Thanksgiving

Here is a sneak peak at our Thanksgiving Day 2008

Adoring

Last weekend we went to my parent's house for a visit. My brother Preston was in the high school play, so Devin and I went to support. He played the teen angel in Grease. I was not so impressed with the choice of production, but Preston sang really well, I was way impressed. My siblings all loved having time with their "nef neph"--observe the adoring aunties:

And the adoring grandmother:

While we were there Skyler was asked to the WA formal dance! He was all happy, even though he didn't say much we could tell that he was happy about being asked to a dance! He spent the remainder of the evening playing his ukulele trying to hide his pleasure.

Finally, Caleb does this thing where he takes cups (or water bottles) and tries to do what he sees us do with them...It is really way cute, but alas the video doesn't do it justice.

New Skills

To be honest, this picture is here because I just love it. It shows my life so perfectly well! I am a lucky girl to have two wonderful boys with me forever and ever ;)

I have been taking a nutrition class this semester and my teacher gave out samples of Fiber One Cereal...And Caleb really likes Fiber One!!! Who knew he would love healthy stuff so much? I guess what I should say is that Caleb liked to play with the package, but you get the idea.

Below you will see footage of a new skill Caleb has developed-to put it bluntly, I am none to pleased. The swing has given me many nights sleep and many finished homework assignments, and now Caleb grabs the bar :(

And getting older

For my birthday on Saturday Devin and I went on a double date with his brother Rodney and his wife Julie to the formal dance up at the school (yeah BYUI does that kind of stuff). We had a wonderful time! First we enjoyed some mexican cuisine for dinner. As we were walking out of the restaurant -- I mean I was pretty much to the door -- Devin and my in-laws realize that they forgot to have the restaurant bunch sing to me, and I thought that I had escaped...so we went back to our table and continued our meal with a (short) birthday song and some fried ice cream.

The dance was way fun, it took me back to some of the early dates that Devin and I went on together. I got tired much sooner than I used to get tired, but I guess that is cause I was gettin' older (haha haha)

Devin's mom watched Caleb for us for the evening and she said that Caleb was great for her. (That is good, that means that maybe she will be willing to watch him again another time...)

Trick-or-Treat

The attack of the THINGS!!! Just kidding that is just Devin, my nephews and I. Super cool huh! Caleb the pumpkin went trick-or-treating with his cousins (well really he was cute so that people would give him candy for his dad and grandma to munch). Caleb got a whole Halloween bucket full of candy for Devin!! Upon returning home everyone (including Devin) promptly dumped out their candy and began trading. Everyone was so good-natured and I didn't even see any unfair trading with the younger kids so that made me happy. Half jokingly I told the kids that they all had to give Grandpa Cook (who is visiting from Washington, pictured above with Caleb) three pieces of chocolate, and as if they were expecting it all of them grabbed three pieces for grandpa- even Trevor's friend gave grandpa three pieces of chocolate. They even gave him good stuff, not just the stuff they didn't really want...Grandpa was happy to get the chocolate, and all of the kids were surprisingly happy to give it to him! Caleb's first halloween was a huge hit! Now I have a whole year to think of something amazing to be next year;)