Attack of the Pumpkin Pie!

The day after Thanksgiving dad Livingstone was getting something out of the fridge. Reecy and Eric were getting ready to head back home to Vegas. While dad was in the fridge he knocked over a can of pumpkin that had a spoon sticking out of it because mom was too tired to put it away in a container the night she made the pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. Reecy was right next to the fridge and was the lucky winner who got covered!!! She was laughing her head off. What a good sport! It even hit the ceiling, but not dad!

This is for you Ross!

Turkey Day!!!

I started out Turkey Day bright and early to run the 5K Turkey Trot with my sisters Reecy and Mindy. We had great weather and it worked out fabulously since we had TWO turkey dinners, well a lunch and dinner! So yummy!!!

We had Thankmas this year...Christmas at Thanksgiving! All of our family was together for thanksgiving and won't be for Christmas so we had our family gift giving! There are 40 of us when we are all together so we reserve the church and do it over there. The kids loved it! They got their presents from Grandma & Grandpa Livingstone. The girls got webkinz, build-a-bear, and Twilight perifinallia!

This year the Henwoods had our family so they got the older girls shirts and another present that the girls can't open until Christmas or else it would give away one of the gifts they're getting from us!

Berkley got a fun cereal container and some bathtub crayons that she is going to love!

Thank you mom and dad and Henwoods for the gifts. It was so much fun to get together as a family and spend time with eachother! We love you all!

(Yes, Brackon was there! I don't know how he managed to dodge getting his photo taken! Sorry handsome!)

A Little Vaca to St. George

The weekend before Thanksgiving we headed out to visit the family in St. George. We hadn't been out since mom's surgery so we want to visit and give mom an early Christmas present. Since we aren't able to be there all the time we wanted mom to know that we love her and are thinking of her all the time. We wanted her to feel our hugs even when we weren't there so I made her a quilt embroidered with the words 'Autumn Leaves'.

Brackon wrote an earlier post titled 'Autumn Leaves' that talked all about mom and what a special and strong person she is. It was beautiful and we wanted her to remember that so we put it on her blanket.
Of course we couldn't be in St. George and not hit IN-N-OUT! You can NEVER get enough IN-N-OUT!!!! YUMMY!!

We had so much fun visiting with mom and dad and the rest of the family. Just before we left to come home we had mom get in a picture with all the grandbabies! We love our grandma!!!

Berkley's LOVE of Television!

Berkley has discovered TV! Here she stands in the playroom watching one of her favorite shows. As of late she has been glued to the television watching Barbie's Princess and the Pauper. She loves the cats in it. Whenever she wants to watch it she will ask for "muuw."

Nice that I allow her to watch TV 24/7! I'm sure that I will get winner mother of the year!

TWILIGHT!!!

Kennedy and I were enthralled with the Twilight series, like most people were, after reading Twilight! All the women and girls in my family waited on pins and needles once we caught wind that Twilight was being made into a movie! We, of course, all had our opinions on the cast. We were anxious to see how the movie would be and got on line and bought our tickets for the midnight showing when we found out they were available. Kennedy and I, mom, Jeannie, Cassi, Patti, Mindy and Micki all went.

Here we are waiting outside the theater at 10pm!

We were able to sit all together up towards the top of the theater. While we waited we ate lots of popcorn and candy and talked and talked and talked!!!

Here's Cassi, Kennedy and Maddie (Kennedy's friend.)

Me and Kennedy at 2:30am after the movie!
Kenner's won't be very excited about this pic!!

I know that there were mixed reviews about the show, but I LOVED it!!! I can hardly wait to see it again. We'll see if I can drag Brackon to it this time!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

This was the first Halloween in Utah that we didn't experience nasty weather. Usually it is awful!!! It's either snowing, snowing and raining, or just plain freezing cold! It was gorgeous this time and the kids had a great time. Berkley was a little piggy this year and she loved going door to door to get candy. She wasn't very interested in walking though...she wanted Brackon to carry her around.

Reecy and Eric came down for Halloween so we got to go trick-or-treating with Blake and Ashley! It was a lot of fun to have more cousins to go around with.

Morgan was a fairy and Emree was a cat! Kennedy was a dead ballerina but we didn't get a picture because she was off gallivanting around with all of her friends, of course!
Fun was had by all!

Brackon's arm was a 'bit' tired by the end of the night. Luckily he was there. There is no way I would've been able to carry Berkley around!

We hope that all of you had a Wonderful and Happy Halloween!

Leaves, Leaves, Leaves!

The weather has been beautiful here in Utah. It has been in the mid 70's for a while now and I am thrilled that we have been able to hold off on winter. The kids have had a blast playing in all of the leaves in Grandma & Grandpa L's backyard. As you can see Berkley is ecstatic about the whole experience! The kids raked up a huge pile of leaves and made a 'nest' to play in.

Berkley thought it would be fun to throw the leaves up in the air. She kept calling me to look at her as she covered herself. At one point she picked up a fistful, held them to her face, smelled them and then started to shake with excitement. Who knew a pile of leaves would provide such entertainment for a 19 month old!

Earlier that night, before our BBQ, the parent all headed to Jordan's final football game of the season. When he got to grandma & grandpa's he raked all of the leaves into a huge pile and all the kids where jumping into it, some even tried diving into it...not such a great idea! Jordan buried some of the kids in the pile as well. They loved it!

A Love of Kitties!

Berkley has always loved animals, but as of late she has really taken to kitty cats. She loves to read books about cats, watch shows with cats, and even carries around a little stuffed cat that she likes to sleep with. Of course nothing compares to the really thing! This is my brother and his families cat Sammy! As you can see Berkley is thrilled to have him around. My kids would love to have a cat or a dog and we're the mean parents that keep telling them no. How nice that we can live vicariously through everyone's animals !

Annual Livingstone Soup & Scoop

The Monday night before Halloween mom & dad L hold our annual Soup & Scoop where we all bring our favorite soups to share. It's so yummy!!! Once we're done eating we clear the table and get ready for the 'Scoop' part of the night...carving pumpkins! We have so much fun!
This year we did it out in mom & dad's garage. It's so nice to do it out there so that we don't have to worry about the kids spilling their soup or pumpkin guts all over the floor!

This year my brother John thought he'd make things a little easier and grabbed my dad's reciprocating saw. Poor pumpkin didn't see what was coming!

Brackon was out of town so grandma was being my biggest helper and helped
Emree with her pumpkin.

Me and Morgan carving her pumpkin!

Jace, Kennedy and Cassi carving their's.

The fruits of our labors!

Emree's spider!

Morgan's pumpkin

Kennedy's bat!

Coby and Tiffany Come For a Visit!

Over the UEA weekend Cob & Tiff came up to visit us. We had a lot of fun going places and visiting with each other. The first thing we did was take the kids to
HOOGLE ZOO!

Morgan, Kennedy, Hannah and Emree

Blake's used to being surrounded by women! He's the only grandson!

Tiffany, Coby, Kennedy, Hannah, Morgan, Emree, Berkley, Brackon and Blake

Berkley is at that age where she wants to do everything on her own. The girls are still always worried about her. Emree wanted to make sure that she didn't trip. Berkley kept getting irritated so Emree tried not to touch her. So cute!

The last thing we did at the Zoo was ride the train. Emree and Hannah were thrilled!

While Cob & Tiff were here we also headed the canyon and went to
BRIDAL VEIL FALLS!

Hannah and Emree had fun playing with the leaves and Uncle Coby and the
kids had fun looking at the bugs in the leaves!

Berkley loved running up and down the trail, but had us worried that she was going to faceplant. We were also worried because there were a lot of people longboarding on the walking path and we were worried that she'd step in front of them and get hurt.

The water was freezing because it had snowed in the mountains a few days before so the run-off was brrrrr cold!!! That didn't stop Blake from taking off his shoes and climbing up the falls.

The kids had so much fun!

Ahh...look at the cute couple!

Hannah, Morgan and Emree joined in the fun! So did Kennedy, but all of her pics were blurry!

Uncle Coby showed Berkley how to throw rocks into the stream and she had a blast picking rocks and tossing them in.

It was so much fun to have them come visit. It's so nice to be close to family!