Thanksgiving

We spent most of the week in Windsor at my Mom and Dad's house.  We had a great time playing at the park and swimming at their new rec center.

Movie time on Grammy Mary's lap

Playing guitars with Papa Gary...Maya really wants a guitar for Christmas!

My Grandma Dot was able to join us as well.  We had fun preparing all the food on Thanksgiving Day and enjoying family time!

Gabi ate the drumsticks...this girl must have an empty leg.  She can eat!

Making Maya some dangly earrings after dinner.  My mom has tons of beads and Maya was in heaven.

More Fall Fun!

We had an incredibly nice fall.  Lots of time was spent outside!

Papa Dave's Birthday

Papa Don's Birthday

Playing guitars with Papa Gary

Gabi played flag football again this year and loved every second

Resting during one of many fall hikes

We had a horrible windstorm the night before Halloween that did some pretty extensive damage.  The kids were very sad about their playset.  :(

Rocky rules our house...even Hudson knows it.

Halloween

Gabi's Jack-o-lantern

Maya's jack-o-lantern

Jacob was a Cowboy for Halloween:

He rode is stick horse all the way through the Monster March.  It was really cute. :)

Maya was an Owl:

She helped me make this costume out of wool.  She modeled it in the Make It With Wool contest as well.

Gabi was a Pirate:

We did the Monster March downtown with some friends:

We went over to Diane & Splint's house for dinner and pinata breaking!

Wyoming Football

We were able to make the trip down to Laramie a few times this year to attend some Cowboy football games.  They had a great season and were a fun team to watch.

We had breakfast with Nicole before the Homecoming game!  This is her first year at UW.

We met Theo Ratliff (former standout UW and NBA basketball player)  after the Homecoming Parade.  The girls were amazed at how tall he was!  Joe is 6'4" for comparison.  He's got to be at least 7'

My Mom and Dad came to the Homecoming game with us!

Coach Bohl leaded the team into the stadium.  This is the girls' favorite place to be at the start of a game.  They get to give the players high fives !:)

Another beautiful day in Laramie, WY

Joe, Greer, Dave, & Don went down to Laramie for the Boise State game.  It was an incredible game...the first time UW has beat a ranked team in quite some time.

We also went down for the Mountain West Conference Championship game.  They didn't pull of a win (barely) and it was very cold, but we had a great time anyways.  We left our kids at the hotel with my mom and went to the night game with my dad and Amanda & Greer.

Nine Years Old

Gabi turned 9 years old at the end of September!  We are so proud of this strong, smart, beautiful girl.  I can't imagine life without her.  Happy Birthday, Gabs!

Breakfast pancakes!

Gabi's only wish was to play basketball with all of her buddies for her birthday.  Wish granted!  They played for 2 hours straight and had a blast!

We celebrated with family at the cabin.  Thanks to Amanda for the great cake!

Trip to Lincoln

We made the trip to Lincoln, NE in early September to see my Grandma Dorothy, my Aunt, Uncle, and cousin, and to watch the Wyoming vs. Nebraska football game.

It is a 10-11 hour trip.  The kids did great in the car.  Jacob loved seeing all of the farm equipment and trains across Western Nebraska.  I spent a lot of time in this area when I was growing up as both sets of my grandparents lived here.  The sandhills looked beautiful this year due to a lot of rain last summer.

The football game was a blast.  I have many great memories of attending Nebraska football games with my family when I was younger.  I wanted my kids to experience Nebraska's stadium.  It really is amazing to see that sea of red.  The loved the people watching, the food (especially the red hot dogs), and when the student section led the most amazing wave series around the stadium ever!  Even though Wyoming lost, it was a great game!  My dad was a good sport sitting with us in the Wyoming section!

We found the Wyoming equipment truck!

Seth and Nicole were there as well, so we got to catch up with them.  :)

We were able to go to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.  It is an amazing zoo and we had fun hanging out with my Auntie Virginia and Uncle Gary.

In the rainforest

Proof that weirdness runs in the family.  :)

Jacob loved his wagon.

Riding the train

The only picture I have of my Grandma and Aunt from the whole trip!  We had so much fun with them.

Watching the graphs cross over to go into the giraffe house.  It was neat to see the babies.