A Preschool Thanksgiving Feast!

Dallin is really enjoying his preschool class this year. His class is very small. Only four kids, and he's the only boy! He doesn't seem to mind though. They have been working on some cute songs and finger plays. Tommy and I went to watch his program and then have a Thanksgiving feast of chicken nuggets and tater-tots!!!! The kids thought it was great!




I learned that Dallin has no problem with stage fright. He sang his little heart out! You could hear him above all the other girls!! I loved it!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was lots of fun this year. The kids got really creative with their pumpkin carvings.



Becky carved this pirate skull:
JJ carved a halloween cat:

Emmy (and Mom) carved Cinderella:
Dallin (and Dad) carved Iron Man:



Between school activities, church activities, and Halloween day itself, it was like "musical costumes" around our house.

Last week was the Halloween Dance at Becky's school. She dressed like a Devil. If you ask me, she's the cutest little Devil I've ever seen. :) It was Becky's first time going to a school dance. She was so excited! She and her best friend Lauren went together.

Her favorite part of her costume was the red eyelashes.

For our ward trunk-or-treat the big girls went together as dice. Emmy was Cinderella. Dallin was a BYU football player. And Tommy was a Bat. I somehow missed taking pictures of everyone so you'll just have to take my word for it when I tell you they all looked adorable.

For Dallin's Preschool party and parade the kids were supposed to dress up like one of God's creations. Dallin dressed up as a Lion. (Again, I forgot my camera that day!)

The Kindergartener's at Emmy's school were supposed to dress up like one of their favorite story book characters. Emmy went as Angelina Ballerina:


Then finally on Halloween night, the girls went trick-or-treating as Dice:
Emily was "Briar Rose" and Dallin was "Batman":
And Tommy was a BAT:

It was a fun couple of weeks. Now we have WAY too much candy in our house! Let the sugar high commence! ;)

Happy Birthday!

Yesterday was Joe and Julianne's Birthday!
This year is a big one for JJ. She is now officially double digits!!!! The big 1-0!
We had a little family party for them on Sunday.

(don't look too close or you'll see where Tommy swiped a big handful of frosting off the front of the cake!)

After months of asking for a skateboard, JJ was so excited to finally get one!!! And it turns out she's a natural!!!

It's a Girl!

So I had my ultrasound last week and ......




We are so excited! Everything seems to look ok so far.
Even after having five kids the miracle of it all is still so amazing to me.
She was sucking on her fists the whole time. What a little sweetie.
I can't wait to meet her. 21 weeks down....19 more to go!

Grandma and Grandpa Nattress!

My Parents were in town over the weekend and we had such a great time with them. The boys and I took Grandma and Grandpa down to Luray Caverns and the Car and Carriage Museum.
Uncle Tony took us all shooting Saturday Morning. Grandma took the kids shopping Saturday afternoon. And we had a nice relaxing afternoon on Sunday before they left for the airport.
We miss them already!
Here are a few pics from our fun weekend!

Grandpa and Dallin in front of a 1941 Lincoln

Tommy, hangin' out in his camping chair eating gold fish.




Check out this "smokin' gun"! ;)This is Grandpa shooting a 50 caliber! You have to lay on your stomach to shoot it and the "boom" is so loud it shakes your whole insides if you're anywhere near the gun when it fires.

Grandpa shot a perfect bulls-eye!!!!!

Dallin's first day of Preschool!

Dallin started Preschool today. I enrolled him in a two day a week program this year. He was so excited to go to school just like his big sisters. On the way home when I asked him how his morning was he said, "It was great! I loved it!"
But just a few minutes later he got quiet and said, "Mom, I missed you so much."
Talk about melt my heart!!!!!

Seriously?!

So it has rained all day (and all night) every day this week which has resulted in major flooding all along the east coast. They say catastrophes come in three's. First the earthquake, then the hurricane, now this. I'm hoping this is the last of our weather catastrophes for a while. Luckily we haven't had any flooding in our house, but I know some people in our area who have not been so lucky. It didn't seem so bad until I ventured out to go to an appointment. Tommy's been pretty sick with a respiratory infection and I finally decided a trip to the doctor was a must. It took me twice as long to get to the office because several of the roads were closed due to flooding.

Here is a blurry picture of the "reservoir" in our back yard:

It seems like things are drying up this weekend though. Yay! It's been so nice to actually see the sun again. Tommy's doing better too. He's been on antibiotics and a nebulizer for a few days and it's really helping.

I couldn't help taking a picture of Tommy with his little breathing mask on. Is this little face sweet or what?