We made the journey to Utah for Thanksgiving and we had such a great time with family. We split the long weekend, spending Thanksgiving day with my sister and family in Provo and then drove to Price with Rich's family for the rest of our time. We played tons of games and ate loads of great food. We stayed up way too late every night, but it was so worth it! We even took Kailer to the dinosaur museum in Price. There were so many cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, the kids were so pampered! We are so thankful for our families and love them dearly. Thanks so much for a wonderful weekend everyone, we so enjoyed our time :)
We even got a chance to take some family pics and I love this pic below, it so shows their personalities!
The dinosaur museum with Price cousins
We kept up our annual tradition, sad as it might be, by going to our local lowes to purchase a real tree. It's not much of a tree hunt, but it has had to suffice while here in Vegas, not like there's a forest around the corner :) We did get a beauty, I might add.
The finished product :)
Now likes to tempt fate by standing at the top of the slide
Finally the finished product! I started these dresses over the summer and it has taken me this long to finish them! Anyway, they turned out really cute and here's the link if anyone wants the pattern: 
We enjoyed a visit from Aunt Deanna and Uncle Weston so much! We did some shopping, buffet eating, and even went to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. They got to watch Kai play baseball on Saturday and Rich's cousin Nate and his wife Sarah even came. Kailer loved it and waved at his family filled bleachers as if he was in a parade everytime he went by our side of the fence. It was so much fun for him and it shows in the last pic! 
It seems like we have been celebrating Halloween all month! The kids have worn their costumes about 5 times! This week we had a Halloween party with Kailer's preschool friends. Preschool was at our house this week and we had everyone dress up in their costumes. The kids loved it! 
We went to the temple this weekend and traded off with the kids outside the temple. It definately took some effort, but we were so grateful that we could go and enjoy the spirit there. Here's a few shots of the kids in their festive colors :) 
Rich didn't really want to dress up this year, but Kailer so wanted us to be the Grandma and the Hunter for little red riding hood and the BIG BAD wolf! So, we dressed up for him at home once.
On Halloween night we went to 2 different malls and walked from store to store getting candy. Meili learned to say trick or treat in one evening saying, "tit tit teet!" She would hold up her basket for candy and then immediately stop, get it out, and put it in her mouth. It was hard to keep her walking! She was a sticky mess by the end of the night. Kai was so hammered after the first mall, he and Meili fell asleep in the car. We let them have a half hour nap and then on with the trick or treating at the next mall! He loved it so much, he woke up happy from his nap, which is not ever the case! 
We were able to get rid of all our old candy and I only ended up with a half gallon of good stuff :) Yeah baby. I'm actually sad to pack up the Halloween stuff this year because they had so much fun with it. Kailer loved being bad. Everyone would say "Ohh, you're so cute" and he'd say, "I'm not cute, I'm scary! GRRRR!" We even had 2 people stop us and ask if they could take a picture of Meili. Random right? It was super fun and can't wait for next year! I guess it's on to Christmas now, at least that's what all the tv commercials are saying!
