Turkey Day

We had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving. Some friends from the ward invited us over to dinner so we didn't have to make the whole thing ourselves. Yay! (Can you tell I'm not much of a cook?) After dinner another family in the ward invited us over for pie. Sterling made an apple pie and was so proud of it. He did a good job (now there is someone who likes to cook). It was a nice day.

Now it is onto Christmas and Mesha is so excited this year. We put up our tree and she kept saying "Wow, it's so beautiful Mommy" and "There are so many yellow lights on the big tree." Her favorite time of day is when it gets dark and we can turn on the lights. It is a lot of fun to have a kid old enough to appreciate the excitement of Christmas. Now if I can only get Griffin to stop pulling the ornaments off... Life is good.

Boston

We went to Boston this weekend. Yay Boston! We didn't get to do a whole lot of things because the real purpose of the trip was for Sterling to help out with the youth temple trip and also the fact it is freaking cold and there isn't as many things to do when it's cold. But we picked a few things to do and had a good time.

At the Boston temple.

We went to see the USS Constitution. It is 213 years old, not much of it is original, but it was fun to see. Sterling loves stuff like this. The kids don't do tours very well so he has learned to read about things before we go because we won't hear the tour guide.

On "Prudence". These guns had a 45mph 6ft recoil. Yikes.

Her nickname is "Old Ironsides" (if you want to know why I'll tell you but for the sake of those that don't care I won't do it here). Huzzah!

Us Smiths.

The kids love any kind of water.

You can't really see it but that flag is a "Don't Tread On Me" flag.

We also went to Quincy Market but didn't take any picture because it was a zoo and I was afraid of loosing a child if I wasn't holding on at all times.

It was a fun quick little trip. It will be fun to go back in the summer and do the whole freedom trail (a walking tour of historic places, the USS Constitution and Quincey Markert are parts of it). I have said it before and I'll say it again, it is so fun to be so close to things like this and to be able to go for a day trip whenever we pretty much feel like it. Boston is such a cool city. I could do without having to pay to drive there (curse you Mass Pike) but what can you do? Fun times.

Drawing

Mesha has really been into drawing faces lately. And by faces I mean the same face over and over. In her mind she is drawing different animals or people but to me they all look the same. They all have the same lop sided oval shaped face, a long oval at the bottom for a mouth, and small circles up high for the eyes. Sometimes she will throw in a nose or ears. It is really cute and fun to watch your kids grow up right in front of you. I finally got access to a printer with scanning abilities and I saved these two drawings to share with the blogging world.

I think this one is supposed to be a horse. It features "rosy cheeks".
And this one is a self portrait. I love the hair and teeth. This is her best and most detailed one yet.

I love this part of being a parent!

And Thus It Begins

Look what we woke up to this morning. Mesha was so excited it took her all but 5 minutes to break me down and convince me to put her boots on so she could go touch it.
It's hard being the little brother.

Mesha wanted some snow to eat. Griffin wanted pretzels. Together you have wet, soggy pretzels.

It has already melted but it is a sign of the times. My initiation to New England is about to begin.

Daylight Saving Time

Guess who went to church an hour early today? That's right, I did. Whoops. Man I feel stupid. I am glad we have 1:00 church because I would have been pretty put out if I had rushed to be an hour early for 9:00am. But better early than late, right?

One More

This is the last Halloween picture, I promise. We ended up taking the kids out on Sunday. It was nice and chilly and the kids had so much fun. Griffin would yell with excitement whenever someone showed up at the door with a bowl of candy. Mesha really got into character and was nuzzling people. At one house she tried to go inside because there were some fun looking toys in there. Halloween is all about freaking people out right? Right....

Halloween 2010!

(Yes, Mesha is hugging her candy. That's how we roll.)

Say "No" To Crack

"Why do you keep following me around taking pictures of my butt, Mom? Knock it off, it's creepy!"