Ahhhh.... What a good day!

Today was a great day! It was a day filled with great company, great food and a whole lot of laughs! Joe's brother Ky and his family came and had Thanksgiving lunch with us. None of us are big fans of turkey so we decided we would smoke some pork instead. It was sooooo good! We stayed up the night before making pies and smoking meat. Thanks Ky and Lynaya for keeping me awake and making the great food that you did! I normally hate posts that have what people made to eat in them but this just was too good not to share!

This is a really bad picture. At the bottom is our pork. It was so yummy! Just look at that smoke ring! Ky made the best rolls from scratch! They were whole wheat and to DIE for!


This is an apple cranberry pie. Ky made the filling and I attempted the lattice top. It looked so much better in person.


And this was my yummy Cherry Chocolate Chunk Pie! Oh my holy canolie was it good! If you can't tell the cut outs on top are leaves. Again much cuter in person!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Happy Anniversary Tisha and Jim!
We Love you!

Small and simple things....

I took my little boys for a walk today to the store for a treat for cleaning up their bedroom. It was so sweet. We got to the store and got our drinks and cookies and headed for home. We live right next to the park so as we were walking by, Darrell asked if we could go swing. I figured why not, it is such a beautiful day today. Most of the leaves have fallen off the trees. So as they were running to the swings they heard them crunching under their feet. Darrell is obsessed with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom right now so he of course knew he was munching bugs under his feet. I had to laugh. This is my absolute favorite season of the year. Some of my favorite things are.....

* The sound of leaves crunching under my feet.
* The sound the trees make when the wind blows through them.
* A roaring fire in our wood stoves.
* Sweaters that I get to pull out of my closet and wear.
* The crisp cool air in the mornings and evenings.

I am more thankful this time of year for obvious reasons. Thanksgiving is here to remind me to be. I want you all to know I am grateful for you and your love and friendship! I am thankful for 2 little boys and a wonderful husband that give me many reasons to be thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving Month!

Gummy Mummy

I haven't posted in forever so I have been looking for any reason so here it is. Lame I know but it was to cute. I gave Darrell his gummy vitamins around noon with his lunch. At about 2:00 he comes running in to me laughing as hard as he can and saying look mommy look. When I looked over at him he had his vitamins STUCK to his face. I laughed so hard. I asked what is on your face and he said, " look, my gummy's mummy!" He is a crack up some days. 

STUD MUFFINS!!!!!

I had to post these pictures. I bought these suits for my little brother in laws wedding next month. I couldn't resist! They are so stinkin' cute. They have a jacket that goes with them and I will post pictures of the boys at the wedding when they are wearing them. This was them today after church. I caught them on top of the kitchen counter. I snapped some pictures before I got them down. Is that good parenting or what!

                                   I love the whole hand in the vest pose he has goin on.

                              To get a normal picture of these boys is next to impossible!

                               I love this one of Tad. He is so lost in his own little world.

Quirky Tag!

My cousin Jill tagged me! I have never been tagged before so I am excited to do this! I like doing this kind of stuff. O.k. I am supposed to tell you six things that you don't know about me.

1. I hate my toes. They are short and fat and have always drove me crazy. I have always wanted long skinny toes for some reason. They always look cuter in sandels. 

2. I am a compulsive nail biter. I bite them so bad I make my fingers sore. No matter how hard I try I can't stop.

3. My servings of food on my plate can't touch each other. If it does, it takes all I have to eat it. Most of the time, I won't.

4. When I eat, I have to finish the thing I started before I move on to the next thing on my plate. I can't eat randomly off my plate.

5. I can't wear sunglasses. They give me a headache. I couldn't wear the safety goggles in science class in high school because of the same reason.

6. I want to go back to school to become a C.S.I. (crime scene investigator) I think it would be the coolest job in the WORLD!!!!

I Tag: Tiffanye, Lynaya, Stacie, Lindsey, Monika, and Janae.

Why not!

I got this off of my cousins blog and figured why not try! Like she said who couldn't use a new handbag.  Just go to this website and you can get registered to win a free hand bag of your choice! Go to - www.HandbagPlanet.com 

Our little vacation

Finally! A mini vacation. Well actually a day trip vacation. Joe has been working a ton of crazy hours so we haven't seen much of him. So when he suggested we go to the catwalks in Glenwood, NM I was thrilled. So this last weekend we packed up a lunch and drove the hour and a half give or take to Glenwood and had a BLAST!!!  Darrell and Tad had so much fun. They loved to climb up the mountains and as Darrell would say," Walk across the RIBER!" He loved walking across the bridges. They were a little uncertain about the grating they had to walk on but they quickly got over it and had fun looking at the ground and water underneath them. We don't get very many family days so this was extra special and super fun. We love spending time with DAD!  Here are a few pictures of our fun together. 

Us being the smart parents we are, forgot swim suits. I don't think they minded do you?

I don't get very many pictures of Joe so this is of course one of my favorites.

                                                        

                                                  Mamma's little turkeys!

This fly was so funny. It landed on Darrells hand and just stayed there. It would walk from person to person. Tad and Darrell started fighting over who got to hold the FLY! It was so much fun.

Darrell wanted to stay on this bridge all day if he could. He thought it was so cool as I said earlier to, " walk across the riber!"

They thought this cave was so COOL! I think it was just because Joe said so. Hopefully we get to go again soon. It was to much fun.