Christmas tree mishape

Every year we get a live christmas tree from the mountains down by my mom and dads house. We usually go and cut it down ourselves but this year my mom and dad brought it up to us over Thanksgiving.

The tree is kind of bare on the back side which makes it perfect to be in the corner.

I got the tree up and the girls and i got it decorated with the brand new ornaments that I bought. ( all of the old hand-me-down ornaments that we had were broken.)

We left the tree all exited that it was done next thing I hear a big crash. The tree fell over. because it is fairly bare on the back side it is kind of front heavy. luckily this is what it looks like after we picked it back up and Jake fixed it so it won't tip again. Nothing broke either.

A little pre-thanksgivings day fun

Jayson and Kristen came up for Thanksgiving. We all decided to get together the day before to let the cousins play.

The babies were all playing together and the big kids
went downstairs and were being crazy as ever.

How to get rid of the pumpkins

Last week the girls asked me if they could go and smash the pumpkins. I told them that it would be OK as long as they took them out back to were we are going to put a garden in next year. So they got one of the pumpkins back there and smashed it and the other one made it half way there then sat on the lawn for the rest of the week. So yesterday I asked them to go and finish moving it and this is how they did it. Jake and I thought that it was so funny watching them trying to kick it over to the corner and not just picking it up and moving it that I had to take some pictures.

Kylie's pictures

Here are all of the pictures Kylie took yesterday in the rain. I think that we are going to have quite the little photographer on our hands and she love to take pictures.

these three pictures are of a lamp that we have in the house.

Reflections time

Here is Kylie's reflections project that she did this year. This is our first year of actually entering. there has always been a lot of talk about doing reflections but nothing ever gets done.

Kylie entered the photography section of reflections. She used my camera and went and took a bunch of pictures. We then printed them off and when the printed the ink didn't want to stick to the paper that we used and so it looks like they were over exposed. Kylie thought this was extremely cool so this turned out to be her project. We had to put it in a picture frame cause the ink wouldn't dry on the paper.

parent teacher conference time

We had parent teacher conference on Wednesday the 5th of November. I am always a little nervous when we go hoping that my children are doing good and not being little stinks for the teachers.

I am happy to say that they are doing great and have adjusted well to the new school seeing that we moved them from one school to another this year.

Here are there report cards. they are a little fuzzy cause my scanner isn't working so I took a picture of them.

on the road again

So here I am being a single parent again. Jake left for Boise Idaho yesterday and will be gone until next week sometime. Yesterday started out as a bad day for him. when we got up to get ready it was snowing not just a little bit but enough that the grass was fully covered in less than a half hour. We get him to the plant so that he could leave and not have the car parked there for over a week. They were finally leaving the plant Jake being the leader of the convoy of about 10 trucks. They get to were I-215 merges with I-80 heading west bound to get to I-15 and Jake sees a car side swipe another car in all of the snowy mess of the roads. Jake avoids the mess of the accident and gets on the radio to let all of the other drivers know of the accident and the the road is really slippery. So the second truck in line gets through and then a car decides to stop in the middle of the lane to check on the original cars that were in the accident so the third truck has to take evasive maneuvers and ends up taking out the guard rail and totalling out the truck by riping out the transmission and drive line and only going at the speed of about 25 mph. The truck behind the third truck see this happen and tries to avoid the truck and ends up in the median with the trailer that it was pulling on the other side in on coming traffic rolled. Needless to say they shut down both sides of the freeway for a couple of hours trying to get it cleaned up. The good thing was that no one was hurt. Several hours later they finally had it cleaned up and on there way and they are all safely up in Idaho today working. Funny thing about this story is you would think that this kind of accident would be on the news. It wasn't because of all of the election coverage yesterday. When jake had called me to tell me about this and ask if it was on the news the only thing that Icould find was one traffic camera with the accident on it.

halloween at school a day early

Brytnee and Kylie's school decided to have the actual halloween day off this year so they had there annual halloween party today. Here are pictures of them before they went to school and then during there parade one hour later.

They both had on false eye lashes as part of there costumes Brytnee being the devil and Kylie being a fairy. They said that they would keep them on until after the parade but when I got there and saw Kylie she had already ripped them off. So much for that venture.

finally baptism pictures

I know i Know Brytnee was baptized in august. It is now almost november and I am barely getting pictures to everyone of her baptism.
funny story as to why it took so long. so i was going to start being better at up dating my blog seeing that the last time was at christmas last year. So i went to go and pull out my memory card from my camera after brytnee's baptism and it was in the camera. I started panicking thinking that all of the pictures that I had taken were not saved. luckely my camera has an internal memory that had saved all of the pictures. problem how do I get them off the internal memory? The camera has a usb port but the connection is abnormally small so you have to have the plug that goes with the camera. well I couldn't find it at first. I finally found it so here are all of the pictures from Brytnee's baptism. Her uncle Jayson baptized her and her uncle Jeremy confirmed her.