Callie's Tumbling Class

Callie has advanced up 3 classes in the past month, she is doing awesome in gymnastics and already has her back hand spring down.

Family Pictures and Hailey's dance class

Aunt Karren said we never take any pictures as a "whole" family, so we had to get these two just for her and our holiday cards :)  

 This is Hailey's ballet class, she is loving it and is very graceful!

Indian at school

For Hailey's Thanksgiving feast at school, her class was the Indians.  So I was so excited to make Hailey her first Indian costume.  It turned out really cute, and I had enough fabric left to make her cousin Charlotte one as well.

Sleepover

This past week my neice Charlotte had a sleep over at our house.  We thought it would be fun to do "hair salon" since she said she had never had her hair curled before.  She turned out so cute, and she loved it!

Christmas Decorations

We got our Christmas tree up in our new living room!  So excited for this whole month :)

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with family.  It was a beautiful day here and we ended up having over 30 people at our Thanksgiving feast.  With everybody bringing something, it ended up being really yummy. Here are the girls before heading to grandmas.

We had 3 of the elder missionaries with us.

Some of the little Shelton cousins.

Kelli's son Charley, just loved the frog he caught.

Happy Thanksgiving!

What we do in November....

It's been a great month so far, not to cold yet, still pretty comfortable.  We have had a lot of rain though. I ended up decorating our house just a few days before thanksgiving and went straight to the Christmas!  I love having a mantle this year to hang our stockings on.

I had to hit up Hobby Lobby and buy some decorations for my new buffet.

Over Thanksgiving break, we stuck with our family tradition and took the girls to the "North Pole" at Bass Pro shop. They love playing all the games and doing the letters to Santa.

This was a sweet picture that Kayla took with the girls one evening.

Kayla had her first outing without parents and her and her friends drove to a nearby town  and went bowling. Some of them are 16, so they are driving now.  Kayla still has till March.   Looks pretty innocent, doesn't it?  I don't see any boys in the background. :)

Callie competed in her first chess tournament this year with her gifted and talented program at school.  She placed in the top 10, which I thought was awesome considering she just learned how a few weeks ago!

We have been doing lots of shopping this month, I do most of my Christmas shopping the couple weeks before Thanksgiving, I have found that that time, through cyber monday are the very best deals!

We have also been doing lot and lots of hunting.  We have got a few doe, but those bucks are just hiding from us this year!  I'm telling ya, they are giving us a hard time.

I also volunteered at Hailey's school this past week and was able to be the mystery reader.  This is where he teacher reads the class some clues about the reader and they all try to guess who it is.  Hailey says she thought it was me when they said I had four daughters!

I also went on my first exchanges with the missionaries a few weeks ago and we were able to go teach some families in a nearby town and then I was able to take them to one of my favorite little diners to eat at.

FHE campfire with the missionaries

Poor Brad always surrounded by girls :)  We had fun having FHE dinner with the missionaries this week and my mom and sister.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween.  The girls dressed up as genies this year, and it was a huge hit with everyone.  We loved having grandma and Karren and Harlee able to come with us too, it made it even more fun!

Kayla with my nephew John.

They came up with this pose on their own~!

Little Harlee was so cute as minnie mouse.

Charlotte and Brynlee.

They sure made a hall!