Gobble Gobble

We had a great Thanksgiving with lots of family. We had us, Jared's parents, his grandparents, his sister's family, and his cousins family all at his Aunt and Uncle's house. That would be 12 adults and 7 kids.
Preparing for our big feast. Its such a shame it takes all day to prepare and only mins to eat.
Aidan got teeth and started biting mommy so he lost his nursing privileges for a few days so daddy was on feeding duties for the weekend.
We met cousin Colin for the first time.
"whatcha crying about"
"Go away"
"ok I will kiss you better"
Kissing Cousins
Who is bigger? Can you believe these 2 are only 2 months apart.
Addi has been talking about her cousins ever since thanksgiving and can't wait until they come to play again.
Do you think he has modeling in his future?
This big boy is ready for his thanksgiving feast.
Randy and Ann's magnificent Turkey
"Are you sure it is Yummy?"
After dinner show performed by Addi the rock star.
After Turkey comma. Thank you Randy and Ann for another great Thanksgiving! You were very gracious hosts. It must have been some good sleep inducing turkey, because that night we were staying in a hotel. We went to the hotel and put the kids to sleep and then My MIL and I went midnight shopping at walmart. We got back about 1 am and I realized I didn't have a key, however, when I got to the room I heard the baby crying so I thought that Jared would be up with the baby. I was wrong after an hour of the baby crying, me calling Jared's phone and banging on the door Peggy found a manager to open the door. I was checking for a pulse before Jared woke up I couldn't believe it. Neither Addi or Jared woke up with all that noise it was crazy. I knew he was a heavy sleeper, but that was ridiculous. Jared now uses that as an excuse to why he can never be put on baby duty.

Back to our Roots

A week before thanksgiving Grandma and Grandpa Chewy and Great Grandma and Grandpa Harris came out to visit and we decided to go explore the Harris' roots.
So we followed papa Randy (Jareds Uncle) around the state of Rhode Island.
You see 2 Harris brothers were with Roger Williams when he settled Rhode island.
Randy new all the different spots the Harris' had been and all these cool stories about them.
We saw old houses
and ignored "No Trespassing" signs.
The kids slept almost the whole time it was great.

After our Harris Tour around Rhode Island we headed to Plymouth for a Thanksgiving Festival. We ate at the New England Food fair, Addi did some crafts at the kids tent and we saw Plymouth rock which as I said last time we saw it it is just a boulder not what I always pictured Plymouth rock looking like.


Addi went with Daddy, Grandma, and Grandpa on the Mayflower and met some pilgrim friends.

Addi is wearing the same thing as the pilgrim lady behind her.

And here are my cute kids all dressed up like pilgrims. I decided the night before that I wanted to dress the kids up. Addi already had the bonnet and I just made her a skirt and apron to go with it.

Princess and the Frog

Since I didn't get good pictures of the kids in their halloween costumes once we were all better I made them dress up so I could get some pictures. They were The princess and the frog.
I made Aidan's frog costume, or really only his hat. I crochet the frog hat and then found a green outfit he had covering up the airplane with a ribbit.
I bought material to make Addi a costume and took it to Utah to work on. However, when I was there I got Addi's dress up clothes we have at my moms house and there was a pink princess costume similar to what I was going to make so to save me time and frustration we bagged the homemade costume.

The cutest princess and frog ever.
Daddy showing the princess how to kiss the frog.

Halloween 2010

Before we left for Utah we picked out some pumpkins at the Farmers Market. Addi picked the worty pumpkin and picked out the biggest pumpkin for Aidan. I had planned to carve Aidan's pumpkin and put him in it but even at 4 months he was too big.
Halloween was only a couple of days after we got back from Utah and I thought Addi was feeling better so we went to our churches Trunk or Treating on Sat night. Aidan was a frog
and Addi was a very sad princess. Turns out she wasn't better and ended up with a very high fever that night and into the next day. That night was also the night that I first got sick so Sunday on Halloween was not a fun day at our house and poor daddy had to take care of the baby and his sick girls.
Since we were out of town and then sick we never got to carve our pumpkins so we did them about a week late. However, because it was after Halloween we got this pumpkin face set for 75% off. This is Addi's face.
And this is daddy's face. I just barely took the face off the pumpkin and both pumpkins are still sitting on the porch. It should be against the law to still have halloween pumpkins out at Christmas time.

The big 30

Didn't want to go into 2011 without mentioning that my man turned 30 this year. It was back in October I'm a little late, but I did make him a gooey caramel cake that was super yummy.
And I did throw him a surprise party that may not have been much of a surprise.
I love you Sexy!!!

Can We have Fun Now?

We did get a chance to go on one adventure before Addi got sick. We went to a local corn maze and pumpkin patch.
Aunt Shazie (aka Kenzi) got to come with us. Grandma, aunt Ky, and cousins Keldon and Kollins were there too.
At the begining of the corn maze there were all these boards that you stick your head in and take a picture. We kept making Addi stick her head in them until she finally said "can we have fun now" apparently that wasn't fun to her.
We let addi lead the way through the maze. It was made for little kids so how hard could it be?
We meet many dead ends but we eventually made it out.
There was a fun little carnival for the kids Addi had fun until the big kids showed up and then she was done.
Aidan was a fan of the pumpkins.
Kollins not so much or maybe it was Aidan she wasn't a fan of.
Addi picked out a pumpkin to take to grandma's house.
Could he be any cuter or more kissable?

Utah Trip October 2010

As my lovely sister pointed out I have not blogged in a long time. I have just not been in a blogging kind of mood. I have been busy. October was crazy and it didn't slow down any in November. As I blogged earlier I braved it and took the 2 kids to Utah by myself back in October. We spent most of our time at my mothers house because Addi got sick so don't feel bad if I didn't come see you we didn't see anyone.
I had to take a picture of the awesome fall leaves in my parents front yard.
Its a good thing I did because literally it turned winter the next day.
There was a lot of cuddling with grandma and grandpa. Grandpa put Aidan to sleep many times. He also taught him the ends and outs of football as everyone thinks he is going to be a football player. Grandpa also taught Addi the BYU cheer which she does all the time.
Great grandma and grandpa Keep we also in Utah. One day we went to lunch and checked out this antique store. Addi found a baby carriage full of beanie babies. She took all of them out and then one by one she rocked them and sang them "I am a Child of God" before putting them back to sleep. It was so cute and I wish I had a video camera.
My sister Makenzie is a senior in High School so we took her senior pictures while I was there. Isn't she cute? And I know you are still waiting for these Kenzie maybe after Christmas I will get to them.
Aidan wanted in on the picture taking action too so we took his 4 month pictures.
As you can see Addi was not so happy. As I mentioned Addi got sick while we were there. We didn't know what was wrong she just had a high fever and was cranky.
turns out it was strep throat and we didn't find that out for 10 days and only afterI got it and went to the doctors (I took Addi to the doctor but they didn't check her throat so they said it was just a virus). It was because of this that we didn't do much more then hang out with grandma.
We had fun, but were glad to go home to daddy and the kids were just as good on the way home as they were on the way out especially since Addi was so sick she just slept all the way home.