Who Needs Santa?

Turkey! Turkey! Turkey!

I am not sure where November went....

Top 5 things to be grateful for in 2010

1. Faith
2. Family
3. Lincoln & Oliver
4. Friends
5. Country

Lincoln's Thanksgiving turkey for Grandma Jensen.

Brothers....

First Thanksgiving

My parents met 35 years ago on Thanksgiving day in Spain,
while serving missions for the LDS church. This year they will celebrate their 34th wedding anniversary.

Eggnog Cheesecake

Happy Halloween (a little late)

Halloween was so much fun this year! I love that Lincoln is getting older and can enjoy the holiday more. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, mostly for the candy, but I love seeing little kids get excited about their costumes and all the treats. I bought pumpkins early this year and got Lincoln all excited to carve them and then we were so busy all month it didn't happen. I bought some ghetto stickers and let Lincoln decorate them, he seemed satisfied.

Cookie decorating is A LOT harder that it looks!

Cutest superman and skeleton EVER! I love Oliver's little pumpkin bucket. Lincoln brought that home from his school party and immediately gave it to Oliver, because it was the perfect size.

Check out those muscles!

We had a great Halloween trick-or-treating at the ward trunk-or-treat on Friday night and then again on Saturday night at several member's homes in our neighborhood. Our good friends Kade and Maddie got a babysitter for both of our kids and we watched the Prince of Persia together here at our house with no kids! We definitely need to do that again.

Boo at the Zoo

We took Lincoln and Oliver to the zoo this weekend. Having a Phoenix Zoo membership has been totally worth it. We don't feel like we have to stay all day to get our money's worth and we have had the chance to do different activities at the zoo with our membership discount.

This weekend was Boo at the Zoo. I thought the whole zoo would be decked out in Halloween stuff, but only one section was and we didn't really make it over there. But we did ride the paddle boats and stand in line for 20 minutes to see the new koala exhibit...koala butts are not all they are "cracked" up to be....

I know Lincoln likes the zoo, but I think he loves the food more than the animals.

Oliver enjoying his 1st trip to the zoo.

We decided to do the paddle boat ride around the lake, Lincoln was entertained for the first 10 minutes....we were out on the lake for 20.

Just a bunch of random stuff

Haven't blogged in a while so naturally, we have a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't fit together except that it's all mostly the same characters, kind of like the new Star Wars movies.

Uncle John telling "Santa" what he wants for Christmas.

Yayyyyyy Meat!

Lincoln's Superman castle (Red and Blue)

Sundays aren't really complete without a good chat with Grandpa by the pool.

Lincoln and I decorated the house for Halloween with bats that Shawn made for us during LDS General Conference. We also hung up pumpkins lights on the front door. I ordered several books about Halloween and Thanksgiving. I am excited to start teaching the boys about different holidays.

I'm thinking it's a good thing Batman doesn't have googly eyes on his symbol. No one would take him seriously!

And, everyone lean to the left. . .Good job!

Batman Begins

Oliver's First Vacation

We made a VERY quick trip up to Utah for Labor day weekend to escape the heat. We left Friday after work and got to Shawn's parents house around 3 am on Saturday morning. The boys did pretty good in the car, we bought a little portable DVD player to keep Lincoln entertained for some of the 12 hour trip - For the record I have been against DVD players in the car, but after sitting in a 3 hour traffic jam on the way home I have changed my mind, it was totally worth it!

We spent a most of Saturday afternoon in American Fork Canyon with Shawn's family and a couple of buckets of KFC. It was perfect!

Check out Lincoln's blog to see more awesome pictures of him "flying" around the canyon!

Sunday after church we went to Salt Lake to visit my Grandma Bullen and my cute Aunt Diane come over, it was great to catch up on everything with my extended family.

Some of our favorite friends - The Bairds!

The whole family minus Uncle Tyler who is in Alaska studying air traffic control, but his sister Emily stood in for him.

Shawn's buddies Jimmy and Spencer came over on Sunday evening with their wives and kids, it was a little chaotic, but the kids (all 5 and under) put on an awesome puppet show.

The Braggs

Spencer, Stephanie and their kiddos


Inside Mouqi Cave - I thought this would be a fun little excursion on the way home, but as you can tell from the picture Oliver wasn't a fan of the cooler temps inside the cave and Lincoln could care less about all the rocks....not the best $10 we ever spent.