Kids Room...

Can you believe that these art projects were only collected since the week before Thanksgiving?! Usually we throw them away but my kids wanted to put them up to show my parents when the come for Christmas. ;) So now their room is an art gallery, and I can't wait to clean it up...there is just tooo much art for that tiny room. Ehre especially loves to creat works of art at school, she has a tallent and its cute to see all that she creates! (Ps. I only posted a few pics!)

Christmas

Here is our tree, and my Primary gift from last year! We love Christmas, it feels so magical. The kids love the lights and music, and we love it too!

Thanksgiving at the Petersons...so much fun!

My mom gave them a bunch of books that we used to read when we were younger, this one by far was one of my favorites. It was great to see James reading the book!

Sorry the pictures are all jumbled but what we have here is...

1. Thanksgiving Dinner

2. Peterson's Christmas Ball

3. First Snow Man (woman)

4. Thanksgiving Turkey Name Place's

5. Alice teaching the kids to tumble with Vondi on her back...amazing!

Thanksgiving

My mom just sent me an email, and I loved all that she expressed gratitude for, so here's my list. Quite similar, I know.

Happy Turkey Week!

Ann

Ps. Its terribly early I know, but we couldn't wait, the kids and Jeff wanted to sing Christmas songs, so the tree is going up......today. :)

"Gratitude

1. My husband. He works so hard to provide for our family. He loves each and everyone of us. He has gone back to school and is doing a fabulous job. I love him. Jeff entered grad school knowing it was going to be tough, and he was right but he still keeps moving forward.

2. My children, while we hope that they aren't our only, I am so grateful that they are turning out so nicely. They have beautiful smiles and wonderful personalities. A part of me regrets the time missed these past few months as I finished my degree, but I hope that I can make up for that after graduation.

3. Mydegree. I never thought I'd finish college. I wanted to but a part of me, thought that it was too hard. I now realize that there is a time and season for things, and now was my time to finish college. My husband and children were the extra motivation that I needed.

4. My home. I am so thankful that we have a nice home,  and live in a  wonderful community where else in IN can you find 12 amazing LDS families, full of wonderful sisters and mothers going through grad school with you? You can't, if you really want to experience grad school and come out feeling great, come live at Richfield.:)

5. The temple, Jeff and I have set a goal to go the first Saturday of every month! I am soo excited for this!

6. Missionaries, I am grateful for my little brother who is faithfully serving in Ecuador. I hope that this next year brings two more missionaries, Erin and Spencer. The world needs good missionaries, and I know that between Jeff and I, our families provide some of the best!

7. The gospel, and Primary. Honestly, I don't want to brag but I serve in the best primary with the best presidency. The women I serve with are spiritual giants, who I look forward to working with each Sunday. Our children, work so hard to learn their songs, and have strong testimonies of Jesus Christ.

8. Extended family. This past year we've learned how much we truly miss family, its been hard living far away. We love the phone calls and emails and we love it when they visit!

9. My health. I'm a firm believer that the lord gives us daily the energy that we need to accomplish his work. I am so grateful for his watchful care.

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Ann

Next Project!

I can't wait to be able to work on this one, its going to be my next project! But mine will have some dates that instead of the date printed on it will have a cupcake or Christmas tree to indicate a special event on that day! I am really super excited....don't know when I'll start this one but ...soon!

Kim's Halloween Photos

Yummy Treats

Scariest Couple

(Vaness & Colton, Heber UT people....oh Colton took 1st in his Wrestling tournament this weekend ! Good Job!!! Go Purdue!)

Vanessa, I tried to revive her but I couldn't! She was one dead RN!

Ok, my first attempt at making a Pinata....not too bad...weird though!

Kids loved it.

Go Ehre!

Ehre wearing the remains of our pumpkin.

She likes makeup!

Swing Hard!

Hi Dash, you look "incredible"!

Fly away!

Best Dressed Family!

Yes!

Didn't Kim do a great job!!!!

http://www.kimdavisphotography.com/blog

Fwd: Pictures from halloween

 I just love the one of Ben trying to eat a cupcake!

 

Happy Halloween!

My Puddle Jumper

RN & Swine Flu

Eating Treats @ The party!

Our photo booth for the families.

"Trick or Treat"

Pumpkin Pancakes!

Filling the pinata!

Ready to go...

Even a super hero has to buckle up!

Making the pinata, the kids had a lot of fun with this, though they were in bed when I was working on this coat.

If you can't tell, the kids had a GREAT time!

Ehre: Puddle Jumper/ Butterfly

Ben: Dash from The Incredibles

Ann: Rn

Jeff: Her patient with the "Swine Flu"

Happy Halloween!

If you can't tell, the kids had a GREAT time!

Ehre: Puddle Jumper/ Butterfly

Ben: Dash from The Incredibles

Ann: Rn

Jeff: Her patient with the "Swine Flu"

1st Root Cannal

ssshhh don't' tell Ehre but she get to have her first root canal done tomorrow...... oh this will be interesting!

Is it bad if I take pictures? Hmmmm maybe I'll let her take pictures of the Dentist's office to distract her. :)

One tooth going gray!

Ok we've knoticed that one tooth is going gray. So...we'll bewatching it. I've included pictures we took a few days after the accident!

No more monkeys jumping on the bed...Ehre that means you!

Well she didn't listen, and as a result face planted into the wood portion of Ben's bottom bunk. I was at volleyball so Jeff had to deal with it (poor guy, hates blood). Ehre didn't let me look at it much, can't blame her. She had a good fat bottom lip and above her two front teeth there was a huge bruise and two cuts. I took her to the dentist today, she was sooo patient. 3 exrays later, we had a referal to a pediatric dentist. The x-rays look fine, but the dentist is conserned that she may have damaged the nerve. The dentist says she may loose both teeth, but we have to wait a week to find out. In her opinion this was one of the worst bruises on the gum line she has seen in a while. ( She's seen injuries like this that turn out fine and some that turn black.)

 

So who knows how this will end up, Ehre did let me brush her teeth tonight, it only made it bleed again, but I want to keep the area clean... oh the joys. So tomorrow we are going to the pediatric dentist, wish Ehre luck, despite her lack of initial disobedience, she has been a real trooper!