
yet another school project! taylor built the castle for extra credit :) the kids both got all A's this trimester so we went and got LOTS of candy (when we said they could get anything, they took it literally!) and went and saw The Blindside. so good!

Daddy got to come back for the whole week of Thanksgiving! (on our way to pick him up, I got a ticket! :( He went and played indoor soccer with the boys...

on real thanksgiving, we met up with the Phillippis and had track day. the kids started with a game of catch the football...then we had races on the track. Taylor kicked my butt!

zacky is all over the place!


after IHOP for breakfast (we had to fit that in because now Zacky thinks that's where we're supposed to go on Thanksgiving!) we had dinner at buccas with grandma, the phillippis and justy's family. yum!!! and sickness! the kids played around with the camera while we waited for the pope's table

love this kid!

zacky's no sauce spaghetti and meatball. what a nerd!

Austy enjoyed the decor :)

Celebratory IHOP part 2! we had our big soccer game against the Titans. After years of trash talk we finally got to play them!! (mommy sadly cared the most, since I'm the one that's had to listen to how 'amazing' their team is for years!) The game was the day after Thanksgiving at 7:50 am! awful! and Zacky spent the night a Dereks 2 nights before and got no sleep because derek always gets up too early! Anyway we won 7-4! We were so excited (although the boys didn't really play that well...they looked exhausted!...we should have crushed them...we're hoping to play them again next season at a normal day and time!) Hopefully the trash talk will end now :) Kimmy came to the game after her shift at the firestation and said 'how come Zacky jukes me like crazy when I play against him, but he's not doing it to this team!' too bad. Although, he did have a free shot that he flipped up over their 3 players and it went right in. sweet! He scored 4 or their 7 so he was happy :) We came in 1st!

Alexis had a big moment...she learned to ride a 2 wheeler!

we played speed (taylors always wins :)



kelly stuffed Becca's turkeys...not happy ; )...and I made the best mashed potatoes of my life :) and zacky and daddy helped me with the fruit salad...we had a fun prep day while Taylor made pies and Devin's birthday cake with noelle and grandma gayle :)

the big boys tried pogo sticking...

we headed off to lone peak HS to play family football...and this is how we found Dan's truck. He couldn't understand how we didn't know how to do this!

Family football was fun! The weather was great and I even got a touchdown and field goal! And no one got hurt!! except Zacky did flick the football into Taylor's face before we started. shocking

Fake Thanksgiving at Kimmy's new house!! We love it! My account is gone, but we couldn't be happier for them!

And the ottoman works perfect in their house :) Bryan's happy that it's still around!

Kara got attacked after we tried to write on Dan's face...he's always falling asleep!

Then Noelle sashed off to Jeff, so we decided that if we all gave her a spanking that she could forgo time out :)

We had our entertainment by watching Jared laugh at the nasty commercial!

Devin turned 29!

then it was off to the church for some b-ball. the girls decided to skip...it's too hard to run after all that food!

the kids played too

the girls cheered and moaned in food-baby pain

Zacky wanted the tree up NOW! It's Christmas time! This year has FLOWN!!! It's killing me!
When are we going to learn to put the star on first?! Zacky was mostly excited to get his Santa hat out for the season. He loves to sleep in it! Taylor painted snowmen (copied her kindergarten one :) . She's not into the decorating ? Zacky also learned how to change fuses :) Our lights kept going out! He loves being a 'man and fixing things'