17. The last thing you did? Changed poop
18. What you are wearing? Robe
19. Your T.V.? Is too big for my taste
20. Your pet? None. But the boys have a dog. (not mine)
21. Your computer? A gift
22. Your mood? Hungry(is hungry a mood?)
23. Missing someone? Lanece
24. Your car? Pilot
25. Something your not wearing? Bra
26. Favorite store? Robert's
27. Your summer? Relaxing
28. Love someone? Birth moms
29. Your favorite color? Purple
30. Last time you laughed? When I was told that I looked like Keith Urban in my halloween costume.(that's a long one, but had to be said)
31. Last time you cried? Don't recall


So now I tag 7 people? I don't know 7 people.
Lanece
Karina
Kimmy
Audrey
Allison
Tiffany
6 is good enough.

So I have to tell this story about our hike. Kade was walking in front of me and he said, very frustrated, "mom, these shoes are giving me problems!" I asked him why, and he said, "They aren't letting me see the rocks on the ground and I keep tripping on them. And then it makes me jump in the air. These shoes make me jump! I'm not doing it the shoes are!" I just started laughing. I have 2 kids that blame things they do on anything else but themselves! Kids are so funny!!

For family night on Monday, we thought it would be fun to get one last hike in before the snow. And today as I am posting this, it is snowing, so, good call. Anyway, we went up to Mueller Park Canyon by our house and hiked about a mile up. It was wet from the rain before, so the trail and trees were dark, and the leaves were bright and vibrant. These pictures don't do justice for how it really looked. It looked awesome! When we hit a mile, it was time to come back down because it started to get dark. It was only 5:00 p.m. I hate the time change! The boys love hiking and we had a good nature walk as a family. We saw deer tracks in the mud and deer on the mountain side across the canyon. I'm already looking forward to the spring so that we can go again!

These are our lovely Halloween costumes. Of course, Jonny, the woman, Taleesha, the man, Spencer, an evil doctor, Tayten, a dead prisoner, Kade, a dalmation, and Ethan, a monkey! We had a lot of fun trick or treating, even though it rained. Hard. After one trip around the neighborhood, the 3 youngest were done. But not Spence. He needed more candy. So I took him back out, and that's when the rain really came down. The door answerers wanted to know if I was his mom or dad, and they gave him handfuls of candy because we were the only crazy ones out in the pooring rain. It's fun to have halloween on a weekend!