Thanksgiving Feast!

We had a great Thanksgiving with friends in a city about four hours south of Portland called Grants Pass. Jed and Erica, two great friends from BYU, invited us down for a few days. I have to say one of the highlights of the trip was the truducken...Anyone heard of it? Ok call it crazy, but someone gave Jed and Erica a turkey stuffed with a duck and then stuffed with a chicken. Yes, one stuffed inside the other with three different layers of cornbread stuffing sandwiched in between the birds. Even better, the whole thing was boneless!!!!

I dare say this quickly topped the list of the best Thanksgiving foods we have had in a long time. Everything was so well seasoned it didn't need gravy or the cranberry sauce...Heck, I was picking the leftovers out of the fridge during breakfast the next morning!

Our cf card was full so we don't have any pictures of the actual bird, but you can get the idea from the picture below.
Great food, great friends, and just relaxing; it all made for an absolutely outstanding Thanksgiving! Thanks Jed and Erica!

The kids had a great time chasing around with their kids and making candy houses. If I can get a few pictures I'll post them of the gingerbread houses the kids made. Ezra and Jed also snuck out to play paintball for a few hours and had a blast...I'll see if I can get pictures of that too.

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Amanda is Crawling!

On Tuesday Amanda made a few brief attempts at a crawl and today she amazed us by doing it pretty consistently. Seeing her effort at moving each arm is just too cute!



Sorry about the long clip, we are just proud parents!

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A Walk Turns Into A Wild Goose Chase

The hayseeds and I decided we would go out for a little fun while Ezra was gone on his "catch up with the guys/BYU football game/laser tag/eat really good food/get two nights of uninterrupted sleep" weekend. We went to Bethany Lake park to see what was there.























We were having a great time exploring the new (to us) park with its little lake . It was a gorgeous fall day.























Brendan said it was too hot to wear a shirt. (It was in the low-60s that day).























Some nice folks gave us some bread to feed the ducks and geese.


















Natalie and Brendan got scared by the geese. The geese were big--they came up past my waist. The kids started to run away, but they forgot to drop the bread. So the geese started honking loudly and chasing them. I managed to stop laughing long enough to yell at them to drop the bread. They did.



















Come back, Brendan! (that's him way off in the distance between the power poles) I'll stop taking pictures so I can protect you like a good mommy should!

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Random Brendan Moments

Brendan loves to make people laugh. His budding sense of humor and his silliness keep us chuckling. But sometimes what makes us laugh the most are moments when he isn't trying to be funny. For example, today at lunch he asked why there aren't any vegetable yogurts. He thinks broccoli yogurt would be fun to try. Yuck!

Look closely at this picture.

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Fighting "He Who Must Not Be Named"

Let's just say I'm grateful the orange washed out.



Lisa made the costume, doesn't it look great!

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Mummies

As part of the Halloween party we also gave the kids a roll of toilet paper and had them make mummies out of themselves. Now we wonder how long it will be before the kids start doing it on their own...or even worse...to someone's house!

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