Gerbils

The 2 we are keeping.
The 2 boys.
The 2 girls.
All 6 of the babies.
This is when they were a few days old.

For Christmas we got our daughter what we thought were 3 male gerbils, well 3 weeks ago we woke up to our daughter telling us that there were 6 baby gerbils in the cage. We went down to see and sure enough there were 6 baby gerbils. We took the 2 boys out of the cage so that we will not have any more surprises. It is amazing how fast these gerbils are growing. The kids love to hold them and play with them. We are going to keep 2 of the girls to keep the mom company in her cage and then we will have the 2 boys in their cage. So we will have 2 boys and 2 girls available if anyone wants gerbils.

Balloons

So for the long weekend we went down to B-town to hang out with Eric's family. While we were there we went down to Bluff for the balloon festival, it was really cool seeing the balloons light up at night. The kids had a blast, even though it was freezing cold. We always enjoy seeing the family, the kids love to play with their cousins.

Christmas Fun

We have had some fun for Christmas. We decorated the tree, went to see Temple Square lights, made gingerbread houses, and had lots of fun. Maheone also got a parakeet, she has been saving her money for awhile now and finally had enough to buy the cage, food, toys, and bird.

Thanksgiving

We went to Delta to spend Thanksgiving at my sisters house. My sister has 6 kittens and the kids loved to play with them. Moienah loved to drag them around, and call them her babies. We went Wednesday morning and stayed until Friday. On Wednesday night we went out to a place called Joy which used to be a town, you can still see the foundations of the houses. We built a fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmellows. On Thursday we cooked and had a wonderful dinner, lots of good food. Eric and some of the kids rode horses. The boys loved riding the four wheelers around. They also had bought a basketball game which I think everyone enjoyed playing.

On Friday we drove over to Blanding and spent time with Eric's family, which is always fun. Played cards late into the night. We also did a relay in rememberance of the Sandcreek massacre victims.

Fun Pictures

I thought these were kind of fun pictures of the kids being silly.

Electronic Park

Jazz Game
Electronic Park



In Layton there is an electronic park. All the play equipment has some sort of video game hooked up to it. The idea is to get kids more active since we live in a video game world. My kids love this park they could play for hours there. It happens to be close to where my kids play volleyball and basketball so they get to play there frequently. The girls just got done playing volleyball which Nika loved and Maheone hated. We now have 3 kids in basketball so that keeps us pretty busy. This Thanksgiving month is going by fast. I am thankful for my great husband and all my beautiful children, I am also thankful for Eric's job which allows him to work from home so that we can live by family. I am thankful for my friends.
This month we also got to go to a jazz game, the kids get to go for jr. jazz. Hatosh's team didn't have very many going so they gave me and Eric a ticket, so we took Hatosh down to the game. The girls went with their teams to the game.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween. We invited family and friends to come over and go trick or treating together. Our family tradition is to make clam chowder and chicken noodle soup for dinner and then have lots of snack foods to eat. This year the kids had fun choosing and finding things for their costumes. Navitt was a grim ripper or something like that, Maheone was a character from Digimon that became a vampire, Nika was a devil, Hatosh a mad scientist, Moke was spider man, and Moienah was a butterfly. I was a dark fairy. I love Halloween and love to dress up.